Welcome to the Boggart Wood, where all are welcome…
… but especially if you’ve brought cake, cookies or a nice bottle of spiced rum!
So leave your axes to grind at the door (I’m sure a nice little Brownie may buff it up for you), pull up a comfy chair at the fire and settle in for tales of ghosts, goblins, treasure and dark deeds… Within the Boggart Wood is a slow meander through the north of England and the Scottish Borders (with forays further afield), collating the regions’ wealth of folklore, ghostlore, superstitions, local history and archaeology.
The Boggart, also known to his friends and enemies alike as Tony Liddell – is an archaeologist based in County Durham (north east England) with a keen interest in not seeing our tales and traditions vanish as the world becomes a bleaker and darker place.
So please, enjoy the Boggart’s tales in the podcast, or have a look at The Boggart Investigates articles. Also, please join in with the Boggart Wood community and look in at The Bogle Hole, a new forum (due to launch soon) where the Boggarty community can escape from the oddities of social media…
Contrary to popular belief, this project is not my day job… its my hobby. I don’t make any money from it (barring Patreon donations), and the podcast isn’t popular enough for advertising revenue: in fact
So fast-forward a year and the podcast has 23 episodes under its belt – I did aim for more, but pesky work and life gets in the way frequently (I record, edit and produce the
A new site feature for 2024 – the Within the Boggart Wood StorySearch. StorySearch gathers the contents of the podcast episodes into eight themes…
On Sunday 27th August, the Boggart will be at the Land of Oak and Iron Heritage Centre to collect (should you choose to) your stories of all things weird and wonderful! I’ll be coming armed
A very big welcome to Within the Boggart Wood, a new website designed to bring you myths, legends, ghostlore and tales of daring, covering the North East of England and the Borders.
… to help support me in my Boggartish endeavours!
“Notwithstanding the manifest growth of popular enlightenment, there is still a vast amount of superstition in the North-Country. Almost every neighbourhood has its wise woman, to whom credulous fools resort to have their fortunes told, or for the recovery of lost goods, or to find out who are their enemies, and learn how to circumvent and punish them. The fairy people, it is true, now only linger in childish tradition; but ghosts are still not uncommon…“
– The Monthly Chronicle of North-Country Lore and Legend, 1891
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