Weird Norfolk

Today’s podcast is a brand-new story (for us!) about a well-documented haunting close to Fakenham in the 1970s in two flats built on the site of a village lost to time many centuries earlier. Ghosts seen included a figure wearing white, a teenage girl and a man: residents reported feeling “a terrible sense of evil” and dreadful things have happened to these buildings over the decades.

We had the privilege of welcoming Chris Spalton to our March 2023 Norfolk Folklore Society talk at Arboretum in Norwich. Chris shared tales from his childhood in the Fens as well as some of his favourite folklore stories from his book. This is an unedited recording of the talk, so there is a little bit of swearing.  

This week we tell the tale of a mummy's curse on a school and graveyard in Great Yarmouth.

In this episode Stacia and Siofra have a second go at recording this episode about a terrifying haunted house in on one of Yarmouth's rows. 

We are back! After a long break, which is explained in the episode, we discuss the tale of the rising dead in the village of Corpusty. Just a warning, this episode does get a little gory so you may not want to listen while you are eating...

On this episode we discuss the gruesome tale of the Happisburgh Torso. We actually thought that we'd lost this recording so please excuse the references to Christmas!

In this episode Stacia and Siofra discuss No Man's Friend. A field which was said to be cursed and is now lost to the sea. 

On this episode Stacia and Siofra go adventuring in north Norfolk to visit the shrieking pit in Northrepps. It gets a bit windy out there!

On this episode we discuss the stories behind the name of Cutthroat lane in the little village of Yaxham.

On this episode we share the festive tale of mistletoe bride and we look at its possible connection to Norfolk. Merry Christmas everyone! 

On this episode Stacia and Siofra discuss an an unsettling time slip in Horning and ask some big questions about time.

On this episode we discuss the curse of the crying boy. The phenomena rose to fame in Britain in 1985 and an incident in Great Yarmouth prompted a national newspaper to organise a mass burning of the prints.  

On this episode Stacia and Siofra go into more detail on a topic mention on a previous podcast. They travel to Bawdeswell to look for the entrance to St Martin's Land, meet a sweet little dog and share some experiences with the Fae.

In part two of our Heigham series Stacia and Siofra share a listeners experience of a poltergeist in house near Heigham Street. 

On this episode Stacia and Siofra discuss the Horror of Heigham. Sightings of a strange form triggered the "Heigham Roughs" into a frenzied ghost hunt. 

On this episode Stacia and Siofra try to figure out what illness "The Spinnage" might have been. It was said that the only person who could cure it lived on St Benedict's Street in Norwich. 

We are back!!! Today we are having a chat about tunnels. It's pretty widely known that Norwich is riddled with tunnels (people of a certain age will remember that bus that fell into one?), but where else in Norfolk are there said to be mysterious tunnels....

In this episode Stacia and Siofra discuss the ghost of White Woman Lane in Old Catton. 

This week Stacia and Siofra have a chat about the mysterious woodwose. These wild men of the woods are seen carved over doorways and on fonts in many churches across Norfolk and Suffolk. 

Something a little different this week. Stacia and Siofra take a little look into the world of ghosts lights. They discuss the corpse candles of Wales, the Saratoga Lights in Texas and the fascinating phenomena of ball lighting. Special thanks to illustrator Josh King who has create a wonderful series of illustrations for our next four episodes. We love his work. You can find him on Instagram at @jkillustrations and he has prints for sale on Etsy https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/JoshKingIllustration