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Nat Doig
@weirdinthewade.bsky.social
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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.
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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.

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A pointed yellow cone with rivets and a dark circle on it stands beneath trees with deep red and orange leaves in a square with cars and flats surrounding.
November 12, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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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
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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
An image of a lit candle, mug of dark liquid with oranges floating in it, and mince pies with Winterville Ghost Stories with nat dog from weird in the wade Monday 29th December 7pm online written in glowing font on the image.
November 9, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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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! 🚩👻💚
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A woman with shoulder length blue hair, with red lips smiling.
November 9, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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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.
A sketch of a ghost in 19th century night gown and hat and a woman in bed screaming. Engraving by George Cruikshank Captioned "A tall figure her sight engross' d,/And it cried,’ Giles Scroggin's Ghost." Originally from "The Universal Songster"
November 7, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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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!
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November 7, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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👀 Watch this space! 👀
Announcement incoming tomorrow morning (Friday 7th November) at 11am (GMT)!
You won't want to miss it, I promise you.
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Image: The Ghost Story, Victorian print taken from an engraving by Robert Graves (1874)
An ilustration of a young woman in Victorian clothes, and ringleted hair, reading a book whilst sitting in a large chair. There is a candle and mirror to her left and out of the window to the right is a moonlit sky.
November 6, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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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!
A bright heart shaped cluster of pink fireworks against a black sky.
November 5, 2025 at 12:16 PM
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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!
A stage within a semi circular alcove with purple and orange fairy lights and a big screen with Weird in the Wade's logo on it. In front of the screen on the left site a man in a cap reading into a microphone on the right is me in a putple 1950s style dress with black cats on it. I am smiling.
November 3, 2025 at 11:52 AM
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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!
Stage door with red curtains and steps up is on the left and on the right are balloons in gold and silver. The walls of the theatre are green. A salad bowl of chicken, grains, spinach, cucumber and flat bread.
November 1, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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Happy Halloween and Samhain!
This 1914 Halloween postcard is so cute I just had to share it. However you're spending the day, trick or treating, staying in to watch spooky movies, listening to the new Uncanny episode, honouring our ancestors or something else have a wonderful day. Bright blessings!
A post card depicting an old fashioned motor car with a face a witch is driving with a pumpking head beling next to her, then there is a pickle gerkin with arms and legs falling out of the car whilst other food try to grab it. An owl is flying in front of the moon to the left. Image by John Winslow, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
October 31, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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I’m in London today for TfL work and then #Uncanny Fright Night tonight at the Royal Albert Hall!
So I thought I’d share some of the pictures I took in Pegnut Wood on Tuesday. Seeing the soft greens of the trees is a balm on the hustle and bustle of London.
The path into the woods. On the left trees branches leaning across the path towards a hedge on the right. Tall trees with sunlight behind them and a blue sky with gauzy clouds. A narrow mud path through tall trees with hazy sunlight A mud path leading over a wooden bridge tall trees behind and to the side of the bridge. The tree on the right is smothered in ivy.
October 30, 2025 at 9:08 AM
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Do you want to celebrate all things weird in Biggleswade? Well now you can with this fantastic BigglesWeird design on the Weird in the Wade merch store you can get t-shirts, mugs, and bags with the design on. At Sunday's live show at the Bigg Theatre there will be merch including these cute pins 1/2
October 29, 2025 at 11:56 AM
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Thank you so much for all your kind feedback on the return of Weird in the Wade. I’ll be meeting with Andy again next week to record an update with him for the next episode, due out on Monday 10th November. 👻
Photos below of the road onto the Furzenhall estate, and me smiling.
Me smiling my hair blonde and shoulder length being blown in the wind. I’m wearing bright orange lipstick. A road with trees and houses on either side with a sign reading FURZENHALL ROAD LEADING TO NORTHFIELDS WINSTON CRESCENT & URBAN WAY
October 28, 2025 at 8:28 AM
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As an extra special Halloween treat the wonderful After Dark podcast invited me on to their show chat about Sarah Dazley the Potton Poisoner. The episode is released today, but on Halloween I'll share the epiosde on the witw feed so you can listen there as well.
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October 27, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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Yesterday I visited London to see one of my heroes, poet laureat Simon Armitage read and talk about his latest collection of poems New Cemetry. His poetry has got me through some dark times over the last 35 years. It was brilliant to be in the same room as him. The sunset was spectacular as well.
In the foreground the Thames and a seagull flying. IN the distance the sunset iluminates the London skyline of St Paul's cathedral, Blackfriars bridge, and the sky scrapers of the ciry. A stage with hazy light spotlighting two men sitting at a table with microphones. A big screen says an afternoon with Simon Armitage.
October 26, 2025 at 11:08 AM
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Some spooky Halloween window displays in Biggleswade. Creepy doll anyone?
A ship wonder filled with Halloween bunting and dolls with white faces A shop window with model ghosts and skulls all in a row.
October 25, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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Back in Biggleswade with enough time to spare to grab a Beegos bacon bap. 😋
Biggleswade market square with the timber framed market house on the left and the Bigg theatre in the distance. There’s bunting up and the sky is bright blue with a lone bird in flight.
October 24, 2025 at 9:38 AM
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Remember in the last episode of Weird in the Wade we visited Lincolnshire and I mentioned Threekingham where legend has it that 3 Viking Kings died in battle? Well I visited today and had lunch at three Kings Organic Cafe. I love this tree outside the old pub / cafe.
A dramatic tree with twisted branches very few leaves against a dramatic cloudy sky. A bowl of orange soup with croutons and swirled cream with bread at the side. The white walls and red tiled roof of the old Three Kings pub now an organic cafe.
October 23, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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It’s just over a week until the sold out weird in the Wade live podcast L show about haunted hounds, demon dogs and creepy canines. Bella the pod dog wants to be included but she’s just not spooky enough, she’s far too cute.
Bella the dog lying on her back snout pointing up and paws in the air having her tummy tickled. Bella a black and white spaniel patterjack cross staring at me wanting toast.
October 23, 2025 at 9:21 AM
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Monday’s episode of Weird in the Wade is about “new town.” An area north of Biggleswade which was needed when the town population more than doubled after the great fire in 1785 and the arrival of the railway in 1850. But was something ancient on that land disturbed by the building works?
Biggleswade train station with tree branches framing the top left of the image. There’s a zebra crossing and autumn trees.
October 22, 2025 at 10:04 AM
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Yesterday I visited The Higgins Museum in Bedford to hang out with a haunted rocking horse! BBC 3 Counties Radio joined me and what we recorded will be available as a Halloween treat. I'm currently making a couple of episodes about the haunted Higgins which you'll hear early next year!
me sitting cross legged on the floor on fllorboards with an antique rug rolled up behind me. On the right is dappled grey rocking horse and to the left an old dolls house. I am wearing a green dress and boots with stripy tights. I'm smiling.
October 21, 2025 at 10:56 AM
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Today's Uncanny Halloween Countdown story is a creepy one about a phantom car at Clophill! Yes the very same Clophill I made 3 episodes about back in 2023. The site is infamous locally but the strange stories go beyond the church and on to near by roads links below for more info!
A ruined church with ragged tower and no roof, the windows are glassless and gaping. The church is on a mound of green with winter trees behind it, the sky is dark grey clouds.
October 19, 2025 at 10:59 AM
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Hey BBC Sounds listeners, the haunted cinemas episode with dannyrobins@bsky.social as a very special guest, has been reissued today as a wee treat for you! If you missed it last Christmas or want to listen again you can do here: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p... 1/2
Me and Danny Robins sitting on either side of a coffee table, with microphones in front of us and posters for Weird in the Wade behind us. We're both smiling.
October 17, 2025 at 8:25 AM
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I am gobsmacked and over the moon. Weird in the Wade won best True Crime Podcast at the Indie Podcast Awards tonight! It was up against some fantastic podcasts and I really didn’t expect to win. More photos to come tomorrow. Thank you so much to all my listeners 💕
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Me on stage holding an award I’m wearing a black dress with green and gold leaves on it. My hair is wavy and blond I have my mouth open in shock. Next to me on the left is a woman with long blond hair and a white mini dress on the right is a man in a black T-shirt smiling. He has a great moustache
October 15, 2025 at 10:32 PM