Long before Hans Christian Andersen put pen to paper to write his seminal work "The Little Mermaid" a little town on the North Wales coast was the scene of its very own mermaid tale.

The Conwy Mermaid is a 900-year-old legend that pre-dates the invasion of Wales by the English King, Edward 1st.

The best place to listen to this story is within The Jester's Tower, Conwy.

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Learn more about the Conwy Jester here - www.conwyjester.com

"Who is Alexander Maberry?" is the third episode of season two of Tales from the Tower.

Written and read by Elliot Randall Wood, this tale is mostly based on the letters received by Alexander's parents whilst he travelled the globe in search of strange things during the 1990s, as well as anecdotes from friends and those who knew him.

Please subscribe to future episodes via Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify or through your favourite podcasting app. You can learn more about Alexander Maberry's Museum of Strange Things by visiting www.maberrysmuseum.com.

Season 2 continues with the second part of The Mystery of the Celtic Triangle.

Written and read by Elliot Randall Wood, this tale is based on true events that were reported to have happened during the 1970s.

Please subscribe to future episodes via Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify or through your favourite podcasting app. You can learn more about Alexander Maberry's Museum of Strange Things by visiting www.maberrysmuseum.com.

Season 2 begins with the first part of The Mystery of the Celtic Triangle.

Written and read by Elliot Randall Wood, this story is based on true events that were reported to have happened during the 1970s.

Please subscribe to future episodes via Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify or through your favourite podcasting app. You can learn more about Alexander Maberry's Museum of Strange Things by visiting www.maberrysmuseum.com.

Season 2 of Alexander Maberry's Tales from the Tower starts next week at 5am on Tuesday the 4th of May.

To say thank you to all our listeners we'd like to share an unpublished Viking tale that we recently discovered in our archives called Odin's Discovery of the Runes.

We hope you enjoy this bonus episode read by Christof Gallon.

Don't forget you can subscribe to future episodes via Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify or through your favourite podcasting app. You can learn more about Alexander Maberry's Museum of Strange Things by visiting www.maberrysmuseum.com.

Season 2 of Fireside Stories is coming... With a couple of changes.

Firstly, we will now be releasing new episodes on a Tuesday at 5pm instead of the old time slot of Thursdays at 7am. This means each new episode will be ready for you to download in time for your morning commute.

The first episode of Season 2 is scheduled to be released on May 4th.

And secondly, we're changing the name of the podcast. We've noticed that there are several podcasts already called Fireside Stories, so we're changing the name of this podcast to Alexander Maberry's Tales from the Tower.

Welcome to the final episode of the first season of Fireside Stories.

This episode tells the tale of the Crying Boy. A real life ghost story that effected people from all walks of life right across the United Kingdom during the mid 1980s.

This episode was written and produced by Elliot Randall Wood and is read by professional magician and voice over artist Jay Gatling.

Jay has been a magician specialising in wedding entertainment for close to a decade. But since the pandemic halted all live entertainment in the UK, he's turned his attention to using his voice to entertain. We're extremely excited to be one of the first to use these, until now hidden, talents, and urge you to take a look at his Facebook page at Facebook.com/jaygatlingvoiceover and if you'd like to find out more about what he does as a magician please visit his website gatlingmagic.co.uk.

You can visit the museum's website by going to maberrysmuseum.com where you'll find our blog and all previous podcast episodes.

Intro Music: Alexander Nakarada (www.serpentsoundstudios.com).

Image: The Crying Boy from the Alexander Maberry collection.

Welcome to 2021!

Our first episode of the year is the spooky tale of Little Mary's Dolly.

This episode was written and produced by Elliot Randall Wood and is read by professional magician and voice over artist Jay Gatling.

Jay has been a magician specialising in wedding entertainment for close to a decade. But since the pandemic halted all live entertainment in the UK, he's turned his attention to using his voice to entertain. We're extremely excited to be one of the first to use these, until now hidden, talents, and urge you to take a look at his Facebook page at Facebook.com/jaygatlingvoiceover and if you'd like to find out more about what he does as a magician please visit his website gatlingmagic.co.uk.

You can visit the museum's website by going to maberrysmuseum.com where you'll find our blog and all previous podcast episodes.

Intro Music: Alexander Nakarada (www.serpentsoundstudios.com).

Image: Alexander Maberry's Museum of Strange Things.

This is the fifth and final episode in our run of Christmas themed topics, and is also the final podcast of 2020. This week's episode is a reading of the poem The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver by Edna St. Vincent Millay, written in 1922.

I first heard this poem recited by the great American wizard Eugene Burger, who would use this poem during seances. Sadly Eugene Burger died on the 8th of August 2017 and so this episode is dedicated to him. Eugene Burger's work has been an inspiration to all at Alexander Maberry's Museum of Strange Things and indeed forms the foundation of much that we do.

We hope you enjoy this rendition of the poem and we'd like to wish all our listeners a happy and peaceful New Year.

You can visit the museum's website by going to maberrysmuseum.com.

Intro Music: Alexander Nakarada (www.serpentsoundstudios.com).

Image: Vincent Wright on Unsplash.

This is the fourth episode in our run of Christmas themed topics, and this week Professor Llusern, the Storyteller of Wales, tells the tale of the Mari Llwyd.

Find out more about Professor Llusern by going to professorllusern.com. You can also listen to more stories on his podcast here.

You can visit the museum's website by going to maberrysmuseum.com.

Intro Music: Alexander Nakarada (www.serpentsoundstudios.com)

Image: Anudariya Munkhbayar on Unsplash