The Whispering Woods : True Ghost Stories & Paranormal Encounters

In August 1981, a family home in Bournemouth, England became the centre of a short but intense poltergeist case involving moving furniture, flying household objects and repeated disturbances witnessed not only by the family, but by neighbours, police officers and a retired clergyman. The case later drew in mediums, newspaper reporters and psychical researcher Cyril Permutt, yet the activity stopped almost as suddenly as it had begun.

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https://poltergeistarchive.co.uk/bournemouth-hampshire-1981/

https://www.spr.ac.uk/book-review/poltergeist-bournemouth

https://www.newspapers.com/

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For generations, people in rural Thailand have told stories of the Krasue, a woman whose head leaves her body after dark with her internal organs hanging beneath it as she travels in search of blood, carrion and filth. Strange red, green and orange lights seen moving above fields have repeatedly been linked to the creature, and remarkably, alleged sightings continue today, with reports from Ratchaburi and Lopburi in 2023, Surin and Buriram in 2024, and Phetchabun as recently as February 2026.

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https://intellectdiscover.com/content/journals/10.1386/host.5.2.183_1

https://en.thairath.co.th/news/local/2911706

https://www.thairath.co.th/news/local/central/2696702

https://www.thairath.co.th/news/local/central/2733893

https://www.nationthailand.com/thailand/general/40032079

https://thethaiger.com/news/national/ghost-hunt-in-lopburi-village-creates-chaos-as-million-baht-reward-retracted

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In this special episode, I'm joined by writer and screenwriter Thom Burgess for a chat about ghost stories, folklore and a lifelong fascination with the supernatural.

Thom talks about growing up surrounded by the ghostlore of Kent, from the phantom bride of Bluebell Hill to the stories that first frightened and fascinated him as a child, and how that interest eventually found its way into his own writing and the Paramount horror film Passenger.

Along the way, we get into M. R. James, haunted pubs, phantom hitchhikers, the strange ways folklore has moved online and, inevitably, those deeply unsettling Cat in the Hat videos. Thom also shares a couple of his own unexplained experiences, including a very strange night in a Seattle hotel.

We also talk about City of Ghosts: The Canterbury Ghost Story Festival, taking place in Canterbury on 3 October, which brings together more than 300 years of ghost stories, folklore, literature, film and the supernatural.

Links to the festival, tickets and Thom’s work can be found below:

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In today's episode we share a number of spooky Reddit stories all about Midwestern Farm Lore.

Stories:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Paranormal/comments/93hjbx/true_stories_concerning_midwestern_farm_lore_red/

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From Kuebiko, the ancient Japanese scarecrow god said to know everything in the world, to harvest rituals, rice-field spirits and the one-eyed Dorotabō rising from the mud, scarecrows have long occupied a strange place between the practical and the supernatural. We also visit Nagoro, where hundreds of life-sized scarecrows now outnumber the living, before turning to reported encounters involving scarecrows that appear to move, watch, multiply overnight and, in one modern case, vanish from a field altogether.

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https://kojiki.kokugakuin.ac.jp/shinmei/kuebiko/

https://d-museum.kokugakuin.ac.jp/eos/detail/?id=9009

https://d-museum.kokugakuin.ac.jp/eos/detail/?id=9973

https://d-museum.kokugakuin.ac.jp/eos/detail/?id=9970

https://yokai.jp/en/yokai/dorotabo

https://www.japan.travel/en/japans-local-treasures/nagoro-scarecrow-village-tokushima-2024/

https://miyoshi-city.jp/2022/07/15960/

https://miyoshi-city.jp/2022/08/15981/

https://miyoshi-city.jp/2022/08/16008/

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In 1892, a farm worker near Salem, Oregon, returned to a cultivated field after supper and claimed to encounter a pale woman standing beside his plough. When he tried to strike her, the blows passed straight through her, and she chased him across the field towards the farmhouse. Locals connected the apparition to an older story of a pioneer woman whose grave had once been avoided by ploughmen before its location was forgotten and crops began growing over the place where she lay.

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Research Links:

https://www.willametteheritage.org/wentz-family-ghost-story/

https://sos.oregon.gov/blue-book/explore/pages/american.aspx

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In 1710, strange disturbances began inside Knowehead House on the Islandmagee peninsula in County Antrim. Stones appeared from nowhere, bedclothes were arranged into the shape of corpses, and a ragged childlike figure was seen moving through the house before apparently predicting the death of its elderly resident, Ann Haltridge. After Ann died, eighteen-year-old Mary Dunbar arrived and soon began suffering violent fits, claiming invisible women were attacking her and producing pins, feathers and other objects from her mouth. Her accusations eventually sent eight women to prison for witchcraft and drew a ninth person into a case that became Ireland’s last major witch trial.

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https://pure.ulster.ac.uk/ws/portalfiles/portal/215482763/Sneddon_Devlin_Islandmagee_Witches_Documents_online_.pdf

https://pure.ulster.ac.uk/en/publications/documents-from-the-trial-of-the-islandmagee-witches-at-carrickfer/

https://pure.ulster.ac.uk/en/publications/possessed-by-the-devil-the-history-of-the-islandmagee-witch-trial/

https://pure.ulster.ac.uk/en/publications/roundtable-the-islandmagee-witches-1711-creative-and-digital-proj/

https://www.ulster.ac.uk/news/2013/october/mark-twain-and-the-irish-connection

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As summer wanes and the nights grow long, we turn to tales of witches, curses, and the old ways that never truly died. For centuries, harvest time has carried its own magic: charms for fields, blessings for homes, and darker stories of those who bent nature to their will.

In today's episode we share 3 spooky Reddit stories.

Stories:

https://www.reddit.com/r/BackwoodsCreepy/comments/liot6m/the_lady_in_the_woods_1987_2012/

https://www.reddit.com/r/BackwoodsCreepy/comments/1c0yc8w/encounter_in_the_spanish_mountains/

https://www.reddit.com/r/BackwoodsCreepy/comments/nsebgs/witch_interrupted/

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For much of the nineteenth century, people travelled across Ireland to seek the help of Biddy Early, a famous County Clare healer and clairvoyant. She was purported to 'know' why visitors had come to see her before she was ever told. Stories claimed that Biddy could see future events through a mysterious bottle, cure illnesses blamed on the fairies and even take the form of a hare. Though she was eventually accused of witchcraft, the case against her collapsed, and then after her death in 1874 the stories about her only continued, including the belief that her strange bottle had never really belonged to her at all.

As summer wanes and the nights grow long, we turn to tales of witches, curses, and the old ways that never truly died. For centuries, harvest time has carried its own magic: charms for fields, blessings for homes, and darker stories of those who bent nature to their will.

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https://www.duchas.ie/en/cbes/4922321/4869829/5053150

https://www.duchas.ie/en/cbes/4922348/4872795/5074505

https://www.duchas.ie/en/cbes/5177625/5173913/5199488

https://www.duchas.ie/en/cbes/5177621/5173767/5198998

https://www.duchas.ie/en/cbes/4922102/4852403/4948361

https://www.duchas.ie/en/cbes/4922348/4872797/5074525

https://www.duchas.ie/en/cbes/5177647/5176343/5200662

https://www.duchas.ie/en/cbes/5177641/5175691/5196981

https://www.duchas.ie/en/cbes/5177653/5177264/5190832

https://www.duchas.ie/en/cbes/5177618/5173611/5198581

https://www.clarelibraries.ie/localstudies/people/biddy-early/

https://www.binneas.ie/tape-33-mikeen-mccarthy

https://www.historyireland.com/feakles-biddy-early-a-victim-of-moral-panic/

https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/an-irish-diary/2024/04/21/healer-and-clairvoyant-brian-maye-on-biddy-early-the-wise-woman-of-clare/

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High in the hills of Shimla, India, an old roadside water source known as Chudail Baudi has been feared since the British Raj. Drivers say their vehicles slow down as they approach, before a woman with long hair and backwards feet appears beside the road asking for a lift. Refuse her, and according to the legend, she may just appear inside the car anyway. We explore the stories surrounding the Witch’s Well and the much older folklore of the chudail.

As summer wanes and the nights grow long, we turn to tales of witches, curses, and the old ways that never truly died. For centuries, harvest time has carried its own magic: charms for fields, blessings for homes, and darker stories of those who bent nature to their will.

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https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/haunted-no-more-shimla-s-chudail-bauri-is-a-children-park/story-5uccCLtQVXSdhOWZjgFh3N.html

https://www.outlookindia.com/culture-society/-angrez-chudail-and-nakalchi-bhoot-the-ghosts-of-shimla-live-on-news-191428

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9a/An_introduction_to_the_popular_religion_and_folklore_of_northern_India_%28IA_introductiontopo00croorich%29.pdf

https://aguidetohimachal.com/chudail-baudi-shimla-the-haunted-road-and-the-woman-who-asks-for-a-lift

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