Hilde Festerling

The Goat American Novel

Fiction EN ↓ 30 episodes

What happens when the farmer is away, and the new farmhand isn’t prepared for what’s coming to the herd: barn hauntings, suspected chupacabra problems, a creepy new neighbor, and one chocolate crazed, possibly-immortal squirrel… Welcome to The Goat American Novel, an all-ages barnyard comedy thriller! This richly-produced, serialized journey will take you deep into the life of a goat herd; goat rivalries, goat hauntings and goat legends, goat nemeses, goat drama. This podcast, produced by beloved family storyteller Hilde Festerling and three generations of her family, uses live music, sound de...

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Hilde Festerling

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Episode 5: Roars, Thunderbutts, Rattling engines 24.02.2024 41:45

As FM makes her last preparations to drive away and leave Pearl and Sawyer in charge, two of the kids break out in search of apples. Or is it prize-winning pumpkins? Or is it fear itself they'll wind up chasing? CW: There is one scary moment! We forgot to warn in the intro! Kids, Mangoat and Silver will be fine! We have a map of the farms and list of characters up! View the Map and Character Guide...

Episode 4: The Corn Brings the Chickens, The Chickens Bring the Noise 09.02.2024 36:42

In which FM reaches out to her neighbors- the familiar and the frightening, the sensible and the strange, for help with her animals while she takes The Seaside Cure. But first, a squirrel. We have a map of the farms and list of characters up! View the Map and Character Guide Here . Feel free to consult the character list freely (we confess, it's a story with a lot of characters) and, the map is de...

Episode 3: The Ballad of Ruby One-Horn 26.01.2024 43:27

In which the big sister yearling goats tell the kids a terrifying rural legend about the one-horned goat, and FM receives an unexpected visitor, crossing the borders in dreamland to deliver a message... Special thanks this week to Courtney Lyons for filling in! Follow us! Instagram for behind the scenes fun (and goat videos): https://www.instagram.com/goatamericannovel/ The Goat American Novel web...

Episode 2: The Milk and Wool Producing Animals’ Neighborhood Society 12.01.2024 33:52

In this episode, we meet the whole herd, and their neighbors, and we see the goats try- and mainly succeed- to boss all the other animals around. But do the goats, sheep, alpacas, or their respective humans, yet scent the danger wafting from the 100 year old barn? Where to find me: The Goat American Novel website: https://goatamericannovel.podbean.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/goat...

Episode 1: It Was Not Any Barn She Knew 12.01.2024 37:00

The start of our journey, in which we meet the farmer and the four kids of the herd, and we listen in on their conversations, their wild goatly imaginings, their dreams... Discussed: Haunted Barns(?), Spiders are building things with their butts, and FM radio- an old time machine, invisible but all around you. Where to find me: The Goat American Novel website: https://goatamericannovel.podbean.c...