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73. A Gaggle Of Ghosts: Part Three London’s dark history is littered with tales of eerie mysteries, and not many places harbour such weirdness as Hampton Court Palace, the most haunted royal residence in the capital. Stretching for over sixty acres, this beautiful structure, and …

72. A Gaggle Of Ghosts: Part Two More from London’s haunted side, as the shadow of All Hallow’s Eve lurks on the horizon like some rustic menace. Baker Street – famous for its Sherlock Holmes connections, a fine detective who would no doubt have found …

71. A Gaggle Of Ghosts: Part One With All Hallows Eve just over a month away I’d like to share with you some of London’s finest, although not necessarily most known ghost stories which The Saturday Strangeness has been bereft of since its beginnings. Sutton …

70. The Thamesmead Prowler During the early hours of Saturday 10th August at Goldfinch Road, west Thamesmead, a man awoke and peered around his curtain into the blackness of the night. A small animal startled him in the distance as it scurried around a corner …

69. The Phantom Wall Smasher! Well, that’s what the press, being The Sun, Daily Mirror and Metropolitan Police newspaper The Job called him in 1977. Following on from last week’s feature on bizarre compulsions and spectral assailants, this time we move onto less sinister acts, …

68. Phantom Snatchers! In episodes 29, 30, 31 and 34 I chronicled various cases pertaining to phantom assailants, ranging from the bizarre to the sinister. From dress-snippers and buttock slashers to cat-rippers, and now, without further ado I’d like to introduce you to another asylum …

67. Subterranean Dwellers As a child I was always peeping from the stairs at the latest horror movie my mum and dad had hired. One such shocker was the 1972 Brit-flick ‘Deathline’, also known as ‘Raw Meat’, which concerned the horrific rumour that a race …

66(6)! The Coventry Street Vampire It is a case obscure, hardly spoken of. Whilst the legend of the Highgate ‘vampire’ continues to intrigue and be discussed, something just as wicked occurred several decades before, in the West End at Coventry Street. In 1922 a giant …

65. Dracula Woz ‘Ere! I’ve mentioned in two previous posts (episodes 1 and 20) the mystery and controversy of the Highgate Vampire, and now for a foggy yarn of another London blood-sucker! On the 15th and 17th of August 1978, the London Evening News reported …

64. The Beast Beneath. Of all the things I have written about with regards to weird phenomena in London, what you are about to read is possibly one of the strangest and most significant tales ever. This story comes via two good friends and fellow …