Dracula, Diaries & Crop Circles
Episode 11: Dracula, Diaries & Crop Circles 🧛♂️📖🛸
Welcome back to another wildly unpredictable episode of Herefordshire Hearsay — the podcast where absolutely anything can happen… and usually does. 😂
This week we dive headfirst into vampires, UFOs, smart fridges, diary disasters and mysterious crop circles in Bromyard. Normal service resumed then.
🧛 World Dracula Day Special!
Christopher Lee vs Gary Oldman — who is the ultimate Dracula?
We celebrate World Dracula Day with tales of Hammer Horror films, terrifying bats on strings and a truly unforgettable childhood scare from Kerry involving:
A torch 🔦
A pair of tights 🧦
Uncle Mick 😱
Plus:
Why Dracula films were accidentally hilarious
The best vampire movies of all time
Why Kerry thinks Leslie Nielsen deserves more credit
A VERY important Dracula fun fact
🛸 UFOs Over Herefordshire
Things take a very strange turn when Heidi shares her genuinely spooky UFO sighting near Much Marcle 👽
Orange lights… impossible movements… standing in the road staring at the sky…
Meanwhile:
Doug from Bromyard is STILL reporting alien activity
Crop circle chaos continues
Toby from The Secret Garden gives his verdict
Dawn may have accidentally invented “Crop Circle Tourism”
Night-time tractor rides and illuminated crop circles, anyone? 🚜✨
📖 Diaries, Disaster & Dangerous Secrets
We discuss the strange things people write in diaries… and some things that probably should never be written down at all. 😂
Including:
The year chafing was discovered 😬
Smart fridges refusing midnight snacks
A disastrous “reply all” email
Pauline’s mum secretly reading her diary 👀
Why journals can become treasured time capsules
There’s also a lovely story about family memories, old Hereford barbers and half-finished haircuts after a quick trip to the pub 🍺✂️
☕ Coffee Options? Not Really…
The HIT Squad return to tea duty at St Peter’s Church… where coffee choices are:
Coffee
Tea
Coffee pretending to be a cappuccino ☕
Also featuring:
Cakes. Lots of cakes.
Parish Assembly gossip
Community heroes
Pauline accidentally asking if someone wanted water with their coffee
🩺 Pauline: Doctor’s Receptionist From Hell?
Pauline reveals she once applied to work at a doctor’s surgery… and honestly it may have been the NHS’s greatest near miss 😂
Expect:
Unsolicited medical diagnoses
Terrifying facial expressions
Queue rage
“Show me your rash then”
You’ll never look at a waiting room the same way again.
📚 Hitchhiker’s Guide, Towels & Total Nonsense
We celebrate Towel Day inspired by The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy 🚀
Discover:
Why towels are apparently the most important item in the universe
The many practical uses of a towel
Why wet towels are considered a weapon
The Beast of Traal makes an appearance…
Probably.
🎤 Also This Week…
Eurovision confusion 🎶
Alan Davies mystery diary entries
Sticky toffee pudding reviews 🍮
Community events at St Peter’s Church
Why Herefordshire is full of the best characters
📱 Follow Herefordshire Hearsay
Come and join the chaos on social media for clips, stories, polls and behind-the-scenes nonsense.
And remember…
If you see strange lights over Bromyard… it’s probably Doug again. 👽🍺
📢 Coming Next Time…
Next episode we’ll be talking about:
- Your medical problems
- Driver rage, what makes you mad!
- The Hay Festival
…plus whatever else happens when we leave the house unsupervised.
Thanks for listening to Herefordshire Hearsay! 💚
👋 Get Involved
Got a story? A dilemma? A Shire Shout-out?
Send it to us at chat@herefordshirehearsay.co.uk
Follow us on socials:
📘 Facebook – @HerefordshireHearsay
📸 Instagram – @HerefordshireHearsay
🐦 X – @HfdHearsay
Sign up to our newsletter - here
Episode 11 - Where you can find things:
00:00.000 Welcome to Herefordshire Hearsay
00:10.000 What have we been up to
04:22.000 Hitchhiker’s Guide, Towels & Total Nonsense
06:44.000 Coffee options! Not really...
07:57.000 Pauline: Doctor’s Receptionist From Hell?
11:52.000 World Dracula Day Special!
12:22.000 Heidi's Dracula Delight
14:23.000 Uncle Mick, a torch and a pair of tights! Best scare ever!
16:11.000 Hammer Horror Films
18:32.000 Dracula Fun Facts
19:05.000 Who is Alan Davies?
20:10.000 Diaries, Disaster & Dangerous Secrets
25:34.000 Crop circles and strange occurences
26:04.000 UFO encounters in Much Marcle
28:36.000 The Secret Garden Pub, Chatting with Toby
31:11.000 UFO round up
31:38.000 Eurovision, who won? We don't remember!
32:58.000 Crop circle chaos continues
34:20.000 Coming Up Next Time
