{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/679df09dc4b7d8845b8350f7/679df0ab2a5cfef5627dca98?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"Episode 33. The Laidley Worm and the Ghosts of Bamburgh Castle","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/679df09dc4b7d8845b8350f7/1738408345742-b9a5e32b-bdaf-497f-bf4a-e9a11f657a67.jpeg?height=200","description":"<p>Welcome to Episode 33 of the podcast - the first episode of 2025!</p><p>In this episode we explore the ghostlore and folklore of Bamburgh Castle in Northumberland, and the ghost sightings at the Lying-in Hospital in Newcastle upon Tyne. The episode also details two ghostly tales from the 20th May 1893 edition of the Newcastle Courant.</p><p> </p><p>Chapter markers</p><p>00:00:00 Outro</p><p>00:02:40 The folklore and ghostlore of Bamburgh Castle</p><p>00:22:35 From the archives: \"Saved by a Ghost\", 1893</p><p>00:24:18 Ghosts of the Lying-in Hospital, Newcastle upon Tyne</p><p>00:28:01 From the archives: \"A tale of the Bamburgh Coast\", 1893</p><p>00:43:25 Outro</p><p><br></p><h3>Sources</h3><ul><li><a href=\"https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0001723/19340415/015/0015\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0001723/19340415/015/0015</a></li><li><a href=\"https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000086/18930520/035/0006\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000086/18930520/035/0006</a></li><li><a href=\"https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0001723/19360419/008/0003\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0001723/19360419/008/0003</a></li><li><a href=\"https://bamburghresearchproject.co.uk/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">https://bamburghresearchproject.co.uk/</a></li><li><a href=\"https://www.bamburghcastle.com/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">https://www.bamburghcastle.com/</a></li><li><a href=\"https://www.hauntedrooms.co.uk/haunted-places/northumberland\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">https://www.hauntedrooms.co.uk/haunted-places/northumberland</a></li><li><a href=\"https://www.higgypop.com/hauntings/bamburgh-castle/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">https://www.higgypop.com/hauntings/bamburgh-castle/</a></li><li><a href=\"https://archive.org/details/aviewnorthumber00randgoog\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">https://archive.org/details/aviewnorthumber00randgoog</a></li><li><a href=\"https://archive.org/details/ACollectionOfTheBalladsMelodiesAndSmall-pipeTunesOfNorthumbria\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">https://archive.org/details/ACollectionOfTheBalladsMelodiesAndSmall-pipeTunesOfNorthumbria</a></li><li><a href=\"https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/An_Exact_and_Circumstantial_History_of_t/-LkhAAAAMAAJ?hl=en\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/An_Exact_and_Circumstantial_History_of_t/-LkhAAAAMAAJ?hl=en</a></li><li><a href=\"https://northumberlandarchives.com/2020/06/01/the-laidley-worm-of-spindlestone-heugh/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">https://northumberlandarchives.com/2020/06/01/the-laidley-worm-of-spindlestone-heugh/</a></li><li>Balfour, M.C. (1903)&nbsp;<em>The Folk-Lore Society: Relics of Popular Antiquities</em></li><li>Denham, M.A. (1846-59)&nbsp;<em>The Denham Tracts</em>, Volumes I and II</li><li>Henderson, W. (1879)&nbsp;<em>Notes on the folk-lore of the Northern Counties</em></li><li>Histon, V. (2001)&nbsp;<em>Ghosts of Grainger Town: Further tales from Newcastle’s Darker Side</em>. Tyne Bridge Publishing</li><li>Northumberland County History; Vol. I. History of the King’s Works: Brown, Colvin &amp; Taylor: H.M.S.O. 1963</li><li>Tomlinson, Monthly Chronicle, 1891</li><li>Whitlock, R. (1983)&nbsp;<em>Here Be Dragons</em>. George Allen &amp; Unwin&nbsp;</li></ul><p><br></p><p>&nbsp;</p>","author_name":"Within the Boggart Wood"}