Nat Doig
@weirdinthewade.bsky.social
I’ve an award winning podcast about all that’s weird and a little off kilter in the town of Biggleswade and Bedfordshire. History with a pinch of the paranormal, folklore & urban legends. I also like cake, cats, beating bosses and disability rights.
😞 Though interestingly my only visit to Westminster Abbey 30 years ago was marred by the most officious volunteer I’ve ever come across berating visitors for no good reason. I really want that sweatshirt now. Upside is Hellebore get some publicity!
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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‘Demonic’ Wind in the Willows jumper banned from Westminster Abbey
Woman told to remove or cover up garment featuring 1908 illustration of Pan lest it offend worshippers
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November 14, 2025 at 8:04 AM
😞 Though interestingly my only visit to Westminster Abbey 30 years ago was marred by the most officious volunteer I’ve ever come across berating visitors for no good reason. I really want that sweatshirt now. Upside is Hellebore get some publicity!
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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Dear friends. I’ve done something different launching Legenda by targeting independent bookshops. I didn’t drive all sales to Amazon. So I’m relying on those of you that are reading it to share reviews & spread the word. I want this book to be supported by readers, not algorithms.
November 13, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Dear friends. I’ve done something different launching Legenda by targeting independent bookshops. I didn’t drive all sales to Amazon. So I’m relying on those of you that are reading it to share reviews & spread the word. I want this book to be supported by readers, not algorithms.
I can totally recommend any and all of the @writelikeagrrrl.bsky.social courses but this one especially 👇🏽
Do you ever listen to Weird in the Wade (insert other creepy podcast) and yearn to write strange, uncanny stories yourself? Well you should! This January make your resolution to carve out some space for you to really scratch that uncanny writing itch! I've compleed the course and it's fabulous!
Strange & Uncanny 26 Jan-16 Feb
The Strange & Uncanny 4-week course Mondays 26 Jan-16 Feb 2026 7-9pm GMT Online via zoom ✮ ⋆ ˚｡𖦹 ⋆｡°✩✮ ⋆ ˚｡𖦹 ⋆｡°✩✮ ⋆ ˚｡𖦹 ⋆｡ This four-week deep...
www.writelikeagrrrl.org
November 13, 2025 at 4:33 PM
I can totally recommend any and all of the @writelikeagrrrl.bsky.social courses but this one especially 👇🏽
Do you ever listen to Weird in the Wade (insert other creepy podcast) and yearn to write strange, uncanny stories yourself? Well you should! This January make your resolution to carve out some space for you to really scratch that uncanny writing itch! I've compleed the course and it's fabulous!
Strange & Uncanny 26 Jan-16 Feb
The Strange & Uncanny 4-week course Mondays 26 Jan-16 Feb 2026 7-9pm GMT Online via zoom ✮ ⋆ ˚｡𖦹 ⋆｡°✩✮ ⋆ ˚｡𖦹 ⋆｡°✩✮ ⋆ ˚｡𖦹 ⋆｡ This four-week deep...
www.writelikeagrrrl.org
November 13, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Do you ever listen to Weird in the Wade (insert other creepy podcast) and yearn to write strange, uncanny stories yourself? Well you should! This January make your resolution to carve out some space for you to really scratch that uncanny writing itch! I've compleed the course and it's fabulous!
If like me you were fascinated by BBMiller.bsky.social story of her haunted childhood home on this week’s Weird in the Wade, you can find out more in her Eerie Essex episodes with Rev Peter Laws Part One 👇🏽
Special Guest Interview Part I: Peter Laws podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/e...
Special Guest Interview Part I: Peter Laws podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/e...
Special Guest Interview Part I: Peter Laws
Podcast Episode · Eerie Essex · 20/11/2022 · 51m
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November 13, 2025 at 1:11 PM
If like me you were fascinated by BBMiller.bsky.social story of her haunted childhood home on this week’s Weird in the Wade, you can find out more in her Eerie Essex episodes with Rev Peter Laws Part One 👇🏽
Special Guest Interview Part I: Peter Laws podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/e...
Special Guest Interview Part I: Peter Laws podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/e...
I took this photo on Saturday of the Biggleswade Flying Saucer Hoax monument. Today there are a fraction of the leaves left on the trees. Winter is indeed coming. The perfect time for storytelling. Remember there was a new episode of Weird in the Wade out this week.
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand...
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand...
November 12, 2025 at 6:08 PM
I took this photo on Saturday of the Biggleswade Flying Saucer Hoax monument. Today there are a fraction of the leaves left on the trees. Winter is indeed coming. The perfect time for storytelling. Remember there was a new episode of Weird in the Wade out this week.
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand...
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand...
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What better to go with cheese and nog than some good ghost stories?
Winterval Ghost Stories with Nat Doig
Join me online for an evening of ghost stories and folktales. When? Monday 29th December 2025 at 7:00pm Where? The comfort of your own home, join via zoom or the eventbrite page. During that period between Christmas and New Year when the days blur into one…
Join me online for an evening of ghost stories and folktales. When? Monday 29th December 2025 at 7:00pm Where? The comfort of your own home, join via zoom or the eventbrite page. During that period between Christmas and New Year when the days blur into one…
Winterval Ghost Stories with Nat Doig
Join me online for an evening of ghost stories and folktales. When? Monday 29th December 2025 at 7:00pm Where? The comfort of your own home, join via zoom or the eventbrite page. During that period between Christmas and New Year when the days blur into one which some have christened the winterval or betwixtmas, join Nat Doig for some chilling ghost stories and wintery folk tales. If you were unable to get tickets for my live show, ghost walks, or Bedfordshire ghost stories for Christmas show this is the perfect online event for you.
weirdinthewade.blog
November 12, 2025 at 12:03 AM
What better to go with cheese and nog than some good ghost stories?
It's my wedding anniversary so I won't be around on the socials today or tomrrow much. It's also St Martin's Day once a big deal (and still is in parts of Germany and northern Europe.) A day of feasting, slaughering livestock, drinking the new wine and gift giving, marking the start of winter 1/2
November 11, 2025 at 9:45 AM
It's my wedding anniversary so I won't be around on the socials today or tomrrow much. It's also St Martin's Day once a big deal (and still is in parts of Germany and northern Europe.) A day of feasting, slaughering livestock, drinking the new wine and gift giving, marking the start of winter 1/2
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Left BBC Sounds open after listening to @weirdinthewade.bsky.social and a while later it spontaneously began playing the latest #Uncanny.
(#TeamSceptic) It's probably how the app's coded, but (#TeamBeliever) I'm wondering whether @dannyrobins.bsky.social is being promoted from the Other Side...
(#TeamSceptic) It's probably how the app's coded, but (#TeamBeliever) I'm wondering whether @dannyrobins.bsky.social is being promoted from the Other Side...
a person is playing a record on a phonograph
ALT: a person is playing a record on a phonograph
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November 11, 2025 at 7:39 AM
Left BBC Sounds open after listening to @weirdinthewade.bsky.social and a while later it spontaneously began playing the latest #Uncanny.
(#TeamSceptic) It's probably how the app's coded, but (#TeamBeliever) I'm wondering whether @dannyrobins.bsky.social is being promoted from the Other Side...
(#TeamSceptic) It's probably how the app's coded, but (#TeamBeliever) I'm wondering whether @dannyrobins.bsky.social is being promoted from the Other Side...
It's a weird Monday! That's right its Weird in the Wade day today.
Who wants to hear a poltergeist haunting story? 🙋♀️
Who wants to listen to @BBMiller.bsky.social talk ghosts? 🙋♀️
Who wants an update on what's haunting Andy's House? 🙋♀️
Well you're in luck 1/2
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p...
Who wants to hear a poltergeist haunting story? 🙋♀️
Who wants to listen to @BBMiller.bsky.social talk ghosts? 🙋♀️
Who wants an update on what's haunting Andy's House? 🙋♀️
Well you're in luck 1/2
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p...
BBC Sounds - Weird in the Wade
Weird in the Wade brings you true tales that are weird, wonderful and a little off kilter
www.bbc.co.uk
November 10, 2025 at 10:30 AM
It's a weird Monday! That's right its Weird in the Wade day today.
Who wants to hear a poltergeist haunting story? 🙋♀️
Who wants to listen to @BBMiller.bsky.social talk ghosts? 🙋♀️
Who wants an update on what's haunting Andy's House? 🙋♀️
Well you're in luck 1/2
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p...
Who wants to hear a poltergeist haunting story? 🙋♀️
Who wants to listen to @BBMiller.bsky.social talk ghosts? 🙋♀️
Who wants an update on what's haunting Andy's House? 🙋♀️
Well you're in luck 1/2
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p...
Winterval Ghost Stories with Nat Doig
Join me online for an evening of ghost stories and folktales. When? Monday 29th December 2025 at 7:00pm Where? The comfort of your own home, join via zoom or the eventbrite page. During that period between Christmas and New Year when the days blur into one…
Join me online for an evening of ghost stories and folktales. When? Monday 29th December 2025 at 7:00pm Where? The comfort of your own home, join via zoom or the eventbrite page. During that period between Christmas and New Year when the days blur into one…
Winterval Ghost Stories with Nat Doig
Join me online for an evening of ghost stories and folktales. When? Monday 29th December 2025 at 7:00pm Where? The comfort of your own home, join via zoom or the eventbrite page. During that period between Christmas and New Year when the days blur into one which some have christened the winterval or betwixtmas, join Nat Doig for some chilling ghost stories and wintery folk tales. If you were unable to get tickets for my live show, ghost walks, or Bedfordshire ghost stories for Christmas show this is the perfect online event for you.
weirdinthewade.blog
November 10, 2025 at 10:09 AM
Winterval Ghost Stories with Nat Doig
Join me online for an evening of ghost stories and folktales. When? Monday 29th December 2025 at 7:00pm Where? The comfort of your own home, join via zoom or the eventbrite page. During that period between Christmas and New Year when the days blur into one…
Join me online for an evening of ghost stories and folktales. When? Monday 29th December 2025 at 7:00pm Where? The comfort of your own home, join via zoom or the eventbrite page. During that period between Christmas and New Year when the days blur into one…
Show notes and further reading is available on the weird in the wade blog here for today's episode: The Potton Road Poltergeist.
Show Notes and Links for The Potton Road Poltergeist Episode
Listen to the episode here: or where ever you get your podcasts. Special guest Bethan Briggs-Miller Listen to Eerie Essex here: Find out more about the East Anglian Folklore Centre here: Gemma and Bethann co-founders of the East Anglian Folklore Centre Special guests Andy, and Dolly Andy has a fishing channel on YouTube and Facebook find out more here: On Andy's latest video at about 3:30 mins in theres some great footage of the ruins of St Benets Abbey which is said to be haunted by a screaming monk!
weirdinthewade.blog
November 10, 2025 at 6:26 AM
Show notes and further reading is available on the weird in the wade blog here for today's episode: The Potton Road Poltergeist.
You asked so here it is! For all of you whove missed out on my live shows. During the strange days between christmas and new ywar join me at a winterville ghost stories and folktale, online event via zoom. Monday 29th December at 7pm. Tickets are available here
wintervilleweird.eventbrite.co.uk
wintervilleweird.eventbrite.co.uk
November 9, 2025 at 2:15 PM
You asked so here it is! For all of you whove missed out on my live shows. During the strange days between christmas and new ywar join me at a winterville ghost stories and folktale, online event via zoom. Monday 29th December at 7pm. Tickets are available here
wintervilleweird.eventbrite.co.uk
wintervilleweird.eventbrite.co.uk
Tomorrow’s (10/11/25) brand new episode of Weird in the Wade, The Potton Road Poltergeist, not only features an update on Andy’s House but I’m joined by the fabulous @BBMiller.bsky.social co-host of Eerie Essex podcast to chat paranormal Red and Green flags! 🚩👻💚
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p...
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p...
November 9, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Tomorrow’s (10/11/25) brand new episode of Weird in the Wade, The Potton Road Poltergeist, not only features an update on Andy’s House but I’m joined by the fabulous @BBMiller.bsky.social co-host of Eerie Essex podcast to chat paranormal Red and Green flags! 🚩👻💚
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p...
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p...
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Visited haunted Biggleswade for @weirdinthewade.bsky.social live with guest @owenstaton.bsky.social. Loved hearing demon-dog tales by Natalie & Owen, seeing some of my photos used, and meeting fellow fans at the haunted pub. A wonderfully weird weekend!
#weirdinthewade #biggleswade #paranormal
#weirdinthewade #biggleswade #paranormal
November 7, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Visited haunted Biggleswade for @weirdinthewade.bsky.social live with guest @owenstaton.bsky.social. Loved hearing demon-dog tales by Natalie & Owen, seeing some of my photos used, and meeting fellow fans at the haunted pub. A wonderfully weird weekend!
#weirdinthewade #biggleswade #paranormal
#weirdinthewade #biggleswade #paranormal
On Monday (10th November) there’s a new episode of Weird in the Wade about a poltergeist that rattled Biggleswade in the 1990s. I’m joined by a very special guest (I’ll announce who this weekend) and there’s an update from Andy about his “haunted house.” 👻
👇🏼Sketch from 1825.
👇🏼Sketch from 1825.
November 7, 2025 at 6:08 PM
On Monday (10th November) there’s a new episode of Weird in the Wade about a poltergeist that rattled Biggleswade in the 1990s. I’m joined by a very special guest (I’ll announce who this weekend) and there’s an update from Andy about his “haunted house.” 👻
👇🏼Sketch from 1825.
👇🏼Sketch from 1825.
I am thrilled to announce Bedfordshire Ghost Stories for Christmas. On the longest, darkest night of the year join me, Bryan Bland from Ampthill Ghost Walks and Olie Campbell for a night of ghost stories and winter solstice music at the Bigg Theatre!
www.thebiggtheatre.co.uk/bedfordshire...
www.thebiggtheatre.co.uk/bedfordshire...
November 7, 2025 at 11:00 AM
I am thrilled to announce Bedfordshire Ghost Stories for Christmas. On the longest, darkest night of the year join me, Bryan Bland from Ampthill Ghost Walks and Olie Campbell for a night of ghost stories and winter solstice music at the Bigg Theatre!
www.thebiggtheatre.co.uk/bedfordshire...
www.thebiggtheatre.co.uk/bedfordshire...
👀 Watch this space! 👀
Announcement incoming tomorrow morning (Friday 7th November) at 11am (GMT)!
You won't want to miss it, I promise you.
👻 🎄 👻 🎄 👻
Image: The Ghost Story, Victorian print taken from an engraving by Robert Graves (1874)
Announcement incoming tomorrow morning (Friday 7th November) at 11am (GMT)!
You won't want to miss it, I promise you.
👻 🎄 👻 🎄 👻
Image: The Ghost Story, Victorian print taken from an engraving by Robert Graves (1874)
November 6, 2025 at 1:13 PM
👀 Watch this space! 👀
Announcement incoming tomorrow morning (Friday 7th November) at 11am (GMT)!
You won't want to miss it, I promise you.
👻 🎄 👻 🎄 👻
Image: The Ghost Story, Victorian print taken from an engraving by Robert Graves (1874)
Announcement incoming tomorrow morning (Friday 7th November) at 11am (GMT)!
You won't want to miss it, I promise you.
👻 🎄 👻 🎄 👻
Image: The Ghost Story, Victorian print taken from an engraving by Robert Graves (1874)
I love the history of bonfire night, the plot, the plotters, my favourite King (James I and VI) but not so much the anti-catholic sentiment behind burning an effigy of Guy Fawkes, who was a fascinating guy 😉
However you’re celebrating (or if not at all) have a safe night!
However you’re celebrating (or if not at all) have a safe night!
November 5, 2025 at 12:16 PM
I love the history of bonfire night, the plot, the plotters, my favourite King (James I and VI) but not so much the anti-catholic sentiment behind burning an effigy of Guy Fawkes, who was a fascinating guy 😉
However you’re celebrating (or if not at all) have a safe night!
However you’re celebrating (or if not at all) have a safe night!
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In the 16th and 17th centuries (and perhaps the 18th C) a weird 'Fiery Exhalation' would sometimes rise from the sea at Harlech. In 1692, it 'set Fire to the Ricks of Hay, Corn & Barns [...] & to infect the Grass, but it was not mischievous to Men though they were in the midst of it".
#WyrdWednesday
#WyrdWednesday
November 5, 2025 at 9:34 AM
In the 16th and 17th centuries (and perhaps the 18th C) a weird 'Fiery Exhalation' would sometimes rise from the sea at Harlech. In 1692, it 'set Fire to the Ricks of Hay, Corn & Barns [...] & to infect the Grass, but it was not mischievous to Men though they were in the midst of it".
#WyrdWednesday
#WyrdWednesday
A fabulously chilling tale from the North York Moors today on #Uncanny with @revpeterlaws.bsky.social in the team believer seat! I loved it.
BBC Radio 4 - Uncanny, Series 5, Case 2: Old Jim
A 12-year-old girl is plagued by phenomena in a remote house on the Yorkshire moors.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 4, 2025 at 11:56 AM
A fabulously chilling tale from the North York Moors today on #Uncanny with @revpeterlaws.bsky.social in the team believer seat! I loved it.
The impossible
Last Sunday, the 2nd of November, Owen Staton and I recorded an episode of Weird in the Wade in front of an audience, at the Bigg Theatre in Biggleswade. This to me still seems like an impossibility, yet I was there, and it really did happen. There's photographic proof as well,…
Last Sunday, the 2nd of November, Owen Staton and I recorded an episode of Weird in the Wade in front of an audience, at the Bigg Theatre in Biggleswade. This to me still seems like an impossibility, yet I was there, and it really did happen. There's photographic proof as well,…
The impossible
Last Sunday, the 2nd of November, Owen Staton and I recorded an episode of Weird in the Wade in front of an audience, at the Bigg Theatre in Biggleswade. This to me still seems like an impossibility, yet I was there, and it really did happen. There's photographic proof as well, through out this blog post. Bossing it! 🙂 Three years ago in November 2022 I was preparing for a photography exhibition at Kings College London, an amazing experience. For that exhibition I'd made soundscapes to accompany my photographs, so that blind and partially sighted people could experience the images in a different way.
weirdinthewade.blog
November 4, 2025 at 11:33 AM
The impossible
Last Sunday, the 2nd of November, Owen Staton and I recorded an episode of Weird in the Wade in front of an audience, at the Bigg Theatre in Biggleswade. This to me still seems like an impossibility, yet I was there, and it really did happen. There's photographic proof as well,…
Last Sunday, the 2nd of November, Owen Staton and I recorded an episode of Weird in the Wade in front of an audience, at the Bigg Theatre in Biggleswade. This to me still seems like an impossibility, yet I was there, and it really did happen. There's photographic proof as well,…
Thank you to everyone who came to the first ever live podcast recording of Weird in the Wade at the Bigg Theatre, yesterday. A huge thank you to @OwenStaton.bsky.social for joining me. The episode will be available in December as a Christmas special. I am still over the moon from it. Thank you!
November 3, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Thank you to everyone who came to the first ever live podcast recording of Weird in the Wade at the Bigg Theatre, yesterday. A huge thank you to @OwenStaton.bsky.social for joining me. The episode will be available in December as a Christmas special. I am still over the moon from it. Thank you!
Prep for tomorrow’s Weird in the Wade live podcast recording with @owenstaton.bsky.social is underway. Merch, stage dressing and my dress are safe at the theatre. A healthy lunch at the former haunted Poundstretcher Jones Gym is had.
If you’re coming tomorrow I can’t wait to see you!
If you’re coming tomorrow I can’t wait to see you!
November 1, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Prep for tomorrow’s Weird in the Wade live podcast recording with @owenstaton.bsky.social is underway. Merch, stage dressing and my dress are safe at the theatre. A healthy lunch at the former haunted Poundstretcher Jones Gym is had.
If you’re coming tomorrow I can’t wait to see you!
If you’re coming tomorrow I can’t wait to see you!