Show Notes and further reading for episode 15. Weird Wanders Two: My night spent in York’s most haunted pub

The Golden Fleece

Find out more about the Golden Fleece’s many ghost stories here:

The Golden Fleece, York, Yorkshire

An article about a journalist from the Metro who stayed the night at Golden Fleece. https://metro.co.uk/2023/06/24/a-chilling-check-in-i-spent-the-night-in-britains-most-haunted-pub-18991929/

This YouTube video from nearly 20 years ago by Most Haunted’s Richard Felix includes a big section on the Golden Fleece as it was then. The Golden Fleece is covered from about 20 minutes in. https://youtu.be/f0Q4-nJVfKI?si=u3kO4LkDjCbSW7KL

Rob Kirkup

You can find out more about Rob’s podcast and books here at his website: https://how-haunted.com/

Rob mentions friend of How Haunted Emma from Weird Wiltshire, you can read her brilliant blog here: https://weird-wiltshire.co.uk/

Rob Kirkup’s chat

If you have a strong stomach then you can read about the legendary Viking torture method blood eagling https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/did-the-vikings-actually-torture-victims-with-the-brutal-blood-eagle-180979148/

The legend of putting Dane Skins on church doors is explored here in this blog about Essex but mentions Samuel Pepys sharing a story about a visit to Rochester and the legend there: https://www.foxearth.org.uk/DanesSkin.html

As I’m currently reading Samuel Pepys diary and I’m on 1661 I read about the Dane skin legend Pepys mentions whilst staying at the Golden Fleece! This was why it was fresh in my mind and I associated it with Kent.

St Saviours Church https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Saviour%27s_Church,_York

Night Owls now exists on YouTube here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwnxHIuW0AidH0DVbRaGsKA