Subscribe to Strange Air on your favourite podcast player This month, Magenta and Bernard introduce you to another peculiar tale... in the form of the podcast STRANGE AIR. Ten years ago, Malcolm Smith was the host of “Strange Air”, a successful radio show about the paranormal. One night, during a live broadcast, Malcolm vanished into thin air. To this day, no one knows what happened. Now his daughter, Chase Smith, is in her last year of film school and she’s making a documentary about her father’s disappearance. Strange Air is another great show from the Fable & Folly Network. Support Magenta and Bernard! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Read The Transcripts Magenta Presents... the second short story of the series! The Woodwose, by Lindsay Sharman. A story from a long time ago, when humans shared the land with the wolf, the lynx, the hobgoblin and the grim. A story of a young girl born between worlds. Lindsay is the writer and director of Mockery Manor, The Ballad Of Anne & Mary, and Ghosted. Support Long Cat Media on Ko-fi! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Read The Transcripts Magenta Presents... the first of many short stories: The Yellow Necktie, by Mason Ball. Mason’s work can be found at his website, including his novel The Thirty-Five Timely & Untimely Deaths Of Cumberland County, together with short story collections, fairy tales, poetry and more… Mason also moonlights as cabaret host Benjamin Louche at London's award-winning Lynchian cabaret institution The Double R Club Support Long Cat Media on Ko-fi! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Read the Transcripts Previously: after seeing the mysterious figure on the widow's walk, Beth rushes back to the lighthouse. She finds Keira with bloodied hands, which, she claims, came from the dead body of Beth's parrot Margot, but the parrot has now disappeared. They hide in the lantern room in case an intruder is still in the building. Keira says she's been feeling "a presence" during her stay, and that she thinks it's Wes. Beth admits she has also felt that she's not alone in the lighthouse. They begin to hear something climbing the lighthouse stairs. Suddenly, the radio turns itself on, and plays what appears to be fragments of Beth and Keira's past conversations. And then - a horrifying scratching and banging at the locked door. Keira tries to convince Beth to open the window so they can escape via the unstable scaffolding, but Beth desperately wants to stay. She believes the entity could be Gabby. Keira finally reveals that she pushed the glass at the seance - Gabby never came through. It was her.  CONTENT WARNINGS: grief/bereavement, supernatural horror, toxic friendships GHOSTED is a five-episode psychological drama and ghost horror story, written and directed by Lindsay Sharman, with music, sound design and editing by Laurence Owen. Starring Beth Eyre as Beth and Lucy Roslyn as Keira, with Tessa Hatts as Merta, Laurence Owen as Wes, Hayley Evenett as the Buyer, and Lindsay Sharman as Beth's mum Theresa. This series is supported by Arts Council England National Lottery project grants, and our Ko-fi supporters. Become a supporter on Ko-fi and help us make more podcasts! www.longcatmedia.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Read the Transcripts Previously: a nauseous, migraine-y Beth crawls out onto the structurally unstable widow's walk to pick up the dead seagull. Its condition is much worse than she and Keira expected - it looks like it's been run over. Blood drips from the bin bag, and Beth heads to the kitchen to fetch a mop. The phone rings, and Beth hears Wes's voice speaking to her. Shocked, she goes for a walk along the beach to clear her head. While walking, she thinks she sees Keira out on the widow's walk. She calls the lighthouse, expecting to see the figure walk inside. But when Keira answers the phone in the kitchen, Beth realises the figure is... something else.  In a flashback, Beth tells Keira that she is staying in her university room because her chronic migraines have worsened. But despite that, she wants to keep trying to contact Gabby.  CONTENT WARNINGS: grief/bereavement, supernatural horror, toxic friendships GHOSTED is a five-episode psychological drama and ghost horror story, written and directed by Lindsay Sharman, with music, sound design and editing by Laurence Owen. Featuring Beth Eyre as Beth and Lucy Roslyn as Keira. This series is supported by Arts Council England National Lottery project grants, and our Ko-fi supporters. Become a supporter on Ko-fi and help us make more podcasts! www.longcatmedia.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices