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Dark Histories

Christmas Campfire 2022 (Part 2)

Dark Histories

Ben Cutmore

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4.82.2K Ratings

🗓️ 29 December 2022

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Hi everyone, I hope you all have had a wonderful Christmas or at least a nice bit of time off work... Here's part 2 of the 2022 Campfire episode, which should hopefully be something to help pass the time in these strange limbo days. ---------- For almost anything, head over to the podcasts hub at darkhistories.com Support the show by using our link when you sign up to Audible: http://audibletrial.com/darkhistories or visit our Patreon for bonus episodes and Early Access: https://www.patreon.com/darkhistories The Dark Histories books are available to buy here: http://author.to/darkhistories Dark Histories merch is available here: https://bit.ly/3GChjk9 Connect with us on Facebook: http://facebook.com/darkhistoriespodcast Or find us on Twitter: http://twitter.com/darkhistories & Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dark_histories/ Or you can contact us directly via email at [email protected] or join our Discord community: https://discord.gg/cmGcBFf The Dark Histories Butterfly was drawn by Courtney, who you can find on Instagram @bewildereye Music was recorded by me © Ben Cutmore 2017 Other Outro music was Paul Whiteman & his orchestra with Mildred Bailey - All of me (1931). It's out of copyright now, but if you're interested, that was that.

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome back to Dark History's Christmas Campfire 2022. I hope you all had

0:16.6

a fantastic Christmas and you know you're having a nice holiday. I've got no idea what

0:22.5

day it is. It's that weird sort of limbo between Christmas and New Year where everything

0:28.0

just sort of melds into one but I'm having a nice time so that's good. Today we're going

0:34.4

to do part two of the Christmas campfire. I have many many more stories that are not

0:39.7

going to make it into part one or two and I think what I'll do with them is do a campfire

0:45.1

episode later in the year and just drop it like when it feels appropriate at some time

0:50.6

as that sort of little bonus because there's just so many stories this year which is amazing

0:54.8

but yeah we'll just never get through them all this rate so I'll do a sort of bonus

1:00.8

campfire later on maybe sort of springtime with the other stories. With that said, let's

1:08.6

jump into some Christmas campfire tales to hopefully help you while away your evenings

1:14.8

between say this weird limbo period. So the first story comes from Nick. Nick says during

1:22.3

my first year of my degree course I lodged with a lovely retired couple Anne and Rowland

1:27.6

who had always lived in their locuary of Worcester. They were quite happy for me to come and

1:31.5

go through a side door in their house and as long as I behaved they gave him the freedom

1:36.0

to enjoy university life. As the term moved on we formed a good relationship. They enjoyed

1:42.1

the extra money from renting out a spare room and I was relatively sensible for a 19 year

1:46.4

old living away from home so we get on well. Apart from one night when I got back home

1:51.7

in a state after a night out with my new college rugby team mates, our lodging arrangements

1:56.4

were working out fine. My experience occurred in the early spring. I'd stayed later than

2:02.0

planned at my mates dorm watching a film but when it finished well after midnight I decided

2:06.8

I'd go back to my lodgings as I had a lecture and tutorial in the morning and by that

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