I really enjoy stories about doppelgangers and mimics! The aspect of something terrifying taking over someone that you know or someone you love, lulling those around them into a state of false security, is such a frightening concept. Wonderful story! Thank you, Mr. Walker! 😊

When my daughter turned 15 she went from a darling child to an evil twin. For about a year and a half she was totally impossible. You absolutely nailed it with your description of the surly, joyless daughter. Another great one. Keep it up, Tony!!

I was born in Dorset, and absolutely love these stories. I have such fond memories of ghostly tales being told around Christmas, and whilst I adore late Victorian and Edwardian writers, the stories that always managed to elicit waves of goose flesh were the ones that were set in remote villages and inns. Even better if they are rooted in folklore whose origins are shrouded in the mists of time. Thank you for giving me that delicious chill down my spine as the days are getting shorter, and the nights ever longer.

Engrossing and perfectly narrated, as always. Thanks Mr. Walker.

Great story and ramble. Thanks! It is good and eerie!!

Shivers!! Great story☺️😱

Thanks, I'm enjoying your self-written, self-read tales!

Hope the move is going well, and Happy Birthday to your girls! Great story, as always.

As always, great story with fantastic narration. Also I wanted to thank you for recommending the EnCrypted channel. Props to you Sir for not being selfish and turning us listeners on to another fantastic storyteller. As always...keep up the great work👍

Been to the Inn a few times. Actually camped at the roadside on the struggle in the fog. A proper eerie place indeed. Great story thanks

I really enjoyed that story. Thanks Tony!

That was awesome, very creepy!

Dark...subtle but dark...Good story!

Thank you Tony 😊.

Most enjoyable, and (as a parent myself) unnerving. One of those tales that feeds one just enough to have an inkling of the horrible thing that might happen, that you can't help hope doesn't happen, but that the story wouldn't be complete unless it does happen.

Enjoyed this story. The beautiful Lake District is a great setting for a creepy story like this with its mountains and large bodies of water, not forgetting the rainy days!

Beautiful set up for the story. Love your accent for this narration. Feel sorry for the father who lost his daughter in such a majestic setting.

Thank you for such a great tale, so well-told. Nice twist on the Changeling.

Hope that all is well. Thanks for this, love your work.

Brilliant!

A thoroughly entertaining and spooky story full of atmosphere. I really enjoyed it! You're a really talented writer.

Thank you very much!

Thank you!! 😀

My first time here, Such a Nice emotional voice! I'm Subscribed! Thank U! 😊

My brother used to freak me out when we were kids by just staring at me from an expressionless face - your comments at the end just reminded me of that!

Brilliant as ever ❤❤❤❤😊

Relistened to this tale so happy to see you in the end chat. Best wishes.

Whoo hoo! I just happened upon your channel and that I must say was bloody brilliant. From America kansas.

Thank the lord for Tony Walker and this channel!!I don’t know how I ever lived without it!!! Great story Tony, as always…

We stayed in Troutbeck for our honeymoon in 2018 and the names of the places in this story are familiar. My husband wanted to visit the Mortal Man, having seen it referenced in a book by Rebecca Tope. The range of ales met with his approval. Thankfully no shapeshifters spotted during our stay. There is something comforting about a story set in familiar surroundings.

Shivers! I love your writing about this family. Real people with warmth and affection for their daughters, but they also take turns being the one to smooth over the others inevitable irritation with their surly teen. Then we know somethings not right when she becomes so docile after her proclamation about never being able to leave. Nice touch with the changing picture as well. It seems to be a clue, but it also strikes me that it’s reflective of the narrators understanding of what’s happening. It reveals and mirrors the truth.

Yay!

I love “Donkeys” as a unit of measure.

Great story, thank you!

great story!

Love this frightening story!

Loved it.

Really loved this and your voice is great to listen to 😊

Excellent!!!

Mr Walker, you are such a marvelous narrator and a wonderful man. Thank you for all your spooky tales.

Brilliant story. Well read. 👏😀

Had many good hols in the Lake District and even Manchester got a mention and you know that me, being a Manc, would always be glad to get out of the city. Brilliant story and memories. Thanx, Tony!

Thank you, it was quite entertaining! Good spooky story for a Friday night. Best wishes in your new home.

Excellent story. Eerie and unnerving. 👍👍💕

Great story Tony, Thank you.

Very spooky this one.Well done

Your voice can melt better sir! Great story and narration.

Great story and so well read. Thanks very much.

Very enjoyable, thank you!

I have teenagers! Love that description of sulky rebellion and being vegetarian mainly to annoy meat eating parents, I was definitely Hazel at that age! I’ve always wanted to stay somewhere creepy, brilliant story!

Oh well done! I really enjoyed this ghost story. Happy birthday to your girls.

Superb :)

Thank you for telling us about Kirkstone Inn! Ended up looking it up and reading about it. Very pretty place and I love the ghost stories I'm reading that occur there!

I love relistening to this. This is my favorite story of warlocks. This is also what happened to me when my fiancé killed herself. I saw the LAPD unit in the drive way and drove away and bought a bottle of vodka. Came home, and my dad said he needed to talk to me and my knees gave way. Just amazing story telling skills, thanks Tony.

Great narrator. The Lake District has a history of ghosts. Some great stories about the old corpse roads there.

I loved it!!!! Thank you. Great story the end gave me goosebumps!

Oh, *Happy Birthday Twin daughters* you *Tony Walker* are double blessed🧁🧁🍨🍨

Loved this.....

So so good. Thamk you so much. 😪

Actually this is really well written! Thanks again!

Guessing my new sweatshirt would be perfect for this place!

I just recently found your channel , and I am so glad I did . I am in the process of playing catchup with all videos on the homepage .. This one really held my attention .. A nailbiter at the end . The vampire tales were as well very good .. Thank you for all the effort you put in for our benefit ... Jeff from USA

Good one , Tony ! Happy Birthdays to the twins ! 💀🎱💀

Really great story. Chilling & classic.

Marvelous!!!! Fantastic. Hard to choose which tale is my favorite in "Cumbrian Ghost Stories: Weird tales from an old land", but your presentation has fired it to the top of the list like a rocket. The vividly painted word images made me drop the dirty dishes, sit down, close my eyes and watch the mind-film. Can't wait to hear the other stories! Good luck with your move and a very happy birthday with your daughters

Enjoyed this

Been across there many times, worked at the Patterdale hotel when it was refurbished.. Thanks for this, subscribed.! 🙏

Wonderful contemporary ghost story, wonderfully read as always, and by the author! In addition to being well-written and enjoyable, I feel like I've been learning so much more about the Cumbrian region beyond, "well, Wordsworth liked it..." via ramble.

Many a great visit to Tan Hill more than 66 years ago

I love it when you magically transport me off across the pond for a supernatural adventure. You fed my mind's eye just what it needed, even to the descriptions of the girls, everything was so easy to visualize.

Always entertaining!

Nice.

I love your stories!!

I remember Kirk, on my green class to the lake district, many years ago...beautiful.

i dig this story mr. walker🤍

Very well written! The family chemistry feels very genuine.

Been for a pint in this pub! It was in winter and snow had blocked the road... With fires roaring I can imagine ghosts frequenting the bar😁

Kirk, as a word I mean, could be coming from the German word for church which is kirche. Very good narration of a very good original story. Thank you.

Great twist, by the way!

I've been to the Kirkstone Pass, but haven't been inside. It was fun knowing the areas in this story!

Absolutely wonderful story! Reminded me a bit of the story “The Wardrobe” by MD Vickers and a little bit of your “The Dernwentwater Haunting”!

This is the scariest story I've ever listened to on youtube ever. 🤦🏻‍♀️

Nice story and psychology talk. I could never guess what happens next. The mystery kept me wondering right till the end every step of the way. As humans I think our feelings become slowly intensfied to become emotions. On the other hand our memories are mental imagies that stand motionles. So we can mould them to become what we want.i like how you fine tune these elements. Also the word kerk is the same for church in flemish. I remember growing up in Belgium.

Thank you 😊, beautiful voice 😍

Ive been to that inn years ago.

👍.😬agree, it is uncanny & scary...nice ending sound effects

Shivers down my spine at the end! Great story.

I love this ghost story. It captures your attention right from start to finish. I want to travel to this inn and stay a night or two. I once saw a ghost in a Colwyn Bay Hotel in North Wales, bit of a fright at 2am but it had my fiancee at that time running out of the room screaming. "There's an Old lady in my room." Lol. Thanks for the upload, I thoroughly enjoyed your story.

So, you accidentally returned home with an unwanted souvenir of a family trip? Great narration.

I really enjoyed this but there's one thing I don't understand. Why would she be found in a secret room? Did Alf just happen to discover the secret room the day they left? If it wasn't him or his wife, why would the police or anyone even think to ask nevermind look there? I was dozing as I listened to this so maybe I missed something. Anyway, lovely story and nicely read.

Scared me!

Great story Tony. You know how I love straightforward ghost stories that go straight to the fear. I had a hunch I was taking a little peek into the real life of Tony Walker with that tale. Another thing is that one story which frightens me more than almost any other is 'Invasion of the Body Snatchers' yet I never trained my incisive intellectual powers on why it disturbed me so. Luckily you were on hand to call my attention to Dr Freud's thoughts on the unfamiliar familiar and I thought "There. He got it in one." I became very anxious indeed as it grew clearer that your daughter was no longer your daughter. I really love the clarity and humor and really everything else about it. You would have been a perfect fit with our old friends at Pan Ghost Stories. Their loss I say. I chatted with Lloyd Cole of all people on Twitter today. Not sure if you're a fan but I think he's got a real knack for the melancholy love song and have been listening to him since his first album came out when I was 15 and now I'm 55 so that was a real treat. I also had to offer my much belated condolences to him regarding the suicide of his lead guitarist Robert Quine who was truly one of the most innovative and unique guitarists ever. A genuine genius and his death came as a real shock to me. Who's shoulder better to cry on than Lloyd Cole's ? Anyway I thought it was pretty cool to watch that switchover from a magazine image to a flesh and blood person who was kind as could be. So that was my night. Thanks again for that story. A perfect fit for this vampire !

By coincidence I visited that pub a couple days ago, unfortunately it was shut. Great Story

They are interestin these tales

I enjoyed that. creepy!

I was a barmaid in the Yorkshire Inn. Very old and spooky but I never saw a ghost but hated being in caller alone

Cerreg means stone in Welsh also.

“I’ll tell you where it is & how to get there” … Uhhh 🤔 nooo thanks! I’m good at a nice long canny KZfaq cuckoo free distance 😳 … happy birthday girls!

oooo that was good...thank you :-)

Good😊