Loremen Podcast - High Peak Minisode

Episode Date: July 1, 2021

A minisode about tonight's livestream. All names have been redacted. In a way.

Alistair? Hello James. Hello. Hi. You busy on Thursday evening? Yeah I'm actually doing a live stream podcast with you. Oh thank goodness. I got a bit scared there for a second. I'd have to do it all on my own. Don't worry it was just acting. Oh very good acting. Yeah yeah thank you I've been practicing. It's good what practicing being acting being busy? Yeah exactly it's very very good way of getting out of stuff. You're like, oh, no. Yeah, I am busy, actually. Yeah. When was it again?

So busy. Should we do another live stream then as we've already sort of agreed to and organised it and now recording a preview for it?

Yeah, let's do it. Yeah, let's. Let's just keep shoveling content into the old furnace and see what happens. Pollutants. I've looked at the old stats on the podcast for the first time having not checked for ages and they're going up more

people are listening to our podcast yeah what's going on with them i don't i don't know thank you the people of hillsborough oregon hillsborough over one person from hillsborough oregon listens to this podcast so if yeah if you know the other person you should meet up really that's the spot on the tour that's the you know that'll be the last date the big last date on the tour hillsborough yeah in america i'm gonna say america yeah it's got no gh on the end so it must be america bro hillsborough it's just like a knockoff marlborough yeah but we're not going to talk about that place anymore today so have you prepared a a story, James, for the live stream tonight? Yeah.

I'm going back up north to the Peak District. Nice. Home of Eam. The plague village of Eam, yes. The famous plague village. And, of course, the devil's... Yep, that is round there. The windy devil's...

Gaping it is. There's all them mermaids. Oh, yeah, all them mermaids, yeah. That old man in Hayfield who was the oldest man you ever knew. An old man, yes. And the town of Chaton. Oh, I forgot about it. Oh, yeah.

No listeners from there, according to the list, unfortunately. This is from the same book as that Chaton legend, The Return of the Gabriel Hounds, Tales and Traditions of the High Peak by William Wood of Eame. Nice. It's a town called Stoney Middleton that this story will take place in. I mean, listeners will recognise it. In 2007, it had the UK's biggest crystal meth lab. Oh, wow. How could you forget? Stoney Middleton. Yes, Stoney Middleton, not Middleton Stoney, which is a very similarly named but different place. Oh, right.

No, I was thinking like Kate Middleton, Stoney Middleton, and then probably a Middleton that can go on fire and one that is stretchy. That's what I was imagining. So Kate Middleton's superpower is going invisible and marrying a royal. Two powers. Whoa. Right, so I tried to do some research on the characters in my story. It was a little bit difficult, and I had a little glance at one of the other stories.

This one's called The Village Spectre, and this book is from 1906, and it features that thing that they did in books at that time. If they wanted to hide someone's identity, they would just put the first letter and then like a long dash. And then a long dash. Yeah. Yes. It's the same for whenever they're swearing or when they want to be really mysterious about a date. And I'll be like 18.

You don't know. So they've done that with the village that this story, the village specter takes place in the village of E and then line. But they name everyone in it. so you could probably work it out. This particular story concerns a Mr James Weldon, who, classic tale, his daughter has fallen in love with someone, but he agrees to have her married off to someone else who she doesn't love. And he's sat underneath a thickly branched sycamore, And he sat underneath a thickly branched sycamore,

and he sees a spectre of a woman walk past him. It had a striking expression of countenance, but deadly and cadaverous. Still, there was a calmness on that silent face which exceeded description, and on the colourless lips there loitered a smile like moonlight on the snow. The face was so calm that you could not describe it. Too calm for words. Wow, that's calm. That is calm.

That is so calm. And Mr Weldon's reaction was not calm. He exclaimed, my God, the spectre, the village spectre. So he was familiar with the spectre. Yeah, he said, ah, I'm a sup of this cup of sorrow and grief. Oh, my wife, death is among us. The spectre, the spectre. Very, he said, ah, I'm a sup of this cup of sorrow and grief. Oh, my wife, death is among us. The spectre. The spectre. Very florid language, this guy.

Oh, yeah. What is he, a smallholding farmer? Probably. He sounds like a character in a play. Mrs Weldon was also absorbed in deadly agony and perplexity of mind because they knew what it means. If you see the village spectre,

it means someone's going to die. She was the daughter of someone who'd been promised to be married off to someone who she didn't like. Sounds quite familiar. She died. Drowned in a well, I imagine. Fell off a cliff. Just died of grief. Rammed by a sheep into a dry stone wall.

She uttered a piercing shriek and died. Piercing shriek that summoned the ram into a wall. Oosh. Death. And then, yeah, that chap's daughter died. Piercing shriek that summoned the ram into a wall. Oosh. Death. And then, yeah, that chap's daughter died. Oh, oh. I thought that was going to be a warning for him to change his decision about her future. It was too late.

The blast that nipped my youth will conquer thee. It strikes the bud, the blossom and the tree. Since life is short and death is always nighigh on many years to come do not rely. Oh. Wow, that's because of the sheep. Because of those bloomed sheep. Because of that awful sheep that gets people. Ever so angry.

Wow. What a depressing story. But at the end, there's little asterisks and it says, for certain reasons, the name Weldon has been substituted for Wood. What? Yeah, so they sort of tried to... So they used a fake name, but then at the end for wood what yeah so they sort of tried so they

used a fake name but then at the end told you what their actual name was we did use a fake name throughout by the way and it was this i don't think this book understands yeah what anonymity is no i don't think it does but that's not the story i'm going to be telling you i'm going to be telling you an equally spine chilling story in fact i would suggest that everyone installs extra cladding on their spine yeah it. It's going to be so chilled. Okay. So you can find us at twitch.tv forward slash lawmen pod. Yes.

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the 1st of July. 2021. I know you can listen to the tale of The Miner and the Ghost. That sounds like you're sleeping there. Or it's a doodlebug. I was trying to do wind whistling through a tree. It sounded like a World War II era bomb or a cartoon character sleeping.

Ah, twist. Sorry, I was trying to do spooky. I didn't mean to do bomb. It turned into spooky bomb. Right. Yeah. Stop that. Stop that. Stop that.