Short Haunts - Remnants from the Past?
Haunted UK Podcast: History, Hauntings and the Unexplained
Steven Holloway
4.5 • 652 Ratings
🗓️ 23 August 2025
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Some encounters stay with us because of what we saw.
Others stay with us because of what they pretended to be.
In this Short Haunts listener story, Ben shares a deeply unsettling childhood experience from a Victorian house in Didsbury, Greater Manchester. Waking in the night and heading towards the bathroom, he saw what appeared to be his beloved gran climbing the stairs — until the figure looked up, and the face staring back at him was something else entirely.
What follows is a layered family account of sensitivity, fear, grief and possible contact after death. Ben’s story moves from a terrifying childhood encounter to his mother’s lifelong connection with the paranormal, her interest in witchcraft and the occult, a ghostly nurse seen in hospital, and later, a series of strange events captured after his mother’s passing.
With reports of CCTV anomalies, unexplained movement, apparitions, and a presence that may have continued to make itself known, this is a haunting account of family history and the unseen threads that can run through generations.
Dark, personal and quietly disturbing, this story asks whether some people attract the paranormal — and whether certain experiences are only remnants of the past, or something still reaching forward.
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