Welcome to Episode 33 of the podcast - the first episode of 2025!

In this episode we explore the ghostlore and folklore of Bamburgh Castle in Northumberland, and the ghost sightings at the Lying-in Hospital in Newcastle upon Tyne. The episode also details two ghostly tales from the 20th May 1893 edition of the Newcastle Courant.

Chapter markers

00:00:00 Outro

00:02:40 The folklore and ghostlore of Bamburgh Castle

00:22:35 From the archives: "Saved by a Ghost", 1893

00:24:18 Ghosts of the Lying-in Hospital, Newcastle upon Tyne

00:28:01 From the archives: "A tale of the Bamburgh Coast", 1893

00:43:25 Outro

Sources

• https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0001723/19340415/015/0015
• https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000086/18930520/035/0006
• https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0001723/19360419/008/0003
• https://bamburghresearchproject.co.uk/
• https://www.bamburghcastle.com/
• https://www.hauntedrooms.co.uk/haunted-places/northumberland
• https://www.higgypop.com/hauntings/bamburgh-castle/
• https://archive.org/details/aviewnorthumber00randgoog
• https://archive.org/details/ACollectionOfTheBalladsMelodiesAndSmall-pipeTunesOfNorthumbria
• https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/An_Exact_and_Circumstantial_History_of_t/-LkhAAAAMAAJ?hl=en
• https://northumberlandarchives.com/2020/06/01/the-laidley-worm-of-spindlestone-heugh/
• Balfour, M.C. (1903) The Folk-Lore Society: Relics of Popular Antiquities
• Denham, M.A. (1846-59) The Denham Tracts, Volumes I and II
• Henderson, W. (1879) Notes on the folk-lore of the Northern Counties
• Histon, V. (2001) Ghosts of Grainger Town: Further tales from Newcastle’s Darker Side. Tyne Bridge Publishing
• Northumberland County History; Vol. I. History of the King’s Works: Brown, Colvin & Taylor: H.M.S.O. 1963
• Tomlinson, Monthly Chronicle, 1891
• Whitlock, R. (1983) Here Be Dragons. George Allen & Unwin 

 

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