BBC Sounds, December 2 2022

“I’m not ’avin’ it anymore.”

Once again, Liz Rich is so very done with Heol Fanog’s shenanigans… but we Witch Farmers aren’t, not just yet.

There’s often balance to be found in life, as any fan of The Witch Farm will appreciate.  For instance, it’s lovely to hear the above phrase in Liz’s own beautiful Welsh lilt… but it’s a shame not to be able to hear the BBC recording of the threatening, “wild and animalistic” disembodied roar that prompted her words.

So much to unpack in this case update, from 90s baby monitors picking up other radio frequencies to unexplainable water appearing – and, worryingly for poor Bill, trinkets from his seemingly cursed home following him to his mother in law’s house.

I’m definitely on board with the voices from the baby monitors being transmissions on other analogue devices, that makes total sense. Then we learn there’s potentially a natural spring running right under the house – that would explain what the dousing picked up, certainly. Nothing too strange there then…

That irrepressible humour of Danny’s is there again as he wins the line of the week: “… an owl has dive-bombed an exorcist on the orders of the dark lord…” I almost spat my hot chocolate out laughing!

There follows a dive into some of the lore of the paranormal, thanks to a fascinating conversation with a US reporter who interviewed the residents of that Amityville house, Laura DiDio. Do people bring their own view of the world in to cases such as these, and could they be “overtaken by the hype around them?” It’s an interesting and plausible theory.

Ending on the bombshell that “pig poo doesn’t explain it all”, we’re full steam ahead into the finale, with the climax of series coming up. Will we ever be able to sleep again?! *shivers*

Verdict: A fascinating dive into the lore of the paranormal. 8/10

Claire Smith