Best Shannon Rees Podcasts (2025)

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Episode 139 - Dagrún Ósk Jónsdóttir - Ghosts, Trolls and The Hidden People 1:03:14

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My guest for this episode is folklorist and author Dagrún Ósk Jónsdóttir, who joined me to discuss her new book Ghosts, Trolls and The Hidden People; An Anthology of Icelandic Folk Legends. Dagrún Ósk’s research on the folklore and legends of Iceland has included the topics of cannibalism, Ouija board traditions, supernatural beings and, for her Ph…

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Episode 138 - Kimberly S. Engels - Phenomenology of The Phenomenon 1:02:39

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Joining me for this episode is philosopher Kimberly S. Engels. Kimberly is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Molloy University and her research focuses on existentialism, phenomenology, and ethics. In 2023 she started a new research project on the UAP phenomenon, focusing on the lived conscious experience of individuals who report these kind enc…

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Episode 137 - Karl Bell - The Perilous Deep 1:03:25

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My guest for this episode is author and historian Karl Bell, who joined me to talk about his new book, The Perilous Deep: A Supernatural History of the Atlantic. Karl is Associate Professor in Cultural and Social History and Co-Director of the Centre for Port Cities and Maritime Cultures at the University of Portsmouth. Prior to his latest work, he…

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Episode 136 - Jim Harold - Spooky Stories and Weird Happenings 1:03:55

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My guest for this episode is paranormal podcaster and author Jim Harold. Since 2005, Jim has built a global following with his flagship shows The Paranormal Podcast and Jim Harold’s Campfire. Jim’s podcasts have been downloaded over eighty million times and consistently rank alongside major networks on the podcast charts. Going full-time in 2012, h…

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Episode 135 - Susan Demeter - Ghost Roads of Ontario 1:09:22

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Joining me for this episode is returning guest Susan Demeter. Susan is a Canadian born author, artist, and witch. The themes of her writing, research and art incorporate a lifelong interest in exceptional human experiences, UFOs, nature, social history, mysteries, and magic. She was previously a guest back in 2021 for episode 62 of Some Other Spher…

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Episode 134 - Clive Bloom - London Uncanny 1:02:10

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My guest for this episode is Clive Bloom, who joined me to talk about his new book, London Uncanny: A Gothic Guide to the Capital in Weird History and Fiction. Clive is Professor in Residence at Hull University, Emeritus Professor at Middlesex University and a Visiting Fellow at the University of Western Timisoara, Romania. He is a feature writer f…

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Episode 133 - Dr. Bob Davis - The Science of Consciousness and Extraordinary Experiences 1:08:05

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Joining me for this episode is research scientist and author Dr. Bob Davis. After receiving his doctorate in 1981 Bob served as a professor for the State University of New York for over thirty years, where he conducted extensive research in the behavioural and neurosensory sciences, taught, and held many high-level administrative roles. Following r…

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Episode 132 - Dr. Nick Literski - Psychology, Spirituality, and Esoteric Traditions 1:06:32

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My guest for this episode is Nick Literski. Nick is a Jungian scholar, spiritual guide, author, and retired attorney. Dissatisfaction with a career working in law, together with the experience of coming out as part of the LGBTQ+ community, led them to rebuild their life and pursue their interest in the intersection of spirituality and psychology. A…

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Episode 131 - Liz Williams - Rough Music 1:01:56

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My guest for this episode is author Liz Williams, who joined me to talk about her new book Rough Music: Folk Customs, Transgression and Alternative Britain. Liz holds a PhD in the History and Philosophy of Science from the University of Cambridge and is a widely published journalist and writer of both fiction and non-fiction. In Rough Music she exa…

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Episode 130 - Dr. Josh Bullock - Weekday Worldviews - Update 59:42

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Joining me for this episode is returning guest Dr. Josh Bullock. Josh is part of the team behind Weekday Worldviews, a sociological project which in 2023 began investigating the relationships between personal worldviews and psychological well-being amongst those attending public psychic events in the UK. He was my guest for episode 114 of the podca…

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Episode 129 - Dr Ed Barnhart - The Maya Civilisation 1:12:46

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My guest for this episode is archaeologist, explorer and educator Dr Ed Barnhart. Ed specialises in studying the ancient civilizations of the Americas and has over twenty years of experience working at archaeological sites in North, Central, and South America. Of particular interest to him during his career have been the Maya, who are is the main s…

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Episode 128 - Elin Heron and Callum James - Magic, Landscape and the Dead 1:13:49

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Joining me as my guests for this episode are Elin Heron and Callum James. Elin is returning to Some Other Sphere, having first been interviewed by me in the very early days of the podcast. She is a writer and musician, a talented tarot reader and a speaker of Welsh. Callum is a poet, artist, bookseller and magical practitioner. Both have long been …

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Episode 127 - Loren Hughes - The Ancients of Avalon 1:06:20

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My guest for this episode is paranormal researcher Loren Hughes. Loren is the creator of 'The Ancients of Avalon', an eclectic amalgam of blog and social media where he shares his own unusual experiences along with the folklore and weird history associated with the area around Glastonbury in Somerset, England where he lives. UFOs, Cryptids, the Fae…

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Episode 126 - Timothy Grieve-Carlson - American Aurora 1:13:03

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My guest for this episode is historian and author Timothy Grieve-Carlson. Tim’s work focuses on the intersection of esotericism, ecology, American religious history and the paranormal and his writing has appeared in magazines like Hellebore and in academic journals such as American Religion, Correspondences: A Journal of Esotericism, and Magic, Rit…

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Episode 125 - Allison Jornlin - Catherine Crowe and the Night Side of Nature 1:21:20

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Joining me as my guest for this episode is paranormal historian, researcher, writer and speaker, Allison Jornlin. Allison has been investigating strange phenomena for more than twenty years. Inspired by Chicago’s Richard Crowe, who kick-started U.S. ghost tourism in 1973, she developed Milwaukee’s first haunted history tour in 2008. Allison current…

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Episode 124 - Greg Eghigian - After the Flying Saucers Came 1:07:57

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My guest for this episode is Greg Eghigian, who joined me to talk about his new book After the Flying Saucers Came: A Global History of the UFO Phenomenon. Greg is a Professor of History and Bioethics at Pennsylvania State University. An expert on the history of the abnormal and the paranormal in the modern world, his research has been supported by…

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Episode 123 - Ruth Roper Wylde - Researching Hauntings and High Strangeness 1:01:27

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Joining me for this episode is returning guest, paranormal researcher and author Ruth Roper Wylde. Ruth has written extensively on strange happenings in Britain, beginning with her book The Ghosts of Marston Vale and continuing with titles such as The Almanac of British Ghosts, The Roadmap of British Ghosts and These Haunted Times, with the latter …

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Episode 122 - Dash Kwiatkowski - Comedy, Paranormal Investigation and Phil Gravy 1:05:57

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My guest for this episode is paranormal investigator, writer and podcaster Dash Kwiatkowski. Prior to their paranormal investigation career, Dash spent a decade as a touring stand up comedian, featuring in festivals around the United States. Now based in Providence Rhode Island, their latest project is the paranormal documentary series 'Liminal', i…

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Episode 121 - Amanda Paulson -The Emotional Considerations of Paranormal Investigation 1:14:41

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Joining me as my guest for this episode is paranormal researcher and investigator Amanda Paulson. Amanda has been actively investigating paranormal phenomena since 2008 and since then has visited numerous places with haunted reputations across North America, including locations such as Waverly Hills Sanatorium and the Lizzie Borden house. She speci…

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Episode 120 - Matt Salusbury - Mystery Animals of Suffolk 1:09:16

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My guest for this episode is journalist and author Matt Salusbury, who joined me to talk about his latest book, Mystery Animals of Suffolk. This catalogues a wide range of yet-to-be identified animals reported in the English county, together with folkloric creatures from local tradition in the region. It opens with an examination of the mythical en…

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Episode 119 - Thersa Matsuura - Japanese Folklore 1:04:07

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My guest for this episode is author and podcaster Thersa Matsuura, who joined me to talk about her new publication, The Book of Japanese Folklore: An Encyclopedia of the Spirits, Monsters, and Yokai of Japanese Myth. After a childhood living all over the U.S. - as far north as Fairbanks, Alaska and as far south as Jacksonville, Florida, Thersa move…

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Episode 118 - Gareth E. Rees - Sunken Lands 1:05:43

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My guest for this episode is author Gareth E Rees, who joined me to talk about his latest writing project, Sunken Lands: A Journey Through Lost Kingdoms and Flooded Worlds. In the book, he explores stories of flooded places from humanity’s past – and those disappearing before our eyes. Sunken Lands peels back the layers of silt, sea and mythology t…

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Episode 117 - Kingsley Dennis - The Inversion 1:08:05

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Joining me for this episode is writer, researcher and publisher Kingsley Dennis. Kingsley has written extensively on social and digital futures, global affairs, and conscious evolution. He is the author of several critically acclaimed books including Breaking the Spell: An Exploration of Human Perception, Unified: Cosmos, Life, Purpose and Hijackin…

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Episode 116 - Laura Lewis-Barr - Psyche's Cinema 56:40

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My guest for this episode is Laura Lewis-Barr. Laura is an award winning film-maker, who specialises in the medium of stop-motion to create short movies inspired by myths, fairy tales and the ideas of people such as Carl Jung and Joseph Campbell. In her films, she uses dolls to portray an eclectic array of characters and does all of the costuming, …

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Episode 115 - Sharon Hewitt Rawlette - Coincidence, Synchronicity and Life after Death 1:12:30

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My guest for this episode is Sharon Hewitt Rawlette. Sharon is a philosopher who writes for both popular and scholarly audiences on the topics of consciousness, anomalous experience, ethics, and spirituality. She has a PhD in philosophy from New York University and taught at Brandeis University before launching her career as an independent writer a…

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Episode 114 - Dr Josh Bullock - Weekday Worldviews 54:46

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My guest for this episode is Dr Josh Bullock. Josh is a senior lecturer in the Criminology, Politics and Sociology department of Kingston University London and part of the team behind Weekday Worldviews, a sociological project which is investigating the relationships between personal worldviews and psychological well-being amongst those attending p…

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Episode 113 - Gary Opit - An Introduction to Australian Cryptozoology 1:25:52

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My guest for this episode is Gary Opit. Gary is an Australian zoologist, cryptozoologist, and author. He also hosts a wildlife talkback radio show on ABC North Coast NSW Local Radio and between 1997 and 2015 conducted a citizen science project, collecting data based on the phone calls and emails he received during that time from people seeking assi…

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Episode 112 - Dr Richard Sugg - Ghosts, Fairies and Wonder Dogs 1:13:42

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Joining me for this episode is author and historian Dr Richard Sugg. Richard has written both fiction and non-fiction on a wide range of unusual subjects - from John Donne in 2007, through to Mummies, Cannibals and Vampires in 2011, Fairies: A Dangerous History in 2018, and more recently: A History of Disgust from Jesus Christ to Boris Johnson in 2…

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Episode 111 - Charis Cotter - Ghost Stories from Newfoundland 55:32

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My guest for this episode is Charis Cotter. Charis is an award-winning author who specialises in writing ghost stories, many of which are influenced by the history, folklore and landscape of Newfoundland where she lives. Alongside her writing, Charis has worked in schools and libraries across Canada, using drama and storytelling to bring her books …

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Episode 110 - Natalie Doig - Weird in the Wade 1:09:24

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My guest for this episode is Natalie Doig. Natalie is the creator of Weird in the Wade, a blog and podcast which details her exploration of the spooky happenings, forgotten history and curious folklore of the area around her hometown of Biggleswade, in Bedfordshire England. This has seen her investigate a wide range of unusual cases, from a shop pl…

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Episode 109 - Sue Terry - Esoteric Fiction and the work of Alan Garner 1:28:09

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Joining me as my guest for this episode is Sue Terry. Sue is an academic of weird and occult literature – her research interests involve her exploring the relationship between 'the occult' and literary fiction and understanding how texts of all kinds can help us interpret paranormal phenomena to develop a better appreciation of it. She is currently…

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Episode 108 - Dr Diana Walsh Pasulka - Experiences with Non-human Intelligences 1:00:13

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My guest for this episode is Dr Diana Walsh Pasulka, who joined me to talk about her new book ‘Encounters: Experiences with Non-human Intelligences’. Diana is a professor of religious studies at the University of North Carolina, Wilmington. She writes and teaches about the history of the catholic tradition and new religious movements, particularly …

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Episode 107 - Victoria Jaye - The Demon Folklorist 1:08:05

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My guest for this episode is Victoria Jaye. Victoria is a folklorist, writer, podcaster and author whose areas of research is demonic experiences, narratives, and phenomena. She runs a blog called The Demon Folklorist and her first book ‘The Black Hours: Modern Demonic Experiences and Folklore’ is due to come out in October 2023. I begin the interv…

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Episode 106 - Claire Casely - The Faery Whisperer 1:00:57

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Joining me for this episode is intuitive artist, writer, researcher and podcaster Claire Casely. Claire’s creative projects are inspired by the presence of faeries which she experiences through nature connection, faerie sight and during journeying in meditation and dreams. Together these practices have helped her to form a multi-sensory method of c…

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Episode 105 - Fred Andersson - High Strangeness in Sweden 1:01:20

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My guest for this episode is researcher and author Fred Andersson, who joined me to talk about his new book, ‘Northern Lights – High Strangeness in Sweden’. This is the first book written in English entirely devoted to the subject of high strangeness, UFOs, and other mysteries in that country. Sweden has a long history of weirdness, unexplained obs…

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Episode 104 - Simon Miles - The Map and the Manuscript 1:05:27

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My guest for this episode is author Simon Miles, who joined me to talk about his recent book 'The Map and the Manuscript'. This debut work documents an investigation of over more than twenty years into the "Affair of Rennes", a tangle of puzzles that has fascinated readers and researchers alike for half a century. A minor riddle of local history ce…

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Episode 103 - AP Strange - Master of Mystical Flapdoodle 57:33

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Joining me for this episode of the podcast is previous guest and good friend of the show Matt Hopewell, AKA AP Strange. AP is a paranormal researcher, writer and self-described Discordian Flying Saucer Enthusiast, Certified Kook, Donut Wizard and Master of Mystical Flapdoodle. He has a distinctly fun and light-hearted method of exploring Forteana o…

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Episode 102 - Lionel Fanthorpe - Renaissance Man of the Paranormal 1:11:06

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My guest for this episode is legendary paranormal investigator and author Lionel Fanthorpe. Lionel has had a prolific writing career dating back to 1952 which has seen him pen hundreds of books. Not only has he written science fiction stories, but together with his wife Patricia, also non-fiction books on an array of subjects, most notably the para…

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Episode 101 - Emily Leon - Esotericism, Modern Art and Hilma af Klint 48:00

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For this episode my guest is art historian Emily Leon. Emily’s research focuses on modernism and the esoteric interests of late-19th and early-20th century western artists, with a particular concentration on abstraction and the links between art, science, and religion. Since 2017, much of her scholarship has focused on the social, spiritual, and th…

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Episode 100 - Shannon Taggart - Séance: Spiritualist Ritual and the Search for Ectoplasm 1:02:31

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My guest for this episode is photojournalist Shannon Taggart, who joined me to talk about her 2019 photobook - 'Séance'. This project was the culmination of two decades of research into the history, rituals, practices and exponents of Spiritualism, a religious movement which emerged in the mid 19th Century in update New York in the USA and is now e…

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Episode 99 - Emma Kathryn - Wild Witchcraft 56:33

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My guest for this episode is witch and author Emma Kathryn. Emma has had an interest in witchcraft from an early age and her practise has developed to include a combination of british magical traditions with the afro-caribbean ones of Myal and Obeah. She has written books such as Reclaiming Ourselves, Reclaiming Food, Wild Witchcraft and Witch Life…

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Episode 98 - Emma Heard - Weird Wiltshire 1:04:13

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Joining me as my guest for this episode is Emma Heard, creator of the Weird Wiltshire blog. Emma has had a lifelong interest in the paranormal and experienced many unusual occurrences that are hard to explain. During the COVID-19 lockdown of 2020 she had a chance to write a blog for fun and so Weird Wiltshire was born, offering a place to explore t…

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Episode 97 - Gregory Forth - Between Ape and Human 1:05:41

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My guest for this episode is Gregory Forth, who joined me to discuss his book Between Ape and Human: An Anthropologist on the Trail of a Hidden Hominoid. Gregory received his doctorate at Oxford and was a professor of Anthropology at the University of Alberta for more than three decades. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and is the auth…

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Episode 96 - Patrick Harpur - Daimonic Reality 1:03:18

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Joining me as my guest for this episode is author Patrick Harpur. Patrick has written extensively on a range of fortean subjects but is perhaps best known for his 1994 book Daimonic Reality: A Field Guide to the Otherworld. This applied the ideas of people such as William Blake, W.B Yeats and Carl Jung to examine the connections across a wide range…

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Episode 95 - Jeremy Harte - The Devil in the English Landscape 57:40

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My guest for this episode is folklorist and author Jeremy Harte, who joined me to talk about his new book Cloven Country: The Devil in the English Landscape. Jeremy has written extensively on local history, folklore and the supernatural and is the curator of the Bourne Hall Museum at Epson and Ewell as well as secretary of the Romany and Traveller …

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Episode 94 - George Popov - Filmmaking and the Paranormal 1:05:14

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Joining me for this episode is filmmaker George Popov. George is half of the creative partnership behind Rubicon Films, who since 2022 have released a series of paranormal themed documentaries under the title of ‘Sideworld’. To quote George, a sideworld exists “where the line between fact and fiction is enshrouded in mist and shadow, and beyond tha…

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Episode 93 - Vuk (Tracing Owls Podcast) - Gaia Theory 59:37

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My guest for this episode is Vuk, host of the Tracing Owls podcast. A quirky but nuanced exploration into Fortean philosophy, Tracing Owls focuses on the roles of Mother Nature, the Trickster and the experiencer in shaping paranormal phenomena, with a healthy amount of humour and humility along the way. Could Cryptids, UFOs, High strangeness and pa…

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Episode 92 - Sarah Janes - Initiation into Dream Mysteries 57:59

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Joining me for this episode is author and dream researcher, Sarah Janes. Sarah has been an enthusiastic lucid dreamer since childhood and has written about dreams, dream culture and the anthropology of dreaming for a number of academic journals, the Idler magazine and more. Sarah’s first book Initiation into Dream Mysteries, Drinking from the Pool …

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Episode 91 - Dr Liz Savage - A Beginner’s Guide to Dickensian Cryptozoology 1:00:12

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My guest for this episode is Dr Liz Savage, who joined me to talk about the concept of Dickensian Cryptozoology. Liz earned her PhD from Durham University on nineteenth-century literature, focusing on Charles Dickens and the uncanny. Her current research continues to focus on the strange and unusual in literature, film, and other media. Dickensian …

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Episode 90 - David Booher - The Gerry Irwin Story 1:01:55

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My guest for this episode is author David Booher, who joined me to talk about his 2017 book, No Return: The Gerry Irwin Story – UFO Abduction or Covert Operation. The book explores the interesting case of Gerry Irwin, a young soldier in the US Army who whilst driving back to his base on a cold February evening in 1959, witnessed an unusual light in…