Let's Talk About... The Most Haunted Places In Newcastle! Ep.51

[00:00:07] Right then guys, we are back. It is of course myself, Billy and we've got Liam again. Usually. Say hello mate, yeah usually. You want to say hello mate? Now then mate, how the hell are we all? Yes, we're all good, all good. Billy's back and he's actually doing an episode. By last minute decision mind.

[00:00:23] Yeah, because we just worked out the last one that you did was a Bermuda Triangle episode on the 2nd of June. Yes, so it was a canny while ago and as of the date today it is the, what is it? The 18th? The 18th of August. So it's been some time. It's like episode 4 of today. Yeah, yeah. 4 or 5, yeah. So it's going to be a little rusty, however today Liam we are doing about the ghosts of Newcastle. So top 10 haunted places in Newcastle. Right. So Newcastle's again... Shittle. You can't say that.

[00:00:54] He will though. It's actually really nice Newcastle, it's a lovely place. He's just saying that because of the football team. That bridge is shit compared to ours. I like that bridge. Theirs is better. Theirs has LEDs. Oh fuck. Ours is older. We've built theirs. Fucking hell, now we're always getting team in it. Right, swiftly moving on. So yeah, Newcastle is quite close to us, about an hour away isn't it? Yeah, about 50 mile. Yeah.

[00:01:24] So, first of all Liam, as it's my first episode back in a while, I'm going to give you three would you rather questions. No, we're back to Billy's questions. Back to Billy's questions. Would you rather. So, they are going to be integrated into the theme as well mate. Alright. So question number one Liam. Would I rather go to Newcastle or Sundland? Yeah. I want an answer for that. I know, I want an answer for that. Scarborough.

[00:01:47] You can't go to Scarborough. Full of Wallis. Money joking. Come on, one. Newcastle or Sundland? Yeah. Newcastle. I'd choose the same. It's more of a night house. Yeah. Expensive though mate. Right. Anyway, question number one mate. Would you rather be trapped in a haunted house where you can see the ghosts but can't hear them or a haunted house where you can hear the ghosts but can't see them?

[00:02:14] I'd rather see them. You'd rather see them but not hear them? Yeah. I think I'd choose the same. Well because I mean if I'm just hearing them I mean. You'll just debunk it because you're a prat. Well no, no but I mean like if you can't hear them then it's alright then because you've got less chance of fucking scaring you with loud noises. I mean yeah they might pop up in your face. I was going to say what? Imagine waking up and seeing a ghoul at the end of your bed.

[00:02:41] Aye. Yeah but we're just staying in there. I'd much rather just hear them. Are we living in the house? No we're trapped innit? Oh right well yeah I'd rather just see them. I'd rather hear them you know. No I've said I don't care what they're saying they could be calling me fucking out.

[00:02:55] Yeah but if I can hear them in my mind I can say oh that's just because of this oh that's just because of that. But if I can see them I'm like ah I've fucking seen it what do I do?

[00:03:01] No because you can't get out you're trapped. Yeah but if you can hear them it's exactly the same but they could say horrible things to you like billionaires shit.

[00:03:11] Well I can't see yours.

[00:03:15] Yeah fair play.

[00:03:16] You know what I mean?

[00:03:17] I do know what you mean but I'd still go with I'd rather hear them.

[00:03:20] Right fair enough.

[00:03:22] Right so number two.

[00:03:23] Would you rather be cursed to always see the shadowy figure of a ghost following you but never know what it wants or be cursed to know exactly what it wants but never be able to stop it?

[00:03:36] Well it depends what it's doing.

[00:03:37] Is it just following me?

[00:03:39] Is it literally just following me?

[00:03:40] Well it's following you everywhere yeah.

[00:03:42] Well then either I'm not really bothered.

[00:03:44] If it's not actually doing anything and just following me I couldn't care less.

[00:03:47] So you're going with it you'd rather it follow you and not know what it wants or follow you and know what it wants?

[00:03:53] Well yeah I'd rather know what it wants just to be a nosy bastard but.

[00:03:56] Yeah but what if it's something fucking horrific?

[00:03:58] Yeah but it doesn't mean I have to do it.

[00:04:01] Like if it's following me or not it wants me to be in the corpse of a child.

[00:04:04] It wants you to do something it might want to do something to you.

[00:04:07] Yeah but if it can it do it to me?

[00:04:08] But you don't know that.

[00:04:09] No because if it's just following me then obviously it can't.

[00:04:11] No not necessarily it's waiting for the right moment to strike.

[00:04:14] Not much bullshit.

[00:04:16] It's not.

[00:04:18] Yes well I'd rather know then.

[00:04:19] You'd rather know?

[00:04:20] Yeah.

[00:04:20] I wouldn't I'd rather not know.

[00:04:22] He said I don't know you.

[00:04:24] If it's something fucking horrific like possess my child.

[00:04:28] Well then you'd want to fucking know because then you get rid of it.

[00:04:31] Yeah we can't get rid of it.

[00:04:32] No I meant the kids.

[00:04:36] Oh well done mate well done.

[00:04:40] Fuck's sake.

[00:04:43] Right question number three mate.

[00:04:45] Go on.

[00:04:45] Would you rather wake up.

[00:04:47] Hang on.

[00:04:49] Would you rather wake up.

[00:04:50] If we're waking up and there's a word succubus is coming you can go and focus on.

[00:04:55] Succubus or incubus?

[00:04:56] Neither.

[00:04:57] Do you know the difference?

[00:04:59] Yes.

[00:04:59] Go on.

[00:05:00] A succubus does the sucking and the incubus doesn't.

[00:05:04] Basically am I right?

[00:05:05] No.

[00:05:07] Oh fuck's sake.

[00:05:09] I expected no last though.

[00:05:10] Fair enough.

[00:05:11] Right.

[00:05:11] What's the question?

[00:05:12] Right.

[00:05:12] Would you rather wake up every night at 3am to the sound of whispering voices around

[00:05:17] your bed or wake up to find an eerie ghostly handprint on your window every morning?

[00:05:23] The handprint.

[00:05:24] Because I've just imagined them in Titanic.

[00:05:27] Oh for fuck's sake.

[00:05:29] I can just imagine it.

[00:05:31] Kate wins it the time.

[00:05:32] It's kind of sick.

[00:05:33] It's just.

[00:05:35] I don't know what someone whispering in me fucking ears.

[00:05:38] Because like I say you don't know what they're saying do you?

[00:05:41] What the hell is that?

[00:05:43] It's Titanic.

[00:05:44] It's not.

[00:05:45] It fucking isn't.

[00:05:46] You've done this in the fucking basket.

[00:05:48] Every night.

[00:05:49] So I might sing Matt and Teary in a minute.

[00:05:50] That'd be nice.

[00:05:51] Well yeah but there wouldn't be there would there because she's not dead yet.

[00:05:53] She might look it but she's not.

[00:05:54] Oh Kate wins that.

[00:05:55] Oh Celine Dion you twat.

[00:06:00] Kate wins that still looked alright.

[00:06:03] I haven't seen her.

[00:06:04] Still would.

[00:06:06] Fair enough.

[00:06:08] Not so much Whitney Houston eh.

[00:06:09] Well she is dead.

[00:06:12] What the fuck has Whitney Houston got to do with the price of eggs?

[00:06:15] I completely made the biggest mistake of my life just then.

[00:06:18] Why?

[00:06:18] I meant to say Celine Dion.

[00:06:19] Well then you are a dipstick and that's staying in.

[00:06:23] Bastard.

[00:06:24] Right.

[00:06:25] So.

[00:06:26] Building number.

[00:06:28] I'm assuming it's ten.

[00:06:30] Yeah I believe.

[00:06:31] It doesn't matter.

[00:06:32] Yeah it doesn't go in any specific order as to which is more haunted than the other.

[00:06:36] Right.

[00:06:37] So these are in no particular order Liam.

[00:06:38] These are just randomised but these are the buildings of each.

[00:06:42] So.

[00:06:43] Number one.

[00:06:44] We have the Old George Inn.

[00:06:47] Or otherwise known as the Old George Yard.

[00:06:49] So the Old George.

[00:06:51] The Old George is apparently the oldest pub in the city.

[00:06:55] Apparently.

[00:06:56] I've never heard of it though.

[00:06:57] No I haven't heard of that.

[00:06:58] So that's got to be haunted right.

[00:07:01] Most famously.

[00:07:02] Charles I was held in Newcastle Beck.

[00:07:08] Charles I was held in Newcastle back in 1646.

[00:07:12] And presumably because he was in a low security facility.

[00:07:16] He was permitted the occasional pint in the George.

[00:07:19] The chair that he had sat on is still there.

[00:07:24] And there are reports of regal apparitions.

[00:07:27] And a feeling of being watched by both staff and patrons.

[00:07:31] I'm sorry but I'm just going to leave that in.

[00:07:33] Because you said Charles I was held in Newcastle Beck.

[00:07:37] So I've just found out he was being held under some water in a little stream.

[00:07:46] You know I need my warm up line mate.

[00:07:48] No.

[00:07:50] What's sake.

[00:07:51] But no I mean like I said.

[00:07:53] This will be interesting.

[00:07:54] Because we could go and have a day out in Newcastle Beck.

[00:07:56] Yeah just go to each and every one.

[00:07:58] And have a pint of each one.

[00:07:59] Like I said if this chair is still there.

[00:08:01] Sitting in it.

[00:08:01] I'd want to have a go.

[00:08:02] Yeah definitely.

[00:08:03] Hey.

[00:08:06] No I see what you mean yeah.

[00:08:08] But no I mean that.

[00:08:09] Like I said that's an intriguing one.

[00:08:10] Because I always like pubs with a haunted chair.

[00:08:13] You know what I mean though.

[00:08:14] Yeah yeah.

[00:08:18] Don't sit on that stool.

[00:08:19] Yeah.

[00:08:21] Reported.

[00:08:21] So there's regal apparitions.

[00:08:22] So it's not just him by the seams of it.

[00:08:25] Yeah yeah.

[00:08:25] But the chair is obviously.

[00:08:27] Right.

[00:08:27] Yeah.

[00:08:28] Where it's presumably.

[00:08:28] Well I suppose it doesn't even say the chair is haunted.

[00:08:30] It just says he sat in the booker doesn't it.

[00:08:33] There's apparitions reported of being in the chair.

[00:08:36] So yeah.

[00:08:36] Yeah.

[00:08:39] So yeah.

[00:08:39] Moving on from that one.

[00:08:41] Number two.

[00:08:42] Newcastle Castle.

[00:08:44] I hate that.

[00:08:45] Yeah.

[00:08:45] That's horrible.

[00:08:48] Otherwise known as Castle Garth.

[00:08:50] Right.

[00:08:50] So.

[00:08:51] Here we go.

[00:08:52] Newcastle Castle.

[00:08:53] Has a double dose of dread.

[00:08:56] With both the castle keep and the black gate of Mordor.

[00:09:00] No.

[00:09:01] Sorry.

[00:09:01] Just the black gate.

[00:09:02] Just the black gate.

[00:09:04] Said to harbour ghosts.

[00:09:06] The many stories related to the keep seem to centre on the Queen's Chamber.

[00:09:11] From ghostly monks chanting to unexplained shadows.

[00:09:15] Cold spots and a sensation of hands touching you.

[00:09:18] You'd like that.

[00:09:20] And of course.

[00:09:21] Depends where.

[00:09:21] Yeah.

[00:09:23] Get away succubus.

[00:09:24] And of course there's the poppy girl.

[00:09:27] Eh.

[00:09:28] There's the poppy girl.

[00:09:29] Okay.

[00:09:30] Imprisoned for debts and abused horribly in person.

[00:09:34] Excuse me.

[00:09:35] Imprisoned for debts and abused horribly in person.

[00:09:38] Both her apparition and the scent of flowers are said to be evident at certain times.

[00:09:44] A particularly sad incarnation.

[00:09:47] Lovely.

[00:09:49] Jesus.

[00:09:49] Because that took a dark turn.

[00:09:51] Yeah.

[00:09:51] It took a hugely dark turn there.

[00:09:53] It's a bit depressing.

[00:09:54] No context to it or anything.

[00:09:56] And as well.

[00:09:57] The scent of flowers.

[00:09:58] That could be bloody anything though.

[00:10:00] The what?

[00:10:01] Scent of flowers.

[00:10:03] Yeah.

[00:10:03] Yeah.

[00:10:03] That's true.

[00:10:04] Those kind of things.

[00:10:05] Like smells and stuff.

[00:10:06] I'm like.

[00:10:06] Oh.

[00:10:06] Whatever.

[00:10:07] Yeah.

[00:10:07] But I can say.

[00:10:07] Some of them.

[00:10:08] Yes.

[00:10:09] Like if you're in a flower shop.

[00:10:11] And all of a sudden.

[00:10:11] I smell in bread.

[00:10:13] Then that's weird.

[00:10:14] Bread.

[00:10:16] I don't know.

[00:10:16] It was the first thing I thought about.

[00:10:17] The amount of things you could have came out with then.

[00:10:19] And the least scented thing on earth.

[00:10:22] Fuck off man.

[00:10:23] Fresh bread smells fucking unreal.

[00:10:25] You've been to a bakery.

[00:10:27] No I have.

[00:10:28] Exactly.

[00:10:28] Yes I've been to a bakery.

[00:10:29] Bread smells unreal.

[00:10:31] Alright.

[00:10:31] You never made bread.

[00:10:32] No I know.

[00:10:33] I'm just thinking.

[00:10:34] It's not the first thing that would have came to mind.

[00:10:36] Alright.

[00:10:37] The smell of piss.

[00:10:38] Yeah.

[00:10:39] That one.

[00:10:39] Yeah.

[00:10:39] It's more rather than it.

[00:10:40] Yeah.

[00:10:41] But again.

[00:10:41] That could just be plants again though.

[00:10:43] Fucking.

[00:10:45] Lilies.

[00:10:45] They stink of piss.

[00:10:47] They do.

[00:10:49] I don't care.

[00:10:50] Yeah.

[00:10:50] Fair enough.

[00:10:50] Yeah.

[00:10:51] No.

[00:10:51] I think I know what.

[00:10:53] Someone sent something to our man once.

[00:10:55] When I was living at my mansion.

[00:10:56] I'd come in and I'd go.

[00:10:57] Why does it smell of piss in here?

[00:10:58] And I was like.

[00:10:59] I'd send fucking flowers on the windowsill.

[00:11:01] I'd say.

[00:11:01] Well put them in the bin.

[00:11:02] And they were lilies.

[00:11:03] Yeah.

[00:11:04] Do you know what I mean though?

[00:11:05] Yeah.

[00:11:06] Flowers are supposed to smell nice.

[00:11:07] Yeah.

[00:11:07] That's what I mean.

[00:11:08] But what I mean is.

[00:11:08] Them specifically.

[00:11:09] If you know the stink.

[00:11:10] Just bin them.

[00:11:11] Yeah.

[00:11:12] Yeah.

[00:11:12] Especially if the person who gave you them.

[00:11:14] Is not going to come round the house.

[00:11:15] Just fucking sling them.

[00:11:16] If they've raked.

[00:11:17] You could just get rid.

[00:11:18] Yeah.

[00:11:18] He's got someone against flowers you have mate.

[00:11:20] Oh my God.

[00:11:22] I mean.

[00:11:22] Fucking pissy flowers mate.

[00:11:25] I mean.

[00:11:25] I'm not a fan of flowers.

[00:11:27] But yeah.

[00:11:27] I can tell.

[00:11:28] I just think they're a bit pointless as a thing.

[00:11:30] Yeah.

[00:11:31] Moving on from that though.

[00:11:32] I'm going to be dead in a week.

[00:11:32] I mean the thought of.

[00:11:33] What was it?

[00:11:35] Chanting monks.

[00:11:36] Aye.

[00:11:36] That's always a good one.

[00:11:37] That's cool.

[00:11:37] That's cool.

[00:11:38] Love a bit of chanting.

[00:11:39] I was a bit like.

[00:11:41] Sort of thing.

[00:11:42] That looked like you were giving a blowjob to thin hair there mate.

[00:11:44] Might have been.

[00:11:45] They might be doing.

[00:11:46] But still.

[00:11:48] It's not monks.

[00:11:49] It used to be a brothel.

[00:11:50] Anyway.

[00:11:52] Jesus Christ.

[00:11:54] Take that out.

[00:11:55] That's not offensive.

[00:11:58] Unless there's.

[00:12:00] You have monks nowadays.

[00:12:02] Yeah.

[00:12:02] There's loads in China isn't there?

[00:12:04] In Japan.

[00:12:05] Yeah.

[00:12:05] There's a different type of monk.

[00:12:06] How is it a different type of monk?

[00:12:08] Because they're like Tibetan monks.

[00:12:11] Yeah.

[00:12:11] But there's still.

[00:12:12] There's still.

[00:12:12] They carry on.

[00:12:13] I'm thinking of the ones like in a brown dressing gown.

[00:12:15] Yeah.

[00:12:16] With a robe round of them.

[00:12:16] And the fucking bald patch.

[00:12:17] They do.

[00:12:18] In China or in Japan.

[00:12:20] Yes.

[00:12:20] No.

[00:12:20] Because they're in like a fucking.

[00:12:21] No.

[00:12:22] Ninja Turtles outfit.

[00:12:23] No they're not.

[00:12:24] They're in like robes.

[00:12:26] Yeah.

[00:12:26] But it's not the same sort of thing.

[00:12:28] It is.

[00:12:28] It's nice.

[00:12:29] They sit and do the.

[00:12:30] Chanting and stuff.

[00:12:31] And then they've got the big bell.

[00:12:32] That's at the top of the fucking.

[00:12:34] Mountain.

[00:12:34] Whatever it is.

[00:12:35] Quasimodo.

[00:12:36] Quasimodo.

[00:12:36] The bells.

[00:12:39] Yeah.

[00:12:39] There's still monks about me.

[00:12:41] Just not.

[00:12:41] No but I mean.

[00:12:42] Here then.

[00:12:43] That was my actual question.

[00:12:45] You fucking shower of shit.

[00:12:46] Do we still get monks here?

[00:12:47] Well there was this one song.

[00:12:48] I was watching Most Haunted right.

[00:12:50] And.

[00:12:51] I knew I just got the reaction.

[00:12:53] There is though.

[00:12:54] Apparently there are still monks.

[00:12:55] That are in a.

[00:12:56] Oh shite.

[00:12:59] I can't remember where the fucking bastard is.

[00:13:02] Because I do know the way.

[00:13:03] I was going to say rife.

[00:13:04] That sounds like they were fucking like you know.

[00:13:06] Going on from brothels as well.

[00:13:08] No but I mean like.

[00:13:09] There were obviously.

[00:13:09] Because there was a lot of castles and everything.

[00:13:11] Up Newcastle.

[00:13:12] And obviously in a fumbling way.

[00:13:13] So I do know there was a lot of.

[00:13:14] Oh there won't be that.

[00:13:15] Monks back in the day.

[00:13:17] Yeah.

[00:13:17] Oh there won't be that.

[00:13:18] I just mean like you know.

[00:13:19] Do we still have monks here?

[00:13:20] They're fucking everywhere.

[00:13:21] But no.

[00:13:21] I just don't know.

[00:13:22] A lot of chip shops get named after them don't they?

[00:13:25] There's a lot of chip shops called Friar Tucks.

[00:13:28] I mean I know a monk and a friar is not the same thing.

[00:13:30] But it's like a friar is an understudy to a monk.

[00:13:31] The little chip.

[00:13:32] Oliver's.

[00:13:33] No but I've seen a lot of chippies called Friar Tucks.

[00:13:36] Don't annoy me.

[00:13:37] Because I've seen it.

[00:13:37] I can't say I ever.

[00:13:39] There's one in Ingleby.

[00:13:41] Right okay.

[00:13:42] Well that makes sense.

[00:13:42] It's Ingleby.

[00:13:44] It's a good name for a chippy though.

[00:13:45] What Ingleby?

[00:13:46] Oh you're fucking into your Friar Tucks.

[00:13:48] Friar Tucks.

[00:13:49] It's like the Codfarver.

[00:13:52] Oh fuck's sake.

[00:13:53] When you need to walk in a chip you can call it Codfarver.

[00:13:55] That has to be a thing.

[00:13:57] Right.

[00:13:57] Yours can be Codfarver part of the reason.

[00:13:59] It'll be shit.

[00:14:01] Well I don't cook really mate.

[00:14:03] I know I do.

[00:14:03] Actually that's a lie.

[00:14:04] I'm just defending myself there.

[00:14:06] I'm really annoyed.

[00:14:07] You put rice in a wrap.

[00:14:10] Right.

[00:14:11] How many years ago was that?

[00:14:13] I mean you're always making fucking burritos aren't you?

[00:14:15] Oh right okay.

[00:14:16] Yeah that's culture mate.

[00:14:17] It's Mexican isn't it?

[00:14:18] I forgot.

[00:14:19] Oh yeah your native Mexican heritage.

[00:14:21] I forgot about this.

[00:14:23] All the tribes.

[00:14:24] I forgot Essex wasn't it.

[00:14:24] You're fucking.

[00:14:26] Wherever.

[00:14:27] Guatemala.

[00:14:28] I know.

[00:14:29] That's what I was thinking.

[00:14:30] I was going to say Guantanamo Bay.

[00:14:34] For fuck's sake man.

[00:14:37] Are we?

[00:14:38] Because they're getting very very off pace here.

[00:14:40] Right.

[00:14:41] Sorry.

[00:14:41] So.

[00:14:42] The next.

[00:14:44] The next location is the Time Theatre.

[00:14:46] An opera house.

[00:14:47] Oh I've been there a few times.

[00:14:49] I'll bet you have.

[00:14:50] On Westgate Road.

[00:14:52] So.

[00:14:53] This one.

[00:14:55] That sort of sounded like I was taking the piss.

[00:14:58] It did.

[00:14:58] I wish I had really been there.

[00:14:59] I know you will have been there.

[00:15:02] Let's just pause a minute.

[00:15:03] Have you ever seen a ghost there?

[00:15:05] No.

[00:15:06] Ah.

[00:15:06] Right.

[00:15:07] So.

[00:15:08] Anyway.

[00:15:08] Let's put context to it.

[00:15:09] So.

[00:15:10] Poor Bob Crawford.

[00:15:12] A stagehand at the theatre in the late 19th century.

[00:15:15] He fell foul.

[00:15:17] He fell foul of a rogue cannonball.

[00:15:20] Cannonballs.

[00:15:21] This is ridiculous mate.

[00:15:23] This is.

[00:15:24] Sorry.

[00:15:24] A rogue cannonball?

[00:15:25] Why have we got cannonballs in the theatre?

[00:15:27] I have no idea.

[00:15:28] Right.

[00:15:28] Let me start again.

[00:15:29] Just to finish reading what it says.

[00:15:30] Because this is confusing me.

[00:15:32] It's not.

[00:15:32] It's not.

[00:15:33] Right.

[00:15:33] I've got it here.

[00:15:34] You ready?

[00:15:34] Right.

[00:15:34] Start from the beginning.

[00:15:36] Poor Bob Crawford.

[00:15:38] A stagehand at the theatre in the late 19th century.

[00:15:41] He fell foul of a rogue cannonball.

[00:15:44] Cannonballs were often used as an early thunderstorm sound effect.

[00:15:49] Rolled around the arena.

[00:15:51] Sorry.

[00:15:51] Rolled around the area above the stage.

[00:15:54] But in 1887, a ball fell from its track and landed on Crawford.

[00:16:00] Killing him instantly and causing him to lurk around the stage ever since.

[00:16:06] From an inexplicable cold breath on a visitor's cheek to a vision of him in his favourite seat,

[00:16:15] there are many who believe his deeply miffed ghost is still among us.

[00:16:20] I like that one.

[00:16:21] Oh, why?

[00:16:23] Because at first, I can say, listeners won't realise, but that was about the fourth attempt

[00:16:30] at reading that one, didn't they?

[00:16:31] It was, yes.

[00:16:32] And obviously the first thing you got was fucking cannonballs.

[00:16:35] So I was like, why the shitting hell have they got cannonballs in the theatre?

[00:16:37] But now it makes perfect sense.

[00:16:39] And it also makes perfect sense that one's going to go through the fucking floorboards

[00:16:42] when you've got them above a stage.

[00:16:43] Yeah.

[00:16:44] Yeah.

[00:16:44] So it makes perfect sense.

[00:16:45] But I don't know, I like the ones where someone dies somewhere, where they're happy

[00:16:49] and they stay there.

[00:16:51] Alright, okay, yeah.

[00:16:52] I'm glad you finished up with that line there.

[00:16:56] Yeah, yeah, that makes sense.

[00:16:57] You know what I mean?

[00:16:58] Yeah.

[00:16:59] Like I said, I mean, I never saw anything on my, how many times have I been there?

[00:17:02] Twice.

[00:17:03] Yeah.

[00:17:04] Mm-hmm.

[00:17:04] But yeah.

[00:17:05] No ghost cannonballs or anything.

[00:17:06] Sadly not, no.

[00:17:07] That would have been a sight.

[00:17:08] I mean, the toilets in there are fucking horrific, so that was pretty haunting.

[00:17:12] That's where old Bob is.

[00:17:15] Looming around the toilets.

[00:17:16] Yeah, apart from that now.

[00:17:17] Letting off his own cannonballs.

[00:17:19] Yeah.

[00:17:20] Right.

[00:17:21] Next up, mate, we have The Long Stairs.

[00:17:24] At the close.

[00:17:26] Sorry, people, that's all I've got as a name for you.

[00:17:28] That's what it's called.

[00:17:29] The Long Stairs?

[00:17:30] The Long Stairs.

[00:17:31] Let me have a quick look on here.

[00:17:33] It's got to tell you, it tells you here, mate.

[00:17:34] Go on then.

[00:17:35] I just want to see if I can get a picture up, just for my eyes.

[00:17:38] Yeah.

[00:17:39] So The Long Stairs, running down to the quay side from the city centre.

[00:17:45] What?

[00:17:47] What did I do?

[00:17:49] You fucking idiot.

[00:17:50] It's the fucking quay side.

[00:17:52] Quay side?

[00:17:52] Is that what it's called?

[00:17:54] Every time I've seen that, mate, I've called it quay side.

[00:17:57] You're not leaving that in.

[00:17:59] It's fucking quay side.

[00:18:02] Have you ever been to Torquay?

[00:18:04] No.

[00:18:06] No.

[00:18:06] Can't say I have.

[00:18:09] Right.

[00:18:09] Quay side.

[00:18:10] No quay side, I said not quay.

[00:18:12] Quay side.

[00:18:13] Quay side.

[00:18:18] Oh, bloody hell.

[00:18:19] Right, come on.

[00:18:20] There's a blooper for you.

[00:18:21] I'm staying in.

[00:18:25] The Long Stairs, running down the quay side from the city centre, are creepy enough as it is,

[00:18:35] but become even more so when you consider the cruel fate of Henry Hardwick.

[00:18:40] Hardwick.

[00:18:41] Trying to evade a life in the Navy, Hardwick was set upon and murdered by a notorious press

[00:18:49] gang, right by the corporate pub.

[00:18:54] And his ghost is said to wander the steps, often described as eyeless since the gang removed

[00:19:01] his eyeballs.

[00:19:02] Shudder.

[00:19:03] Jesus Christ.

[00:19:04] Jesus Christ indeed.

[00:19:06] Wasn't on his side that day.

[00:19:08] What the hell's a press gang?

[00:19:09] I thought to me that just sounded like an hour of your journalists.

[00:19:11] I knew it.

[00:19:12] I knew that as soon as I saw a press gang.

[00:19:16] Does anyone know what a press gang is?

[00:19:18] If anyone listening knows what a press gang is, let us know.

[00:19:20] Please do.

[00:19:20] Surely it isn't that.

[00:19:22] No, no.

[00:19:23] Not if they're removing eyeballs, anyway.

[00:19:25] It doesn't give us a year, which is a little annoying.

[00:19:29] However, judging by the look of this photo, this is way back.

[00:19:35] Yeah.

[00:19:35] Way back.

[00:19:37] I'd imagine they're still there, mate.

[00:19:42] Well, yeah, they will be, because it does say that the stairs...

[00:19:45] What does it say?

[00:19:47] Yeah, I've been down the bastard things.

[00:19:49] Oh, have you?

[00:19:49] Yeah.

[00:19:50] Did you see...

[00:19:52] I didn't see any eyes.

[00:19:53] No, no.

[00:19:54] No eyeballs.

[00:19:55] No, that's a good thing.

[00:19:56] Or anyone with lack of eyeballs.

[00:19:58] Anyone lacking said eyeballs.

[00:20:00] No, sadly not.

[00:20:01] Right, okay.

[00:20:02] Sadly.

[00:20:03] Yeah.

[00:20:04] Well then.

[00:20:06] It reminds me a bit of The Exorcist.

[00:20:08] If anyone's seen The Exorcist, obviously the stairs at the side of the house, where fucking

[00:20:12] what's his name?

[00:20:13] Flings himself out the window.

[00:20:15] All right, okay.

[00:20:15] And he fucking goes flying down the stairs, breaks his neck.

[00:20:18] It looks a bit like that from the pictures I've got here.

[00:20:21] Worst thing about that Exorcist film, mate, is he coming downstairs upside down fucking

[00:20:25] easy.

[00:20:27] It's a good impression, that though, isn't it?

[00:20:29] I can do that noise.

[00:20:30] Weirdly well.

[00:20:31] It was fantastic, mate.

[00:20:32] Right.

[00:20:33] That him.

[00:20:39] Oh, it's a...

[00:20:40] I was going to say something else, but it's a little bit too far.

[00:20:42] It's a good film, that.

[00:20:42] It is.

[00:20:43] It is.

[00:20:44] It's a good time.

[00:20:44] Fucking horrible.

[00:20:46] Right.

[00:20:46] Do you know what she did?

[00:20:48] No, I'm going to say the rest of it.

[00:20:49] No, yeah.

[00:20:49] Leave it at that.

[00:20:51] Next up on the list, mate, we have The Trinity Chair and Broad...

[00:20:57] Hang on.

[00:20:58] It's spelled S-C-H-A-R-E.

[00:21:01] Chair.

[00:21:02] Is that chair?

[00:21:03] Level up.

[00:21:07] Help.

[00:21:09] It means in Nairow Street or Alley.

[00:21:12] Well, that's cool.

[00:21:13] How is it pronounced?

[00:21:14] Very good puns.

[00:21:23] Share.

[00:21:25] Right, share then.

[00:21:27] Share.

[00:21:28] Yeah, we've got a share.

[00:21:29] What the fuck is that?

[00:21:30] I don't know.

[00:21:31] On YouTube.

[00:21:32] Fucking Golem Boys, though.

[00:21:34] Share.

[00:21:36] Thanks.

[00:21:37] Right.

[00:21:38] Next up, Liam, we have The Trinity Chair and Broad Chair.

[00:21:43] Just to give you a bit of context of what that is, it's like a broad street,

[00:21:47] a narrow street, not a broad street, fuck's sake, a narrow street or alley.

[00:21:51] Even though one of them is called Broad.

[00:21:52] I do have an image here.

[00:21:54] Again, we're looking around Victorian times by the look of it.

[00:21:57] Yeah.

[00:21:58] And yeah, it just looks like a very narrow street.

[00:22:02] And it used to be called, if this is the correct image from the same area,

[00:22:06] is The Dog Leap Stairs.

[00:22:09] That's what it's called.

[00:22:10] Building that stair, mate.

[00:22:12] I ain't joking, mate.

[00:22:14] That's what it says.

[00:22:15] Right.

[00:22:17] Sadder, perhaps, even than the flower girl or Bob Crofer and his cannonball,

[00:22:24] is the tale of Mary Wilson, who was driven to suicide by the loss of her husband.

[00:22:29] She took her life at home near Broadshare and, to this day,

[00:22:35] is said to walk the area around Broadshare and Trinity Share.

[00:22:38] Known as the Slinky Ghost because her presence is often sensed through the sound of rustling clothing.

[00:22:52] And having been refused a Christian burial because she died at her own hands.

[00:22:58] It seems poor that may...

[00:23:00] It seems poor that...

[00:23:04] Sorry, mate.

[00:23:05] It seems poor that Mary is doomed to wander the key...

[00:23:11] It seems poor that Mary is doomed to wander the key side forevermore.

[00:23:16] That's annoying.

[00:23:17] Why?

[00:23:19] Because she's called the Silky Ghost.

[00:23:21] Yeah.

[00:23:22] Because of rustling clothes.

[00:23:24] Yeah, I know.

[00:23:25] Silk not rustle.

[00:23:25] You thought she was going to be dancing, didn't you?

[00:23:26] No, but silk doesn't rustle.

[00:23:29] Yeah, it doesn't.

[00:23:29] Just Vossy Bops.

[00:23:33] Yeah.

[00:23:34] No, but silk doesn't rustle.

[00:23:36] That's just stupid.

[00:23:37] If anything, I expect it to be like Adnos.

[00:23:39] It's not a fucking...

[00:23:40] Nylon.

[00:23:41] Nylon Ghost.

[00:23:43] Nylon Ghost.

[00:23:43] Nylon Ghost.

[00:23:44] It doesn't sound as good, I suppose.

[00:23:45] But still, it's misleading.

[00:23:47] It is, it is.

[00:23:48] Silky Ghost.

[00:23:49] Jardy bastards.

[00:23:52] Ah, sorry to anyone from Newcastle having to deal with Liam's blasphemy.

[00:23:59] Blasphemy?

[00:23:59] They're not...

[00:24:00] Jesus.

[00:24:01] Right.

[00:24:02] So next up, we have the Lytton Phil at Westgate Road.

[00:24:06] Oh, right.

[00:24:07] So I'm assuming it's a pub.

[00:24:08] I don't know.

[00:24:09] We shall find out.

[00:24:11] So, the Lytton Phil is positively teeming with ghosts.

[00:24:15] Can I just say, the research we do with these episodes is impeccable, by the way.

[00:24:18] Oh, it's fantastic, isn't it?

[00:24:20] Well, this was last minute.

[00:24:21] We made them aware before.

[00:24:23] As many as...

[00:24:25] So it's teeming with ghosts.

[00:24:27] Right.

[00:24:27] As many as 16 different phantoms have been claimed.

[00:24:31] Love the word phantoms.

[00:24:32] Much better than ghosts.

[00:24:34] One such ghost...

[00:24:35] You killed it.

[00:24:37] LAUGHTER

[00:24:40] One such phantom.

[00:24:42] One such phantom, which manifested as a door seeming to open by...

[00:24:51] Phantom door!

[00:24:52] That's better.

[00:24:53] The way you said that is...

[00:24:55] It just appeared as a door.

[00:25:00] Hey!

[00:25:01] Oh, yeah, hang on.

[00:25:03] That's killing me, man.

[00:25:03] Read the sentence properly.

[00:25:05] I have.

[00:25:06] You haven't.

[00:25:06] Mate, I promise you I have...

[00:25:08] Do it again.

[00:25:08] One such phantom, which manifested as a door seeming to open by itself.

[00:25:14] Exactly.

[00:25:15] Yeah, I'm not lying.

[00:25:16] That's what it is.

[00:25:17] Yes, but you would say that.

[00:25:18] One such phantom appeared as a door seeming to open, not as a door seeming to open.

[00:25:24] Oh, right, okay.

[00:25:25] Fucking pillock.

[00:25:27] Right, okay, haven't we?

[00:25:28] Haven't we?

[00:25:29] Um...

[00:25:31] Even...

[00:25:31] And that even made the national news.

[00:25:33] Well, everything did back then.

[00:25:36] For for sake.

[00:25:36] You can't move in the building without mysterious disembodied coughs.

[00:25:41] Shadow...

[00:25:42] Phantom cough.

[00:25:45] Um...

[00:25:45] Shadowy figures and book racks rolling unaided.

[00:25:50] One for the steel...

[00:25:54] One for the steeliest of hearts.

[00:25:57] I mean, that's shy, that one, let's be honest.

[00:26:00] Yeah, that one was crap.

[00:26:01] You told me there's 16 fucking ghosts.

[00:26:03] One of them's a door.

[00:26:04] One of them's a fucking cough.

[00:26:05] And the others are fucking...

[00:26:07] Fuckshelves.

[00:26:08] And wheels.

[00:26:11] Oh, I'll tell you, mate.

[00:26:13] Who knows?

[00:26:13] There might be a fucking librarian ghost in there.

[00:26:16] Right.

[00:26:18] Next up, mate, we have the Theatre Royal.

[00:26:21] Oh, aye.

[00:26:21] At Grey Street.

[00:26:23] Never been to that one.

[00:26:24] No?

[00:26:25] No?

[00:26:25] Can't say I have either.

[00:26:27] So, appropriately imbued with a keen sense of the...

[00:26:32] Appropriately imbued with a keen sense of the dramatic.

[00:26:35] The grey lady of the theatre...

[00:26:38] It's always a fucking grey lady, isn't it?

[00:26:39] There's one everywhere.

[00:26:40] The grey lady of the Theatre Royal is said to have been a spurned lover.

[00:26:47] Desperately in love with an actor who was an absolute cad.

[00:26:51] Slag.

[00:26:54] Who threw herself from one of the theatre's highest boxes to her death.

[00:26:59] Oh, Christ.

[00:27:00] Jesus.

[00:27:01] The story varies to such an extent that even the theatre involved charges.

[00:27:07] Changes.

[00:27:08] Sorry.

[00:27:08] Even the theatre involved changes.

[00:27:11] Sometimes...

[00:27:12] I'd be sweet with her up.

[00:27:14] Just leave her where she is, lads.

[00:27:17] Sometimes it's attributed to the time theatre.

[00:27:21] But we think the grey lady is very much a Theatre Royal sort of lass.

[00:27:27] Is that what it says?

[00:27:28] That's what it says, mate.

[00:27:29] That's crying out pissing loud.

[00:27:33] This was definitely ripped by Geordie's wife.

[00:27:35] Right.

[00:27:35] Next up, mate.

[00:27:36] We have the assembly rooms at Frankel Street.

[00:27:40] Sorry, Fenkel Street.

[00:27:41] For God's sake, man.

[00:27:43] You are dyslexic as fuck you.

[00:27:46] The assembly rooms at Fenkel Street.

[00:27:50] As if one grey lady in the city wasn't enough, there's said to be another haunting the assembly rooms.

[00:27:57] I want a red lady.

[00:27:58] I've never seen a red lady.

[00:28:01] Shamed by a husband's demand that she dance drunk and naked for his friends on a rowdy New Year's Eve.

[00:28:09] Now, she's a slag.

[00:28:11] Because she didn't do it, you dickhead.

[00:28:13] He's the twat.

[00:28:15] Why?

[00:28:16] Because he wanted her to do it.

[00:28:18] That's what I got from that.

[00:28:20] Demanded, yeah.

[00:28:20] Yes, I see.

[00:28:23] At least I know it's not just me you don't listen to.

[00:28:25] You don't even listen to your fucking cell.

[00:28:26] I'm severely dyslexic, aren't I?

[00:28:28] Clearly.

[00:28:30] And that was in 1777.

[00:28:32] What, that you found out you were dyslexic?

[00:28:35] Yeah, William John Price back in 1777.

[00:28:39] Her subsequent horror and disgrace at what she had done caused her to fling herself from the ballroom gallery to her death.

[00:28:49] From a ballroom gallery to her death.

[00:28:52] To this day, her presence is announced by the scent of lavender.

[00:28:56] I don't mind a bit of lavender.

[00:28:58] I like lavender, yeah.

[00:28:59] It's alright.

[00:28:59] It's one flower.

[00:29:00] I don't mind, mate.

[00:29:01] It helps you go to sleep.

[00:29:02] I didn't know.

[00:29:03] I didn't know that.

[00:29:05] The rustle of a taffeta ball...

[00:29:07] What?

[00:29:08] What the hell is a taffeta ball?

[00:29:10] The rustle of a taffeta ball...

[00:29:12] Sorry.

[00:29:13] The rustle of a taffeta ball gown.

[00:29:15] A mysterious sense of someone nearby and heavy doors opening of their own accord.

[00:29:22] Again, it's just a typical theatre ghost.

[00:29:25] Yeah.

[00:29:26] Yeah.

[00:29:26] So a woman's killed herself because her husband's done this.

[00:29:29] She's now known as the Grey Lady and you can hear her rustle.

[00:29:31] Aye.

[00:29:33] Well...

[00:29:34] Is that it?

[00:29:35] That's not it.

[00:29:36] We've got one more.

[00:29:37] Nice.

[00:29:37] The Newcastle Cathedral.

[00:29:39] Oh, aye.

[00:29:40] St. Nicholas Square.

[00:29:42] This looks more like it.

[00:29:43] Bit of Whippy Abbey, this.

[00:29:45] Like most ancient buildings, this one almost a thousand years old.

[00:29:51] Newcastle Cathedral has its fair share of gruesome history.

[00:29:55] Regardless of its holy status...

[00:29:57] In the mid-17th century, Scottish prisoners were captive within the tower and many died from ill treatment and malnutrition.

[00:30:08] Is that strange disembodied noise at the cries of the dead soldiers?

[00:30:18] What about that ghostly form in the graveyard?

[00:30:22] Is it poor Martha Williams who accidentally disturbed some grave robbers and was murdered?

[00:30:28] There's even a ghostly knight detected by his clanking armour, perhaps related to the unknown knight effigy in the cathedral.

[00:30:39] That's cool.

[00:30:40] Yeah, that one's an interesting one.

[00:30:40] I want to see a ghost knight.

[00:30:43] Yeah, that one's the better one.

[00:30:44] That one's definitely one of the better ones.

[00:30:46] Yeah, yeah, much better.

[00:30:47] And it does sound like they've saved the best till laughed.

[00:30:50] Yeah.

[00:30:50] Laughed?

[00:30:51] Last.

[00:30:51] I can't speak, mate, today.

[00:30:53] No, clearly.

[00:30:53] Poor day.

[00:30:54] What were your favourites?

[00:30:56] Well, Newcastle Cathedral.

[00:30:57] Aye.

[00:30:58] And I know yours is going to be the original theatre.

[00:31:04] I like that one.

[00:31:05] I didn't mind the first one because, like I said, I like a haunted chair.

[00:31:10] Yeah, yeah.

[00:31:11] I didn't mind that.

[00:31:11] I don't like the one with the flowers.

[00:31:12] That was shit.

[00:31:13] Well, the thing is, I like the idea of the one that was like 16 ghosts and then it told me it was a fucking door in a bookshelf.

[00:31:21] It wasn't a door shite.

[00:31:23] It didn't even say it.

[00:31:24] No, I know, but you know what I mean.

[00:31:25] Yeah, right.

[00:31:27] But definitely, definitely the cathedral.

[00:31:31] That's got to take number one by quite some distance there.

[00:31:35] Well, who knows, maybe one day me and you will have one of a day out.

[00:31:38] Definitely, definitely.

[00:31:40] So there you have it, guys.

[00:31:41] There's some of the most haunted places in Newcastle.

[00:31:43] Old Geordieland, Liam's favourite second door.

[00:31:46] Yeah.

[00:31:48] Yeah, so again, it's been your favourite hosts, Liam and Billy.

[00:31:53] Liam, shout out to some of the socials for me, mate.

[00:31:54] It's been a while.

[00:31:55] Yes, we've got obviously Instagram, that's the main one.

[00:31:57] That's the only one we're really plugging because it's the only one that gets much traction, to be honest.

[00:32:01] Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[00:32:02] So that's it.

[00:32:03] At underscore, let, oh, bollocks.

[00:32:06] At let's underscore, talk about pods.

[00:32:08] You'll find a link in the bio for all the other pages over there.

[00:32:10] Merch star, Patreon page.

[00:32:13] You know, the usual.

[00:32:14] Yeah, yeah.

[00:32:15] Go check out everything there.

[00:32:16] And as always, it's been a pleasure.

[00:32:19] Thank you for listening.

[00:32:21] And take care.