This was a terror classic (for me)! Read it in high school back in the late 80's & haven't heard or read it since! Filled me with a dreadful nostalgia- what an absolute gem! ThanksTony, this is why I've subscribed & supported CGS the last few years...!!
Oh this one is lovely. I took a class in Byzantine iconography 21 yrs ago & the idea of evil icons, possessed bishops, and unholy relics...theologically macabre!
That sounds fascinating! As somebody who was almost a victim of catholic brainwashing and now thank God the idea that priests tell mothers that if the baby is not baptised it will not get into heaven, I think it’s sick! I moved to Ireland from New York when I was eight and thank God I came to London when I was 16 so I am into spirituality not religion! But you made me laugh when I thought about the idea of a possessed bishop!
Been waiting for you to upload this one to UA-cam so I could comment; this story was fantastic! Almost perfectly executed, I'd say. So many evocative details and questions left unanswered! The suggestion that the town has a bad reputation, the fact that the church seemingly goes unused, the fact that the depictions aren't satanically evil but rather warped and twisted, etc. A lesser writer would have made things cartoonishly overt.
Very well said. It’s these puzzling and intangible things which make a story both more realistic and truly scary. The detail that there’s a church that never gets used is a lot creepier to me than swarms of frog people croaking away inside it at the stroke of midnight.
I loved this one! Thanks to whomever suggested this one. Set in my lifetime, but gothically scary; great combination. (I remember wind on cameras and flash cubes). Reminds me of Spielberg's set up of Poltergeist; "Nothing to see here folks, just and ordinary place, with ordinary stuff going on..." ), or so you think! The descriptions of the warped biblical imagery were fascinating to me, and created the perfect creepy atmosphere. Thanks Tony.
You're brilliant mate! I reckon we're a similar age so alot of what you speak of, resonates with me. Although a midlander by birth, I lived near Oxford for 25 uears bit moved up to Durham about 4 years ago. When you mentioned your travels and travails, I get it. Thanks ever so much for keeping me company on my sleepless nights and early mornings. Cheers! 👍🍻
Byzantine iconography- yessssss! Thanks Tony and J.O. Always a terrific story, spooky or "oozing" - the Lovecraftian ones, not ghost stories, more horrific - and always so impressive, Tony, your wonderful range of voices, those characterizations, accents, you artfully play with to enhance the tale. Thanks for a great start to the weekend- I hope your camping trip in Wales was dry and fun- Namaste from Ruby Tuesday
Thank you! I lived in Sicily for a while and the descriptions of the August heat, streets in small towns, etc. are accurate. The author's descriptions of the catacombs' occupants very similar to those of the Palermo catacombs, down to the young girl who appeared to be sleeping. Your narration made me imagine how I would have reacted if the lights had gone out!😳😱 Thank you again!
In the post story rambles- "dads love helping their daughters". I love it! ❤️❤️ Great story too! Very nicely narrated. A sense of urgency in your tone, but not so much as to keep me from relaxing. Perfectly read!
Ditto this time around! caught details I didn't catch before.Love your entertaining and informative "ramblings" and . of course your masterful narration. Thank you, Tony! Lots of pumken smiles and ghoul thumbs up to you!
Really enjoyed this. Wonder if the tour guide and driver knew about the town's reputation. Their remark about it would be fine if the tourists stuck together implies that they did. Mrs Tavistock has a lot to answer for.
Tony enjoyed this, am sitting in the shade in Wales on this very hot day. Am doing to listen to another one now, thanks for doing these podcasts much appreciated ...Toni
A rare gem, I enjoy your channel for the range of content, excellent narration and your comments and thoughts at the end. I think you can use the word delicious when describing a landscape, your senses are being nourished by the numerous inputs. If you feel refreshed and uplifted by a meal then the same sensations from a landscape must be allowed the same courtesy. Have you experienced anything supernatural?
Great Gory! At first I thought it was one I already knew based on Catacombs under a Parisienne city. There is another tale too about newly discovered catacombs in which murder was either committed or attempted. Glad this is a different one.
omg I miss letters from America also Rabbi Lionel Blue. there was a nun too who talked a lot of sense on radio 4 . I miss the world service . why can't I get that now thank you 🥰
I’ve been waiting all day to get a chance to listen to this! It was so worth the wait! Loved it loved it loved it! This was the very first channel of this type that I found and I am so very glad that I did! Grateful and impressed, as usual!☮️🤍☯️
I absolutely loved this story---first time for me, and I ALWAYS enjoy your rambles and thoughts after. Thank you for keeping me company while I washed and cut up all the veggies for the pot of chicken soup I'm making. I've been in low spirits, but this helped to cheer me up and I appreciate it. I hope your camping trip was fun. Oh, and I actually used those spinning flash cubes with my Instamatic camera back in the late 70s, lol!! I remember them well. They gave off an interesting burned plastic smell too, after the flash. 🤣
Tony, as you know always a pleasure to listen to something new and as ever so many thoughts provoked. Let’s start then, been in USA with family for a holiday and it was “curates egg” - good in parts. Well this was a gem, an exceedingly good writer and story. Well crafted, paced, the blasphemy and whole part around preserved flesh (the Italians experimented a lot in trying to preserve body and avoid corruption of corpse). If you have seen those amazing statues of man and woman in that weird church where they apparently don’t know how they were made ( with wax veins and organs). Plus the sleeping innocents using paint and embalming also in Italy - so plenty of real life examples. I truly enjoyed this story, unknown to me and very much in spirit of monty. On to other matters then….
@@ClassicGhost oh and I have boys and they still like to get help from their dad, moving stuff. Sure they have the skills, screwdrivers, etc but they like comfort of knowing they do it right and I am someone who does a lot of practical work with my hands as craft.
The only part I have a problem with is when the protagonist is "compelled" to investigate further considering he is aware it's time to return to his group. Somehow it makes me think of the predictable scenes from B movies where the characters do something foolish that dooms them. I would have preferred that the protagonist accidentally runs into the chamber with the bishop. Otherwise, the story is pretty good, I loved the setting and I'm happy with any of M.R. James' type of endings.
Fine writing and reading on the topic of the rational mind, holding to its futile little hopes in the face of what horror story readers know to be the lineaments of pure evil.
Wow, what a great story!! I’ll admit halfway thru I was hoping this was written in the 30’s or 40’s and predated films like The Omen. These authors deserve to be remembered. Also, the theme of a cynical nonbeliever becoming a believer is always a great horror story arc…
Absolutely well worth it! After reading Lovecraft’s ‘History Of Supernatural Horror In Literature’ I was shocked how well these old stories hold up, and that there’s such a wealth of them…! You’re doing the lord’s work! :)
Oh my! Mr. Walker, this tale truly drew me in and it was horrifying..in a delicious way. Yes I know that sounds so wrong. I could picture each terrible aspect. Part of me thinks this would make a terrific movie, but part of me isn't sure a movie could do it justice..there's something about one's imagination that just can't be topped. Your chatting at the end is something I hope you never stop adding. From your 'clues', I'm thinking we're close to the same age, and we share many of the same musings. Ok I'll stop my rambling and end with Bravo Mr. Shilston! Bravo Mr. Walker!
I quite liked the vibe in this one. Spooky small town secrets are always juicy. Speaking of culturally Christian things, I was raised in Christianity as a kid. I went to Sunday school every week from a very young age until I was 13. I went through Catechism but was never confirmed, as I didn't hide that I was an atheist by that point. I think most religious horror is based on Catholicism though, and I was raised in a Lutheran church. I often don't relate to things about the saints or hierarchy of the church because we just don't have those things. I don't think I'm as affected as Catholics by the religious horror stuff. We didn't even have as much imagery as I think most Catholic churches have. Sometimes maybe a framed picture of white Jesus, but definitely not the major scenes on the walls and such. It was all very abstract and I approached it always in an intellectual way. Memorize this prayer and that story and these rules, etc. Also I really like your ramblings. It's like catching up with a friend. I am very interested in the KGB story, I must say.
I don’t really like horror fiction but this I don’t actually regard as horror fiction …..it was more like a comedy.I could just see the corpses flying as he rushed to get out of there and I started to laugh …you did a great job by the way, as always!
Godless young one reporting for duty. Not gonna lie, Jesus pulling the devil horns made me giggle, not recoil. Also I associate devil horns mostly with rock n roll, so that added to the giggles. Yes I'm a heathen. Not to be argumentative but I'd say our generation aren't really devoid of spirituality so much as organized religion. Although materialism/capitalism has taken over our culture for sure, but from what I can tell, that affects religious folks as much as us athiests. I appreciate your ramblings so much because your trains of thought are always so relatable to my own ADHD brain. And you always have something interesting to add. Aaaand you always make me laugh. I've listened to a lot of horror/story podcasts but for me, none of them live up to yours. I hope you keep it up for a long time yet :3
@@LucicPower I've popped a bit of Yorkshire dialect to add to the conversation below, Yorkshire not being far away from Cumbria, 'feart' is a word I have picked up as I now live just over the border in to Scotland. Best wishes to you wherever you are x
I particularly enjoyed your commentary ... especially about the animals as you may or may not remember I have a lot of cats...I'm stressing trying to keep them all cool in this excessive heat upper 90s & up to 105 ...it is awful ... no rain in sight
+Miji Yoon we had a sunny day yesterday and I was trying to befriend next door but ones cats. We used to do temp in F when I was young but got used to C now. It’s 62 F here today. Might get a bit higher
One guy that is really gifted and not English, is Edward E French, he's just fantastic at what he does. His version of " They Bite" hard to beat, no offence, I would really like him to get more recognition.
Flash cubes. Someday (maybe today) people will read the story and say, "Whatever is a flash cube?" the way I had to look up "spill" as in lighting a pipe from a spill.
I use a browser that zaps ads, but I make up for it by being one of your patrons. Bummer about Bite Sized Audio. I listen to his channel too. I'll have to see if I can support him some way. You know there are channels that just upload full audio books they steal from others. UA-cam will find them and zap them, but they just pop up again under a different name, and I don't even have to look for them. UA-cam recommends them to me. I listened to an audio book a month or two ago, and the novel was good so I looked it up and found it had been first published in February 2022. Half way through it was zapped, so I searched the title and found three or four other channels with the same recording. So a brand new audio book - with several different people reading different chapters btw - available on multiple channels. But they demonetize Simon. :( When my political UA-camrs have problems, they get their listeners to contact UA-cam.
Yes Simon has his monetization back I understand. I'm pleased because as you say there are people merely pirating Audible books and earning money off these until they get caught then they create another channel and do it again.
Are you come across Tony, such a lovely warm compassionate man. Love your post story rumblings. Only discovered your channel recently. Never heard of the story before it is fantastic. There is another great story called the catacombs by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle don’ know if you’ve ever heard of it.
The ending was such a let down! Sorry to whoever recommended it. I was really hoping for a more exciting ending. Sorry for anybody who hasn't read this yet. Great narrating, Tony. Hope you had a nice camping trip in Cornwall with your wife and perhaps daughter.
@@ClassicGhost I just looked up Shropshire on the map - I don't know all of England by heart although I see it's very close to Wales. I love google maps! That's a beautiful area. I thought Beatrix Potter's land was up there but it's in Cumbria way up there! It was probably much nicer having some time alone with your wife. Always great to get away from work and unwind. Thanks for your wonderful readings! It's much hotter here on the East coast near where the Declaration of Independence was signed. We just got some much needed rain! Our grass was very dry and crunchy! Next week we're back up into the 90s with humidity! Yuck! I can't imagine what Florida must be like or the deep south. If you ever come to the states (idk if you've already been) it's much better to come in the spring or autumn. Summers are much warmer here. Be well!
Christian doctrine is sound and an excellent moral compass. Jesus Christ is Lord It’s true What a horror it will be for those who have perverted the gospel, rejected Jesus and lied about the gift of eternal life - it will be when they finally die and meet the true living God By faith / not works we are saved: It’s how that was earned by God thru our faith in him. Gods works / our faith God became a man - so man can live with God with equal rights thru that covenant relationship. Your Christian faith is more important and has more value than you realize . Many called - few will hear The more I research Mesopotamia and -20,000 years ago- only God could have saved the human species. Obviously there was divine intervention And Again To life after death It’s an amazing work by God and all we need to do is love god and our neighbor and the LAW is for filled Why does everyone either corrupt or reject this simple idea and gift ? Because, it means they can’t be mean - that’s why God is a real help in tribulations No doubt Could anything good happen without his righteousness and protection- even in his protection the enemy carpet bombs / builds gulags and undermines the liberty in LAW - thru Marxist agenda I’d take a serious consideration to who the Hebrew Israelites and Canaanites really where and who is really who now. By their works you will know them By faith we are saved You know The White Russians / Ukrainian/ Germans where killed in numbers about est 120 million Christians in the 20th century Why? Why the Eisenhower killing fields of Rhine River valley? Why Ukrainian holodomore? Why did the Bolshevik Marxist disgrace the church alters with rape / mutations/ murder/ theft/ brutality of all sorts and starvation/ fire and death? Why? Because The true covenant people are the true heirs and the enemy HATES THEM , hates God and Hates Jesus Christ- hates righteousness and because God hated Esua- these are the works of Esua and Canaanite bloodline - they run the world and say they are something that they are not. Take your Christian faith seriously. Ps Thanks for the narration of an excellent story
Banal materialism…. 😹😹. Kids these days have all gone mad! Happy camping 🏕. Look out for those willows! And redacted politicians! He’s probably in a bad way. Stewing somewhere! Doctor Robert’s pad. Thank u. Good one! Oh, I have apple. I’ll check it out.
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This was a terror classic (for me)! Read it in high school back in the late 80's & haven't heard or read it since! Filled me with a dreadful nostalgia- what an absolute gem! ThanksTony, this is why I've subscribed & supported CGS the last few years...!!
You've been a great supporter Terry.
Fabulous! But I feel that it’s unfair to leave us with “that time I was interrogated by the KGB…”. Hidden depths, Tony, hidden depths!
Ha ha. Yes. I've decided to spill the beans about that one in the next ramble
KGB 💩
Oh this one is lovely. I took a class in Byzantine iconography 21 yrs ago & the idea of evil icons, possessed bishops, and unholy relics...theologically macabre!
That sounds fascinating! As somebody who was almost a victim of catholic brainwashing and now thank God the idea that priests tell mothers that if the baby is not baptised it will not get into heaven, I think it’s sick! I moved to Ireland from New York when I was eight and thank God I came to London when I was 16 so I am into spirituality not religion! But you made me laugh when I thought about the idea of a possessed bishop!
Very well done, thank you.
Been waiting for you to upload this one to UA-cam so I could comment; this story was fantastic! Almost perfectly executed, I'd say.
So many evocative details and questions left unanswered! The suggestion that the town has a bad reputation, the fact that the church seemingly goes unused, the fact that the depictions aren't satanically evil but rather warped and twisted, etc. A lesser writer would have made things cartoonishly overt.
Very well said. It’s these puzzling and intangible things which make a story both more realistic and truly scary. The detail that there’s a church that never gets used is a lot creepier to me than swarms of frog people croaking away inside it at the stroke of midnight.
The Catacomb... that genuinely scared me. Outstanding. Many thanks for bringing this one back into the light. Cheers, Phil and Rach
Can't wait. Thank you.
I loved this one!
Thanks to whomever suggested this one.
Set in my lifetime, but gothically scary; great combination.
(I remember wind on cameras and flash cubes).
Reminds me of Spielberg's set up of Poltergeist; "Nothing to see here folks, just and ordinary place, with ordinary stuff going on..." ), or so you think!
The descriptions of the warped biblical imagery were fascinating to me, and created the perfect creepy atmosphere.
Thanks Tony.
What a tense atmosphere. Cracking story, thanks. X
Good evening, Tony!
Greetings from Scotland
Thank you Tony hope all is well this was excellent
You're brilliant mate! I reckon we're a similar age so alot of what you speak of, resonates with me. Although a midlander by birth, I lived near Oxford for 25 uears bit moved up to Durham about 4 years ago. When you mentioned your travels and travails, I get it. Thanks ever so much for keeping me company on my sleepless nights and early mornings. Cheers! 👍🍻
Nice to have you here :)
Byzantine iconography- yessssss! Thanks Tony and J.O. Always a terrific story, spooky or "oozing" - the Lovecraftian ones, not ghost stories, more horrific - and always so impressive, Tony, your wonderful range of voices, those characterizations, accents, you artfully play with to enhance the tale. Thanks for a great start to the weekend- I hope your camping trip in Wales was dry and fun- Namaste from Ruby Tuesday
Thank you! I lived in Sicily for a while and the descriptions of the August heat, streets in small towns, etc. are accurate. The author's descriptions of the catacombs' occupants very similar to those of the Palermo catacombs, down to the young girl who appeared to be sleeping. Your narration made me imagine how I would have reacted if the lights had gone out!😳😱
Thank you again!
The August heat is upon us here now most unusually. August is usually a very rainy month
Thank you 💕
👍Great story!
In the post story rambles- "dads love helping their daughters". I love it! ❤️❤️
Great story too! Very nicely narrated. A sense of urgency in your tone, but not so much as to keep me from relaxing. Perfectly read!
Have a listen to the ghost ship. No urgency there :)
Love this story
Ditto this time around! caught details I didn't catch before.Love your entertaining and informative "ramblings" and . of course your masterful narration. Thank you, Tony! Lots of pumken smiles and ghoul thumbs up to you!
Yes great story
Really enjoyed this. Wonder if the tour guide and driver knew about the town's reputation. Their remark about it would be fine if the tourists stuck together implies that they did. Mrs Tavistock has a lot to answer for.
They knew all right. They knew :)
Tony enjoyed this, am sitting in the shade in Wales on this very hot day. Am doing to listen to another one now, thanks for doing these podcasts much appreciated ...Toni
Thanks for listening. Hot here too :)
A rare gem, I enjoy your channel for the range of content, excellent narration and your comments and thoughts at the end. I think you can use the word delicious when describing a landscape, your senses are being nourished by the numerous inputs. If you feel refreshed and uplifted by a meal then the same sensations from a landscape must be allowed the same courtesy. Have you experienced anything supernatural?
I like the idea of a poetry channel, and your love of camping too !
Oooh very spooky! I thought it was going to turn into something Lovecraft but I love ending all the same.
Great Gory! At first I thought it was one I already knew based on Catacombs under a Parisienne city. There is another tale too about newly discovered catacombs in which murder was either committed or attempted. Glad this is a different one.
Your channel and Horror Babble are my two fav you tube channels. Also enjoy your post story rambling. Pax from Texas!
Good 'un! Well done!
omg I miss letters from America also Rabbi Lionel Blue. there was a nun too who talked a lot of sense on radio 4 .
I miss the world service . why can't I get that now
thank you 🥰
I’ve been waiting all day to get a chance to listen to this! It was so worth the wait! Loved it loved it loved it! This was the very first channel of this type that I found and I am so very glad that I did! Grateful and impressed, as usual!☮️🤍☯️
I loved it when you gave a shout out to my boys Ian and Jasper
As I say in another post, we are like different flavours of coffee. All good, just different. No competition between us.
...hope your daughter is settling in well and that the camping trip goes (or went) well.
Look forward to hearing another tale when posted. Thank you
Catrin is. The camping not so good.
@@ClassicGhost oh dear, sorry to hear that. I run a Scout troop and a Cub pack, so do a fair bit of camping - off at the end of this month 😊
Great story, especially by what seems to have been an amateur. Has all the elements. Excellent narration, too.
I absolutely loved this story---first time for me, and I ALWAYS enjoy your rambles and thoughts after. Thank you for keeping me company while I washed and cut up all the veggies for the pot of chicken soup I'm making. I've been in low spirits, but this helped to cheer me up and I appreciate it. I hope your camping trip was fun. Oh, and I actually used those spinning flash cubes with my Instamatic camera back in the late 70s, lol!! I remember them well. They gave off an interesting burned plastic smell too, after the flash. 🤣
Yes, that melted smell and then the fused, melted plastic felt so good too. They were amazing
Tony, as you know always a pleasure to listen to something new and as ever so many thoughts provoked.
Let’s start then, been in USA with family for a holiday and it was “curates egg” - good in parts.
Well this was a gem, an exceedingly good writer and story. Well crafted, paced, the blasphemy and whole part around preserved flesh (the Italians experimented a lot in trying to preserve body and avoid corruption of corpse). If you have seen those amazing statues of man and woman in that weird church where they apparently don’t know how they were made ( with wax veins and organs). Plus the sleeping innocents using paint and embalming also in Italy - so plenty of real life examples.
I truly enjoyed this story, unknown to me and very much in spirit of monty.
On to other matters then….
I will do some of the Midnight Folk before Halloween!
@@ClassicGhost thanks tony ! Looking forward to it, whole family are fans. Our cat is called nibbins (or Mr Nibbs)
@@ClassicGhost oh and I have boys and they still like to get help from their dad, moving stuff. Sure they have the skills, screwdrivers, etc but they like comfort of knowing they do it right and I am someone who does a lot of practical work with my hands as craft.
Brill yarn, cheers for your efforts
This was a good one!
The only part I have a problem with is when the protagonist is "compelled" to investigate further considering he is aware it's time to return to his group. Somehow it makes me think of the predictable scenes from B movies where the characters do something foolish that dooms them. I would have preferred that the protagonist accidentally runs into the chamber with the bishop. Otherwise, the story is pretty good, I loved the setting and I'm happy with any of M.R. James' type of endings.
Fine writing and reading on the topic of the rational mind, holding to its futile little hopes in the face of what horror story readers know to be the lineaments of pure evil.
Wow, what a great story!! I’ll admit halfway thru I was hoping this was written in the 30’s or 40’s and predated films like The Omen. These authors deserve to be remembered. Also, the theme of a cynical nonbeliever becoming a believer is always a great horror story arc…
It was a hard to get hold of story but well worth it. Glad you liked it
Absolutely well worth it! After reading Lovecraft’s ‘History Of Supernatural Horror In Literature’ I was shocked how well these old stories hold up, and that there’s such a wealth of them…! You’re doing the lord’s work! :)
Oh my! Mr. Walker, this tale truly drew me in and it was horrifying..in a delicious way. Yes I know that sounds so wrong. I could picture each terrible aspect. Part of me thinks this would make a terrific movie, but part of me isn't sure a movie could do it justice..there's something about one's imagination that just can't be topped. Your chatting at the end is something I hope you never stop adding. From your 'clues', I'm thinking we're close to the same age, and we share many of the same musings. Ok I'll stop my rambling and end with Bravo Mr. Shilston! Bravo Mr. Walker!
I've recorded another tomb one by Clark Ashton Smith as this one went down so well!
@@ClassicGhost
Thrilling news, sir!
Yes we like your ramblings, and thanks for the Glen Campbell references. The Wichita Lineman is a very musically unique song from that era.
+Jonathan O'Toole I was staying on a hotel and ended up watching a fascinating documentary about Glen Campbell
I listened to every word.
My letter from Blighty!
Ah yes. The other way round.
@@ClassicGhost I'm confused Tony, perhaps Blighty doesn't mean Britain?
Fortunately I can usually follow the stories, but I do speak American.
This was really good! Very creepy! Loved it! I'm really enjoying your book too, Tony, Cumbrian Ghost Stories. I do hope you write more folk horror.
+Dani Bissonnette I’m glad you are reading my book! I did a second one. Kind of stuck with the next one
Wonderful as ever! I’ll let those ads run ( through gritted teeth) 😀
Very enjoyable
I quite liked the vibe in this one. Spooky small town secrets are always juicy. Speaking of culturally Christian things, I was raised in Christianity as a kid. I went to Sunday school every week from a very young age until I was 13. I went through Catechism but was never confirmed, as I didn't hide that I was an atheist by that point. I think most religious horror is based on Catholicism though, and I was raised in a Lutheran church. I often don't relate to things about the saints or hierarchy of the church because we just don't have those things. I don't think I'm as affected as Catholics by the religious horror stuff. We didn't even have as much imagery as I think most Catholic churches have. Sometimes maybe a framed picture of white Jesus, but definitely not the major scenes on the walls and such. It was all very abstract and I approached it always in an intellectual way. Memorize this prayer and that story and these rules, etc.
Also I really like your ramblings. It's like catching up with a friend. I am very interested in the KGB story, I must say.
I do give more detail about the kgb later
I loved your Boris joke, you gotta look up Alistair Cookie.
Just come back from Southern lakes Tony.
Went to a cemetery in Ulverston. Lot’s of Fell’s.
Thought of you!
Ah yes. If you read the history of the Quakers. I’ve been to that cemetery. I really one Ulverston
I don’t really like horror fiction but this I don’t actually regard as horror fiction …..it was more like a comedy.I could just see the corpses flying as he rushed to get out of there and I started to laugh …you did a great job by the way, as always!
Wow, that is a creepy story!
Godless young one reporting for duty. Not gonna lie, Jesus pulling the devil horns made me giggle, not recoil. Also I associate devil horns mostly with rock n roll, so that added to the giggles. Yes I'm a heathen.
Not to be argumentative but I'd say our generation aren't really devoid of spirituality so much as organized religion. Although materialism/capitalism has taken over our culture for sure, but from what I can tell, that affects religious folks as much as us athiests.
I appreciate your ramblings so much because your trains of thought are always so relatable to my own ADHD brain. And you always have something interesting to add. Aaaand you always make me laugh. I've listened to a lot of horror/story podcasts but for me, none of them live up to yours. I hope you keep it up for a long time yet :3
Fair point on every level. Thanks for your comments and im still planning on keeping going for a bit (God willing) . ;)
I'll have to come back to you tomorrow, I'm feart 😱
How do you pronounce feart?
fee urt. Though we say flaayt.
@@ClassicGhost In my bit of Yorkshire, it was 'flayed t' dearth' for 'frightened to death' x
@@LucicPower I've popped a bit of Yorkshire dialect to add to the conversation below, Yorkshire not being far away from Cumbria, 'feart' is a word I have picked up as I now live just over the border in to Scotland.
Best wishes to you wherever you are x
Peter was also a great goalkeeper
Ha ha. I had real trouble keeping them apart
I particularly enjoyed your commentary ... especially about the animals as you may or may not remember I have a lot of cats...I'm stressing trying to keep them all cool in this excessive heat upper 90s & up to 105 ...it is awful ... no rain in sight
+Miji Yoon we had a sunny day yesterday and
I was trying to befriend next door but ones cats. We used to do temp in F when I was young but got used to C now. It’s 62 F here today. Might get a bit higher
@@ClassicGhost If that's the high what is the low at night?
If they saw a flash...maybe he got a photo....I do remember the flash cubes lol
One guy that is really gifted and not English, is Edward E French, he's just fantastic at what he does. His version of " They Bite" hard to beat, no offence, I would really like him to get more recognition.
No, I am subscribed to his channel. I like his voice and his videos have good production. His channel is a little bigger than mine.
Flash cubes. Someday (maybe today) people will read the story and say, "Whatever is a flash cube?" the way I had to look up "spill" as in lighting a pipe from a spill.
Lovely reading Tony as always, but what's this about the KGB? Details man, details!!
+@TheNerdygirl91 ssshh!!
...I shall let the ads run a bit longer. I also like Chesterton Radio on a similar vain and bitesized - what a voice that man has too.
Simon Stanhope
@@LucicPower yes, that's the one - perfect voice for Edwardian and Victorian mysterious tales of the unknown.
Would love to hear "A Cask of Amontillado", by Poe.
Wow. I was trying to eat my lunch but the jellied eyeballs put me off my bologna sandwich.🤢
Sorry about that.
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Okay, which story came after this where you discuss being interrogated by the KGB? That's a ramble I'd love to hear!
Right from the get-go I love the grumpy and cynical point of view of the narrator.
He found Papa Emeritus! 🤪
I use a browser that zaps ads, but I make up for it by being one of your patrons.
Bummer about Bite Sized Audio. I listen to his channel too. I'll have to see if I can support him some way.
You know there are channels that just upload full audio books they steal from others. UA-cam will find them and zap them, but they just pop up again under a different name, and I don't even have to look for them. UA-cam recommends them to me.
I listened to an audio book a month or two ago, and the novel was good so I looked it up and found it had been first published in February 2022. Half way through it was zapped, so I searched the title and found three or four other channels with the same recording. So a brand new audio book - with several different people reading different chapters btw - available on multiple channels.
But they demonetize Simon. :(
When my political UA-camrs have problems, they get their listeners to contact UA-cam.
Simon is now on band camp and has won his appeal with You Tube thank god.
Yes Simon has his monetization back I understand. I'm pleased because as you say there are people merely pirating Audible books and earning money off these until they get caught then they create another channel and do it again.
Horror babble isn't quite up to your caliber. I love Encrypted though, he's a gifted fella.
Are you come across Tony, such a lovely warm compassionate man. Love your post story rumblings. Only discovered your channel recently.
Never heard of the story before it is fantastic. There is another great story called the catacombs by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle don’ know if you’ve ever heard of it.
I don't know that one. I did one Arthur Conan Doyle story. I'd like to do more
The ending was such a let down! Sorry to whoever recommended it. I was really hoping for a more exciting ending. Sorry for anybody who hasn't read this yet. Great narrating, Tony. Hope you had a nice camping trip in Cornwall with your wife and perhaps daughter.
The girls didn't come which was just as well and we only got as far as Shropshire.
@@ClassicGhost I just looked up Shropshire on the map - I don't know all of England by heart although I see it's very close to Wales. I love google maps! That's a beautiful area. I thought Beatrix Potter's land was up there but it's in Cumbria way up there! It was probably much nicer having some time alone with your wife. Always great to get away from work and unwind. Thanks for your wonderful readings! It's much hotter here on the East coast near where the Declaration of Independence was signed. We just got some much needed rain! Our grass was very dry and crunchy! Next week we're back up into the 90s with humidity! Yuck! I can't imagine what Florida must be like or the deep south. If you ever come to the states (idk if you've already been) it's much better to come in the spring or autumn. Summers are much warmer here. Be well!
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Going camping huh? Right after talking about how the protagonist sequesters himself…
As it turned out, fate sequestered us from our camping trip
Christian doctrine is sound and an excellent moral compass. Jesus Christ is Lord
It’s true
What a horror it will be for those who have perverted the gospel, rejected Jesus and lied about the gift of eternal life - it will be when they finally die and meet the true living God
By faith / not works we are saved:
It’s how that was earned by God thru our faith in him.
Gods works / our faith
God became a man - so man can live with God with equal rights thru that covenant relationship.
Your Christian faith is more important and has more value than you realize .
Many called - few will hear
The more I research Mesopotamia and -20,000 years ago- only God could have saved the human species.
Obviously there was divine intervention
And
Again
To life after death
It’s an amazing work by God and all we need to do is love god and our neighbor and the LAW is for filled
Why does everyone either corrupt or reject this simple idea and gift ?
Because, it means they can’t be mean - that’s why
God is a real help in tribulations
No doubt
Could anything good happen without his righteousness and protection- even in his protection the enemy carpet bombs / builds gulags and undermines the liberty in LAW - thru Marxist agenda
I’d take a serious consideration to who the Hebrew Israelites and Canaanites really where and who is really who now.
By their works you will know them
By faith we are saved
You know
The White Russians / Ukrainian/ Germans where killed in numbers about est 120 million Christians in the 20th century
Why?
Why the Eisenhower killing fields of Rhine River valley?
Why Ukrainian holodomore?
Why did the Bolshevik Marxist disgrace the church alters with rape / mutations/ murder/ theft/ brutality of all sorts and starvation/ fire and death?
Why? Because The true covenant people are the true heirs and the enemy HATES THEM , hates God and Hates Jesus Christ- hates righteousness and because
God hated Esua- these are the works of Esua and Canaanite bloodline - they run the world and say they are something that they are not.
Take your Christian faith seriously.
Ps
Thanks for the narration of an excellent story
Banal materialism…. 😹😹. Kids these days have all gone mad! Happy camping 🏕. Look out for those willows! And redacted politicians! He’s probably in a bad way. Stewing somewhere! Doctor Robert’s pad. Thank u. Good one! Oh, I have apple. I’ll check it out.
BRRRRRR! That was an excellent yarn