Really enjoyed this. Stayed overnight in Sunderland in 2019 when touring England with a friend. Have you yet done or could you do an episode on Jarrow? That's where my grandparents are from, but they never talked about it much. He always called her his Geordie, and we don't know why.
@@deborahharding647 I haven't done on one Jarrow and I don't know if there would be enough for a whole episode. I'll put it on the list for future topics though. I'm not sure why someone would call someone from Jarrow a Geordie as it's south of the Tyne, unless they were just referring to them as a Geordie for the general region rather than specifically Newcastle.
You talk about Marsden Grotto, and according to some cryptozoologists, there was a kind of viking cult there that sacrificed people to a dragon called Shoney. Some people on reddit tracked the story down to an author called Mike Hallowell, but there the thread goes cold. So I'm not sure if he invented it or if there's some folkloric basis to this.
@@TheEbrithil2 It certainly doesn't appear in any of the typical 19th century sources that I would use, so I'm inclined to think that one has been invented more recently. As it is, I only heard mention of that in the last few years or so, and I've heard it described as a sea monster rather than a dragon.
lovely presentation Icy much enjoyed
@@declanmurphy417 Thank you!
Really enjoyed this. Stayed overnight in Sunderland in 2019 when touring England with a friend. Have you yet done or could you do an episode on Jarrow? That's where my grandparents are from, but they never talked about it much. He always called her his Geordie, and we don't know why.
@@deborahharding647 I haven't done on one Jarrow and I don't know if there would be enough for a whole episode. I'll put it on the list for future topics though. I'm not sure why someone would call someone from Jarrow a Geordie as it's south of the Tyne, unless they were just referring to them as a Geordie for the general region rather than specifically Newcastle.
You talk about Marsden Grotto, and according to some cryptozoologists, there was a kind of viking cult there that sacrificed people to a dragon called Shoney. Some people on reddit tracked the story down to an author called Mike Hallowell, but there the thread goes cold. So I'm not sure if he invented it or if there's some folkloric basis to this.
@@TheEbrithil2 It certainly doesn't appear in any of the typical 19th century sources that I would use, so I'm inclined to think that one has been invented more recently. As it is, I only heard mention of that in the last few years or so, and I've heard it described as a sea monster rather than a dragon.