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STRANGE RESORT: Deep Dive Into Derry -- Stephen King History
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- Published on Mar 7, 2026
- #stephenking #welcometoderry
Welcome back to STRANGE RESORT... the Stephen King podcast that lurks in the shadows of otherwise sunny vacation destinations...
Tonight, we are taking a trip into a town called DERRY, MAINE... made famous (or perhaps we should say "infamous") thanks to a diabolical clown-entity often known as PENNYWISE the Dancing Clown... but a more appropriate name might simply be IT... as in Stephen King's IT...
But of course, our fearless podcaster George Hatfield knows none of these things yet... He is just beginning to dig into the deep, dark history of the Town of Derry... beginning as far back as possible, onto prehistoric times, even... and then into Derry's lumber mill days... and then onto some of the scariest events in Derry's first two centuries, leading up to the Kitchener Ironworks explosion!
We had a lot of fun making this podcast that delves into the fictional world of Stephen King... and we hope you enjoy watching and listening to this video, and the rest of the library at the Stephen King Book Club here on RUclips :)
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Theme Music: "Sinister" by Anno Domini Beats
Additional Music:
"A Fallen Cowboy" by Sir Cubworth
"Alone" by Aakash Gandhi
"Fun House" by Coyote Clearing
"Stark Goes Dark" by The Whole Other
"Maestro Tlakaelel" by Jesse Gallagher
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The fact that something like this isnt being done as viral marketing for the show is a huge missed opportunity. A documentary style show that blurs the line between reality and fiction would be incredible.
Stephen King did something similar when he did the tv miniseries Rose Red. It’s such a fun marketing strategy.
This style of storytelling is scratching an itch I didn’t know I had 10/10
if you haven’t listened to the podcast “welcome to night vale” you may rlly enjoy it then
Agree!.subscribed
For real ❤❤❤
SERIOUSLY, this is the best channel ever.
I really hope who ever is writing Welcome to Derry takes notes from this and just incorporates all the short stories within IT to the show
They won't. It'll almost certainly be terrible.
@steverye8872 Agreed. Most TV and movies are terrible 😒
I agree this is by far my favorite
Its in the book though
The Derry Interludes have always been my favorite.
this story is way more intense when presented this way.
not only is your voice super soothing for sleep but this idea of these stories being real and presented like this is genuinely so amazing. so glad i found this channel
I wonder if they have a “Derry queen” 💯😂
I see what you did der
@MissWinters1980 💯💯💯👏🏽😂 ditto 😂
Rests one question: m or f? 😜
Harley Quinn wants the job. 😁😇
OOH... THATS A GOOD ONE !
"Blood bath and body works" 😉 Good one!
That was a gag sign for a gun shop in The Simpsons episode The Cartridge Family.
it's also an Ice Nine Kills Song XD well, It's "Blood Bath and Beyond" but close enough
@fishjones4618Thanks for commenting so I don't have to😂
1408 at the Dolphin Hotel please--I loved the Overlook and this one
And I think we can mark "Bad things happen to guys named George" off our Kingo card.
The voice acting on these are super realistic. The pauses and stutters. Those little idiosyncratic flaws in our daily speech: awesome.
“You didn’t find all the eggs”
I'm a Stephen King freak. Every book, some first editions, I've collected for decades. He writes from the gut and I fully understand that as I'm a veteran. To wrap evil in cotton candy is so subversive. I just found your podcast. Your pacing, voice, and visuals are wonderful! You've got another fan! Keep up the great work!
@ydoicare2000 lol, he is legitimately consolidating power in the executive and doing what authoritarians the world over have and always do. He is cozying up to dictators,has broken our closest trading partnerships and has fired thousands of federal workers, all people whose money went directly back into the immediate economy.
Inflation is already going up which is nuts because usually it takes months for those ripple effects to get worse.
For all the end of the world false complaints about executive overreach under Obama and Biden or corruption that always turned out not to be true, but you dummies just keep doubling down everytime he lies to you. It just hurts for your ego too much to be able to admit you were absolutely wrong.
@ydoicare2000No, I don't think King suffers from Trump Devotion Syndrome. Have you read an older book of his called The Dead Zone? Trump *is* Greg Stillson...without the brains.
When Jake Epping was in Derry in 1958 and experienced its town vibe, he concluded that it was “just Derry being Derry”.
Not a great town to be in when you have explosive diarrhea and nobody will let you use their restroom. Poor Jake!
@PeteG__ooo That’s the obdurate past for ya.
But also he sensed pennywise there so he got the hell out
Honestly..my friends and I would ghost hunt and went to Worcester MA for variety of “haunting”. Lemme tell you…thems folks be strange 😳
@LG-lk5es Worcester is strange, the rest of us are ok. lol
Ahhh, Derry! One of my favorite places.
Buckle up... It's gonna be a bumpy ride!
I know right?
Jeez...uh, yeah. Swell town.
@stucoofoo Like he said, great place to raise kids... just great.
I used to think I would be able to just swagger right into Derry and cake walk all over Pennywise…..then I made the mistake of growing up lol
the segment where your in the hotel commenting on the curtains and stuff reminds me of room 1408
This was absolutely incredible ❤️
Being from Bangor, ME, it's interesting to listen and watch this, hearing words and names that are just a part of my everyday life, sound fantastical in these stories.
You, too. I'm born and raised near Fairmount Market from 69 to 90.
Halfacer is definitely something though 😂
16:20 ‘Decapitated heads’… Heads with their heads cut off?? I love your work and this made me smile.
Great video! Derry would be a great place to live except for the alien gods, cryptic monsters, and constant vampires.
But other than that, it's splendid!
@stephenkingbookclub1054 What is the housing market like? Might be worth navigating the riff raff for a good fixer upper.
😮@stephenkingbookclub1054
@stephenkingbookclub1054😮😮😅😅😅😅
Which one is pennywise?
This is awesome! I’ll look on your channel for more.
Since I’ve found your channel I have tried to binge and relisten to everything. What you’ve done by retelling or reformatting these stories is so amazing and fresh. My favorite is the true crime of pet semetry and when you play kingo I’ve listened to the Willy the weirdo story 3 times now. I also just became a number one fan
Thank you! I'm so glad you found the Book Club!
That bed bath and bodywork pun is amazing
Smell that fresh Derry air!
One of my favourite lines from the original miniseries, and the best line that wasn't Tim Curry's!
I was too late! I wanted that one😅
That’s the air President Skroob was sniffing in Spaceballs. 😂
Beep, beep, Trashmouth!!😂
Are you 8 years old? 🙄
I love the variety of videos you produce. You have a real knck for matching the content to the style. I want to say that Strange Resort is my favorite of your series, but i enjoy all of your material and i get a real thrill from how inspired I've become to think about King's work through different angles.
17:36 The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon is my favorite SK novel after The Stand and IT. Didn’t think I’d get choked up watching this, but here we are
I have been eagerly awaiting this Strange Resorts episode. *Beep* *Beep*
Beep beep Richie. (*^^*)
I hope you make a part two of this
George Hatfield Goes to Derry.
Sounds like a Stephen King children's book😆
🤣🤣
Jack Torrance and Tony: The Shine
Didn't find all the eggs huh? Well great. At least one of Pennywise's children survived.
I have to say, the scene of the headless kid going after Ben in the movie version of IT was pretty effective
that is exactly what I thought when I first read the book many years ago, I am still waiting for SK or his son to write a sequel to IT
@capucchan8 I’m sure the cycle will continue with a new group of people to battle Pennywise, since the 5 remaining members of the Losers Club are probably all in their 70’s (if still alive) and have forgotten the events. UNLESS, the cycle returning triggers their memories.
I recall pennywise being seen in Tommyknockers right?
"Pennywise Lives!" - Dreamcatcher
Well done.
This is super cool imagine a Pennywise/Derry story told in true crime format!
Love this video
Let me just say, this was superbly done. Bravo, sir, bravo. 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
Thank you!
thanks for making playlists of these videos. easier to watch! i love ur stuff
I'm currently home sick with a flu and I'm so happy that I found this chanel. The attention to detail and the fresh take on these stories is awesome. Thank you!
I've got a flu too. Seems everyone I know has the flu. My cousin works at the hospital, he says that there's something they're not telling us. A lot of people are dying, and he's said that he hasn't seen a single person get better.
@VincentVega93Haha calm down friend, no need to try to scare people. This isn't Derry and I'm sure you'll be back on your feet in no time.
Oh wow! I’m in the situation, home and sick with flu and I just found this channel loving it!
It's a great chanel to binge from bed, like bedtime stories only slightly more scary 😅. I hope you feel better soon! @buket_stopmotion
I can't wait I've been looking forward to this
The Stand (uncut) is by far my favorite--I found a hard back copy in excellent shape of Bachman 4 early stories that has Rage the Long Walk Roadwork and the Running Man want to read Rage but hate to open book up always ordered his hard back books but never had the time to go through all of them
A properly freaky way of conveying this story. Well done. Your way of telling this is making this 39 year old feel a hint of what it was to watch the movie when he was 7 or 8; fuckin terrified.
This is the first video of yours that i have seen, and it's brilliant. The quiet documentary/travelogue style is great, and the horrific banality of a Bath and Body Works store on the site of the massacre really got me. That's a very real thing. While some horror sites are abandoned (Ed Gein's farm) or memorialized (the Little Big Horn and Gettysburg battlefields), many are simply redeveloped (the sites of the Ripper murders).
Looking at displays of body lotions, etc., exactly where the murders were done is so horrifically mundane, and so true.
Oh how I miss that.....Derry Air.
I love this entering yourself as like an in world podcast or exploring. The history of dairy is so fun.
THAT was remarkably well done. Bravo, and thank you to the algorithm for sending me your way.
Wonderful!! 10/10
wonderful episode! Be safe!
Derry has a lot of history!
We think George will be here for a while!
i’m so glad the algorithm found this for me. IT is one of my favorite books of all time, a lot of that to do with the history of Derry being so fascinating. this is such a clever way to tell the story and i’m looking forward to more/checking out the rest.
GOOD STUFF
Awesome. Thanks!!
I just came across your videos and i love them so much, you've got yourself a follower
This was really well done 👍👍
Always enjoy the podcast but this was especially good
I've been a King groupy sin e 13 when iread "Carrie" in 9th grade. My prom dress in '78 when i graduated, 🎉designed by my mom was an exact copy.
I absolutely LOVE this! Loved the 'research' you did. Some of those stories sure sounded familiar to me. ;) This is great fun. This is the second one I listened to today. Hope there are more. Will check it out. You might have another follower soon. :D
This scary adult bedtime story was just what I needed
Very interesting channel and videos. Love it. Thanks for the hard work telling these stories
You’re very welcome! Thanks for finding our strange little book club 😊
This refreshingly fun
Calm ,scary ,subscribed
Thank you for this! ❤
I love Strange Resort!
And Strange Resort loves you!
My introduction to Derry was late in King's collection. It was in 11/22/63. After I read that book, I went back and read every book that mentions Derry. After reading them all, I have to say 11/22/63 is still my favorite but I enjoy all of the others. I read 11/22/63 atleast twice a year for some reason... I just cannot stop thinking about it and its characters. It also pushed me into learning all about JFK's assassination.
It's definitely one of King's best... You really feel like you go with Jake into the past.
There’s a great video on the channel Lemino that does a meticulous analysis of the events on that day in 1963 with exhaustive interviews from people ranging from the authorities to people working in the book depository at the time. It’s fascinating and reveals info I didn’t know.
The secret service did an AI analysis of that day in Dallas and it showed Daly Plaza was the worst place to drive the president through on that day. Too many entrances, exits and windows for the president to be safe.
@fishjones4618 I've seen that video, it's really well done and extremely thorough in its research. I'd highly recommend it.
Great episode!
Geez, that was a great video! :)
BEEP, BEEP, Georgie!
You need to go down further, Georgie boy, but be careful, they float down there. All things float down there...
For real. I’m just starting this but I see a “deep dive into Derry”, get hyped, then see it’s only 30 minutes long. I’m not sure that even long enough for a brief overview. Mike Hanlon is disappoint.
7:54
Not what I heard in the pipes. We all float downhill. 😳
In reality Derry, Maine is not a real town. There is, however a real Derry, New Hampshire that fits the description. I went to middle school about five miles from there. Even weirder is that my small group of nerdy friends were bullied and given the label "The Shithead convention." we were about five boys, and one girl with bright red hair. I'm not making this up, it's just a crazy coincidence.
Did you also all run a train on her? 😂
@jonathanjohnson7743 Dude 😂
Love that you used some or the later Darry material from Dreamcatcher
Excellent writing, excellent production, just excellent all around!
We had a spot we'd hang out in when I was a kid. I was always reminded of that spot when thinking about where the kids hung out in Derry.
This is so good! It's like one of those "choose your path books" that I use to read read as a kid in the early 90s.
I never knew I needed a podcast like this, but I obviously do. Brilliant stuff, thank you!
Absolutely loved this episode. Very well done! Took me until the last few minutes to get the egg reference which was just *chef's kiss*
This was great! A thought for the future, in situations similar to you being in the car after the drain; try adding a tremor of stress/fear to your voice until you go back telling Derry history. Reciting what you'd learned through research could be a cool way to calm/re-center yourself from an alarming 1st had experience. Just a thought, you're already doing great & have a new subscriber!
This was excellent 🎉
Really, REALLY fantastic work on this.
Thank you! Cheers!
This is such a good video, thank you ❤
This was delightful!
"leaf peeping" 😂 Never heard that before!
27:16…N O P E !!! Great job! This was a great video that captures the atmosphere of King’s work.
Can you do one on the history of Shawshank Prison?
Ooooohhhhmygaaahhh this is EXACTLY and I mean exact-tic-tacly what I needed for my Wednesday morning chorin’. You sir, are the best. Danka George Hatfield ❤
Happy to be hear for ya!
I love the way this is written/read!
Bravo 👏🏻
Fascinating, I love it ^_^
The flamboyant hotel clerk adds to the immersion
Fell asleep during intro
Parts of Derry sure look like Port Hope Ontario Canada
Dude what a great podcast format, this is awesome!
Can’t wait. Nice job with all the uploads man. I enjoy this channel very much
Thanks so much. I'm excited to see how people like this one... IT is one of my favorite books, so I'm hoping to do justice to the source material.
This was a fun story hope you continue exploring the many locations of Steven kings IT
Love these
This was great, hard to believe it's for free. Thank you for such a quality
Okay. That was creepy but also cool.
Love the graphics you make for these videos for Stephen King's stories. Glad I found this site.
That's funny, how did you sneak that balloon in?
And the timing was Perfect......😶
I’ve always hated clowns…they freak me out. Yet my aunts kept giving me ceramic clowns for Christmas and my birthday. As soon as I was old enough to fool my parents, the clowns went away. Yet that didn’t stop new ones from showing up every holiday. I think that is why IT is my second favorite King book (The Stand being my favorite).
My grandmother had a whole bunch of blown glass clowns... all of them a little bit creepy!
Heh, my bro-in-law is terrified of clowns, and has been ever since he was a kid in the 80's for some reason. I was so proud of my nieces last year, when the decided to dress up as Harley Quinn and Pennywise for Halloween!
@thing_under_the_stairs the 80s was a weird decade. And congrats to your nieces for dressing up like HQ and Pennywise! That’s something my brothers would have done to me as a child. Then again, I was getting terrified enough by seeing Alien in the theater at age 8 and reading H.P. Lovecraft throughout the 70s and 80s to be too worried about Halloween. My aunts only intensified the existential dread my siblings were bringing me.
@dll_Rhemuth948 The 80's was indeed a weird time! I have to admit that I'm kind of jealous that you were able to see Alien in the theatre, even if you were a bit young for it; I was born the year it was released and I use that as an excuse for quite a lot. That, and growing up on a steady diet of Stephen King's books and movies! The nieces know the characters, but they aren't quite old enough that my sister will allow me to lend them the books yet... I'm looking forward to feeding their minds with King and Lovecraft, and helping them to become even more proper little terrors than they already are!
Did you tell her you are not fan of clowns ?
Very cool!.
I hope this channel grows and grows. This is so amazing!!!
PART 2!!
Love this 😎👍🏻
Stumbled across this, your channel and this episode… I must say superbly done, unique and entertaining take! I am a fan of King and appreciate this content. I will certainly be delving into your channel further 👍🏻
omg I love the blood bath & bodyworks!! Such great work!
You have one of the best channels on RUclips. Love it love it love IT!