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Gamings Darker Side

The Welsh Hunter

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Welcome to Gamings Darker Side. A Podcast where we dive deep into the underbelly of all things mysterious & worse that have happened in, with or around gaming. Murders, Studio controversy, Streamer controversy & more, everything you can think of has happened and i will relive these stories for you! Please be aware, in some stories, due to potential violence and more, listener discretion is advised. Follow me on Facebook, Instagram & Tiktok - @gamingsdarkerside & on X - GamingsDside For Busin ...
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A novice Welsh historian attempts a modern-day Arthurian quest to understand the heritage of his people, the origins of its values, customs, and language, through literature, poetry, legends, and maybe a bit of Welsh magic ending in a hunt for the true Dragon bloodline of the Royal Welsh Family, lost in history? Or hidden in our modern world. Let's embark on this quest together. https://www.patreon.com/wheredragonssleep Instagram: @wheredragonssleep YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/U ...
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Sculpture Vulture

Antique Bronze

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Interviews and Inspiration From The World of Sculpture. Join, Lucy Branch, sculptural conservator and author, as she talks to sculptors whose work can be found in public spaces. They discuss their creative journeys, their artistic practice and their shared love for all things bronze. Find the show notes at www.sculpturevulture.co.uk and download your free novel.
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The Penguin Podcast

Penguin Books UK

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The Penguin Podcast is back with a brand new series called Ask Penguin. In each episode, we will take you inside Penguin Books to meet some of the incredible authors we publish as well as the people who work here, to get answers to all of your book-related questions. Do you need to find your next page-turning read? Are you curious to find out what a day in the life of an editor is like, or simply why a small, aquatic, flightless bird became the iconic emblem that adorns Penguin books worldwi ...
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Join Fox and Sparrow as we journey around the world to share Fairy Tales, Folktales, Fables, Myths and Legends. We strive to dig deep into the origins, variants, tropes and modern day adaptations of well-known and unknown tales. Join us on Wednesdays, every fortnight. Detailed show notes on our website: www.talesfromtheenchantedforest.com
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Welcome back to part 7 for more Funny & Bizarre crimes that have happened with gaming. Story 1 is about Epic Games actually suing 2 players for cheating. Story 2 is about someone selling rare in game villagers on animal crossing new horizon for real life money. Story 3 is about about someone who bought a jailbroken Playstation 4, which was literall…
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Sometimes when you find the Shadow-Daddy of your dreams, you won't care that you're dancing with the Devil. Instead, you'll hold him tight until he needs to find a way to get rid of you! Join Fox and Sparrow as they share a tale that frightens even the devil himself! It is the tale of Katcha and the Devil by Czech writer Božena Němcová from her col…
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Today on the show, Lucy Branch speaks to sculptor Tom Murphy whose public sculptures celebrate the rich and wonderful history of Liverpool's people. We discuss his artistic journey and service to those who commission his works. Join us and Be Inspired By Sculpture You can see photos of Tom's work and read the transcript at www.sculpturesulture.co.u…
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*Warning, This Episode contains crimes against a child, therefore, may not be suitable for all listeners* When 9 year old Anthony Maldonado woke up one christmas morning, he was the happiest boy in Harlem. He had just gotten a new Playstation 3 console from Santa. Beaming, he played it a lot over the winter holidays, and then, just after new years …
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Please give the show a 5 star rating if you enjoy and share with your friends! :) In todays Gaming Creepypasta Episode, We are at Part 2/2 for The Electric Rabbit. In this, our main guy begins to get feverish and paranoid. It was just a game right? A bit weird and sadistic for a kids games but Fun bunn Can't ACTUALLY hurt us in real life right? Tha…
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Brian Martin, Aka, Futrutstichub is percieved as one of the most disgsuting youtubers to ever exist. (Satire) It harks back to elsagate, where many youtube channels have child friendly thumbnails with disturbing or sexual content in the video. Martin profited off the ad revenue off Youtube for years with this method, but not before an even bigger w…
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Please give the show a 5 star rating if you enjoy and share with your friends! :) In todays Creepypasta Episode (From the Cold Relics series), we learn of a man who ends up staying with a jolly old Russian man, named Boris. Boris, was a Whiz with electronics and decides to show our guy a very old game on a very old VHS tape. Thinking nothing of it,…
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Outrageous, iconic and unforgettable - these are some of the books Penguin have been publishing over its 90-year history. As part of a special content series called 'The books that shaped us' on Penguin.co.uk, we invited readers from the world of publishing, comedy, and music to explore must-read titles across the decades. The Internet's resident l…
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What one single creation probably changed the course of human evolution? If you're thinking tools then you're close but we're thinking FIRE! If you're looking for a tutorial on how to make a fire in Australia then this is not the episode for you! However, if you are searching for a tale on how Bootoolgah, the crane, and Goonur, the kangaroo rat, cr…
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Welcome back to another edition of Gamings Biggest Controversies. In todays episode, I will tell another 5 short stories about one of the most controversial game series on the planet... Grand Theft Auto. In it, I talk about loud mouth Ex lawyer, Jack Thompson who seemed opposed to anything fun, but had particular gripes with Rockstar. The whole mic…
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In todays Gaming Creepypasta, I tell the tale from 2 short Stories. Story 1 is about someone who is in an experimental lab with animals and has to fight them off. (Some hardcore fans may get the references early to what game I am reading about). Story 2 is about an awesome sounding survival horror concept game where the player must escape a village…
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With Big Corporations, comes some insanely excellent decisions that got them there, and then, there are some decisions that almost killed the company entirely, with people asking... Why? Here are another 5 stories about Sony and their awful decision making which has almost seen them collapse and get sued for many things. This is the shady side of p…
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*NOTE* I apologise for my voice and the rough sounding, I recorded this with a throat infection :) In today Gamings Greatest Mysteries Part 8 Episode, we look at:- Story 1 - Herobrine from Minecraft, what is the mystery surrounding the Steve figure with pale ember eyes. Creepy or simply unnerving? Story 2 - There was rumours of a game in the 1980s …
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This is part 2 out of 2 of gaming creepypasta, Daunting Depths (By TheColdRelic). In this second and final part, our guy gives up after finding not much else to go on. That is, until he receives an email telling him to go to some kind of weird building, where, inside, he finds what he is looking for. What he finds, is something he and nobody else w…
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In todays Part 6 Episode of Funny/Bizarre Crimes related to Video Games, we look at:- Story 1 - A man who decided to commit fraud and go to prison for 1 of the rarest pokemon cards to exist. Story 2 - A russian teen who would get arrested over terrorism charges.... But it was all in a video game. Story 3 - A couple who started an argument over a vi…
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Combining the stories of the "Goose Girl" and "Love like Salt," we have the tale of the Goose Girl at the Well from the Brothers Grimm! The moral lessons of this tale? 1. Sometimes helping a wild old lady do a meaningless task that feels like torture is worth the hassle. 2. Telling your father you love him like salt can lead to immediate exile...wh…
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In todays Creepypasta Episode (By Cold Relics), we are in the shoes of a gaming journalist, who was an avid arcade cabinet lover. He hears of a story of an extremely rare cabinet called Daunting Depths and its apparent ability to literally strike fear into those who play it. So much fear infact, that it gave people heart attacks, strokes and more. …
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Recorded live at Latitude Festival, Irvine Welsh sits down with host Rhianna Dhillon to delve into his new novel Men in Love, the eagerly awaited sequel to Trainspotting, which explores the vibrant landscape of youth culture through the decades and the nuances of defining a generation through the arts. Plus, award-winning author and Penguin colleag…
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*NOTE* My apologies but there are a few inaccurate things in this episode. While i say the victims BROTHER had helped, it was actually his STEPFATHER. Some of the times the attack took place maybe off by 30 minutes or so as well. Also, it turns out that the alleged attacker bought his weapon of choice in a different place to where I had mentioned i…
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In todays Creepypasta Episode, we learn of 3 young girls who rent out a copy of Fatal Frame 2: Crimson Butterfly. They soon get a real sense of dread and not just from playing the game. All of a sudden, a deathly ghost face appears before them and the next day, their friend goes missing. Now it is a question of, just what the hell is going on here?…
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From the paperback revolution to the obscenity trial that made Lady Chatterley’s Lover famous, we explore how Penguin turned the UK into a nation of readers as we celebrate our 90th birthday. Host Rhianna Dhillon speaks to Kate Mosse, international bestselling author, activist and Founder Director of the Women’s Prize for Fiction and Women’s Prize …
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Streamers are wholesome, some are controversial. But rarely has there ever been a streamer who was both universally loved for his gameplay and honesty, and pitied at the same time for his raw, brutal, emotional honesty for the tragic life Byron Reckful Bernstein had to endure as he was growing up. This is his story, about how one man did streaming,…
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In todays Creepypasta Episode (With full credit to Glisario), I tell the story of a semi famous, young rich guy who spends all of his time gaming and paying for micro transactions. When he gives 10k Dollars to one of his favourite indie studios, they reply with an invite to their HQ. But, what becomes apparent is, these people who work there, are n…
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Welcome back to our special "Box Office" episodes where we look at the folklore behind the fiction. Today we deep dive into the mythology and monsters behind "K-Pop Demon Hunters" using interviews from co-directors Maggie Kang and Chris Appelhans. We might not be covering tales of your idols, but we're still golden because we'll be discussing demon…
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Welcome back to the biggest controversies that have happened in video games *Part 6*. Story 1 is about a game called Freedom!, and it was primarily used to educate those in early 90s american schools about slavery. But it did a lot more than "Teach", mainly for the wrong reasons. Story 2 is about Soldier Of Fortune. A game you might just think of a…
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In todays Creepypasta Story, we learn about a man at 1am in a Paris airport who picks up a bargain bin game called Clairvoyant. As he begins it is clear to him that this game is somehow reading his minds and thoughts, and as he progresses more, what he find shocks him to his very core. So much so, that his dreams become very real and he questions e…
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In todays episode, We revisit more of the shady side of Xbox and its most recent years of failed first party titles, its insane amount of huge lay offs, and its exclusivity deals.. The fact that there is close to almost none on the green machine. People would ask, what is Xbox? Is it just a game pass box, or just a logo, or is it more? *Note, I am …
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If you love playing "Who's that Pokemon" then this is the fable game for you! Join Fox as she tries to guess the animals in each tale Sparrow has collected! Sometimes with a furry clue and sometimes without- Sparrow shares 6 short tales from all around the world including tricksters and revenge! Show notes can be found on our website at: www.talesf…
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In todays Creepypasta Episode, I tell the tale from 2 short stories. Story 1 is called Chronos ROM Hack, and it's about a guy who plays a hacked version of Chronos Trigger. But what the game tells him, puts him into complete paranoia as it ends up predicting all the future doom events that have taken place. Story 2 is called A Developers Own Downfa…
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Welcome to part 7 of Gamings Greatest Mysteries. In todays episodes, we look at:- Story 1 - There were only 16 Colossi in the Amazing Shadows of the Colossus, ubt there were rumours of more. More beasts, more land, more things to discover, so was it true or just rumour? Story 2 - This Pokemon rumour was legendary in playgrounds across the world and…
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In this end of season episode, host Lucy Branch, interviews British artist Neale Andrew. Neale shares his journey into sculpture, his epiphany moment and his approach to defining himself as a sculptor. Lucy also discusses current conservation projects and the recent news in the sculpture world, including the repatriation of the largest ever collect…
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In todays episode, I tell the tale from 2 short Gaming Creepypasta Stories. Story 1 is called Carnivores, and is about a young man who really enjoyed these specific Dinosaur games when was younger. When he grew up, he played all 3 dino games again and reminisced about his childhood, but this time, something seemed off. There were figures where ther…
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Welcome to another episode and another 5 stories of the funniest or most Bizarre Crimes to happen in gaming. Story 1 is about 4 young men who took FIFA coins, and turned it into the ultimate fraud. Story 2 is about a rather cheeky lady who did some nintendo cartridge smuggling, and you would not believe where she hid them. Story 3 is about an appar…
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Todays episode features 2 different short Gaming Creepypasta stories. Story 1 is about abandoned game servers, where our guy gets paid to go in and basically delete a bunch of stuff. Until he sees one that scares him so much, he thinks its best to just stop... Until he realises the only way to stop it, is to go back in. Story 2 is all about an xbox…
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This story is adapted from Petre Inspirescu's "Ileana Simziana" or "liane of the Golden Tresses" and is the final part of the story so be sure to check out part one: "The Princess who would be a Prince." Last episode the young Princess set off on her quest to save her Empire and her family by pretending to be a Prince. After passing her father's te…
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In the days of early Youtube, people fought to try to be the best. People would over act, try too hard, but sometimes it would work, sometimes not. For Adam Dahlberg, he was naturally a funny guy, and this would help him become of the most beloved minecraft creators of all time! Fame and fortune were destined to be with SkyDoesMinecraft for a long …
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On the final episode of this series of the Penguin Podcast, Marble Hall Murders author Anthony Horowitz tells us how, when a famous actress asks you to write another novel, you do as you're told! Plus things heat up as we discuss and recommend the best books for summer reading. Explore the full list of books discussed on this episode and read the t…
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Today, I will read from 3 more excellent Creepypasta Stories. Story 1 is about a man who goes exploring somewhere with his friend, only for things to take a dark turn, and when he figures out where he actually is, his blood runs colder than snow. Story 2 (By Digitama), is about a guy who has a brother. This brother who usually partys and is very po…
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Ceri Thomas—artist, curator, and son of renowned Welsh sculptor Robert Thomas—joins Lucy Branch to reflect on growing up in a house full of creativity, clay, and community spirit. We talk about his father’s mission to celebrate Welsh life through public sculpture, plans for a centenary retrospective, and the importance of representing working-class…
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Rashida Anderson was a hard working, devout Jehovahs witness and a single mother. She loved her life and raised her son, Kendall, to be the best he could be. But one fateful night, Rashida suddenly stopped answering calls and stopped going to work. Family were worried, and they had a right to be... If you enjoy Formula 1, why not check out my other…
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When the ailing ruler of the last nation to stand tall against a conquering nation finally surrenders, only one thing stands in the way of his people's peace- the Empire demands a prince as a hostage. Having only daughters, he tests their courage until his youngest proves her valour, courage and strength. So, she sets off to become the Princess who…
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In todays final Part from the hugely popular Gaming Creepypasta, Ben Drowned. We Learn of User: Jadusables fate and if he ever managed to get rid of the entity known only as BEN. Could he finally get his life back on track or would BEN be with him, toying with him, forver? If you enjoy Formula 1, why not check out my other podcast called F1 Full Ra…
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From its debut in 1997, to its Billion-dollar reign with GTA V, Grand Theft Auto has never been just a game. It has been: A Tabloid Punching bag, A Political talking point, A Legal battlefield, & often, a mirror reflecting societys darkest urges. But behind the fast cars, satirical billboards & neon vice is a history littered with scandals, from se…
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This week on the Penguin Podcast we talk to writer, critic and curator Charlie Porter about his novel Nova Scotia House, discuss queer books and the importance of hearing queer voices in art. Plus we provide plenty of book recommendations for LGBTQ+ stories. Explore the full list of books discussed on this episode and read the transcript by visitin…
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In todays Creepypasta story, I tell the tale through the eyes of original author, Jadusable (Aka Alex Hall). This is one of the most popular creepypasta stories ever, and it is thanks to Jadusable, that a lot of creepypastas took a lot of inspiration and the creepypasta world was effectively born as we know it today. In this story, Jad goes to a ga…
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