Loremen Podcast

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June 01, 2023 Minisode - Glimpses of an Unfamiliar Japan (and also Northern Ireland)
The Loreboys are off galivanting! Well, Alasdair is on tour in the UK and James is on a family holiday in Japan. (Friend of the podcast: Japan.) So, think of this episode as a horror anthology. If you're afraid of talking cats and hairy trees, that is.

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24 min
May 25, 2023 S4 Ep46: Loremen S4Ep46 - More Moreton-in-Marsh
In April 2022, the Loremen recorded their shortest episode ever: Dame Creswyke’s Spectre. Did you think one haunted hotel was all Moreton-in-Marsh had to offer? Well, you were wrong!

That sleepy Cotswold town on the Fosse Way is a veritable horn of plenty. Plenty of ghosts, that is. Expect spectres, mists, coughs, sensations and a bevy of airborne phenomena.

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41 min
May 18, 2023 S4 Ep45: Loremen S4Ep45 - The Croglin Grange Vampire
England's best "true" vampire story springs from the pages of the prolific hob-nobber Augustus Hare. Bleh! Alasdair tells James a blood-soaked Cumbrian legend, gleaned from Hare's (ludicrously long) autobiography. Sorry, autobiographies.

The walrus-faced Hare had a gift for extracting dubious ghost stories from minor aristocrats. And tales seldom come taller than that of the Croglin Grange vampire. An isolated bungalow; a lonely young woman; and a scratch, scratch, scratch at the window...

Prepare yourself for eccentric toffs, desecrated crypts, and an elderly aunt who ate someone's arm. You know, the usual.

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41 min
May 11, 2023 S4 Ep44: Loremen S4Ep44 - King Charles: The Prequel
Could this be our most respectful episode yet? Inspired by the crowning of Charles 3: Return of the King, the Loremen recap the entire King Chuck franchise. James recounts Charles I's ghostly premonitions and the much more boring Charles II is briefly mentioned as well.

In devastating news, James discovers that he was mispronouncing the word "chrism" throughout the entire coronation. Like the history of Britain's monarchy, the reality is much, much worse than you can imagine.

This episode also features respectful cameos from King Cnut, a serial killer turned mayor and little Jimmy Shakes himself.

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39 min
May 04, 2023 S4 Ep43: Loremen S4Ep43 - The Ham House Horror
Duchess, Poisoner, Spectre, Spy. James and Alasdair leap back to the English Civil War and meet the two-timing royalist schemer Elizabeth Murray. Her Richmond home is haunted by stories of intrigue, betrayal and ghosts. And a little dog too.

The gloomy pile that is Ham House was Elizabeth's lifelong passion. Some believe that she never left. Visit Ham and maybe you will hear the old duchess rapping.

(With her cane, on the floor.)

This episode is part of a pair. Check out S4E42 - Strawberry Hill Gothic for some spooky business from the other bank of the River Thames.

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46 min
April 27, 2023 S4 Ep42: Loremen S4Ep42 - Strawberry Hill Gothic
Horace Walpole was the O.G. Goth (Original Goth Goth). He was an eccentric 18th Century writer, who transformed a modest cottage in Twickenham into a plaster and papier-mâche fantasy. Join James and Alasdair as we venture into the gloomsome, vaulted hallways of The Gothic.

Sorry, Gothick.

This episode features Strawberry Hill ghost stories from Patsy Sorenti and a chilling tale from the unwary prankster Davy Craig. There's a wooden cravat and a gigantic suit of armour. And, as a special treat, James tries to guess what John Dee's Speculum was.

He gets it wrong.

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40 min
April 20, 2023 S4 Ep41: Loremen S4Ep41 - Somerset Fairy Tales
James takes Alasdair on a tour of the 'summer lands' - Somerset - and the wee folk that dwell there. They live inside stones, beneath mounds and under at least one castle. (It's not there anymore, don't look for it.)

We are talking fairies, faeries and indeed, the fae. You've got to be careful with these temperamental critters. They'll just as soon give you a golden nugget as turn into a cloud of bees and have your eyes out.

We probably shouldn't have called them 'critters'. Sorry, lads. No harm done, eh?

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51 min
April 13, 2023 S4 Ep40: Loremen S4Ep40 - The Justice Room Ghost
In an old Tudor house near Marlborough there is a chamber that legends call the justice room. Evil-doers beware! The spirit that lingers in that old "Oaken Place" is determined to wring the life out of any villain that spends a night there alone.

That is, if we are to believe the tale of a long-dead actor, an elderly maid and a still-living podcaster who went to mime school. (The last one is James "I'm acting like it's windy" Shakeshaft.)

Join the Loremen as we follow the trail of an exceptionally unpleasant ghost-hunter, haunted by spectral horses, ghostly sobbing and castanets. For some reason.

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36 min
April 06, 2023 S4 Ep39: Loremen S4 Ep39 - The Denham Tracts
The Denham Tracts might sound like the pamphlets of choice for James “Double Denim” Shakeshaft. In fact, they were the work of a County Durham folklorist with an ear for proverbs and an eye for the weird.

Does King Arthur sleep beneath the Castle of the Seven Shields? Do Hedgehogs engage in nocturnal milk-larceny? And if you live anywhere near Leeds, are you prepared for the Puddening?

These questions - and more - will be answered, as the Lorebois leaf through the Denham Tracts, looking for words that sound a bit rude. This episode is a 'ganger', like Willy Pigg’s d*** a**.

After all, “It’s a hobbly road, as the man said when he fell over a cow.”

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34 min
March 30, 2023 S4 Ep38: Loremen S4 Ep38 - Brighton vs Chickens
Brighton and Hove: quiet, peaceful, serene... that is until Shrove Tuesday comes round! The Loreboys discover that while Brightonians are a forward-thinking and open-minded bunch, they have real issues when it comes to one particular bird.

(It's chickens. You guessed that.)

This is a tale of Vikings and fowl play, and it may be our most controversial episode yet. James makes enemies of The Danes, red heads, chickens and ducks. And Alasdair launches phase one of the ABK Cinematic Universe (The ABKCU).

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36 min