Halloween is drawing closer, so what better time to go on the hunt for some ghosts! This week, author and historian Marc Hartzman joins me to discuss his marvellous new book, Chasing Ghosts in the first of four upcoming Halloween episodes. It's a book that takes you back to those wonderful books of your childhood, full of fantastic images and photographs. The book offers us an overview of the paranormal as Marc acts as our guide. Marc and I dive into the birth of spiritualism in the mid 19th cen...
Oct 17, 2021•1 hr 11 min
On todays show, we delve into one of my favourite paranormal subjects, the mysterious Phantom Black Dogs that stalk the highways and byways of many a darkened lane in England and beyond. From the Bargest to the Padfoot, the Black Shuck to Gytrash, stories of encounters with these corperal entities span centuries but it seems they roam far beyond the shores of the UK. Joining me to discuss his new book "Phantom Black Dogs" is author W T Watson. We discuss some of the most notable cases in regards...
Oct 11, 2021•1 hr 20 min
This week, I am joined by author, researcher and investigator, Christopher O'Brien. Chris has been investigating strange events, anomalous phenomena and cryptids for over 30 years and has collated a whole history of the cattle mutalations that have plagued farmers ranchers across the world. Chris and I cover several cases, his investigati began sons, some of the alleged theories put forward to explain these disturbing events and how it seems that one explanation simply can't be used to cover all...
Oct 04, 2021•1 hr 46 min
On this weeks show, I am delighted to be able to welcome Bruce Champagne to Mysteries and Monsters. Bruce has spent years investigating reports of encounters and sightings of hominids in locations many would unaware of, the vast expanses of desert terrain across North America. Despite the modern perception that you're more likely to encounter Bigfoot in the Pacific North West, there have been hundreds of sightings of large hominids going back centuries in states such as Colorado, Utah, New Mexic...
Sep 27, 2021•1 hr 11 min
On this week's show, I am delighted to be joined by one of the leading lights in cryptozoology television and Bigfoot research, Doug Hajicek. Doug has had a long career working in documentary film making prior to entering the field of Cryptid documentaries at the turn of the 21st century. Doug and I discuss his early career in wildlife films, his discoveries with Beavers and Bears prior to the day that changed his life whilst attempting to catch footage of giant fish in Canada. We touch on Monst...
Sep 20, 2021•1 hr 38 min
On this week's show I am delighted to be joined by researcher, investigator and experiencer, Shelly Covington-Montana. Shelly is a native Texas who Is known as a wilderness and wildlife enthusiast with a passion for conservation and preservation. Her search for the truth has committed her to constantly improving her education thru the Citizen Sciences. Shelly is a Level II Certified Wildlife Tracker. She is also in constant work on Citizen Science Wildlife DNA kits. As of late She doing the term...
Sep 13, 2021•1 hr 46 min
On this week's show we journey to the Eastern shores of the USA in the company of author, illustrator and the owner of the marvellous Green Hand books, Michelle Souliere. Michelle has recently released her second book, "Bigfoot in Maine" which is a collection of first hand accounts from residents who have an experience they can't explain. Maine may not be the first place you think of when discussing Bigfoot, but as Michelle's book shows, there is certainly a lot more going on here than most of u...
Sep 06, 2021•1 hr 13 min
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 expeditions into the Sierra Nevada's back in the 1970s. We also touch on his appearance in the recent Missi...
Aug 30, 2021•1 hr 20 min
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 to ease his concious. Since then hundreds of witnessses have come forward but what may surprise you i...
Aug 23, 2021•1 hr 19 min
#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 #Bigfoot #SerialKillers #Haunted #Dogman #Sasquatch #Lions #TonyHealy #Halloween...
Aug 20, 2021•1 hr 10 min
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 discuss many of the cases he covers in his book, from the the murder of the Victorian superstar William T...
Aug 16, 2021•1 hr 19 min
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 from Batman, Catherine Bach from the Dukes of Hazzard, Steve Hackett of Genesis fame and others beside...
Aug 09, 2021•1 hr 23 min
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 encounter and Kenney and I discuss some of the more notable and unusual cryptids people have stumbled acro...
Aug 02, 2021•1 hr 11 min
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 something malignant that has stayed with them for the best part of 70 years. Anna discusses how thes...
Jul 26, 2021•1 hr 16 min
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 investigations inside the US Government and the fact that it may have been this information that was shar...
Jul 19, 2021•1 hr 41 min
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 very different hauntings and the personal repercussions Holmes County had on him. Both books are availa...
Jul 12, 2021•1 hr 19 min
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 haunted objects too. We cover a lot of ground across a wide range of paranormal topics and no doubt Evely...
Jul 05, 2021•1 hr 24 min
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 around the world. Carl was great company and it was fantastic to have him back on to talk around cryptoz...
Jun 28, 2021•1 hr 16 min
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 witnesses and could these even be messages from extraterrestrials. Joining me to discuss the subject is crop ...
Jun 21, 2021•1 hr 21 min
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 to the hunt for Bigfoot, and as a former member of the BFRO, Amy has now both aligned herself as a member...
Jun 14, 2021•1 hr 24 min
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 recorded by the chief witness in the case, the preacher Samuel Willard. Willard was a man who in the a...
Jun 07, 2021•1 hr 8 min
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 stories that have stood the test of time as well diving in to some of the more modern sightings from Ch...
May 31, 2021•1 hr 27 min
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 Moa and the frankly terrifying Haast Eagle, which preyed on the Moa. We also look into ball lightini...
May 24, 2021•1 hr 56 min
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. Can an existing family dynamic create the right ingredients for a haunting? Can stress make people more susc...
May 17, 2021•1 hr 32 min
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 North Carolina that seems to be so favourable to some creature that we seem to have a population of myster...
May 10, 2021•1 hr 29 min
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 and sought answers in both spiritual and religious organisations, giving him a more balanced understand...
May 03, 2021•1 hr 21 min
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 Meter in the autumn of 1903. The origins of this weird, winged cryptid have baffle many a researcher but I a...
Apr 26, 2021•1 hr 21 min
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 search for this enigmatic creature and Ken's theory on what Nessie could possibly be. We then hop acro...
Apr 19, 2021•1 hr 13 min
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 triangle lies between the ancient city of York and the coastal town of Scarborough, with its top edge...
Apr 12, 2021•1 hr 13 min
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 growing Canadian paranormal scene. Starting off with some personal encounters in childhood, Jason has ...
Apr 05, 2021•1 hr 19 min
