Cherrywood Podcast

In 1932, Australia declared war… on emus. Yes, real soldiers, machine guns, and strategy — all deployed against a flock of giant, flightless birds. What followed was one of history’s most absurd battles: the Great Emu War. In this Cherrywood Conspiracy Files deep dive, we explore how thousands of emus outsmarted the Australian army, why the government got involved, and the strange theories that ha...

Have you ever walked through a seaside amusement park and wondered if the dusty attractions have stories hidden behind them? In 1976, a TV crew filming The Six Million Dollar Man stumbled upon a shocking truth: what they thought was a mannequin was actually the mummified remains of an outlaw who had died more than 65 years earlier. This is the macabre tale of Elmer McCurdy, a bungling bandit whose...

You ever get the feeling you weren’t meant to die yet? From childhood accidents that should have left scars, to cars that refused to start until danger had passed, to narrowly missing a terrorist attack at Parliament… Simon Burridge’s life has been marked by impossible escapes. Some call it luck. Others call it fate. But what if there’s something else at play — a hidden system woven into reality i...

Have you ever thought of someone only for them to message you the same day? Hummed an old song and then heard it play hours later in a random café? These moments feel like fate. But what if they’re not? In this eerie and mind-bending episode of The Cherrywood Conspiracy Files, we dive deep into the theory that coincidences in your life are not coincidences at all—but the result of an artificial in...

Meet Jackie Rickard, the live wedding artist behind Bouquet of the Day — she paints your bouquet during the wedding and gets your guests involved in the first layer. We talk acrylics, roses, timelapses, teaching, exhibitions, and why venues need great rainy-day plans. If you enjoy this, please like, comment, and subscribe — and tell us which UK wedding venues you want us to feature next!🎧 Listen/...

Welcome back to the Cherrywood Podcast! This week Simon & Rachel are joined (for the third time – a record!) by the brilliant LKG Trio. We dive into:🎶 The making of their new single Black & White and the chaotic music video shoot.🥁 Why the band now has 17 drummers.🕷️ Spiders, spinning doors, spinning dresses (and spinning stories).🍞 Emergency bread, fake taxidermists & crashing fune...

A perfect black hole appeared near the South Pole on Google Earth. Then… it vanished. Operation Highjump, Nazi bases, GPS blackouts, secret treaties, ancient cities, even alien tech — is there something beneath the Antarctic ice we're not supposed to see? In this gripping episode of the Cherrywood Conspiracy Files, we dig into the mysteries surrounding Antarctica and ask: What if the hole wasn’t a...

An entire English colony... gone without a trace. No blood. No bodies. Just a single word carved into a tree: Croatoan. What really happened to the Roanoke settlers? Were they slaughtered, assimilated—or did they disappear into something far stranger? Join us as we uncover eerie clues, dark theories, and strange coincidences that link Roanoke to other unexplained vanishings. From Amelia Earhart to...

Under the quiet fields of Kent lies something hidden. Not myths. Not rumours. Structures. Facilities. Concrete chambers and sealed tunnels from the Cold War and beyond—some abandoned, some still humming with life. In this mind-bending episode of the Cherrywood Conspiracy Files, Simon and Rachel take you deep beneath the Garden of England to uncover a chilling possibility: that Kent’s Cold War bunk...

You're driving home at midnight. Fog rolls in. Then you see her—white dress, no shoes, standing in the road. You slam the brakes. She vanishes. This is the story of Blue Bell Hill, one of the UK’s most chilling and persistent ghost sightings. A tragic crash in 1965. A bride who never made it to the altar. And reports—still to this day—of a woman in white appearing to drivers, asking for a lift, or...

What if the Earth isn’t a museum of history… but a hard drive? A planet that deletes, recycles, and reboots itself again and again. Civilisations could have risen and fallen millions—even billions—of years ago, leaving no trace. Fossils are rare. Stone crumbles. Oceans swallow cities. Volcanoes melt monuments. And tectonic plates drag everything back into the mantle. In this epic Cherrywood Conspi...

In this gripping episode of the Cherrywood Conspiracy Files, we explore one of Kent’s most overlooked UFO encounters: the mysterious events of December 12th, 1971 in the village of Shorne. A farmer’s tractor died. A couple’s car stalled. Dogs howled. Lights hovered. Phones went down. And RAF Manston denied everything. Was it weather? Venus? Or something not of here? Over 50 years later, we return...

Dedicated to our mate Grant Hood from the Gold Coast — a Cherrywood Podcast superfan who’s listened since day one. This one’s for you, legend. In Queensland, just inland from the Sunshine Coast, rise the eerie volcanic peaks known as the Glass House Mountains. They're striking, unnatural, and according to ancient Aboriginal legend… sacred. But what if they’re more than just mountains? In this...

Have you ever wondered if parts of the Bible were deliberately erased? Not lost by time, but buried because of what they revealed? In this episode of the Cherrywood Conspiracy Files, we open one of the most controversial texts ever written: The Book of Enoch.📜 It tells of:Angels called the Watchers who broke their oath. Their giant offspring, the Nephilim, who devoured mankind. Ancient forbidden...

Over 200 million kilometres away lies a planet we thought we knew: cold, lifeless, silent. But in 1984, the CIA handed a psychic an envelope and told him to “see” what was there — a million years ago. What he described defied science:• Towering pyramids• Tall, intelligent beings• A dying civilisation• An escape to a lush new world…This wasn’t fiction. It came from a real declassified CIA document....

It’s one of the best-kept secrets in UK sport – there’s a thriving baseball community right here in Kent! In this epic episode of the Cherrywood Podcast, Simon and Rachel finally sit down with Chris and Lou from the Kent Baseball Club to uncover the unexpected world of British baseball.⚾ From team rivalries and unusual training setups to breaking down complicated rules and sharing hilarious injur...

🕵️‍♂️ Welcome back to Cherrywood Conspiracy Files—where we don’t do hot takes, we ask the hard questions. In this episode, we delve into the final moments of Ayrton Senna, the legendary F1 driver whose death shook motorsport—and the world. From cold tires and modified steering columns to political cover-ups and Italian legal strategy, we explore every conspiracy and technical theory.#AyrtonSenna #...

In one of the most brilliantly chaotic and hilarious episodes to date, Simon and Rachel are joined by real-life couple Becky from Louisa London Photography and Amanda from Novo Lounge / Novo Music Events for a raw, unfiltered, and unforgettable conversation. From Becky’s unbelievable tales as an RSPCA inspector (including that skin bag story) to Amanda’s music career and the birth of Novo Lounge,...

👽 Aliens. A crash. A cover-up. And a town that’s never forgotten. In 1996, the Brazilian city of Varginha became the epicentre of a story so strange it’s been called "Brazil’s Roswell."Witnesses claimed to see creatures, military trucks, and even alien bodies taken away. But was it real? And why did the Brazilian military shut it all down?#VarginhaIncident, #CherrywoodPodcast, #aliencoverup 0:00...

In this unplanned and unforgettable episode of the Cherrywood Podcast, Simon and Rachel are joined by a surprise host—their 9-year-old son, Ted Buridge! With our original guest unable to make it, we let Ted take the reins, and chaos (and cuteness) ensues. From karate warm-ups and becoming a CIT (Certified Instructor Trainee), to Eurovision obsessions and haunting each other as ghosts, it’s a wild,...

What if a golden chest built 3,000 years ago holds the key to everything? Power. Death. Divinity. Radiation. Is the Ark of the Covenant buried beneath Jerusalem, hidden in Ethiopia… or locked away in a secret vault? Welcome back to the Cherrywood Conspiracy Files. I’m just some random guy filling in while Simon and Rachel Burridge are out filming more beautiful stories for their company www.cherry...

Today’s guest is Dave Brazier, one of the most in-demand saxophonists on the UK wedding scene. From playing the bride down the aisle to leading late-night sax-and-DJ parties, Dave has built a full-time solo career that mixes performance, business savvy, and bulletproof gear prep.🎷 In this episode:00:00 – Intro: Meet Dave Brazier01:00 – From clarinet to sax: how it all started08:30 – Why wedding s...

A man goes missing at sea. Declared dead. Mourned. Buried in memory. Then, 5 years later, he walks into a police station alive… claiming amnesia. But that was just the beginning. In Episode 7 of The Cherrywood Conspiracy Files, we unravel the incredible true tale of John Darwin, the British man who faked his death in a canoe accident, lived in secret behind a hidden wall, and eventually vanished a...

Imagine three men stationed at a remote lighthouse… and then, nothing. No bodies. No distress calls. Just a stopped clock, a half-sliced loaf of bread, and a creeping silence that still haunts the waves more than 120 years later. In this gripping episode of The Cherrywood Conspiracy Files, our mysterious narrator dives deep into the true story of the Flannan Isles lighthouse keepers, whose sudden...

In 1855, Devon awoke to a nightmare in the snow. A single line of mysterious hoofprints stretched over 100 miles—across rivers, over rooftops, and straight through locked doors. No creature could have made them. No hoaxer could have covered that much ground. Even now, science can’t explain what happened.🔥 In this episode of The Cherrywood Conspiracy Files, we unravel the eerie mystery of The Devi...