Episode 53: More like Croglin Strange.. am I right?!

Graeme Cooke

1 year ago

“Mr Hare’s ghosts are rather more interesting than his lords or his middle-class people”

*This is Croglin Low Hall. Not Croglin Grange. Sort of… maybe… listen to the discussion section*

A bonus Halloween episode featuirng a very well known terryfiying tale of a supernatural encounter in Cumbria.

Featuring: Victorians! A perfectly named gothic villain, who is not a villain! A surprising Irish detour! Unecessary speculation and intimation on my behalf! And an image which has haunted the nightmares of generations of English children. Or at the very least… mine.

Have a great Halloween and Samhain everyone, hope you enjoy this trip to the incredibly pleasing to say… Croglin Grange.

Eccentric characters…

Augustus Hare – Racentour. A revewer of his biography said: “Mr Hare’s ghosts are rather more interesting than his lords or his middle-class people”

Reverend Lionel Fanthorpe – Headmaster, Reverend, Cryptozoologist, Martial arts instructor, TV Presenter, musical genius (IMO)

Montague Summers
“During the year 1927, the striking and somber figure of the Reverend Montague Sommers in black soutane and cloak, with buckled shoes—a la Louis Quatorze—and shovel hat could often have been seen entering or leaving the reading room of the British Museum, carrying a large black portfolio bearing on its side a white label, showing in blood-red capitals, the legend ‘VAMPIRES’.

Rev. Fanthorpe on Croglin Grange

This is the talk by Rev. Fanthorpe which I reference in the discussion section. I summarised it in the discussion section but cannot replicate his style – and the video is well worth watching just for that alone.