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Buckle up we're going on a road-trip! It's coming up on a year now since we had to give up our beloved KOFYmobile and we're missing planning the year's camping and road-trip adventures like we normally would be doing in the first few months of the year. We could probably all do with a little break from reality so, we're going on a pretend adventure – we're going to imagine our ideal haunted road-trip and take you all along for the ride. On the way there will be some choices to make, with outcomes that you can work in to your own imaginary story, to see how your paranormal adventure unfolds during the episode, or you can just listen along and enjoy the hearing about all the cool, and really haunted, locations we're going to dip into today. If you do want to join in you might want to have a regular 6-sided dice or a dice app handy, and perhaps a journal, notebook or writing implement, but we've designed this so that you can do all of this in your head, or of course, just listen along to the story. The aim of the trip, on this occasion, is not the destination, but the journey itself, which will be choc-full of paranormal stops along the way. The idea of stopping off at as many haunted locations on our way to a given destination is actually how we've done our road trips ever since we started this show. We have always tried to maximise our time and petrol by fitting in as many spooky pit stops - and even overnights - in one journey as possible – so you will be getting a taste of a real KOFY road-trip … just … dialled up to 11!

Grab your mince pies and Christmas crackers and settle in for the big festive KOFY Christmas special! This episode is jam-packed with ghost stories for Christmas as well as some hilarious paranormal bloopers. Pit your wits against Lil and Fitz in the annual Christmas Quiz, and this year we take to the skies and dive in to some strange tales haunted planes and airfields in Ghosts of the Air.

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 HallowBirthdayWeen! We've been sharing spooky stories for 9 years now and it's time, once again, to celebrate All Hallow's Eve. Join us for some spooky fun as we find this years most tenuous spooky season tie-in, hear listeners stories from Kris, Abbie & Harper and then we head to Mannington Hall in Norfolk in search of the Antiquary's Ghost! Episode Shownotes

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 3 of our Spooky Season Shorts mini-ep series is out now! Halloween approacheth, so as pumpkins begin to light the windows, and ghosts stir in dusty attics, join us for week 3 of our countdown to Halloween, as we walk Shadowman’s Hallway, chase disembodied sounds, and play hide and go spook with true paranormal encounters from Janessa, Cathy and John. Episode Shownotes

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/

In the run up to our Halloween special we thought we’d bring you some fun sized mini episodes, featuring some fun sized spooky stories, each week leading up to Halloween. So, strap yourselves in for the first trio of terrors from Kathryn, Kate and Bea!

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

This episode we dive into the weird and wonderful world of Poltergeist raps in part 2 of our three-part poltergeist themed series of Curious Cases. Last episode we heard about Dr Barrie Colvin’s investigations into Andover’s rapping Poltergeist, and this time we pick up the trail again to discover what Barrie did next – a rabbit hole that had us running around KOFY HQ hitting the walls with sticks and questioning everything we thought ever thought we understood about poltergeists. Join us for a spooky exploration of Dr Colvin’s research, and our own experimental efforts, as we discover the very strange audio phenomenon of poltergeist raps. 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

This episode we're going to be having a little bit of a catchup to let you all know what’s been going on here at KOFY HQ, and we’ll be sharing our favourite spooky adventures with our beloved rust-bucket – the KOFYmobile - as we prepare to bid farewell to our trusty adventure van.  We’ve got Stories from Ted, Leigh and Kat And, following on from a really interesting and fun post in our facebook group – we’re bringing you a new game – cos you all know how much we love a good cheesy game – Paranormal Bingo!   Episode 78 - Shownotes   Intro & Farewell to the KOFYmobile: 00:00:00 Ted's Story: 00:48:19 Leigh's Story: 00:58:48 Kat's Story: 01:09:05 Paranormal Bingo: 01:17:30

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

This episode we have our traditional ‘find the company with the most tenuous spooky season tie in’ competition. We have listeners stories from Tracey, Kate and Kat and we head back to Whitby for the final time…possibly…to share stories of smugglers, occult artifacts and a swashbuckling ghost. Episode Shownotes   Intro - 00:00:00 Paranormal Radar - 00:02:25 Tracey's Story - 00:22:00 Kat's Story - 00:33:48 Kate's Story - 00:37:29 The Gory Hand of Glory & The Swashbuckling Ghost - 00:46:31

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 have a haunted island on the paranormal radar, listener stories from Kat, Rob and Katie and we proudly bring you the second episode of our Whitby adventures in which we discover ghosts, legends and history galore as we return to the cliffs of Whitby … on the trail of Dracula! Click here for to visit the shownotes on the website!

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

This episode we dive beneath the waves for our paranormal bucket list, or perhaps this time we might name it the paranormal sonar! As we share a spooky location we’d love to visit. We have listeners stories from Kat, Nancy and Katherine and we get a bit deep as we dive into the fascinating world of Infrasound and the paranormal… and discover that things are rather more complicated than they may first appear.   Timestamps: Intro: 00:00:00 Paranormal Bucket List: 00:02:23 Kate’s Story: 00:09:48 Nancy’s Story: 00:21:47 Kat’s Story: 00:41:28 Infrasound in the Paranormal: 00:50:12

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!

This episode we are returning to Mother Shipton's to share the ghost stories and other exciting stuff that we just couldn't fit into the last episode. We've got haunted pubs, Fawkes facts, coin tree folklore and the second installment of our listeners stories from Sarah, Kelly and Bea and, much, much more! https://wp.me/p7TZ1h-1ud