Norfolk Folklore Society

In our second Weird Norfolk podcast we pay a hauntingly good visit to Baconsthorpe Castle, near Holt, which is home to a spectral sentry.

Siofra learns that a plum stone isn’t actually a really great stone and Stacia gets to talk about her favourite exhibit at the Castle Museum, a rather grisly yet ‘hand’some relic of a duel near Aylsham.

In which Stacia and Siofra conclude that they would not have survived the Witchfinder General's reign of terror.

The bells, the bells and the postman banging at the door and making Siofra really jump. This week Stacia and Siofra have a chat about the lost village of Shipden and a pleasure steamer which became “skewered atop the tower like a pig at a hog roast”.

Siofra and Stacia are pleased to present their most favourite cursed item EVER. The cursed goat's head of Strumpshaw which just keeps coming back....

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This week the team share the tale of a mythical king who is said to be buried under Norwich Castle and his strange companion.