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Loremen Podcast

Loremen Podcast

Join the Loremen (James Shakeshaft and Alasdair Beckett-King) as they "investigate" local legends and forgotten folklore.

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58:18

Loremen S5Ep61 - The Stocksbridge Monk with Nick Mason

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2024/12/05

Nick "Maso" Mason of The Weekly Planet and Mr Sunday Movies drops in from Melbourne for a chilling tale of ghosts, ghouls and... town planning.From "God's own country" (Australia) to "God's own county" (Yorkshire), we visit the haunted building site that was to become the infamous Stocksbridge bypass. Since the 1980s, this stretch of road has been associated with a ghostly hooded monk. Has he got a head? Has he got a face? Has he got a sk8er boi wallet on a chain? It's really not clear. And, as if

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41:38

Loremen S5Ep60 - The Littlemark Murder

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2024/11/28

Alasdair tells James the tale of a ghostly pedlar with no head... and no body!The Loremen journey to the lowlands of Scotland and encounter some Nithsdale ne'er-do-wells. Join us! Meet the pranksters of Sanquhar and Kryten the android's Scottish ancestor. Walk the lonely road to Littlemark Farm. (Oh, hi little Mark!) Marvel at the girthy trees and... beware the murderous Mary Graham. (No Marks were harmed in the recording of this episode.) The Loreboys went head-to-head on Who Knew It with Matt

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35:04

Loremen S5Ep59 - Oxfordshire Fairies

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2024/11/21

Bring a sandwich, grab an iron horseshoe and don't be a Greedy Jack because we are going fairy finding! James returns to Oxfordshire's Rollright Stones for some genuine fairy stories. Learn real-world strategies that YOU can use to avoid falling foul of the fae folk. Don't follow the corpse lights, abstain from shooting at your neighbour's trees and steer clear of making assumption about bakers. Please. Plus, James dives into the world of 1970s publishing, and comes away an expert in sausages and

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30:22

Loremen S5Ep58 - The Durweston Poltergeist

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2024/11/14

James tells Alasdair the spooky story of a poltergeist in Dorset*. All your polterguy classics are in play here: scratching sounds, flying objects and a young girl with a talent for throwing things while no one is looking. Prepare yourself for strange happenings in a Durweston semi, witnessed by a gamekeeper whose perception of time and space is all slantwise.Let's be honest, this episode gets a little bit silly. Especially towards the end when A-List celebrity Keanu Reeves makes a guest

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46:56

Loremen S5Ep57 - The Beasts of the North LIVE in...

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2024/11/07

The Loremen travel to the North Country and meet the Trash Hounds of Lancashire. No, not the live lorefolk audience. We're talking tales of headless dogs, skeletal huntsmen and be-buttocked pipers.This is another episode from our "Sold Out" "National" "Tour". James brings stories of boggarts and barghests and Alasdair presents three northern eccentrics. And we briefly hop across the border to the Yorkshire village of Thickley Punchardon. For obvious reasons. Enjoy! This episode was edited by Joseph

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43:30

Loremen S5Ep56 - The Tunnelling Duke LIVE in West...

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2024/10/31

This episode was recorded live (or at least undead) in West Norwood Cemetery, in front of a sold-out crowd. The brave lorefolk were chilled, literally and figuratively, by tales of subterranean mystery and otherworldly encounters.James told the story of an eccentric English aristocrat who took to burrowing like a badger, while Alasdair hopped aboard London's defunct Necropolis Railway. And the crematorium proved to be a spooky setting for the local legend of a West Norwood polterguy ... who liked

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43:33

Loremen S5Ep55 - Ghosts of the Road with Hayley Stevens

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2024/10/24

The Loremen were LIVE at the QED festival in Manchester and we were joined by Deputy Loreperson Hayley Stevens. Sceptical listeners might be familiar with the Hayley is a Ghost blog, all about ghosts that (spoiler warning) probably don't exist. In this episode, we meet roadside ghosts and road-adjacent spectres from across the UK (and beyond). Have you ever picked up a hitchhiker? No, neither have we. And these modern legends might make you feel a bit better about it...This episode was edited by

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40:48

Loremen S5Ep54 - The Crooker of Derwent River with...

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2024/10/17

A country walk always brings to mind certain maxims. "Stop and smell the roses," for one. "If a tree falls..." is another. But now there's a new one - "Beware the Crooker!"The boys are taken to a spooky Derbyshire riverside by historian and author Willow Winsham. You might feel a gnarly wooden finger tingling your spine in this episode. But James and Alasdair find time to ask the big questions. Where is the River Darren? How do you hypnotise a chicken? And what do you call those ski lift things

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48:37

Loremen S5Ep53 - Graveyard Jacks with Icy Sedgwick

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2024/10/10

Deputy Loreperson Icy Sedgwick (Fabulous Folklore with Icy) joins James and Alasdair, and she brings with her the stories of a Geordie graverobber and a Mackem resurrection man. It's Newcastle vs Sunderland, and the bones of the dead do not rest easy in this Tyne-Wear derby.Plus the Loreboys come up with several new business ideas. Anyone for glow-in-the-dark coffins? Come see the Loreboys LIVE in Manchester at GRUB on Sunday 20th October (2024) at

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28:18

Loremen S5Ep52 - The Grey Hitchhiker

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2024/10/03

The terrifying tale of the Grey Hitchhiker (or the Gray Hitcher, for Americans) comes from that spooky road, The Notorious A38. Over several decades, drivers have made the mistake of stopping for a hitchhiker who does not obey the laws of hitchhiking (or nature). If you're driving between Tiverton and Taunton, you might see the Grey Hitchhiker. If you've reached Wrangway, you're going the wrong way.Listener, it's time to "get your gilets on" because your spine is about to be tingled. Come see the

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31:47

Loremen S5Ep51 - Haunting Houses

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2024/09/26

The Loremen encounter what might be the biggest ghost in the history of the podcast. We're talking about a house that is a ghost. (Pretty big, right?) James takes Alasdair to the South West of England to view a property that's just come on the market and could vanish at any moment.Could this phantom maison be an echo of The Anarchy from the reign of King Stephen? Or do lone walkers on the moor go a bit funny sometimes? Enjoy this week's tales, drawn from the writing of Janet & Colin Bord and Christ

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29:46

Loremen S5Ep50 - The Poltergeist of Moreton

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2024/09/19

The boys are back, with yet more tales of Moreton lore! This time James visits South Moreton in Oxfordshire, for the outrageous story of a faux-poltergeist (fauxtergeist?). But don't fret, folklore fans - the village of South Moreton boasts enough "real" ghosts to spook the horses. Plus, a deadly locomotive and a very misleading prophecy.Come see the Loreboys LIVE in spooky West Norwood Cemetery on Friday 11th October 2024

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42:48

Loremen S5Ep49 - The Great Chislehurst Cave Mystery

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2024/09/12

Who's that, beckoning to you from the mouth of a weird looking cave? Why it's Alasdair Beckett-King of course! Join him and James Shakeshaft, and enter a subterranean labyrinth hidden beneath a leafy London borough.In 1907, The Illustrated London News called it The Great Chislehurst Cave Mystery: 22 miles of hand-carved tunnels, with stories of smugglers, druids, and rock and roll legends. Come for the haunted pool, stay for the possessed tour guide. (Tour guy.) Come see the Loreboys LIVE in spooky

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32:48

Loremen S5Ep48 - The Treasure in the Tower LIVE Part 2

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2024/09/07

We return to the Tower of London and make a last ditch attempt to find John Barkstead's lost treasure. Meet Mr Quarrell (the treasure hunter) and Major Pogson (the big daddy of British dowsing). The year is 1957: will the traitor's horde finally be unearthed?No, of course not. But James will tell a fun story about the Ceremony of the Keys. Come see the Loreboys LIVE in spooky West Norwood Cemetery on Friday 11th October 2024

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37:45

Loremen S5Ep47 - The Treasure in the Tower LIVE Part 1

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2024/09/05

What connects a traitor, a Sandwich and a mushroom farmer from Kent? It's the lost treasure of 'Invisible' John Barkstead, which is buried somewhere underneath the Tower of London. Although there are those who say ... it isn't. In Part 1 of this LIVE episode, we meet a regicidal bum bailiff, Alasdair unearths the TRUTH™ about the death of Oliver Cromwell and James is ravin' about ravens. Come see the loreboys LIVE in spooky West Norwood Cemetery on Friday 11th October 2024

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31:42

Loremen S5Ep46 - Gunter and The Witches

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2024/08/29

James talks Alasdair through the case of Anne Gunter's demonic possession... or was it all an elaborate hoax with lashings of wee wee?It's time for more Moreton! We're not talking Eleanor Morton, here. And We're not talking Moreton-in-Marsh either. This week's tale comes from North Moreton, and from from Mike White's book The Veiled Vale: Strange Tales from South Oxfordshire. Join us for this 17th century tale of murder, revenge and urine-bothering witch-hunters. Is that several pins coming out of

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46:33

Loremen S5Ep45 - Saints Alive with Amy Jeffs

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2024/08/22

Saints alive! Amy Jeffs returns to the pod, and she's brought a bunch of kooky saints with her. We're talking adorable otters, vengeful ghosts and a guy with a load of forks in his beard. (Maybe...)An alternative telling of St Edmund's legend (and many more) can be found in Amy's upcoming book: Saints: A new legendary of heroes, humans and magic. Come see us LIVE in spooky West Norwood Cemetery on Friday 11th October 2024

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50:09

Loremen S5Ep44 - The Enfield Mysteries with Athena...

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2024/08/15

Athena Kugblenu returns to the pod, for a journey through Enfield: the Croydon of North London and home to one of the world's most famous polterguys. But how is this London borough connected to a three-legged ape in Illinois? What kind of beast appears on the Enfield coat of arms? And is The Conjuring 2 a good film?* These, dear listener, are the Enfield mysteries.Athena's new book History's Most Epic Fibs is coming in Sept 2024: https://geni.us/HistorysMostEpicFibs *No, it's bad. This episode

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28:47

Loremen Mid-August Holidays Bonus Bonanza!

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2024/08/08

Pssst! It's mid-August Holidays Bonus Episode Bonanza time! Enjoy this bundle of bonus material from our Xmas Pig episodes. Featuring:Sunil Patel BB Miller Nick Mason and... Danny Robins You can get more bonus bits at patreon.com/loremenpod Join... Us... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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27:34

Mid-August Break Bonus

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2024/08/07

Pssst! It's mid-August Holidays Bonus Episode Bonanza time! Enjoy this bundle of bonus material from our Xmas Pig episodes. Featuring:Sunil Patel Nick Mason BB Miller and... Danny Robins You can get more bonus bits at patreon.com/loremenpod Join... Us...

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