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

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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Find out more about the pod at https://www.how-haunted.com and you can email Rob at...

In the 17th Patreon bonus podcast I do something a little different. Following on from episode 69 and 70, in which we looked at some of the most haunted dolls in the world, I buy a haunted doll of my very own and spend some time after dark all alone with nothing but the doll for company.

Tonight, you join me from a hotel room, as I ask ...

In episode 100 you join me on location here in the north east as I give you a tour along a beautiful stretch of coast visited by around 6 million people each year, but what almost all of those visitors won’t know is just how many supposedly haunted spots there are here just waiting to be explored. Wrapped up against the British winter I will brave the elements to tell you about these locations, and a couple of polterguests will pop...

In episode 99 we spend some more time in the north east of England, and look at a region known for it’s industrial heritage, and perhaps not known quite so much for the plethora of phantoms that lurk within this region.

So, let us ask together, just how haunted is Teesside?

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Find out more about the pod at https://www.how-haunted.com and you can email Rob at Rob@how-haunted.co...

In the 29th Patreon bonus podcast you join me for the first of a two part special. Let us investigate a castle which dates from some point between 1425 and 1430. With almost 600 years of history, this was once the home of royalty, but for a week at the end of the summer of 2024 is was home to me.

Let’s find out what happened on my first three nights staying in this fortress in North Yorkshire, believed to be home to the ghost of a ...

In episode 98, we kick off 2025 by once again delving into the mailbag of questions sent in from listeners and I will answer questions including what I'm most proud of since launching the podcast, the scariest thing I've ever experienced on an investigation, where do I think is the most haunted place in Britain, and where would be my dream location to investigate.

Thanks so much to Jenny, Mel, MaryEllen, Emma, Laura, Louisa, Jay, J...

As we bid farewell to 2024 and begin an exciting new year, allow me to bring you one final dose of How Haunted? for the year as we pick up where we left off in our Nightmare Before Christmas special, and I bring you real life ghost stories from listeners just like you, as well as a few polterguests dropping by to tell us a spooky tale of their own.

So without further ado, let the New Year’s Evil begin.

Thanks so much to Cally Allen...

In the 16th Patreon bonus podcast we head into the remote Northumberland countryside, and to former hunting lodge built in 1775 that stands in the largest man-made woodland in England at 250 square miles, famed for its dark skies.

But what would happen when my team and I stepped foot inside this 18th century castle? In this episode not...

Christmas is here once again, and in this – the third annual Nightmare Before Christmas special I will once again read real ghost stories from listeners, and there’ll also be a number of very special polterguests dropping by to tell you of their own scary experiences, in their own words.

So, let us get this year’s Nightmare Before Christmas underway.

Thanks so much to Beverley Oxford, Jenny Desira, Richard Knapper, Steve Lindon, Sa...

In the 28th Patreon bonus podcast you join me in the remote Northumbrian countryside at a pele tower dating from the 14th century. I join Spiritus Paranormal for a paranormal investigation, and I’m taking you along with me. This is a bumper version of the two-part special which formed episodes 87 and 88 of the podcast back in September. You’re going to hear so, so much more of what happened that night in the longest episode of How ...

As we enter December and get ever closer to Christmas, which, for many, is a very, very special time of year. This is the perfect time of year, on this cold, dark, winter’s evening to explore twenty different locations the world over which are said to be the haunt of spooks that only make an appearance at Christmas.

As the snow falls gently outside, and twinkling fairy lights illuminate our homes, let’s gather together around the w...