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Study 146 - The Seventeenth Hole at Duncaster (Patreon)

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2025-10-23 18:59:22
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CADDYSHOCK! Join us as we tee up H.R. Wakefield's haunted golf course tale, The Seventeenth Hole at Duncaster!

Special thanks to reader Greig Johnson! Check out his YouTube and Patreon channels to view his Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy props and film!

Golf horror games: Greener Grass Awaits and Gone Golfing

Comments

Jennifer DeFord

I'm excited for the upcoming episode—Haunted Palace is my favorite Corman "Poe" adaptation! Sometimes not for reasons flattering to the movie, but what can you do?

Robert Curtin

Man, I just hate burning my balls

Ryan Thomas

Burnt balls prompt me here to post some pubescent humor, but a fellow listener Robert Curtin beat me to it by an hour. At least I'll share some practical safety advice about this issue. One can stand further from hot, popping grease by using longer tongs to flip the breakfast bacon.

REO Jackwagon

Man. Being The best there is at what you do, and what you do feels beneath you. Super relatable.

Wulf Mungus

I hope the feedback episode for this story is titled "Burning Balls"... the description at the end, of that strange forest entity, reminded me of the one in The Ritual...

Drix

I've really been enjoying the Wakefield this month. I have a very fond memory of listening to the Red Lodge episode and driving home from Gettysburg so maybe it hits my palette a bit more potently, but I really do think he's a phenomenal writer, and exemplary of the early Weird Fiction authors and milieu in general. Each story was honestly a delight to read, and horrific in its own right. I Also, honorable mention to "Oh, Whistle, and I’ll Come to You, My Lad" by M.R. James. It's not quite a haunted golf course episode, but it comes damn close. If you're in the mood to revisit the woefully underrepresented Jame's, I'd recommend "The Mezzotint". To my knowledge, its one of - if not the earliest- found footage horror story. I'd love to be proven wrong on that though, if anyone can point out an earlier "found footage" piece. Maybe an even more ancient daguerrotype, idk.

Alan Ricks

“Ball burns of an occult nature” - story of my life.

Alan Ricks

YES!! Thank you! I also thought of the thing standing up in The Ritual! This story pairs well with that movie, both are folk horror in my eyes.

The Lonely Sand Person

Mr. Baxter makes me think of the sort of person who's always looking for the thing that's going to MAKE them happy, as if Happiness is a product you could buy or a person you could marry. And then they're perpetually disappointed when Happiness fails to be imposed from without and their relationships gradually deteriorate because the person they're with didn't make the feeling of discontent go away, but maybe the NEXT one will.

The Lonely Sand Person

The supernatural bits of this story seemed very faerie to me. The bells and dreams and mocking laughter made it feel like the wood was home to a group of malicious fae. I think it's notable that Baxter is the one that gets the oracular dreams; as the club secretary, he's being treated as the lord of the golf course. That makes him the one to whom warnings should be delivered, but it also invests him with a measure of respect. I don't think Baxter is going to be nearly as bad off as Simon from the book; Simon was literally and figuratively touched by the evil of the place, cursed to die even as he escaped the wood.

Allison Albright

You know what didn't burn my balls at all? This story. It was only a matter of time before you guys covered a haunted golf course story. The list of items and locations that haven't appeared as haunted in these stories continues to dwindle.

Daniel Weber

This story also made me think of "Oh, Whistle and I'll Come to You, My Lad" (OWAICTYML?) That story also has a Colonel who plays golf with the protagonist. Same guy? I want to read about the adventures of the Colonel who travels around playing golf, drinking brandy, not-quite experiencing hauntings, and mostly-ignoring occult mysteries. He is going to need a batman/caddy who saved his life back in their Army days, but whose past is otherwise mysterious.

Aaron La Vene

Blair Witch Ball Burns. My new band name The missing of all the easy jokes about burned balls, and yet all the dad jokes about haunted golf is the only thing that I took away from this episode. For shame gentlemen. But alas I guess this is podcast of the prim and proper. 🤣 But for real. That story went from 0-100 so fast . Great story

Aaron La Vene

I think since they brought up the Druid’s. The creature sounds like a Leshy. They can appear as a tree until threatened and can both be a protector of an area or a monster, sometimes they are said to be summoned by druids, sometimes just a force of nature. Lots of other info about them based in Slavic folklore. But this is what came to mind. They also will transform at will and lead travelers astray. So it moving golf balls to get people into the woods where it could leave them a message or even kill them… still rings true to a leshy

Alan Ricks

“The Damned Corn Hole” sounds horrifying!

Alan Ricks

If we all pool our collective mental energy together we can manifest episode 100!

Me Myself

I had the same thought! I picture the Colonel as a stern-looking guy with a handlebar mustache, kind of like Lord Kitchener.

Thunk

I've finally got a car where the stereo can connect to my phone via Bluetooth. I have a kid, 7yo. We get into the car. The phone connects to the stereo: "Both the men have burnt balls"

Bill Dietze

I'm finally caught up and a chance to comment! Long time staker and name-mentioned-on-air alumni, but unfortunately a binge listener. The upswing is then I get to enjoy uninterrupted hours of your show. The downside is I think "Oh! I could comment on this... if it wasn't two months old now." Anyway, there were a couple corpse descriptions in this one and the follow on comments that really took me back. I was a death investigator for a coroner/medical examiner office for about 5 years back in the early 90s, doing scene investigations, assisting in autopsies, testifying in court, and other duties. I wouldn't say the freshly dead had a "terrible Death stench" like Sybil had, but maybe the protagonist was especially sensitive, or maybe I was just used to it (certainly had smelled worse). Dunno, depends. But odors are one of the strongest memory triggers, so Baxter will have that memory for a long time.

It's a Ghost.

This story totally reminded me of both "Oh, Whistle and I'll Come to You, My Lad" as well as "A Warning to The Curious, " because of the golf references and English coastal settings.

Jim Cannon

"I'm not old! I'm 37!" Always weird to hear one's name in a story, but doubly so with the qualifier "Old Jim." I'm sure he built bridges all over that land but one gray hair...!

Jim Cannon

Note: I am not 37, I am actually old

Jim Cannon

Mr. Baxter may be one of the most directly relatable protagonists that have appeared in the last 900 episodes. He checks a lot of my own boxes, although thankfully not all of them. The reveal of "the Druids" initially got my dander up, but as Chris pointed out, the people in the story have literally no idea what is going on and it seems more likely "the Druids" are just a catch-all, rather than the actual culprits.

Bret Kramer

As one noted scholar on the Druids said about them “No one knows who they were or what they were doing”.

Alistair Brooks

Wait a minute, one of the patreons mentioned was a Mr Robert Seger? I love the album Stranger in Town

Falconhoof

Did I detect Chad soft-launching a story about a haunted disc golf course? On behalf of your listeners, I wanted to let you know that we're fully on board

Dan Bollen

In "Oh, Whistle", M.R. James says "'But it's your drive' (or whatever it might have been: the golfing reader will have to imagine appropriate digressions at the proper intervals)." Clearly less of a fan of golf than Wakefield.

Stewart

This was my favorite of the Wakefield stories. The others were a little too ambiguous for my tastes, albeit suitably atmospheric, but this had a great blend of atmosphere, spookiness, and shenanigans. Plus I love the "expert" at the end coming up with a solution that's just "Uh, the druids, probably."

Rick Lyter

The best scene in Caddyshack is that guy yelling "rat farts!" before getting struck by lightning

Erik Gordon

If this was in an anthology I definitely would have skipped it. I ended up enjoying it but should a been called Burnt Balls in Blood Wood.

Tara Murphy

I think the stench came from the beast in the woods. Maybe he is a sasquatch!