Steph Lay
@stephlay.bsky.social
Folk horror, real ghost stories & parapsychology. I'm mapping Milton Keynes’ unlikely hauntings in my 'Revenants on the Redway' project, and I look after Content & Analytics for Into The Fog.
Links! https://linktr.ee/stephlay
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Steph Lay
@stephlay.bsky.social
· Jul 24
Milton Keynes people! I've collected true spooky stories from across 25% of the city - but there's still a lot more to find! If you've got a story to share, I want to hear it... cityofsecrets.blog/tell-your-st...
Everyone else - v grateful for shares to get the word out! #UncannyCommunity
Everyone else - v grateful for shares to get the word out! #UncannyCommunity
@rebeccaradford.bsky.social It was so wonderful to meet you today - Nat has the best community, and I’m delighted to be part of it :D
November 2, 2025 at 7:52 PM
@rebeccaradford.bsky.social It was so wonderful to meet you today - Nat has the best community, and I’m delighted to be part of it :D
Ooh, Tuesdays for new #uncanny - right, that's going in the calendar. I reckon that next one's going to be rather good :)
Thank-you for an awesome listen-along, everyone - I really enjoyed that!
Thank-you for an awesome listen-along, everyone - I really enjoyed that!
October 31, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Ooh, Tuesdays for new #uncanny - right, that's going in the calendar. I reckon that next one's going to be rather good :)
Thank-you for an awesome listen-along, everyone - I really enjoyed that!
Thank-you for an awesome listen-along, everyone - I really enjoyed that!
Disturbances starting with renovations really does seem to be a thing... the scariest story I've collected so far began that way... cityofsecrets.blog/2025/05/09/t... #uncanny
October 31, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Disturbances starting with renovations really does seem to be a thing... the scariest story I've collected so far began that way... cityofsecrets.blog/2025/05/09/t... #uncanny
Halloween, strong coffee and NEW #uncanny - how very perfect. And this theme tune will always make me shiver :D #UncannyCommunity
October 31, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Halloween, strong coffee and NEW #uncanny - how very perfect. And this theme tune will always make me shiver :D #UncannyCommunity
Well, that was fun! A properly creepy new story for Halloween - you’re in for a treat tomorrow, #UncannyCommunity! Hey, is anyone planning a listen-along?
October 30, 2025 at 6:18 AM
Well, that was fun! A properly creepy new story for Halloween - you’re in for a treat tomorrow, #UncannyCommunity! Hey, is anyone planning a listen-along?
:D Still delighted that this happened - so cool!
Halloween' almost here, and so far in October there's been six huge episodes
Have you heard them all?
Four cryptid-packed Monster Month episodes, and two spooky chats with @icysedgwick.bsky.social And @stephlay.bsky.social
There's two more to come, a 3-hr long ghost hunt and the Halloween special
Have you heard them all?
Four cryptid-packed Monster Month episodes, and two spooky chats with @icysedgwick.bsky.social And @stephlay.bsky.social
There's two more to come, a 3-hr long ghost hunt and the Halloween special
October 26, 2025 at 3:48 PM
:D Still delighted that this happened - so cool!
This is fascinating - reports of spooky happenings across different English Heritage properties www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Faceless figures and mysterious music: ghost stories from English Heritage sites
Figure caught on camera at Chester Castle among accounts of eerie goings on at historic properties
www.theguardian.com
October 24, 2025 at 7:43 AM
This is fascinating - reports of spooky happenings across different English Heritage properties www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Reposted by Steph Lay
🌿🪦🌿"Folklore claimed that churchyard yews would stretch a root to the mouth of each corpse, making a hidden green-man of every buried body. Their essence would be drawn in with the sap. The tree would remember them."
📖Deeper Older Darker
#FairyTaleTuesday #thicktrunktuesday #FairyTaleFlash
📖Deeper Older Darker
#FairyTaleTuesday #thicktrunktuesday #FairyTaleFlash
October 21, 2025 at 1:11 PM
🌿🪦🌿"Folklore claimed that churchyard yews would stretch a root to the mouth of each corpse, making a hidden green-man of every buried body. Their essence would be drawn in with the sap. The tree would remember them."
📖Deeper Older Darker
#FairyTaleTuesday #thicktrunktuesday #FairyTaleFlash
📖Deeper Older Darker
#FairyTaleTuesday #thicktrunktuesday #FairyTaleFlash
Loved doing this interview - if you’ve not heard it yet, do have a listen :D
Halloween draws closer 🎃 and there's been FIVE episodes of the podcast so far this month
Three massive cryptid episodes for MONSTER MONTH 🐾 🦕 and two spooky interviews when I spoke with @stephlay.bsky.social and @icysedgwick.bsky.social
If you're looking for a scary listen, check them out 🎧 👻
Three massive cryptid episodes for MONSTER MONTH 🐾 🦕 and two spooky interviews when I spoke with @stephlay.bsky.social and @icysedgwick.bsky.social
If you're looking for a scary listen, check them out 🎧 👻
October 19, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Loved doing this interview - if you’ve not heard it yet, do have a listen :D
We're going to the woods for tonight's story from the dark corners of MK... Amara and her husband have lived with 'the walker' in their home for over 20 years... and he's still with them today. cityofsecrets.blog/2025/10/11/h... #UncannyCommunity
He Walks When We’re Alone, Near Shenley Wood
Lately, I’ve been thinking about what it means to live with ghosts. As the nights draw in, I notice the shadows deepening in my own rooms, folding in a little earlier each evening. I read so many s…
cityofsecrets.blog
October 11, 2025 at 10:15 PM
We're going to the woods for tonight's story from the dark corners of MK... Amara and her husband have lived with 'the walker' in their home for over 20 years... and he's still with them today. cityofsecrets.blog/2025/10/11/h... #UncannyCommunity
Reposted by Steph Lay
🎃 October’s off to a spooky start on the podcast and two episodes are already out!
👻 @stephlay.bsky.social joins me to explore haunted Milton Keynes
🦕 Ep 117: Monster Month begins with "what is a cryptid?"
And another episode drops tomorrow when @icysedgwick.bsky.social and I discuss Ghostlore
👻 @stephlay.bsky.social joins me to explore haunted Milton Keynes
🦕 Ep 117: Monster Month begins with "what is a cryptid?"
And another episode drops tomorrow when @icysedgwick.bsky.social and I discuss Ghostlore
October 6, 2025 at 5:20 PM
🎃 October’s off to a spooky start on the podcast and two episodes are already out!
👻 @stephlay.bsky.social joins me to explore haunted Milton Keynes
🦕 Ep 117: Monster Month begins with "what is a cryptid?"
And another episode drops tomorrow when @icysedgwick.bsky.social and I discuss Ghostlore
👻 @stephlay.bsky.social joins me to explore haunted Milton Keynes
🦕 Ep 117: Monster Month begins with "what is a cryptid?"
And another episode drops tomorrow when @icysedgwick.bsky.social and I discuss Ghostlore
New Milton Keynes case! A family haunted across years and houses… footsteps in the night, ghostly apparitions, voices whispering in the dark, scratches on a child’s face. And the name they gave their ghost? It was real. #UncannyCommunity cityofsecrets.blog/2025/10/02/w...
We Called Her Annie, Wolverton
Some stories arrive as fragments – fleeting memories, half-remembered encounters that still manage to unsettle. Others arrive whole, rich with detail, stretching across years and leaving no d…
cityofsecrets.blog
October 2, 2025 at 9:29 PM
New Milton Keynes case! A family haunted across years and houses… footsteps in the night, ghostly apparitions, voices whispering in the dark, scratches on a child’s face. And the name they gave their ghost? It was real. #UncannyCommunity cityofsecrets.blog/2025/10/02/w...
It's here! Listen to me and Rob talking about the dark side of Milton Keynes and the ghost stories I'm finding here. I also read a very creepy story about a mysterious encounter at a local pub: was it a warning, a curse or something even darker? I'd love to know what you think! #UncannyCommunity
👻NEW EPISODE👻
October is here!! In the first of EIGHT, very special episodes coming this month, I'm joined by @stephlay.bsky.social to discuss the ghosts of a city usually overlooked as being a hotbed of ghosts and ghouls....Milton Keynes
Hear all about her unique, spooky, project 👻
October is here!! In the first of EIGHT, very special episodes coming this month, I'm joined by @stephlay.bsky.social to discuss the ghosts of a city usually overlooked as being a hotbed of ghosts and ghouls....Milton Keynes
Hear all about her unique, spooky, project 👻
October 1, 2025 at 9:26 AM
It's here! Listen to me and Rob talking about the dark side of Milton Keynes and the ghost stories I'm finding here. I also read a very creepy story about a mysterious encounter at a local pub: was it a warning, a curse or something even darker? I'd love to know what you think! #UncannyCommunity
Happy Halloween-on-the-horizon! What a massive privilege and delight to be kicking off spooky season with Rob tomorrow - I might stay up till midnight just to see it drop ;) #UncannyCommunity
The biggest, scariest month ever of How Haunted? starts tomorrow.
Eight massive episodes, and the first one is coming tomorrow as I'm joined in conversation by @stephlay.bsky.social to discuss her spooky Milton Keynes project 👻
Eight massive episodes, and the first one is coming tomorrow as I'm joined in conversation by @stephlay.bsky.social to discuss her spooky Milton Keynes project 👻
Coming across October on How Haunted? 🎃 (sound on 🎶)
Spread the word. The biggest, scariest, month of the podcast ever is heading your way 👻
Spread the word. The biggest, scariest, month of the podcast ever is heading your way 👻
September 30, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Happy Halloween-on-the-horizon! What a massive privilege and delight to be kicking off spooky season with Rob tomorrow - I might stay up till midnight just to see it drop ;) #UncannyCommunity
So exciting!! My chat with Rob will be coming out very soon - and just look at everything else he’s got planned for October! #UncannyCommunity
Coming across October on How Haunted? 🎃 (sound on 🎶)
Spread the word. The biggest, scariest, month of the podcast ever is heading your way 👻
Spread the word. The biggest, scariest, month of the podcast ever is heading your way 👻
September 18, 2025 at 5:53 AM
So exciting!! My chat with Rob will be coming out very soon - and just look at everything else he’s got planned for October! #UncannyCommunity
:D Very exciting to see this go live - thank you to David for featuring my project @spookyisles.bsky.social !
The stories are certainly coming in now - ghost by ghost, the grid is filling up... www.spookyisles.com/ghosts-in-mi... #UncannyCommunity
The stories are certainly coming in now - ghost by ghost, the grid is filling up... www.spookyisles.com/ghosts-in-mi... #UncannyCommunity
Ghosts In Milton Keynes: Paranormal Tales From The City Of Roundabouts | Spooky Isles
Even the most unremarkable places can harbour the uncanny, as ghost stories from Milton Keynes begin to emerge from the shadows, writes guest writer DR STEPH LAY
www.spookyisles.com
September 5, 2025 at 12:17 PM
:D Very exciting to see this go live - thank you to David for featuring my project @spookyisles.bsky.social !
The stories are certainly coming in now - ghost by ghost, the grid is filling up... www.spookyisles.com/ghosts-in-mi... #UncannyCommunity
The stories are certainly coming in now - ghost by ghost, the grid is filling up... www.spookyisles.com/ghosts-in-mi... #UncannyCommunity
White rabbits, white rabbits - the first of the month, and that's particularly exciting because it means my article in @hauntedmagazine.bsky.social is going out to the world! It was such an honour to write this, can't wait for people to read it. #UncannyCommunity
cityofsecrets.blog/2025/09/01/c...
cityofsecrets.blog/2025/09/01/c...
City of Secrets featured in Haunted Magazine!
Around this time last year, long before this project even existed, I decided I wanted to start writing more non-fiction pieces as well as stories. I sat down and made a list of topics I could cover…
cityofsecrets.blog
September 1, 2025 at 7:07 AM
White rabbits, white rabbits - the first of the month, and that's particularly exciting because it means my article in @hauntedmagazine.bsky.social is going out to the world! It was such an honour to write this, can't wait for people to read it. #UncannyCommunity
cityofsecrets.blog/2025/09/01/c...
cityofsecrets.blog/2025/09/01/c...
New blog post from the City of Secrets! My witness Karen finds comfort in messages from beyond - and I wonder why I never had any of my own. cityofsecrets.blog/2025/08/23/a... #UncannyCommunity
A Presence in the Pictures, Bolbeck Park
It sometimes seems amazing to me that I only started this project in April – it’s hard to believe that it’s only been five months, so much has happened in that short time. I’…
cityofsecrets.blog
August 24, 2025 at 8:49 AM
New blog post from the City of Secrets! My witness Karen finds comfort in messages from beyond - and I wonder why I never had any of my own. cityofsecrets.blog/2025/08/23/a... #UncannyCommunity