Time Between Times Storytelling with Owen Staton

🔥 Ghosts of Afan – A Time Between Times Episode 🌙

Tonight, we walk where steel meets sea… where ruined stone remembers… and where the valley does not sleep.

In this deeply atmospheric episode of Time Between Times, Owen returns to the shadows of the Afan Valley to uncover three lingering presences — the restless lord of Aberafan Castle, the silent monk who walks beside the old wall near the steelworks, and the pale woman who waits by the tide beneath the moon.

These are not simply ghost stories.

They are echoes.

Echoes of power, of prayer, of loss… woven into the landscape of Port Talbot and carried on the salt wind from the Bristol Channel.

So settle yourself by the firepit at the heart of the forest. Let the world slow. Let the valley breathe. And step gently into the place where history and haunting overlap.

Because in The Afan Valley … nothing is ever entirely gone.

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Until we meet again…
Sleep well.

This week on Time Between Times, come with me into a hush of leaves and the long, listening dark…

In the quiet woods of the Gower, when the birds fall silent and the light thins to a bruise of blue, some walkers glimpse a woman standing between the trees. She does not call. She does not chase. She only watches.

Settle by the firepit and let the world loosen its grip as I tell the true-told tale of The Lady in the Woods — a story of old paths, ancient stones, and the soft, unsettling feeling that the forest remembers more than it should. Leave your worries with the embers. Walk the path with me. But don’t step off it.

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This Week on Tales from the Time Between Times

Tonight, by the low glow of the firepit at the heart of the forest, Owen Staton invites you to lay down the weight of the day and step softly into the dark. Inspired by the haunting artwork of Katie Marland, this week’s tale carries us over Croydon Hill, where an old road bends, the wind whispers of old sins… and something ancient is said to still walk.

Come closer to the flames. Let the world grow quiet. Breathe deep.
And listen, as Owen tells the terrifying legend of the Devil of Croydon Hill — a story of dread, mercy, and the thin places where our world wears away.

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🖤 Episode art by Katie Marland

Take care, my friends…
And I’ll see you… in the time between times.

Some stories refuse to rest.

High above the Severn plain, within the red-stone walls of Powis Castle, a presence once walked the corridors by candlelight — not to terrify, not to threaten… but to finish something left undone.

In this episode of Time Between Times, we step quietly into the shadows of an eighteenth-century Welsh castle, where an old woman, a hidden chest, and a ghost clad in gold lace cross paths in the stillness of night. It is a tale of silence and listening, of trust placed in the dark, and of a spirit bound not by malice — but by duty.

This is a story that lives in the spaces between — between rooms, between centuries, between the living and the dead.

So draw closer.
Lower your voice.
And walk with me…
into the time between times.

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Time Between Times Storytelling with Owen Staton

Step with me, if you will, into the gloaming — that soft, half-lit hour where the old stories still breathe and the past leans close enough to whisper.

As St Dwynwen’s Day draws near, it feels only right to open the door to Wales’ most heart-rending tales of doomed love. Tonight, on Time Between Times, we walk a sorrowful, beautiful road. We begin on the shores of Llanddwyn, with the aching legend of Dwynwen, the Welsh saint of lovers — her heart broken, her prayers carried on the tide. From there, we journey inland to Nant Gwrtheyrn, where the wind still knows the names of Rhys and Meinir, childhood sweethearts torn apart on the very morning of their wedding. A story of searching. Of storms. Of love that refuses to lie quietly in the grave.

I’m joined this evening by the wonderful Russ Williams, author of Where the Folk, a lyrical road trip through the living folklore of Wales — a book that reminds us these stories are not relics, but companions, waiting by the roadside for those willing to listen.

So draw closer to the fire. Let the night press in at the windows. This is a time for love stories that end in shadow, but never truly end at all.

🎙 Time Between Times Storytelling with Owen Staton

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Between the heartbeats… between the words… welcome to the time between times.