The Grave Shift

Pendle: The Witch Trial That Shook England

Wed, 16 Sep 2026 19:20:43 +0000

A king obsessed with witchcraft. A magistrate determined to make his name. And a nine-year-old girl whose testimony sent her own mother, brother and sister to the gallows. Adam, Oz and Frank go deep on the Pendle Witch Trials.

The Enfield Poltergeist: The Voice That Shouldn't Exist

Thu, 17 Sep 2026 19:44:53 +0000

A single mum, two young sisters, and eighteen months of chairs sliding, Lego flying, and a grown man's voice coming out of an eleven-year-old's throat. Adam, Oz and Frank go through the Enfield Poltergeist case files -- and the real, unresolved argument between the investigators who were actually there.

Borley Rectory: The Most Haunted House in England

Wed, 23 Sep 2026 21:09:34 +0000

A pencilled message appears on a vicarage wall in Essex, addressed to the rector's wife, and stops mid-sentence.

Adam, Oz and Frank take on Borley Rectory: the bricked-up nun nobody can find a record of, the Foysters and the writing on the walls, Harry Price renting the whole house and advertising in The Times for observers, the fire of 1939, and the 1956 book that accused Price of faking most of it. Marianne Foyster later admitted she faked some of it, though her story changed depending on who was asking.

Everyone who set foot in that house came out with a different story, and every one of them was sure.

The Grave Shift is a Ghost Haunt UK production.

The Samlesbury Witches: The Trial That Fell Apart

Sun, 27 Sep 2026 17:09:12 +0000

A fourteen-year-old girl stood up in Lancaster court and swore her own grandmother had eaten a baby. The same week, the same judge had sent the Pendle witches to hang on the word of a nine-year-old.

Adam, Oz and Frank take on the Samlesbury Witches of 1612: three women accused by Grace Sowerbutts of shape-shifting, grave-robbing and cannibalism, who survived by asking the judge one question, who taught her to say it? Then the White Lady of Samlesbury Hall, and the Southworth family that runs through both stories.

Ask who wrote the script. It's always worth asking.

The Grave Shift is a Ghost Haunt UK production.

Smithills Hall: The Martyr's Bleeding Footprint

Wed, 30 Sep 2026 08:20:01 +0000

In a manor house on the edge of Bolton, there's a flagstone said to carry the print of a man's foot, and some say it turns red. Some say it bleeds.

Adam, Oz and Frank stay close to home for Episode Five. They tell the true story of George Marsh, a Protestant preacher from Deane who was examined at Smithills Hall during Mary the First's persecution and burned at the stake in Chester on the twenty-fourth of April, fifteen fifty-five.

Then comes the legend: the footprint, the stone that was supposedly taken away and brought back, and whether any of it holds up. Oz wants evidence, Frank wants to stand next to it in his size elevens, and Adam has done the reading.

Smithills Hall is council-owned and open to visitors. Check the official website before you go.

The Grave Shift is a Ghost Haunt UK production.

Lancaster Castle: Inside the Hanging Town's Last Door

Fri, 02 Oct 2026 22:20:01 +0000

Ten people from Pendle walked out of Lancaster Castle in August sixteen-twelve and never came back. Adam, Oz and Frank tell the story of the castle on the hill above the Lune, from Roman fort and Norman keep to Crown property, court, prison and the reputed 'hanging town' of England.

We cover the Pendle witch trials and the Samlesbury women acquitted at the same assizes, the move from Gallows Hill to Hanging Corner, the Drop Room, the branding iron in the dock, and the fact that this was a working prison until twenty-eleven.

Then come the ghost claims: cold spots, footsteps, shadow figures and that feeling of being watched. Oz and Frank argue them out properly. And tomorrow night, Saturday the third of October, Ghost Haunt UK are inside the castle themselves. Follow Ghost Haunt UK on Facebook, YouTube and TikTok, where the footage will go up over the next few days.

The Grave Shift is a Ghost Haunt UK production.