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In 1710, strange disturbances began inside Knowehead House on the Islandmagee peninsula in County Antrim. Stones appeared from nowhere, bedclothes were arranged into the shape of corpses, and a ragged childlike figure was seen moving through the house before apparently predicting the death of its elderly resident, Ann Haltridge. After Ann died, eighteen-year-old Mary Dunbar arrived and soon began suffering violent fits, claiming invisible women were attacking her and producing pins, feathers and other objects from her mouth. Her accusations eventually sent eight women to prison for witchcraft and drew a ninth person into a case that became Ireland’s last major witch trial.The BOOKBY US A COFFEESubscribe to our PATREONEMAIL us your storiesJoin us on INSTAGRAMJoin us on TWITTERJoin us on FACEBOOKVisit our WEBSITEResearch:https://pure.ulster.ac.uk/ws/portalfiles/portal/215482763/Sneddon_Devlin_Islandmagee_Witches_Documents_online_.pdfhttps://pure.ulster.ac.uk/en/publications/documents-from-the-trial-of-the-islandmagee-witches-at-carrickfer/https://pure.ulster.ac.uk/en/publications/possessed-by-the-devil-the-history-of-the-islandmagee-witch-trial/https://pure.ulster.ac.uk/en/publications/roundtable-the-islandmagee-witches-1711-creative-and-digital-proj/https://www.ulster.ac.uk/news/2013/october/mark-twain-and-the-irish-connectionSarah xx"Spacial Winds," Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licenced under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 Licencehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

On 15 September 1875, seventy-nine-year-old Ann Tennant left her home in the Warwickshire village of Long Compton to buy a loaf of bread. Minutes later she was attacked by agricultural labourer James Haywood, a neighbour who had become convinced that Ann and a number of other villagers were witches. His extraordinary claims would follow him from the harvest fields of Long Compton to the courtroom at Warwick and eventually to Broadmoor.As summer wanes and the nights grow long, we turn to tales of witches, curses, and the old ways that never truly died. For centuries, harvest time has carried its own magic: charms for fields, blessings for homes, and darker stories of those who bent nature to their will.After Dark - Apple Spotify AmazonJoin Sarah's new FACEBOOK GROUPSubscribe to our PATREONEMAIL us your storiesJoin us on INSTAGRAMJoin us on TWITTERJoin us on FACEBOOKVisit our WEBSITEResearch Links:https://d23iiv8m8qvdxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/The-Full-Story-of-the-Murder-of-My-Great-Great-Grandmother-Ann-Tennant-of-Long-Compton.pdf https://www.ourwarwickshire.org.uk/content/article/the-murder-of-my-great-great-grandmother-ann-tennant-of-long-compton-part-one https://www.ourwarwickshire.org.uk/content/article/the-murder-of-ann-tennant-of-long-compton-part-two https://www.ourwarwickshire.org.uk/content/article/murder-long-compton https://research-information.bris.ac.uk/ws/portalfiles/portal/370166320/Julia_Phillips_Doctoral_Thesis.pdfSarah xx"Spacial Winds," Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licenced under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 Licencehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Season of the Witch – Archive Note:As part of this year’s Season of the Witch, we’re bringing our two-part Charles Walton case back into the feed. Charles Walton’s story connects with some of the new cases we’re covering this season, so we thought it was the perfect time to revisit it.Patreon and Apple subscribers can listen to Charles Walton Parts One & Two and our new Ann Tennant episode now. For everyone else, Charles Walton Parts One & Two will be released on Friday and Saturday, followed by Ann Tennant on Sunday.The Charles Walton episodes were originally released around 14 months ago and have been refreshed with our current music.As summer wanes and the nights grow long, we turn to tales of witches, curses, and the old ways that never truly died. For centuries, harvest time has carried its own magic: charms for fields, blessings for homes, and darker stories of those who bent nature to their will.After Dark - Apple Spotify AmazonJoin Sarah's new FACEBOOK GROUPSubscribe to our PATREONEMAIL us your storiesJoin us on INSTAGRAMJoin us on TWITTERJoin us on FACEBOOKVisit our WEBSITEResearch Links:http://www.stratford-herald.com/news/witchcraft-and-murder-on-meon-hill-9223403/http://www.crimemagazine.com/last-witch-killing-united-kingdom-murder-charles-walton-1945-0https://www.vice.com/en/article/charles-walton-murder-victim/https://medium.com/@anncarney51/a-murder-on-valentines-day-f1088bde52c6http://the-history-girls.blogspot.com/2012/02/meon-hill-valentines-day-death-celia.htmlhttp://www.whitedragon.org.uk/articles/charles.htmSarah xx"Spacial Winds," Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licenced under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 Licencehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Season of the Witch – Archive Note:As part of this year’s Season of the Witch, we’re bringing our two-part Charles Walton case back into the feed. Charles Walton’s story connects with some of the new cases we’re covering this season, so we thought it was the perfect time to revisit it.Patreon and Apple subscribers can listen to Charles Walton Parts One & Two and our new Ann Tennant episode now. For everyone else, Charles Walton Parts One & Two will be released on Friday and Saturday, followed by Ann Tennant on Sunday.The Charles Walton episodes were originally released around 14 months ago and have been refreshed with our current music.As summer wanes and the nights grow long, we turn to tales of witches, curses, and the old ways that never truly died. For centuries, harvest time has carried its own magic: charms for fields, blessings for homes, and darker stories of those who bent nature to their will.After Dark - Apple Spotify AmazonJoin Sarah's new FACEBOOK GROUPSubscribe to our PATREONEMAIL us your storiesJoin us on INSTAGRAMJoin us on TWITTERJoin us on FACEBOOKVisit our WEBSITEResearch Links:http://www.stratford-herald.com/news/witchcraft-and-murder-on-meon-hill-9223403/http://www.crimemagazine.com/last-witch-killing-united-kingdom-murder-charles-walton-1945-0https://www.vice.com/en/article/charles-walton-murder-victim/https://medium.com/@anncarney51/a-murder-on-valentines-day-f1088bde52c6http://the-history-girls.blogspot.com/2012/02/meon-hill-valentines-day-death-celia.htmlhttp://www.whitedragon.org.uk/articles/charles.htmSarah xx"Spacial Winds," Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licenced under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 Licencehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

BONUSAbove the Warwickshire village of Long Compton stands one of England's strangest prehistoric landscapes. According to legend, the Rollright Stones are a king and his army turned to stone by a witch, while generations of local people told stories of bleeding elder trees, fairies dancing around the stones, impossible stone counts, shape-shifting witches and ancient monuments that moved after dark. Even into the twentieth century, Long Compton retained its extraordinary reputation as a village where the influence of witches was said to come and go like the full moon.As summer wanes and the nights grow long, we turn to tales of witches, curses, and the old ways that never truly died. For centuries, harvest time has carried its own magic: charms for fields, blessings for homes, and darker stories of those who bent nature to their will.After Dark - Apple Spotify AmazonJoin Sarah's new FACEBOOK GROUPSubscribe to our PATREONEMAIL us your storiesJoin us on INSTAGRAMJoin us on TWITTERJoin us on FACEBOOKVisit our WEBSITEResearch Links: https://www.rollrightstones.co.uk/articles/story/folklore-and-legends https://www.rollrightstones.co.uk/stones/whispering-knights https://www.rollrightstones.co.uk/stones/kings-men https://www.rollrightstones.co.uk/stones/king-stone https://www.ourwarwickshire.org.uk/content/article/murder-long-compton https://www.themodernantiquarian.com/post/51780/folklore/king-stone https://www.themodernantiquarian.com/post/54048/folklore/rollright-stones https://www.themodernantiquarian.com/post/150625/folklore/rollright_stones.html https://www.themodernantiquarian.com/site/65/rollright-stones https://www.themodernantiquarian.com/site/462/king-stoneJulia_Phillips_Doctoral_Thesis.pdfSarah and Tobie xx"Spacial Winds," Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licenced under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 Licencehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Late on 8 January 2004, a woman calling herself Hasumi began posting to the Japanese message board 2channel after her usual train travelled far beyond its normal route and stopped at a deserted station she had never heard of. Over the next four hours, strangers online followed her journey through tunnels, distant drums, a terrifying encounter and finally a ride with a mysterious man, until Hasumi posted one final message and disappeared from the thread. Her story would become one of Japan’s most enduring internet legends and inspired an entire genre of mysterious “otherworld stations.”The BOOKBY US A COFFEESubscribe to our PATREONEMAIL us your storiesJoin us on INSTAGRAMJoin us on TWITTERJoin us on FACEBOOKVisit our WEBSITEResearch:https://xn--u9jv84l7ea468b.com/kaidan/2wa.htmlhttps://mikanseijin.livejournal.com/986.htmlhttps://www.entetsu.co.jp/tetsudou/kisaragieki/https://www.entetsu.co.jp/tetsudou/kisaragieki/case/https://www.entetsu.co.jp/tetsudou/station/saginomiya.htmlhttps://toyokeizai.net/articles/-/364920https://sanblo.com/kisaragi/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kisaragi_StationSarah xx"Spacial Winds," Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licenced under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 Licencehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

In 1816, snow fell in June, crops failed across Europe and North America, and thousands feared the end of the world. Known as the Year Without a Summer, this extraordinary period was caused by the catastrophic eruption of Mount Tambora a year earlier, although nobody at the time knew the true reason. As famine spread and old superstitions resurfaced, a group of writers trapped by the relentless storms at Lake Geneva created Frankenstein and The Vampyre, changing horror literature forever.The BOOKBY US A COFFEESubscribe to our PATREONEMAIL us your storiesJoin us on INSTAGRAMJoin us on TWITTERJoin us on FACEBOOKVisit our WEBSITEResearch:https://www.britannica.com/event/Year-Without-a-Summerhttps://www.britannica.com/place/Mount-Tamborahttps://www.usgs.gov/programs/VHP/1815-eruption-mount-tamborahttps://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/1510/tamborahttps://www.rmg.co.uk/stories/topics/year-without-summer-1816https://blog.nms.ac.uk/2020/04/10/the-eruption-of-mount-tambora/https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20210817-the-year-summer-never-camehttps://www.history.com/articles/the-year-without-a-summerhttps://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/1816-year-without-summerhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_Without_a_Summerhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1815_eruption_of_Mount_Tamborahttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Villa_Diodatihttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankensteinhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_VampyreSarah xx"Spacial Winds," Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licenced under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 Licencehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Before electric light reached the villages of rural Kerala, travellers were warned to examine every animal waiting beside the road. An unnatural bull, dog or buffalo might be an Odiyan, a practitioner of secret magic said to change shape, stalk victims through the darkness and carry out attacks for those willing to pay.The BOOKBY US A COFFEESubscribe to our PATREONEMAIL us your storiesJoin us on INSTAGRAMJoin us on TWITTERJoin us on FACEBOOKVisit our WEBSITEResearch:https://ml.wikisource.org/wiki/ഐതിഹ്യമാല/ചെമ്പ്രയെഴുത്തച്ഛന്മാർhttps://www.gutenberg.org/files/35690/35690-h/35690-h.htmhttps://archive.org/stream/in.ernet.dli.2015.71073/2015.71073.Cochin-State-Manual_djvu.txthttps://global.oup.com/academic/product/lore-and-legends-of-kerala-9780195698893https://www.keralatourism.org/districts/palakkad/https://indiaartreview.com/stories/odiyan-dark-knights-that-dwarf-halloween/https://www.newindianexpress.com/kerala/2025/Nov/04/keralas-mysterious-odiyan-legends-find-global-recognitionhttps://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/ഒടിയൻhttps://ijrar.org/papers/IJRAR25B2484.pdfhttps://ideas.repec.org/a/ajp/edwast/v8y2024i6p5687-5692id3239.htmlSarah xx"Spacial Winds," Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licenced under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 Licencehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

In 1906, twenty year old Grace Brown travelled to Big Moose Lake with Chester Gillette, the man she loved and hoped would marry her. Instead, she was found dead in the water, and her private letters became the centre of a sensational murder trial. More than a century later, Grace is still said to haunt Big Moose Lake as a sorrowful woman in white.The BOOKBY US A COFFEESubscribe to our PATREONEMAIL us your storiesJoin us on INSTAGRAMJoin us on TWITTERJoin us on FACEBOOKVisit our WEBSITEResearch:https://www.adirondack.net/history/grace-brown/https://unsolved.com/gallery/ghost-of-grace-brown/https://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/6528/20051201/heard-up-north-grace-brown-s-last-letterhttps://crimereads.com/people-v-gillette/https://history.nycourts.gov/product/2009-calendar/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Grace_Brownhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chester_GilletteSarah xx"Spacial Winds," Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licenced under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 Licencehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/