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GraveYard Tales

110: The Tommyknockers

GraveYard Tales

Adam Zero

Social Sciences, Comedy, History, Society & Culture, Science, Philosophy

4.83.1K Ratings

🗓️ 12 June 2020

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

This week we discuss the Tommyknockers! Are they a real creature, an old miners legend, or just a bunch of nonsense? We take a look at the history and some encounters

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The Encyclopedia of Celtic Mythology & Folklore: Patricia Monaghan: Checkmark Books: 2004

Dictionary of Celtic Mythology: James MacKillop: Oxford University Press: 1998



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0:00.0

All right, so Matt, did you hear about the recent coal mine collapse that happened?

0:07.1

No, I didn't hear about a recent, recently it happened, but everybody escaped okay, you know,

0:11.9

nobody was injured or anything, it was just a minor inconvenience.

0:20.0

That took me a minute. I'm ashamed to say.

0:30.0

Good evening everybody and welcome to the graveyard. Thank you for joining us tonight. My name is Adam and my name's Matt.

0:48.2

Now pull up a tombstone or settle into your casket and get comfortable because this is graveyard tails.

1:02.5

Oh right everybody here we are again Matt. How you doing tonight brother?

1:08.2

I am good. Good. It's been a crazy week already. Yes it has. It's only Wednesday.

1:15.5

It's good. It's good to be here. Right. Right. This has become my normal. Yeah. Yeah. You know, it's a safe space.

1:24.1

You know, being here, you know, in front of the mic in the graveyard, it feels more normal now than the world does.

1:32.7

No joke. No joke. It's crazy when you go out those doors. So,

1:39.1

actually has been doing like a summer school thing for Michael. She's killing it man. I'm proud of her and she's hard working.

1:50.2

She developed this whole summer school thing for him to do to, you know, keep him busy since there's no summer camps to send him to or anything like that.

1:58.4

So she was printing stuff out today on the printer here and I didn't realize it and I started printing my notes.

2:07.7

So part of my notes is on construction paper. So if you hear a like louder crumple, it's because it's construction paper.

2:21.6

It's like you're printing cue cards or something. Yeah. Yeah. Exactly. But I walked out and I was like, I think I wasted your construction paper.

2:30.0

So real quick, before we get into it, we want to thank pod belly go to pod belly dot com to find other shows that you might enjoy and to learn how to podcast if you're interested in podcasting everybody's podcasting now.

2:47.6

So if you want to learn and you want to learn the best way to do it, go to pod belly dot com and check out the information there.

2:54.1

We would also like to thank tonight sponsor AMC shutter and we will talk about them more coming up in just a little bit.

3:01.6

But we wanted to hit on this real quick. We there's that buffalo running through the neighborhood again my neighbor.

3:13.1

We'd still have a live show July 18th. So when this episode drops, it'll be like a little over a month away.

3:24.6

And we've talked with Jerry and Tracy from Hillbilly Horror Stories who's putting on the show and the venue itself is going to be open and we are going to lower the amount of tickets that's available.

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