A multi award winning podcast about all that's weird, wonderful and a little off kilter in the town of Biggleswade in Bedfordshire, UK.
Clophill Old Church surrounded by winter trees The photos shared on this blog follow the content of the New Years Day bonus episode of Weird in the Wade which you can listen to here. View across the fields The photograph above is of my view from where I sat on the church step looking out… Continue reading Bonus Episode Photos: A visit to the black magic church
Show Notes and Links Link to the podcast: https://weirdinthewade.podbean.com/ Old Church Path, leading up to St Mary's Sources used for this episode and further reading Damien O'Dell's book Paranormal Bedfordshire and his other works can be found here: https://damienodell.com/shop/ Kevin Gates book: Black Magic Church: The True Story of Clophill can be found here: https://www.waterstones.com/book/black-magic-church/kevin-gates/9781781550502 Information… Continue reading Show Notes and Transcript for Episode 10: The Ghosts of St Mary’s Old Church
Show notes, links and transcript The Golden Pheasant Pub, October 2023 Show notes and links Here's the website for the Golden Pheasant pub which includes some brilliant old photographs of the pub and Biggleswade high street. Below is an image of the yard at the Pheasant where William Robinson was taken after his accident. You… Continue reading Episode 8: The Most Haunted Pub in Biggleswade
Intro over Weird in the Wade Theme Welcome to this bonus update episode of Weird in the Wade! A podcast about all that’s weird, wonderful and a little of kilter in the town of Biggleswade and surrounding area. Today’s bonus episode is a little different. I’m going to be revisiting some of our previous stories… Continue reading Transcript for Bonus Episode: Updates, New Spooky Story, News about the Podcast, and a trailer for the next episode
Below is the latest photograph I took in the lovely coffee shop which is where the old Pound Stretcher offices used to be, a part of the building that was said to be particularly haunted by Aggie the poltergeist. As the wonderful story teller Owen Staton said on Twitter, this must be a much nicer… Continue reading Photographs for Bonus Update Episode
The podcast website has all the links to where to listen here. Photographs taken on my visit to Potton wood on 26th April 2023 I took the photo below just after I set off, it gives a good indication of the elevation of Potton woods. It's just up from the bus stop! View across Bedfordshire… Continue reading Potton Wood Photographs for episode three
Show Notes and Transcript The monument to Sir Walter Scott, in Edinburgh, who has a link to our spooky tale from Luton, Bedfordshire! Some useful links The full poem, The Lady of the Lake by Sir Walter Scott can be read here. A news paper article from Aberdeen Live about John Henry Anderson, pioneering stage… Continue reading Bonus episode: Luton’s Noontide Hag
The rise of artificial intelligence might seem spooky sometimes, certainly some of the art AI can create goes beyond uncanny valley into something even darker and stranger. Just look at the case of Loab the AI art that became an urban legend for our times. So I was a little shocked and strangely touched when… Continue reading What have AI done to deserve this?
My big ol' smiling face, in the bluebell woods at Cockayne Hatley (confusingly called Potton wood) Thank you! First of all I'd like to thank everyone who has listened to episode one of Weird in the Wade I thought I was being ambitious when I hoped I'd get 50 downloads in the first month and… Continue reading Behind the scenes at weird in the wade!
Below you'll find the transcript for episode One of Weird in the Wade: the haunted pound stretcher. Please see additional posts for photographs and images. Any text in blue is additional material cut from the broadcast podcast purely for time saving reasons. Some of which will be reflected elsewhere in the podcast but in a… Continue reading Episode One: The haunted pound stretcher transcript
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