Dr. Dady's Elixir and Phantom Fiddlers

Strange Familiars

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Society & Culture, Philosophy

4.7 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 20 March 2025

⏱️ 59 minutes

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First, Octavian and Timothy present the story of Dr. Dady – who played part in a conspiracy that featured a ghost in black, a ghost in white, strange rituals, a dulcimer elixir, and other weird elements. Next, we hear two tales of phantom fiddlers from Pennsylvania. If you would like to help us continue to make Strange Familiars, get bonus content, t-shirts, stickers, and more rewards, you can become a patron: http://www.patreon.com/StrangeFamiliars If you would prefer a one-time payment to help us out, here is a PayPal.me link - you can change the number 25 in the URL to any amount: https://www.paypal.me/timothyrenner/25 Strange Familiars merch: https://www.strangefamiliars.com/merch GIVE THE GIFT OF STRANGE FAMILIARS: https://www.patreon.com/StrangeFamiliars/gift Our Strange Familiars / Lost Grave etsy shop has art, books, patches, t-shirts, and more ... including original art done for Strange Familiars: https://lostgrave.etsy.com Follow us on Whatnot: https://whatnot.com/invite/strangefamiliars Episode 520 notes and links: ORDER I Have Never Minded the Loneliness here: https://lostgrave.etsy.com/listing/1846191158 Episode artwork by Timothy: The original can be purchased from our etsy shop: https://lostgrave.etsy.com/listing/1877192223 Please support Kiya.Life and their work at Pine Ridge. KIYA.LIFE: https://kiya.life Lancaster Conservancy: https://www.lancasterconservancy.org Protect Cuff’s Run: https://www.lancasterconservancy.org/protect-cuffs-run/ Riverbend Comics: https://www.riverbendcomics.com Riverbend Comics Instagram: @riverbendcomics Timothy’s books: https://www.amazon.com/Timothy-Renner/e/B072X44SD5 Chad’s YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNB7MSJ2F1SRBPcQsEFLnvg (make sure to subscribe to Chad’s channel, Ruck Rabbit Outdoors.) Chad’s etsy shop: https://www.etsy.com/shop/RuckRabbitOutdoors To help with the Capuchin Day Center’s work with the homeless you can donate here: https://www.capuchindaycentre.ie and here: https://www.cskdetroit.org Contact us via email at: strangefamiliarspodcast@gmail.com http://www.facebook.com/strangefamiliars Join the Strange Familiars Gathering group on facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/strangefamiliars/ instagram: @strangefamiliars http://www.strangefamiliars.com Intro and background music by Stone Breath. You can find more at http://stonebreath.bandcamp.com The closing song is The Corday Waltz from Greys and Orphans: https://stonebreath.bandcamp.com/album/greys-and-orphans Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/strange-familiars/donations Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:32.5	The green ghost of the Phantom Fiddler still haunts the Welsh Mountains. Every month, as the pale, silver crescent of a new moon, sheds its spectral rays on the spur of these famous rolling hills in southwestern Berks County, and the rustling wind strikes chords of discontent among the maples and oaks. The Phantom Fiddler returns. Like the mad shrieking of a lost soul,
0:54.4	his uncanny music rises from a dilapidated stone pile that once was a homestead,
0:59.5	and woe betide the luckless person who disturbs the fandom fiddler
1:04.3	while his bony fingers are twitching on his violin.
1:19.6	They're going to be a slight different. We talked to see him. Welcome. Welcome to Strange Familiar.
1:50.3	Octavians here, everybody.
1:51.6	Hello.
1:52.4	What are you doing here?
1:53.2	I've punished you and made you only on patron shows.
1:57.6	And here you are on the main show.
1:59.1	I just, I find a way.
2:00.6	I banned you. I banished you to
2:02.4	only pay. Now, that wasn't on purpose, but at some point you asked me, like, am I only on patron shows?
2:07.0	I was fine with it. It just worked out that way. Welcome to Strange Familiar, Octavian.
2:12.2	Thank you. The main show. Yes. You've been on the main show. I've been promoted. You've been on the main show plenty of now.
2:18.5	Last week I mentioned that I was doing a book signing in Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania. The date's been
2:23.5	changed on that. Saturday, April 26th, I will be doing a book signing at the House of Oddities,
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