East Grinstead, the home of Scientologists, Mormons, Rosicrucians and more; a nexus for ley lines, a perfect Prime Meridian settlement and Britain's most haunted town. But why?Why is East Grinstead, this little town in Sussex, so strange? What

A Very British Killing

Mar 26th, 2023 43m 9s

In 1556, three martyrs are burned at the stake. In 1812, the Prime Minister is gunned down in the House of Commons. And in 1996 a businessman is shot returning to his mansion.This is the story of East Grinstead, its violent history and its ghos

The Guinea Pig Club

Mar 26th, 2023 34m 4s

What is the Guinea Pig Club?At the height of the Second World War, the sleepy Sussex town of East Grinstead played host to one of the most remarkable and revolutionary medical facilities of the 20th Century. The town's famous Guinea Pigs were s

The Ley of the Land

Mar 26th, 2023 35m 59s

There is something that makes East Grinstead special, and has drawn extraordinary people to what looks, on the surface, like a very ordinary town. Amongst those who read the land like a book – like a religious text – there are those who say tha

The Scientologists on the Hill

Mar 26th, 2023 51m 18s

In 1959, L. Ron Hubbard, the founder of Scientology, one of the world's most controversial religions, bought a manor house in the sleepy Sussex town of East Grinstead. In doing so, he changed everything for that town. East Grinstead was now wor

The Land of the South Saxons

Mar 26th, 2023 24m 32s

From the early humans of the Middle Pleistocene era through to the Norman conquest, the history of Sussex is a tale for the ages. East Grinstead, the town that didn't stare, is nestled in this landscape, but what do we know of the thousands of

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