Weird in the Wade

17/11/2025

It was proper cold today, and my plans to meet with a friend and try out driverless buses in Cambridge kind of went wrong. There were no buses! We did have coffee and cake, and I got time to work on my ghost stories for christmas script! I hope you're all keeping warm and cosy today!

17/11/2025

It may not be a weird Monday today but next week certainly will be! On Monday 24th November I'll be taking you on a trip to Ampthill to find out about the Ghosts of Coopers Hill with Listner Nick, local guide Bryan Bland of Ampthill Ghost Walks and Olie Campbell Music has composed 2 haunting songs for the epsiode as well.
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16/11/2025

I can't believe it's two weeks since Weird in the Wade Live Podcast Recording! I had such a wonderful time and I know the episode is going to be a very special one!
In case you're at a loose end today don't forget the leatest episode The Potton Road Poltergeist is out now!
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0mf3flx

15/11/2025

Hey listeners, if you’re interested in the satanic panic which I covered briefly in the Black Magic Church, and some of my witchcraft episodes, there’s a great new series from CBC and Sarah Marshall about the satanic panic. It’s a deep dive and fascinating.

In the 1980s and 90s, Satan and his followers were accused of brainwashing children, sacrificing babies, and infiltrating North American society on a massive scale — yet these thousands of alleged Satanists were nowhere to be found. Even so, the narrative became embedded in our cultural memory, wa...

15/11/2025

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👻The Goosebumps of Delight!👻

‼️ TONIGHT‼️ - There’s still time to get your tickets if you’re up for a spooky Saturday evening 🫣🫣🫣

🗓️Saturday 15 November
⏰Doors 7.30pm - Show 8pm
🎟️https://www.thebiggtheatre.co.uk/the-goosebumps-of-delight/

Get out of the rain and join us for the spooky telling of two of Charles Dickens’ ghost stories:

“The Baron Grogzwig” and “The Goblins Who Stole A Sexton” (Dickens’ own inspiration for his later Christmas story “A Christmas Carol”) - two spooky stories of an uplifting nature, in which dour protagonists realise life’s worth living- and the follow-up production to “The Ghost Of A Smile”

🫣See you there 🫣

14/11/2025

😞 Though interestingly my only visit to Westminster Abbey 30 years ago was marred by the most officious volunteer I’ve ever come across berating visitors for no good reason. I really want that sweatshirt now. Upside is Hellebore get some publicity!

Woman told to remove or cover up garment featuring 1908 illustration of Pan lest it offend worshippers

13/11/2025

Do you ever listen to Weird in the Wade (insert other creepy podcast) and yearn to write strange, uncanny stories yourself? Well you should! This January make your resolution to carve out some space for you to really scratch that uncanny writing itch!
I did this course in October and its fabulous!

The Strange & Uncanny 4-week course Mondays 26 Jan-16 Feb 2026 7-9pm GMT Online via zoom ✮ ⋆ ˚｡𖦹 ⋆｡°✩✮ ⋆ ˚｡𖦹 ⋆｡°✩✮ ⋆ ˚｡𖦹 ⋆｡ This four-week deep...

13/11/2025

If like me you were fascinated by Bethan Briggs-Miller story of her haunted childhood home on this weeks Weird in the Wade, you can find out more in her Eerie Essex episodes with Rev Peter Laws Part One 👇🏽
Special Guest Interview Part I: Peter Laws

Podcast Episode · Eerie Essex · 20/11/2022 · 51m

12/11/2025

Have you listened yet? What do you think the noise is. Neither Andy nor I heard a knock at the time it happened. We only heard the wind in the chimney.

in 1994 Biggleswade was rattled by an infamous poltergeist haunting.