Episode 76 - The Gory Hand of Glory and the Swashbuckling Ghost
This episode we have our traditional ‘find the company with the most tenuous spooky season tie in’ competition. We have listeners stories from Tracey, Kate and Kat and we head back to Whitby for the final time…possibly…to share stories of smugglers, occult artifacts and a swashbuckling ghost.
Intro – 00:00:00
Paranormal Radar – 00:02:25
Tracey’s Story – 00:22:00
Kat’s Story – 00:33:48
Kate’s Story – 00:37:29
The Gory Hand of Glory & The Swashbuckling Ghost – 00:46:31
Paranormal Radar:
The Guardian – Hauntings review
Wales Online – I Hate Halloween
Wales Online – Halloween Spending
Lad Bible – Haunted House Signs
Guild of Property Professionals – How do I know if my house is haunted?
Hamilton Stiller – How do I know if my house is haunted?
Manchester Evening News – The city an hour from Manchester named the UK’s most haunted
Literacy Trust – Haunted Birmingham Competition
Openreach – Most haunted village in Britain gets Full Fibre broadband – in time for Halloween
Dr Merryweather’s Tempest Prognosticator
Whitby Museum – Tempest Prognosticator
Hand of Glory
Oxford University Press – Oxford Reference Hand of Glory
The Whitby Guide – The Hand of Glory
Mandrake charms
The Medievalists – The Mandrake Plant and Six Anglo Saxon Cures
Dr Ripley
Whitby Museum – The Cabinet of Curiosities
The Old Smuggler’s Café
Historic England – Smuggler’s Cafe Listing
The Whitby Guide – Smuggling around Whitby and Robin Hood’s Bay
The Whitby Guide – Smuggling tales from Whitby
Internet Archive – A history of Whitby and Streoneshalh Abbey by the Rev, George Young 1817
Whitby Civic Society – Elizabeth Gaskell
Whitby Uncovered – The old Smuggler’s Café: A brief History
Flint Jack
Geocurator.org – The Geological Curator Volume 7 Number 8
Saltersgate Inn
Our Haunted Spaces – The legend of Saltersgate Inn
Whitby Popwatch – The legend of Saltersgate Inn
The Whitby Guide – The Saltersgate Inn
Yorkshire Live – The legend of the Saltersgate Inn Fire Kept Burning for 200 Years
Gazette and Herald – Legendary Moors Pub Set To Rise From Ashes
The Hole of Horcum
The Whitby Guide – The Hole of Horcum
Historic England – Extensive Prehistoric and medieval remains on Levisham Moor Official List Entry
Bagdale Hall & Browne Bushell
Bagdale Hall Website – History
Historic England – Bagdale Old Hall listing
Heritage Gateway – Bushells Battery
Whitby Uncovered – Browne Bushell of Bagdale Hall
The 1640’s Picturebook – Browne Bushell
The University of Michigan – The Last Words of Browne Bushell
Wikipedia – Percy Shaw Jefferey
Captain Browne Bushell: North Sea Adventurer and Pirate – Jack Binns
Borley Rectory
Internet Archive – THE END OF BORLEY RECTORY ‘The Most Haunted House in England’ By HARRY PRICE 1946
Books
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The Whitby Witches – Robin Jarvis – 1991 – Simon and Schuster Young Books ISBN: 0-7500-0581-5
A History of Whitby – Andrew White – 2004 – Phillimore & co. Ltd – ISBN: 1-86077-306-0
Haunted Whitby – Alan Brooke – 2009 – The History Press – ISBN: 978-0-7524-4925-8
