Return to the Haunted Poundstretcher: Show notes and links

Spoilers!

This episode is available first and exclusively on BBC Sounds here. It will be available everywhere else on Monday 5th May. So if you haven’t listened to the episode yet you might want to read this blog post once you have!

Original Episode and Blog Posts

If you haven’t listened to the first ever episode of Weird in the Wade about the haunted Poundstretcher you can listen here.

I also wrote two blogs about the haunting and the second part of the blog posts features information I’ve not yet shared on the show about the great fire of Biggleswade.

Part One: https://thehappysalmon.wordpress.com/2023/03/13/biggleswades-haunted-poundstretcher-part-one/

Part Two: https://thehappysalmon.wordpress.com/2023/03/16/biggleswade-haunted-pound-stretcher-part-two-the-fire-and-a-rabbit-hole-to-bethlem-hospital/

Jones’ Gym and Coffee Shop

The Poundstretcher is now a lovely coffeeshop and gym. Here’s a photo of the upstairs of the coffeeshop. It’s really cosy and the coffee and food are amazing.

I want to say a huge thank you to all the staff and customers at Jones’ Gym who helped us on the night of our ghost hunt. Thank you so much for letting us run around the place with weird gadgets making strange noises!

Ghost Hunting

Here are some behind the scenes pictures and video from our ghost hunt.

Here’s the kit I used

Here’s some video taken during the ghost hunt of the CCTV. I was checking my jewellery to make sure there was nothing magnetic in my earrings or necklace that were setting off the EMF reader. Are the little sparks of light just motes of dust or something else?

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Thank you to Alison and Darren also for sharing their wonderful story from the ghost walk with us.

Ciarán O’Keeffe

In this episode Ciarán O’Keeffe gave us some fabulous ghost hunting tips. You can learn more about Ciarán’s work below:

Here’s a YouTube interview with Ciarán:

And some cool articles:

Exclusive Interview With Parapsychologist, Dr Ciaran O’ Keeffe

https://www.bucks.ac.uk/news/science-hauntings-psychologist-dr-ciaran-okeeffe-explores-whether-ghostly-encounters-are-real

And if you’d like to enrol on to any of Ciarán’s courses here’s where you can find out more: https://www.facebook.com/THESCHOOLOFPARAPSYCHOLOGY?locale=en_GB

Flammable Clothing

Here are some links to more information about flammable clothing in the 19th Century and the Rational Dress Society:

Blazing Dresses (Part 1)

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/culture/article/dress-hat-fashion-clothing-mercury-arsenic-poison-history

https://www.victorianweb.org/art/costume/david2.html

https://blogs.bl.uk/untoldlives/2021/10/the-rational-dress-society.html