Time Between Times Storytelling with Owen Staton

The Fairy Funeral This week on Time Between Times Storytelling with Owen Staton, we leave the well-worn paths behind and climb into the lonely Welsh hills, where the veil between our world and the Otherworld is said to be at its thinnest. When an old shepherd hears the distant ringing of unseen bells, he finds himself standing before a silent funeral procession unlike any ever witnessed by mortal...

High above an ancient Cornish church, something waits in the gathering dusk. In 1976, terrified witnesses reported seeing a towering winged figure perched upon the church tower at Mawnan Smith. With glowing eyes, vast feathered wings, and a shape that seemed both human and owl, the creature would become one of Britain’s most enduring modern mysteries: the Owlman of Mawnan. Join Owen Staton as we j...

The Red Lady of Paviland. Friends, tonight I’m taking you to a place where the land falls away into the sea, where the wind howls across the cliffs of Gower and the waves whisper against ancient stone. Hidden there is a cave that kept its secret for more than 33,000 years. In the latest episode of The Time Between Times, we journey deep into Ice Age Wales to uncover the extraordinary story of the...

The Death Messenger of Mellincourt Three knocks. A cold winter night. And a visitor who never arrives by chance. In this haunting journey into the folklore of the Neath Valley, Owen Staton ventures deep into the shadows of Welsh belief to uncover the chilling tale of The Death Messenger. Drawn from the pages of nineteenth-century folklore, this unforgettable story tells of Modryb Nan of Mellincour...

On a wild and windswept night in Cornwall, the distant cry of hounds carries across the moor. They are searching still. In this episode of Time Between Times, we delve into the chilling legend of Dando, the hunting priest whose thirst, pride, and reckless words led him into the company of the Devil himself. What began as a Sunday hunt through the Cornish countryside became a ride into darkness fro...

In the lonely marshlands and mist-soaked valleys of Wales, strange lights have long been seen drifting silently through the darkness. Pale flames moving along forgotten roads. Lanterns with no hand to carry them. Omens of death. Tonight, storyteller Owen Staton invites you into the haunting world of the  Canwyll Corph  — the Welsh corpse candles — where grief walks beside love, where ancient super...

Deep in the haunted hills of Ireland lies a grave that, according to legend, must never be opened… In this chilling new episode of  Time Between Times , storyteller Owen Staton journeys into the ancient darkness of the Abhartach legend — the terrifying tale many believe inspired Dracula himself. Long before vampires stalked the pages of Gothic fiction, there was Abhartach. A cruel chieftain. A sor...

Tonight,  Time Between Times  journeys into the haunted coastal shadows of Cornwall for a chilling encounter with one of Britain’s most unsettling pieces of folklore —  The White Hare of Looe . When an old fisherman shares a tale whispered for generations along storm-lashed cliffs and moonless lanes, storyteller Owen Staton is drawn into a world where the boundaries between beast, spirit and human...

Tonight, on The Time Between Times Storytelling Podcast, Owen Staton journeys deep into the haunted hills of old Wales to uncover one of the most chilling and forgotten fairy legends ever told. Two men walk home beneath the moonlight after a fair in Bala. Only one returns. The other has vanished amongst the standing stones after hearing impossible music drifting across the dark hills… Soon whisper...

There are some houses that remember… And there are some that refuse to forget. This week on  Time Between Times , storyteller Owen Staton invites you to step beyond the threshold of Burton Agnes Hall, where beauty and terror have walked hand in hand for over four hundred years. In this chilling new episode, Owen breathes life into the legend of Anne Griffith—the young woman who loved her home so f...

The Man Who Walked Behind Himself There are some things in Welsh folklore that do not scream… do not chase… do not haunt in the way we expect. They simply wait. In this chilling episode of Time Between Times, storyteller Owen Staton invites you into the shadowed churchyard of St Digain’s Church—where an ancient yew tree has watched centuries pass… and where one man, walking home from a wake, encou...

A simple hunt. A quiet vigil in the branches of an ancient oak. And then… a sound. “ Oh… Oh… ” What follows is a story of stillness… of fear… and of something that waits in the darkness, not to strike… but to watch. So settle in, lower the lights, and let the world fall away for a while… as we step together into that thin place between night and morning… where not everything that walks the woods b...

Tonight, we ride into the haunted heart of the Vale of Neath. Into a land of black cliffs, hidden waterfalls and ancient forests where the mist curls through the trees like the breath of something old and watching. In this episode, we follow the shadowed trail of Gwyn ap Nudd, the wild and terrible king of Annwn, as he rides through the valleys above Pontneddfechan with the Cŵn Annwn at his heels....

Time between Times Storytelling with Owen Staton The Wonder of the Wollaton Gnomes There are places in Britain where the world feels… softer. Thinner. As though reality itself loosens its grip just enough for something older — something stranger — to slip through. On a September evening in 1979, in the shadowed woods of  Wollaton Park , a group of children stumbled into just such a moment. What th...

There are moments in this world… when something slips through. Something ancient. Something uninvited. Something that does not belong to the neat, ordered version of reality we have built for ourselves. And this week… I find myself standing at the edge of one of those moments. 🎙️ Time Between Times Storytelling Podcast This week’s episode walks into the shadowed forests of Northern California… and...

Time Between Times – The Spectral Lady of Waterston Road There are roads we travel every day… and then there are roads that remember us. This week on Time Between Times, we journey deep into the quiet, coastal heart of Pembrokeshire… to  Waterston Road  — a place where the hedgerows whisper, the night air thickens… and something walks when it should not. Locals speak in hushed tones of the Waterst...

Time Between Times Podcast The Death of Dic Penderyn In this powerful and deeply moving episode of Time Between Times, Welsh storyteller  Owen Staton  journeys into the fiery heart of industrial Wales to tell the tragic and haunting story of  Dic Penderyn . Travel back with Owen to the iron town of  Merthyr Tydfil  in 1831, where furnaces roared day and night and thousands of workers laboured in s...

Time Between Times Podcast Episode: The Black Nun of Llangrannog On this episode of Time Between Times, Owen takes you back to the windswept cliffs of west Wales… and to a childhood memory that still sends a shiver down the spine. As a boy in the 1980s, Owen travelled to the great Welsh youth camp at  Urdd Gobaith Cymru Llangrannog Centre , a place of laughter, adventure, and independence for gene...

🔥 Time Between Times Podcast 🔥 Tonight… we walk north. Out beyond the edge of comfort. Beyond the lamplit villages and into the wind-torn silence of the Farne Islands. Where the tide gnaws at black rock. Where seabirds wheel against a bruised sky. Where a shepherd boy once saw angels and followed that vision into eternity. In this episode of Time Between Times, I tell the story of  Cuthbert of L...

🔥 Ghosts of Afan – A Time Between Times Episode 🌙 Tonight, we walk where steel meets sea… where ruined stone remembers… and where the valley does not sleep. In this deeply atmospheric episode of Time Between Times, Owen returns to the shadows of the Afan Valley to uncover three lingering presences — the restless lord of Aberafan Castle, the silent monk who walks beside the old wall near the stee...

This week on Time Between Times, come with me into a hush of leaves and the long, listening dark… In the quiet woods of the Gower, when the birds fall silent and the light thins to a bruise of blue, some walkers glimpse a woman standing between the trees. She does not call. She does not chase. She only watches. Settle by the firepit and let the world loosen its grip as I tell the true-told tale of...

This Week on Tales from the Time Between Times Tonight, by the low glow of the firepit at the heart of the forest, Owen Staton invites you to lay down the weight of the day and step softly into the dark. Inspired by the haunting artwork of Katie Marland, this week’s tale carries us over Croydon Hill, where an old road bends, the wind whispers of old sins… and something ancient is said to still wal...

Some stories refuse to rest. High above the Severn plain, within the red-stone walls of Powis Castle, a presence once walked the corridors by candlelight — not to terrify, not to threaten… but to finish something left undone. In this episode of Time Between Times, we step quietly into the shadows of an eighteenth-century Welsh castle, where an old woman, a hidden chest, and a ghost clad in gold la...

Time Between Times Storytelling with Owen Staton Step with me, if you will, into the gloaming — that soft, half-lit hour where the old stories still breathe and the past leans close enough to whisper. As St Dwynwen’s Day draws near, it feels only right to open the door to Wales’ most heart-rending tales of doomed love. Tonight, on Time Between Times, we walk a sorrowful, beautiful road. We begin o...

This week I am joined by the wonderful folklorist Amy Boucher, and together we wander into the shadowed lanes and hedgerows of Shropshire to speak of one of its most intriguing figures — the cunning man Thomas Light. A man whispered about rather than written down. A man of charms, counter-spells, and uneasy knowledge. We explore his life, his reputation, and the strange power such figures once hel...