Otley

We've just had the beautiful full Hunter's Moon and we're beginning to move towards the death of 2026.

Whether you're joining me through the airwaves on the Bell Witch Podcast or via our new Yorkshire Ghost Tours YouTube channel, I am speaking today from what is probably the most haunted location on our original ghost tour, the Otley Ghost Tour, and that is, of course, the Parish Churchyard.

Now, I am joined today by an extra special guest, a four-legged friend.

who goes by the name of Conker.

Now, there are about four or five ghosts who are said to haunt this very churchyard.

The first one I'll mention feels quite appropriate because only the other day, on the 27th of October, we had National Black Cat Day and this fella happens to be a really cute little black cat.

If you've joined us on the Otley Ghost Tour before, you may well have met him.

His name is Bert and he loves to listen to a ghost tale, sit on a grave and have a scratch behind their ears.

Odd but real street names and villages in the United Kingdom and Ireland.

So Blubber Houses, Otley, England.

Oh,

fun.

It's Titty Bottle Park.

I was wandering along the banks of the River Wharf in Otley.

Beautiful, sunny Yorkshire.

I think silly names are always welcome.

Um, and obviously Re- Reg must have gone to a dried up reservoir too, because that, you get ideas from places like that.

And I went to one that was near Otley in Yorkshire, and it was very, it's a very eerie feeling knowing that this had once been a village and that they...

You know, the village had kind of died after the war, and then they basically got, rehoused all the people who were left, knocked down most of the houses and, and flooded it, 'cause it was in a good natural position for a reservoir.

Uh, and of course part of, of the great pleasure of In A Dry Season was, was imagining that place back to life and, and all the people and the lives that, that were lived there.

Tell us about your life growing up and everything relating to that.

Uh, yeah, I grew up in North England, a little town outside Leeds called Otley.

Um, very pretty, out in the hills.

Lots of sheep.