How Haunted? Podcast | Horrible Histories, Real Life Ghost Stories, and Paranormal Investigations from Some of the Most Haunted Places on Earth

In episode 110 we head to Cornwall, and turn our attention to an infamous building, which is by far the location I’ve had the most requests to cover on the podcast. As a result this will be the first of a two-part special. In this episode I will tell you all about this former prison on the edge of Bodmin Moor, why it was built, the terrible conditions that inmates endured, those who were executed here, and of course the phantoms th...

In the 34th Patreon bonus podcast you join me at the site of a former infectious diseases hospital, which is today the countryside centre for the vast country park in which it is located.  

But what would happen when John, Tom and I joined Spiritus Paranormal for a night which none of us would forget in a hurry.

Tonight, let us together ask the question, just how haunted is the Scaffold Hill Hospital?

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Originally released for Patreon supporters in May 2024 I hope you enjoy this very special episode.

In the 21st Patreon bonus podcast you join me once again in the incredible city of York, and this time we spend a night at the original Treasurer’s House. A building dating back to 1080, built on the site of a roman fort.

But what would happen when my team and I stepped foot inside this award-winning hotel after dark, and attempted to...

In episode 109 we are doing something a bit different as I'm taking you along on a big summer ghost hunt. You join me at the site of a former infectious diseases hospital, which is today the countryside centre for the vast country park in which it is located. My small team and I will be part of an organised paranormal investigation and you'll hear almost an hour of audio from that night. And trust me, it’s a night that no one in at...

In episode 108 we head to a mansion in Hampshire built in the early 17th century. I will tell you all about this building which was the home of aristocracy, and kings and queens for almost 400 years, but now stands silent, empty and abandoned whilst currently up to sale.

This grand house is infamous as it is believed to be haunted by at least 14 separate specters.

Let me tell you introduce you to all of them, as you join me in aski...

In the 33rd Patreon bonus podcast I’m back in the Scottish borders, spending some time in the most northerly English town. This is a place that I have a huge fondness for, so much so, that this is a place I took you on a ghost walk last Halloween. You join me spending time here on a bit of a break, but despite this supposedly being a bit of rest and relaxation I couldn’t resist grabbing my voice recorder and a torch and heading off...

In episode 107 I head north of the border to a stunning cemetery in Scotland’s largest city. This city of the dead overlooks the city of the living, and its most prominent monument celebrates it’s 200th birthday this year, predating the first burial here.

With 50,000 of the city’s dead buried here, it comes as no surprise that this place has long been rumoured to be haunted, but the best known supernatural entity said to lurk here ...

Originally released for Patreon supporters in April 2024 I hope you enjoy this very special episode.

In the 20th Patreon bonus podcast you join me on location at a 14th century pele tower in Northumberland, constructed during uncertain times when England was at war with Scotland, and being so close to the border required this tower to be fortified.

But what would happen when, all alone, I stepped foot inside this tower? Would I hea...

In episode 106 we bring our time in an incredible, yet horrifying city in Massachusetts to a close. The impact of the 1692 witch trials is evident at every turn for anyone fortunate enough to visit, especially around Halloween, as one listener took the time to tell me about, as you’ll hear. This might be the final part of a trilogy of episodes, but there’s so, so much left to tell you as we’ve eight more scary places to visit, and ...

In the 32nd Patreon bonus podcast you join me in Teesside at a location which has served the town of Middlesbrough since 1889. An impressive building which has rose to infamy in recent years for its ghostly inhabitants, most famously that of a man who committed suicide while being held prisoner here.

But what would happen when John, Tom and I dared to investigate this place, would we encounter the spirits said to lurk here within t...

In episode 105 we continue our time across the pond in a city known the world over for the witch trials that occurred here in 1692. Fourteen women and five men were hanged, at least five people died while in disease infested prison while awaiting trial for witchcraft, and an 81 year old man was crushed to death. All of them were completely innocent. Its little wonder that this place is associated with the supernatural and paranorma...

Originally released for Patreons in March 2024 I hope you enjoy this very special episode.

In the 19th Patreon bonus podcast you join me as I investigate a building dating from 1825, which is today the largest independent library outside of London. This was the first public building lit by an electric lightbulb and in 1830 a mummy from Egypt was unwrapped right here.

But what would happen when, joined by fellow Geordie podcaster, I...

In episode 104 we begin a very, very special trilogy of episodes in which we’ll head to the USA, to somewhere synonymous with all things creepy, ghostly, and witchy.  This place was the scene of unease, irrational panic, and mass hysteria in the late 17th century, and what followed has left a stain on this town

In this episode I will speak to an expert on the witch trials of 1692, and the legacy left by the murder of 14 women and 6...

In the 31st Patreon bonus podcast you join me on location very, very close to where I grew up. I am at a beautiful country park, which was built upon the wasteland of a colliery which had been abandoned, entirely, 26 years earlier.

What would happen when I visited this site after dark, all alone. A site you won’t find in any books, YouTube videos, or other podcasts, but somewhere, that as a child, I would regularly hear scary stori...

In episode 103 we welcome Emma from the Weird Wiltshire blog to the podcast to tell us all about a curse dating back over 200 years, which would see anyone who should lock the door of a church drop down dead. 

So join Emma and I, and let us together find out all about the Odstock Curse.

Thanks so much to Emma for joining me once again, be sure to check out her blog at https://weird-wiltshire.co.uk

As I said in the introduction I ha...

In the 18th Patreon bonus podcast we return once more to York, and in particular to a hotel in the shadow of York Minster which was originally built between 1864 and 1865 as three separate dwellings for the Dean of York Minster, to house the Clergy.

But what would happen when my team and I stepped foot inside this hotel, which has been...

In episode 102 we go to Northern Ireland and visit a once great house just a short 30 minute drive from Belfast. Built in the mid 1870s as a summer retreat, this mansion has been a home, a hospital, it aided the war effort during World War 2, and now it is sadly a ruined, vandalised, shadow of its former grandeur, facing an uncertain future. And it’s considered potentially the most haunted house in Northern Ireland.

So join me and ...

In the 30th Patreon bonus podcast we continue our adventure in North Yorkshire, back in the late summer of 2024, when I lived in a haunted castle for seven days and nights.  

Last time out we had a sample of what this 15th century castle had to offer, but in the final four nights of my time here, things are about to get far more scary.

Tonight, let us once again ask the question, just how haunted is the undercroft of a 15th century...

In episode 101 we head overseas to the beautiful Balearic island of Mallorca. And just 3km from Palma, the capital of Mallorca, we find a castle as well preserved as it is haunted.

Let us escape the British winter and head to sunny Spain, and let’s ask together how haunted is Bellver Castle?

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