"The Real and the Counterfeit" by Louisa Baldwin | Read by Jasper L'Estrange

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  • Опубліковано 15 січ 2025

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  • @EnCryptedHorror
    @EnCryptedHorror  2 роки тому +31

    Hello! Here's a reading of a classic Christmas ghost story by Louisa Baldwin from waaaay back in 1895. I hope you enjoy it.

    • @tonyeden8381
      @tonyeden8381 2 роки тому +2

      Excellently presented Sir 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

    • @waningmooncancer9628
      @waningmooncancer9628 2 роки тому +2

      Bless you Jasper L'Estrange. Happy Thanksgiving to you and your family. Big, big hugs to you all. 🕊️🕊️🕊️✝️
      Did. He. Have. To. Die? Couldn't his hair have gone stark white from the frightening experience? And there I was laughing at him thinking he was looking into a mirror; knowing full well it was the ghost he didn't believe existed.
      Love your musical additions, and sound effects, as well as your expertly portrayed characters. Very well done Monsieur L'Estrange 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏.

    • @EnCryptedHorror
      @EnCryptedHorror  2 роки тому +2

      @Waning Moon Cancer Thank you - and Happy Thanksgiving to you too! The fact that he died was one of the things I appreciated about the story. It was a really bleak and chilly full-stop to an otherwise rather jolly story, and it caught me by surprise when I first read it.
      Glad you enjoyed.

    • @waningmooncancer9628
      @waningmooncancer9628 2 роки тому +1

      @@EnCryptedHorror Yes, I did, and always do enjoy your work. All of the happiness and fun seemed to me a foreshadowing of a sorrowful ending. The young lady's trepidation of something going wrong was another good clue. Even so, I was hoping to be wrong.
      Thank you for this gift, you're awesome Jasper.🕊️🕊️🕊️✝️

    • @EnCryptedHorror
      @EnCryptedHorror  2 роки тому +1

      @@tonyeden8381 Thank you 😊

  • @gosianutjob9578
    @gosianutjob9578 Рік тому +5

    What a fabulous tale! Mister L'Estrange, your voice is like warm honey.

  • @terryolsson4145
    @terryolsson4145 2 роки тому +12

    Good one Mr L'Estrange, as usual. Your eerie stories are always compelling, but I am as much addicted to your wonderful haunting voice. Thanks again.

  • @thehangingparsiple5692
    @thehangingparsiple5692 10 місяців тому +1

    This is so deliciously atmospheric. I love the author's description of the moonlight, the darkening of his eyes, the powdering of his face. Both simply done but I was there with him looking out over the graveyard.
    Masterfully told as ever. You really are an absolute legend ❤

  • @user-Tn2Dn
    @user-Tn2Dn Рік тому +2

    You have the most wonderful voice. So glad I found your channel! ❤

    • @EnCryptedHorror
      @EnCryptedHorror  Рік тому

      Thank you so much - and welcome to the channel 👋

  • @johnthorpe8341
    @johnthorpe8341 2 роки тому +11

    Yours is the voice of honeyd toast sunshine n ice cream-Cold winter walks footsteps crunching on sparkling snow-a voice for all seasons-THANK YOU JASPER

  • @SusanMarie3
    @SusanMarie3 9 місяців тому +2

    Excellent!!!! Thanks so much for

  • @clareelliott8348
    @clareelliott8348 2 роки тому +2

    That was great although I wasn't expecting that exact ending! Thank you as always Jasper and loved the use of the Carol of the Bells too

  • @stephaniestevenson6335
    @stephaniestevenson6335 2 роки тому +2

    This was a totally unexpected surprise because I understand how busy you are! Thanks again Jasper!

  • @JennyLane8666
    @JennyLane8666 6 місяців тому +1

    Oh, that was fabulous! Dunno how I missed that one. Thank you, J! Your excellent performances always leave me shivering.

  • @mariameere5807
    @mariameere5807 2 роки тому +3

    Thank you 🙏 in hospital that’s my bed neighbour- we both enjoyed it and she is 92 going on 17 mentally!

    • @EnCryptedHorror
      @EnCryptedHorror  2 роки тому +2

      Being in hospital is never nice. Hope you are doing okay (as well as you can be, at any rate) 🙏💐

    • @mariameere5807
      @mariameere5807 2 роки тому +1

      @@EnCryptedHorror thank you 🙏

  • @navelriver
    @navelriver 2 роки тому +1

    An excellent performance of a great story! I felt I was there!

  • @donaldmccleary9015
    @donaldmccleary9015 10 місяців тому

    Amazing story and narration!
    I like this a lot. I really enjoyed it. The naysaying and insufferable friend strikes again.....
    As always, the music and background sounds are amazing. I love the sound of the crunching snow when people walked through the snow.
    Making a sled or toboggan out of a wine box is awesome. Great idea!
    The description of the night outside when Armitage played the prank is amazing. Timeless description of nature.
    Great job!

  • @rneustel388
    @rneustel388 2 роки тому +1

    Wow, what an excellent reading of a ghost story that’s always given me the heebie jeebies! 😱

  • @unclevlad3357
    @unclevlad3357 2 роки тому +2

    That one ended more horror that expected - was expecting more of a joke ending.
    You put just the right amount of sound effects to enhance the story without taking away from your wonderful voice.

  • @blixten2928
    @blixten2928 2 роки тому +2

    JOY! You've uploaded a new one!!! Great!!! And it's SOOOO 1895. The banjo and singing: straight Jerome K. Jerome!

  • @RedcoatsReturn
    @RedcoatsReturn 2 роки тому +1

    Beautifully read! 👏👏👏👏👏👏Nothing like a…good ghost…story 👻 It entertains while I repose…until…the sunset…comes 🌅 🧛🏻😉

  • @Arwcwb
    @Arwcwb 2 роки тому +1

    That's a great story - thank you.

  • @JT_Soul
    @JT_Soul Рік тому +1

    Excellent reading.

  • @mijiyoon5575
    @mijiyoon5575 2 роки тому +1

    Indeed, I did enjoy this ... *TY Jasper*

  • @briandouglasahern7067
    @briandouglasahern7067 Рік тому

    That was superb! You are truly an excellent narrator. Thank-you for posting!

  • @earthcat
    @earthcat 2 роки тому +2

    Thank you for all your hard work 🌺

  • @nancynickerson4341
    @nancynickerson4341 2 роки тому +1

    Excellent! Thank you Jasper.

  • @jared1870
    @jared1870 2 роки тому +2

    All these great holiday horror stories. You will make this my best Christmas yet. Thank you.

  • @ScullyPop
    @ScullyPop 2 роки тому +1

    I can't believe I'm just finding your channel. A fellow narrator!

  • @andreac5724
    @andreac5724 2 роки тому +1

    Great story

  • @trevorthelen9231
    @trevorthelen9231 2 роки тому +1

    Excellent work!

  • @clare218
    @clare218 2 роки тому +1

    Thank you.

  • @-Reagan
    @-Reagan 2 роки тому +3

    Wow 🤩 Wonderfully voiced, Jasper!! So excited for this! Happy Turkey Pardon Day 🦃 🏳 from the States!

    • @EnCryptedHorror
      @EnCryptedHorror  2 роки тому +2

      Happy Turkey Pardon Day 😄 You've just reminded me, I must start boiling the collard greens 🍴

    • @mijiyoon5575
      @mijiyoon5575 2 роки тому +2

      @@EnCryptedHorror 😲🍽

  • @clairegreenaway9653
    @clairegreenaway9653 2 роки тому +1

    Thanks so much Jasper!!Just right for bedtime 🥱

  • @bluegreenglue6565
    @bluegreenglue6565 2 роки тому +3

    Ah the best laid plans, eh? I can only imagine how the surviving friends would explain what they had seen. : o And that poor young lady who had made the costume! This truly is a tale with an unhappy ending all around. Well told, and lots of fun though. Thank you!

  • @rosiemcnaughton9933
    @rosiemcnaughton9933 2 роки тому +1

    First rate, Jasper! Thank you so much! 🦃

  • @stephaniestevenson6335
    @stephaniestevenson6335 2 роки тому +1

    OMG! I never heard this one and it was EXTREMELY EERIE! I bow to your expertise.

  • @ruthhase-gutierrez9830
    @ruthhase-gutierrez9830 2 роки тому

    Your voice is wonderful, but also eerie. It gives me the shivers. I'm not sure what to think of it.

  • @juliadia007
    @juliadia007 2 роки тому +1

    Fun story. Where do you dig up all your amazing sound effects??? I was hoping the story would turn a bit more Wodehousian where the young female of the species is decidedly more Diabolical.

    • @EnCryptedHorror
      @EnCryptedHorror  2 роки тому +1

      That would have been a great twist to the tale! The sound effects I mostly get from Freesound (a creative commons site where people upload sound effects and recordings). Every now and again I can't find what I'm after and have to create something myself.

  • @alisonduffy6206
    @alisonduffy6206 2 роки тому +2

    Thoroughly enjoyable Jasper, thank you for yet another tale enhanced by your brilliance. It makes me remember another tale about a long gallery, which everyone had to leave by midnight. Only one guest fell asleep and ....... Can you tell me the name of it?

    • @EnCryptedHorror
      @EnCryptedHorror  2 роки тому

      That's E.F. Benson's "How Fear Departed the Long Gallery" I believe. Thanks Alison 😊

    • @alisonduffy6206
      @alisonduffy6206 2 роки тому +1

      @@EnCryptedHorror That's the one (with Fear in the title). I found it read by Tony Walker, whom I used to listen to until I lost my heart to L"Estrange. Thanks Jasper, and take care of yourself.

  • @bethcastagnoli2911
    @bethcastagnoli2911 Рік тому

    Still listening. ❤

  • @fjklfdasdf
    @fjklfdasdf Місяць тому

    Poor Armitage, his idea was rather a clever one!

  • @tonyeden8381
    @tonyeden8381 2 роки тому +1

    Yippeeeeeeee ❤️👍👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

  • @pisiata3651
    @pisiata3651 2 роки тому +1

    The poor girl that made the monk s cloth..she must regret it all her life. 😮😯😲

    • @EnCryptedHorror
      @EnCryptedHorror  2 роки тому +1

      Although she could have cheered herself up with "I told you so..." 🤭😁

  • @maryeckel9682
    @maryeckel9682 2 місяці тому

    Man, that was a harsh ending

  • @WowUsernameAvailable
    @WowUsernameAvailable 2 місяці тому

    The last sentence was predictable but satisfying nevertheless!

  • @surjitkumar2468
    @surjitkumar2468 2 роки тому +1

    First

  • @evelanpatton
    @evelanpatton 2 роки тому

    👻Perfectly🤍🖤🤍Ghostly!👻
    💀☠️💀☠️💀☠️💀☠️💀☠️💀
    Thank you for this excellent Christmas Ghost Story you’ve shared with us❣️ Once again, your voice is so engaging, it leads your listener into the writer’s imagination, and we gladly follow your lead down the otherworldly rabbit hole. The ancient craft of storytelling still churns the milk into butter. Oh, the WONDERS of modern technology in the hands of L’Estrange gifted man; whoa-if I had bread to give thē for your efforts I would, but for now, a word or two to say, “hey, you are very good”!
    🤍🎟🎪🎭🎄📚📕📖🗣🕳🐇