00:00 I'm Nina Dodd, I'm the author of The Witches, Giants and a Ghost Cat Book.
00:22 We moved from Finland to this area 12 years ago.
00:26 I realised that there is a massive gap in the market for any sort of travel guides.
00:33 I thought, well, I worked as a journalist in Finland for 15 years, so I'm used to writing
00:37 and I thought that would be quite interesting a project to do.
00:41 But then I thought, well, just a normal travel guide.
00:43 I thought, yeah, I'd like to have a little bit of a twist to it.
00:47 I have a British husband and every time we visited his parents, I would always hear these
01:11 ghost stories.
01:12 I've always been so intrigued by the amount of ghost stories there are in this country.
01:19 Ghost stories are thousands of years old.
01:24 Nearly every culture and every country around the globe has ghost stories, but I find that
01:29 Britain is especially ripe with stories.
01:32 I started gathering the stories, so I put a little ad in the local newsletter saying
02:01 that I'm planning on writing a book about ghosts and could people come and just come
02:07 forward and tell me their stories.
02:09 I had a few people come in the shop and then after that, basically, I just went around
02:14 the village and basically anyone that I knew was living in the village or had lived here
02:18 before or worked here before, I would just basically tell them, "Tell me, I'm sure you
02:24 know some stories."
02:25 I counted and I got over 60 ghost stories in here just of the village.
02:38 I would like to write a children's book next, so maybe something to do with ghosts.
02:46 [silence]
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