Hag stones are fossilised mud with holes in them that were formed by worms and other sea creatures millions of years ago. Ancient man thought them to have magical qualities hence the many names they were given: Hag Stone, Adder Stone, Hex stone Witch's Stone and Fairy Stone, to name but a few. They would be hung up at doorways to homes, barns and stables to protect the occupants from witch's curses and it was also believed that, if you looked through the hole, you would see the fairy world. The fact that they are the fossil of a worm hole may not be as romantic but is just as fascinating!

I no longer feel alone in the world, going OOOOO! and AAAAHHHH! at rocks. 🤩

As an American who drives on the right side of the road, the first minute of this video was terrifying. 😂

What a great way for a mother and daughter to bond!

When my 2 daughters were small we walked the beaches looking for unique beach stones. I would then polish them. 36 years later...these stones are their most prized possessions & memories. Thank you for taking me along and reminding me of precious memories. From California, USA. The Colonel

I love how they are said to ward off witches but here I am a witch using is for luck

"I've gone mad, I'm naming rocks" HAHA that was so funny, you are adorable, love your video!

You have taken us on another beautiful trip that I would never been able to partake of without persons like yourselves, thank you for the history , beautiful scenery and Beautiful music from the Cello and Alex's voice, so soothing. Happy new year and keep taking us to the places we all love.

17:37 slow down the playback speed and watch in the archway as a skull/head appears. As it moves from left to right, a dark cloak will begin to appear over it before it disappears. Absolutely fascinating! Also, I collect rocks and stones too. I would have that whole beach in my backyard if I lived near there! Lol There were so many beautiful stones and fossils! Thank you for sharing!

Lovely ladies, with beautiful voices. And lots of wonderful stones all around. I fell in love with that little pink one.

Her sweet, enthusiastic and curious voice with each find, was so very pleasant to listen to! 💕 -said Texas girl, here...

Not sure why YT is recommending this to me, but it must be interesting to walk this beaches where about twelve hundred years ago vikings landed to raid the island and the priory. Lots of history out there.

Didn't know what a hagstone was, but after watching this I realized I had one on my windowsill! Mine came from Lake Michigan.

I love the music!

I honestly cannot tell you enough how beautifully executed your cinematography is. Your scenery shots and music is wonderful! I am visiting there vicariously through the eye of your camera. ❤

My then fiancé who is Scottish took me to Holy Island the first time I was in Great Britain 20 years ago! We have been married for 18 years and we LOVE rock hounding and beach combing. We’re a little sad that we didn’t know to look for hag stones there! We live in Michigan which is a great place to live if you love to hunt for fossils and pretty stones. Great video! I also have great memories of fossil hunting in Spittle with our sons. Our suitcases were so heavy from the wood fossils we brought home. That’s a beautiful beach there too!

I love this channel because is so diverse in content. Also, your voices are so soothing! Your personalities are amazing and always such a good info. Thank you for this.

Thank you for sharing your adventure. It was lovely to go along with you.

I love the "Freude schöner Götterfunken" by the famous Ludwig van Beethoven! What a great treat for the ears as well to go along with the beautiful scenery!

The piece of coral fossil at 19:54 looks like Edvard Munch's The Scream! lol!

At 25 mins...that Hag stone looks like a tiny version of the Easter Island monuments!😁

I would have kept the “RAD” brick.👍

A split second before you named the third ‘face’ hag stone ‘Terry’ my mind said ‘Terrence’ I swear it! I was like Wow! Lol x

I loved watching this. You were in my "Recommended" column. I think that is because I also watch and very much enjoy Nicola White. I have subscribed.

The ghost stone should be "Casper the friendly hag stone". I think I'm going mad also.

What a great video! I love the scenery, the rocks, the choice of music---everything! I am from Florida so scenery like this is so unusual to me.

Hello from New Zealand, really enjoyed this ,the filming was excellent, the scenery was wonderful, you and your mum are beautiful. I have been picking up stones and other things since I was a young child . It's an amazing hobby and all the people I have met over the years have been really nice . I also carve jade in my spare time with diamond tools and whenever I travel overseas I pick up stones and bring them home . Returned from Laos last month with some nice one's which I will carve . Have a happy and healthy new year. Cheers from Grant .

Dang, I would have taken that RAD brick!

One looked like a Stormtrooper, one looked like Casper, the very last guy looks like a "Tim" to me! Thanks for another lovely educational, fun video. from Asheville, NC

I so would have found a way to retrieve that ship’s rudder.

The “must collect smooth rock” side of me is going crazy for your videos! I wouldn’t be able to hold back lol

It’s Dec. 2023 and I’d like to note you are almost at 100K followers. Yay! So much has changed. You now live in Lost Tower with your schrews, chickens and cat. How time flies!

22:33 fossil sponge stromatoporoid with tabulate coral in it

I think his name is George Hagstone. And I loved hearing the old bells; what a beautiful sound!

the 'holy' stones would make excellent sinkers for fishing lines eh.

I quite enjoyed this and the beautiful young lady has a lovely voice I could certainly listen to her for hours and still feel as an angel were singing to me

Looks like a pig's snout too! Loved that lil stone with the perfect heart on it!! This was a cool beach, my bag would have been sooo heavy! I'd love to buy a hagstone too!

Thank you for letting me join you both, on you beach combing for hag stones. They are amazing. Thank you also for the history lesson around & about the island. I had a truly unique & awesome time. Thank you both you are both awesome people. Happy new year to you both too.xxxx

Wonderful vídeo vou take me where I cannot go, share sacred knowledge passed from generation to generation the power of sacred revealed to the humble of heart, blessed be...🤗😘

Thanks for sharing this perfect mum and daughter day out, it's very generous of you both to share these special times and places with us.

Your world is so beautiful and old - I've experienced it myself a few times. Hope will be able to go there in 2020.

Another great video :) You found some great fossils. We are going to check out Holy Island in April. We are even more excited about it after watching your video. Thanks for taking us along :) Happy New Year!

Happy New Year! Congratulations to Gayle! That Hag Stone reminds me of a Dalton. Thank you for another beautiful video! I was thinking Alex, that you're artistically talented in many ways. One such way is cinematography. Although that natural scenery is stunning, you have a way of letting the viewer feel as if they are there with you. I love it! The large fossil reminded be of a loofah sponge, though it's a terrestrial plant. My other thought was that it could be a sea fan. I'm sure someone of your viewers will tell us. Thank you for taking us on your quest for Hag Stones.

Well done, Gayle! Happy New Year, Mudlarks!!!

When I was a young boy, about 60 years ago, I found a lot of these stones with the hole through them here on the coast of Northern California.

I found my witch's stone at our local creek a few years back. It is now a pendant I wear. These stones are also called Odin's Stone.

Hunting rocks ,one of my favorite things , to do . Thank you for the great walk on the shores of Bonnie Old Scotland .

Tis' A Gift is such a beautiful song! Thank you for making it a part of this video.

I found this channel like 2 hours ago, and I absolutely adore you two! This is just so wholesome and I love the content too, please never stop, and I think it should go without saying that I have most definitely subscribed!

When I lived on Inis mor, I found a few rocks with a hole, the Islanders insisted they are fairy stones, good luck!!!!

Loved your video! Very informative. I’ve been to Holy Island twice. My father brought me there in 1981 for my 18 Th . My step Mom was from Morpeth originally but we were all from Canada. He named his yacht Lindisfarne ( moored in Florida and sailed in the Caribbean)after Holy Island as he loved it there. My second visit was in 1996 when I spread his ashes at the base of the castle very close to where you are larking. Thank you.💕from a friend in Canada.( P.S.One day I want to return for a visit again hopefully).

You two are great.. I love the way you present your uploads and every time I enjoy your little trips with a great history ... Compliments for both of you. Greetings from the Netherlands

I saw one that was defiantly an “Ethan”. Thank you so much for allowing me on your adventures😄

It's appropriate that your intro music is "Simple Gifts" and the music during is "Ode to Joy". You share the simple gifts and bring joy to so many....now almost 10,000! Thanks for taking us along on this adventure!

I’m watching this video for like the 5th time! I keep falling asleep because I watch these before bed and they are so relaxing...I end up falling asleep lol. I hope the extra views help you all out. Looking forward to more videos!

One day, I pray I get to come to England just to mudlark and beach comb! I love that you and your mom do this together!

This is one of my very favorite channels! You two are a delight, and looking forward to many more videos and many more subscribers to you! Happy New Year! Name the hag stone Hagitha❤️

I love going on adventures with you! I think the stone looks like an Oliver, he's had too much figgy pudding! TFS Hugs!

Love the rocks and scenes . Happy new year 🇦🇺

It seems that pet rocks are in fashion again. Truely magic. I must get some Hag Stones to hang from my balcony, perhaps with macrame and driftwood. A fascinating adventure with charming hosts. 👣💍👞🦀🐾🍀⚓🏺🗝👣

You have Such a soothing voice

I'd call my hagstone Rocky. 😂

You two are adorable! What lovey people. I couldn't believe it when you put back the stone that looked like the character from Edvard Munck's Scream painting! That was such a find!

Great adventure ladies a beautiful day for beachcombing the holy island. Thanks for sharing with us. Have a happy, healthy and blessed New year.

11:40 is Silurian fossil sponge stromatoporoid, with Silurian period fossil coral in it

21:17 a perfect tiny heart in the rock! 😍

Holy Molly, plenty of beautiful rocks on the Holy Island. I'll go crazy there. I love rocks!

WOW! that is great. And there is a fossil. You are going great guns already. Tons of fossils, beautiful. Tumbled if you have one, they would be great. And lots of red, pink and other colors off small rocks. WOW! I am heart broken.

I wanted to hide my eyes while you were driving on the wrong side of the road, to me. LOL! Those hag stones are cool! You could use a big one on your desk for a pen holder.

Reckon they'd howl to high heaven if thrown by a sling.

As a woodworker I find amusing faces daily in the knots. Sometimes I have to start over to save the good ones...hoping to make a table of the collection someday

Another enjoyable and fascinating video that the family had fun watching on New Years day. My children said the hag stone looks like Kipper (the dog). They loved that show when they were little.

When we were kids we called them fairy stones, if u wore them you could attract a fairy for a talk and be safe.

22:11 rose quartz.

I think it is so wonderful that you have such a wonderful hobby that you can enjoy together. My daughter and I share a love of photography.

I had a stroke in July and could really use one for strength...I absolutely love your videos..you two are so adorable

The rad brick is actually a Radcliffe brick from amble, we have a few different ones broomhill Radcliffe Ashington to name a few.

Very interesting stones! Love the history and legend💖 I would name that last stone Fred! Lol 😮 Well done ladies! Congrats to the winners and Happy New Years everyone!🎉

I think it is beautiful, and the time spent as mother daughter is even more so. 💗

Loved the scenery!!! Beautiful!! And of course the stones and fossils!!! HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!🎉🥂🇨🇦🇬🇧💕 Congratulations to the winner!!!

“What shall we call it?” Well, Rocky, of course!

rad...its a Radcliffe brick, made in Amble from clay from the radcliffe pit... hardest know material on earth.

Northumberland. Where my heart lies. ❤️

My favorite part was the stones with eyes and faces.You could make really cool sculptures with them to put in your garden.

13:42 Cambrian fossil coral 540 to 490 million years old (That was difficult one to research lol)

17:39 anyone else notice the white face come into the middle of the doorway, then it shoots to the right?

Some day... Ill see these beautiful shores. Thank you for sharing them with us.

Hi Lovelies!! Happy New Year from USA!!!! I love you ladies!! Thanks so much for sharing your magical videos;-)

I'd call him Hagrid the hag stone.

19:51 This reminds me of the Edvard Munch Painting 😱 The Scream

Happy New Year, you Northern Mudlarks! I think your little hagstone friend should be called Percival! Don't know why. Enjoy virtual beachcombing with you ladies!

Oh what a treat! I didn’t expect but as always enjoy to watch. 🎆 HAPPY NEW Year 🎆 Thank you ladies It was a beautiful video To watch

That song in the beginning brings back school memories for me.

One can make an interesting "stone curtain" with the stones.

You are such kind people for giving giveaways to people . I love your work hope you have a great year

What a magical place - wonderful hagstone, coral, and songs fossils - a lovely presentation

Take some of that corel home and put them in an oversized brandy snifter.

Did you see anyone in that door way when you was there... at minute 17:39 look in the entrance someone freaky appeared

I live in Idaho USA, we are known for theGem State , because all the beautiful gems we have. I love collecting rocks and gems. I loved video today.

Herbert, Horatio, Hermione, Helflen, Hmm, what else? Else, Elsbeth, Ederer, Ponder. All that comes to mind now. Still thinking.