Short Haunts - The Presence in Theatre Three
Haunted UK Podcast: History, Hauntings and the Unexplained
Steven Holloway
4.5 • 652 Ratings
🗓️ 24 January 2026
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
Hospitals are places of life, loss, pressure, and silence.
Behind the controlled routines of operating theatres, something unseen can feel very close.
And in Theatre Three, staff had already given it a name: the presence.
In this Short Haunts episode from Haunted UK Podcast, Steve shares Victoria’s unsettling account from a hospital theatre department in Derbyshire. Once a firm sceptic, Victoria began to question that certainty after hearing colleagues describe strange activity in Theatre Three — sterile gowns thrown from shelves, voices calling names, and a presence so widely felt that cleaning staff avoided working there alone.
Then Victoria experienced it herself. First came a voice clearly calling her name in a full operating theatre, though no one present had spoken. Later, while alone with a colleague, she felt what seemed like a finger stroke the back of her neck — only to turn and find no one close enough to have touched her.
But the story doesn’t end inside the hospital. Victoria also shares the deeply emotional account of her partner Miles, who was left critically injured after a serious car accident shortly after returning from America. As he lay in intensive care, a chain of strange coincidences, unexpected cancellations, family grief, rosary beads, and a message from an unknown woman in Lincolnshire seemed to suggest that someone — perhaps his grandmother Betty, whose full name was Elizabeth — was watching over him when his loved ones could not.
Quietly eerie, emotional, and deeply human, this Short Haunts story explores hospital hauntings, unseen presences, family protection, impossible messages, and the fragile moments when the line between coincidence and comfort becomes almost impossible to define.
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| 0:00.0 | Have you ever had a moment that made your skin crawl? A shadow where there shouldn't be one? A whisper in an empty room or something you simply can't explain. If so, we want to hear from you. Here at the Haunted UK podcast, we're always on the lookout for spine-tingling stories to feature in our end-of-season |
| 0:22.0 | listener episodes and our short haunt series. Whether it's a chilling encounter, a mysterious |
| 0:28.4 | experience or something that's haunted you for years, we want your tale. Send your story to contact |
| 0:35.5 | us at haunted UK podcast.com. |
| 0:39.2 | And don't forget to follow us on social media. |
| 0:42.2 | Facebook, X at Haunted UK Pod, TikTok and Instagram at Haunted UK Podcast, or visit our website |
| 0:50.5 | www.women.com. Now, if you love what we do and what even more haunted goodies, |
| 0:59.5 | then you can support the show on Patreon and coffee. We've got two brilliant tears, possessed and spooked, |
| 1:06.1 | both packed with bonus content, exclusive episodes and extra material that'll keep you up all night. |
| 1:13.5 | But that's not all. We've launched a brand new sister podcast, Haunted UK Fiction, |
| 1:19.8 | and we're calling all storytellers. Whether you're a published author, an aspiring writer, |
| 1:25.4 | or someone with a natural gift for spinning eerie tales, |
| 1:29.0 | we're looking for original fictional short stories and novellas with strong paranormal or supernatural themes. |
| 1:35.8 | Think suspenseful, mysterious, atmospheric, terrifying, thought-provoking, even darkly magical. |
| 1:43.0 | If your story is selected, we'll professionally |
| 1:45.9 | narrate, record, mix and master it into an audiobook-style format, then feature it on the show. |
| 1:52.4 | You'll get a copy of the finished production to use however you like, and you'll retain |
| 1:57.2 | full ownership of your work. Submit your story to Haunted UK Fiction at Hotmail.com |
| 2:03.9 | and follow us on Instagram at Haunted UK Fiction. So whether it's truth or fiction, |
| 2:10.3 | if it's haunted, we wanted. Now, sit back and enjoy the episode. |
| 2:22.1 | This is the Haunted UK Podcasts, short haunts. |
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