Barnaby finds connections between a supposedly haunted forest, the traceless disappearances of two couples and a gang of antiquity thieves.Barnaby finds connections between a supposedly haunted forest, the traceless disappearances of two couples and a gang of antiquity thieves.Barnaby finds connections between a supposedly haunted forest, the traceless disappearances of two couples and a gang of antiquity thieves.
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- TriviaAn iron maiden is shown and described as a medieval torture device, but it is now accepted that there was, in fact, no such device--there is no evidence of the existence of iron maidens before the early 19th century. Professor Wolfgang Schild of Bielefeld University in Germany has argued that iron maidens were pieced together from orphaned artifacts in order to create interesting objects intended for commercial exhibition. Several of these 19th-century iron maidens are on display in museums around the world. The 19th-century iron maidens may have been inspired by actual objects, such as the medieval Schandmantel (in English, "coat of shame"), a wearable instrument of punishment made of wood and sheet metal, but without spikes. Inspiration for the iron maiden may also have come from surviving accounts of the execution of Roman consul Marcus Atilius Regulus, in 250 BCE, during the First Punic War between Rome and Carthage. The Carthaginians reportedly "packed [Regulus] into a tight wooden box, spiked with sharp nails on all sides so that he could not lean in any direction without being pierced." Iron maidens also resemble the Apega of Nabis (also known as the Iron Apega), described by the ancient Greek historian Polybius as an ancient torture device similar to the iron maiden invented by Nabis, a king who ruled Sparta as a tyrant from 207 to 192 BCE.
- GoofsWhen LeVanu is being interviewed on the radio, the frequency of the station as advertised on posters in the studio (86.6 MHz) is not the frequency that Jones tunes to (93.5 MHz) when he and Barnaby listen in the car. Also, 86.6 MHz is outside the range 87.5-108.0 MHz that is used by FM radio. Moreover, the posters call it "Causton FM", whereas the announcer calls it "Radio Causton". (A similar thing happens to "Radio Midsomer" in the Season 20 episode "Till Death Do Us Part".)
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DCI Tom Barnaby: I think, Jones, whatever is in those woods, it's time we met it face to face. C'mon.
DS Ben Jones: Do ghosts have faces?
DCI Tom Barnaby: Oh, I think they do, yes. Except the headless ones.
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very good episode
When four people disappear without a trace, it falls to Barnaby and Jones to find out what happened in "Talking to the Dead," from season 11.
This episode combines drama and humor as Barnaby and Jones go to the village of Monks Barton to investigate. They meet a womanizing postman, a man who sees dead people, a fire and brimstone preacher, a traumatized individual who babbles, and learn about the strange lights and sounds coming from the haunted woods. A massacre of monks once took place there, and the monks have been haunting the place ever since.
The missing soon start turning up...as corpses.
Really good episode with some good humor as well as mystery. The best scene is probably when Barnaby accidentally closes Jones into an iron maiden. When he gets him out, all Jones says over and over is, "You shut the DOOR!" And though Barnaby doesn't believe in any of this ghost stuff, his wife Joyce has an "open mind" as she says, and one can tell that Jones is somewhat nervous in the woods.
Excellent mystery. Wish this particular writer (David Harsent) did all of the scripts.
This episode combines drama and humor as Barnaby and Jones go to the village of Monks Barton to investigate. They meet a womanizing postman, a man who sees dead people, a fire and brimstone preacher, a traumatized individual who babbles, and learn about the strange lights and sounds coming from the haunted woods. A massacre of monks once took place there, and the monks have been haunting the place ever since.
The missing soon start turning up...as corpses.
Really good episode with some good humor as well as mystery. The best scene is probably when Barnaby accidentally closes Jones into an iron maiden. When he gets him out, all Jones says over and over is, "You shut the DOOR!" And though Barnaby doesn't believe in any of this ghost stuff, his wife Joyce has an "open mind" as she says, and one can tell that Jones is somewhat nervous in the woods.
Excellent mystery. Wish this particular writer (David Harsent) did all of the scripts.
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