Short Haunts - The Priest Room
Haunted UK Podcast: History, Hauntings and the Unexplained
Steven Holloway
4.5 • 652 Ratings
🗓️ 13 December 2025
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
A family holiday in Portugal should have meant sun, rest, and time away from ordinary life.
But inside one rented villa in the Algarve, one room seemed to change the atmosphere of the entire house.
In this Short Haunts episode from Haunted UK Podcast, Steve shares the anonymous account of “Nathan”, whose family holiday took a disturbing turn after arriving at a villa rented near his uncle’s property. At first, everything seemed ordinary: bedrooms, a private pool, a games room, and space for a large family gathering.
Then Nathan found the staircase leading down to the basement.
Behind heavy white metal grates was the games room, but the feeling around it was wrong — dark, oppressive, and watched. That same unease seemed to gather most strongly around one particular bedroom, later known by the family as “The Priest Room”. Nathan felt it immediately. His sister felt it too. Then his mother entered the room and experienced the same dread.
The door was closed and kept closed, but the fear didn’t entirely leave. Dreams of shadowy figures, cold air, the sound of a latch opening, and the sense of something waiting just out of sight turned an ordinary holiday villa into a place none of them could fully explain.
Quietly unsettling and deeply atmospheric, this short true paranormal story explores haunted holiday homes, shared feelings of dread, possible spirit attachment, and the strange way some rooms seem to carry an atmosphere that everyone can feel — even when no one knows why.
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| 0:00.0 | Have you ever had a moment that made your skin crawl? |
| 0:05.0 | A shadow where there shouldn't be one? |
| 0:07.1 | A whisper in an empty room or something you simply can't explain. |
| 0:11.8 | If so, we want to hear from you. |
| 0:15.0 | Here at the Haunted UK podcast, we're always on the lookout for spine-tingling stories |
| 0:20.1 | to feature in our end-of-season listener |
| 0:22.4 | episodes and our short haunt series. Whether it's a chilling encounter, a mysterious experience |
| 0:29.1 | or something that's haunted you for years, we want your tale. Send your story to contact us |
| 0:36.0 | 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 UKPod, TikTok and Instagram at Haunted UK Podcast, or visit our website |
| 0:50.5 | www.w.w.com. Now, if you love what we do and want 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 |
| 1:34.2 | supernatural themes. Think suspenseful, mysterious, atmospheric, terrifying, thought-provoking, |
| 1:41.1 | even darkly magical. If your story is selected, we'll professionally |
| 1:45.8 | 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 |
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