Best Creepy Wee Podcasts (2024)

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Ep 86: Dark Man Appears on Glastonbury Tor: Jessica Mitchell 1:11:39

3d ago1:11:39

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Send us a Text Message. You can send a text message but I can't seem to reply! Better to send me an email to scarlettofthefae@gmail.com Big thanks to Jessica for sharing her story 🌿 I first heard about Jessica's encounter with a tall dark man on Glastonbury Tor on Darragh Mason's Spirit Box Podcast. Since then, she feels her sense of this being has…

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Ep 85: 'They Want to Talk to Us'- South Wales Encounter 1:29:51

1d ago1:29:51

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Send us a Text Message. 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 expe…

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Ep 84: Danu Forest, Priestess of Gwyn ap Nudd, The King of the Fairies 1:13:18

8d ago1:13:18

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Send us a Text Message. 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 e…

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Ep 83: Jason Atomic and The Blue Being: A Childhood Encounter 1:21:56

2M ago1:21:56

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Send us a Text Message. 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 Susse…

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Ep 82: "The Puppets Are Coming For Me..." Greater Manchester childhood experience 1:16:02

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Send us a Text Message. 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 wer…

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Ep 81: Experiencing the 'Wee Folk' in Ireland 1:14:48

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Send us a Text Message. 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 h…

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Ep 80: Dr Neil Rushton's Experience on Glastonbury Tor 1:10:06

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Send us a Text Message. 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 ther…

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Ep 79: 'Night Time Gnome' Came Looking for Me! (New Zealand) 1:12:52

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Send us a Text Message. 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 suggest…

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Ep 78: The Dark Rider of Glastonbury Tor 50:39

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Send us a Text Message. I speak with a woman who encountered a figure on Glastonbury Tor, who has appeared in a number of episodes thus far...The Dark Rider. In this and previous episode Ep 76: Otherworldly People: Encounter on the Thames he appears and then disappears. Always in black leather clothing, each time wearing a black helmet with the vis…

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Ep 77: Fairies and Orbs at the Brook (Lancashire) 49:55

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Send us a Text Message. 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…

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Ep 76: Otherworldly People: Encounter on the Thames 45:16

7M ago45:16

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Send us a Text Message. 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…

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52: Alexander Selkirk / The Real Robinson Crusoe 32:27

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Born in Fife in 1676, the story of Alexander Selkirk inspired Daniel Dafoe’s novel ‘Robinson Crusoe.’ After choosing to be marooned on a desert island, Selkirk endured solitude, enemy privateers and a round the world trip before landing back on home soil. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…

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Ep 75: The Winter Solstice Centaur 1:20:30

9M ago1:20:30

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Send us a Text Message. 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! ⭐️ BONUS EPISODE ⭐️ In the full length episode on…

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Ep 74: Jack Frost at my Window 43:39

9M ago43:39

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Send us a Text Message. 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?” ⭐️ BONUS EPISODE ⭐️ The bonus is a reading of The Snow Child. But due to an ongoing viral illness this…

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51: Alchemy and the Scottish Wizard 32:20

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Alchemy is a historical practice that attempts to transmute base metals into gold. Through the influence of the Muslim world, the knowledge of alchemy spread through Europe with the help of travelling scholars like Michael Scot. Scot was a polyglot mathematician, alchemist, apothecary and academic born in Scotland. He worked with like-minded intell…

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Green Gnome Visitation Changed My Life (Oklahoma) 1:29:34

9M ago1:29:34

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Send us a Text Message. 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 w…

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Ep 72: Californian Gnome Portals 1:01:28

10M ago1:01:28

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Send us a Text Message. 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. (Apo…

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50: The Edinburgh Vaults 43:13

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The Edinburgh Vaults are a series of underground chambers located inside the South Bridge's enclosed arches. Originally used as storerooms, the poor conditions led to them becoming a place of squalor, crime, and possibly body snatching. Merch Twitter Instagram Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…

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49: Samhain 32:42

10M ago32:42

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Ep 71: Halloween Special with Eerie Essex's Listeners Stories plus Time Between Times' Owen Staton 1:20:00

10M ago1:20:00

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Send us a Text Message. 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. ⚡️Recorded live stream on the Modern Fairy Sightings YouTube channel: …

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48: The Milk White Doo 33:33

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The Milk White Doo is a well known Scottish tale from times when stories were passed down from generations through word of mouth. Like most fairy tales, this story is meant to teach children about the realities of death and losing a close family member. Merch Twitter Instagram Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…

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Ep 70: Anubis and The Hat Man: In the Shadows 1:20:30

11M ago1:20:30

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Send us a Text Message. 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. TRIG…

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47: The Mackenzie Poltergeist 42:40

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Greyfriars Kirkyard in Edinburgh is home to one of the world's most prolific and violent poltergeists in the world. It has been the subject of numerous investigations and paranormal sightings, with reports of objects being thrown and even people being levitated. The graveyard is believed to be haunted by the spirits of Covenanters who died under Bl…

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Ep 69: Beckoned by Forest & Lake: Upper Peninsula of Michigan 52:13

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Send us a Text Message. 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 expe…

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Ep 68: 'A Gnome Ran Across My Bed!': Maintaining Childhood Wonder: Real Fairy Experiences 1:09:40

12M ago1:09:40

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Send us a Text Message. 🧚🏻‍♀️ 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 a…

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Ep 67: Patrick Harpur: Daimons and The Otherworld 1:08:33

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Send us a Text Message. 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 …

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46: Wulver 37:25

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In Shetland folklore, the wulver, or wullver, is a wolf-like humanoid creature. Unlike traditional werewolf legends, the wulver is gentle, rarely harming humans. Some believe that it is a guardian of the sick and the poor. In modern times, the origins of this legend have been disputed. Merch Twitter Instagram Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy …

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Ep 66: Guest Host Takeover 2 - Icy Sedgwick & Bethan Briggs-Miller 1:48:51

1y ago1:48:51

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Send us a Text Message. ✨ 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-clea…

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45: Drunk History 1:03:26

1y ago1:03:26

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Two drunk idiots share some weird Scottish history. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Ep 65: Guest Host Takeover Special with Kate Ray and Claire Casely 1:17:41

1y ago1:17:41

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Send us a Text Message. ✨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 Nott…

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44: William Wallace II 35:47

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The conclusion of our series on the legendary William Wallace. Having led the Scots to a strategic victory over English forces at Stirling Bridge, he suffered a humiliating loss at Falkirk. After time on the run, Wallace returned only to be betrayed to the English. Regardless of defeat, his legacy has endured for centuries, inspiring and motivating…

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Ep 64: 'The People That Aren't People' 2:07:59

1y ago2:07:59

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Send us a Text Message. 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 en…

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43: William Wallace I 39:08

1y ago39:08

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An introduction to the obscure, contradictory and legendary tale of Scotland's national hero William Wallace. His story starts with the death of King Alexander III and 'The Great Cause' of finding Scotland a new monarch, the events which would shape his life, death and Scotland's fight for freedom. Merch Twitter Instagram Hosted on Acast. See acast…

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Shape-Shifting Tree Folk and a Love of Nature 🌳 1:00:30

1y ago1:00:30

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Send us a Text Message. 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. This is a lovely, …

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42: The Curse of Macbeth 35:36

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Theatre superstition has it that if the name of Shakespeare's tragedy Macbeth is spoken aloud in a theatre outside of when required in performance, calamity will ensue. Is the curse of the Scottish play the work or witches or merely a myth? Merch Twitter Instagram Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…

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Ep 62: Visitations from 'The Lady' with Amanda Mariamne Radcliffe 1:54:11

1y ago1:54:11

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Send us a Text Message. 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 Seg…

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Ep 61: A Wollaton Gnomes Special with Kate Ray and Dr Neil Rushton 46:18

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Send us a Text Message. 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.scar…

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41: The Mester Stoor Worm 34:40

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Assipattle and the Mester Stoor Worm is a classic creation myth from Orkney relating to the battle between an unlikely hero and gigantic sea serpent. Merch Twitter Instagram Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Ep 60: Owen Staton Storyteller: Welsh Fairies and Legends 1:04:20

1+ y ago1:04:20

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Send us a Text Message. I chat with Owen Staton, host of storytelling podcast, Time Between Times and Spectre of the Sea, an atmospheric thriller series weaving Welsh legend and folklore, which he co-hosts with Bethan Briggs-Miller. We are treated to not one but TWO fantastic stories...including my personal favourite about the Tylwyth Teg (Welsh Fa…

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40: The Monster of Glamis Castle 44:36

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The secret of Glamis Castle occupied elite society of Europe in the late 1800s but what exactly was it? Was it an heir hidden away by their cruel family, gossip or a tale fabricated by the Bowes-Lyon Family. We discuss this classic Scottish mystery and some other haunts in our 40th episode! Merch Twitter Instagram Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/pri…

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Ep 59: The Burgundy Kingdom: Shropshire Fairies 1:07:23

1+ y ago1:07:23

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Send us a Text Message. This episode, full of childhood encounters, holds a particularly enchanting quality. As a sick child lies in bed, he is visited by pixies. On another occasion, at the end of the Second World War, a terrifying goblin appears at the end of his bed. A member of the same family later experiences a bedtime parade of magical wonde…

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Ep 58: Professor Ronald Hutton's Encounter with a Leanan Sídhe 48:03

1+ y ago48:03

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Send us a Text Message. Professor Ronald Hutton, leading expert on ancient and medieval paganism and magic, shares an Otherworldly encounter which took place on the west coast of Ireland during his twenties. We discuss his personal experience and he offers what traditional fairylore can tell us about modern encounters with the Unseen. A video versi…

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Ep 57: Processional Gnomes, Psychopomps and Chanting Monks of Staffordshire 1:43:36

1+ y ago1:43:36

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Send us a Text Message. A plethora of encounters and experiences from two sisters who grew up in the Staffordshire Moorlands. Twins, Gemma and Kate lived on a farm in Leek and their experiences shared here include: trooping gnomes, lights in trees, a visitation from a Raven at a funeral, spectral chanting monks, disappearing and reappearing objects…

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39: The Big Grey Man of Ben Macdui 48:34

1+ y ago48:34

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Am Fear Liath Mòr or the Big Grey Man is a spirit or cryptid said to haunt the second-highest peak in the British Isles, Ben Macdui. Is this creature Scotland's answer to Big Foot or Yeti legends? Or, is this simply the forces of nature playing tricks on seasoned mountain climbers? Merch Twitter Instagram Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for …

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Ep 56: London Goblins Pt 2: "They Live Among Us" 1:01:20

1+ y ago1:01:20

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Send us a Text Message. Following, Terrified by Goblins in my London Flat, in the second part of our interview my guest reveals what was going on in her life at the time of the encounter and describes the sense of trauma that these extraordinary experiences can leave you with. We also discuss her childhood and the kinds of home environment, family …

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38: Edinburgh's First Body Snatchers 47:33

1+ y ago47:33

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In the 1700s, Edinburgh was at the forefront of advancements in medicine. As the demand for cadavers to study increased, the macabre trade of body snatching began... In this episode, Liam and Rebecca tell the story of Edinburgh's first convicted and executed resurrectionists, Helen Torrance and Jean Waldie. Merch Twitter Instagram Hosted on Acast. …

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Ep 55: Terrified by Goblins in my London Flat! 1:04:23

1+ y ago1:04:23

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Send us a Text Message. In 2018, after months of unusual phenomena in her London flat, a woman finally came face to face with the troublesome culprits. During a night time trip to the bathroom she was horrified to see two goblins stacked one atop the other, peering at her from the threshold of the door. Since that time, she has struggled to come to…

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37: The Last Witch Trial 30:29

1+ y ago30:29

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Liam and Rebecca discuss the last witch trial held in Scotland that resulted in an execution. Janet Horne was another innocent victim of the fear of witchcraft and prejudice when she was executed in Dornoch in 1727. Merch Twitter Instagram Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Ep 54: Chat with Claire Casely, 'The Fairy Whisperer' 1:27:00

1+ y ago1:27:00

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Send us a Text Message. A relaxing chat with Claire Casely, known as The Fairy Whisperer. Claire lives in Magical Dartmoor and is an intuitive artist, researcher, and storyteller, engaging people with faery enchantment through nature, the landscape and creativity. She has a podcast called Faery Whispering and she also writes and makes faery art. Cl…

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36: The World War II Witch Trial 32:45

1+ y ago32:45

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Liam and Rebecca tell the story of the infamous fraudulent medium, Helen Duncan and her notorious World War II predictions. Merch Twitter Instagram Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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