VYS0046 | Ding Dong Merrily On High Strangeness - Vayse to Face to Face with Stephanie Quick and AP Strange: Christmas 2024 - Show Notes

Ho, ho, holy shit that's another year gone and Christmas is here again! To mark the ever-increasing speed at which the years fly past in a blur of spiralling anxiety and gathering doom, Hine and Buckley invite two of the nicest, wisest and funniest people in Weirdosphere, Stephanie Quick and AP Strange, to help them celebrate away the winter blues.

Drawing on the British tradition of telling ghost stories at Christmas, Hine, Buckley, Strange and Quick (also the title of the upcoming Vayse autobiography) work their way around the cardinal points, each telling a ghost story from the place in which they were born: the North and South of England and the East Coast and West Coast of the US. There are tales of a murderous jester who stalks the corridors of a Cumbrian castle to this day; a red haired woman who haunting a pirate-built cottage in New England; a missing bride at a Christmas wedding in a very haunted stately home in Hampshire; and a revolutionary Californian abolitionist who still throws nuts from trees over 120 years after her death... and they discuss three lesser known British winter traditions: Raymond Briggs' Snowman, ignoring Thanksgiving and moaning about the weather... (recorded 8 December 2024)

Thanks to AP and Steph for preparing the stories and thanks to Keith for another year of show notes - follow the man on Blue Sky: @peakflow.bsky.social.

Merry Christmas everyone, thanks for listening!

Steph Quick online

Ghost Dog is a Mystery Box (Steph’s blog)

Steph on YouTube

Steph on Instagram

Steph on Facebook

Steph on Bluesky

AP Strange online

AP Strange's Weird Writings

The AP Strange Show podcast

AP on YouTube

AP on Instagram

AP on Bluesky

Hine’s intro

A Visit from St. Nicholas - All Poetry

VYS0013 | A Vayse-man Came Travelling - Yule 2022

VYS0028 | Psychic Jizz - Vayse to Face with Stephanie Quick

VYS0037 | Elvis with a Flaming Sword - Vayse to Face with AP Strange

A short history of the Christmas ghost story

Yule - Wikipedia

A Christmas Carol - Wikipedia

The Pickwick Papers

The Story Of The Goblins Who Stole A Sexton (BBC Radio Drama) - Archive.org

A Ghost Story for Christmas (BBC anthology series) - Wikipedia

M.R. James - Wikipedia

Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad - Wikipedia

Whistle And I'll Come To You - Dream Sequence (BBC Omnibus 1968) - YouTube

Buckley’s ghost story: The Murderous Jester of Muncaster Castle

Muncaster Castle - Wikipedia

Cumbria - Wikipedia

VYSXXXX | The Real Vayse: Halloween 2024

Thomas Skelton: The Murderous Jester of Muncaster Castle - Haunted Palace

The Remains of John Briggs, containing Letters From the Lakes, Letter XI: Muncaster Hall - Archive.org

Fool of Muncaster - Muncaster.co.uk

Thomas Ligotti - Wikipedia

Morecambe Bay cockling disaster - Wikipedia

Jester - Wikipedia

AP’s ghost story: Ocean Born Mary

New England - Wikipedia

In search of Stephen King in New England, US - Roadbook

H.P. Lovecraft - Wikipedia

Barney and Betty Hill incident - Wikipedia

Bridgewater Triangle - Wikipedia

Dover Demon - Wikipedia

Salem witch trials - Wikipedia

The Great New England Vampire Panic - Smithsonian

Bigfoot in New England: Sixty-Seven Credible Sightings? - New England Folklore

The Great New England Sea Serpents - New England Historical Society

New Hampshire Legend: Ocean Born Mary

Hans Holzer - Wikipedia

Sybil Leek - Wikipedia

Princess Bride (1987) clip, The Story of Dread Pirate Roberts - YouTube

The dark fandom behind healthcare CEO murder suspect - BBC News

American Gods - Wikipedia

Jack Parsons - Wikipedia

VYS0029 | If There's Something Strange In Your Neighbourhood - Vayse to Face to Face with Field Lines Cartographer and Bob Freeman: Halloween 2023

The Retributory Haunting of Bannister Doll - Beyond the Black Pool

La Llorona - Wikipedia

Jenny Greenteeth - Wikipedia

Unthanksgiving Day, The Indigenous Peoples Sunrise Ceremony Occupation of Alcatraz - Wikipedia

Unthanksgiving Day: A celebration of Indigenous resistance to colonialism - The Conversation

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