Wyrd Wessex

In this episode, Craig and Andy dive into the early, creeping hauntings of Borley Rectory—a location once dubbed "the most haunted house in England." Before the infamous Marianne Foyster era brought absolute chaos to the blue room, the Rectory spent decades quietly accumulating strangeness under the Bull family and the brief, chaotic tenure of Eric Smith. We explore how Britain's pre...

Andy and Craig return for a special edition of AfterWyrd to dissect a major development in one of the Isle of Wight’s most bizarre modern legends: Sam the Sandown Clown. Following up on their previous discussions and their recent interview with folklorist Paul A. T. Wilson at the Strange Days Festival, the Wyrdo co-hosts dive into new research sent in by a listener. They explore the findings from...

Broadcasting live from the final night of Strange Days Festival, Craig and Andy are running on absolute empty, a questionable amount of coffee, and pure festival adrenaline. Between nonsensical theories on koalas, farts, and untrustworthy hippos. To mark the end of a wild weekend, they draw two tarot cards live on air to seal their fate: The Lovers (prompting a very necessary, very tired debate on...

In the fifth and final instalment of our live coverage from the Strange Days Festival, Craig and Andy wrap up an incredible weekend of high strangeness. We sit down with Fortean Times TV critics Stu and Ruth Neville to discuss British folk horror, low-key hauntings, and a terrifying kitchen-dwelling shadow figure. Festival organiser Matt Page drops by to debrief on the weekend's highlights, follow...

Featureless doppelgängers on dark roads, a 7-foot blonde-hating entity at Tudor World, phantom calls on disconnected payphones, and the morality of paranormal YouTube. Andy and Craig are back backstage at the Strange Days Festival for Part 4 of our special coverage! We’re sitting down with an incredible lineup of researchers, ghost tour hosts, and paranormal creators to explore local high-strangen...

Recorded on location at the Strange Days Festival, Craig and Andy host a massive festival special featuring an incredible lineup of Fortean guests: folklorist Paul A.T. Wilson, researcher Matt Williams ( The Secret Vault ), author Ben Stockman, Steve Wills (Warminster UFO Group), and James from  Loremen  podcast. Together, they dive deep into high strangeness, underground military bases,...

A terrifying sonic UFO abduction over the Wiltshire fields, Himalayan Yeti hunting, elite cloning theories, and multi-billion-year-old alien transmissions. Andy and Craig are back backstage at the Strange Days Festival for Part 2 of our special coverage! We’re sitting down with an incredible lineup of researchers, artists, cryptid hunters, and comedians to explore local high-strangeness, global co...

Recorded live on-site at the Strange Days Festival 2026, Craig and Andy sit down with Peter and Ben, hosts of The Quantum Mechanics Podcast. What was planned as a quick ten-minute catch-up expands into a deep dive on navigating the middle ground between total belief and complete skepticism. The group discusses the origins of The Quantum Mechanics, the challenges of podcast discoverability, and why...

In this episode of AfterWyrd, Andy and Craig catch up after a brief hiatus filled with hammock mishaps, bruised ribs, and an unexpected plunge into the waters of Glastonbury’s White Spring. The Wyrdos dive deep into the latest strange stories, local mysteries, and fringe news breaking across the globe: Bigfoot Hoax Busting: Following up on the "Snake" Whiteley decaying carcass claims and the unive...

Before Ed and Lorraine Warren, there was Harry Price. He was the most famous ghost hunter of the 20th century... so why was he using bat blood to turn a live goat into a handsome prince? In 1932, at midnight on a foggy German mountain peak, 42 photographers, 73 journalists, and a full sound crew gathered to watch a young woman in a white dress recite Latin incantations over a bowl of bat blood. Th...

In 1931, deep in the isolated windswept hills of Doarlish Cashen on the Isle of Man, the Irving family found themselves sharing their farmhouse with something completely unexplainable. It wasn't a standard ghostly whisper—it was a screeching, high-pitched voice two octaves above human range reading the daily news from inside the wall panelling, hunting over 200 rabbits for dinner, and casually dro...

For centuries, the old ways of these islands weren’t written down—they were carried in song, poetry, and myth. Today, that tradition is alive and well. In this episode, we sit down with David Smith, better known as Damh the Bard (and yes, we explain how to pronounce it!). From his 15 years as Pendragon of the Order of Bards, Ovates, and Druids (OBOD) to weaving Welsh myth into acoustic folk, Damh...

In this episode of AfterWyrd, Craig and Andy break down the week's strangest stories. Featuring a special check-in with stone carver Toby to dismantle some dubious academic claims about historical protection marks, alongside tales of high-altitude hounds, profound out-of-body encounters, a tracking-collared rogue elephant in Nepal, and Count Binface's hilarious local election manifesto for Clacton...

In this episode, Craig and Andy head to Oxfordshire's ancient Ridgeway to explore one of England's most haunted landscapes—from Farringdon churchyard where a headless ghost still patrols, to the Uffington White Horse that inspired Tolkien, and finally Wayland's Smithy, where an invisible blacksmith once shoed horses for pennies. What starts as a folklore walk quickly turns into something stranger,...

Welcome back to WyrdLore, our bonus series dedicated to the strange tales, local legends, and folklore that are just too "Wyrd" for the main show. In this episode, Andy and Craig travel out to the treacherous, wave-lashed waters twenty miles west of the Marloes Peninsula to uncover the grim and haunting history of the Smalls Lighthouse. Back in the autumn of 18th-century Britain, this wasn't the s...

In this episode of Wyrd Wessex, we sit down with Matt, the director of Area 51, to peel back the layers of one of the UK’s most unique gatherings: The Strange Days Festival. Hosted at the legendary Barge Inn in Honey Street, this weekend-long celebration on the Kennet and Avon Canal has become a vital hub for the Fortean community. Matt takes us behind the scenes of creating immersive, "shit-scary...

Welcome back to AfterWyrd where we dive into the anomalies, the unexplained, and the unsettling stories that were just too "Wyrd" for the main show. ]This week, we confront the strange reality of modern science and ancient folklore. From the disturbing pattern of researchers vanishing after experiments involving quantum matter, to the "data rot" causing AI chatbots to hallucinate the same fictiona...

Join Craig as he leaves the comfort of the studio behind for a special live recording from the stunning Peak District. Amidst the magic and folklore swirling around the festival grounds, this episode captures the raw energy of Solskin, featuring intimate conversations on shamanism, Celtic mythology, and the supernatural. Between teaching butchery and cooking over open fires, Craig sat down with fa...

Welcome back to WyrdLore, our bonus series dedicated to the strange tales, local legends, and folklore that are just too "Wyrd" for the main show. In this episode, Andy and Craig tackle the classic global folk motif known as "The Endless Tale." We meet a powerful king who offers his beautiful daughter's hand in marriage to any suitor who can tell a story that never ends—though the penalty for fail...

The 2026 season has brought new formations to the Wiltshire landscape, but the mystery of the "crop circle" didn't start in the 1980s. Long before the modern era of drones and sophisticated land art, people were finding strange, circular depressions in their fields—and they were blaming everything from cyclonic winds to the Devil himself. In this episode, Craig explores the long, bizarre history o...

Welcome to AfterWyrd, the show where we sort through the odd little bits, strange stories, and global eccentricities that don’t quite make the main episodes. Fresh off a grueling vocal session that has left our voices in absolute tatters from doing silly accents, Craig and Andy reunite to break down a massive backlog of unhinged headlines. We dive straight into the tragic breaking news out of Derb...

In this episode, Craig and Andy head to the ancient, iconic landscape of the Avebury Stone Circle for the "Weird Wessex" showcase—a gathering of local artists, musicians, and storytellers celebrating the high strangeness of the West Country. What starts as a stroll through the stones quickly turns into a deep dive into the living, breathing folklore of the region, packed with everything from medie...

Welcome to another instalment of the Wyrd Wessex Book Club! This month, we’re peeling back the layers of mythology and identity as we dive into Queer as Folklore by Sasha Coward. We’ve been an "extended book club" for a long time here, but it’s been a joy to formalise these monthly gatherings with our Discord members Rosie and Terrie. This month’s pick was recommended by Rosie, and it’s safe to sa...

What happens when you don't fit into the "neat and orderly" versions of history taught in schools? You go underground. You find your truth in the stories, the monsters, and the high strangeness that society tries to ignore. In this episode, Craig sits down with historian and author  Sasha Coward  ( Queer as Folklore ) to map out the hidden, queer roots of our favourite myths. We’re explo...

In this episode Craig and Andy head slightly north to explore the modern urban legends, liminal spaces, and paranormal hotspots of Milton Keynes. We are joined by paranormal researcher, writer, and photographer Dr. Steph Lay, who spent over two decades at the Open University before turning her analytical eye toward the city's haunted shadows. With a diploma in parapsychology and a PhD specialising...