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My grandmother was great at telling ghost stories especially those she personally experienced. Her father was a station master and railway stations were almost always haunted.
There's no Christmas without Alistair Sim. No other actor has come close to capturing that transformation. Also, my ghost at Christmas is my dead, empty wallet!
Yes I agree. I just watched his Scrooge film last night on line. I watch it every year at this time. He is just brilliant in the part. As you say no one can touch him as Scrooge.
I definitely agree!! Most of us are so used to the story of _A Christmas Carol_ that we forget what a terrifying experience it would be. Unfortunately it is difficult to find Sim's version on either American TV or streaming services and I hadn't seen it in years. Last night I finally found it on UA-cam, and not only does Sim do the best job of imparting the sheer terror of being confronted by the four spirits, it is the best overall movie version of Dicken's story that I have seen.
After dinner on Christmas Eve my daughter makes us hot chocolate with marshmallows in special mugs, then we curl up together and open new books. We listen to Celtic and Medieval Christmas music, read our books, sip out hot chocolate, and snuggle up with the dog. It’s our favorite night of the year!
We have a ridiculous tradition that began one Christmas in the 80s where my dad for whatever reason got everyone in the immediate family a last minute gift of a pair of those thick, grippy-bottomed socks & then just continued doing so every year until one year about 10 or so years ago when he didn’t. Me and my siblings were all very bothered by this and made it known so he got us all some the next day (Boxing Day in the UK but just the day after Christmas here) It may seem really cheesy and insignificant & maybe it is but I love my drawer full of fuzzy socks when it gets real cold outside like it is right now.
It’s tradition for me to watch or listen to M.R. James’s Ghost Stores for Christmas on Christmas Eve. The ones narrated by Sir Christopher Lee are very good.
@@joanhoffman3702 Ghost stories during Christmas is a time honored tradition that should be kept & TREASURED. It's important. I've done enough investigation.
You mentioned the BBC's Ghost Stories for Christmas, but I wondered that you didn't mention M.R. James, writer of probably the finest (many of which the BBC dramatised). Check him out if you haven't
In the recent years I've come across the writings of M.R. James, a scholar who became famous for telling his ghost stories to his students around Christmas time. It was his students who suggested he publish his stories which have become classic horror stories. Seriously there are any number of anthologies that have at least one M.R. James stories included in their collections.
James was the greatest of the writers of ghost stories. Check out LeFanu, the Benson brothers, H R. Wakefield and others of the early Twentieth Century.
I do my 30 days of A Christmas Carol every year. I watch/read/listen to a different version every night for the 30 days leading up to Christmas Eve. It's amazing how many movie, TV, and radio versions of the story there are.
Instead of "Elf on a Shelf" we have "Yorick on a Shelf". Christmas hat on top of his skull. It's quite tatty now. We've had him for over 40 yrs now. For the little ones of our house hold we like to play "Where's Yorick?" My Da always gives them clues. Winner gets to choose which chocolate we all should eat and they have first dibs. We loved this video. Have a awesome Christmas!✨🎄✨
This video has such a cozy vibe, and what a lovely fireplace! We'll definitely be telling ghost stories this Christmas, and the only screen in sight will be a fake fireplace video on the TV--wish we had a real one!
when in his 30s charles dickens lived in ipswich town in suffolk for 3 years and the part in bleakhouse where a person dies from spontaneous human combustion was actually based on real events from 30 yrs before dickens was born when a woman was found dead from shc on a road called rope walk in ipswich town centre
There'll be parties for hosting Marshmallows for toasting And carrolling out in the snow There'll be scary ghost stories And tales of the glories of Christmases long, long ago
My family has brought back this tradition. Every Christmas Eve my father and I each prepare a scary story to share with the family. It's proving a fabulous idea. Each year, more and more people want to join in!
As a child, I was always more scared of the four Christmas Carol ghosts visiting me if I had been naughty rather than Santa leaving me coal, hence that was more of an incentive for me to be good.
I agree we all need to switch of our modern devices at least once a year and connect with each other through ghost stories. As a European born national for me this tradition was particular rooted in Santa Clause and his helpers as well as attending church with other children during the cold darker seasons. I never forgot the experience of sitting together and seeing and hearing the sound of thunder and rain reflected through the huge colour glass paneled windows of the church at night. Indeed on a deeper level the winter ghost story tradition is rooted in the preservation of fire in the cold climates. On a biological level we are talking about our kinesthetic modality to feel the sense of touch in relation to feeling warm and cosy around others. The wild hunt tradition seems very influenced by the experiences related to living with and riding on wild animals during the dark winter seasons. I can almost feel the warmth and fear and smell the pheromone coming from the wild animals as if being there when I see these experiences depicted in paintings.
I am usually the narrator of a family ghost story at Christmas. Not always on Christmas Eve but some evening over the Christmas period when we are all together. I tend to pick MR James or Dickens’ singnalman . I think I read a Christmas Carol so often my family often prompt me with “come on! Marley was dead, as dead as a door nail”🙂
I went into the woods last night while walking my dog, thought I saw a white spirit ahead...got too scared...went home..should have gone deeper so that I may have had a spooky story to tell.
In a 21st century sense this tradition hasn't really died out for me & my family. We've always watched a Christmas ghost story late at night on Christmas Day after the more easily scared relatives have gone to bed.
I'm a huge tradition guy that's what makes the Christmas season special, one of mine is going to church Christmas Eve, may sound boring and I don't go to church any other day of the year, it's just something to do with the air and the atmosphere inside this huge church, incredible Christmas lights big town tree . Seeing all the excited kids reminding me of how I felt at that age, even when I was that age I used to remember coming out of church quickly, and looking up into the sky to see if I could get a glimpse of Santa clause.
I found your channel earlier this year and I love it. We don't really have a Christmas Eve ghost story tradition here in Ireland as far as I'm aware of but we do love ghost/supernatural stories. My grandad used to be very fussy about tidying and sweeping the hearth after everyone went to bed as he said the 'spirits' would come and sit there when everyone else was asleep! I always found that a bit spooky and amusing at the same time. Wishing you a very happy Christmas/Yuletide from Ireland!
Such a beautifully blended video. I remember my nana and Aunty telling us ghost stories on Yule eve..We'd all sit 'round the coal fire listening,while our Yule tree sparkled. Those were magical times.Sadly as older generations faded,so did this intermittent tradition. Thank you for this well needed video. Yule blessings to you and yours 🎄
I was looking forward to this one, ghost stories are always a great evening past time in the days before and after Christmas. I highly recommend the M R James dramatisations freely available on UA-cam. Also - brewing a Yule Beer has been a tradition since I started home brewing almost 20 years ago, start the brew in October and let it get nice and cold in the barrel in the winter weather. Thanks Reiver 👍🏻 Cheers all 🍻
This was very interesting to me. I am American, in my 70s, with an English-born grandparent on both sides. The British custom of telling ghost stories at Christmas has always seemed strange and even inappropriate for such a pleasant, joyful holiday. One might as well have a traditional vampire-themed birthday party for 5-year-olds or a serial killer baby shower. My English grandparents, born in the 1880s, never mentioned this tradition. We did have the flaming plum pudding with a silver sixpence steamed into it. Our stockings were hung on Christmas Eve with threats of the naughtiest child finding a lump of coal, or worse yet, the goose or turkey foot the next morning. We always watched Alistair Sim do the perfect Scrooge on TV. I never thought of that as a ghost story, but a warning from wise spirits to a very bad man.
I have a bit of an unusual Christmas tradition. It's my responsibility to string up the lights on the Christmas tree now, so for the past several years, I put the lights on the tree at night when everyone is sleeping, all the while listening to a comedian Jimmy Carr special. I find I have less problems and get less angry while laughing 😆
As a child many years ago, our family had large, joyful Christmas gatherings with music, singing, storytelling and lots of wonderful food. Most popular was the ghost story night, great excitement and an event everyone looked forward to.
Thanks for a wonderful video. My son and myself will be having a fire at the end of my very long garden Christmas eve and I'll be holding court with ghost stories,
A beautiful, thoughtful video with an important call-to-action. I couldn't agree with you more. Can't wait to follow your adventures in 2023. All the best Reiver. Cheers, Kitty.
In my family my favorite tradition is the feast of appetizers (we call it "snackies") that we have on Christmas eve...a lot of the same treats every year like shrimp cocktail and stuffed mushrooms.
Thanks to you. It's an interesting point you made with Charles Dickens and his most famous of tales in that he might be the one that did revive the tradition in a literary sense because its was he, and not his publisher, that insisted on his book being printed with colour picture leaves so as to enhance the tale. ...so I'm told! It might just be another tale! Cheers.
My mom would read the Night Before Christmas to us every year. I personally love reading and listening to ghost stories around this time. Scary Stories to tell in the dark books are my go to books.
Hello Jolly Reiver - watching your video in December , 2023. Just in response to your Call to Arms : I´m an Oral Storyteller ( working in English ) living here in Madrid , Spain and have hosted Halloween Stories and , just now , Christmas Stories at The Secret Kingdoms Bookshop , Madrid. best to you from Simon Talbot.
fantastic video! as a ghost story lover i couldn't agree more that we need to revive the tradition of telling ghost stories around christmas. looking forward to watching your new videos. have a wonderful christmas and new year.
I found the introduction to these stories very refreshing. I think old fashioned traditions are so important most of them are really intriguing. A bygone time which is so different to our fast digitised life I always look for Christmas ghost stories every year. I always will. That’s my tradition and I love it.thank you to everyone who gives me so much pleasure at this time of year and certainly throughout the year as well.
Fantastic overview of a tradition that I would love to see make a resurgence. Also wonderful to see a mention of Jerome K Jerome, a son of Caldmore, Staffordshire of all places. A Merry Yuletide/ Happy Christmas and a splendid new year to you; I can't wait to see all that's going to be coming from your revamped project in the coming year(s)!
Oddly enough, my family always came home from church on Christmas Eve, set out the Christmas cookies and played poker! I have no idea where the tradition started, but it lasted a good long time. Even as a child, I'd be playing with my father, sister, brother, great aunt and grandma while my mother sat in the living room with the Yule log on, or maybe a movie, watching out the back door for a sign -- any sign -- of Santa. I'd sip on my coke a cola, always in the glass bottle for the holiday, while my dad drank a touch of bourbon. It was great! Cheers from the Hudson Valley!
I just discovered your channel. Love your videos my friend. M R James are my favourite ghost stories. If you go on UA-cam you can find the adaptations of his stories in the 1970s ghost stories for Christmas series. A warning to the curious, Lost Hearts and Whistle and I'll come to you, are all absolutely brilliant.
The Tractate Middoth, Count Magnus and Number 13 are my favorites. Number 13 is set in England instead of Denmark but it's still well done. There is a version of Canon Alberic's Scrapbook set in modern time but still excellent.
Thanks for shedding a light on this topic ☃️ I'm obsessed with Halloween and spooky stuffs year round, so this is really interesting.. The world we live in clings to happiness with a death grip.. I never saw a ghost, but I always wanted to 🖤🪰⚰️🧸🦃
Fantastic video Reiver. That tea looked a bit peaky mind. This is something I've noticed too. We used to spend so much time talking at family gatherings before there were as many screens in the room as people. And it wasn't long before talk turned to the supernatural. I second your proposal that we try to reinstate this tradition. I love an M.R. James story at Christmas. Do you have any favourites? Anyway merry Christmas to you and yours friend.
Cheers mate, glad you enjoyed. I must say that Dickens remains my favourite, looking forward to discovering new ones as the years go by though! Hope you had a good christmas
I've always wondered about the ghost stories on Christmas Eve. Thank you for explaining it. Hope you had a Merry Christmas and blessings to you in the new year
I have always enjoyed the tradition of ghost stories at Christmas. My recent favourite author is Susan Hill but I have also enjoyed Dickens especially “the signal man”.
Our traditions are mostly common but two of them we think of as our own. When my parents were first married they were poor so our decorations and gifts were from dollar stores for years. During that time they would splurge on two things (aside from a tasty soup for dinner and big breakfast): a trip to the movie theater Christmas evening and eating pizza at Pietro’s the Tuesday after thanksgiving. Even though the size of our family has doubled and my parents have become a little better off we still do these things every year :) Merry Christmas 🎄
Like many Canadians, my family listens to The Shepherd by Frederick Forsythe, narrated by Alan Maitland on CBC. It's a long standing tradition and a ghost story!
Wonderful video and narration. Im glad you made a whole episode on Christmas ghost stories. While growing up I always wondered why the Christmas song, “It’s The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year”, mentioned telling scary ghost stories. Has anyone heard of an old belief that on Christmas Eve no ghost would be allowed to haunt anyone so one could tell a good scary ghost story and be able to sleep securely that night knowing they would not be haunted? Again, enjoyed this video very much!
Thanks for the info. I mistakenly thought it was an Irish tradition first because different authors said their Irish nannies told them ghost stories on Christmas Eve.
The ancient Japan there was a summertime tradition of lightning 100 candles and telling 100 tales of the supernatural, with each story told a candle is blown out, they say when every candle has gone out a supernatural event will occur👹👺🕯
Lovely video Jolly Reiver and absolutely love your beautiful fireplace. Best wishes and Merry Christmas to you and your family, and thank you for exploring this wonderful tradition.
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@@LaBambaxo glad to hear it!
Great video, really liked it. Merry Christmas 🎄 and God Bless. 🙏🏻
"Tradition is not the worship of ashes. It is the preservation of the fire." What a lovely turn of phrase!
Very wonderfully fitting !
This fraze is a quote by Austrian composer, Gustav Mahler.
My grandmother was great at telling ghost stories especially those she personally experienced. Her father was a station master and railway stations were almost always haunted.
"They'll be scary ghost stories and tales of the glories of Christmases long, long ago! It's the most wonderful time of the year."
There's no Christmas without Alistair Sim. No other actor has come close to capturing that transformation. Also, my ghost at Christmas is my dead, empty wallet!
Yes I agree. I just watched his Scrooge film last night on line. I watch it every year at this time. He is just brilliant in the part. As you say no one can touch him as Scrooge.
I definitely agree!! Most of us are so used to the story of _A Christmas Carol_ that we forget what a terrifying experience it would be. Unfortunately it is difficult to find Sim's version on either American TV or streaming services and I hadn't seen it in years. Last night I finally found it on UA-cam, and not only does Sim do the best job of imparting the sheer terror of being confronted by the four spirits, it is the best overall movie version of Dicken's story that I have seen.
Alistair Sim... absolutely! It's not Christmas without A Christmas Carol with Alistair Sim
After dinner on Christmas Eve my daughter makes us hot chocolate with marshmallows in special mugs, then we curl up together and open new books. We listen to Celtic and Medieval Christmas music, read our books, sip out hot chocolate, and snuggle up with the dog. It’s our favorite night of the year!
We have a ridiculous tradition that began one Christmas in the 80s where my dad for whatever reason got everyone in the immediate family a last minute gift of a pair of those thick, grippy-bottomed socks & then just continued doing so every year until one year about 10 or so years ago when he didn’t. Me and my siblings were all very bothered by this and made it known so he got us all some the next day (Boxing Day in the UK but just the day after Christmas here) It may seem really cheesy and insignificant & maybe it is but I love my drawer full of fuzzy socks when it gets real cold outside like it is right now.
I love that tradition... Your family sounds wonder!!Have a Merry Christmas!!🎁🎄🙏🕊
@ & Merry Christmas to you & yours as well!!
Ah the grippy sock vacation
@ no mental hospital necessary bc my family is close enough.
It’s tradition for me to watch or listen to M.R. James’s Ghost Stores for Christmas on Christmas Eve. The ones narrated by Sir Christopher Lee are very good.
I just heard one. He was gifted.
Thank you! I’ll have to listen to them.
@@joanhoffman3702 Ghost stories during Christmas is a time honored tradition that should be kept & TREASURED. It's important. I've done enough investigation.
I love Halloween and it’s cool that I can drag out the spooky until Christmas now
You mentioned the BBC's Ghost Stories for Christmas, but I wondered that you didn't mention M.R. James, writer of probably the finest (many of which the BBC dramatised). Check him out if you haven't
In the recent years I've come across the writings of M.R. James, a scholar who became famous for telling his ghost stories to his students around Christmas time. It was his students who suggested he publish his stories which have become classic horror stories. Seriously there are any number of anthologies that have at least one M.R. James stories included in their collections.
James was the greatest of the writers of ghost stories. Check out LeFanu, the Benson brothers, H R. Wakefield and others of the early Twentieth Century.
I do my 30 days of A Christmas Carol every year. I watch/read/listen to a different version every night for the 30 days leading up to Christmas Eve. It's amazing how many movie, TV, and radio versions of the story there are.
What's the best versions in your opinion?
Interesting… I had no idea there were so many. I’m on the hunt. Merry Christmas 🎄
Great video. Thanks for mentioning the Spirit of Yule book!
We've been reading it to our little one this past week, he loves it!
Yuletide blessings my friend.. always great to hear from you.
Cheers man, really enjoyed your Millenniyule chat this year
Instead of "Elf on a Shelf" we have "Yorick on a Shelf". Christmas hat on top of his skull. It's quite tatty now. We've had him for over 40 yrs now. For the little ones of our house hold we like to play "Where's Yorick?" My Da always gives them clues. Winner gets to choose which chocolate we all should eat and they have first dibs. We loved this video. Have a awesome Christmas!✨🎄✨
This video has such a cozy vibe, and what a lovely fireplace! We'll definitely be telling ghost stories this Christmas, and the only screen in sight will be a fake fireplace video on the TV--wish we had a real one!
glad you liked it mate
when in his 30s charles dickens lived in ipswich town in suffolk for 3 years and the part in bleakhouse where a person dies from spontaneous human combustion was actually based on real events from 30 yrs before dickens was born when a woman was found dead from shc on a road called rope walk in ipswich town centre
I have a personal tradition of always listening to A Christmas Carol at Christmas. It's my quiet time to reflect on the true meaning of Christmas.
Same here.
There'll be parties for hosting
Marshmallows for toasting
And carrolling out in the snow
There'll be scary ghost stories
And tales of the glories of
Christmases long, long ago
That Christmas song was one of the few that I heard as a child mentioning ghost stories.
spooky yet cozy, as Christmas should be!
My family has brought back this tradition. Every Christmas Eve my father and I each prepare a scary story to share with the family. It's proving a fabulous idea. Each year, more and more people want to join in!
As a child, I was always more scared of the four Christmas Carol ghosts visiting me if I had been naughty rather than Santa leaving me coal, hence that was more of an incentive for me to be good.
I love this, when my daughter is a little older I will be starting this tradition.
In the Christmas carol it's the most wonderful Time of the Year they even mentioned the tradition of ghost stories of Christmas.
I agree we all need to switch of our modern devices at least once a year and connect with each other through ghost stories. As a European born national for me this tradition was particular rooted in Santa Clause and his helpers as well as attending church with other children during the cold darker seasons. I never forgot the experience of sitting together and seeing and hearing the sound of thunder and rain reflected through the huge colour glass paneled windows of the church at night. Indeed on a deeper level the winter ghost story tradition is rooted in the preservation of fire in the cold climates. On a biological level we are talking about our kinesthetic modality to feel the sense of touch in relation to feeling warm and cosy around others. The wild hunt tradition seems very influenced by the experiences related to living with and riding on wild animals during the dark winter seasons. I can almost feel the warmth and fear and smell the pheromone coming from the wild animals as if being there when I see these experiences depicted in paintings.
I am usually the narrator of a family ghost story at Christmas. Not always on Christmas Eve but some evening over the Christmas period when we are all together. I tend to pick MR James or Dickens’ singnalman . I think I read a Christmas Carol so often my family often prompt me with “come on! Marley was dead, as dead as a door nail”🙂
This has now inspired me to look up old Christmas ghost stories and try to memorize them for my Christmas/ Yule party with friends.
I went into the woods last night while walking my dog, thought I saw a white spirit ahead...got too scared...went home..should have gone deeper so that I may have had a spooky story to tell.
As I watched this upon Christmas Eve is felt rather appropriate. Certainly a tradition I wish to revive when it's in my power to do so.
LOVE The Miniatures Music Box and Video was Lovely!!😊💖 Fondest Memory of Christmas is Decorating Tree w/Homemade Ornaments!😇💖🎅🤶🙏💖
Thank you!
my pleasure
In a 21st century sense this tradition hasn't really died out for me & my family. We've always watched a Christmas ghost story late at night on Christmas Day after the more easily scared relatives have gone to bed.
I'm a huge tradition guy that's what makes the Christmas season special, one of mine is going to church Christmas Eve, may sound boring and I don't go to church any other day of the year, it's just something to do with the air and the atmosphere inside this huge church, incredible Christmas lights big town tree . Seeing all the excited kids reminding me of how I felt at that age, even when I was that age I used to remember coming out of church quickly, and looking up into the sky to see if I could get a glimpse of Santa clause.
I found your channel earlier this year and I love it. We don't really have a Christmas Eve ghost story tradition here in Ireland as far as I'm aware of but we do love ghost/supernatural stories. My grandad used to be very fussy about tidying and sweeping the hearth after everyone went to bed as he said the 'spirits' would come and sit there when everyone else was asleep! I always found that a bit spooky and amusing at the same time. Wishing you a very happy Christmas/Yuletide from Ireland!
Such a beautifully blended video. I remember my nana and Aunty telling us ghost stories on Yule eve..We'd all sit 'round the coal fire listening,while our Yule tree sparkled. Those were magical times.Sadly as older generations faded,so did this intermittent tradition. Thank you for this well needed video. Yule blessings to you and yours 🎄
Ty for promoting our tradtions!
I was looking forward to this one, ghost stories are always a great evening past time in the days before and after Christmas. I highly recommend the M R James dramatisations freely available on UA-cam.
Also - brewing a Yule Beer has been a tradition since I started home brewing almost 20 years ago, start the brew in October and let it get nice and cold in the barrel in the winter weather.
Thanks Reiver 👍🏻 Cheers all 🍻
sounds great mate!
This was very interesting to me. I am American, in my 70s, with an English-born grandparent on both sides. The British custom of telling ghost stories at Christmas has always seemed strange and even inappropriate for such a pleasant, joyful holiday. One might as well have a traditional vampire-themed birthday party for 5-year-olds or a serial killer baby shower. My English grandparents, born in the 1880s, never mentioned this tradition. We did have the flaming plum pudding with a silver sixpence steamed into it. Our stockings were hung on Christmas Eve with threats of the naughtiest child finding a lump of coal, or worse yet, the goose or turkey foot the next morning. We always watched Alistair Sim do the perfect Scrooge on TV. I never thought of that as a ghost story, but a warning from wise spirits to a very bad man.
i used to have one of those glass candle windows ! :) love the "ghost stories for christmas" my fave is 'a view from a hill" and "the ash tree"
Excellent, thanks.
cheers man
This is fabulous. It's raining with sleet mixed in, and cold, cold. It's so nice and cozy. Thank you 😊💓 OH, I love that sweet little music box ❤🥰❄
This is absolutely outstanding! You have some serious talent for this! Thank you so much and have a great Christmas.
I have a bit of an unusual Christmas tradition. It's my responsibility to string up the lights on the Christmas tree now, so for the past several years, I put the lights on the tree at night when everyone is sleeping, all the while listening to a comedian Jimmy Carr special. I find I have less problems and get less angry while laughing 😆
Enchanting, happy Yule🌺
I agree! I'll happily do my part to revive this tradition, beginning this year.
As a child many years ago, our family had large, joyful Christmas gatherings with music, singing, storytelling and lots of wonderful food. Most popular was the ghost story night, great excitement and an event everyone looked forward to.
Thanks for a wonderful video. My son and myself will be having a fire at the end of my very long garden Christmas eve and I'll be holding court with ghost stories,
A beautiful, thoughtful video with an important call-to-action. I couldn't agree with you more. Can't wait to follow your adventures in 2023. All the best Reiver. Cheers, Kitty.
In my family my favorite tradition is the feast of appetizers (we call it "snackies") that we have on Christmas eve...a lot of the same treats every year like shrimp cocktail and stuffed mushrooms.
Thank you for this, and happy spooky Christmas!
Bella L
Thanks to you.
It's an interesting point you made with Charles Dickens and his most famous of tales in that he might be the one that did revive the tradition in a literary sense because its was he, and not his publisher, that insisted on his book being printed with colour picture leaves so as to enhance the tale.
...so I'm told! It might just be another tale!
Cheers.
:-)
My mom would read the Night Before Christmas to us every year. I personally love reading and listening to ghost stories around this time. Scary Stories to tell in the dark books are my go to books.
Merry Christmas and have a happy New year. Your videos are a welcome respite from the madness of clown world. Thanks for making them.
Hello Jolly Reiver - watching your video in December , 2023. Just in response to your Call to Arms : I´m an Oral Storyteller ( working in English ) living here in Madrid , Spain and have hosted Halloween Stories and , just now , Christmas Stories at The Secret Kingdoms Bookshop , Madrid. best to you from Simon Talbot.
this channel makes pure chad content keep it up
Aha thank you
fantastic video! as a ghost story lover i couldn't agree more that we need to revive the tradition of telling ghost stories around christmas. looking forward to watching your new videos. have a wonderful christmas and new year.
0:52 Reminds me of the Polly Pocket stuff.
Hope you and your family have a happy Christmas, Reiver. And a wonderful new year.
cheers mate, hope you did too!
I found the introduction to these stories very refreshing. I think old fashioned traditions are so important most of them are really intriguing. A bygone time which is so different to our fast digitised life I always look for Christmas ghost stories every year. I always will. That’s my tradition and I love it.thank you to everyone who gives me so much pleasure at this time of year and certainly throughout the year as well.
I'd love to know where you got your decor, it's so warm and comfortable looking.
Fantastic overview of a tradition that I would love to see make a resurgence. Also wonderful to see a mention of Jerome K Jerome, a son of Caldmore, Staffordshire of all places.
A Merry Yuletide/ Happy Christmas and a splendid new year to you; I can't wait to see all that's going to be coming from your revamped project in the coming year(s)!
Very comfy video, I'm quite jealous of your fireplace lol and its five clocks
You look very cozy there bro😉all the best from Liverpool dude👌🏻dig ya storys and your narrative creation,well in lar✌🏻
Loved this one!!
Merry Christmas!
Do you have any recommended collections of Christmas ghost stories?
I love your channel. Amazing work
Excellent work, as always. Merry Christmas to you and yours. I might record a ghost story myself one of these days...
cheers man, I hope you do!
Loved this merry video my friend 😊👍👍 I love a ghost story at Christmas🎄..…you are talented story teller indeed! 👏👏👏👏👏😊
Oddly enough, my family always came home from church on Christmas Eve, set out the Christmas cookies and played poker! I have no idea where the tradition started, but it lasted a good long time. Even as a child, I'd be playing with my father, sister, brother, great aunt and grandma while my mother sat in the living room with the Yule log on, or maybe a movie, watching out the back door for a sign -- any sign -- of Santa. I'd sip on my coke a cola, always in the glass bottle for the holiday, while my dad drank a touch of bourbon. It was great! Cheers from the Hudson Valley!
Awesome 👍!
I just discovered your channel. Love your videos my friend. M R James are my favourite ghost stories. If you go on UA-cam you can find the adaptations of his stories in the 1970s ghost stories for Christmas series. A warning to the curious, Lost Hearts and Whistle and I'll come to you, are all absolutely brilliant.
The Tractate Middoth, Count Magnus and Number 13 are my favorites. Number 13 is set in England instead of Denmark but it's still well done. There is a version of Canon Alberic's Scrapbook set in modern time but still excellent.
Enjoyed this, great work
Merry Christmas, Jolly Reiver! Thanks for the video
Alright, well done!
Another excellent video, thanks!
I always thought the hobo on the polar express was Father Christmas, as was the conductor? Just taking different forms
One of our Christmas traditions is to watch Chas ‘N’ Dave’s Christmas knees up while we decorate the tree! 😅
Thank you.
Happy Christmas.Enthralling as ever. Gustav -nice touch.
AWESOME 😎👍!
Thanks for shedding a light on this topic ☃️ I'm obsessed with Halloween and spooky stuffs year round, so this is really interesting.. The world we live in clings to happiness with a death grip.. I never saw a ghost, but I always wanted to 🖤🪰⚰️🧸🦃
Happy Christmas pal 👍
I love films like this
Thanks for this.
Great video love a good ghost story at Christmas time. Best wishes for the new year 👻 ✨🕯🎉
Fantastic video Reiver. That tea looked a bit peaky mind.
This is something I've noticed too. We used to spend so much time talking at family gatherings before there were as many screens in the room as people. And it wasn't long before talk turned to the supernatural. I second your proposal that we try to reinstate this tradition. I love an M.R. James story at Christmas. Do you have any favourites?
Anyway merry Christmas to you and yours friend.
Cheers mate, glad you enjoyed. I must say that Dickens remains my favourite, looking forward to discovering new ones as the years go by though! Hope you had a good christmas
I'm going to start this tradition with my kids. Thank you for the video.
Ghost stories at Christmas ⛄ is good to watch
I've always wondered about the ghost stories on Christmas Eve. Thank you for explaining it. Hope you had a Merry Christmas and blessings to you in the new year
I have always enjoyed the tradition of ghost stories at Christmas. My recent favourite author is Susan Hill but I have also enjoyed Dickens especially “the signal man”.
Our traditions are mostly common but two of them we think of as our own. When my parents were first married they were poor so our decorations and gifts were from dollar stores for years. During that time they would splurge on two things (aside from a tasty soup for dinner and big breakfast): a trip to the movie theater Christmas evening and eating pizza at Pietro’s the Tuesday after thanksgiving. Even though the size of our family has doubled and my parents have become a little better off we still do these things every year :) Merry Christmas 🎄
Like many Canadians, my family listens to The Shepherd by Frederick Forsythe, narrated by Alan Maitland on CBC. It's a long standing tradition and a ghost story!
Wonderful video and narration. Im glad you made a whole episode on Christmas ghost stories. While growing up I always wondered why the Christmas song, “It’s The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year”, mentioned telling scary ghost stories. Has anyone heard of an old belief that on Christmas Eve no ghost would be allowed to haunt anyone so one could tell a good scary ghost story and be able to sleep securely that night knowing they would not be haunted?
Again, enjoyed this video very much!
Thank you for this brilliant video. Happy Christmas! 🎄
Thanks for the info. I mistakenly thought it was an Irish tradition first because different authors said their Irish nannies told them ghost stories on Christmas Eve.
The ancient Japan there was a summertime tradition of lightning 100 candles and telling 100 tales of the supernatural, with each story told a candle is blown out, they say when every candle has gone out a supernatural event will occur👹👺🕯
Wonderfully done ..thank you
Lovely video Jolly Reiver and absolutely love your beautiful fireplace. Best wishes and Merry Christmas to you and your family, and thank you for exploring this wonderful tradition.
I read A Christmas Carol every year. My family knows it well.
Absolutely lovely video.