An Adventure by Charlotte Moberley and Eleanor Jourdain

Classic Ghost Stories

Tony Walker

Fiction, Drama, Science Fiction

4.9 • 686 Ratings

🗓️ 14 February 2025

⏱️ 224 minutes

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Summary

My voice has given up so I can't record a story without it sounding like a rubber tyre riding on polystyrene. So, I dug into the archives and found an old 'true ghost' / timeslip story I narrated on an H5 zoom in a closet using the H5 Zoom built in microphone. As such, forgive the audio. On 10th August 1901, two English women walked into the past. During a visit to the Palace of Versailles, on the anniversary of the French Revolution, two ordinary women saw the French Queen, Marie Antoinette sitting in the gardens in front of them, along with nobles, gardeners, houses, bridges and stones that when they went back, were no longer there. Backed up by a decade of research, the two women decided to publish their extraordinary adventure in 1910. Their timeslip experience has become known as the Ghosts of the Petit Trianon. Did these two Edwardian women actually experience time travel, or did they see the ghosts of things that had been? Previously, out of print, this is a new edition, edited and translated for the modern age, with additional material that looks at subsequent timeslip type experiences at Versailles An Adventure Ebook For You To Read Along Here's a link to a PDF I made of the book so you can read along and see where I made mistakes. An Adventure by Charlotte Moberley and Eleanor Jourdain Book Club Áine Moroney has asked me to remind you of the existence of The Classic Ghost Stories Podcast Book Club to be found on Discord. Please use this link to join. https://discord.gg/tZQrbsCf Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	On your mast.
0:01.9	Yes, sir.
0:02.8	Babe.
0:03.3	We're back in the nation's favourite tent.
0:05.6	Let's do this.
0:06.7	And it's packed with a fresh batch of famous faces.
0:09.8	As long as it's edible, I'd be happy.
0:12.9	Don't chalk, try, Mikey.
0:15.1	How can it be?
0:16.0	The great celebrity baker for Stand Up to Cancer on Channel 4.
0:19.4	Stream now.
0:27.6	Hello and welcome to the classic ghost stories podcast. My name is Tony Walker and normally I record a classic ghost story or a weird tale or whatever and put it out every week
0:34.6	but I've been suffering from a cold all week.
0:41.0	My voice is ruined. I'm not actually up to recording it.
0:43.6	So I was trying to think of what I could give you instead.
0:49.6	Many years ago, I recorded through a Zoom H5 while sitting in a cupboard,
1:00.0	a remarkable true story from the early 20th century of some ghosts that were seen, or a time slip experience that occurred to two English ladies in Paris.
1:06.0	So here it is, this is my audiobook version of this, which was previously on sale in different places, but because of my history with Audible, I think it was removed.
1:16.9	So here it is. I hope you enjoy it. Forgive the vote. I'm just not up to doing it.
1:21.2	But I hope that this is still a pleasurable experience for you. Okay.
1:27.0	This is an adventure written by Charlottet Ann Mowberley and Eleanor Jordan.
1:32.7	Edited by Tony Walker.
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