The Gory Hand of Glory & The Swashbuckling Ghost
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Is there anybody here?
Can you hear me? If you can hear me, knock once for yes.
I am Lil.
And I'm Fitz.
And you're listening to Knock Once For Yes. Halloween has just rolled around again. And if you've been with us for a while, you know what that means. Hello, birthday ween. Yes, our podcast birthday is upon us again. And this means we've been on the air for eight years. eight and with that in mind right here at the top of the show we want to say thank you thank you to everyone who's listened to our creation thank you to everyone who's entrusted us with sharing your paranormal stories thank you to everyone who's left a review a like a subscribe and to those of you who got in touch to tell us that our little show has been in some way meaningful to you you don't know how many times those letters have inspired me to get out of bed and fight another day
And a huge, huge thank you to all of our Patreon and Ko-fi supporters, the wonderful souls who fund this show and make it possible. The travel, the tickets, the petrol, the research materials, the equipment, the hosting fees, all the many and varied costs of making these episodes in the admittedly rather in-depth and slightly awkward way that we go about making them. The fact that we're heading towards a decade on the air is down to every single one of you. And we couldn't be more grateful, not to mention proud of the wonderful, caring community that you have all built around this little podcast. Tonight, we raise a glass to all of you folks out there, our supporters, and bid you a very happy Hello Birthdayween.
And we have some epic tales in store for you tonight to celebrate. So, Fitz, what have we got coming up on today's episode?
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.
It just wouldn't be Hallow Birthday, William, without our tenuous Halloween news story competition. But I'm afraid I didn't do very well on this occasion. I found a total of one story, whereas Fitz, I believe you found quite a few.
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. 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.
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. 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.
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