My Adventure in Norfolk by A J Alan
The Classic Ghost Stories Podcast
Tony Walker
4.9 • 835 Ratings
🗓️ 8 May 2026
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
He helps. He offers whisky. He thinks nothing of it.
But there is something not quite right about her. Something in the way she watches the road behind her. Something in the way she keeps to the shadows.
"My Adventure in Norfolk" by A.J. Alan, first collected in Good Evening, Everyone!, published by Hutchinson in 1928. The story was originally broadcast live on the BBC in the mid-1920s.
A.J. Alan was the pseudonym of Leslie Harrison Lambert, a senior intelligence officer who worked at Bletchley Park and served as Vice-President of the Magic Circle. He broadcast only a handful of stories each year and never revealed his true identity to the public during his lifetime.
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| 0:00.0 | Everybody dies, don't they? |
| 0:10.4 | Everybody come back. |
| 0:12.5 | Isn't that so? |
| 0:14.3 | You tried to get into the locked drawer today, didn't you? |
| 0:17.3 | How do the dead comeback, mother? |
| 0:19.8 | What's the secret? |
| 0:27.4 | My Adventure in Norfolk by A.J. Allen. |
| 0:33.7 | I don't know how it is with you, but during February, my wife generally says to me, |
| 0:36.9 | Have you thought at all about what we're going to do for August? |
| 0:38.2 | And, of course, I say, |
| 0:44.8 | no. And then she begins looking through the advertisement of bungalows to let. Well, this happened last year, as usual, and she eventually produced one that looked possible. It said, |
| 0:50.2 | Norfolk, hickling broad, furnished bungalow, Garden, garage, Boathouse and all the rest of it. |
| 0:58.0 | Oh, and plate and linen. It also mentioned an exorbitant rent. |
| 1:05.0 | I pointed out the bit about the rent, but my wife said, |
| 1:08.0 | Yes, you'll have to go down and see the landlord and get him to come down. |
| 1:11.6 | They always do. |
| 1:12.6 | As a matter of fact, they always don't, that's a detail. |
| 1:17.6 | Anyway, I wrote off to the landlord and asked if he could arrange for me to stay the night in the place to see what it was really like. |
| 1:24.6 | He wrote back and said, certainly, and that he was engaging |
| 1:28.4 | Mrs. So-and-so to come in and oblige me, make up the beds and so forth. I tell you, we do |
| 1:35.3 | things thoroughly in our family. I have to sleep in all the beds, and when I come home, my wife |
| 1:41.2 | counts the bruises and decides whether they will do or not. |
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