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Hallowed Histories

Richard Sheppard

A regular podcast covering different aspects of English folklore, starting in East Anglia. Broadcast from the media suite at UEA, we include monthly podcasts covering a different myths, interspersed with interviews, specials and readings from local authors.

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Episode Twenty Nine - The Sound of his Horn: The Wild...

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2021/10/11

The Wild Hunt has been a ghoulish mainstay of folklore since time immemorial, but who are the Huntsmen, and what do they want? Often terrifying, sometimes generous and always enigmatic, we take a look at this enduring slice of East Anglian mythology. Please leave a review, subscribe and recommend this podcast to anyone you know with an interest in East Anglia, history, folklore and the macabre. Contact us at hallowedhistories@gmail.com if the spirit moves you, or check out our website at

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00:10:58

Episode Twenty Eight - In the Mood for Mystery: The...

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2021/09/04

The disappearance of 40s big-band icon Glenn Miller is one of the best known, and most investigated, mysteries of the second world war. Friendly fire, freezing cold, fog and propaganda cover-up have all been suggested as probable cause for the vanished flight that carried Miller and two airmen to the cold East Anglian skies in 1944. Please leave a review, subscribe and recommend this podcast to anyone you know with an interest in East Anglia, history, folklore and the macabre. Contact us at

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Episode Twenty Seven - The George at Dereham (For...

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2021/07/29

In honour of Norwich Pride 2021, we take a look at the bloody beginnings of Dereham, before focusing on one it's most famous landmarks, the George Hotel. Stories had been circulating about the ghosts there for decades, before a medium and ghost investigation team uncovered a tale of The Green Lady, and the unusual story of her afterlife. Please leave a review, subscribe and recommend this podcast to anyone you know with an interest in East Anglia, history, folklore and the macabre. Contact us at

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Episode Twenty Six - The Ghosts of Poppyland

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2021/07/28

Poppyland, the wide stretch of meadows and fields that runs along part of the North Norfolk coast, was the inspiration for many Victorian poets and artists. However, alongside this celebration if beauty, not a stone's throw away from the poppy fields, like the Shrieking Pits. Once deep, dark mines, now filled in with ink black water, these ponds have claimed the life of many tragic victims, whose stories have become East Anglian folklore. We're back at UEA's media suite now (although this episode

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00:10:46

Episode Twenty Five - The Song of the Sea

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2021/06/03

The sea shanty was the recent focus of a social media craze, but in many ways it revival completely predictable. As we shall see today, the shanty has always been a way to connect disparate groups, causing all of them to pull in one direction. It was exactly the tonic that people lockdowned with uncertain direction needed. The history of the shanty, from Victorian work song to curated anthropological archive is a fascinating journey, and one central to East Anglia's coastal communities. We're back

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00:11:31

Episode Twenty Four - The Society for Psychical...

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2021/05/01

The history and aims of the Society for Psychical Research (SPR) provides a fascinating look at a point in our history where religion, science and the paranormal took centre stage in a discussion that would define the modern world. We're back at UEA's media suite now (although this episode was recorded mainly at home), with support from the Interdisciplinary Institute of Humanities. Thanks for bearing with us over the past few months, we hope to have exciting news about our upcoming episodes as

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Episode Twenty Three - Eye Witness The Dead

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2021/04/01

As a follow-up episode to last month's look at the white women ghosts of East Anglia, we present an eye-witness, first hand account of a student teacher who witnessed something sinister in Sprowston. For reasons of privacy we have removed any references to where in Norwich this took place, and changed the name of the witness. Hear his terrifying account of his visit from the white lady, and even more chillingly, the aftermath and long reach of one of East Anglia's most persistent spectre. Do you

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00:08:38

Episode Twenty Two - Madness and Blessings: The Lady...

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2021/03/10

Imagine a ghost and the classical image of a figure in white may pop into your mind. The lady in white is one of the archetypal spectres, and East Anglia certainly has its share. But is the lady in white here to harm or heal? And is she still about her business to this very day? We investigate a mystery that goes back centuries, and yet effects the lives of some to this very day. We're back at UEA's media suite now (although this episode was recorded mainly at home), with support from the

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Episode Twenty One - Midnight in the Village of...

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2021/02/03

While locked down in our houses, it is very easy to forget that we are surrounded by wild, open, empty spaces. The Broads exemplify the strange patchwork of countryside that make up a lot of East Anglia, both picturesque and strangely menacing. When the Broads do throw up folklore, it runs that gamut between the sublime and the damned, and no more so than in the shadow of St Helen's Church in Ranworth. Thank you so much to those of you who joined us for our recent run of ghost stories, as well as

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00:08:57

Episode Twenty - Murder On A Winter's Day: The Killer...

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2021/01/01

Thank you so much to those of you who joined us for our recent run of ghost stories, as well as the online screening of Clive Dunn's documentary about M.R. James last month. We're going to be bringing you more screenings in 2021, so keep an eye out on our website and on the podcasts for further developments. A lot of the M.R. James footage will soon be available through our Youtube channel for those who missed it, we'll get that up and running very soon. In the meantime, we will still be bringing

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Hallowed Histories Extra - More Ghost Stories for...

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2020/12/23

Hallowed Histories is delighted to bring back one of our favourite traditions - ghost stories for Christmas. Each week leading up to our Christmas special (details to come), we will be hosting a story written and narrated by a local author. This episode is a reading of Daffodils by Sally Harris, a chilling rendition of just what may lurk in an English country garden. Sally is the author of one of our favourite books, Haverscroft, links to which can be found below:

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Hallowed Histories Extra - More Ghost Stories for...

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2020/12/10

Hallowed Histories is delighted to bring back one of our favourite traditions - ghost stories for Christmas. Each week leading up to our Christmas special (details to come), we will be hosting a story written and narrated by a local author. This episode is a reading of Breaking Up Is Hard To Do by writer and academic Shane Brown, a terrifying tale of guilt, longing and the real nature of being 'haunted'. Links to Shane's work can be found

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Hallowed Histories Extra - More Ghost Stories for...

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2020/12/01

Hallowed Histories is delighted to bring back one of our favourite traditions - ghost stories for Christmas. Each week leading up to our Christmas special (details to come), we will be hosting a story written and narrated by a local author. This episode is a reading of Fear Not by writer and academic Helena Bacon, a terrifying tale of car possession, gifts with strings and family ties. IMPORTANT - Hallowed Histories is hosting an online screening of A Pleasant Terror: The Life and Ghost of M.R

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Episode Nineteen - Borley Rectory, The Most Haunted...

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2020/12/01

We're still continuing our strand of ghost stories for Christmas, but here's our regular episode for those who want a true-life story of haunting. Borley Rectory is now a vacant plot in the heart of Essex, but throughout the twentieth century it was a locus for hauntings, claims of fakery, psychical research and unprecedented public interest. We take a brief dip in the deep waters of the building that came to be known as the most haunted house to ever stand, IMPORTANT - Hallowed Histories is hosting

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Hallowed Histories Extra - More Ghost Stories for...

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2020/11/24

Hallowed Histories is delighted to bring back one of our favourite traditions - ghost stories for Christmas. Each week leading up to our Christmas special (details to come), we will be hosting a story written and narrated by a local author. This episode is a reading of The Cathedral House Portrait by the regular host of Hallowed Histories, Richard Sheppard. It's an old-school ghost story about the past, the present, bloody murder and fireside chats. We're back at UEA's media suite now, with support

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Hallowed Histories Extra - More Ghost Stories for...

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2020/11/17

Hallowed Histories is delighted to bring back one of our favourite traditions - ghost stories for Christmas. Each week leading up to our Christmas special (details to come), we will be hosting a story written and narrated by a local author. This episode is the return of writer Kathryn Leigh and their suitably gothic story Tapes. We're back at UEA's media suite now, with support from the Interdisciplinary Institute of Humanities. Thanks for bearing with us over the past few months, we hope to have

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00:20:59

Hallowed Histories Extra - More Ghost Stories for...

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2020/11/10

Hallowed Histories is delighted to bring back one of our favourite traditions - ghost stories for Christmas. Each week leading up to our Christmas special (details to come), we will be hosting a story written and narrated by a local author. This episode is the return of writer and scholar Johnny Raspin, and his story of madness, devils in the head and horror, The Numanist Experience. We're back at UEA's media suite now, with support from the Interdisciplinary Institute of Humanities. Thanks for

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00:11:38

Episode Eighteen - Barking Abbey and England's First...

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2020/10/29

In this episode we take a look 1400 years back in time at Barking Abbey and the women who ran it. What was often seen as a form of imprisonment for women who had nowhere else to go, the history of Barking Abbey instead reveals freedom, miracles, writing and the secrets of the dead. We're back at UEA's media suite now, with support from the Interdisciplinary Institute of Humanities. Thanks for bearing with us over the past few months, we hope to have exciting news about our upcoming episodes as well

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Hallowed Histories Extra - The Highwayman by Alfred...

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2020/09/29

To finish off our look at Essex boy Dick Turpin in our last episode, a recictation of Alfred Noyes's classic poem, The Highwayman. Hopefully we'll be back at our recording studios at the UEA's media suite for the next episode, thanks for bearing with us over the past few months. We hope to have exciting news about our upcoming episodes as well as our annual film festival for you all very soon. Please leave a review, subscribe and recommend this podcast to anyone you know with an interest in East

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00:10:45

Episode Sixteen - Gentlemen of the Road

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2020/08/27

Dig out your domino mask and flintlock pistols this month, as we go in pursuit of the not so dandy highwayman Dick Turpin. From humble beginnings as a landlord's son, through to a straight life as a butcher, through to his eventual infamy as one of Britain's most feared criminal, Turpin had done it all. Why are we so fascinated by the highwaymen though? We dissect the PR campaign that turned a thief into a romantic legend, courtesy of Harrison Ainsworth's blockbuster novel 'Rookwood'. Please leave

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