As it is the month of October, with Halloween coming up, we wanted to bring you an episode full of the strangest, spookiest stories connected with Alnwick Castle. Did the 1st Duchess of Northumberland see a ghost when she visited a haunted house in 1762? Was the town of Alnwick plagued by a real vampire? What was so suspicious about the death of the 8th Earl of Northumberland? And how did the Castle end up with the beard of Henry IV, taken from his skeleton centuries after his burial?
These are the questions - and we invited resident Castle storytellers Sean Kenney and Melanie Dagg to perform these stories for you, before hosts Deborah and Daniel reveal the truth behind the mystery. We hope you have fun - but don't have nightmares!
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