Stories from the dark side of Milton Keynes
Tonight’s story reached me through a particularly delightful connection - last year, I was honoured to be a guest on Rob Kirkup’s wonderful How Haunted? podcast, talking about this project and the stories I've been collecting across Milton Keynes. Rob has a wide international audience, so when the episode went out in November, I wondered where... Continue Reading →
One of the things I’ve learned while running this project is that stories don’t always wait politely for you to come looking for them. Sometimes they arrive in your inbox at midnight. Sometimes they’re handed to you on a walk. And sometimes - like tonight's story - they’re spoken over a café table, just when... Continue Reading →
Tonight’s story takes us to the quiet, tree-lined streets of West Bletchley — more specifically, to Angus Drive, where a seemingly ordinary household lightbulb became the source of something altogether darker. This story found me through a novel route! It came via Anne, and you might remember that I’ve shared two of her stories earlier... Continue Reading →
Tonight’s story slips in through that space between sleeping and waking — the kind that lingers in your thoughts as the lights go out. Liminality — those strange in-between states where boundaries blur — is at the heart of this project. Milton Keynes is full of thresholds. Borders of estates that bleed into Redways. New builds layered over old farmland. A modern city, haunted underneath.
For tonight’s story, we’re following the Redways west into the low-lying quiet of Wolverton Mill. It’s a trek worth making — though not one I’d recommend after dark. Children are often drawn to the places we try to keep them from. They seem to feel the presence of old boundaries even when the signs have... Continue Reading →