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Episode 16. Winter’s Gibbet, a poltergeist in Embleton in 1957, the custom of breaking rainbows, and the dark tale of the Ghostly Bridal Party of Featherstone Castle

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Episode 16 sees in the Autumn Equinox in the UK with two dark tales from Northumberland… the grisly fates of William Winter and his murderous accomplices (warning… it ain’t pleasant…) and then the ghostly bridal party of Featherstone Castle, said to be seen in nearby Pynkin’s Cleugh on the 17th January every year. As well as this we hear the folk custom of ‘breaking rainbows’ and also the ‘from the archives’ account of a poltergeist in Embleton in 1957.

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Extract from the 1862 Ordnance Survey map showing the Witches House in Pynkin Cleugh
Sketch of Winter's Gibbet, Saturday 5th August 1905 in Northern weekly Gazette

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Within the Boggart Wood

Episode 16. Winter’s Gibbet, a poltergeist in Embleton in 1957, the custom of breaking rainbows, and the dark tale of the Ghostly Bridal Party of Featherstone Castle

Episode available on all your favourite podcasting platforms!

Episode contents

Episode 16 sees in the Autumn Equinox in the UK with two dark tales from Northumberland… the grisly fates of William Winter and his murderous accomplices (warning… it ain’t pleasant…) and then the ghostly bridal party of Featherstone Castle, said to be seen in nearby Pynkin’s Cleugh on the 17th January every year. As well as this we hear the folk custom of ‘breaking rainbows’ and also the ‘from the archives’ account of a poltergeist in Embleton in 1957.

Chapter markers

Extract from the 1862 Ordnance Survey map showing the Witches House in Pynkin Cleugh
Sketch of Winter's Gibbet, Saturday 5th August 1905 in Northern weekly Gazette

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