Fitz

Is there anybody here?

Is there anybody here?

And I'm Fitz.

And I'm Fitz.

This episode, we have our traditional Find the Company with the most tenuous spooky season tie-in competition. We have listener stories from Tracy, Kate and Kat. And we head back to Whitby for the final time... Possibly, to share our stories of smugglers, occult artefacts and a swashbuckling ghost.

This episode, we have our traditional Find the Company with the most tenuous spooky season tie-in competition. We have listener stories from Tracy, Kate and Kat. And we head back to Whitby for the final time... Possibly, to share our stories of smugglers, occult artefacts and a swashbuckling ghost.

Yes, this paranormal radar, I have a veritable plethora of pings. It's lit up like a Christmas tree, or perhaps more aptly as a Halloween tree, which is something we do every year with spooky pumpkin fairy lights.

Yes, this paranormal radar, I have a veritable plethora of pings. It's lit up like a Christmas tree, or perhaps more aptly as a Halloween tree, which is something we do every year with spooky pumpkin fairy lights.

Regular listeners may remember that we like to find stories around Halloween where companies try and hijack the spooky season by finding the most tenuous links to their business to try and make spooky.

Regular listeners may remember that we like to find stories around Halloween where companies try and hijack the spooky season by finding the most tenuous links to their business to try and make spooky.

We've had the car leasing company sharing Britain's most haunted roads and a home removal company that shared a story on the spooky side of home removals and they normally start showing up in our social media from around the beginning of October.

We've had the car leasing company sharing Britain's most haunted roads and a home removal company that shared a story on the spooky side of home removals and they normally start showing up in our social media from around the beginning of October.

This year however it's been eerily quiet so I set out to hunt some down for myself and immediately found that it might be a little bit more of a challenge than I initially thought. You see, my Google foo isn't bad.

This year however it's been eerily quiet so I set out to hunt some down for myself and immediately found that it might be a little bit more of a challenge than I initially thought. You see, my Google foo isn't bad.

Doing what we do, we often have to track down some piece of information or even just find out in what book or article it might be found, and we're narrowing down the parameters all the time. This time, though, it was the opposite. I needed to go broad, and the broader your search is, the more junk you get.

Doing what we do, we often have to track down some piece of information or even just find out in what book or article it might be found, and we're narrowing down the parameters all the time. This time, though, it was the opposite. I needed to go broad, and the broader your search is, the more junk you get.

These stories aren't meant to stand out on their own as something you would search for directly. They're trying to blend in to the other spooky searches that people are doing around Halloween for general spooky stuff. I'm not sure what to call that either, but anyway, they aren't stories that it's easy to search for intentionally.

These stories aren't meant to stand out on their own as something you would search for directly. They're trying to blend in to the other spooky searches that people are doing around Halloween for general spooky stuff. I'm not sure what to call that either, but anyway, they aren't stories that it's easy to search for intentionally.

After quite a few frustrating attempts, I managed to come across a handful of stories, and then after a little refinement I hit the motherlode, which led me down a very rich vein of stories. The first is from the Guardian newspaper, and it's a review for the BBC Two show Hauntings.

After quite a few frustrating attempts, I managed to come across a handful of stories, and then after a little refinement I hit the motherlode, which led me down a very rich vein of stories. The first is from the Guardian newspaper, and it's a review for the BBC Two show Hauntings.