As the nights draw long, the leaves flicker red and brown and carpet the land, and the great hearth fire is stoked. In from the dark come all manner of creatures, the lost souls of the underworld, seeking shelter from the encroaching frosts. It is around that fire that we gather tonight for stories of the darkness, tales from the crypt, legends of the beyond. We are honoured to welcome to the fray; - Forrest Burgess, the magnificent host of the Astonishing Legends - https://www.astonishinglegend...
Oct 30, 2021•1 hr 54 min•Season 3Ep. 1
Since the beginning of modern science, going back hundreds of years, the answer to one question has remained elusive. However far our studies of neurology go, however closely we map the human brain, or any animal brain for that matter, it appears that there are parts of our being that are yet hidden. The approach and theory that everything that is, exists in a physical form in some way, is being increasingly challenged. That which we know as our consciousness is posing a problem to those trying ...
May 07, 2021•54 min•Season 2Ep. 10
Last year, in the previous season of the show, we spoke at length to former Lawyer, Assistant Attorney General and Air Force EMT, Mr Terry Lovelace. The story of his encounter at Devil’s Den State Park, in Washington County, Arkansas, is one of the most thrilling, terrifying, saddening and entirely convincing tales in the annals of extra-terrestrial encounters. The tale of a young Mr Lovelace and his friend Toby, begins rather innocuously with a camping trip, but ends with two lives completely r...
Apr 30, 2021•1 hr 27 min•Season 2Ep. 9
Since the Bronze Age, cultures around the globe have developed belief systems based on mythology, on anthropomorphic gods who walk between the physical realm and the beyond. They have created complex systems of religion which draw on astrology, astronomy and cosmology, even when studies of such things were in their infancy. Some of the most ancient philosophical concepts in Chinese culture deal with the yin and yang, of a state of being beyond the natural body. Studies of our very existence are ...
Apr 23, 2021•56 min•Season 2Ep. 8
There are hundreds and thousands of cases of hauntings and ghost activity, spread across the world, and across time. We hear the tales of the things which go bump in the night, the whispers of the shadows who duck from sight just as our eyes catch them in the doorways and corners. We see the grainy photos, the questionable orbs, the video footage of the door creaking open by itself. Some of it is remarkable, some of it could surely be proof of something. Though much of it can also be explained a...
Apr 16, 2021•1 hr 10 min•Season 2Ep. 7
Since the times before Buddhism spread across the tribes of the east, it’s influences climbing the highest peaks of the Himalayas, reaching those shamanic mountain peoples who occupied the remotest of villages, the legend of the meh-teh, or the yeti, has existed. Known to the people there as the mi rgod, the wild man, he was no folktale. In the 1820s he came to the attention of British explorers and mountaineers, his footprints found on the highest slopes of Everest, inexplicably large, in a pla...
Apr 09, 2021•1 hr 1 min•Season 2Ep. 6
This world that we all obsess over, this world of paranormal and spiritual and extra-terrestrial research is filled with stories and anecdotes that either verify or nullify our beliefs. Many are hearsay, tales that are passed on from sources unknown, the details around them fluttering and changing like the winds. It is often hard to distinguish what is real and what is merely folklore. Then occasionally a story comes along that is different. A story that smacks you between the eyes, makes you qu...
Mar 27, 2021•1 hr 28 min•Season 1Ep. 11
Across history, the boundaries of knowledge have been pushed and expanded by the tireless explorers and adventurers who walked before us. They climbed into ships and boats, onto horses or camels or elephants, and they set off on foot with compass and knife in hand, away into the fog of uncertainty. They pushed through jungle and discovered new beasts and insects and plants, they crossed oceans in vessels unsuitable for great voyage, never sure of their return. They discovered ancient civilisatio...
Mar 26, 2021•38 min•Season 2Ep. 4
Whilst often shied away from, shunned, or even mocked, a belief in the existence of another realm of consciousness is significantly more widespread than we often acknowledge. Many are followers of a religion, who believe that there is a omni-present god or an afterlife associated with that, who say prayer at altars to beings unseen. Others are of a spiritual nature, in tune with natural order. Along the line there are those who believe in things such as fate and destiny, that the universe plays ...
Mar 19, 2021•57 min•Season 2Ep. 3
In 1735 on a dark and turbulent night in the New Jersey Pine Barrens, Jane Leeds was struggling to cope with her twelve children. Upon finding that was indeed pregnant with a thirteenth, she cried out in frustration, proclaiming that the unborn child would be the devil itself. When it was born the child appeared to have hooves, thick wings and the head of a goat. It growled and moaned, pushed itself free of the midwife, and flew away, up the chimney and away into the pines. Still seen to this da...
Mar 12, 2021•49 min•Season 2Ep. 2
Before we drop off the cliff into the murky waters of season 2, we step outside for a breath of air and to analyse what draws us all to be here, and to allow ourselves to appreciate that we are all just simple humans, all on our own journeys. In this small but varied community, we occupy the same websites, chatrooms, conference halls, and we read the same books and listen to the same podcasts. The overall quest for answers and for the truth, or indeed, our truth, is that which connects us. But w...
Mar 06, 2021•1 hr 4 min•Season 2Ep. 1
Peer Beyond The Veil is back this March with a brand new season, bringing you more tales from behind the thin grey curtain.
Feb 17, 2021•44 sec
The county of Lancashire in northern England has a long and varied history of the paranormal and the unusual. An ancient place, wrapped in centuries of toil and warfare. The buildings, many of them as old as time, still stand in places, holding the memories of what has been. A place of witches, spectres, ghostly black dogs, the lady in white and the lady in green. The county, and the neighbouring cities of Manchester and Liverpool, paint a textured canvas of spooky colours, wisps of the unknown ...
Dec 07, 2020•36 min•Season 1Ep. 16
When the Society for Psychical Research was founded in London back in 1882, it provided a hub for scientists and scholars of multiple disciplines to meet and study the fields of the paranormal, as it was then quite recently termed. It studied hypnotism, telepathy and spiritualism, and gathered them into what would become known as parapsychology. As study continued, and the disciplines changed and evolved, so too did the understanding of how it all worked. There are, of course, an endless amount ...
Nov 27, 2020•1 hr 10 min•Season 1Ep. 15
In the mid-19th Century, as paranormal research groups and organisations sprang up across the continent and into the new world, the great library of such study began to amass on the dusty shelves, each ruffled old page taking us one tiny step closer to a perceived truth, a new enlightenment, a greater understanding of what our place is in the world and beyond, and what is truly going on inside the greatest enigma known to mankind, our own minds. As we moved into the twentieth century, our minds ...
Nov 20, 2020•1 hr 10 min•Season 1Ep. 14
Warning: contains actual EVP recordings. There is much to be discussed about what it is that makes certain people more prone to experiencing the paranormal than others, and it is something that we have indeed touched upon in previous episodes. One thing is certain though, for those whose pathway has been opened to such things, life can be a rollercoaster of weirdness. Shadow figures stand in the corner of rooms, horrible old hags wake you from your sleep, and flickers of communication from where...
Nov 13, 2020•46 min•Season 1Ep. 13
The glimpses of the truth, the reality, the secret, that we civilians occasionally stumble onto are kept hidden away at all costs. When information leaks, it is always deliberate. They tell us that there is disclosure, that they are willing to share information, but either it is intentional misinformation or their hands are otherwise forced. What they know, whoever ‘they’ are, is a secret they will, and indeed have, killed to protect. Human collateral damage is immaterial. We’re all dispensable ...
Nov 06, 2020•57 min•Season 1Ep. 12
Many of us, perhaps too many, approach the wide-ranging fields of paranormal research with a little too much paranormal and too little research. A huge element of subjective belief and influence goes into it all, and as there is often no scientific explanation to support or validate it, science often falls at the wayside. My guest tonight approaches things a little differently. A clinical psychologist by trade, with a PhD awarded from the University of Glasgow for his work on hypnosis, Peter McC...
Oct 25, 2020•46 min•Season 1Ep. 10
Scientists discover many new creatures each year, and they’re not all tiny bugs and sea worms, there are big lizards, monkeys and lemurs and sloths, dolphins and rays and species of deer and in 2010 a new species of clouded leopard. All of them existed in our world and we mostly had no idea they were there. Some of these creatures appear to us by chance, they show themselves when we were looking for something different, in places we maybe didn’t expect. Others are searched for more intentionally...
Oct 16, 2020•44 min•Season 1Ep. 9
Most nations of the world have their own paranormal hotspots, sites and locations that seem to attract weirdness, Some are prone to repeated hauntings, places where ghosts and spirits and demons frequent. Others are seemingly home to bigfoots or black cats and dogs. Yet others seem to be highways and byways for the strange things that we see in the skies. In the US, there exist many of the above, but none so seemingly vast as the land which spans the country 37 degrees north of the equator. Know...
Oct 08, 2020•46 min•Season 1Ep. 8
Most of us are not able to pick up on communications with the deceased. We require the assistance of mediums, folk with the ability to bridge the gap, the spiritual chasm between the living and the dead. Such abilities seem to be hereditary. At the end of it all, when the machine flatlines and the curtain is pulled, we begin a new journey, a new awakening, When we leave the time and space, with all the constraints that it possesses in this world, we move into a place where time and space are not...
Oct 01, 2020•1 hr 1 min•Season 1Ep. 7
We have all, at some time, heard the creaking footsteps on the landing at night when we should be asleep, pulled up the duvet, tucked our toes inside and waited, our little hearts beating away in the silence until we finally realise it was just a sibling or a parent and we laugh and return to sleep. But for some, the footsteps outside the bedroom door don’t belong to anybody. At least not anybody that we can see. Those children, many of them, learn to shut it out. But some show no fear. They unt...
Sep 23, 2020•38 min•Season 1Ep. 6
My guest tonight is psychic-medium, paranormal investigator and researcher, demonologist, tv personality, singer-songwriter and author Sean Austin. Sean’s work on the shows Ghost Loop and the Demon Files merely scrape the surface of his experiences in the field, his ability to communicate with spirits being with him since he was young. He has worked tirelessly to help both the living and the dead, his faith on one shoulder as a guiding light and a guitar hanging around the other. It is with grea...
Sep 16, 2020•45 min•Season 1Ep. 5
The counties that make up Yorkshire in the uk are notoriously crowded with some of the weirdest and most unexplainable supernatural phenomena ever recorded. UFOs fill the skies, ghosts walk the hallways of the ancient towns, and glowing eyes blink in the forests. Documenting it all would take a lifetime. And that lifetime belongs to my guest Mike Covell. A writer and historian on all things Yorkshire, he has steadily delved deeper and deeper into the darkness that shrouds the history of the regi...
Sep 08, 2020•42 min•Season 1Ep. 4
Tonight we speak with author, presenter, historian and paranormal investigator Penny Griffiths-Morgan. Penny has long been involved in investigating what hides in the dark, having had her own experiences since she was a young girl. She has investigated all the hotspots that the UK can boast, and has written books on many of them. Her work with Haunted Histories has led her to her own podcast and quite the list of contacts and guests. Penny tells us all about her book My Haunted History, and her ...
Aug 24, 2020•44 min•Season 1Ep. 1
