Loremen Podcast - Hallowstream 2021 - Minisode

Episode Date: October 28, 2021

A short chiller about why not to look too closely at the floor... It is the Livestream tonight! Unless you're from the future? In which case all the Livestreams can be found on YouTube.com/LoremenPodcast Plus that sweet sweet merch can be found here... https://www.teepublic.com/stores/loremen-podcast?ref_id=24631 

Hey Alistair, it's another Minisode. Is it? Yeah, I think I'm settling on calling them Minisodes. Minisode? Well yeah, yeah, that's what they're called. But I'm warming to this portmanteau. You're committing to Minisode? Mm.

Is there a lot of controversy around whether they should be called Mini Episodes or Petitasodes? Episodelets? Nice. It's not up the level of biopic biopic. How do you pronounce it? I always said biopic, biopic. Which one? Biopic.

Biopic. No, I always said biopic. I say biopic. Like it's an I complaint. It sounds medical, doesn't it? Yeah. I always had to go in for a biopic. Oh, he's got biopica.

But I appreciate that biopic is right if you base it off the words that it's a shortening of well i don't think so because you don't say biography do you no you say biography just like biopic biopic yeah don't don't james don't let the mainstream media tell you what to think okay that's all i'm saying but then but then who do i let tell you what to think, okay? That's all I'm saying. Why? But then who do I let tell me what to think? Me. Podcasters.

Podcasters and people of Twitter. What a terrible, that's the worst advice. Don't listen to the news, just listen to what podcasters think. Wait a minute, biopic. Was it meant to be? You were telling me biopic. Yeah. Wait a minute.

Biopic. Oh, God. My mind's gone. So, welcome to this minisode. Yeah, this needs to get minier. For the listeners, we've been recording for three hours at this point. Yeah. We haven't begun the minisode. It's just been us saying biopic. Yeah. Biopic. So far. Biopic. Biopic. Biopic.

That's available as a Patreon extra. No. God, no. I've just got a little, tiny little shiver of spookiness for you. It's like a non-sexual ice cube down the spine. Thank you for acknowledging that ice cubes down the spine are quite sexy. No, I'm just, I know my audience. Basically, what this is, is when we do a live stream which we're doing tonight thursday the 28th of october 8 p.m bst on the places nearly halloween

but not actually on halloween yes it's going to be a hallow stream very good very good this is Hello stream. Very good. Very good. This is just like a little bonus episode just to sort of tide you over until later. But this is one of the scariest stories I'll have said on the podcast. It's one of the ones that I think it's going to be difficult for me to describe because it's going to, for want of a better word, S me up. Oh, so you're going to be too scared to say it? Yes. Wow. So we're going into proper indescribable horror territory.

Oh, well, yeah, technically, if I am literally too scared to say it, it will be indescribable. But that doesn't make good podcasting. So I'm going to try my best. Right. Oh, good, good. I've gone back to Ghosts Over Britain. Of course, Ghosts Over Britain. This will probably be our final visit to Ghosts Over Britain for some time.

Frankly, we're taking the mickey at this point. Yes. And the ghost of Peter Moss may come for us. Or his publishers. Probably leaving us angry notes. It's the kind of thing Moss's ghosts do. Oh, yeah. Pools of water.

Or do what happens in this, which would really genuinely terrify me. Okay. I'm excited now. So this takes place in a town called Pattingham. No, me neither. Well, it's my hobby, Pattingham. It's near Rubbinghammon, isn't it? Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's down the road Gammon, isn't it? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

It's down the road from Huggerhawk. That's the one, yes. And upstream from Kicking Beef. So this happened to a... Wait, I've forgotten what it's called. Pattingham. I was thinking it was Huggingham. I couldn't remember.

I couldn't remember which was our joke and which was real. Pattingham. There is probably a Huggingham. I couldn't remember which was our joke and which was real. I think there is probably a Huggingham. And there's a Nottingham, which is more of an admonishment for someone who's maybe got a little too familiar. Nottingham. Goodness sake, Jonathan. Nottingham. So this happened to a woman called Mrs Violet Nicholls who lived on Hall End Lane in Pattingham.

And this was, you know, a classic 1930s semi-detached house. Nothing too spectacular. We're not talking a stately home. One of the ones where these modern poltergeist-type stories happen. Yeah, absolutely. And in 1952, Mrs Nicholls reports that she woke up and saw standing in her bedroom a young woman in her mid-20s Yeah, absolutely. and they looked all over the house couldn't find anything husband went back to sleep probably a bit annoyed i'm sympathizing with him a little bit yeah having to search the house for what was a dream at this point i think maybe the book should be called dreams of a britain because a lot of them are dreams but violet who was quite shaken up by this whole thing stayed awake and then a bedroom door opened

and the blonde haired woman poked her head in had a little look at her and then vanished again oh that's good and then a week later violet was alone in the house again and she was just looking out the kitchen window when the same young lady was walking up the garden path passed through the kitchen door and vanished completely never to be seen again wow and six years later in 1958 viola was now living on her own with her five-year-old son christopher john one kid two names it seems that the husband's gone ah um okay that's that's okay we support um single parent hauntings yeah interestingly this kid's five years old and this is six years after those previously mentioned events happened so it's highly likely she would have been pregnant at that time just because of maths

yeah yeah i don't know if that's got anything to bear on the story but i just noticed that she sent a five-year-old up to go and get ready for bed up in his room and then she went up followed him up the stairs a few minutes later and he was just sat on his rug staring at the wooden floor by the fireplace in his room and she was said what are you doing what's the matter and he whispered look mum and he pointed to a large knot in the wood on one of the floorboards. And she looked. And thought it'd just be like a toy or something.

But in the centre of that knot, there was a pale blue human eye staring up at her. What? In the knot of the wood? There was an eye? In the knot of the wood. An eyeball? Yeah. They stared at it in fear and amazement.

And their eyes seemed to be frightened, then cautiously watchful, glaring unblinkingly upwards. And then it seemed to move up and down as though it was trying to escape. And then it sort of drift off to one side. Still within the wood of the... Yeah, within the knot. Like bouncing around, like the ball in Pong.

I don't know if it was as silly as that. Like the windows in the old Windows screensaver. Yes. Never quite touching the corner. Yeah. And they were like, don't touch the corner. Just do it once. Just get right in the corner.

I'm going to keep watching it until it gets right in the corner. And then it didn't vanish for another five or ten minutes and then it just faded away. And Christopher the Son was also interviewed by Peter Moss and he swears that it happened. And they both saw it. Wow. And it's never been explained or repeated.

That's the weirdest thing I've ever heard. That's really, that really spooks me. Just look out for your knots. I might come to the Lawmen Hallow Stream as just a single blue eye, a single human eye. Oh yeah. To freak you out. I don't know how I'm going to do it.

Just glue like a plank on front of your head. That'll be my costume, yeah. And peek out. Yeah, just a little thing peeking. Oh yeah, because it's a costumed event. The Hallow Stream. That'sumed event, the Hallow Stream. It's Halloween. Yeah. Hallow Stream.

And we encourage you guys to dress up and send in pictures, probably via Twitter, I'm guessing, right? Tweet your pictures of your Halloween costumes to us, and we'll include them in the stream. Yeah. If you do it. Yeah. And we can be bothered.

We're going to work out how to do that. Yeah, we can do it. We can show Twitter on the stream. Yeah. If you do it. Yeah. And we can be bothered. We're going to work out how to do that. Yeah, we can do it. We can show Twitter on the stream. Oh, yeah. Yeah, so that's a pretty spooky little tale for you. Very, very spooky. Keep you. Have you got another spooky little tale for me for tonight?

Yes, this one's ripped from my actual past. Oh, what? Yes. A true life horror tale. A true life tale. From the mouth of, I was going to say babes. A true life horror tale. A true life tale. From the mouth of... I was going to say babes. From the mouth of you.

Don't call me babes. As Pamela Anderson once wrote. Yeah, that's the catchphrase for Barb Wire. Yeah. She's a sci-fi remake of Casablanca. Is it? Yes. It's the plot of...

I haven't seen it, but it's the plot of Casablanca, but with Pamela Anderson. Oh, is that why? Oh, no, it's kid, isn't it? I thought it was, here's looking at you, babes. And that was why she said, don't call me babe. It'd be better if she said, don't call me kid. It would be.

Yeah. There's two famous American phrases that I've never understood. One, how'd you like them apples? How'd you like them One, how do you like them apples? How do you like them apples? How do you like them apples? I don't understand it, no matter how I say it. I mean, like if you've just eaten some apples, how do you like them apples?

Yeah. How many apples are you having at once? Normally, it's a singular apple. I rarely have more than one apple. Yeah. To keep the doctors at bay. those evil evil doctors did i say a bay is a way isn't it it's not a bay an apple a day keeps the doctors at bay in the comp from the compound yeah keeps the tenors at bay oh god pelting them with apples is the other one here's looking at you kid yeah here's looking at you kid i just i was always like but what's i don't understand the grammar of it like what

here's looking at you kid what does it mean is it i just realized that we've missed our opportunity to do a documentary called here's looking at you kip bit out of date now no they've left the eu it's irrelevant you'd you'd hope You know how to dog whistle, don't you, kid? That's very good. That's actually very good. I accept your applause, listener. That is actually quite a witty joke. That's very, very good.

I'm prepared to explain it if anyone didn't get it, but it was very good. I think we need to end all podcasts there now. I don't think anything that witty and simultaneously unfunny has ever been said before. Never such a large gap between wittiness and funniness has been achieved.

Unfortunately, that's the best joke that we are going to tell today. We've peaked. But join us for the live scream. Join us anyway for the live scream. They're always bang on time and really professionally run. And that's what everyone's saying. Yeah, it's 8pm bust. British summertime.

On twitch.tv forward slash lawmenpod, lawmenpod. Or? Or youtube.com forward slash lawmenpodcast. What? Yeah. Crazy, slightly different. Yeah. We didn't plan ahead.

No. Not at all. We're winging it. We've been winging it the whole time. Oh, there's some merch. Oh, yeah? We're on Tee Public now, and I think there's a sale on at the moment.

There seems to always be a sale on. It's like Sport and Ski in the Westgate Centre in Oxford. That might be a little specific, a reference. Very niche. It's a very A very niche reference. Maybe DFS will at least cover most of Britain. Or is it SCS? I can never tell them apart.

The CCP? I don't know. SMS? The MSM? Microsoft Messenger? Do you get all your news from Microsoft Messenger? Probably the end of the minisode there. Yeah, good night. I mean i mean good morning see you later good morning until this evening good night i said good day good day to you good day to you i said good day join us join us