Mysteries and Monsters

This week, I'm joined by author and researcher Andy McGrath. We discuss a number of notable cryptids from around the world and hear about his recent visit up to Loch Ness. From Bigfoot to the Yeren, Megaliths to the paranormal, we dive in to several subjects and chew the fat about reasearch, exploration and the percieved rules for exploration. We also touch on his series currently being filmed, We...

In his latest book, "Humanoids and High Strangeness", Preston Dennett has collected 20 incredible encounters that show us that the subject of alien contact can often be even stranger than we imagine. From a child encountering a Grey riding a bike, to a werewolf playing peek a boo and hiding in closets to families being taken on board, there seems to be nothing too far out there that experiencers e...

We head out to discover a cryptid we've never covered before in the company of our good friend Richard Freeman. The Gul of Tajikistan is a hairy bipedal hominid that has been seen for centuries across this mountainous land locked central Asian republic and has a reputation for violent encounters across the region. Richard tells us about the two expeditions he's undertaken with colleagues from the...

In her seventh book, Ruth has once again collated a bumper crop of modern day ghostly encounters from across the British Isles in These Haunted Times volume III. Ruth is fascinated particularly by finding correlations - where more than one person has seen the same or similar thing in the same location, or where multiple people experience different things but again in the same place. We visit a sel...

Every paranormal investigator has one location that brings out the goosebumps whenever they think of it. For Daryl Marston it was the notorious House of Wills, a former funeral home in Cleveland, Ohio. What occured during his investigation stayed with him for far longer than he imagined and made him re-evaluate everything he thought he knew about himself and the paranormal. Daryl takes us through...

We take a journey in to the other side on this episode as we look into some notable characters from the golden age of spiritualism, a haunted cemetery or two and the strange wourld of seances contacting departed celebrities. Joining us to act as our guide in to the other side is writer, paranormal historian, lecturer and lover of all things gothic, Dr Kate Cherrell! From spirit cupboards to vampir...

We head beneath the waves to uncover the reality of one of the most fearsome predators to swim in the ocean, the Megalodon.  Yet is it the swift, surface breaching killing machine we often see potrayed on screen? Not so says Max Hawthorne and he's built a compelling case to show that most of what we think we know about these incredible creatures is nothing more than speculation and fantasy.  From...

John Olsen is the creative force and author behind the marvellous Stranger Bridgerland series of books that will send a shiver down your spine, whatever your paranormal poison is. The series has collected hundreds of first hand accounts of encounters with Ghosts, UFO's, cryptids, time slips and much, much more. In the latest book, Stranger World, John includes stories from around the world for the...

We head to the state known as the Land of Enchantment in the company of John Lemay to discuss his magnum opus focusing on the incredibly rich history of witchcraft in New Mexico. A book full to the brim with historical accounts from the arrival of the Spanish in the early 17th century to the area, newspaper reports, tribal lore and indigenous legends, John has created a work for anyone who loves h...

On October 11th 1973, two friends were planning on spending a warm autumn evening with a spot of fishing near their workplace. Neither of them could imagine what would occur that night, when rather than catching fish, it seems something decided to catch them. Over the last few years, Philip Mantle along with his co-author Dr Irena Scott have discovered a realm of supporting information that has ma...

I welcome back author Insha Fitzpatrick to discuss the second book in the Totally Supernatural series, Chilling with Ghosts. We talk about the paranoraml elephants in the room when dealing ghosts - grief and death - and how Insha approached discussing these aspects of the paranormal for a young adult audience. There's haunted houses, classic scary movies and Insha's favourite cases before we dive...

It's a warm welcome back to our good friend John Russell as his third book, 20 Ways To Increase Your Psychic Abilities hits the shelves across the globe. We discuss the negative potrayal of the paranormal on television, US Government programmes such as MK Ultra and Project Stargate as well Scrying, Psycometry, Ouija and a ghost story that will warm your heart. John's latest book is here: His faceb...

Imagine growing up in the east of london in the 1970s and have a variety of experiences that nobody can help you with. A child trying to comprehend just who are these strange visitors, what do they want and why have they chose him. Michael Kameron joins me today to discuss some of these events contained his first book, High Strangeness: A Lifetime Of Alien and Paranormal encounters. A big thank yo...

In our second part of Episode 250, I'm delighted to welcome back my good friend Paul Sinclair to the show. With the long awaited documentary Wolf Lands finally being released on Amazon Prime, Paul discusses some of the witness accounts from the film, along with a whole slew of strange reports and events covering a wide range of phenomena. We look at strange deaths, experiences of the Oz Factor, Bl...

In the first part of the 250th episode special, I'm delighted to welcome back the ever popular Ruth Roper-Wylde to discuss some of her new encounters covered in the upcoming release of These Haunted Times Volume III. None of the stories have seen the light of day prior to our conversation and we've strange occurences reported from Finland, South Africa and the UK. You can find Ruth's work here: A...

It's a warrm welcome back to our good friend Malcolm Robinson as he prepares for the release of the fourth volume of his Paranormal Casebook of Great Britain series.  Malcolm takes us through some of the more intriguing cases included in this bumper volume of encounters and experiences, from ghostly visitors from both land and water, premonitions and the ramifications of such predictions, some str...

On this episode, I welcome the Faery Whisperer Claire Casely to the show. Claire's show explores the multi-sensory pathways into the otherworlds inhabited by the Fae and other supernatural beings and we discuss her haunted history along with her journey in the world of the fae. Claire also spoils us with explaining her family connection to one of the my favourite British ghost stories, a haunted c...

Contact with alleged otherwordly visitors has been reported since the birth of the modern UFO age all across the world. People describe creatures of varying shapes and sizes, species and colour. From the Greys to the Nordics, the Lizard's to the Insectoids, the species just kep coming. Yet, what if none of these "visitors" are real creatures? What if they're cloned or laboratory created clones who...

This week, I am joined by the host and creator of two remarkable shows, We Need To Talk About Ghosts and The Dark Paranormal, Kev Eustace.  I've gotten to known Kev over the last few years and he joins me today as we dive in to the worlds of the paranormal from poltergeists, to residual hauntings, strange sightings and more.  We also look at Cults, Mind Control, SImulations and much more. We Need...

This week, I am delighted to welcome author and experiencer Antoinette Tiyi Schippers to the show. Tiyi and I discuss her haunted history from growing up in a family home with several spirits wandering the property and the chronicling of her supernatural life so far in her Gatekeeper book series. Growing up in a haunted home was only the beginning of Tiyi's journey with encounters from the othersi...

We head out on a paranormal road trip with our good friend Chad Lewis in charge of guiding us to some of the Badger states most haunted and strange locations. In his newly updated re-release of "The Wisconsin Guide To Haunted Places", we can discover a whole slew of strange and supernatural locations in all parts of the state. We'll encounter strange balls of light, michievious spirits, gnomes, se...

We head to one of England's most overlooked counties, Shropshire to discover some unsual and fascinating stories from around the county. Joining me to act as our guide, is the wonderful Amy Boucher, author and researcher.  We discover grumpy giants, tales of witchcraft, various visits from Satan himself, hauntings, shucks and the infamous story of the Shropshire Man Monkey! Amy's blog is here: Hau...

Stories of hairy creatures across Australia have been with us since the first recorded encounters by colonists in the late 18th century were captured in the early newspapers and pamphlets of the era. In The Yowie, released in 2006, authors and researchers Tony Healy and Paul Cropper collected hundreds of encounters and witness accounts from across the country to show this is no modern hoax. In the...

Today we head to the north east of England in the company of the Ghost Whisperer, Andrew Ross as he takes us on a tour of some of Durham's most intriguing hauntings. A city steeped in history, Durham is home to the remains of two saints as well as some unusual ghosts. We have miners too scared to walk through a haunted garden for fear of encountering the Grey Lady, Black Dogs, Haunting music, a fa...

It's the beginning of 2012 in Denbigh, North Wales and one family are about to have a start to the new year they could never have predicted. A stormy night sees a teenage boy look into the street after a noise catches his attention only for a strange series of lights to pull his attention to the sky. Having the wherewithal to grab a camera and wake the rest of his family up, all four witness the l...