These stories just wouldn't be the same without your chat at the end. Always makes me think I've popped round to see and old friend. That's what your podcast is to me. An old friend.

@ClassicGhost

4 ай бұрын

I am very happy you feel that

@elaineparker6171

4 ай бұрын

I agree...that's exactly how I feel

Yay! First to listen on this cold, windy, yet sunny, PNW 2024 January day. My blessed friend has brought Putnam & Williams High Tea items for a belated Holiday treat! What a lovely delight! Friends & listening wonders! Thank you!

@lesliewheeler4785

4 ай бұрын

Ditto every poetic word..here in rural pnw.. knees covered with wool throw..cup o tea cupping in our hands..settling in for a gr8 yarn on the RR. ❤

@evelanpatton

4 ай бұрын

@@lesliewheeler4785 💯🪭‼️ 🖤👻 & 🛌💤🌀 &🕵🏻‍♂️ 📖🗣️🪭 Stay cozy & warm! Open your cabinet doors to warm the pipes & let the faucets drip… these arctic winds have us on our toes, using tissues to blow our nose, & ready to curl up & listen very, very close! Cheers Tony’s fellow PNW listener. 📪📫📬

@lancelotdufrane

4 ай бұрын

Hey neighbor. PNW here. Isn’t this the best?! Tony reading… Great stuff for the weather we love. Best to you.

@ronco99

4 ай бұрын

PNW, me too😊

@meganmcnelis7136

4 ай бұрын

I'm in the PNW too! These stories are great for the bone-chilling weather we're having.

It is -28 C and blowing snow here at my cabin in the forests of Montana U.S.~~THANK YOU Tony, for being here for me to discover. Your Podcast keeps me company through the long nights. Hello to all the dogs!

@nsob8897

4 ай бұрын

Wow, you guys must be getting the north wind sweeping down the east edge of the mountains. I'm as far north but a couple states to your east and we've barely hit a minus 10 yet. Usually we've already gotten a week's worth of 30 below or better by now. Anyway, I concur. I'm happy to sit down to some nice easy listening stories after work during a cold snap. You guys keep warm and best of luck on those rotten icy roads, fellow northerner.

@ClassicGhost

4 ай бұрын

That is cold! But how romantic that sounds

@JT_Soul

4 ай бұрын

Montana's a beautiful state. Greetings from a friendly neighbour up in Canada. Stay warm!

Hi Tony, Thank you. It's great to hear your voice, especially when I'm stressing. Anxiety has me in it's grip, and I must deal with it alone. The upside is that I just adopted a 10 week old ginger kitten. She's gorgeous and needed a home. Please excuse my blether. But hey...?

@lesliewheeler4785

4 ай бұрын

Your Ginger will tend to you, like no other..Tony's voice builds good 👍 😉 vibes inside.. his narrative skills are thrilling. ❤

@lunablue745

4 ай бұрын

You're never alone! Animals make the best of friends, and you have your spooky family here who care about you!❤️

@Story-Voracious66

4 ай бұрын

@lesliewheeler4785 Thank you for your kind reply, it is *truly* appreciated.. ❤️

@Story-Voracious66

4 ай бұрын

@lunablue745 Thanks so much. Kind words mean *so* much. Love this spooky group. ❤️

@lunablue745

4 ай бұрын

@@Story-Voracious66 💛Me too!

I simply can't get enough of Mr Walkers stories! They're like a port in the storm for me. An oasis in my world...

@ClassicGhost

3 ай бұрын

Happy to help

@roxyabrooks864

3 ай бұрын

@@ClassicGhost Honestly, you help more folks like me than you may realize. Please, keep up the great work! You're a treasure!

Enjoying the Narrations and the Bletherings!!❤ I often walked in the dark of the City, with the little Tyke Jasper!! In the Spring and Summer, I walk without Shoes on,,,❤ It's rather Funny when People point it Out, Kindly ~ telling me that I am not Wearing Shoes!!😂❤

“You tried to get into the locked drawer today, didn’t you?” I always know I’m in for a treat.

@franktheexpertstrenchclub9025

3 ай бұрын

For real! What’s in that drawer??

@Cat_festation

3 ай бұрын

@@franktheexpertstrenchclub9025 that’s an entire story in itself 🤫

Some people don't like the winter and the dark but I think it should be our time to slow down and rest as the earth is doing. A good time to really indulge in hygge. If you haven't heard of the concept of Hygge you should look it up. It's from the Danes and the Norse. They know a thing or two about how to spend the cold dark afternoons. Over by me, we have gotten 9 inches of snow in the last ~24 hours. More due tomorrow night.

@ClassicGhost

4 ай бұрын

Thats a lot of snow

Perfect timing i just made a thermos of coffee. Please do the 50 ghost stories 😅😅

I love Zizek! Actually, I dated a professor who got me a tshirt that says, “I ❤ Zizek!” He is such a goofy dude. This was wonderful, but what a bonehead, aye? He’d have probably not been hanged with his injuries and clear evidence of a struggle, and perhaps the ghost would have been less vengeful if he would have felt that the justice system had tried and acquitted him. Also, I take total responsibility for encouraging you to chat with us at the end! ❤ I’d be so sad if you didn’t. And I love walking around at night. I live both in Minneapolis and way out in the middle of nowhere and it’s the best, both places. It is a bit harder to be comfortable in winter here though when we get such intense blizzards and so far below zero (Fahrenheit, of course, so well below freezing, in fact, it rarely goes above 32* F in winter around here). I still brave the cold though, and I see so many cool animals. Actually, I just was in Florida and saw some armadillos and alligators during my nightly walks!

@ClassicGhost

4 ай бұрын

i just interviewed Todd Thyberg from Minneapolis ! As a detective I do not chat , as a ghost I do generally

@susanmercurio1060

4 ай бұрын

I live in Minneapolis now but I grew up in Florida.

I'm spo excited, I've never been this early ❤❤😂

I had a second listen today Tony, and got a lot out of your "blether ". Perfect timing, it struck so many chords. I went on to listen to my favourite Fairport Convention and Steeeye Span, trying to keep myself grounded, ( this is an enemy I'd almost forgotten, then it rears its totality irrational head). So more than just thanks for the story, and wishing you all the best on your next everything.

Hurrah Sheila! Organization is🔑! Hooray for the doggies and the dark. I actually walk my little Loki every night for an hour in the dark listening to this odd gent who does a Ghost stories podcast😁

@evelanpatton

4 ай бұрын

Me too sometimes, but wind chill at 16 Degrees would crack our little pups toes! 😢

@lunablue745

4 ай бұрын

@@evelanpatton oh my goodness, that is cold! Stay safe & warm!🐾💙

This saw an outstanding story, and the reading was done very well 👏. Thanks for sharing your art.

Love your vivid narration, "ramblings" also this time around. Thank you, again, Tony.

Nice surprise ❤

Good to hear that your dogs are well.

In rural Oregon, they say, "Black as the inside of a cow"

@ClassicGhost

4 ай бұрын

I have heard that saying but a long time ago now

🔥wonderful for a chilly evening. Thank you♡

In rural oregon, on a roaring, surging getting high & not yet cresting creek.. let it snow 😅 Tony's narrative provides comic relief.

@ClassicGhost

4 ай бұрын

sounds very atmospheric though . stay dry

The best musings make me take notes and - as another commenter said - inspire my own musings. Here are some notes ‘n quotes… ** Tony Walker’s musings after The Second Passenger ghost story by Basil Copper. “And that’s what we all do, don’t we? We write - very often - about our memories of our youths. We don’t write about the world as it is; we write about the world as we remember it, as we are historical creatures, traveling through time …or does time travel through us?… Mm. That’s a deep one, but certainly …when we write things, we are not outside the process of history. That sounds very profound, but actually doesn’t really mean very much, so… Just means we get old, don’t we? And then we get older. That’s all it means, but it sounds like something at a literary festival.“ “This mysterious other“ for whom we buy all the books we never read. “I think by talking.“ “Many of you love this stuff - it’s your fault, you see?“ 😅😅😅 On “the dark there“: “You’re drenched in darkness - it’s like a blanket around you.” Samuel Taylor Coleridge: “To thee all seasons shall be sweet.“ Coleridge wrote “Frost at Midnight” from which this line appears. Even the dark is as light to You. According to Goodreads or Wikipedia, Coleridge also originated the term “suspension of disbelief.“ And finally, a comment reply to @along5925 “Thoughts lead to thoughts and if we’re lucky they lead to dreams.“ **

Oh that was a good one 🥰 Thank you!

@ClassicGhost

4 ай бұрын

Glad you liked it!!

Loved this story and your narration of it. Also, I'm one of your many fans who throughly enjoy your post-story verbal wanderings. I invariably listen in when retiring for the night and your comments/observations always lead me to musings of my own on any given subject and I drift off. It's very pleasant. So keep the conversation going, my friend.

@ClassicGhost

4 ай бұрын

thank you. Thoughts lead to thoughts and if we’re luckily lead to dreams :)

Recovering from a operation.So listening more at moment.Helps me sleep.Thanks tony.

Very enjoyable! As always, love your commentary as much as the story, so a great combo. I have also been walking in the dark evenings the last couple of months and enjoyed it so much. Especially the festive lights, they make me feel so relaxed somehow. There, now I am rambling. Thank you!

@ClassicGhost

4 ай бұрын

I love to hear your response to it though. Night walkers!

While she was working, my late mother used to get up and go to bed a half-hour early just so she could read. (My late father understood. He was medically retired, but he was a big reader as well. Our inherited house is heavily infested with books, theirs and ours.

@ClassicGhost

4 ай бұрын

I do that too . It’s important to find time to read

Thank you Tony! And loved the story tonight as well!

I thought I was the only one who knew about Elizabeth Hand and Wylding Hall! WHAT an outstanding story. Frightens the life out of me on each re-read.

What a well-written story! And I love the name "Reginald Braintree", especially how it plays into the plot at the end of the story. Thanks Tony! Nicely read as always! I can't believe I never heard of Basil Copper before. I'll have to listen to your other story of his!

Thanks!

@ClassicGhost

24 күн бұрын

thank you so much

Love your rambles!

@ClassicGhost

4 ай бұрын

Thank you! They come naturally as you might have guessed.

Thank you Tony! I love, love your commentary after the story. I am one of those who listen to the end. ❤

@ClassicGhost

4 ай бұрын

The best kind !

That was great, I love your telling of these awesome tales!

❤ Thank you so Much Again!! Gratefully Appreciated,❤ ~ Now,,, I must Listen!! From Carlisle,😊 Andréa and Jasper. ...XxX...❤ Ps, This was absolutely Awesome 😎👍👍 Your Narration is Perfect!!❤

Yay! Great story … Happy New Year to you all!

You have the best reading voice and your pace is perfect💜💞💜 thank you.

@ClassicGhost

4 ай бұрын

Thank you for saying that ! I read more slowly than i used to due to helpful feedback and comments

Great story and narration! Your "you made me do it" and owning up to your actions line made me smile and howl in laughter. I teach something very similar in my classes. I refer people who say that to "Man's Search for Meaning", by Viktor Frankl. Have a fantastic evening!

I love walking around in the dark for all the reasons you mentioned, especially after a thick blanket of snow or on a really hot night. I also love walking around on cloudy, uncrowded days along the water, but on no other days. I think I'm just happiest when I'm brooding if I'm honest.

@ClassicGhost

4 ай бұрын

Nothing wrong with that :)

Wonderful. Thank you

Green slime. What an odd theme to stumble onto! 😀

@ClassicGhost

4 ай бұрын

i am going to avoid it in future

Steeleye Span? I think I have all of their vinyl albums.

Green slime in two stories is a coincidence. Another coincidence is that a cult classic science fiction horror film is titled "The Green Slime". Its lively theme is running through my head right now.

@ClassicGhost

4 ай бұрын

It’s a nasty substance

I enjoy listening to you think out loud ❤

@ClassicGhost

4 ай бұрын

Others have mixed views :) But thank you

@spitfire_2

4 ай бұрын

@@ClassicGhost “Others” are free to stop listening at any point in time. 👩🏻‍🦰

@ClassicGhost

4 ай бұрын

I need to remind myself of that from time to time

Loved your epilogue commentary almost as much as the main story. Greetings and best wishes from Silicon Valley California.

@ClassicGhost

3 ай бұрын

Silicon Valley. You’re my first commentator from there

A dark and damp Saturday evening in January 👀 I absolutely love listening to your ghostly stories,. I don't sit in the dark I darent 😲 I have a light on just in case....👍

@ClassicGhost

4 ай бұрын

Some of them are spooky

I always enjoy the stories. Lately, i take a moment to appreciate the cover art as well.

@ClassicGhost

4 ай бұрын

Glad you like them! I enjoy making them

Good selection, which I enjoyed. Hope you have a good time at your "do"; are you speaking or just having a good time? Stay well.

I love this story ❤

Hey there! Lovely presentation. Do check out AFTERWARDS, THE DARK by Basil Copper, a good anthology. And thanks for mentioning WYLDING HALL. Pretty good folk horror, though slow.

I read The Janissarries of Emilion about 40 years ago and have never forgotten it. I look forward to your recording!

Horrible story. Enjoyed it!

I'm cataloging those of your podcasts I've listened to on LibraryThing. You, of course, are listed as "Narrator".

You never disappoint with your delivery Tony, do you think you could perhaps do some poetry readings on your channel in the future, I'd love to hear your inflections on the likes of Thomas Lovell Beddoes "the boding dreams". Either way, your output is very much needed and appreciated, best wishes from County Durham

@ClassicGhost

4 ай бұрын

You know i did a classic poetry channel ? if you go to the bottom of m youtube channel front page you should find a link

@Gez_Fez

4 ай бұрын

@@ClassicGhost ah, terrific, thank you for pointing me in the right direction, I've a lot to catch up on 👍

Did you have a chance to see anything of local historical interest while in Derby for the ghost story festival? I've always been quite interested in blue john ("Derbyshire spar").

An expat listening on an overcast morning in S Florida.

@ClassicGhost

4 ай бұрын

I didn’t know they had those there :)

You read the story very well, as you always do. The story itself, however, didn't appeal to me. Both the main characters were quite odious, but it might have resolved itself into a nice Greek revenge drama if not for one thing. The revenge was much too swift. Nemesis gets there, but she takes her time.

I have a couple of Solar Pons books, but the author's name on them is August Derleth.

@ClassicGhost

4 ай бұрын

That might be my mistake

I have mixed feelings about this story because I feel sorry for Braintree.

Argh, that buddy green slime!

Rather sorry that the dogs didnt interrupt.

@ClassicGhost

4 ай бұрын

I banned them. I let them in usually for the commentary. I think they slept through it.

@ropeburnsrussell

4 ай бұрын

@@ClassicGhost I really like hearing them. But its probably easier to record when they are asleep. They could add sound effects to The Hound of the Baskervilles.

@ClassicGhost

4 ай бұрын

I’ve just recorded that. We might have got a bit of snoring

@mares3841

4 ай бұрын

⁠@@ClassicGhost In the 1990's, there was a privately owned classical radio station owned by an older married couple and their dogs could be heard barking during the broadcasts! They played such a rich selection and their love story was so sweet: he bought the original radio signal as a young man out of his love of radio technology. She began to work there as a college girl and they got together and got married. They borrowed from her brother, a doctor, in order to buy more bandwidth because they had complaints that their signal was crackling. Well, decades later, still together, he had a new hobby of motorcycles and she was Midwestern patronly in appearance. They became retirement age and the world had changed to the extent that their signal was bought for over $380 million dollars 😁! True story!

I'm a huge ghost story fan, in general, but felt this one was so masculine in approach, it didn't resonate at all. Themes of lifelong animosity, thoughts of revenge and toleration of situations and people one dislikes intensely, are so alien to me. Undeniably these exist and were described well, but I just kept thinking 'what's the point?'.

Is it spelled Clark or clerk?

@ClassicGhost

4 ай бұрын

clerk hit pronounced in British English as clark

HiFi you say... Whatcha into? Whatcha got? Myself, Marantz SR880mkII receiver ($35 at car swap meet) Pinnacle P6.2 bookshelf speakers (free) Onkyo DV-SP500 (Goodwill $10?)

@ClassicGhost

4 ай бұрын

That's how to do a hifi system. I remember going round the charity shops.

That's some great artwork! Sets the tone; I love how 'Clerk' is said like "Cl(a)rk"! 🚂🎫🛤️🧳

@ClassicGhost

4 ай бұрын

It’s weird isn’t it? Derby is Darby and altitude is oltitude or so my mother told me