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Hi, everybody. Hi everybody and welcome to Who Did What Now, the history podcast that's not your history class,

Bitty Soads, those little bits of history that don't quite fit in anywhere else,

with me your host, Katie Charlwood, history harlot and reader of books.

Speaking of books, so I have too many, probably. Can you have too many? No. So I have a lot of books, and I order lots of books, mainly for research, sometimes for fun. And so sometimes if I'm at work or if I'm away somewhere

working, I will get my mum to open my mail for me. I'll pick up my mail, open it, it's fine.

And I forgot that I had ordered a certain book and I'm on the phone to my mom like ah yeah open it open it no worry it's

fine because normally we'll chat she'll open it and then she'll be like last laughs and epitaphs

really what weird history is this don't you think you've got enough books on poison uh this time uh

there's a dead silence like it's a very heavy silence. It's

apparent it's there. To the point that I thought, has my phone cut out? Did I accidentally mute her?

Did she accidentally mute herself? But no. She's like, oh really? This is the kind of book you want to read. And I'm thinking,

fuck me, what book is this? What? And I couldn't remember what I'd ordered. I was like,

because there's a few. And they're mainly about weird things in history and you know stuff like that probably one or two

deaths I was like oh is it one with a weird like creepy death title and it was not well it was

but it was actually Jeanette McCurdy's, I'm glad my mum died.

Which my mother did not take too kindly to me purchasing.

When I explained, you know, like some of the stuff in the book, I'm like,

Flick through the book, Mum, pick a page, right? Pick a page, read it and you'll get it.

And then she was like, oh that's fine but for a split

second my mother was not happy with me but yeah uh so this week's episode bitisode i should say is about

the demon of the Belfrey.

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