Episode 85 - Haunted Road Trip: Choose your own adventure
Buckle up we’re going on a road-trip!
It’s coming up on a year now since we had to give up our beloved KOFYmobile and we’re missing planning the year’s camping and road-trip adventures like we normally would be doing in the first few months of the year.
We could probably all do with a little break from reality so, we’re going on a pretend adventure – we’re going to imagine our ideal haunted road-trip and take you all along for the ride. On the way there will be some choices to make, with outcomes that you can work in to your own imaginary story, to see how your paranormal adventure unfolds during the episode, or you can just listen along and enjoy the hearing about all the cool, and really haunted, locations we’re going to dip into today. If you do want to join in you might want to have a regular 6-sided dice or a dice app handy, and perhaps a journal, notebook or writing implement, but we’ve designed this so that you can do all of this in your head, or of course, just listen along to the story.
The aim of the trip, on this occasion, is not the destination, but the journey itself, which will be choc-full of paranormal stops along the way. The idea of stopping off at as many haunted locations on our way to a given destination is actually how we’ve done our road trips ever since we started this show. We have always tried to maximise our time and petrol by fitting in as many spooky pit stops – and even overnights – in one journey as possible – so you will be getting a taste of a real KOFY road-trip … just … dialled up to 11!
This list contains some personal picks of different types of media, some of which we are providing links to below. These opinions and recommendations are purely our own likes, and we are not affiliated with artists, nor are they paid promotions. We have decided to provide links to some of our faves mentioned in this episode because we want to support fellow independent or lesser-known creators. We have not linked the names that we feel are already very well-known or widely publicised.
Marsden Grotto:
Northeast Bylines – John the Jibber
Echoes of the past – Marsden Grotto
YouTube – Night Owls: Halloween 1985 (Alan Robson)
Lil’s music pick:
Paul Miro Sinombré (Volume 1) Bandcamp
The Mermaid Inn, Rye:
1066 Country’s official website – Rye History
Rye News.org – The fascinating history of Rye’s Mermaid Inn
Rye Museum – Mermaid Street History
Ghost Walk Brighton – The Mermaid Inn
Times of Tunbridge Wells – ‘Us ghosts have been here longer than you’ SO Magazine
Kerry Lifes and Loves Travel Vlog – A Smuggler’s Haunt
West Sussex Record Office Blog – Desperate Villains – The Hawkhurst Gang in West Sussex
The Queen’s House Greenwich:
Royal Greenwich Museums – History of the Queen’s House
British History Online – The Observant Friars of Greenwich
Heritage Gateway Historic England Research Records – Greenwich Greyfriars
Smithsonian Mag – Part of Henry VIII’s Birthplace Discovered
Old Royal Naval College Greenwich – Greenwich Palace
Peter Underwood – The Tulip Staircase
Burials and Beyond – The Tulip Staircase Ghost
Nights in Haunted Houses – Peter Underwood – 1994 CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform – ISBN: 978-1727620399
R101 and the Cardington Sheds:
John G. Fuller – The Airmen Who Would Not Die: The Ghost of Flight 101 – Corgi Books 1981 ISBN: 0-552-11591-6
Wikipedia – Cardington Airfield
The Haunted Hub – Cardington Hangars
Your Paranormal – Cardington Hangars
Books:
Amazon – Lonely House (M. Belanger)
Anna North – Bog Queen (2025) – Bloomsbury Publishing – ISBN 9781635579666
J.A. Bowler – Ice Cooper and the Depton Shadelings: 1
Amazon – Ice Cooper and the Depton Shadelings: 1 (2020) – ISBN-10 : 183805121X
Thetford Forest and the Beast of Breckland:
Thetford and Brandon Times – Weird Norfolk: Have you seen the beast of the A1075?
Deborah Hatswell – BBR Investigations “I saw a monster”
Eastern Daily Press: Weird Norfolk Hunt the Beast of the A1075
Rendlesham Forest:
Jenny Randles -UFO Crash Landing? Friend or Foe? – Blandford Books 1998 – ISBN: 0-7137-2655-5
Georgina Bruni – You Can’t Tell the People – Macmillan Publishers 2000 – ISBN: 0-283-06358-0
Grimes Graves:
