Episode 88: HallowBirthdayWeen 10
Hitchhiking ghosts, phantom fliers, medieval wizard-giants, Neolithic rituals and quaking bogs … it can only be Hallowbirthdayween!
Join us we celebrate our 10th podiversary with all of the above plus, of course, the annual Halloween tenuous link battle and chilling true ghost encounters from Suzie, Lynne and Gary.
Happy Halloween everyone!!
Tenuous Halloween Tie-ins
Manchester University Press – Spooky Season Reading List 2026
Visit Swededn – 9 Haunted Castles and Manor Houses you can actually stay in
Holiday Extras – Creepiest places in the World
Sount Downs National Park – Thirteen Spookiest Spots in the South Downs National Park this Halloween
Bloomsbury – Four of the most haunted destinations in Britain
The Woodland Trust – UK’s Spookiest Trees
Money Supermarket – The scariest movies according to science
Smartasset – America’s scariest states
Hannahan Realty – The creepiest rooms in a house
RAF Lakenheath
Suffolk Country Council – “Lakenheath’s Anglo-Saxon past uncovered in new book”
Mildenhall Museum – The Lakenheath Warrior
Stars and Stripes Website – “Things That Go Bump on the Base”
The Hitch-hiking ghost pilot
Ghosts of Suffolk – Betty Puttick – Countryside Books 2011 – ISBN: 978-1-85306-518-7
The Metheringham Lass
Ghost Stations II – Bruce Barrymore Halfpenny – Casdec 1991 – ISBN: 0-907595-72-3
Lincolnshire Folk Tales Project – The Metheringham Lass
Lincolnshire Live – Ghost hunters say they’ve caught legendary Lincolnshire ghost on camera
The Phantom of RAF Lindholme
Echoes in the Air – Jack Currie – Goodall-Crécy Publishing 2022- ISBN: 9781910809495
Ghosts of the Air – Martin Caidin – Galde Press 2033 – ISBN: 1-880090-10-4
Ghost Stations – Bruce Barrymore Halfpenny – Casdec 1990 – ISBN: 0-907595-56-1
Nottinghamshire Roll of Honour record – Sergeant Wiktor Wasilenko 305 Squadron
Mysterious Britain and Ireland – RAF Lindholme and Lindholme Willy
BBC South Yorkshire – The Ghost of the Polish Airman
British Poles.UK – History – Crash of Wellington W5557
William de Lindholme
Ghosts and Legends of Lincolnshire and the Fen Country – Polly Howatt – Countryside Books 2007 ISBN: 978-1-85306-192-9
Lincolnshire Folk Tales – Maureen James – The History Press 2013 – ISBN: 978-0-7524-6640-8
Gomde UK International Buddhist Centre – Solitary Woodland Retreat page
Doncaster Natural History Society – The Isle of Lindhome
Internet Archive – The diary of Abraham De la Pryme, the Yorkshire antiquary
Wikipedia – William of Lindholme
Lindholme Island and The Oliver Track/ Hatfield Neolithic Trackway
Historic England List Entry – Lindholme Neolithic timber trackway and platform
Thorne and Hatfields Moors Conservation Forum – Trackway Talk Notes PDF
The Host with the Ghost
Flying’s Strangest Moments – John Harding – Robson Books 2006 – ISBN: 1-86105-934-5
