Podcast Episodes

Season 6 Episode 9: Hoping for a Spark

In Brazil, in August 1966, two years into a military dictatorship, there was every reason to assume the bodies of two men, found dead on a hill outside the city of Niteroi, could well be victims of t…

Published on 3 years, 10 months ago

Season 6 Episode 8 Extra: Alone in a Darkened Room

It may seem far-fetched to believe that a vampire had been living at the site of London's Highgate Cemetery since the 18th century.

But did you know the so-called vampire plague said to have ravaged …

Published on 3 years, 10 months ago

Season 6 Episode 8: The Rising

In the late 1960s, a large number of acts of vandalism perpetrated in English churchyards were thought to be linked to a resurgent interest in black magic. 

In Highgate Cemetery in North London espec…

Published on 3 years, 11 months ago

Season 6 Episode 7 Extra: Square Root

Author Elliot O’Donnell wrote widely about all manner of apparent hauntings in Britain and the United States, but there was one story – or rather location, for which he had a particular soft spot.  

Published on 3 years, 11 months ago

Season 6 Episode 7: That Cold Black Cloud

(Please note: the following episode is adapted from the live episode I presented at the London Podcast Festival in 2016 and later released on this stream, so may be familiar to some listeners).

In th…

Published on 3 years, 11 months ago

Season 6 Episode 6 Extra: So Many Monsters

Almost every culture it seems has a story of wild mythical creatures living out in the woods and mountains. 

Sometimes they break out from the myth, to be apparently captured on film, recorded on aud…

Published on 4 years ago

Season 06 Episode 6: Tales From the Cryptid

In July, 1924, a group of prospectors returned from a trip working their claim in the Cascade Mountains of the Pacific Northwest, with an incredible tale to tell having apparently come face to face w…

Published on 4 years ago

Season 06 Episode 5 Extra: The Circular Ruins

More on Kaspar Hauser with some thoughts on the myth of the 'noble savage', the Allegory of the Cave, and the problem with 'Original Sin'...

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Published on 4 years ago

Season 06 Episode 5: The Boy Who (Pt. 2 of 2)

Part Two of Season 06 Episode 5: The Boy Who.

As Kaspar Hauser’s mind begins to expand, so too does his sense of self and the world around him.

Meanwhile, as rumours begin to swirl about his true ide…

Published on 4 years ago

Season 06 Episode 5: The Boy Who (Pt. 1 of 2)

One afternoon in May 1828, a mysterious boy stumbled into a quiet square in the picturesque city of Nürnberg, in what was then the German Confederation.

Unable to utter more than a few words and seem…

Published on 4 years, 1 month ago