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The Three Ravens Podcast
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Three Ravens is a completely independent English myth and folklore podcast where we share stories, celebrate folk culture, and fall backwards through the hedgerows of history. Hosted by real-life couple Eleanor Conlon and Martin Vaux, and mostly recorded at our home in rural Sussex in southern England, Three Ravens is rated 4.8/5 from over 500 reviews and has grown by word of mouth care of our lovely listener community ‘The Conspiracy of Ravens.’ We release three episodes a week, on Mondays, Thursday and Saturdays, through which we explore folktales, folkways, fairy stories, folk songs, mythology, local heritage, seasonal customs and traditional beliefs. Our research inspires our retellings of stories from across history and culture, with episodes standing alone but connected together across over 500 chatty, mostly light-hearted, swear-free installments driven by passion, kindness and curiosity. Now ranked as
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Ghosts of Sea and Shore | Haunting Season 2026
For the final week of Haunting Season 2026 we're walking through the shallows and gazing at the wild waves as we talk about the Ghosts of Sea and Shore. We start with the ghosts of the SS Watertown before talking about famous ghost ships like the Flying Dutchman, Marie Celeste, and the magical...
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"Oh, Whistle and I'll Come To You, My Lad" by M.R. James | A Classic Ghost Story
As voted for by the Conspiracy of Ravens on Patreon, for today's special Haunting Season Sunday release we warmly present our classic ghost story for this year, "Oh, Whistle and I'll Come To You, My Lad" by M.R. James. Do we talk too much about M.R. James on the podcast? We try to restrain...
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Lucy Rose | Local Legends #81: Haunting Season
For this week's episode of Local Legends Eleanor is chatting with the wonderful author Lucy Rose. Lucy is known for her instantly bestselling debut novel The Lamb, a deliciously dark folk horror tale set in the isolation of rural Cumbria. However, she's also an award-winning film maker, and a...
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The Airman | A New Ghost Story
For our third original tale this Haunting Season Martin tells us "The Airman" as inspired by this week's theme, Ghosts of War. Living in Dorset during World War 2, Valerie is a teenage girl helping to manage a house filled with secrets and unspoken things. One night, a chance encounter with a...
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Ghosts of the War | Haunting Season 2026
Keep your weapon drawn, your eyes peeled, your powder dry, and WAIT WHAT'S THAT AND WHY IS IT MOVING?! For our third week of Haunting Season 2026 we're exploring the theme of Ghosts of the War. We start with Achilles and the Shade of Patroclus then talk through some major developments in ghost...
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In Miniature | A Ghost Story
We've thrown in an extra spooky story - it is Haunting Season, after all, and we've been releasing a few fun extras on Sundays. This story, In Miniature, Eleanor's take on the haunted doll's house, is the only one in our new book Three Ravens Ghost Tales which has never before been recorded for…
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Adam L.G. Nevill | Local Legends #80: Haunting Season
For this week's episode of Local Legends Martin chats with one of England's great living horror writers Adam L.G. Nevill. With 13 novels under his belt, several of them award-winning, and three short story collections too, you might expect Adam to have enjoyed rapid success which started early....
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Vade In Pacem | A New Ghost Story
In our second original tale for Haunting Season 2026 Eleanor tells us "Vade In Pacem" as inspired by this week's Ghosts of Sacred Spaces theme. Set during the English Renaissance, the tale takes place within the confines of a cloistered, claustrophobic Cistercian monastery in the hours counting...
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Ghosts of Sacred Spaces | Haunting Season 2026
Misty hooded figures flit through moonlit ruins, and a chorus of spectral chanting grows louder... For the second week of our month of Haunting Season, we've chosen Ghosts of Sacred Spaces as our theme. We start by exploring theories about why so many of Britain's current and former religious...
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Halloween History and Customs | Live @ Treadwell's Books
Recorded on October 1st, for this Live Show we return to our favourite bookshop of all, Treadwell's in London, to discuss Halloween folklore, ghostlore, customs, and our new book Three Ravens Ghost Tales. Hosted by Treadwell's founder, owner, and historian of Gardnerian Wicca Christina Oakley...
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Nuzo Onoh | Local Legends #79: Haunting Season
In this episode of our Local Legends series Eleanor talks with the Queen of African horror, Nuzo Onoh. In 2022 Nuzo was the recipient of the Bram Stoker Award for Lifetime Achievement, acknowledging her powerful contributions to the horror genre, which she has made through a terrifying catalogue…
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The Grand Circle | A New Ghost Story
In our first original tale for Haunting Season 2026 Martin tells us "The Grand Circle" as inspired by this week's Ghosts of the Theatre theme. Rooted in the folklore of one haunted London playhouse in particular, though tying together lots of strange personal anecdotes and dark reflections on the...
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Ghosts of the Theatre | Haunting Season 2026
The lights dim, the sounds of ghostly strings tuning up shriek from the orchestra pit, and in the wings the props just seem to keep mysteriously vanishing... Happy Haunting Season! This episode marks the beginning of our four themed weeks, and today we're talking all about Ghosts of the Theatre.…
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Three Ravens Ghost Tales Book Launch | Live @ Much Ado Books
Recorded a week ago today and hosted by our favourite local independent bookshop Much Ado Books in Alfriston, we warmly present a live interview to celebrate the launch of our second book Three Ravens Ghost Tales. Much Ado Books is particularly special to us as we went to the shop on one of our...
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Andrew Michael Hurley | Local Legends #78: Haunting Season
For our opening installment of Three Ravens Haunting Season 2026 we're chatting with one of Britain's finest horror writers, Andrew Michael Hurley. Based in Lancashire in north west England, Andrew's debut novel The Loney was published almost exactly 12 years ago, becoming a best-seller, winning...
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Haunting Season Returns! | October 2026 Update
On this month's update episode we have so much to talk about, as it's Three Ravens Haunting Season once again! Back for our fourth annual month-long celebration of original ghost stories and all things spooky a weird, we run down what's coming from us across October, including a brand new Spenser…
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Wild Pathetic Legends | A Maryland Tale
Warning: this story is set in 1909 and portrays historic racist attitudes which in no way reflect our own views. It also makes mention of body-focused repetitive behaviours. For this week's story, we're getting into the dark origins of one of Maryland's most famous monsters. The Snallygaster is...
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Maryland | Series 8 Episode 4
Get ready to stuff a ham, because this week we're off to Maryland! We begin with the inspiring life of Harriet Tubman, before discussing Maryland's beginnings as a province, sprinkled with plenty of arguments about religion and different ideas about how to run a colony. Maryland is packed with...
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Glastonbury Folklore | LIVE @ 3 Wishes Fairy Festival
Today, as it's Martin's birthday, we thought we would share with you a special little bonus gift recording in his birth county - our two Three Ravens Live Show pop-up performances at 3 Wishes Fairy Festival in Somerset from last month! Hopefully timed just about perfectly to mark the very end of...
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Roxie Zwicker | Local Legends #77
On this week's episode of Local Legends Martin chats with a celebrated New Hampshire-based folklorist, author, and entrepreneur, who has spent over two decades preserving and sharing the region's mysterious history, Roxie Zwicker. As a folklorist, Zwicker’s work focuses on documenting the oral...
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Chocorua | A New Hampshire Tale
For this week's story we're throwing caution to the wind, preparing for societal collapse, and offering you a different kind of folk nightmare. Written by Martin, Chocorua follows the main story beats of one of New Hampshire's most famous legends, only with the titular Native American chief...
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New Hampshire | Series 8 Episode 3
Time to break off your search for the Great Carbuncle and adventure through New Hampshire, the "Granite State!" We start with the story of Oceanborn Mary and then discuss New Hampshire's rugged terrain and the centuries-long struggles to define its borders. From the "Presidential Range" and the…
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Jeff Belanger | Local Legends #76
Eleanor chats with the Emmy-nominated paranormal researcher, bestselling author, and legendary explorer Jeff Belanger to uncover the spooks, scares, and deep folklore of Massachusetts! Jeff joins us around the campfire to share his incredible career tracing the things that go bump in the night.…
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The Ghosts of Dogtown | A Massachusetts Tale
For this week's story, we're exploring one of Massachusetts' most atmospheric abandoned places... Written by Eleanor, the tale follows a young police detective searching for a missing person in the mysterious and disorientating woodlands of Dogtown Common, as something wants to lead her further…
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Massachusetts | Series 8 Episode 2
It's already time for us to visit the second of the Thirteen Colonies - Massachusetts! We start by discussing the lives of the Wampanoag peoples who inhabited the North Eastern Woodlands prior to the arrival of European settlers, before returning to the small group of religious dissenters who...
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Dr Jon Lohman | Local Legends #75
On this week's episode of Local Legends Martin chats Virginia, folklore, and cultural exchange with Dr Jon Lohman. For two decades Jon worked as the State Folklorist of Virginia, has a PhD in Folklore from the University of Pennsylvania, and has enjoyed a distinguished career bridging community...
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The Phantom Lovers of Lake Drummond | A Virginia Tale
For this week’s story we have a ghostly legend inundated by real histories, “The Phantom Lovers of Lake Drummond.” Written by Martin, it’s a dark crater of surging eco-fiction engaging with one of Virginia's most famous folk tales, the early life of George Washington, Harriet Beecher Stowe's much...
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Virginia | Series 8 Episode 1
Hold onto your preconceptions if you must as we, two English people, open a can of worms in our first full episode of Series 8 to discuss Virginia, the 'Mother of States!' We begin as colonial America did - in Jamestown - before digging into some of the key differences between life in Virginia in...
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Dr Gabrielle Tayac | Local Legends #74
On this week's episode of Local Legends Eleanor chats with historian, curator, author and activist Dr Gabrielle Tayac. We were thrilled Gabrielle spoke to us at the beginning of Series 8, after this week's background episodes on the history of North America. As Associate Professor of Public…
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How The Devil Came To America | An Immigrant Story
For this week’s story we have the tale of a particularly unwelcome immigrant called “How The Devil Came to America.” Written by Eleanor, it’s a piece of arcane folk horror that explores the failure of the infamous Roanoke colony, positing a new theory as to why things went wrong for the residents...
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Let The Gourd Times Roll! | September 2026 Update
In this month's update episode we're chatting through Autumn Equinox folklore, the end of harvest, and the Devil doing unspeakable things to blackberries... Including discussions Britain's traditional Quarter Days and the folklore of Michaelmas, from 'Stubble Goose' divination to Medieval beliefs...
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A Brief History of America | Series 8 Episode 0
Before we begin our adventures exploring the history and folklore of the Thirteen Colonies of America, we present our first episode of Series 8: A Brief History of America! We explore the history of North America from the earliest human migration across the Beringia land bridge, now the Bering...
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Marion Gibson | Local Legends #73
On this week's episode of Local Legends Martin chats with Sunday Times bestselling author Marion Gibson! Regular listeners will recall that Marion last came on Three Ravens during October 2025 to chat about her wonderful book Witchcraft: A History in Thirteen Trials, at which time we spoke about...
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The Callow Inn | A Herefordshire Ghost Story
Our story for "Death Week" is a retelling by Martin of a ghost story, The Callow Inn. In rural Herefordshire, for over a hundred years people have reported two strange night-time phenomena connected to The Callow Inn, which was demolished at the end of the 19th century. First there are the…
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The Folklore of Death
The inevitable has occurred, dear listener, so pay up your Eye Money as Death Week has arrived on Three Ravens, riding a pale horse... The final part of our month-long celebration of the Cycles of Life, on this episode we're chatting through the history and folklore of that undiscovered country...
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Sarah Clegg | Local Legends #72
On this week's episode of Local Legends Eleanor chats with Sunday Times bestselling author Sarah Clegg. We first met Sarah last year, when she was one of the guests at our Three Ravens Christmas Feast. Sarah had just published her book The Dead of Winter, all about the origins and changing lore…
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Alderman and Alphin | A Tale of Old Yorkshire
Our story for "Marriage Week" is a retelling by Eleanor of a giant legend, Alderman and Alphin. Set in Saddleworth, which was once a part of the West Riding of Yorkshire but is found in Lancashire today, not far from Oldham and Manchester, it's the tale attached to two particular landscape...
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The Folklore of Marriage
This week we have our second installment of our month long mini series about cycles of life, all about the history and folklore of marriage! We explore the early beginnings of marriage contracts, legal regulation by the Church and state, and how utterly unromantic most weddings were for much of...
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Sue Bentley | Local Legends #71
On this week's episode of Local Legends Martin chats with best-selling author of over 80 books, Sue Bentley! As Sue explains, her decision to 'become a writer' didn't happen particularly early in her life, though she was ever a reader, inspired by books like Denys Watkins-Pitchford's The Little...
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The Brigstock Fox | A Northamptonshire Folk Tale
Our story for "Birth Week" is a retelling from Martin of recently rediscovered Northamptonshire legend The Brigstock Fox. A tale of Medieval changelings, magic, princes and parenthood, it begins as the folktale does, with a strange, seemingly uncatchable creature stalking the forests around...
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The Folklore of Birth
This week on Three Ravens, as part of our month long exploration of cycles of life, we're talking all about Birth Folklore! From Ancient Mesopotamian "birth bricks" and fires lit to smoke babies out of the womb to 20th century beliefs in hairy babies prompting their mothers to experience…
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Matthew Bannister | Local Legends #70
On this week's episode of Local Legends Martin chats with veteran British broadcaster and host of Folk on Foot Matthew Bannister. In a conversation that folds in some of Matthew's other wonderful projects including The Song Detectorists and Last Word, while Martin and Matthew don't quite go on a...
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The Corn Maiden
For this week's story, sticking with our theme of Harvest, we present a slice of US-set folk horror for you to enjoy! The tale begins with Robin, a recently widowed wheat farmer whose crops have failed due to drought. At his farmhouse Mother rules, although a new feminine energy has arrived in…
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Lughnasa, Lammas and Harvest Folklore
It's the first time we've done a Seasonal Special in a while, but this week we're celebrating the harvest and exploring the history and folklore of Lughnasa and Lammastide. We begin by discussing the Festival of First Fruits and the Eleusinian Mysteries of the Classical World, before getting into...
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Sickles At The Ready! | August 2026 Update
In this month's update episode we're welcoming in the harvest and exploring some of August's lesser-known traditional festivals! We're talking about Marymas, which seems like it would have been pretty witchy, and Bartlemas, which was quite violent and packed with "back swording" - though that's…
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Richard Dawson | Local Legends #69
On this week's episode of Local Legends Martin chats with award winning singer-songwriter and progressive artist Richard Dawson. Hailing from England's northernmost city, Newcastle upon Tyne, Richard doesn't much like being pigeon-holed or for his music to be put into a genre, but across this…
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Who Were The Langs? | The Lang Fairy Tales
We round out our recent completion of the Red Fairy Book by taking a deeper look at Leonora and Andrew Lang. Who were they, what were their lives like, and where did they fit into society and culture at the end of the 19th century? Looking at what we know so far about the Langs' own story, we…
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Gerald Gardner | Magus #13
For our final episode of the series, we're casting a circle and exploring the life of the last great name in British magic, Gerald Gardner! We begin with Gardner's youth overseas where, accompanied by his nurse, nanny, and personal tutor, he explored Europe and parts of North Africa and the…
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Sacha Coward | Local Legends #68
On this week's episode of Local Legends Martin chats with British author, LGBTQ+ historian, museum researcher and escape room artist Sacha Coward. Sacha's first book, Queer As Folklore, explores how LGBTQ+ communities have historically found safety and representation in the shadows of mythology,...
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The Marvellous Musician and The Story Of Sigurd | The Lang Fairy Tales: The Red Fairy Book (1890)
It's been a strange, charming, and sometimes baffling journey, but we've reached the end of the Red Fairy Book! Two very different stories finish the collection off. The Marvellous Musician is a German tale, collected by the Grimms. It's a curious tale with an extremely questionable hero, leaving…
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Three Ravens is a completely independent English myth and folklore podcast where we share stories, celebrate folk culture, and fall backwards through the hedgerows of history.
Hosted by real-life couple Eleanor Conlon and Martin Vaux, and mostly recorded at our home in rural Sussex in southern England, Three Ravens is rated 4.8/5 from over 500 reviews and has grown by word of mouth care of our lovely listener community ‘The Conspiracy of Ravens.’
We release three episodes a week, on Mondays, Thursday and Saturdays, through which we explore folktales, folkways, fairy stories, folk songs, mythology, local heritage, seasonal customs and traditional beliefs.
Our research inspires our retellings of stories from across history and culture, with episodes standing alone but connected together across over 500 chatty, mostly light-hearted, swear-free installments driven by passion, kindness and curiosity.
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