City of Secrets

Want to share your own experience? I’m so glad you’ve come along! You can do that here…

Welcome: If you think about Milton Keynes, you’re probably picturing endless roundabouts, identikit new-build houses, and those notorious concrete cows – not poltergeists, wandering spirits, or haunted fancy-dress shops.

I’m Steph Lay, a writer, photographer, and parapsychologist, and I’ve lived here since 2002. I love this strange, liminal new city, and I’m convinced there’s more darkness and strangeness here than you might expect.

Dark stories in a new city: Milton Keynes doesn’t have the ancient paranormal histories of York or Edinburgh. Instead, it’s a matrix of carefully designed estates, planned for order and convenience, linked by infamous roundabouts and a unique network of pedestrian Redways. But all those new-build houses, all those people stepping into underpasses or along quiet paths, they still encounter unsettling things in the city’s darker corners – because people tell ghost stories everywhere.

About Revenants on the Redway: Since April 2025, I’ve been running a project to document real-world spooky experiences from the people who live in this most unexpected of haunted hotspots. I’ve spoken to witnesses, mapped locations, visited the sites, and shared their stories here. Why? Because I want to answer a very simple question: can we find a ghost story for every grid square? Together with the people of Milton Keynes, I’m challenging the assumption that MK is soulless – in fact, it might be hiding more ghosts than anyone would believe.

I’d love it if you’d join me! You can explore this site using the menus above, jump straight to the stories, or share your own. I love hearing from readers, so if you’d like to talk, please get in touch.