S05E46 FLASHBACK: England's Most Haunted Village

Blake brings us a flashback to 2017, when he and Karen sat down withThe Spooktator (spooktator.co.uk)'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 theghostgeek.com/The Ghost Geek (theghostgeek.com)hayleyisaghost.co.uk. She first appeared on MonsterTalk back in episode 37 (monstertalk.org/037-hayley-stevens-lake-monste…) to talk lake monsters. This time the subject is en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pluckley, a small, film-set-pretty village in en.wikipedia.org/wiki/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.

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