Short Haunts - The Bird Inside
Haunted UK Podcast: History, Hauntings and the Unexplained
Steven Holloway
4.5 • 652 Ratings
🗓️ 14 July 2023
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
A vast Victorian house sits empty.
A bird circles frantically inside a sealed room.
And before anyone has moved in, the house already seems to want something known.
In this first Short Haunt, an anonymous listener recalls moving into a large old house with friends in 2009 — a place that looked beautiful on the surface, with gothic archways, generous rooms, an art deco bathroom and a sweeping staircase, yet carried a deep unease from the beginning.
The cellar soon becomes a source of dread, filled with old possessions, bad memories and the constant sensation of being watched. As life inside the house begins to darken, relationships strain, illness follows, work falls apart, and the atmosphere seems to press in around everyone living there.
Then comes the scream in the night. A housemate wakes to something circling above her bed — something like the head and shoulders of a young girl, with wings curled beneath her. Later, a strange image on Google Earth appears to show a young girl standing at an upstairs window, wrapped in a blue shawl and staring out from the very house they are desperate to leave.
Quietly unsettling and deeply atmospheric, this is a story about intuition, trapped energy, haunted houses, and the strange possibility that some presences don’t simply appear — they ask to be let out.
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| 1:04.3 | Thanks for listening and enjoy the episode. |
| 1:09.0 | This is the Haunted UK Podcasts, Short Horns. I'm Oh! Oh! Oh! |
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| 1:47.0 | I'm Welcome, dear listeners to the first of the first of the first to the first of our short haunts, a shot of scary, just for you. |
| 2:27.8 | So grab a hot chocolate, maybe a tea, maybe something stronger, because this is Haunted UK |
| 2:33.9 | podcast's Short Horns. Thank you. Maybe something stronger, because this is Haunted UK Podcasts short haunts. |
| 2:38.5 | Let's go back to 2009, to a big old Victorian house, which according to the listener looked unhappy from the start. |
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