Ashridge Episode 3: Below The Bridge

[@ClassicGhost]

Here's episode 3. I will get working on Episode 4 soon. They take a while to do because I need to get actors first, etc. If you like Ashridge, give me a thumbs up. I have mentally committed to doing 6 episodes and more if there is sufficient interest. We are only at the beginning!

[@AndreaDingbatt]

Synchronicity!! ~Just been watching the MIB Movies!! Please keep this series going Tony, it is Awesome!! 😎👍

[@ClassicGhost]

I forgot to add the cast; Andy Harrington is Ed Jenkins, Melanie Harrington is Jane Makefield, Rod Thorne is me. Music by The Heartwood Institute

[@Thaelyn1312]

I very much enjoy these stories! 🙌🏻🌸

[@Stratollac]

I’m a fan of these stories. Please keep them coming.

[@enchraes]

​@@ClassicGhost Thanks, Tony! It was a blast, getting to play the role of Andy. I can't wait to see what horrors await me!

[@woolybullybananapeel8642]

Thank you Mr.Walker!!! Really enjoying this series!

[@lyndabrennan4560]

I love ashridge, the acting is outstanding, the sound effects are incredible, I'm definitely in favour for more, thank you for all of your hard work Tony, I'm very grateful for you 🙏💛

[@fetlock]

Oh there's no way you're allowed to get us this far into the story and then quit! It's going to be hard enough to wait for the next installment! I love the artwork and the voice work, too.

[@franken-pattern]

I love a good "cliffhanger" and we know that Mr. Walker will deliver when it comes to the next episode! He's so good! 🎉

[@CPWebster]

Can't get enough of Ashridge, excellent drama!

[@adriennewalker1715]

Me too!

[@rosemaryedwards3293]

Loved all the Ashridge stories so far - can't wait for Episode 4!

[@AndreaDingbatt]

Yay!! Thank you so Much Again Tony and Friends!! I'm stuck in bed ill , Again, ~ I feel like I have been stuck in bed for Months.... Love this series Tony, Again, Thank You so Much!! Namasté 🙏🕊️💞🌟 Andréa and Jasper. ...XxX...

[@amandalee215]

Yay, it's warm, and I am now sitting in my garden listening to this. Thanks Tony

[@franken-pattern]

I really enjoy these episodes! Thank you, Mr. Walker 🎉 You've given us SO many hours of quality listening and I'm terribly grateful 💟

[@SMichaelDeHart]

Tony Walker, I believe I've told you a bit about my background in the Fire Service (30yrs service). Now, I'll tell you my actual involvement (my families) with the Mothman and the Silver Bridge disaster in 1967 at Point Pleasant, Mason County, West Virginia. I currently live and was raised in western Kanawha County, WV, approximately 55 minutes just over an hour from Point Pleasant. In December 1967, I was 6 yo and in first grade. My father (a WWII Combat veteran of the South Pacific Campaign) was a Class A Transmission Lineman and Inspector for Appalachian Power Company. Their crew was clearing right of ways, building towers and stretching high voltage powerlines from Apple Grove, WV to the Phillip Sporns Hydro/Coal Power Plant on the Ohio River. Dad's crew stayed in the old Lowe Hotel in the town of Point Pleasant and were crossing the Silver Bridge numerous times daily, M-F. The collapse of the Silver Bridge occurred around 6/7pm on Friday, December 17, 1967. I was in our living room watching the old black and white TV with one of my older brothers. Mom was fixing supper and we were awaiting my dad to get home after picking up his suitcase for the weekend. I recall the disaster news being shown on WCHS TV 8 Charleston, WV local news channel as an Emergency Broadcast. I ran into our kitchen to tell mom that the Silver Bridge had collapsed. We knew dad would have possibility be crossing that bridge at sometime around the collapse. About 15 minutes after we heard the news, dad pulled his assigned Company owned Dodge Powereagon into the upper driveway. He knew nothing of the collapse, never saw a creature on the bridge while crossing 1 hour and 15 minutes before the disaster. We definitely thanked the Good Lord that night that he'd not been involved. Nor was any of his Appalachian Power Company crew. As a young BSA Scout, we had several camporees at the area known as the TNT area (where the Mothman was to have his hideout) just north of Point Pleasant. In all my years of living 2 counties over from Point Pleasant and my travels to and through that area, ive never really given to much thought or credence to the "Mothman". Honest, the Ohio State Troopers after crossing into Galia County, Ohio were the only monster that intimidated me. Theyd write you a citation for 1 mile over the speed limit! 😂😂

[@KayBacci]

Thank you, Tony, I've been waiting for episode 3. I really enjoyed episodes 1 and 2. Please keep producing these episodes. 👍 Later: Great episode, Tony. I liked all the references to films and TV shows, and 'Figaro' in the background. Wonderful acting, too, from you and the rest of the cast! Keep them coming, please 🙏!

[@MaggieatPlay]

Most Excellent! Looking forward to more. Thank you, Tony, for writing, finding actors, recording, editing, etc. And thanks to all the actors. Listening to "Ashridge" is a good way to spend a rather warm Saturday afternoon.

[@BertieShaul-mn4qc]

Thank you for sharing this with us, keep up the good work!

[@marieeab01]

Excellent looking forward to the next episode , thankyou.

[@andreac5724]

Duran Duran!!!!

[@ClassicGhost]

Lol, yes

[@silkeeberle8484]

I've been waiting patiently for the next episode. Thank you Tony and Friends!

[@ScottishLeo]

I've just began listening to these & wish I hadn't waited so long! They're incredibly written 💚❤️

[@ClassicGhost]

Thank you. My task tomorrow is to finish the script for Episode 6

[@donaldmccleary9015]

Awesome!! Thanks! Looking forward to more. Well-done. The artwork is really cool.

[@reporebo]

Loving this weird little village and its characters Tony!

[@debraculshaw7067]

Hi Tony, I absolutely love Ashbridge, please consider doing more than 6. Brilliant rural/folk horror. Only discovered your channel about 5 months ago, but as an avid reader myself, I have over fourteen hundred books, many of them horror and good old fashioned ghost stories, I was delighted to find your podcast. Love the info you provide and your dialogue at the end is wonderfully entertaining. I soon became a member and am frantically catching up on all the older stuff. Listening to someone who loves books as much as I always have is a breath of fresh air. I am 59 and from Lancashire but know Cumbria fairly well so can visualise the areas you read about. Love the fact you can do this full-time now. Just so glad found your channel x

[@christinehuseby6884]

Please keep them coming! These stories are so disturbing and I can’t wait to find out more about the Rabbit Man and his underground secret world

[@DPCurtisSydney]

Let it rain!!!! Thank the lord this has landed….!!! Great work to you and your team, thank you!!

[@dawnmorris5978]

Pouring rain and to another great episode

[@annetteeggett]

Mothman Prophecies!! One of my fave movies. Underrated. I’ll look out for the book Thank you for this Tony ❤

[@ClassicGhost]

+@annetteeggett the book is better

[@annetteeggett]

@@ClassicGhost will def get it thank you Tony

[@flappyturtlesnatch]

This was great man! I really hope you continue the series

[@boosqueezy2418]

love it! thanks!

[@5tsumi13]

This is an excellent series so far! Hope you keep it going I look forward to each episode ❤

[@marisaranieri2745]

Ashridge is the quintessential quirky, mysterious, English village. With sinister undertones... Excited to hear episode 4! My vision of Ashridge is so vivid and so creepy!!!

[@ObsidianFrog]

Very enjoyable series. Thanks

[@marciedewolff9357]

Tony you spoil us! A beautiful day today in Clio, MI. About 90 minutes north of Detroit and just an hour or so from what we Michiganders call "up north". 😊

[@greywanderer5935]

These are amazing!

[@ClassicGhost]

❤️

[@matthewb.4606]

I love Ashridge and wondering where you’ll take us! No pressure, of course. But you do have listeners! And kudos to he musicians for the spooky music. I love how the Ashridge series has its own theme and feel.

[@KristinChoruby]

I definitely want more of this series! So far, the moral of these stories seems to be "If you ever find yourself in Ashridge, stay well away from all the bridges!"

[@ClassicGhost]

something about bridges

[@KristinChoruby]

@@ClassicGhost Just realized the bridges are symbolically, and maybe even literally, connecting the three dimensions and allowing strange beings to cross from one dimension to another, and wondering why it took me so long to spot that 😅

[@petere5826]

Love the MIB angle. Need a wose , bi-pedal Black Shuck , or aerial cryptid next! Good job on this … someone has done their homework I see!

[@merlapittman5034]

It's going to be hard to wait for the next chapter! It's an excellent story, very well done. And now, I'm scared of the Rabbit Man!

[@enchraes]

Proper job, Tony! This came together fantastically. Can't wait for more!

[@roddmatsui3554]

These are very beautifully done. And it seems we have read at least a couple of the same books. Most interesting!

[@Andrew-if3sd]

This looks good! Thanks

[@jayfox28]

This made my day. Can't wait to listen....

[@glosteiger2517]

These are so good! Love them. Preferred the mothman movie to the book. Glad the rabbit men are back.

[@alannothnagle]

Great work! I love this series. 😋😋😋

[@Story-Voracious66]

Oh wow! Ashridge again! Fantastic Tony. Thanks for creating this. Bringing in the Lords and Ladies now; brilliant. Somehow I don't think that carrying a horseshoe will suffice for our unwitting protagonists. Better carry some rare earth magnets instead in Ashridge. The Heartwood Institute music is so cleverly devised, and reminds me a little of some of Harvey Robinson's music. I'm being drawn down your rabbit hole Tony, but I don't think that it leads through the looking glass... Or maybe it does... 🖤🐰👽

[@sarge4455]

Yes sir 🫡, we appreciate it

[@ClassicGhost]

Thank you thank you

[@adriennewalker1715]

Fantastic…and very addictive ❤

[@lesleykaygosson315]

Absolutely must have more of Ashridge, Please ❤

[@imh9524]

Nice!

[@vanillasuncherries]

Good story! Was on edge

[@penelopeflagg7112]

Thanks!

[@maryeckel9682]

More Ashridge, yay!

[@shelleymarquis2887]

Omg. That was really creepy. Just the intonation of voices alone was soooo atmospheric. The whole interwoven construct of music and voices juxtaposed against the normalcy in the pub, bookstore, the flat, were all very humdrum... but wait! It doesn't feel normal. It was genius. So difficult to do, to project such outside the lines impressions with a minimum of props, FX, backgrounds all the distracting gore and dazzle of movies. At first I thought the guys at the bridge were sort of stock scifi, 2 dimensional, off the rack weird, androids maybe, though it didn't take long to become subtly otherly. Even before Andy was in the car leaving the bridge I was telling him to "Just go! Stop being polite, just go!" Your performance was creepiness on legs. This medium is relavatory. I'd forgotten how powerful just talking can be and what a spell words can weave. I hope you're very happy. I'm right back in the cave's firelight afraid to take a shower alone. 😮 I suspect Rod and Mel of being in on the deal, for whatever reason, because I think they protested too much. Seemed as though Mel was trying to normalize the abnormal. I smell cahoots. More will be revealed. Thanks a bunch!❤

[@garymcdonnell5791]

Wow' episode 3 now!! Terrified of whats next Haha Scary.. bloody great these thanks... X

[@ClassicGhost]

+@garymcdonnell5791 I’m working on episode 5

[@ropeburnsrussell]

Tony you sound so sinister. Maybe im glad there's an ocean between us.😮

[@JimBagby74]

Oh arr, I do like this Ashridge! Proper job. And the "American" Men in Black sound as creepy as some of Nixon's buzz-cut boys. And i was fortunate to have West Kennet all to myself once on a dismal rainy morning. I'm fully invested!

[@michaelanderson7708]

Best stuff you do

[@ClassicGhost]

+@michaelanderson7708 Thank you. it’s my aspiration and ambition

[@norayoder3189]

Ahhh Mr. Walker❣️Here on time to make me smile & remind me it Might be ok, eventually, possibly even later today, and if it’s not I really should be able to know I at least tried My Best, gave it All I Got❣️🙏🏻❣️ So time to get off my azure glutes, because I hear My song being played upon Pan’s flutes……a blind fool I shall be, blindly dancing towards destiny 🧚🏻‍♀️

[@Kliss2765]

Perfect Tony Having only recently discovered your channel these are a boon. Have you ever considered doing some Walter S Masterman I'd love to have some of his books to listen to as sadly my eyesight is not so good.

[@ClassicGhost]

I actually don’t know his work so I’m going to look at him now and if his stories seem within the subject matter of my channel, I’ll certainly consider him and I’ve put him on my list

[@Non-Prefecture]

We are friends of Rob Thorne ..😂

[@ClassicGhost]

That may become a catch phrase

[@Non-Prefecture]

I hope so . Very catchy 👌

[@hindleygj]

How do you have the time for all this story writing? You pump out a lot of material.

[@ClassicGhost]

+@hindleygj i need to stop !

[@ianlaw6410]

Other than the leading protagonist, they all sound a bit robotic. You using AI scriptwriters and actors, Tony? :-). But it's a cracking good tale, so I'm going to find the first two episodes :p

[@moonspirit6555]

Been waiting for this too long. I am in bed with a glass of wine and i'm ready. Can't wait"

[@ludovica8221]

more more

[@Aiko2-26-9]

Is there a link to the first two episodes?

[@brianallsopp69]

No Jasper on this one ? ,,,,

[@ClassicGhost]

Don't worry, he'll be back

[@craigoliver8712]

​@@ClassicGhostJasper 24 carrot

[@ClassicGhost]

@@craigoliver8712 not that one

[@clairegreenaway9653]

Our great Jasper L’estrange!

[@mijiyoon5575]

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

[@angelaroberts2803]

Gripping

[@JennyLane8666]

Thrilled to see another one!