Scary Tales from Scary Places: Recent Episodes
Frank Charles
Come visit some scary places with me. Be horrified at the history. Be terrified by the stories. Have a laugh. It's fun!
In this thrilling episode we learn all about the Ladies of Llangollen and their house, Plas Newydd in Langollen. There's a scandal! A gothic fantasy garden! Famous visitors! Ghostly footsteps! People being goosed! Spinning tables! There's also Marjory and Stuart scuffling in a cupboard and I get given a black eye! Such excitement!
Frightening creatures! Wicked fairies! Giants! Spectral hounds of Hell! Dragons! Giant pulsing things! Mysterious lights! Explosions! All this with Kevin, Stu and Janice as well. What more could you possibly want.
A projectionist fried to a crisp! A hanging figure! A sinister old man! Bangs! Crashes! All this goes on in The Tivoli Theatre Buckley. Go if you dare!!!
A floating humming nun! A pack of spirit dogs! A singing woman! All these and more are all to be discovered at the fabulous Ewloe Castle and Wepre woodland.
Mutton chops sideburns! Leather aprons! A murdered Lady! An unusually shaped ogee! All this is at The Trevor Arms in Marford....and a cardboard box with a paper bag in it. Join Kev, Margaret, and Janine as they explore The Trevor Arms for you. No cardboard boxes were harmed during the making of this podcast.
It's full of ghosts! Absolutely stuffed full! At least they are all having a good time. Join Kevin, Marjory and Janice at Cambrian House. It's fun...er no it's scary, scaaaary.
A strangler!! A nun! A crying child! Join Kevin, Marjory and Janice as they explore The Black Boy Inn Caernarfon. Will Janice meet the strangler? Will the strangler survive?
Join Kevin, Marjory and Janice as they explore one of the most haunted pubs in North Wales. It full of monks! They're everywhere! You can't turn round without falling over a monk!
An angry chambermaid! Ghostly cats! Skulls! Skeletons! Pools of water! Whistling! Bangs! Shadows! All this goes on at The Castle Hotel Conwy. Join Kevin, Marjory and a squiffy Janice as they explore it for you, dear listener.
Join Kevin, Marjory and Janice as they tell the tale of Holt Bridge Wrexham and two ghastly, grisly murders. Will Janice manage to avoid falling in the river? Will she keep her new cerise suede ankle boots (with tassels) dry? Listen and find out!
Cloaked ladies! Nuns! Shadows! Whispering voices! Muffs! Join Kevin, Marjory and Janice as they explore The Royal Oak Hotel in Betws-y-Coed. Will Janice feel a muff? Will she manage to stand up after several gin and tonics? Who turned that TV on!?
Join Kevin, Marjory, Janice, David, Huw and a goat. They are all at The Royal Goat Hotel in Beddgelert. Will Marjory ever stop pressing the goat noise knob? Will Janice see David Pritchard for more than ten seconds? Will Kevin have a choccy biccy? Who knows? Listen in and find out!
Join Kevin, Marjory (briefly) and Janice (even more briefly) as they explore The Bull Hotel in Abergele. Reports of a ghostly biker in leather prove too much for Marjory. Will Marjory spot the spook. Will Janice stop frightening it. Will Kev manage to twiddle some knobs.
Join Kevin, Marjory and Janice as they explore Tyn Dwr Hall in Llangollen. The place is full of the ghosts of beastly, ghastly children thundering about and tweaking people. So if that's your thing then Tyn Dwr Hall is for you. It's not Janice's thing, she hates them.
Join Kevin and Marjory and Janice and Janice's boyfriend and Albert and Sarah and Monica (who?) as they visit The Hand Hotel in Llangollen. Will Janice have a night of passion? Will Albert stop coughing? Will Kevin remember the names of his associates? Such drama!
Marjory has returned from her mysterious trip to the 'clinic'. Join her, Kevin and roving reporter Janice in exploring Pool Parc Asylum. It's a scary, dark place with an aggressive spirit. Hear Janice get tweaked and shouted at by a bloke with a torch.
Join Kevin, the knob twiddling Marjory and roving reporter Janice in Denbigh Castle. Meet the wailing woman and the poor chap who 'fell', or was pushed or thrown off the goblin tower. No wonder he's unhappy about it.
Hovering little old ladies in black and androgynous misty figures. Everything you need for a fun evening. Join Kevin, Marjory and Janice as they tell you all about the castle and bridge.
Join Kevin, Marjory and Janice on the hill of the goblin...or ghost. Wonder at the huge shimmering golden man. Marvel at the golden cape. Visit Mold market. It's all marvellous.
A dog of darkness! A figure of fire! A lady in white! A phantom horseman and carriage!. Goodness me, what more could you possibly want. Join Kevin, the mysterious Marjory and just about sober Janice in the Aberglaslyn Pass.
Marjory has decided to stay, hurrah! and Janice now has a police record for vandalism and being hopelessly drunk. Join Kevin, Marjory (hurrah!) and Janice (hic, burp) as they explore the history and beauty of Beaumaris Castle.
Join Kevin , Marjory and Janice in Beaumaris Gaol. Listen to the horrific and brutal history. Will Janice be let out of the dark cell! Will she be goosed again! Who will save her!
A demon from hell!! This episode has a demon in it! Join Kevin, Marjory and Janice as they explore Rhuddlan Castle and tell the legend that swirls around it. Oh and Janice manages to fall in the river and get her new suedette pixie boots wet.
Join Kevin, Marjory and Janice in Gwrych Castle. Hear a little about the history. Follow Janice as she encounters the lady in red flumping in a flowerbed.
Screams! Goblins! Algernon! Join Kevin, Marjory, Janice and a naked Algernon as they tell the scary tale of The Gloddaeth Woods Goblin.
Catholics! Protestants! Priests! Caves! Printing presses! Tragic girls! Beastly children! This story has all of these. Join Kevin, Marjory and Janice as they bring the place to life.
Join Kevin, Marjory and Janice as they tell the terrifying tale of The Devil's Tree in Llanrhos. Will Janice battle something hot and hairy! Will she be rescued! Will the squirrel stop chucking his nuts at her!
Join Kevin, Marjory (who now seems to love James Brown) and Janice as they explore the old coaching Inn at Rossett. Listen to the grisly history. Try not to be sick. Listen as Janice gets a good goosing in bedroom 2. Again, try not to be sick.
Janice returns! Join Janice, Kevin and Marjory as they talk about Chirk Castle. The history! The beauty! The beastly ghostly children! It's well worth a visit.
Hovering monks, dark shadowy figures, men in armour, terrifying atmospheres, magnificent Conwy Castle has it all. Join Kevin, the romantically bereft Marjory and for this week Audrey as they explore the castle and Audrey pins a monk in a corner.
Join Kevin, the boob-tube wearing sparkly Marjory and a very cross Janice as they explore this spooky house. Will Janice keep her temper. Will any ghosts be brave enough to come out with Janice in such a bad mood.
Disembodied legs!! I'll say it again, disembodied legs!! Whatever next. A blue lady, a cellar man, naughty children and a soldier...the castle is stuffed with ghosts. Join Kevin, Marjory, Janice and a security guard in a frock.
An axe wielding mad woman, a one-gloved soldier and a mischievous little girl. What more could you possibly want! Join Kevin, Marjory and Janice at Ruthin Castle Hotel for all the spooky goings-on.
Join Kevin, the ever silent but sparkling Marjory and Janice the reporter extraodinaire as they explore Plas Teg. Listen to the amazing history, marvel at the bravery of Janice. Try to ignore the swearing as she falls down a well.
Join Kevin, the ever silent Marjory and roving reporter Janice as they shake with terror at the Denbigh mental asylum. Hear Janice get chased by a ghostly caretaker. Hear her ladder her tights and scuff her boots. Hear her get a bit stroppy and demand a gin. Also in this episode we hear about Lilian from Bognor being the first person to send in a message. Well done Lilian!!
Join Kevin, Marjory and roving reporter Janice as they explore Ruthin Gaol. Be shocked at the history of torture! Be stunned by the spooks! Be a bit embarrassed at Janice being touched in the condemned cell!
Join Kevin, Marjory and the brave, brave roving reporter Janice as they bring Nant Clwyd to life before your very ears. A lady in white, strange shadowy figures, touching, choking, burning and a possessed doll! What more could you want.
Join Kevin, the ever silent, quivering Marjory and roving reporter Janice in discovering about The Spirit Angelystor. Will the spirit read your name out? Will you survive? Will Janice get her finger out of her ear?
Join Kevin, the ever silent Marjory and roving reporter Janice as they tell you about the spooky goings on at Gwydyr Castle near Llanrwst in North Wales. There's a bit of a smell.
Join Kevin Green, the ever silent Marjory and roving reporter Janice in being scared witless by a werewolf. Have you ever been scared by a great black hairy thing? I know I have.
Join me, Kevin Green and the lovely, if silent, jazz lover Marjory as we tell you about the ghosts and spooky stuff that goes on in Plas Mawr, a magnificent Elizabethan town house in Conwy Town in North Wales. Stuffed full of ghosts it is. Obviously it is a truly magnificent house and is well worth a visit.