The strange story of British teenager Matthew Manning who achieved worldwide fame in the 1970s after he was determined to possess incredible psychic powers.
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The third and final part of Season 6 Episode 4: The Widening Gyre
As the bizarre events at 284 Green Street show no sign of abating, things reach a fever pitch in December 1977 with a series of even more seemingly incredible events, as Maurice Grosse and Guy Lyon Playfair struggle to make sense of it all.
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Part Two of Season 6 Episode 4: The Widening Gyre
As Guy Lyon Playfair joins the fray at 284 Green Street, the bizarre activity plaguing the Hodgson family starts to intensify. And soon, things begin to take a more sinister turn.
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On the night of August 31st, 1977, the Hodgson family of 284 Green Street in Enfield, London, fled from their house in terror after a series of strange and inexplicable events.
Today, the 'Enfield Poltergeist,' as it would come to be known, is considered to be the most documented, compelling, and terrifying supposed poltergeist haunting the UK has ever known...
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A huge apology to all my listeners but sadly due to my daughter being quite ill over the last few weeks, I've been forced to postpone this week's episode until next Friday, October 29th.
It's nothing serious but eventually, something had to give, and finishing the episode in time has proved a small step too far...
Very sorry again but rest assured we will be back next week!
In the morning of August 11th, 1676, Benedictine Nun, Sister Maria Crocifissa della Concezione was found on the floor of her bedroom, lying disheveled and covered in ink, next to a strange indecipherable letter.
With no idea what it said, or how it had got there, Sister Maria knew only one thing for certain. It had been written by the devil...
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In the evening of February 16th, 1981, in Brookfield, Connecticut, 19-year-old Arne Johnson, wanted in connection with a stabbing incident, was arrested by police after being found aimlessly wandering along a main road.
When Arne finally began to speak, he claimed not to remember the incident because he hadn't been inside his mind at the time.
The Devil had.
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In 1952, George Adamski inadvertently created the alien contactee movement. In this week's Extra, we take a brief look at the lives of Georgia Lee and Dorothy Martin, at two early proponents of the movement.
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Part Two of Season 06 Episode 2: Valleys of the Uncanny
A few months after the mysterious death of Zigmund Adamski, PC Alan Godfrey sets out on a routine night patrol around the town of Todmorden in North England. That night will change his life forever...
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Alan Godfrey and alleged craft he saw
Once in a while something so extraordinary occurs that can leave its mark so deeply on a place that it appears destined to shape our impression of it forevermore.
For the town of Todmorden, in the North West of England, that something occurred just over forty years ago today. It’ll be sometime before it’s forgotten...
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Zigmund Adamski
This week's episode looks at the strange and mysterious Houska Castle, a place that has long fascinated people on account of its peculiar location and supposedly dark origins...
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In July 2009, at the height of war in Afghanistan, US and British forces struggle to get to grips with fighting a mostly invisible enemy, while simultaneously trying to win the hearts and minds of the people whose land they have invaded.
As part of Operation Khanjar, the US government's latest roll of the dice in their efforts to beat back the influence of the Taliban in Helmand Province, 4000 marines from the 2nd Battalion, 8th Regiment have been deployed to the region. Among them are eight Marines, tasked with occupying a strange and isolated observation post, known simply as The Rock.
Their war is about to get far stranger than they could ever have imagined.
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Photo by U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Mark Burrell, 210th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment
Whatever you believe about the use of Hurkos’ supposed talents, it is hard to deny the extra layer of fascination his involvement brings to a police investigation.
With that in mind, there is one case in particular that makes for intriguing listening. Not least of all, because it also happened to involve one of America’s most curious and shocking crimes of the 20th century...
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Melvin David Rees
Part Two of S05 Episode 18: Learning to See
After accepting a call from the Strangler Taskforce, Peter Hurkos arrives in Providence, Rhode Island to see what he can do to help.
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In 1964 the eleventh in a series of brutal murders occurred in and around the city of Boston, Massachusetts, that police had come to believe were all perpetrated by the same individual - referred to in the press as The Mad Strangler.
No closer to finding the culprit after 18 months of investigations, an incredible decision was made in an attempt to crack the case...
Featuring the extraordinary story of self-proclaimed psychic Peter Hurkos.
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Many are fascinated by Heinrich Himmler and the National Socialist German Workers' Party's (NSDAP) association with the occult. It is an association that in ways, along with the term 'Nazi,' has clouded one of the fundamental truths about Himmler and the NSDAP.
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Dutch SS Soldiers (History Net Archives)
By all accounts, Robert Taylor wasn’t a man prone to exaggeration. Certainly, encounters of the strange were the furthest thing from his mind when he headed out to work on the outskirts of Livingston, in Scotland, one chilly morning in November 1979.
Soon, it would be all people would want to talk about...
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The issue of relying on the memory of individuals to recall events in criminal matters, particularly eye-witnesses to a crime, is one that continues to plague the criminal justice system.
Pioneering psychologist Elizabeth Loftus, who's spent the last fifty years looking into the subject, has arguably done more than anyone to help us understand why.
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Part Two of S05 Episode 16: Built On Shifting Sands
The discovery of George Jayne's phone number among the belongings of Pat Blough, Ann Miller, and Renee Bruhl, found at the Indiana Dunes State Park, takes the story of their disappearance on a wholly unexpected path...
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In July 1966, a Park Ranger for the Indiana Dunes State Park came across a blanket of sandy belongings that had been left behind on the beach by three young women.
And so began one of the greatest mysteries the American Midwest would ever know.
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