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Don’t Scare Claire
Hosted by Don’t Scare Claire · EN
Looking for paranormal stories, ghostly encounters, and grisly tales from history?
Hi! I’m Claire, come sit with me to chat about all things morbid, mysterious and macabre…
If you love to get your learnin’ on and prefer the stories behind history’s most chilling paranormal legends, we’re going to be best friends.
We’ll get into everything from dark history and real-life haunted houses, to creepy urban legends and the best kinds of bedtime stories - ghost stories.
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This Will RUIN Night Drives | Real Ghost Stories
1w ago00:36:33Tap to summarizeEach of these six ghost stories comes from a real person, with firsthand accounts of experiences that witnesses still can’t fully explain. From a late-night drive that stopped two witnesses in their tracks, to dark figures lingering at the roadside, and one story that feels less like a haunting and more like reality slipping out of place… To my knowledge, these are not creepypasta or fictional horror stories. Every story in this video comes directly from a real person’s own claimed experience. Make of them what you will. Have you had an unexplained encounter that you would like to share? Tell me your story for a chance to be featured on the channel https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdbPjdRwf2UCYVDNsyN_wI7wk0m1oxIqpPWNWe_nliGZ9cIyQ/viewform COME SAY HI! Instagram - https://instagram.com/dontscareclaire/ THE LEGAL STUFF I don’t claim ownership of all the extracts, including images, videos and audio, featured in this video. I will include material according to the Creative Commons CC0 licensing, or according to fair usage on the basis that I’m reporting, educating, or providing commentary or critique. My whole aim for this channel is to educate and entertain you lovely people, using accurate factual information and personal experiences to the best of my knowledge. I spend hours and hours on the research for each one of my videos, using sources that I like to think are trustworthy. But let’s face it, no one’s perfect, and when you’re dealing with anything in history, especially the paranormal, mistakes will happen. If you’re interested, I’d highly recommend you do your own research, and if I have made a mistake, please tell me about it!
Transcribe →Episode 135: Gloucester Prison
2w ago00:38:46Tap to summarizeGloucester Prison is one of the most unsettling haunted locations in the UK, built on centuries of punishment, suffering, and death. Before it became the prison we know today, this site was part of Gloucester Castle, where prisoners were held in grim conditions for hundreds of years. After closing its doors for good in 2013, Gloucester Prison has quickly developed a reputation for being haunted. Shadow figures flit in the corner of your eyes, and doors slam with no explanation. But there’s one particular ghost story that may need a closer look… Due to the nature of this episode, there are VERY brief descriptions of horrendous crimes like infanticide, as well as executions and suicide. Please look after your mental health first and foremost IN THIS EPISODE Gloucester Prison’s history as a castle gaol, the Georgian prison reforms, public executions, condemned cells, prisoners buried on site, the ghost of Jenny, Cell 25, shadow figures, the haunted hallway, and reports of paranormal activity inside the prison. SOURCES 📚 Paranormal Gloucestershire, by S. C. Skillman 💻 https://www.greatbritishlife.co.uk/magazines/cotswold/24597778.haunted-happenings-ghostly-lock-ins-gloucester-prison/ 💻 https://www.gloucestershirelive.co.uk/news/gloucester-news/house-horrors-timeline-day-day-2567483 💻 https://www.city-journal.org/article/a-horror-story 💻 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-gloucestershire-57182844 💻 http://bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-gloucestershire-21545150 💻 https://archive.org/stream/b29350694_0003/b29350694_0003_djvu.txt 💻 https://capitalpunishmentuk.org/gloucester-gaol/ 💻 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSpBqKnlVBU 💻 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYA-mMJ5SO4 💻 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cgk28jrp8m2o 📺 Banged Up: Gloucester Prison, first aired 2003 COME SAY HI! Instagram - https://instagram.com/dontscareclaire/ THE LEGAL STUFF I don’t claim ownership of all the extracts, including images, videos and audio, featured in this video. I will include material according to the Creative Commons CC0 licensing, or according to fair usage on the basis that I’m reporting, educating, or providing commentary or critique. My whole aim for this channel is to educate and entertain you lovely people, using accurate factual information and personal experiences to the best of my knowledge. I spend hours and hours on the research for each one of my videos, using sources that I like to think are trustworthy. But let’s face it, no one’s perfect, and when you’re dealing with anything in history, especially the paranormal, mistakes will happen. If you’re interested, I’d highly recommend you do your own research, and if I have made a mistake, please tell me about it!
Transcribe →Episode 134: Listener Ghost Stories Vol. 8
4w ago00:32:29Tap to summarizeEach of these five ghost stories comes from a real home, with firsthand accounts of experiences that witnesses still can’t fully explain. From something unseen tripping a motion sensor, to a bible inexplicably flying across the room, and possibly… warnings from beyond the grave? To my knowledge, these are not creepypasta or fictional horror stories. Every story in this video comes directly from a real person’s own claimed experience. Make of them what you will. Have you had an unexplained encounter that you would like to share? Tell me your story for a chance to be featured on the channel https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdbPjdRwf2UCYVDNsyN_wI7wk0m1oxIqpPWNWe_nliGZ9cIyQ/viewform COME SAY HI! Instagram - https://instagram.com/dontscareclaire/ THE LEGAL STUFF I don’t claim ownership of all the extracts, including images, videos and audio, featured in this video. I will include material according to the Creative Commons CC0 licensing, or according to fair usage on the basis that I’m reporting, educating, or providing commentary or critique. My whole aim for this channel is to educate and entertain you lovely people, using accurate factual information and personal experiences to the best of my knowledge. I spend hours and hours on the research for each one of my videos, using sources that I like to think are trustworthy. But let’s face it, no one’s perfect, and when you’re dealing with anything in history, especially the paranormal, mistakes will happen. If you’re interested, I’d highly recommend you do your own research, and if I have made a mistake, please tell me about it!
Transcribe →Episode 133: St. James's Palace
Apr 1400:33:18Tap to summarizeDeep in Central London, there’s a royal palace that has been at the centre of British history for almost 500 years… and according to dozens of witnesses, not all of its residents have left. St James’s Palace is still an incredibly important place to the British monarchy, but below the pageantry, lies a 19th Century scandal that left one man dead, under deeply suspicious circumstances… Ever since, people have reported unexplained presences in its corridors, but the paranormal activity doesn’t stop there. The surrounding royal park carries its own dark legends, and even next door in Clareence House, the current London home of King Charles and Queen Camilla, the ghost stories continue. ⚠ This story contains a brief mention of suicide. If you need to, please feel free to sit this one out and look after your mental health. 🖤 SOURCES 📚 The International Monthly Magazine of Literature, Science and Art, Volume V (January to April, 1852) 📚 Within Royal Palaces, by Marquise de Fontenoy (pseud.) 📚 Accredited Ghost Stories, by T. M. Jarvis 📚 True Ghost Stories: Haunted Homes And Family Legends Of Great Britain, by John Ingram 📚 Haunted Houses, by Charles G. Harper 📚 Hauntings, by Rebecca E. Kidger 📚 Peter Underwood’s Guide To Ghosts & Haunted Places, by Peter Underwood 📚 Haunted London, by James Clark 💻 https://www.rct.uk/visit/st-jamess-palace/8-surprising-facts-about-st-jamess-palace 💻 https://www.thehistoryoflondon.co.uk/st-jamess-park-from-leper-hospital-to-royal-park/ 💻 https://www.hrp.org.uk/banqueting-house/history-and-stories/the-whitehall-fire-of-1698/ 📰 The Examiner, Sunday 3rd June 1810 COME SAY HI! Instagram - https://instagram.com/dontscareclaire/ THE LEGAL STUFF I don’t claim ownership of all the extracts, including images, videos and audio, featured in this video. I will include material according to the Creative Commons CC0 licensing, or according to fair usage on the basis that I’m reporting, educating, or providing commentary or critique. My whole aim for this channel is to educate and entertain you lovely people, using accurate factual information and personal experiences to the best of my knowledge. I spend hours and hours on the research for each one of my videos, using sources that I like to think are trustworthy. But let’s face it, no one’s perfect, and when you’re dealing with anything in history, especially the paranormal, mistakes will happen. If you’re interested, I’d highly recommend you do your own research, and if I have made a mistake, please tell me about it!
Transcribe →Episode 132: Listener Ghost Stories Vol. 7
Apr 700:27:52Tap to summarizeEach of these five ghost stories comes from a real school or library, with firsthand accounts of experiences that witnesses still can’t fully explain. In this week’s collection, something lingers behind in the empty school corridors, long after the last student has gone home. In Australia, did the previous owner of this library’s collection make his presence known to pass on a message from beyond the grave? To my knowledge, these are not creepypasta or fictional horror stories. Every story in this video comes directly from a real person’s own claimed experience. Make of them what you will. Have you had an unexplained encounter that you would like to share? Tell me your story for a chance to be featured on the channel https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdbPjdRwf2UCYVDNsyN_wI7wk0m1oxIqpPWNWe_nliGZ9cIyQ/viewform COME SAY HI! Instagram - https://instagram.com/dontscareclaire/ THE LEGAL STUFF I don’t claim ownership of all the extracts, including images, videos and audio, featured in this video. I will include material according to the Creative Commons CC0 licensing, or according to fair usage on the basis that I’m reporting, educating, or providing commentary or critique. My whole aim for this channel is to educate and entertain you lovely people, using accurate factual information and personal experiences to the best of my knowledge. I spend hours and hours on the research for each one of my videos, using sources that I like to think are trustworthy. But let’s face it, no one’s perfect, and when you’re dealing with anything in history, especially the paranormal, mistakes will happen. If you’re interested, I’d highly recommend you do your own research, and if I have made a mistake, please tell me about it!
Transcribe →Episode 131: The Garrick's Head Pub & The Theatre Royal, Bath
Mar 3100:32:38Tap to summarizeThe Garrick’s Head pub and the Theatre Royal in the city of Bath have some interesting stories about a mysterious Grey Lady ghost, who has been seen on both sides of the building. But she’s not the only one supposedly haunting this 18th-century, former mansion… SOURCES 📚 Collins Ghost Hunters’ Guide To Britain 📚 The International Directory of Haunted Places, by Dennis William Hauck 📚 The Haunted Pub Guide, by Guy Lyon Playfair 📚 Supernatural England, by Betty Puttick 💻 https://www.somersetandbathparanormal.co.uk/the-garrick-s-head-pub-bath 💻 https://bathnewseum.com/2018/10/14/weird-goings-on-in-the-wings/ 💻 https://www.mysteriousbritain.co.uk/hauntings/theatre-royal-bath/ 💻 https://www.theatreroyal.org.uk/page/3041/The-Butterfly-The-Grey-Lady-and-other-ghosts… 💻 https://www.ccel.org/ccel/wesley/journal.vi.iii.iv.html 💻 https://bathintime.co.uk/image-library/image-overview/poster/42270/posterid/42270.html 💻 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7G8ioPSMys&t=306s 📰 Somerset Guardian and Radstock Observer, 6th August 1948 📰 Bath Life, Issue 376 COME SAY HI! Instagram - https://instagram.com/dontscareclaire/ THE LEGAL STUFF I don’t claim ownership of all the extracts, including images, videos and audio, featured in this video. I will include material according to the Creative Commons CC0 licensing, or according to fair usage on the basis that I’m reporting, educating, or providing commentary or critique. My whole aim for this channel is to educate and entertain you lovely people, using accurate factual information and personal experiences to the best of my knowledge. I spend hours and hours on the research for each one of my videos, using sources that I like to think are trustworthy. But let’s face it, no one’s perfect, and when you’re dealing with anything in history, especially the paranormal, mistakes will happen. If you’re interested, I’d highly recommend you do your own research, and if I have made a mistake, please tell me about it!
Transcribe →Episode 130: Listener Ghost Stories Vol. 6
Mar 3000:36:38Tap to summarizeEver since David was an infant, his life has been affected by the paranormal. Each of these ghost stories comes from David and his family’s accounts of experiences that they couldn’t fully explain. To my knowledge, these are not creepypasta or fictional horror stories. Every story in this video comes directly from a real person’s own claimed experience. Make of them what you will. Have you had an unexplained encounter that you would like to share? Tell me your story for a chance to be featured on the channel https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdbPjdRwf2UCYVDNsyN_wI7wk0m1oxIqpPWNWe_nliGZ9cIyQ/viewform COME SAY HI! Instagram - https://instagram.com/dontscareclaire/ THE LEGAL STUFF I don’t claim ownership of all the extracts, including images, videos and audio, featured in this video. I will include material according to the Creative Commons CC0 licensing, or according to fair usage on the basis that I’m reporting, educating, or providing commentary or critique. My whole aim for this channel is to educate and entertain you lovely people, using accurate factual information and personal experiences to the best of my knowledge. I spend hours and hours on the research for each one of my videos, using sources that I like to think are trustworthy. But let’s face it, no one’s perfect, and when you’re dealing with anything in history, especially the paranormal, mistakes will happen. If you’re interested, I’d highly recommend you do your own research, and if I have made a mistake, please tell me about it!
Transcribe →It All Started When I Died | Real Ghost Stories
Mar 2400:36:27Tap to summarizeEver since David was an infant, his life has been affected by the paranormal. Each of these ghost stories comes from David and his family’s accounts of experiences that they couldn’t fully explain. To my knowledge, these are not creepypasta or fictional horror stories. Every story in this video comes directly from a real person’s own claimed experience. Make of them what you will. Have you had an unexplained encounter that you would like to share? Tell me your story for a chance to be featured on the channel https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdbPjdRwf2UCYVDNsyN_wI7wk0m1oxIqpPWNWe_nliGZ9cIyQ/viewform COME SAY HI! Instagram - https://instagram.com/dontscareclaire/ THE LEGAL STUFF I don’t claim ownership of all the extracts, including images, videos and audio, featured in this video. I will include material according to the Creative Commons CC0 licensing, or according to fair usage on the basis that I’m reporting, educating, or providing commentary or critique. My whole aim for this channel is to educate and entertain you lovely people, using accurate factual information and personal experiences to the best of my knowledge. I spend hours and hours on the research for each one of my videos, using sources that I like to think are trustworthy. But let’s face it, no one’s perfect, and when you’re dealing with anything in history, especially the paranormal, mistakes will happen. If you’re interested, I’d highly recommend you do your own research, and if I have made a mistake, please tell me about it!
Transcribe →Episode 129: Kedleston Hall
Mar 1700:42:12Tap to summarizeKedleston Hall in Derbyshire is a stunning visitor attraction, where you can spend the day out admiring the Robert Adam architecture and 18th-century furnishings. But the history of this sprawling estate is even more fascinating. It’s been owned by the Curzon family for almost 900 years… so it comes as no surprise that it’s picked up more than a few ghosts over the years. SOURCES 📚 Kedleston Hall Guidebook 💻 https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/7730409/Lady-Scarsdale-accuses-National-Trust-of-neglecting-security-after-break-in-at-Kedleston-Hall.html 💻 https://www.greatbritishlife.co.uk/magazines/derbyshire/22633471.richard-felix-stately-ghosts-kedleston-hall-derbyshire/ 💻 https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/visit/peak-district-derbyshire/kedleston-hall/history-of-the-curzons 💻 https://www.theguardian.com/news/2000/aug/16/guardianobituaries 💻 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/derbyshire/8660898.stm 💻 http://nationaltrustcollections.org.uk/object/108990 📺 Secrets of the National Trust with Alan Titchmarsh And a huge thank you to the staff and volunteers at Kedleston Hall! COME SAY HI! Instagram - https://instagram.com/dontscareclaire/ THE LEGAL STUFF I don’t claim ownership of all the extracts, including images, videos and audio, featured in this video. I will include material according to the Creative Commons CC0 licensing, or according to fair usage on the basis that I’m reporting, educating, or providing commentary or critique. My whole aim for this channel is to educate and entertain you lovely people, using accurate factual information and personal experiences to the best of my knowledge. I spend hours and hours on the research for each one of my videos, using sources that I like to think are trustworthy. But let’s face it, no one’s perfect, and when you’re dealing with anything in history, especially the paranormal, mistakes will happen. If you’re interested, I’d highly recommend you do your own research, and if I have made a mistake, please tell me about it!
Transcribe →Episode 128: Listener Ghost Stories Vol. 5
Mar 1000:31:47Tap to summarizeEach of these nine ghost stories comes from firsthand accounts of experiences that witnesses still can’t fully explain. In this week’s collection, the memory of a long-gone building burrows itself into this witness’s memory. How did it get there, and why? In Jamaica, a tourist unknowingly upsets a ghostly resident, and one of the most infamous entities in Edinburgh Vaults makes its presence known… and is possibly even photographed. To my knowledge, these are not creepypasta or fictional horror stories. Every story in this video comes directly from a real person’s own claimed experience. Make of them what you will. Have you had an unexplained encounter that you would like to share? Tell me your story for a chance to be featured on the channel https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdbPjdRwf2UCYVDNsyN_wI7wk0m1oxIqpPWNWe_nliGZ9cIyQ/viewform COME SAY HI! Instagram - https://instagram.com/dontscareclaire/ THE LEGAL STUFF I don’t claim ownership of all the extracts, including images, videos and audio, featured in this video. I will include material according to the Creative Commons CC0 licensing, or according to fair usage on the basis that I’m reporting, educating, or providing commentary or critique. My whole aim for this channel is to educate and entertain you lovely people, using accurate factual information and personal experiences to the best of my knowledge. I spend hours and hours on the research for each one of my videos, using sources that I like to think are trustworthy. But let’s face it, no one’s perfect, and when you’re dealing with anything in history, especially the paranormal, mistakes will happen. If you’re interested, I’d highly recommend you do your own research, and if I have made a mistake, please tell me about it!
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