Echoes from the Loam
Welcome to Echoes from the Loam, where stories breathe, shadows speak, and every tale leaves a mark.
I'm your Narrator Fauna Blakewell, I'm a mother, a witch and student of all things spooky.
I'Il be exploring global tales of the weird and spooky.
Each episode, we'll hear an original or a tale based on old faithful legends from lore that unearth the strange, the sorrowful, and the slightly twisted, from haunted objects to black dogs and things that go bump in the night.
I've given you the first 3 installments as a gift, a welcome to my realm so to speak.
I will be releasing new episodes weekly on a Tuesday morning UK time.
Episodes
Jul 7, 2026
Jul 7, 2026
21 min
Tonight, we descend into the grave‑soil of Ireland, where betrayal does not simply wound but transforms, where hunger is not a curse but a consequence, and where the dead rise not because they were wronged by spirits or demons but because they were wronged by the living — and the living never paid enough.
Jul 14, 2026
Jul 14, 2026
20 min
we wander into one of Ireland’s strangest and most quietly horrifying pieces of folklore, a creature that does not rise dripping from the bog or stalk the hedgerows with glowing eyes or howl from the hills in the dead of night, but instead waits for the soft slackening of sleep, the moment when breath deepens and the mouth falls open, slipping inside with a patience older than the first cattle driven across the Connacht plains.