Mysteries and Monsters

On this week's show, its a warm welcome back to one of my most popular guests, Ron Morehead. Ron appeared way back on Episode 21 back in 2019 but that show still gets downloads to this day. Ron and catch up with his research and current investigations, discussing some possible theories about what could possible behind some of the phenomena alongside some more audio files from those fateful expedit...

For many, one incident brought the UFO topic into the mainstream and even over 70 years later, people can't get enough of it. Of course I am refering to the Roswell incident.   July 1947 saw strange reports hit the press, then an official retraction and it seemed the case died down until the late 1970s saw the case re-ignited, primarily by Jesse Marcel who had decided to come clean about the event...

#Occasional Bad Language Warning#  I joined Eamonn and Rob over on Monster Fuzz this week to discuss a variety of subjects from serial killers, Irish ghosts, horror films, living in a haunted house, crazy cryptids and answering the big question, who would I think would win in a fight between Bigfoot and the Dogman.  A big thank you to Monster Fuzz for having me on the show! #Ghosts #Wexford #ABCs...

This week, I am joined by author and West End Stage manager Nick Bromley to delve back into the world of the Paranormal on the hunt for haunted theatres!  Nick's book, "Stage Ghosts and Haunted Theatres" is a marvellous collection of first hand accounts of paranormal events drawn from theatres across the United Kingdom.  Nick and I battled through an ironic thunderstorm during our interview to dis...

This week, its a warm welcome to the host of the marvellous Monstrosity Podcast, David Race. His show mixes pop culture with cryptozoology and a dash of the paranormal with guests from the world of film, TV and music rubbing shoulders with some of the premier investigators in the world including Matt Moneymaker, Linda Godfrey and more.  We discuss some of his favourite guests including Burt Ward f...

On this week's show we return to the world of cryptozoology in the company of author and researcher, Kenney W Irish. Kenney's recently released his book "American Cryptids:  In Pursuit Of The Elusive Creatures" through Beyond the Fray publishing and offers us an overview of the strange creatures and cryptids in every one of the US's 50 states. Each chapter covers a Bigoot sighting or cryptid encou...

On today’s show, author and investigator Anna Marie Manalo joins me to discuss her re-released and updated book, Portal: A Lifetime of Paranormal Experiences. Anna has been a supporter of the show, so it was lovely to have her back on to discuss Portal on Mysteries and Monsters. Portal is a book of two parts, the first focuses on a family in the Philippines who have become the unwitting tether to...

Marilyn Monroe is an icon of our time, despite passing away prematurely in August 1962. Her death has atttracted investigation since that time, with many inconsitencies in the official reports, missing personal items and dangerous personal liaisons with JFK and his brother Robert.  Yet, one aspect of her life seemed to remain hidden until rumours of President Kennedy's knowledge of secret UFO inve...

Haunted houses always attract my attention and my guest today has had the misfortune of finding himself living in two.  PatrickMeechan's two books, "Nightmare in Holmes County" and "220 Fith Street", cover both of these unusual, scary and disturbing situations he found himself in.  Patrick, talks us through some of the events that surrounded himself, his family and his pets and how he facing two v...

Joining me on this week's show is the marvellous Scottish parapsychologist, Evelyn Hollow. Many people will have heard Evelyn as one of the main contributors to the Battersea Poltergeist Podcast on BBC Radio 4 earlier this year.  Evelyn joins me to discuss the show, poltergeist cases, why some sceptical explanations are bad science, her personal haunted history and we also touch on cursed and haun...

On this week's show we welcome back Carl Marshall from the Centre of Fortean Zoology back to the show as we dive into the wide world of Cryptozoology and the methods utilised in the field.  From Sea Serpents to the Kraken, Giant Hogs to Pizzlies, Bigfoot to Mystery Black Cats, we cover a whole spectrum of mysterious creatures and land and in the sea to investigate the possibilities of cryptids aro...

This week, we dive into a topic we've never covered before and one that comes with plenty of controversy, Crop Circles.    Since they exploded into the public consciousness in the late 1980s, they've been debunked, ridiculed and explained as the work of two men. Yet can two men really be responsible for every agrglyph found in the UK? What about the ones outside of the UK? Can we ignore the witnes...

It's a welcome return to the search for Bigfoot with the wonderful Amy Bue. Amy has made a name for herself in the last decade as a diligent, humble and driven researcher in the field of cryptozoology.    Since witnessing a strange creature whilst driving in Ohio ten years ago, Amy has dedicated herself to push the boundaries of her knowledge in the subject.   Amy has brought a refreshing realism...

Possession is something that for many of us, seems too incredible to contemplate, to outlandish to even consider or maybe to frightening to accept as real. Throuhgout the ages, such cases often become notorious and many of them have become well known yet one seems to have slipped through the cracks, the case of Elizabeth Knapp. What makes this case all more suprising is that it was meticilously re...

This week, our good friend Richard Freeman re-joins us to discuss the history of Dragons, a creature that has haunted humanity's dreams since time began. From Asia to Australia, Europe to the America's, tales of Dragons go back centuries, yet even in this modern era, people are incrdibly still claiming to see Dragons. Richard takes us through the history of Dragons, the different types and the sto...

This week, it is a warm welcome back to Australian fortean researcher Tony Heal who takes us a on a globe trotting monster hunt. Tony opens his files from 50 years of research and investigation to cover a country whose cryptids are hardly known of, New Zealand. Tony takes on the search for tales of the Moehau, the islands own hairy man, the fearsome Taniwha, which inhabits waterways, the towering...

It's a warm welcome back to Canadian paranormal researcher, investigator, lecturer and author Morgan Knudsen.    Morgan is well known to anyone who watches Paranormal 911 and Haunted Hospitals on Discovery as well as growing reputation in the field of paranormal research.   With a slant on what can cause a haunting, we discuss a variety of topics in the search for the reality behind hauntings.   ...

David Weatherly's 5th book in his expanding State Monsters series takes us to one of the original 13 colonies, North Carolina, a state close to David's heart as he grew up here.    The Tar Heel state may not have the reputation of the some the USA's more notable cryptid hotbeds but you only have to mention the infamous case of the Beast of Bladenboro for people to take notice.   What is it about N...

This week, I'm joined by American psychic and paranormal investigator John Russell from his home in Florida. John has been immersed in the paranormal since an encounter as a small boy in his family home in Texas.  A ghostly visitor awakened John's interest and his life has embraced his interest and experiences ever since. As his abilities developed, John sought to understand what this all meant an...

We all love a good monster mystery and some stand out from the majority either because they were so weird, so unusual or simply arrived and disappeared in a short space of time.    From the Dover Demon, to the Enfield Horror and one of my favourites, the Fresno Nightcrawler, unique cryptids are rarely spotted as rarely as these guys.   One of the weirdest also occured in the little town of Van Met...

After two years, we finally tackle the UK's most famous cryptid in the company of Ken Gerhard. Ken has recently released his latest book "The Essential Guide To Loch Ness and other Aquatic Cryptids" and we dive into the history of Nessie since she first came to the media's attention in 1933.    We cover some of the famous early sightings, THAT photo, the famous cryptozoologists who have joined the...

It's been a while since we dove into the world of Folklore but when you have an area steeped in unusual legends, mysteries and of course, monsters on your doorstep its hard to resist. Author and researcher, Charles Christian joins me today to examine the weird and wonderful history of an area known as the Wold Newton Triangle, an area hardly known in the UK, never mind Yorkshire. The Wold Newton t...

This week I'm joined by author, investigator, filmaker and presenter Jason Hewlett to discuss his career in the world of the paranormal.    Jason has recently released "I Want to Believe" in conjuction with investigator Peter Renn through Beyond The Fray publishing. With a long interest in the paranormal, Jason's journey has taken him via film school and a decade in journalism to being part of the...

We return to the world of the paranormal this week in the company of writer, presenter and producer, Danny Robins. Danny's latest project is diving into a Poltergeist case that caused national headlines back in the mid 1950s but seemed to have dropped off the paranormal radar until a decade ago.    In January 1956, 63 Whycliffe Road saw the arrival of one of the most active poltergeist cases in Br...

June 1977 and two USAF EMT's have decided to spend a weekend camping in the Devil's Den State Park in Arkansas.   What was supposed to be a fun trip for two best friends to take in some wildlife and admire the clear night sky became a terrifying night that changed lives and relationship forever.    On this week's Mysteries and Monsters, I am joined by author and experiencer Terry Lovelace to discu...