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 especially, the evidence was becoming increasingly difficult to deny.
Something dark and sinister, it seemed, was brewing...
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David Farrant in 1971
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.
The place, a mid-terraced Georgian townhouse in London’s Berkeley Square is often referred to as quite simply the most haunted house in London...
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(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 the English northwestern town of Runcorn in 1952, like most typical working families of the time left dealing with the economic aftershocks of the second world war, the Jones and Glynns of 1 Byron Street had little choice but to keep calm and carry on regardless.
But nothing could prepare them for the extraordinary events that were soon to engulf their lives...
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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 audio, and seen in real-life.
And in 1850, one was even said to have been caught...
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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 with some kind of terrifying ape-like creatures...
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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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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 identity and where he had really been all his life, things take a deeply sinister turn.
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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 seeming as though he had just arrived from another planet, when the apparent truth of the boy's provenance eventually came to light, it was even more extraordinary than anyone could possibly have imagined.
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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