Ghost Stories For The End Of The World
Jun 13, 2026 · 1 hr 29 min · 11 segments
The Year of the Werewolf resumes with a new mini series. Researcher and investigator Ryan joins us once again to discuss Otto Skorzeny and the Spider Network in the Emerald Isle. In textbook Ghost…
yes so i think um the most uh sort of a great little snapshot of what ireland's actually towards nazis were is um the kind of ironic story of uki goni who is the american argentinian author of the real odessa which people might be familiar with, but it's mostly, it's a book about the rat lines of Argentina and Latin America.
And he did like amazing journalism, actually didn't like probably risked his life dealing with that aspect of the rat lines.
But he actually met his first Nazi in Dublin when he was a secondary school student in St. Conlet's.
So around 1967.
His French teacher, and he's talked about this, his French teacher was a man called Louis Futran, who was an escaped Waffen-SS volunteer who'd arrived in Ireland either kind of just before the end of the war or shortly after it.
Futron was a Breton nationalist, and he was a member of an organization called Gwenhadu, which means white and black.
And he was a collaborationist, or he's a member of the collaborationist group, the Besson Perrault.
Also kind of had this...
He was hardcore enough in the Waffen-SS that he ended up becoming a junior officer.
But he was later accused of violence against the French resistance and Jews because, of course, he's in the SS.
So he's associated with them now.
He managed to escape justice via a rat line that stopped in Wales.
He stayed in Wales for a while.
And he had such a kind of a weird affinity to Wales that when he died, he donated funds and he had a personal archive to do it like the Celtic races.
And he donated to the National Library of Wales, totaling at about 300,000 pounds.
he was sort of well known to be in the SS by students and by staff in the school like he wasn't even remotely like secretive about it and suitably he was an absolute sadist he had like a really explosive temper and there's like loads of accounts of students like from recent years coming out about to sort of abuse like a lot of physical abuse and psychological torture basically um uki gani talks about this in his podcast but one of his most sort of fucked up uh disciplinary techniques was that he would stand the student in front of the class and get them to strip off any piece of clothes they didn't know the french word for
And
just basically remains that sort of a terror in the entire way through his career.
He worked in St. Connors from 1957 to 1985.
And he died of old age in Wicklow in 2009. um never returned to france kind of outspokenly hated the government there and basically school was like fully aware of this guy this ss sadist that was abusing their students um and they didn't ever really acknowledge it until uki goni started um talking about it and now they're kind of slowly coming around and say what the national army of wales as well has kind of had to fess up to like taking money from a nazi you know
Yeah, yeah.
And that'll be another recurring theme, I guess, of this whole thing is just open secrets.
It's not like any of this is deeply hidden.
It's kind of repressed.
yes so i think um the most uh sort of a great little snapshot of what ireland's actually towards nazis were is um the kind of ironic story of uki goni who is the american argentinian author of the real odessa which people might be familiar with, but it's mostly, it's a book about the rat lines of Argentina and Latin America.
And he did like amazing journalism, actually didn't like probably risked his life dealing with that aspect of the rat lines.
But he actually met his first Nazi in Dublin when he was a secondary school student in St. Conlet's.
So around 1967.
His French teacher, and he's talked about this, his French teacher was a man called Louis Futran, who was an escaped Waffen-SS volunteer who'd arrived in Ireland either kind of just before the end of the war or shortly after it.
Futron was a Breton nationalist, and he was a member of an organization called Gwenhadu, which means white and black.
And he was a collaborationist, or he's a member of the collaborationist group, the Besson Perrault.
Also kind of had this...
He was hardcore enough in the Waffen-SS that he ended up becoming a junior officer.
But he was later accused of violence against the French resistance and Jews because, of course, he's in the SS.
So he's associated with them now.
He managed to escape justice via a rat line that stopped in Wales.
He stayed in Wales for a while.
And he had such a kind of a weird affinity to Wales that when he died, he donated funds and he had a personal archive to do it like the Celtic races.
And he donated to the National Library of Wales, totaling at about 300,000 pounds.
he was sort of well known to be in the SS by students and by staff in the school like he wasn't even remotely like secretive about it and suitably he was an absolute sadist he had like a really explosive temper and there's like loads of accounts of students like from recent years coming out about to sort of abuse like a lot of physical abuse and psychological torture basically um uki gani talks about this in his podcast but one of his most sort of fucked up uh disciplinary techniques was that he would stand the student in front of the class and get them to strip off any piece of clothes they didn't know the french word for
And
just basically remains that sort of a terror in the entire way through his career.
He worked in St. Connors from 1957 to 1985.
And he died of old age in Wicklow in 2009. um never returned to france kind of outspokenly hated the government there and basically school was like fully aware of this guy this ss sadist that was abusing their students um and they didn't ever really acknowledge it until uki goni started um talking about it and now they're kind of slowly coming around and say what the national army of wales as well has kind of had to fess up to like taking money from a nazi you know
Yeah, yeah.
And that'll be another recurring theme, I guess, of this whole thing is just open secrets.
It's not like any of this is deeply hidden.
It's kind of repressed.
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SS Teacher Terrorises Pupils
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