Episode 75 - Whitby: On the trail of Dracula
This episode we have a haunted island on the paranormal radar, listener stories from Kat, Rob and Katie and we proudly bring you the second episode of our Whitby adventures in which we discover ghosts, legends and history galore as we return to the cliffs of Whitby … on the trail of Dracula!
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Intro: 00:00:00
Paranormal Radar: 00:02:17
Kat’s Story: 00:08:19
Rob’s Story 00:17:31
Katie’s Story: 00:23:21
Whitby – On the trail of Dracula: 00:31:56
Paranormal Radar:
Sky News – Would you buy a six acre island off the Devon coast with a private beach and 15 ghosts?
Plymouth Herald – Drake’s Island and the tale of the white lady
Whitby:
Books:
You can order these books from Amazon using our affiliate links below (this won’t cost you, or the author any more money, but it will give us a tiny kick back from Amazon). Of course, you don’t have to use Amazon and we do encourage you to support independant booksellers if and where you can.
Dracula – Bram Stoker – Harper Collins 2009 – 978 0 00 732191 9
The Whitby Ghost Book – Paul McDermott 2016 – 9781520130125
The Original Ghost Walk of Whitby – James J. Browne 2014 – 9781494362416
Dracula’s Whitby – Ian Thompson – Amberley Books 2012 – 978 1 4456 0288 2
Secret Whitby – Ian Thompson and Roger Frost – Amberley Books 2016 – 978 1 4456 5251
Haunted Whitby – Alan Brooke – The History Press 2009 – 978 0 7524 4925 8
Links:
The Whitby Guide – Whitby Lighthouses
Historic England Listing – Old Town Hall Whitby
Heritage Gateway – The wreck of the Dmitry
The Whitby Guide – Frank Meadow Sutcliffe
Project Gutenberg – Than Anglo Saxon Chronicle
Simon Sherwood – Apparitions of Black Dogs
Historic England Listing – Goldsborough Roman Signal Station
Academia.edu – Roman Signal Stations on the Yorkshire Coast By Raymond Varley
Yorkshire Post – Whitby’s 199 Steps