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The nights are drawing in, and the veil is lifting. In the chill, spiders cling to windowpanes, seeking the warmth within. 

Bats roost in chimney pots, foxes, rats and badgers settle down for their winter’s rest, while jackdaws pick at barren earth, pining for spring.

When the wind blows, it bites, and on the breeze you think you hear the whispering of a song. Was that a voice you ask, or just a memory? And was that melody singing to you?

You know what this all means: Three Ravens Haunting Season is in full effect, and the spook-factor is rising!

In this second installment of our 2024 miniseries, Martin leads Eleanor deep underground, into a long forgotten cave where tales of horror await...

As with last week, the opening pair are both winning entries to this year's Three Ravens Ghost Story Writing Competition. The first comes from Anthony Hope, whose story "Punkie Night" offers a glimpse into a Halloween in the Edwardian past, and the second comes from Viv Fraser, whose tale "The Miller of Hob Moor" makes a strong argument against recreational running, for fear of time-slips...

Lastly, Martin shares his first new ghost story for Haunting Season 2024, "The Tarosvan." It's in Cornish dialect, and set down an historic tin mine...

About Three Ravens 🔮

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 an all-time Top 5 podcast across several categories by Goodpods, charting in the Spotify, Apple and Rephonic UK Fiction Top 10 across 2024, 2025 and 2026, if you’re interested in ghosts, monsters, regional beliefs, and the things that unite us all, then join us round the campfire and listen in…

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