S0301 The Fair Family by Tony Walker

The Classic Ghost Stories Podcast

Tony Walker

Science Fiction, Fiction, Drama

4.9 • 835 Ratings

🗓️ 7 January 2022

⏱️ 48 minutes

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A timid man and his worried wife take a trip through Wales. The weather is awful and they worry they will be late for a Christening. That is the least of their worries. A story of the fairy folk and the Welsh gods and the Welsh weather. One of my own. In the afterword I reveal that this whole podcast was a trojan horse to get you to buy my stories. But hang on.... this one's free. My plan failed! Never mind.Support the showVisit us here: www.ghostpod.orgBuy me a coffee if you're glad I do this: https://ko-fi.com/tonywalkerIf you really want to help me, become a Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/barcudMusic by The Heartwood Institute: https://bit.ly/somecomeback Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Everybody dies, don't they?
0:10.5	Everybody come back, isn't that same?
0:14.4	You tried to get into the locked drawer today, didn't you?
0:17.1	How do the dead come back, mother?
0:19.9	What's the secret?
0:21.3	The Fair Family
0:22.4	By Tony Walker.
0:26.8	The rain began at Halfway House.
0:29.9	It started to spot the windscreen heavily just after Welshpool.
0:34.3	By the time they got to Garthmill, it was bucketing down.
0:38.2	They'd come down the M6 toll motorway past Birmingham.
0:41.6	Dave had begrudged paying the fee, but Angela said,
0:44.3	you always paid one way or another, either in money or time lost or in some other way.
0:50.5	But now they were in mid- Wales and there wasn't much traffic.
0:57.6	But what cars and vans there were threw up a lot of spray.
1:01.6	The road through the mountains was narrow and full of bends.
1:11.1	And when Dave got stuck behind a school bus he couldn't see to overtake, so he sat there crawling along, drumming his fingers on the steering wheel and cursing.
1:13.6	"'Overtake here,' Angela said.
1:14.9	He shook his head.
1:15.8	"'Can't see.
1:17.7	There's nothing coming.' "'I'd rather wait.'
1:19.3	She sighed.
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