The Modern Fairy Sightings Podcast

Our guest was only eleven years old when he wandered away from his holiday caravan site and found himself in the woods, communicating with two beings. They guided him through 'rooms' which seemed to have "glass walls" into the forest and showed him some kind of representation of how they were aiding us here on Earth. He experienced lost time.  Every single encounter shared in the Project offers us...

Danu is an author, teacher and traditional Celtic wise woman, who was called to Glastonbury many years ago to work with Gwyn, who is said to dwell in Glastonbury Tor and the Black Mountains of Wales. Danu offers Celtic Fairy Tradition Courses and Natural Magic Courses online. Having researched a series of recently reported encounters here at The Modern Fairy Sightings Project with the figure known...

Artist, Jason is a well known face in London’s underground 'freak' subculture scene. His art background originated in creating comics which he now feels may link originally to an experience he had as an 11 year old child, when he came face to face with a small blue non-human being in his bedroom in East Grinstead, West Sussex. Having researched UFO lore and demonology throughout his life, Jason de...

This episode is one of those kind that seem to lead us through a new threshold of understanding. We hear from a guest who, as a child living in rural Greater Manchester, encountered small black creatures emanating from a chimney breast in her bedroom. (see drawing attached of long nosed being and the hairy 'leader' which were drawn by our guest).In the Patreon-Exclusive full length episode, you al...

Jo Hickey-Hall chats with an Irish woman from Cork who had number of experiences as a child and describes a later experience as an adult, being 'pixie led' in a forest in Edinburgh. We also hear about her Grandmother’s experience as a child, churning butter on her father’s dairy farm in Cork and how a priest came to heal a hex that was put on the family’s dairy production pre-mechanisation. Joinin...

Jo Hickey-Hall chats with Dr Neil Rushton about his inexplicable audio experience on Glastonbury Tor in October 2023. He very candidly describes the difficult time he underwent this last winter, following the encounter. This episode offers our thoughts on what can happen when we journey down to the Underworld. We all go there throughout our lives, some of us more than others. These dark places are...

I speak to a man in Auckland New Zealand, who grew up in what was originally native bush land. As a child, he had what sounds like a gnome encounter inside his home. His response to the frightening experience had a profound effect on how he decided to live his life from that point forward. Our guest's inspiring story suggests what may be possible if we can look beyond our fears and lean into commu...

I speak with a woman named Jessie who encountered a figure on Glastonbury Tor who himself has featured in a number of episodes thus far...The Dark Rider.  Joining Patreon: Please do not join via the Apple app which takes a third of my membership fee! please join instead via your browser at Patreon: ⁠⁠https://www.patreon.com/themodernfairysightingspodcast/membership⁠ In this and previous episode Ep...

Jo is joined by musician Sam McLoughlin who, as a young man aged 17 or 18 experienced an enchantment in a local woodland in Lancashire. He and a friend heard what sounded like children’s voices coming from the river. They  experienced orbs and a sense of strange shift in reality, commonly known as the Oz Factor, a term coined by Jenny Randles. Links to Sam's music on Bandcamp:Environmental Meditat...

Jo Hickey-Hall speaks to Frank Scannella about his encounter next to the river in Walton-on-Thames in 1982. His story 'Meeting Nicola', was published in the, "It Happened To Me..." section of The Fortean Times (Issue 350, 2017).  This episode was also released as a video on YouTube. The sense of uncanniness about this meeting has always stayed with Frank. There are many liminal aspects to consider...

A winter solstice trip to a cottage in the forest, brings an Austrian couple face to face with a human/horse hybrid. This will leave you with many questions, I'm sure. If you are thinking of taking a trip into forest areas this Christmas then...keep your ears and eyes peeled! Joining Patreon: Please do not join via the Apple app which takes a third of my membership fee! please join instead via you...

Wintertime is innately full of magic but imagine coming face to face with a winter sprite at your bedroom window?  We hear a magical memory shared, look at some other frosty encounters and ask ourselves, "who is Jack Frost?”  Joining Patreon: Please do not join via the Apple app which takes a third of my membership fee! please join instead via your browser at Patreon: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.patreon.com/...

A most poignant story about a little boy from Oklahoma who came face to face with a gnome in his bedroom. As a child he had felt very alone and afraid for much of his childhood but it was an Otherworldly being that reached out and showed him love. Now as an adult, he recalls how this experience, “changed (his) life and the way (he) saw the world”. Joining Patreon: Please do not join via the Apple...

Our guest describes a sighting in 2016 in California, which occurred after a plant medicine church meeting. Whilst sitting in his car waiting for a friend, he watched two gnomes, no more than three ft tall in height, appear from a bush one after the other. They 'waddle' across the street and disappear into another bush.(Apologies for the poor sound quality! I have done the best I can with the file...

An audio recording of our patron-exclusive live stream 🎃  Halloween Special gathering with Bethan Briggs-Miller and Ailsa Clarke of Eerie Essex Podcast and Owen Staton of Time Between Times . Bethan and Owen also create Spectre of the Sea Podcast together. Joining Patreon: Please do not join via the Apple app which takes a third of my membership fee! please join instead via your browser at Patreo...

We hear of one woman's experiences with shadow people. The first appears as Anubis the Egyptian Protector god, while the other is a well-known archetype:  The Hat Man - an entity who has appeared to many people and is traditionally seen as malevolent...though the story shared in this episode provides another perspective.  Joining Patreon: Please do not join via the Apple app which takes a third of...

Our guest describes his extreme childhood experience in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, involving musical enchantment, levitation, loss of time and senses and deep connection to raw nature. We hear how he was enchanted into the woods and ended up in a potentially life-threatening situation. Despite the intensity of the experience, he hold the view that it opened him up to a new way of seeing the...

🧚🏻‍♀️ I chat to a woman originally from the south east of England, about her real experiences with fairy beings. ✨They include childhood levitation, a bedroom based fairy visitation, and a multiple-witness sighting of a tiny humanoid disappearing into a hedge. She describes seeing orbs inside her bedroom as a child as well as lights in trees and we hear the strange case of a fairy-related text...

To kick off series 7 we are joined by author, Patrick Harpur who is well known to many of us for his book, Daimonic Reality: A Field Guide to the Otherworld. I also highly recommend reading The Philosopher’s Secret Fire: A History of the Imagination which heds a lot of light on the sorts of experiences we hear about on this show, along with his other non-fiction book, A Complete Guide to the Soul....

✨ In this second and final Summer Guest Host Takeover special* I'm delighted to introduce two more spectacular human beings:  Bethan Briggs-Miller of Eerie Essex and Spectre of the Sea and Icy Sedgwick of Fabulous Folklore with Icy 🧌🧚🏻‍♀️ Icy and Bethan share encounters from their original homelands, discuss psychic home-clearing and whether it works, muse on fairy/human interactions and even...

✨Welcome to part one of two Guest Host Takeover specials produced by my fellow podcasters and researchers.* In this episode I'm delighted to introduce hosts Kate Ray of Hare in the Hawthorn and Claire Casely of ‘Fairy Whispering Podcast’. Their fabulous chat includes a discussion on the merits of gnomes (Kate hails from Nottingham, scene of the Wollaton Gnomes) and pixies (Claire is from Devon, l...

A woman from San Diego, California shares a whole host of extraordinary encounters with people who took the appearance of human beings but felt decisively, not-of-this-world. From a strangely terrifying family in a Walmart car park to a disappearing cowboy, you may even find that these stories strike a chord with some odd encounters of your own. The most intriguing of all, 'The Hitchhiker' may lea...

I meet Paul from Alberta, Canada who tells me about his experience with a shape-shifting being. The encounter took place during a visit to a forest environment which he had grown to love.  We discuss the importance of nature in our lives and the instinctive responses which we should always pay attention to. Joining Patreon: Please do not join via the Apple app which takes a third of my membership...

I chat with High Priestess and Bishop of the French Gnostic Church, Amanda Mariamne Radcliffe. We explore Amanda's experiences with the Divine which include a visitation from 'The Lady' and a number of fairy sightings. She describes her deep connection with the Cathars and how she came to live in 'Cathar Country' in Mont Segur, Occitaine and Rennes Le Bain in Aude, both situated in the South of Fr...

This episode, is part of a Wollaton Special which initially released on Sunday evening as a video on my YouTube channel. If you are not familiar with the Wollaton Gnomes encounter, where a group of children encountered gnomes at Wollaton Park, Nottingham in 1979, there is more information on my shownotes at: https://www.scarlettofthefae.com And I highly recommend Dr Simon Young and Chris Woodyard'...