The Loremen travel to the North Country and meet the Trash Hounds of Lancashire. No, not the live lorefolk audience. We're talking tales of headless dogs, skeletal huntsmen and be-buttocked pipers.This is another episode from our "Sold Out" "National" "Tour". James brings stories of boggarts and barghests and Alasdair presents three northern eccentrics. And we briefly hop across the border to the Yorkshire village of Thickley Punchardon. For obvious reasons.Enjoy!This episode was edited by Joseph Burrows - Audio Editor.LoreBoys nether say die!Support the Loremen here (and get stuff):patreon.com/loremenpodko-fi.com/loremenCheck the sweet, sweet merch here...https://www.teepublic.com/stores/loremen-podcast?ref_id=24631@loremenpodyoutube.com/loremenpodcastwww.instagram.com/loremenpodwww.facebook.com/loremenpod Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This episode was recorded live (or at least undead) in West Norwood Cemetery, in front of a sold-out crowd. The brave lorefolk were chilled, literally and figuratively, by tales of subterranean mystery and otherworldly encounters.James told the story of an eccentric English aristocrat who took to burrowing like a badger, while Alasdair hopped aboard London's defunct Necropolis Railway. And the crematorium proved to be a spooky setting for the local legend of a West Norwood polterguy ... who liked his milk.Special thanks to Ben Van der Velde and all the organisers of the ChooSE27 festival. LoreBoys nether say die!Support the Loremen here (and get stuff):patreon.com/loremenpodko-fi.com/loremenCheck the sweet, sweet merch here...https://www.teepublic.com/stores/loremen-podcast?ref_id=24631@loremenpodyoutube.com/loremenpodcastwww.instagram.com/loremenpodwww.facebook.com/loremenpod Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Loremen were LIVE at the QED festival in Manchester and we were joined by Deputy Loreperson Hayley Stevens. Sceptical listeners might be familiar with the Hayley is a Ghost blog, all about ghosts that (spoiler warning) probably don't exist. In this episode, we meet roadside ghosts and road-adjacent spectres from across the UK (and beyond). Have you ever picked up a hitchhiker? No, neither have we. And these modern legends might make you feel a bit better about it...This episode was edited by Joseph Burrows - Audio Editor.LoreBoys nether say die!Support the Loremen here (and get stuff):patreon.com/loremenpodko-fi.com/loremenCheck the sweet, sweet merch here...https://www.teepublic.com/stores/loremen-podcast?ref_id=24631@loremenpodyoutube.com/loremenpodcastwww.instagram.com/loremenpodwww.facebook.com/loremenpod Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A country walk always brings to mind certain maxims. "Stop and smell the roses," for one. "If a tree falls..." is another. But now there's a new one - "Beware the Crooker!"The boys are taken to a spooky Derbyshire riverside by historian and author Willow Winsham. You might feel a gnarly wooden finger tingling your spine in this episode. But James and Alasdair find time to ask the big questions. Where is the River Darren? How do you hypnotise a chicken? And what do you call those ski lift things where the cars are on... like... cables?Find Willow's range of books hereCome see the LoreBoys LIVE in Balham on Sunday 17th November on "Who Knew It? with Matt Stewart"https://www.designmynight.com/london/pubs/balham/the-bedford/who-knew-it-with-matt-stewart-live?t=ticketsThis episode was edited by Joseph Burrows - Audio Editor.LoreBoys nether say die!Support the Loremen here (and get stuff):patreon.com/loremenpodko-fi.com/loremenCheck the sweet, sweet merch here...https://www.teepublic.com/stores/loremen-podcast?ref_id=24631@loremenpodyoutube.com/loremenpodcastwww.instagram.com/loremenpodwww.facebook.com/loremenpod Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Deputy Loreperson Icy Sedgwick (Fabulous Folklore with Icy) joins James and Alasdair, and she brings with her the stories of a Geordie graverobber and a Mackem resurrection man. It's Newcastle vs Sunderland, and the bones of the dead do not rest easy in this Tyne-Wear derby.Plus the Loreboys come up with several new business ideas. Anyone for glow-in-the-dark coffins?Come see the Loreboys LIVE in Manchester at GRUB on Sunday 20th October (2024) at 2pm:https://www.seetickets.com/event/loremen-live/grub/3168584OR in Balham on Sunday 17th November on Who Knew It? with Matt Stewart:https://www.designmynight.com/london/pubs/balham/the-bedford/who-knew-it-with-matt-stewart-live?t=ticketsThis episode was edited by Joseph Burrows - Audio Editor.LoreBoys nether say die!Support the Loremen here (and get stuff):patreon.com/loremenpodko-fi.com/loremenCheck the sweet, sweet merch here...https://www.teepublic.com/stores/loremen-podcast?ref_id=24631@loremenpodyoutube.com/loremenpodcastwww.instagram.com/loremenpodwww.facebook.com/loremenpod Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The terrifying tale of the Grey Hitchhiker (or the Gray Hitcher, for Americans) comes from that spooky road, The Notorious A38. Over several decades, drivers have made the mistake of stopping for a hitchhiker who does not obey the laws of hitchhiking (or nature). If you're driving between Tiverton and Taunton, you might see the Grey Hitchhiker. If you've reached Wrangway, you're going the wrong way.Listener, it's time to "get your gilets on" because your spine is about to be tingled.Come see the Loreboys LIVE in spooky West Norwood Cemetery on Friday 11th October 2024 (2024):https://choose-se27-comedy-festival.designmynight.com/66968247e76bce06372992c8/loremen-podcast-live-recordingORIn Manchester at GRUB on Sunday 20th October (also 2024) at 2pmhttps://www.seetickets.com/event/loremen-live/grub/3168584ORBack in Balham on Sunday 17th November on "Who Knew It? with Matt Stewart"https://www.designmynight.com/london/pubs/balham/the-bedford/who-knew-it-with-matt-stewart-live?t=ticketsThis episode was edited by Joseph Burrows - Audio Editor.LoreBoys nether say die!Support the Loremen here (and get stuff):patreon.com/loremenpodko-fi.com/loremenCheck the sweet, sweet merch here...https://www.teepublic.com/stores/loremen-podcast?ref_id=24631@loremenpodyoutube.com/loremenpodcastwww.instagram.com/loremenpodwww.facebook.com/loremenpod Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Loremen encounter what might be the biggest ghost in the history of the podcast. We're talking about a house that is a ghost. (Pretty big, right?) James takes Alasdair to the South West of England to view a property that's just come on the market and could vanish at any moment.Could this phantom maison be an echo of The Anarchy from the reign of King Stephen? Or do lone walkers on the moor go a bit funny sometimes? Enjoy this week's tales, drawn from the writing of Janet & Colin Bord and Christ in a hole! It's... Christina Hole.Come see the Loreboys LIVE in spooky West Norwood Cemetery on Friday 11th October 2024 (2024):https://choose-se27-comedy-festival.designmynight.com/66968247e76bce06372992c8/loremen-podcast-live-recordingThis episode was edited by Joseph Burrows - Audio Editor.LoreBoys nether say die!Support the Loremen here (and get stuff):patreon.com/loremenpodko-fi.com/loremenCheck the sweet, sweet merch here...https://www.teepublic.com/stores/loremen-podcast?ref_id=24631@loremenpodyoutube.com/loremenpodcastwww.instagram.com/loremenpodwww.facebook.com/loremenpod Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The boys are back, with yet more tales of Moreton lore! This time James visits South Moreton in Oxfordshire, for the outrageous story of a faux-poltergeist (fauxtergeist?). But don't fret, folklore fans - the village of South Moreton boasts enough "real" ghosts to spook the horses. Plus, a deadly locomotive and a very misleading prophecy.Come see the Loreboys LIVE in spooky West Norwood Cemetery on Friday 11th October 2024 (2024):https://choose-se27-comedy-festival.designmynight.com/66968247e76bce06372992c8/loremen-podcast-live-recordingThis episode was edited by Joseph Burrows - Audio Editor.LoreBoys nether say die!Support the Loremen here (and get stuff):patreon.com/loremenpodko-fi.com/loremenCheck the sweet, sweet merch here...https://www.teepublic.com/stores/loremen-podcast?ref_id=24631@loremenpodyoutube.com/loremenpodcastwww.instagram.com/loremenpodwww.facebook.com/loremenpod Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Who's that, beckoning to you from the mouth of a weird looking cave? Why it's Alasdair Beckett-King of course! Join him and James Shakeshaft, and enter a subterranean labyrinth hidden beneath a leafy London borough.In 1907, The Illustrated London News called it The Great Chislehurst Cave Mystery: 22 miles of hand-carved tunnels, with stories of smugglers, druids, and rock and roll legends. Come for the haunted pool, stay for the possessed tour guide.(Tour guy.)Come see the Loreboys LIVE in spooky West Norwood Cemetery on Friday 11th October 2024 (2024):https://choose-se27-comedy-festival.designmynight.com/66968247e76bce06372992c8/loremen-podcast-live-recordingThis episode was edited by Joseph Burrows - Audio Editor.LoreBoys nether say die!Support the Loremen here (and get stuff):patreon.com/loremenpodko-fi.com/loremenCheck the sweet, sweet merch here...https://www.teepublic.com/stores/loremen-podcast?ref_id=24631@loremenpodyoutube.com/loremenpodcastwww.instagram.com/loremenpodwww.facebook.com/loremenpod Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We return to the Tower of London and make a last ditch attempt to find John Barkstead's lost treasure. Meet Mr Quarrell (the treasure hunter) and Major Pogson (the big daddy of British dowsing). The year is 1957: will the traitor's horde finally be unearthed?No, of course not. But James will tell a fun story about the Ceremony of the Keys.Come see the Loreboys LIVE in spooky West Norwood Cemetery on Friday 11th October 2024 (2024):https://choose-se27-comedy-festival.designmynight.com/66968247e76bce06372992c8/loremen-podcast-live-recordingLoreBoys nether say die!Support the Loremen here (and get stuff):patreon.com/loremenpodko-fi.com/loremenCheck the sweet, sweet merch here...https://www.teepublic.com/stores/loremen-podcast?ref_id=24631@loremenpodyoutube.com/loremenpodcastwww.instagram.com/loremenpodwww.facebook.com/loremenpod Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices