Mysteries and Monsters: Episode 363 Jonathan Downes of the Centre of Fortean Zoology
I'm delighted to welcome the director of the Centre for Fortean Zoology, Jonathan Downes to the show. A lifelong love of strange animals and a chance meeting with Doc Shiels at the Fortean Times Unconvention saw the CFZ born and sent Jon on a lifetime of high strangeness, international exhibitions and speaking with thousands of people who have experienced and seen creatures that allegedly do n...
1hr 37m Sep 01, 2025
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Mysteries and Monsters: Episode 362 Chasing North American Monsters with Jason Offutt
Jason Offutt returns to the field of cryptozoology with his latest book, a follow up to 2019's brilliant Chasing American Monsters which is an essential book for anyone who loves cryptids. In this latest book, Jason takes us from Greenland to Guatemala and all points in between as we discover some overlooked creatures to some of the more famous members of the cryptid fraternity. Jason's books...
1hr 19m Aug 25, 2025
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Mysteries and Monsters: Episode 361 American Strangeness Volume Two with Kevin J Guhl
Kevin J Guhl returns with a brand new collection of American Strangeness as he collates another bumper crop of the strange gleaned from the articles of American newspaper history covering all manner of weirdness. From outbreaks of Dragons in the old west, the emergence of haunted automobile in to the paranormal world, the notorious women in black all manner of terrorised towns! Kevin's websit...
1hr 35m Aug 18, 2025
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Mysteries and Monsters: Episode 360 The Lost Tribes of Bigfoot with Maxim Furek
In his latest book, Maxim Furek, a former psychologist and rock journalist, delves into the intriguing world of Bigfoot synchronicity, embracing interdimensional theories, mass hallucinations, and Jung's collective unconscious. Furek's dedication to the subject is evident in the hundreds of accounts from researchers who strive to answer the question, "If it's not flesh and blood, then what is ...
1hr 22m Aug 11, 2025
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Mysteries and Monsters: Episode 359 The Meadow Project with Trey Hudson
An alleged haunted road that proved to be a disappointment somehow led Trey Hudson and his team of investigators to stumble across an area of land that perplexed and intrigued them. This location, known as "The Meadow" quickly began to reveal some of its secrets and over the best part of the last decade, the team have recorded, reported and experiences numerous incidents of high strangeness, c...
1hr 24m Aug 04, 2025
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Mysteries and Monsters: Episode 358 Supernatural Lake Superior with Chad Lewis
Lake Superior has always had a magnetic power through the history of life in North America, drawing people to its shores and on its waves for millennia and this continue more so in the modern age. It would seem that it seems that the Lake even holds sway over those of a Fortean nature too, with strange creatures seen in its depths, mysterious disappearances, UFO sightings by the bucket load an...
1hr 23m Jul 28, 2025
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Mysteries and Monsters: Episode 357 The Can Sack Ghost with John Russell
John Russell returns to share more of the stories from his latest book, The Can Sack Ghost as he delves into some of the experiences he has been a part of throughout his life. Another bumper crop of paranormal stories take us from lost friends, to an unusual insect becoming more than a pest, haunted candy bowls and much more. John's books can be found here: (https://www.amazon.co.uk/stores/au...
1hr 31m Jul 25, 2025
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Mysteries and Monsters: Episode 356 Fortean TV Update with Stu Neville and Ruth Morris
This episode we catch up with the Fortean Times television reviewers Stu Neville and Ruth Morris to find out what they've been binging for their column and what shows they can't stop watching and which shows it is best to avoid! From Hauntings to High Strangeness, Celebrity fronted Folklore to UFOlogy failures, we look at some of the best new shows out there for the lovers of weird. You can c...
1hr 38m Jul 21, 2025
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Mysteries and Monsters: Episode 355 Co-Host of the Bigfoot Report podcast and author Tiffany Doran
On this episode, i welcome podcast co-host and author Tiffany Doran to the show. A lifelong passion for the strange and unusual has enabled Tiffany to be in a unique position of dealing with her partner's Bigfoot encounter along with a ghost that likes to make it's presence known by a variety of aroma's! We dive in to her love of cryptids, along with missing people, Dogman and much more. Tiff...
1hr 28m Jul 14, 2025
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Mysteries and Monsters: Episode 354 New Zealand's Haunted South Island with Mark Wallbank
We return to New Zealand to head to the southern island on the hunt for its haunted history. From haunted department stores, ghostly figures on bridges, ghost towns and pubs with an owner who still stays on, Mark Wallbank covers some of the locations in his latest book, Haunted South Island. (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Haunted-South-Island-Exploring-Paranormal/dp/B0DL4N5CP3/ref=sr_1_4?crid=1S16W3...
1hr 16m Jul 07, 2025
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Mysteries and Monsters: Episode 353 The Saucerian: The Unbelievable Life of Gray Barker with Gabriel Mckee
The early days of modern ufology seem to be a procession of characters, wild tales and messages from the stars most forgotten than the notable exceptions. Yet one man found his calling after reading the headlines about the Flatwoods Monster in his home town. Gray Barker found himself front and centre in the late 50s and 60s as his involvement in the UFO field spanned publishing, investigating,...
1hr 20m Jun 30, 2025
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Mysteries and Monsters: Episode 352 The Essential Guide to Mothman with Ken Gerhard
In his latest book, cryptozoologist Ken Gerhard looks in to a whole series of encounters with strange creatures who seem to be able to defy gravity against all common sense. From the legendary encounters with Mothman back in the mid 1960's, the fearsome Owlman lurking in Cornwall and Spring Heeled Jack terrorising Victorian London, these strange visitors seem to appear from nowhere and leave t...
1hr 1m Jun 23, 2025
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Mysteries and Monsters: Episode 351 The Case For The Afterlife with Chris Carter
Since the dawn of time, the question of what happens when we pass away has been a cornerstone of cultural development around the world and how we view ourselves and our place in the world. In his series of books, Chris Carter argues that the case for the afterlife is not some wishy washy dream or unsubstantiated belief but a tangible and very real reality that doesn't conform to religious or p...
1hr 14m Jun 16, 2025
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Mysteries and Monsters: Episode 350 Paul Sinclair
As we hit Episode 350, who better to welcome back to the show than Paul Sinclair to update on us his continuing investigations into high strangeness along the East Coast of Yorkshire and beyond. With some new cases and first hand encounters with unusual entities, vacuum's of fear and investigating locations of the back of them, we delve in to the strange events that seem to surprise even the m...
1hr 40m Jun 09, 2025
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Mysteries and Monsters: Episode 349 Something I Keep Upstairs with author J D Barker
On this episode, New York Times best selling thriller and supernatural mystery author J D Barker joins me to talk about his career so far, his influences and his new supernatural haunted house thriller, "Something I Keep Upstairs". With a devoted fan base and a body of work stretching back over a decade, J D discusses how he got this point in his life and his new book which features a fantasti...
59m Jun 06, 2025
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Mysteries and Monsters: Episode 348 Folklore Past, Present and Future with Dr David Clarke
It's a very warm welcome back to the show for Dr David Clarke as we dive in to his work he and his colleagues are undertaken as part of the Centre For Contemporary Legend and their upcoming National Folklore Survey. Before we get the the Folklore, David updates us about the current investigations he's involved with regarding the marvellous Calvine UFO case which you can read all about here: (h...
1hr 22m Jun 02, 2025
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Mysteries and Monsters: Episode 347 Enduring Mysteries with Christopher Bahn
The hook that got many of us into the strange can be found for many of us in a childhood experience. Be it a family story, a personal experience, a TV show or a book full of monsters, ghosts and aliens, the interest runs deep. In his new series of books, under the Enduring Mysteries banner, author Christopher Bahn tackles a variety of fortean mysteries aimed at the younger audience but clearly...
1hr 18m May 26, 2025
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Mysteries and Monsters: Episode 346 More These Haunted Times America with Ruth Roper Wylde
With her first audio-book hitting the internet, I'm delighted to welcome Ruth Roper Wylde back to the show to dive in to some more experiences covered in the latest book. With haunted houses in Ohio, an alleged haunted road that diverts many from the real the hauntings in Long Grove, Illinois and an urban myth lurking in the woods around Trumbull, Connecticut, Ruth and I discuss some rather un...
1hr 44m May 19, 2025
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Mysteries and Monsters: Episode 345 Bigfoot, Dogman and more with George Lunsford
We head down to the south east corner of the United States as I welcome author and researcher George Lunsford to the show to discuss some of the cryptids featured in his latest book - "Legends, Myths, Monsters and Ghosts of North America." We also discuss some of George's personal experiences in the field and his sightings of Bigfoot and some of the unusual events that seem to occur when attem...
1hr 21m May 12, 2025
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Mysteries and Monsters: Episode 344 Cowboys and Zombies with John LeMay
We head out in the old west in the company of our good friend John LeMay as we search out some legends and lore of the frontier states. From the blood chilling story of the Headless Horseman of Texas, some rather terrifying vampire babies, a real life vampire flap from 1938, a ghostly black dog haunting the byways of West Virginia and the queen of vengeful ghosts, La Llorona. A big thank you ...
1hr 14m May 05, 2025
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Mysteries and Monsters: Episode 343 The Bonnybridge UFO Enigma with Malcolm Robinson
In the early 1990's, the Scottish town of Bonnybridge found itself at the centre of world wide attention due to the area becoming a UFO hot spot. Hundreds of residents saw a variety of objects in the skies all across the area and it became a magnet for investigators and television crews from across the world. Two Scottish Ufologists, Ron Halliday and Malcolm Robinson, extensively researched th...
1hr 22m Apr 28, 2025
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Mysteries and Monsters: Episode 342 Yetis and Yerens with Dr Jeff Meldrum
It's a very warm welcome back to the ever knowledgeable and eloquent Dr Jeff Meldrum on this weeks episode. With his vast experience and knowledge in field of hominids from around the world, we discuss his involvement in cases featuring evidence and eye witnesses in regards to two overlooked members, the Himalayan Yeti and China's Yeren. Dr Meldrum shares some of the evidence and investigatio...
1hr 54m Apr 21, 2025
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Mysteries and Monsters: Episode 341 The United States of Cryptids with J.W. Ocker
On this episode, I'm delighted to welcome back author and fortean traveler, J W Ocker to head on a cryptid road trip around the United States. All American states have a local legend or cryptid or two that can often be overlooked thanks to some of the more well known monsters lurking in the shadows such as Bigfoot, Dogman and Champ of course. From the strange story of the Loveland Frogman, to...
1hr 22m Apr 14, 2025
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Mysteries and Monsters: Episode 340 Researcher and Investigator Steve Mera
On this episode I finally get a chance to speak with one of the most well known, experienced and thoughtful researchers in the fortean field as I welcome Steve Mera to the show. With a recent appearance on the last season of Unsolved Mysteries under his belt too, Steve has traveled the world chasing the weird. With decades of research and investigation under his belt, Steve has conducted count...
1hr 34m Apr 07, 2025
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Mysteries and Monsters: Episode 339 The Bridgeport Poltergeist with William J Hall
The town of Bridgeport, Connecticut saw one of the most remarkable poltergiest cases in the USA back in late 1974 that caused pandemonium in the local community. Crowds flocked to the house after the word spread causing the police to close off access for the public. Dismissed as a hoax by the Bridgeport Police Department after several days, the case seemingly solved and the crowds left. Yet, i...
1hr 25m Mar 31, 2025
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Mysteries and Monsters: Episode 338 Horror author Clay McLeod Chapman
On this episode I'm joined by horror author Clay McLeod Chapman to discuss his latest book, "Wake Up and Open Your Eyes". A chlling look at the potential for evil forces to be lurking in the electronic ether of social media and rolling news cycles, the book focuses us to comprehend just what could happen in this modern era of connectivity. Clay shares some of his passions as well as his favour...
1hr 9m Mar 28, 2025
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Mysteries and Monsters: Episode 337 Coal Region Hoodoo with Maxim Furek
In Coal Region Hoodoo, author and researcher Maxim Furek looks in to some of the Keystone's states strangest stories, events and legends. Pennyslyvania is a state that seems to have real mixture of high strangeness, weird history and notorious locations within its borders. From a notable UFO crash to a mine rescue with a difference, a town now sitting on burning earth to a serial kiler who he...
1hr 24m Mar 24, 2025
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Mysteries and Monsters: Episode 336 New Jersey Haunts with Nine Lives Paranormal
The Garden State awaits us on this episode as I'm joined by Cara Cilento from New Jersey's Nine Lives Paranormal. Her new book, co-authored with Gail Gamble takes us to some of their favourite haunted locations in their state along with some of its more dubious history. From haunted asylums to colleges, fields to cinema's, it seems there's plenty to discover in New Jersey. A big thank you to...
1hr 19m Mar 17, 2025
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Mysteries and Monsters: Episode 335 Pascagoula Uncovered with Philip Mantle
In his lastest book, Pascagoula Uncovered, Philip Mantle brings together a ream of newly published material in regards to one of the most striking alleged abduction cases of the late 20th century. The whole book is almost like a look back through time to see what happened that night in Pascagoula and how the events unfolded thereafter. And in a stunning revelation Calvin Parker recounts a prev...
1hr 40m Mar 10, 2025
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Mysteries and Monsters: Episode 334 Hidden Haunts England with W J Gilbert
I welcome back author and host of the Eerie Edinburgh You Tube channel, WJ Gilbert to dive in to some of the cases he has covered in the second volume of his hidden hauntes series, this time focussing on England. We look in some overlooked and forgotten cases with poltergeists, ghostly monks, the terrifying appariton of a murdered smuggler and a a castle that once was known as the most haunted...
1hr 41m Mar 03, 2025
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Mysteries and Monsters: Episode 333 Horror for Weenies with Emily C Hughes
Horror films have probably never been as popular at any point in the history of cinema as they are right now as the options to find them have increased massively. Yet for someone coming in to the genre, where on earth do you start from. It's a daunting prospect for someone completely fresh to the world of horror film. Thankfully, in Emily C Hughes new book "Horror For Weenies", we're given a c...
1hr 28m Feb 24, 2025
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Mysteries and Monsters: Episode 332 Urban Legends with Gail De Vos
We've all heard or seen stories over the years that people will swear happened to them or a friend of a friend which on face value seem strange and often weird but if we dig a little deeper, the facts become blurry. It seems it doesn't matter where you live in the world, you will have all heard an urban legend dressed up as a real incident, be it a spider living in your hair, to swallowing see...
1hr 29m Feb 17, 2025
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Mysteries and Monsters: Episode 331 These Haunted Times: America with Ruth Roper Wylde
This episode I welcome back Ruth Roper Wylde as her latest book, "These Haunted Times Volume 5: America" hits the shelves. We look at how Ruth has found liaising with experiencers in America and locating stories across the country, meeting all kinds of people dealing with a variety of hauntings. From haunted cemetries, a haunted home with a varied history to a bridge with a disturbing reputati...
2hr Feb 10, 2025
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Mysteries and Monsters: Episode 330 Searching for Champ with Katy Elizabeth
It's a warm welcome back to cryptozoologist Katy Elizabeth as we discuss her latest year of research up on lake Champlain and the echolocation recording caught last year. A frustrating year of interruptions and technical issues all fell away after Katy captured something remarkable in September 2024 and the analysis of the sound recordings seems to show a previously unkown type of vocalisation...
1hr 39m Feb 03, 2025
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Mysteries and Monsters: Episode 329 The Crying Tree and the Magic Rock with John Russell
It's a warm welcome back to our old friend John Russell to discuss some of the personal experiences and investigations he's shared in his latest book "The Crying Tree and the Magic Rock". We cover some of the cases included in the book, one of John's UFo encounters, along with some talking animal encounters, the abduction phenomena along with some of the predictions John gave on his annual New...
1hr 49m Jan 30, 2025
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Mysteries and Monsters: Episode 328 Aliens and the Apocalypse with Dr Irena Scott
We expend vast resources for this. Strangely, this does not seem strange. We look to several sources for understanding our past, which gives us clues about solving today’s problems, and the supernatural because it also is associated with our creation. Today supernatural communication, such as UAP, has increased so dramatically that even the US government has noticed and others discuss religious...
1hr 17m Jan 27, 2025
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Mysteries and Monsters: Episode 327 Foo Fighters of the Second World War with Graeme Rendall
The true story of the “Foo Fighters” goes back much earlier than 1944, involving RAF aircrew operating over Germany and Italy. The nicknames for what they encountered were different, but the phenomenon they witnessed was almost certainly the same. Mysterious lights, rockets and jets were reported on a regular basis, and many of these events are listed in the official records. These cases, plus...
1hr 16m Jan 20, 2025
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Mysteries and Monsters: Episode 326 The Search for the Caspian Tiger with Richard Freeman
Richard Freeman returns to the show on this episode as we discuss the recent Centre for Fortean Zoology expedition to Tajikistan on the search for one of the Euroasian mystery cats. The Caspian Tiger' (https://endangeredtigers.org/tiger-species/caspian-tiger/) s range used to encompass the land from Turkey in the west all the way across southern Asia to the western borders of China, but was sa...
1hr 21m Jan 13, 2025
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Mysteries and Monsters: Episode 325 Cult Following with J W Ocker
When we hear the world "cult" our minds often create an image of gullible people who lack the intelligence to understand they're being manipulated by someone who is not what they seem. Yet, the evidence suggests that this isn't the case, organistations change, purposes are hidden and often the truth is altered in such a way that often it is only when they reach their conclusions that the follo...
1hr 40m Jan 06, 2025
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Mysteries and Monsters: Episode 324: A Paranormal Box Of Tricks with John Fraser
I welcome back parapsychologist and author John Fraser as we discuss his latest book, One Big Paranormal Box Of Tricks. In the book, John reflects on the motivations for his involvement in paranormal research from an early age, less of a life story, the book is presented as a meditation on what the paranomal may mean for us. You can find the book here: (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Paranormal-Per...
1hr 25m Dec 30, 2024
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Mysteries and Monsters: Episode 323 In Search of Demons with Richard Estep
I'm delighted to welcome back author, investigator and a contributor to dozens of paranormal television shows, Richard Estep back to the show. In his latest book, In Search of Demons, he hits the road to interview people in regards to one of the most decisive topics in the paranormal and hears from sceptics, believers, investigators, magicians, bishops, exorcists and more. A balanced and info...
1hr 12m Dec 23, 2024
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Mysteries and Monsters: Episode 322 American Strangeness with Kevin J Guhl
Thunderbird myths have been with us for millennia and span the entire continent. From tales spoken by Native Americans and First Nations peoples, to the far flung corners of Asia, the stories of gigantic birds are ingrained in to our history. Joining me to discuss the Thunderbird,the missing photo, lost treasures, strange UFO's and mysterious monsters is author and researcher Kevin J Guhl. Ke...
1hr 44m Dec 16, 2024
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Mysteries and Monsters: Episode 321 Illusions: Smoke and Mirrors of the ET Agenda with Ronald Kinsella
In this book, Ronald Kinsella questions the validity of a number of alien, UFO and cryptid reports which range from the unusual, to the very bizarre, throughout the world. This interrogation is not based on their authenticity, rather, questioning a much darker aspect to their origins and of a seemingly fragmented phenomenon. We discuss the possibilities of one force perhaps being behind all ma...
1hr 48m Dec 14, 2024
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Mysteries and Monsters: Episode 320 Beware the Banshee's Cry with Steven J Rolfes
From deities like the Morrigan to death-related beings such as the Doppelganger, Steven J. Rolfes examines what banshees are and how they have captivated humanity for centuries. We discuss some spine chilling encounters and reports of encounters with the Banshee as well as some of the other messengers of death from around the world. You can find Steven's book here: (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Be...
1hr 21m Dec 09, 2024
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Mysteries and Monsters: Episode 319 Fortune In Your Hands with Alaric Albertsson
We enter the world of divination and tarot this week with author and reader Alaric Albertsson who guides us into the world of reading through a standard set of playing cards. For many, a normal pack of cards was more than sufficient to enable seers and those attuned to receiving messages to find guidance in the past until Tarot took hold in the late 19th centrury. With a history shrouded in m...
1hr 33m Dec 02, 2024
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Mysteries and Monsters:Episode 318 Sightseeing With Aliens with Insha Fitzpatrick
We set our eyes on the skies this episode as I welcome back author Insha Fitzpatrick to the show. The latest installment in the "Totally Factual Field Guide" series sees Insha sighseeing with aliens. From alien encounters in cinema to the disturbing cases of alien abdution, the mystery of exoplanets and Quatermass, we ponder our place in the universe. Insha's books can be found here: (https:...
1hr 40m Nov 25, 2024
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Mysteries and Monsters: Episode 317 UK Haunted Hospitality with Dr. Paul Lee
Author and paranormal researcher Dr Paul Lee joins me on this week's show to discuss his work in cataloguing the numerous haunted pubs, bars and hotels in the United Kingdom. We discuss the essence of hauntings, history, the over-reliance on gadgets over more practical methods and more. Dr Lee's site is here: (https://paullee.com/) His books are here: (https://www.amazon.co.uk/stores/author/...
1hr 35m Nov 18, 2024
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Mysteries and Monsters: Episode 316 Hidden Haunts Scotland with W J Gilbert
A journey around some of Scotland's lesser known ghosts is on the menu today as author and host of the Eerie Edinburgh YouTube channel joins me. We delve in to the dark story of Major Thomas Weir, Deacon Brodie, a forgotten haunted house and a distinctive haunted car and much more this episode You find his books here: (https://www.amazon.co.uk/s?i=stripbooks&rh=p_27%3AW.J.+Gilbert&s=relevance...
1hr 20m Nov 11, 2024
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Mysteries and Monsters: Episode 315 The Lake Worth Monster with Lyle Blackburn
This week, I am delighted to welcome back Lyle Blackburn to the show to cover one the Lone Star state's most infamous cryptid cases. The Lake Worth Monster cases erupted in that hot summer of 1969 which left dozens of witnesses baffled, locals forming monster hunting posse's and a slew of strange characters claiming they were responsible. Lyle also discuss the curious case of the Cowman of Co...
1hr 18m Nov 04, 2024
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Mysteries and Monsters: Episode 314 My Haunted Life Part Two with Ruth Roper Wylde
In the second part of our converstation, Ruth tells us more about some the unusual events in here life, including some rather hair raising Ouija encounters, strange natural phenomena and sneak preview in to her new book, These Haunted Times Volume 5! Ruths books can be found here: (https://www.amazon.co.uk/s?k=ruth+roper+wylde+books&rh=n%3A266239&dc&ds=v1%3AN%2F3NBdf%2BMaGeeDCtKH5MRwtLE3qwI8vY...
1hr 11m Oct 30, 2024
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