15. Weird Wanders Two: My night in York’s Most Haunted Inn

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As part of my haunted house challenge I spent the night at the Golden Fleece Hotel in York. The pub is renowned for being the most haunted pub in the city and maybe even Britain. No fewer than 15 ghosts have been reported to haunt the 17th century pub. 

Listen to my live recordings during the night, as well as interviews with fellow guests over breakfast, all of whom had strange stories to tell. 

I investigate one of the pubs most enduring ghost stories and find out one of the strangest tales I’ve ever come across. 

I also chat with the wonderful Rob Kirkup of How Haunted podcast about his love of ghosts, and York hauntings in particular. He tells a chilling ghost story of his own and we compare notes about our stays at the Golden Fleece which although were 13 years apart had some creepy similarities. 

Also this week over on the YouTube channel I will be hosting a live one year anniversary celebration, telling stories and answering questions. Please join me if you can details can be found here!

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15. Weird Wander Two: My night in York’s Most Haunted Inn

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As part of my haunted house challenge I spent the night at the Golden Fleece Hotel in York. The pub is renowned for being the most haunted pub in the city and maybe even Britain. No fewer than 15 ghosts have been reported to haunt the 17th century pub. 

Listen to my live recordings during the night, as well as interviews with fellow guests over breakfast, all of whom had strange stories to tell. 

I investigate one of the pubs most enduring ghost stories and find out one of the strangest tales I’ve ever come across. 

I also chat with the wonderful Rob Kirkup of How Haunted podcast about his love of ghosts, and York hauntings in particular. He tells a chilling ghost story of his own and we compare notes about our stays at the Golden Fleece which although were 13 years apart had some creepy similarities. 

Also this week over on the YouTube channel I will be hosting a live one year anniversary celebration, telling stories and answering questions. Please join me if you can details can be found here!

Be Part of Team Weird!

Join us on the socials find out where here.

Buy a Weird in the Wade T-shirt, bag, mug or more at the merch shop.

Buy the show a coffee at https://ko-fi.com/weirdinthewade

Weird in the Wade is researched, written, presented and produced by Nat Doig

Tess Savigear wrote the theme

All additional music and sound effects from Epidemic Sound.

 

14. Weird Wanders One: Blind George Ghost of Anstey

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We take a short wander away from Biggleswade, over the county border into Hertfordshire in this episode. Nat Doig tells the tale of Blind George of Anstey. It’s a folktale with a bit of everything, a secret tunnel, a blind fiddle player, a faithful dog, the devil, and a ghost. 

Nat also explores myths and legends around blindness including busting some modern myths with her guest Paul Day.

Nat and Paul discuss a neurological condition which affects many blind people, and could hold a clue to solving at least some ghost sightings. Paul also shares his experiences of going on a ghost hunt in a spooky tower with a spiral staircase.

It’s a slightly different episode to the usual Weird in the Wade but one that will be just as thought provoking possibly more so.

For show transcript, notes and links for further information on the issues discussed in the podcast including Charles Bonnet Syndrome, please visit the show blog: https://weirdinthewade.blog/

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Theme music Tess Savigear

A huge thank you to Litha for granting permission for their song Blind George to play on this episode. You can hear the track here: https://www.litha-music.com/images/music/Blind_George.mp3

And Blind George’s theme from: freesound 42953 Freqman gypsy violin variation

13. Ghostly Crime Part 2: Biggleswade Body Snatchers and Things That Go Bump in the Night

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In this episode Nat Doig explores the tale of Biggleswade’s body snatchers. As is often the case it turns out that the truth is stranger and more satisfying than fiction. Do the body snatchers haunt the town still? Why might the town have forgotten the most exciting part of the story, preferring instead to remember just a murky fragment of the tale? Nat ponders these questions and finds some surprising answers.

This episode also looks at a haunting linked to a victim of crime in London’s Green Park. Listen as Nat tells the story of this sorrowful phantom recorded under the sombre trees of the park on a cold winters dusk. 

A transcript for the show can be found here

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Theme music by Tess Savigear

All additional music and sound effects Epidemic Sound

12. Ghostly Crime Part One: Murder Bridge, Thomas Dun and a Chat with Eerie Edinburgh

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In this bumper episode I explore why so many ghost stories and hauntings have a connection with crime or criminals.

I investigate the local legend of Biggleswade’s Murder Bridge, a place every school child knows not to approach. 

I tell you the tale of Thomas Dun, reported to be Black Tom’s phantom friend or even the real Black Tom. His 800 year old story is full of despicable deeds and more strange and eerie folk tales. 

And finally as a real treat, I talk with Wayne from Eerie Edinburgh about why he thinks so many ghostly stories centre around criminals and victims of crime. Many such stories feature on his wonderful podcast and YouTube videos. 

You can find a full transcript of today’s episodes, notes, photographs and further reading on the show blog weirdinthewade.blog 

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Show Theme by Tess Savigear

All additional music and sound effects Epidemic Sound 

11. Black Tom Phantom Highwayman of Bedford

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In this episode we explore one of Bedford’s most famous hauntings. A folktale so well known it gave it’s name to an area of the town. What is now a rather unassuming roundabout just north of Bedford town centre, known locally as Black Tom’s Grave, was once a place of fear. Was a highwayman executed on that site? Does his restless spirit still wander beneath the trees there? Why are there so many paranormal reports in that small area of Bedford? And who is the shadowy figure often reported along side the spectre of Black Tom?

We also look at other myths and legends attached to highwaymen with connections to Bedfordshire including Biggleswade and beyond. Why do so many of us love a highwayman story and footpad phantom?

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Bonus Episode: Facing my Demons at the Black Magic Church

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Happy New Year! In this bonus episode I visit the ruin of St Mary’s Old Church, Clophill. On a chilly December morning, 60 years after the ruin became notorious for black magic rituals, devil worship, vandalism, desecration and hauntings, I spend a few hours recording and photographing the site. An instance of pareidolia (seeing a figure in random mottled wall markings in this case) forces me to confront some childhood demons. 

You don’t have to have listened to the previous episodes about Clophill’s infamous church to listen to this bonus episode but you might enjoy it more if you have heard episode’s 9 and 10 first. 

Photographs accompanying this episode can be found on the show blog: weridinthewade.blog or on my flickr page.

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Weird in the Wade is researched, written and presented by Nat Doig

Theme music by Tess Savigear

All additional music and sound effects are from Epidemic Sound

 

10. The Ghosts of St Mary’s Old Church

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In this Christmas bonanza episode chock full of ghosts, I tell you about the many hauntings reported at St Mary’s Old Church, Clophill, over the last 60 years. From Spectral beasts scaring news agents at Christmas, to a punk band who felt their haunting encounter at the church brought them bad luck, to more recent mobile phone footage of monk like phantoms. It’s all explored in this episode. 

Did the church’s sad past of vandalism and desecration disturb spirits who should have been left to rest in peace, or did black magic rituals held at the church, summon something demonic that lingers there still, or has the church’s notoriety primed us to expect the unexpected when visiting the site?

I want to extend my thanks to Damien O’Dell for giving me permission to cover one of his exclusive stories from his book Paranormal Bedfordshire – find out more about his books here.

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On Wednesday 20th December I’ll be chatting with Rick Palmer on his fabulous podcast Some Other Sphere, you can listen here: https://someothersphere.podbean.com/

 

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Theme music by Tess Savigear

All additional sound effects and music by Epidemic Sound

  

9. The Black Magic Church

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There’s an abandoned church on a hill top at Clophill in Bedfordshire, that fuelled my nightmares as a child. In today’s episode I explore the history of this notorious church that the tabloid press labelled a “black magic church” back in the 1960s. This ruined church has associations with magic, ghosts, grave robbers, the devil, desecration and death. But are the newspaper stories and the local folklore true? And why was I so scared by the very thought of this church as a child? How do my nightmares link to a very different kind of church in Biggleswade? All is revealed in this episode of Weird in the Wade.

I confront my demons (pun intended) to cover this story for the show.

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Theme Music by Tess Savigear

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Bonus Episode: More Big Cats of Bedfordshire and Beyond

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In this bonus episode we hear from a new witness who saw a large black cat in Bedfordshire in the 1990s. His sighting was near to the famous encounters with the beast of Silsoe which I also explore.

We also catch up with Owen Staton, completing the interview started in episode 7, The Big Cat of Biggleswade and Phantom Felines.

Find out more about Owen and his podcasts by following him on Twitter / X here. 

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Weird in the Wade is researched, written and presented by Nat Doig

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