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 →
We're getting very close to the end of the year, and it always feels like the right time for stories like these. The days shorten, familiar paths grow quieter, and places we think we know well begin to feel just a little less certain. Tonight's stories come from somewhere I know extremely well - I... Continue Reading →
Some of the stories I've shared recently have been detailed, complex hauntings: years of encounters, multiple witnesses, escalating activity. But there are also those smaller haunting moments that strike just once, cleanly, leaving no explanation and no follow-up... just a memory that echoes long after the events took place. And when they happen in a... 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 closes a loop. It marks the end of an era for this project because it’s the very last one from this current batch. Yes, I had such a wonderful initial response to my first call for stories, all the way back in April that it’s taken me this long to catch up! Since... Continue Reading →
Tonight’s story started with a chance encounter in a familiar place. I walk round Lodge Lake twice, maybe three times a week, and have done for the last year and a half. I go that way more often than ever these days—it’s the route I take to Precedent House, and I’m documenting its slow transition... Continue Reading →
Tonight's story is different. It's mine, an account of my first ever ghost-hunting experience which took place at Westbury Arts Centre as a guest of Paranormal Investigators. Thank-you again to Claire and her exceptional team of investigators for the chance to be part of your evening, and for making me so welcome! I've also done... Continue Reading →
Some places feel as though they've been woven together from moments in time. You walk in, and something catches — a flicker, a feeling, a faint sense that the past isn’t quite finished here. That if you looked closely enough, you’d see threads running between then and now, drawing forgotten moments tight against the present.... Continue Reading →
We're just over two weeks into the project, and it's been an absolute privilege to hear so many stories. They're all special, but there's something really trusting when people take the time to show me exactly where their experience happened. Tonight's story comes from Keely in Springfield, who not only told me about the experience... Continue Reading →