I hope you enjoy this "weird" creepy/funny, mildly subversive and magical story from 1938. If you enjoy the recordings I produce, please leave a LIKE and a COMMENT (it helps the channel grow). If you've just found me, SUBSCRIBE and never miss a story. If you can, SHARE or tell a friend about me. If you really appreciate the hard work I put in to these narrations, check the description for info about supporting the show on Patreon. Thanks awfully.
@@mariameere5807 I think I have one more of her stories in my collection. I shall have to read it to see if it would work on the channel. Unfortunately her stuff isn't readily available (i.e. online) although there is a pricey paperback. Watch this space 👀
Yes, this WAS weird but very cleverly done; it had a dream-like fuzziness to it, with the small details popping into significance as they do in dreams. The arrangement of sweets on the plate for the party, and the spider with five legs. Sheer genius putting the anxiety inducing strings in there! I sometimes think how amazing it would be if these authors could have heard their stories turned into wonderful productions such as these.❤
I looked up Mary Butts on Wikipedia and she was an extremely interesting person. She even studied with Aleister Crowley and co-authored a book with him. In this story, it is amazing how she took essentially nothing and made it repugnant and creepy.
@@EnCryptedHorror I cannot tell you how honoured I am! It’s like you know my taste or something! you have good intuition! You must meditate or something, or think not many very negative thoughts! Don’t worry I’m not gonna start preaching! Not into religion just spirituality!
Sorry! Had to stop again three minutes in to say what a writer. Very unusual style, I'd even say exotic. I shall listen to the end before posting a final comment to keep that lovely little algorithm healthy ❤
Thanks again! It's a shame (for us) that Mary seems to have spent so much time knocking around with Alisteir Crowley and leading a hedonistic lifestyle because I never found another story of hers to equal this. Still...her life was certainly more exotic than mine 😄.
Perfect narration. Thank you. For some reason the story put an old joke into my head. Did you hear about the woman with five legs? Her tights fitted her like a glove ! 🤣😂
Woot Woot! A new story from *Jasper L'Estrange👍👍👍👍👍🎬🎙📖I like the *font* used on the title card on your header & the soundtrack is perfect as usual👍👍👍👍👍😊
This is so packed with so much beautiful language and I loved it so much that I’ve come back for a second listen and you always hear stuff that you never heard the first time. When we watch something like a movie, we only take in about 20% of it! I read that somewhere, somewhere reliable it was!! Seriously! So the subconscious mind gets it all but the conscious mind misses a lot! I’m so glad I did, because I enjoyed this one so much! This is a work of art! And there is so much packed into that thirty something minutes! I watch so much spiritual stuff so I have to and Feed my Dark-side, just so I don’t become unbalanced! LOL! That is my excuse Jasper, and I’m sticking to it!😉 🕊🦋💎🦋🕊
@@EnCryptedHorror I deleted that comment because I didn’t want to come across as a bitch. But I practically advertised your Channel during a live ghost story you can check it out it’s one of the last comments on there, I think I left about six of them recommending you! You deserve more people to know and they will be so happy to find you! I know I am! Who doesn’t love Victorian ghost stories? Or any of them and they don’t have to be ghost stories they just have to be the kind of stuff that is on this amazing channel! I am a super fan now!
@@EnCryptedHorror It’s still on there if you want to have a look it’s the last comment! I think you will like it, Tony Ward reading a live story! If you don’t want to miss it have a look now, or just take my word for it! You probably have other stuff that you do and this might just be a hobby for you but this is what you should do because you’re so good at it! You seem to have a passion for it but maybe you have a passion for something else more than this! I don’t believe we come here to do one job or have one career forever, We have many talents and I believe that we can put them to many uses, I hate that the first question, especially in the US that people ask you is what do you do? As if that defines who you are! I think that’s bollocks. We are so many things! And we have many talents that we can put to different uses and we are drawn to different things during different periods of our lives..... and it’s this way for a reason! We are multidimensional and multifaceted beings!🤐
@@EnCryptedHorror If you do see it because it’s still up there, you’re only allowed To put a certain amount of characters and I wanted to put five stars for your channel but the stars are massive! So it looks like there’s way more than five! Okay.... it looks like I’m trying too hard to here! I just want everybody to know how Bloody good this channel is! Everyone that I have recommended it to loves it! Really and truly! Good night Jasper! It’s Friday night and you’re probably out and about and that’s where I should be!☮️
Woah. Had to stop a few seconds in. Firstly, to comment on those delightful strings, secondly to comment on that cracker of an opening line. Incredulity is often no more than superstition turned inside out? Kudos to you, Mary!
Trenchard (secretly) : "Them ruddy girls with all them airs and pretences and stickin' their noses in stuff and stirrin' around where them don't belong. Aye just trouble for regular folk. Shouldn'ad em 'dopted I say!"
Great narration, very professional, great local accents, and great background sounds, very immersive, great job! I cannot believe you don't have a million subs right now. I will be sharing this channel prolifically.
Not only brilliant but also NOT one I've read. Thanks Jasper. Like all really good stories of this kind it works along the Hemmingway "iceberg" theory. A lot going on unsaid. Will have to listen several times. What did that old brother and sister do??????
It's all very...odd, isn't it? The story is interested in gender, and I wonder if maybe there might even be a suggestion that the brother and sister were one and the same. Then I wondered if the two sisters didn't somehow "magic up" the local legend when they cast their rune...
@@EnCryptedHorror full on high brow "femanist critique" lol might be that the sisters called up the sacred none empirical none Appolonian sacred feminine spiritual principle and it kind of ran wild (need a stiff drink after thinking that up). But....there's the stuff about the old brother and sister. There's (I agree 👍 💯 with you) subversive hints that their one and the same. Androgynous. Know anything about the occult and the implications are obvious (all that stuff about Adam and Eve originally being somehow "joined" in Jewish mysticism comes to mind). Anyway it's a great story and somehow manages to achieve what Mr Poe would have called "unity of effect". Thanks again.
Tony, hello. Thank you for sharing this story, and your valuable and fascinating add-ons. Would you be able to narrate The Star, by H.G.Wells? It's quite remarkable. Thank you. Be well. My very best wishes from Ruth
It would be a bit of a different one for me, but I can certainly add it to the list. There are a few H.G.Wells stories I've been wanting to get around to 😊
@@EnCryptedHorror Thank you for your consideration. It has always scared me, strangely enough, but I cannot get enough of it. Apologies again for the name Tony (?).
@@EnCryptedHorror Thank you for your consideration. It has always scared me, strangely enough, but I cannot get enough of it. Apologies again for the name Tony (?).
This definitely deserves even a third listen because the background music the piano that’s playing, I didn’t notice that before, I was aware of it but mostly subconsciously. All of these stories are worth at least a second lesson but this one- the literature is so beautifully expressed and it’s so poetic and beautifully read and the best thing about your stories is you know exactly what music suits the story, even the picture with the ruins which I know From my interest in Wicca, Are completely accurate! Jasper I don’t think you realise how good you are! You are a genius! We get so much value for so little and I am going to buy you a coffee, seriously that was a joke about meeting you at Starbucks! Because you deserve it! I want to thank you sincerely for all the effort you put in with sound effects et cetera! You are a perfectionist but not in a negative way because to be a perfectionist is not actually a compliment, it comes from feeling a lack of self-worth and overcompensation and that’s not what I mean! You’ve got it just right! It’s become accepted to say you’re a perfectionist and it’s meant as you get it perfect! And I’m not at all embarrassed by expressing how I feel because this is how I feel, genuinely! It’s rare to come across such good quality in a TH-cam channel! You give us escapism from sometimes difficult periods in our lives like, for me, I am going through the first death in my family... So this helps more than you know! I know I sound like a bloody stalker..... I will leave you alone now in peace ✌️ oh! And I’ve just noticed - I forgot to tell you the bird song in the background! I didn’t hear that the first or second time! Obviously the bird song at the end everyone hears but there is some in the beginning also which proves that theory that every time you watch a movie you will see something you’ve never seen before. I went on a seminar about something called unconscious attention. Like when you’re learning to drive you have to pay attention to what you’re doing and eventually you get to the stage where you do it automatically.So you can listen to music or have a conversation and you’re driving in a state of unconscious in attention! The “Guru“ Who does very expensive seminars 2 Of which I went to in Monaco at le Meridien hotel which has a view of the famous racecourse for cars and a third one in Marbella in the Costa Romano hotel which is one of the best hotels in the world, it was fabulous, Thank God my father paid because altogether the three seminars came to €1 million! That’s why the Irish press call it a cult! They have a Belief that money is evil! The whole point about charging so much is that instead of going to a seminar that you don’t pay a lot of money for them you don’t study the material afterwards but if you do pay extortionate amounts to study it then you will do the work! And for your effort you gain The best gift the universe has to offer! Yourself... Your higher SELF! And the ability to read auras, The connection seminar was €63,000 gives you the ability to ask a question regarding your life, not other peoples, That is none of your business, and get a yes or no answer! Should I buy this house? Should I move to New York? Questions like this and in rare circumstances, Your spirit will give you permission to ask a question on behalf of somebody else however if you abuse this ability you can lose the connection. That was called the MindMaster seminar..... to this day if I look at a tree I can see the energy surrounding it! When you focus on it or concentrate, if you concentrate on anything it causes information to appear in consciousness! So prayer is fine you speak to the intelligent energy that designed the universe because it couldn’t be an accident because everything comes from something else. And meditation is for you listen to the answer from that intelligence that creates this universe! Think about it if you look at a book, The pictures on the book, The ink, the words that make sense with the apostrophes and commas et cetera didn’t just fall out of the sky like atheists believe this planet is a rock and we are just lumps of meat walking around on it! But where did it come from? DNA is a blueprint for life and there are several Life forms. If there wasn’t any intelligence behind this DNA, that’s like saying a program for a computer or a book had no intelligence behind it because how can something come from nothing because if it is nothing then it’s impossible for anything to come from it! Does that not make sense?? Something cannot come from nothing! So 15 billion years ago we created the Big Bang so that we could come forth and experience different emotions because how do you know Joy, ecstasy, enthusiasm or inspiration unless you have felt despair or pain because everything has an opposite. So when we die we experience joy beyond our wildest imaginings! I prefer to call NDEs Near life experiences because we are much more dead ☠️ While we are here in the physical body within limitations of the human brain! What people call the subconscious or superconscious mind is the part of us that is Eternal! If it was not for my near death experience, I Dread to think what would have become of my life! I would probably have died from a drug overdose. Caused my mother loss and suffering and instead I am live in heaven on Earth! I have awakened and it is much better than any drug that had been invented until the time of my NDE! Maybe somebody will read this and it will make them think. That’s why I’m not going to delete it even though I promised I would never write long messages again!🤷♀️
@@EnCryptedHorror Love your video descriptions...the smaller channels always put the most into those, the big channels are shockingly lazy and frankly what they do is illegal. Would be interested to feature you on my main channel, GM Danielson, this 'ween.
I hope you enjoy this "weird" creepy/funny, mildly subversive and magical story from 1938. If you enjoy the recordings I produce, please leave a LIKE and a COMMENT (it helps the channel grow). If you've just found me, SUBSCRIBE and never miss a story. If you can, SHARE or tell a friend about me. If you really appreciate the hard work I put in to these narrations, check the description for info about supporting the show on Patreon. Thanks awfully.
Please... I don’t mean to be rude but if there is more by this author... I would be most grateful!
@@mariameere5807 I think I have one more of her stories in my collection. I shall have to read it to see if it would work on the channel. Unfortunately her stuff isn't readily available (i.e. online) although there is a pricey paperback. Watch this space 👀
This one was gripping, one of the best. I'd love to hear more by this author. Beautifully narrated, too.
@@davidbailey4404 Thanks David. Yes, this was a lovely 'find'. Very differently written.
@@davidbailey4404me too
You are a wonderful narrator, a well suited voice, a pleasure to listen to..
Yes, this WAS weird but very cleverly done; it had a dream-like fuzziness to it, with the small details popping into significance as they do in dreams. The arrangement of sweets on the plate for the party, and the spider with five legs.
Sheer genius putting the anxiety inducing strings in there!
I sometimes think how amazing it would be if these authors could have heard their stories turned into wonderful productions such as these.❤
I looked up Mary Butts on Wikipedia and she was an extremely interesting person. She even studied with Aleister Crowley and co-authored a book with him. In this story, it is amazing how she took essentially nothing and made it repugnant and creepy.
I called you Tony, my goodness, I do apologise. I cannot multitask without conjoining. Sorry Master Jasper
Good story and narration!
Thanks!
Very unsettling! Disquieting. Absolutely perfect🤗
Thank you, Rheinhart.
Excellent! Right up my street! My cup of tea! Love it love it love it!
Thought you might like this one ☺
@@EnCryptedHorror
I cannot tell you how honoured I am! It’s like you know my taste or something! you have good intuition! You must meditate or something, or think not many very negative thoughts! Don’t worry I’m not gonna start preaching! Not into religion just spirituality!
I do believe your one of my favorite narrators currently, thank you for this.
You're very welcome, George. Glad you like the channel.
I see that you are subscribed to slapped ham! That scares the shit out of me because I know that some of those apparitions are actually real!!!!😱
Simple but very effective ghost tale. Good job setting the appropriate mood.
Thanks for listening and commenting, Aaron :)
Absolutely brilliant 👏👌😀
Sorry! Had to stop again three minutes in to say what a writer. Very unusual style, I'd even say exotic. I shall listen to the end before posting a final comment to keep that lovely little algorithm healthy ❤
Thanks again! It's a shame (for us) that Mary seems to have spent so much time knocking around with Alisteir Crowley and leading a hedonistic lifestyle because I never found another story of hers to equal this. Still...her life was certainly more exotic than mine 😄.
A strange and wonderful story, thank you!
I thought so! Glad you enjoyed it.
Strange, disquieting and highly unusual short story by M B. Great reading, thank you. I like Mary Butts' novel 'Ashe of Rings' too.
Yes, this was the first I'd read of Mary Butts, but I was rather struck by it. I haven't read Ashe of Rings but the premise sounds interesting.
Perfect narration. Thank you.
For some reason the story put an old joke into my head.
Did you hear about the woman with five legs? Her tights fitted her like a glove ! 🤣😂
Haha! 😃 That actually tickled me.
(The joke, I mean. 🧤)
Thanks for the chuckle, Gerry! 😁
Woot Woot! A new story from *Jasper L'Estrange👍👍👍👍👍🎬🎙📖I like the *font* used on the title card on your header & the soundtrack is perfect as usual👍👍👍👍👍😊
Hi Miji 👋👋👋😁 Thanks so much for your comment.
This is so packed with so much beautiful language and I loved it so much that I’ve come back for a second listen and you always hear stuff that you never heard the first time. When we watch something like a movie, we only take in about 20% of it! I read that somewhere, somewhere reliable it was!! Seriously! So the subconscious mind gets it all but the conscious mind misses a lot! I’m so glad I did, because I enjoyed this one so much! This is a work of art! And there is so much packed into that thirty something minutes! I watch so much spiritual stuff so I have to and Feed my Dark-side, just so I don’t become unbalanced! LOL! That is my excuse Jasper, and I’m sticking to it!😉
🕊🦋💎🦋🕊
Thank you, Maria.
@@EnCryptedHorror I deleted that comment because I didn’t want to come across as a bitch. But I practically advertised your Channel during a live ghost story you can check it out it’s one of the last comments on there, I think I left about six of them recommending you! You deserve more people to know and they will be so happy to find you! I know I am! Who doesn’t love Victorian ghost stories? Or any of them and they don’t have to be ghost stories they just have to be the kind of stuff that is on this amazing channel! I am a super fan now!
@@EnCryptedHorror It’s still on there if you want to have a look it’s the last comment! I think you will like it, Tony Ward reading a live story! If you don’t want to miss it have a look now, or just take my word for it! You probably have other stuff that you do and this might just be a hobby for you but this is what you should do because you’re so good at it! You seem to have a passion for it but maybe you have a passion for something else more than this! I don’t believe we come here to do one job or have one career forever, We have many talents and I believe that we can put them to many uses, I hate that the first question, especially in the US that people ask you is what do you do? As if that defines who you are! I think that’s bollocks. We are so many things! And we have many talents that we can put to different uses and we are drawn to different things during different periods of our lives..... and it’s this way for a reason! We are multidimensional and multifaceted beings!🤐
@@EnCryptedHorror If you do see it because it’s still up there, you’re only allowed To put a certain amount of characters and I wanted to put five stars for your channel but the stars are massive! So it looks like there’s way more than five! Okay.... it looks like I’m trying too hard to here! I just want everybody to know how Bloody good this channel is! Everyone that I have recommended it to loves it! Really and truly! Good night Jasper! It’s Friday night and you’re probably out and about and that’s where I should be!☮️
Woah. Had to stop a few seconds in. Firstly, to comment on those delightful strings, secondly to comment on that cracker of an opening line.
Incredulity is often no more than superstition turned inside out? Kudos to you, Mary!
Thank you for this most enjoyable….
You're welcome! Glad you enjoyed 😊
🧤😱
Loved this strange little tale ;) 👍👏
Oh good! Thank you, Iron Snowflake.
What a brilliant concept!
Indeed. I was so pleased when I chanced upon this story. It's refreshingly different from any I've narrated so far.
Trenchard (secretly) : "Them ruddy girls with all them airs and pretences and stickin' their noses in stuff and stirrin' around where them don't belong. Aye just trouble for regular folk. Shouldn'ad em 'dopted I say!"
Great narration, very professional, great local accents, and great background sounds, very immersive, great job! I cannot believe you don't have a million subs right now. I will be sharing this channel prolifically.
Thank you for commenting. I can't believe I don't have a million subs either 🤣 Glad you enjoyed it!
Not only brilliant but also NOT one I've read. Thanks Jasper.
Like all really good stories of this kind it works along the Hemmingway "iceberg" theory. A lot going on unsaid. Will have to listen several times.
What did that old brother and sister do??????
It's all very...odd, isn't it? The story is interested in gender, and I wonder if maybe there might even be a suggestion that the brother and sister were one and the same. Then I wondered if the two sisters didn't somehow "magic up" the local legend when they cast their rune...
@@EnCryptedHorror full on high brow "femanist critique" lol might be that the sisters called up the sacred none empirical none Appolonian sacred feminine spiritual principle and it kind of ran wild (need a stiff drink after thinking that up). But....there's the stuff about the old brother and sister. There's (I agree 👍 💯 with you) subversive hints that their one and the same. Androgynous. Know anything about the occult and the implications are obvious (all that stuff about Adam and Eve originally being somehow "joined" in Jewish mysticism comes to mind).
Anyway it's a great story and somehow manages to achieve what Mr Poe would have called "unity of effect".
Thanks again.
Tony, hello. Thank you for sharing this story, and your valuable and fascinating add-ons.
Would you be able to narrate The Star, by H.G.Wells? It's quite remarkable. Thank you. Be well. My very best wishes from Ruth
It would be a bit of a different one for me, but I can certainly add it to the list. There are a few H.G.Wells stories I've been wanting to get around to 😊
@@EnCryptedHorror Thank you for your consideration. It has always scared me, strangely enough, but I cannot get enough of it. Apologies again for the name Tony (?).
@@EnCryptedHorror Thank you for your consideration. It has always scared me, strangely enough, but I cannot get enough of it. Apologies again for the name Tony (?).
This was really different. Unique idea!
Wasn't it just? As soon as I read it I couldn't wait to record it! Thanks for listening, Rosie!
This simple ghost story really became creepy with your tones! I'm beginning to think you could make a reading of a ketchup bottle scary! Well done!
Thanks GinaBeena. Will have to try that sometime 😀🍅
🧵🧵🧵🧶🍓🍓🍓🍓🍓🧤🧤🧤🧤 I like this story & will most likely re~listen...mean girl sisters
Top notch narration. Just a note: sound quality a bit muffled.
Variable across my recordings. I have no home studio. This one sounds pretty good through my headphones. Not muffled.
This definitely deserves even a third listen because the background music the piano that’s playing, I didn’t notice that before, I was aware of it but mostly subconsciously. All of these stories are worth at least a second lesson but this one- the literature is so beautifully expressed and it’s so poetic and beautifully read and the best thing about your stories is you know exactly what music suits the story, even the picture with the ruins which I know From my interest in Wicca, Are completely accurate! Jasper I don’t think you realise how good you are! You are a genius! We get so much value for so little and I am going to buy you a coffee, seriously that was a joke about meeting you at Starbucks! Because you deserve it! I want to thank you sincerely for all the effort you put in with sound effects et cetera! You are a perfectionist but not in a negative way because to be a perfectionist is not actually a compliment, it comes from feeling a lack of self-worth and overcompensation and that’s not what I mean! You’ve got it just right! It’s become accepted to say you’re a perfectionist and it’s meant as you get it perfect! And I’m not at all embarrassed by expressing how I feel because this is how I feel, genuinely! It’s rare to come across such good quality in a TH-cam channel! You give us escapism from sometimes difficult periods in our lives like, for me, I am going through the first death in my family... So this helps more than you know! I know I sound like a bloody stalker..... I will leave you alone now in peace ✌️ oh! And I’ve just noticed - I forgot to tell you the bird song in the background! I didn’t hear that the first or second time! Obviously the bird song at the end everyone hears but there is some in the beginning also which proves that theory that every time you watch a movie you will see something you’ve never seen before. I went on a seminar about something called unconscious attention. Like when you’re learning to drive you have to pay attention to what you’re doing and eventually you get to the stage where you do it automatically.So you can listen to music or have a conversation and you’re driving in a state of unconscious in attention! The “Guru“ Who does very expensive seminars 2 Of which I went to in Monaco at le Meridien hotel which has a view of the famous racecourse for cars and a third one in Marbella in the Costa Romano hotel which is one of the best hotels in the world, it was fabulous, Thank God my father paid because altogether the three seminars came to €1 million! That’s why the Irish press call it a cult! They have a Belief that money is evil! The whole point about charging so much is that instead of going to a seminar that you don’t pay a lot of money for them you don’t study the material afterwards but if you do pay extortionate amounts to study it then you will do the work! And for your effort you gain The best gift the universe has to offer! Yourself... Your higher SELF! And the ability to read auras, The connection seminar was €63,000 gives you the ability to ask a question regarding your life, not other peoples, That is none of your business, and get a yes or no answer! Should I buy this house? Should I move to New York? Questions like this and in rare circumstances, Your spirit will give you permission to ask a question on behalf of somebody else however if you abuse this ability you can lose the connection. That was called the MindMaster seminar..... to this day if I look at a tree I can see the energy surrounding it! When you focus on it or concentrate, if you concentrate on anything it causes information to appear in consciousness! So prayer is fine you speak to the intelligent energy that designed the universe because it couldn’t be an accident because everything comes from something else. And meditation is for you listen to the answer from that intelligence that creates this universe! Think about it if you look at a book, The pictures on the book, The ink, the words that make sense with the apostrophes and commas et cetera didn’t just fall out of the sky like atheists believe this planet is a rock and we are just lumps of meat walking around on it! But where did it come from? DNA is a blueprint for life and there are several Life forms. If there wasn’t any intelligence behind this DNA, that’s like saying a program for a computer or a book had no intelligence behind it because how can something come from nothing because if it is nothing then it’s impossible for anything to come from it! Does that not make sense?? Something cannot come from nothing! So 15 billion years ago we created the Big Bang so that we could come forth and experience different emotions because how do you know Joy, ecstasy, enthusiasm or inspiration unless you have felt despair or pain because everything has an opposite. So when we die we experience joy beyond our wildest imaginings! I prefer to call NDEs Near life experiences because we are much more dead ☠️ While we are here in the physical body within limitations of the human brain! What people call the subconscious or superconscious mind is the part of us that is Eternal! If it was not for my near death experience, I Dread to think what would have become of my life! I would probably have died from a drug overdose. Caused my mother loss and suffering and instead I am live in heaven on Earth! I have awakened and it is much better than any drug that had been invented until the time of my NDE! Maybe somebody will read this and it will make them think. That’s why I’m not going to delete it even though I promised I would never write long messages again!🤷♀️
❤
Beautiful lyrical writing, dreamily creepy... and incomparable performance, naturally. What a strange little story! I quite liked it.
Before I listen to this, I have to comment on the title - With and Without Buttons sounds like the title of a dress-making book. 😏
Ah, Kevin MacLeod.
Yes.
@@EnCryptedHorror Love your video descriptions...the smaller channels always put the most into those, the big channels are shockingly lazy and frankly what they do is illegal. Would be interested to feature you on my main channel, GM Danielson, this 'ween.
@@nothingbutfear7930 Oh hi G.M. 👋 you gave me some very good advice on your livestream about shortening the channel name!
@@nothingbutfear7930 If you want to discuss offline my email's in the description. Great to hear from you!
@@EnCryptedHorror Thanks! Happy October!