Knock Once For Yes

Join us as we chat to Sarah Clegg, author of The Dead Of Winter, about Christmas monsters and the deliciously dark festive traditions that are woven through the history of Britain and Europe. This may not be one to listen to with little ears around, as a few of these monsters have some fiendishly grisly habits!

It's week 4 of our 2025 Halloween countdown and the final episode of Spooky Season Shorts before the big day! This time we have some chilling tales from Vic, Vix and Jan to get you in the mood for our Hallowbirthdayween special next week!

Week 2 of our Halloween countdown spooky season shorts has dropped! It’s the most wonderful time of the year, so get into the spirit of the season with us as we share true spooky encounters from Kitty, Emily and Kate; meet some of the ghosts of haunted Cade’s Cove; and hear about our mishaps with haunted objects. Get those pumpkins a-glowing! https://knockonceforyes.com/2025/10/11/spooky-season-shorts-ghost-stories-for-halloween-week-2/

This is the final instalment of our 3-part poltergeist series, and today we’re wrapping up with the less well known but very curious tale of Brian’s Poltergeist. On the last weekend of May, 1967, a new family moved into a modest terraced house in a large East Midlands town and they, along with most of their neighbours, were to experience an incredible spate of paranormal activity. Episode Shownotes

Join us for part 1 of our 3-part Poltergeist miniseries, as we take a slight departure from our normal format to share the story of the Andover Poltergeist. Don’t worry, our regular format will be coming back, but we hope you will also enjoy exploring some fascinating paranormal rabbit holes with us in our new Curious Cases series of mini-episodes. This time we share an intriguing poltergeist case from the 1970’s that occurred a few years before the more famous Enfield case, and was investigated in a truly interesting way by member of the Society for Psychical Research; Dr Barrie Colvin. We will be hearing more about Dr Colvin’s work in part 2, but for now, let us transport you back to the 1970’s and a terraced council house in the south of England, whose resident family are having nightly conversations … with a poltergeist! Shownotes

It's Christmas time again – Happy Holidays everybody whatever festival you are celebrating and if you don’t have any particular festivals or celebrations at this time of year then you are still more than welcome to join us for a little bit of creepy fun! So, get your Christmas crackers on standby and buckle up for the Knock Once For Yes Christmas special 2024 This episode we have an old favourite on the paranormal radar, who has some thoughts on both Santa Claus & somewhat bizzarely, Swindon Town Football club. We have listeners stories from Caroline, Rowan, Verity and a short story from Mateo Oxley, we tread the boards in search of ghosts at the Theatre Royal in Bath and, get ready to play along with the inaugural game of pretentious word bingo and, of course, the terribly cheesy, KOFY Christmas quiz! View the shownotes on the website here! Intro: 00:00:00 Paranormal Radar: 00:05:09 Quiz question 1: 00:09:48 Caroline's Story: 00:14:05 Quiz question 1 answer and question 2: 00:23:21 Rowan's Story: 00:34:34 Quiz question 2 answer and question 3: 00:46:49 Verity's Story: 00:55:29 Quiz question 3 answer and Listener question: 00:59:54 Matteo's Story: 01:13:58 Quiz - Listener question answer: 01:16:39 Pretentious Word Bingo: 01:20:31 Haunted Theatres: 01:23:11 Christmas Cracker & Outro: 02:18:50

In a little spooky season bonus, Lil brings you her re-telling of a classic Whitby Ghost story, channelling all the M.R. James and Poe she can muster, to bring the horrors of the high seas to your ears this Halloween night.

This episode we put add to our paranormal bucket list after checking out a new book, we have listeners stories from Jo, Pat & Jim and we share the first instalment of our paranormal postcard from one of the spookiest places in England – Whitby. Shownotes Intro - 00:00:00 Paranormal Bucket List (Go To Hell) - 00:01:58 Jo's Story - 00:07:21 Pat's Story - 00:22:53 Jim's Story - 00:28:11 Whitby Abbey - 00:39:20 Outro - 01:48:39

On this special Christmas episode we have one of our favourites – a tenuous paranormal story from the local papers, listener stories from Kat, Harper, and Becky, and then we’ll take you on a journey along some of the most haunted railways of England, as we dive into tales of ghost trains and phantom passengers. Not forgetting, of course, the slightly silly Christmas Quiz!

The world seems to be turning ever faster as it is spooky season once again! Of course, in many ways its spooky season all year round at KOFY HQ, and whereas most creators save up their creepiest content especially for October, we tell ghost stories all year round. So, for this, our 7th year podcasting and our 7th Hallowbirthdayween episode, we thought we’d do something a bit different, and we are diving into premonitions and prophecies! This episode the paranormal radar is being resurrected from it’s early grave. We have listeners stories from Paul, Kelly, Sarah, and Bea and we travel all the way up to Yorkshire to visit the home of a prophetess, in a cave by the river Nidd, and learn her petrifying story.

We are so excited to bring you this special episode with Greg and Dana Newkirk as they prepare to release their brand new feature length documentary 'The Unbinding' into the world. Whether you know them from The Newkirk Museum of the Paranormal, The Haunted Objects Pod, or the award winning Hellier, the Newkirks always bring a fresh perspective to the paranormal field, and this latest release is no exception. Join us as we dive deep into a conversation about the Newkirks' fascinating journey, and explore why their documentary about a haunted object known as 'The Crone' is set to break the mold of paranormal programming as we know it. Check out the trailer over at Planetweird and we hope you're as excited as us for the release on the 8th September!

A mini episode on some of the ghosts, myths and legends of the beautiful and mysterious Dartmoor National Park, and the battle facing the park today. Originally intended to be a short news article for the paranormal radar, this story, about the folklore of Dartmoor gaining relevance and meaning in these turbulent modern times, ended up turning into something bigger and demanded to be given its own episode, and who are we to deny the ancient land spirits?!