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Listen to the How Haunted? Podcast, and allow author, ghost hunter, and paranormal historian Rob Kirkup to be your guide. Each episode sees us explore one of the most haunted places across t...

In episode 135, we’re not exploring a place this time… but something far stranger. A phenomenon that has terrified me since I first encounte...

Originally released for Patreons in February 2025 I hope you enjoy this very special episode. In the 30th Patreon bonus podcast we continue...

In episode 134 In this episode, we journey to the heart of Liverpool, to a tomb unlike any other. Built in the 19th century for a man whose...

In the 45th Patreon bonus podcast, you join me at in County Durham on a cold, snowy night in January 2026 at a castle built in 1398. I am on...

In episode 133, we descend beneath the shadow of Nottingham Castle to a public house that claims to be the oldest in England. For centuries,...

Originally released for Patreons in January 2025 I hope you enjoy this very special episode. In the 29th Patreon bonus podcast you join me f...

In episode 132, we step through the crooked doorway of one of Britain’s most storied pubs — a timber-framed survivor of war, time, and legen...

In the 44th Patreon bonus podcast, you join John, Rich, Tom, and I back on a summer’s night in 2014. We joined forces with a local team of p...

In episode 131 we return to Tracey’s Georgian farmhouse, where the past refuses to stay quiet and the story grows darker still. This time, T...

Originally released for Patreons in December 2024 I hope you enjoy this very special episode. In the 28th Patreon bonus podcast you join me...

In episode 130 I am joined by a guest who has one hell of a story to share. Unlike many people I speak to here on How Haunted? she doesn’t g...

In the 43rd Patreon bonus podcast, you join me on the second of two nights staying in a historic hotel all alone with no one for company, th...

In episode 129, we return to a city of secrets—a place built on modern ideals, yet haunted by whispers of its past. York House in Milton Key...

Originally released for Patreons in November 2024 I hope you enjoy this very special episode. In the 27th Patreon bonus podcast you join me...

In episode 128, we confront a question sent in by a listener: is the north or the south of England more haunted? From fog-laden streets wher...

In the 42nd Patreon bonus podcast, you join me doing something I had vowed never to do again. Previously—also for the podcast—I spent two ni...

In episode 127, we kick off 2026 by tackling the questions that you want answering, whether they be related to the paranormal, the podcast,...

As we bid farewell to 2025 and begin an exciting new year, allow me to bring you one final dose of How Haunted? for the year as we pick up w...

Originally released for Patreons in October 2024 I hope you enjoy this very special episode. In the 26th Patreon bonus podcast you join me f...

Something a little bit different, this isn't an episode of How Haunted? but rather an episode of a podcast I'm a huge fan of, and we agreed...

In this, the 41st Patreon bonus episode, with it being Christmas, we're starting a brand new annual tradition. I'll read you a ghost story f...

Christmas is here once again, and in this – the fourth annual Nightmare Before Christmas special I will once again read real ghost stories f...

In episode 124 we continue to focus on a bleak, isolated island where those infected during the black death were brought here and simply lef...

To be in with a chance of winning either a copy of my book Ghosts of the North East or one of two haunted dolls, check out the merch store a...

In episode 123 we set sail for a small, abandoned island which is infamous the world over. Once a quarantine station for plague victims in t...

Originally released for Patreons in September 2024 I hope you enjoy this very special episode. In the 25th Patreon bonus podcast you join be...

In episode 122 we head to Devon and into a castle that is known the world over by those with an interest in the paranormal. I won’t be alone...

In the 39th Patreon bonus podcast you join me on my way north into the remote wilderness of Northumberland in pursuit of an eight foot tall...

Halloween is here... Over the past few weeks, we’ve scoured the misty shores of Loch Ness, tracked elusive footprints through Pacific Northw...

Originally released for Patreons in August 2024 I hope you enjoy this very special episode. In the 24th Patreon bonus podcast you join me at...

In episode 120 we go in search of towering, hairy beasts that are said to stalk the wilderness. From the snow-covered slopes of the Himalaya...

In episode 119 we continue Monster Month in style by going in search of one of the true behemoths in the world of cryptozoology. This time w...

In this 38th and 39th Patreon specials, Monster Month continues as in this enormous two part special - both episodes of which will be releas...

In episode 118 we’re picking up where last week’s episode left off, as we look at some of the strangest, scariest, and in some cases most pl...

In this bonus episode, we continue Spooky Season in style as I'm joined by a very special guest. Dr Icy Sedgwick is a folklore expert, podca...

October is here, welcome to Monster Month..... Episode 117 is the first of five extended episodes, building to a monstrous Halloween Spookta...

In this bonus episode, to celebrate the arrival of October, we’re heading somewhere which isn’t considered by many, if any, as one of the sc...

Originally released for Patreon supporters in July 2024 I hope you enjoy this very special episode. In the 23rd Patreon bonus podcast we're...

In episode 116 we’re revisiting what some might consider the scariest aspect of the paranormal – haunted dolls. Those, supposedly innocent,...

October is coming and this is going to be the biggest, scariest, most content-filled episode of the podcast to date. Listeners will get EIGH...

In the 37th Patreon bonus podcast you rejoin me and fellow Newcastle-based folklore podcaster Icy Sedgwick at a building in Sunderland which...

In episode 115 we find ourselves in Lancashire at a building dating back to the early 16th century that was a location that a listener reque...

Originally released for Patreons in June 2024 I hope you enjoy this very special episode. In the 22st Patreon bonus podcast we're doing some...

Episode 114 brings our trilogy of episodes from Edinburgh to a close. Last episode I told you all about the long, bloody, history of Edinbur...

In the 36th Patreon bonus podcast you join me and a fellow Geordie podcaster on location at a theatre in Sunderland which, beneath the curta...

Episode 113 sees us continue our time in Edinburgh and we go deep into the history of a structure that has seen it all. Built on volcanic ro...

Episode 112 sees us visit a wonderful city in Scotland, as historic as it is haunted. And I’ll not be alone, as I welcome Wayne from the Eer...

In the 35th Patreon bonus podcast you join me for the second part of a paranormal investigation deep within a vast, dark, forest. Our focus...

In this bonus episode, I had the pleasure of chatting with the lovely Eleanor Conlon and Martin Vaux about their fantastic Three Ravens Podc...

In episode 111 we continue our time in this former jail in the south west of England, in part-one you heard the detailed history of this sit...