About this episode

Blake revisits a discussion with Hayley Stevens about Pluckley, England, known as the most haunted village.

Blake brings us a flashback to 2017, when he and Karen sat down with The Spooktator 's Hayley Stevens to talk about the (allegedly) most haunted village in England. Hayley is a British paranormal researcher who started out a believer and came around to skepticism the hard way - by actually investigating - and she now publishes the newsletter The Ghost Geek . She first appeared on MonsterTalk back in episode 37 to talk lake monsters. This time the subject is Pluckley , a small, film-set-pretty village in Kent that is considerably more famous for its dead than for its living. Pluckley's ghost roster runs somewhere between a dozen and sixteen-plus, depending on who's counting and when - and the number has a habit of going up. There are two different White Ladies, a Red Lady, a highwayman, a phantom coach, and a stretch of woodland that screams. Where does a reputation like this actually come from, who benefits from it, and what happens to a place once the ghost tours arrive? Also - Blake goes looking for a famous piece of documentation that everybody cites and nobody seems to have seen. Extended notes at monstertalk.org Become a supporter of this podcast…

People in this episode

Host: Blake Smith

Guest: Hayley Stevens

Topics covered

• haunted locations
• paranormal research
• skepticism
• ghost stories
• cultural folklore

Keywords

• haunted village
• Pluckley
• ghosts
• paranormal investigation
• skepticism
• Hayley Stevens
• Blake Smith

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: The Spooktator, The Ghost Geek

Places: Pluckley, Kent

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