Real UK Goblin Sightings: Chilling Stories from Witnesses Across Britain

Leon Leighton· Host0:00

For centuries stories of goblins have been told across the United Kingdom. Creatures said to lurk in caves, forests and forgotten places. In this episode we're exploring the legends, sightings and strange encounters surrounding these mysterious beings. I'm Leon Leighton and this is The Real Unexplained Stories. Story one, The Knockers of Penrhyn Mine, South Wales by David. When I was 19, I worked a short contract near Bethesda. My job wasn't glamorous. I was carrying tools, cleaning debris, and helping the older men with whatever they needed doing. The mine itself was a scar in the mountain, damp echoing and filled with tunnels that snaked far beneath the ground. The men I worked with were tough. They all carried certain superstitions. One of them was about the knockers. At first I thought it was just a nickname for loose rocks shifting or for the noise of hammers echoing down the tunnels. But the older miners said no. The knockers were something else. Little men. Goblin-like. things that lived down deep in the mine they'd knock on walls to warn of caverns or trick you deep into the dark depending on how you treated them i laughed it off at first until that night i had