Wide Atlantic Weird
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Return To The Lost Valley ...
14 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Hi folks,There are a few new episodes of 'The Lost Valley Podcast' to be heard here:https://open.spotify.com/show/7aMzzKPWkABFpGGZAottho?si=MC...
History of KISS
01 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
PLEASE NOTE: THIS IS A RE-POSTING OF AN OLD EPISODE FOR COPYRIGHT REASONSCian & Donal tackle the history of the band KISS using the autobiographie...
Jewel Of Seven Stars Part 2 (REPOST)
01 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
PLEASE NOTE: THIS IS A RE-UPLOAD OF A 2020 EPISODE FOR COPYRIGHT REASONSIn PART 2 of JEWEL OF SEVEN STARS, enter the Wide Atlantic Weird cabin-in-the-...
Restless Dreams: 90s Survival Horror Nostalgia (with Aodh O' Catháin) REPOST
01 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
NOTE: this is a repost from 2020 for copyright reasonsVideo games have played a key role in the evolution of horror storytelling over the last couple ...
Everything Ends In Mystery (a signoff of sorts)
20 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
OMNIA EXEUNT IN MYSTERIUM
Apocalypse Kong: Kong Skull Island (with Dr Justin Mullis)
02 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Dr Justin Mullis drops into the Explorers Club to discuss the 2017 film Kong: Skull Island. Topics include: -Japanese cryptozoology -The depiction o...
Just Like His Old Man: Son Of Kong (with Eddie Guimont)
19 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Return to Skull Island back in 1933 with Eddie Guimont to see whether there's more to the overlooked SON OF KONG than you've heard. Topics inc...
The Lost White Tribe (with Michael Robinson)
27 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Cian chats with Michael Robinson, author of The Lost White Tribe. Topics include: -the story of Henry Morton Stanley and his 'white' Ruwenzori...
Through the Crater's Rim by A. Hyatt Verrill
17 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A lost race in Panama and some man-eating trees show up in this Amazing Stories tale from 1926, written by traveller and finder of Lost Worlds in fact...
Frank Frazetta's Thun'da
05 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A lost world comic book from the 50s drawn by the great Frank Frazetta!
Lost Valley Podcast - Episode Zero
23 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Cian explains changes coming, a new show, a slight change of theme, and some behind-the-scenes info!
The Limits of Flesh-And-Blood Cryptozoology (with Cameron McCormick
16 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Cameron McCormick returns to discuss cryptozoological bestiaries that stretch the boundaries of belief with huge numbers of undiscovered critters runn...
When The Stars Are Right: Lovecraft & Astronomy (with Dr Edward Guimont
19 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In celebration of the book 'When The Stars Are Right, HP Lovecraft and Astronomy' by Edward Guimont and Horace A. Smith, Eddie returns to the ...
Fragments of Gods: Pagan Survival Theory (with Dr Francis Young)
01 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We chat with Dr Francis Young about that favourite WAW topic, the theory of 'Pagan survivals!' Subtopics include: -what we do know about pre-...
The Nearest Thing To A Prehistoric Animal: The Loch Ness Road Trip
25 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Hit the road with WAW on tour through the highlands of Scotland! We visit the home of Nessie, meet Felicity the Inverness Mystery Big Cat, hear what L...
Cryptofiction - Mystery Animals in Fiction (with Justin Mullis)
28 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
From the gilllman of Robert W Chambers' 'The Harbour Master' to the monstrous apes and aquatic dinosaurs of 'King Kong,' fiction h...
The Cryptids of Nigel Kneale: The Abominable Snowman (1957) with Blake Smith & Dr Karen Stollznow
26 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We're chuffed to welcome the esteemed hosts of MONSTER TALK, Dr Karen Stollznow and Blake Smith, to the cabin to talk about the 1957 movie THE ABO...
Take That, Bembridge Scholars: Orientalism, Pulp Cinema, and The Mummy (with Lauren the Gothic Bookworm)
24 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Lauren the Gothic Bookworm opens the tomb of maybe-classic The Mummy from 1999 as we discuss action movie tropes, Orientalism in Hollywood, the golden...
The Mists Clear Away: Arthur Conan Doyle, Professor Challenger and The Land Of Mist (with Professor Christine Ferguson)
15 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Professor Christine Ferguson visits the cabin to discuss the later adventures of Professor Challenger! In 1925, Arthur Conan Doyle's serialisation of ...
Hesketh Hesketh Pritchard Hunts the Mylodon (with Dr Edward Guimont)
20 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
How many Lost World connections can we make in this episode about turn-of-the-century ghost writers searching for extinct animals in South America? Dr...
For Fear Of Little Men: Euhemerism and Secret Fairy Peoples (with Justin Mullis)
02 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
What if 'fairies' are a memory of a squat race of mysterious pre-humans who lived in Europe before modern humans arrived? Justin Mullis brings a LOT t...
Abduction Recall: A Visit To The Betty & Barney Hill Archives (with Dr Edward Guimont)
11 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The 1961 Hill abduction is usually considered the 'ground zero' of the entire 'genre' of UFO abductions. It's been pored over by UFO believers and ske...
The Automatic Writer: The Ghost Of 'Patience Worth' (with Lisa Grimm)
27 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Lisa drops into the cabin with a Halloween tale ... the story of Pearl Curran, a woman who channelled a spirit calling herself 'Patience Worth.' As Pa...
Haunted Generation: Lost Memories of the Uncanny 70s (with Bob Fischer)
08 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Bob Fischer, creator of 'Haunted Generation,' joins us for a wide-ranging chat about Hauntology, and how ‘Haunted Generation’ feelings of an uncan...
Obsolete Spells: The Life and Work of Victor Neuburg (with Justin Hopper)
15 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
For a ramble through the life of a person who made old, wyrd England the focus of his occult writings and poetry, Cian invites Justin Hopper to the ca...
The Lower Quinton 'Witchcraft' Murder (with Dr Jeb Card)
06 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Jeb Card joins us to discuss the supposed witchcraft connections to the murder of Charles Walton on Valentines Day, 1945. Important players include (r...
Cryptid Chat (with Truth Is Scarier Than Fiction)
20 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Cian is joined by YouTuber 'Truth Is Scarier Than Fiction' to discuss the making of the Cryptid Iceberg videos and more! NOTES Buy Me A Coffee, or I'l...
The Many Faces Of Fawcett 4: Never Say Fawcett Again
15 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Could this be ... the Final Fantasy of Fawcett? In this last episode of Fawcettmania, Cian sits by a stream and flicks the pages of 'Brazil That Never...
The Many Faces of Fawcett 3: Veil Of The Primeval
22 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
So there's a lot of Lost World in our Fawcett this episode, but it's not my fault that the two won't stay a Stegosaurus length apart! In this episode,...
H. R. Haggard and Egypt (with Lauren the Gothic Bookworm)
09 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Lauren returns to the cabin to discuss all things H.R. Haggard, especially his deep obsession with ancient Egypt. We cover: -Haggard in 'Who's Who in ...
The Many Faces of Fawcett 2: Not Your Father's Fawcett
24 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
It's 'Not Your Father's Fawcett!' The journey continues with our dive into the first part of EXPLORATION FAWCETT, the 1953 book of Colonel Percy Fawce...
The Fictional Life Of Hulk Hogan Part 3 (with Dr Dónal Gill)
04 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In which we're asked to audition for Metallica, endorse the George Foreman grill, and wrestle over 365 days in a year. We also cover: -Hogan's years a...
Beliefs In The Early Medieval Period (with Dr Eoghan Ahern)
24 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Dr Eoghan Aherne visits the cabin to talk about the early medieval period, and some things we might believe about it that might not be true! Topics in...
Return to the Lost World: Origins and Illustrations (with Dr Richard Fallon)
05 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Arthur Conan Doyle and Professor Challenger make a welcome return to the show, as we turn once again to the worlds of Edwardian fantastic Imperial fic...
Flying Saucer Cinema: Day The Earth Stood Still vs Thing From Another World (with Dr Edward Guimont)
26 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Cian welcomes Dr Edward Guimont back to the cabin for a chat about two seminal 1951 flying saucer movies. There'll be saucers skipping across water (w...
The Many Faces of Fawcett: Lost City Of Z
20 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Cian returns to the cabin to tackle a subject that he should have tackled long ago: the life and mysterious disappearance of Percy Harrison Fawcett. F...
Megalodon and Other Prehistoric Cryptids (with Tyler Greenfield)
05 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Tyler Greenfield visits the cabin to chat about sightings of supposed living extinct creatures. We discuss early 20th century origins of living Megalo...
The Man Who Studied Ghouls: TC Lethbridge and Weird Archaeology (with Lisa Grimm)
25 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Ancient chalk figures, Arctic exploration, pendulums, and emotions 'recorded' onto the landscape: TC Lethbridge dabbled in them all, and remains an im...
Paranormal, People, & Politics with the Workers Cauldron
13 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Cian is joined at the cabin by David & Mercedas from the Worker’s Cauldron to talk about a variety of paranormal topics and their cultural/polit...
Ley Lines and Spooky Geology (with Sharon Hill)
25 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Sharon Hill joins us to speak about Spooky Geology and Ley Lines! We discuss the origins of the lines before they became associated with mystical idea...
Tales From The Hollow Earth (with Dr Edward Guimont)
28 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The history of beliefs regarding lost cities and civilizations beneath the Earth's surface is as vast and winding as the caverns of Agartha itself. In...
Bigfoot At The Movies: Man Or Beast
15 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Pack your harmonica and join an expedition into the murky world of 1970s low-budget docudrama-making as we take a look at Bigfoot hunter Robert Morgan...
Oceans Of Time: Thoughts On Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992) with Victoria Pearson
07 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Cian and Victoria discuss the definitive Dracula of their childhood, Francis Ford Coppola's 1992 'Bram Stoker's Dracula!,' which is a mouthful. NOTES...
Some Thoughts On Mystery Big Cats
24 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Recorded at the tail (aha!) end of an uncharacteristic Irish heatwave, and following a spot of solo camping that accidentally strayed into mystery big...
Lost Souls and Lost Cities: Stories of Polar Terror (with Leanne from Strange Ways)
17 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In a MUSICAL episode long delayed, Cian welcomes Leanne from The Strange Ways blog to talk about the special place the chilly polar extremes have alwa...
Mummy Lore In Myth And Fiction (with Lauren the Gothic Bookworm)
10 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Take THAT, Bembridge scholars! Cian is delighted to welcome Lauren the Gothic Bookworm to the cabin for an awesome chat about all things Mummy, curses...
Man Of The Year Million: The Ideas and Futurism of HG Wells (with Dr Dónal Gill)
03 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Best remembered today for his incredible output of genre-defining early science fiction novels during the 1890s, for much of his career Herbert George...
Bonus Episode: Jurassic Park Trespasser
26 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
From the vaults, comes a Crichton-adjacent bonus episode in which Cian and Chris 'The Voice' Joyce discuss Jurassic Park: Trespasser, a famous over-re...
Heuvelmania: Bernard's Sea Serpent Classification System (with Cameron McCormick)
15 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Cameron McCormick, writer on marine monster mysteries and sea serpent superfan, drops into the cabin to talk about the work and influence of Bernard H...
Neanderthals And Northmen: Eaters Of The Dead (with Dr Edward Guimont)
29 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Michael Crichton had a habit of recycling various Victorian-era fringe beliefs and obsessions in his techno-thriller fiction. With Eaters Of The Dead,...
From The Vaults: The Reincarnation of Bridey Murphy
15 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
A classic episode about the fascination 1950s America had with a woman who relived a past life as a 19th century woman from Cork! Hypnotism, regressio...
Red Sky At Night: Lost Cosmonauts (with Dr Tom Ellis)
01 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Dr Tom Ellis talks about the myth of the Lost Cosmonauts, why this symbol has had such staying power, and what it tells us about Western perceptions a...
Early Modern Witchcraft Belief (with Imogen Knox)
24 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Cian is joined by Imogen Knox for a chat about witchcraft belief during the early modern period. Subjects covered: -stereotypes about medieval vs earl...
BONUS EPISODE: The Origins Of Kong
17 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This is a find from the vault - an old patreon episode that's an addendum to our COLONIALISM AND KONG episode, which you can find below. Loads more in...
Irish Burial Customs and 'Teig O'Kane and the Corpse' (with Dr Aoife Bhreatnach)
10 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
'I FOUND it hard to place Mr. Douglas Hyde's magnificent story. Among the ghosts or the fairies? It is among the fairies on the grounds that all these...
Creatures Out Of Time: Those Who Hunt The Skunk Ape
27 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
From what might become a semi-regular miniseries focusing on the monster-hunters of cryptozoology, this episode is about a man who had a sighting of t...
The Digital Campfire: Looking Back At Creepypasta (with Chris Joyce)
14 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Cian and Chris host a campfire chat to remember the heyday of creepypasta: bad grammar, juvenile topics - and yet occasionally incredibly effective bi...
Return to Yowie Country: The Australian Apeman Again
27 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Cian returns to the subject of the Australian 'yowie' with more detail, more opinions, and possibly more conclusions, giving an in-depth take on the m...
A House That Eats Girls: House (1977) with James Harding
20 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Cian invites James Harding from Toronto 16-bit rockers Villainest to the cabin for a chat about the 1977 Japanese movie 'House.' Frequently noted for ...
Invisible Empire: Mysticism And Colonialism in Joan Lindsay's Picnic At Hanging Rock
13 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Join Cian at a chilly Cabin In The Woods for a Valentine's chat about the ever-mysterious Picnic At Hanging Rock. Whether you're more familiar with th...
Flat Earth Belief Throughout History (with Dr Edward Guimont)
06 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The podcast returns to the topic of flat Earth, and Cian is joined once again by Dr Edward Guimont from snowy New York to cover the history of who exa...
The Fictional Life Of Hulk Hogan Part 2 (with Dónal Gill)
23 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In which Cian & Dónal once again take a headlock to the Hulkster's life and career by taking the claims of his 'auto-biography' to task. In this ...
BONUS EPISODE: The Order and 1980s Domestic Terrorism
19 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Cian and Ali discuss 80s domestic terrorist group who called themselves THE ORDER, in a direct lift from the 1978 white supremacist t...
The Cottingley Fairies Go To The Movies: Part 2
16 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Cian returns to the mystical, mythical, WW1-era pastoral English fairyland only to find that it's become a weird British indie film hellscape of death...
The Cottingley Fairies Go To The Movies: Part 1
09 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
It's early January at the cabin, before the snow. Cian watches the 1997 movie Fairy Tale: A True Story in the first of two investigations into the 199...
Close Encounters Of The Third Kind: Aliens, Spirituality & UFOlogy
23 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Join us at the cabin for a semi-seasonal late-December big-budget sci-fi extravaganza as we tackle Spielberg's 1977 film Close Encounters Of The Third...
The Constructed Man: Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1994) with Dr Dónal Gill
19 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Dónal returns to the cabin to discuss Kenneth Branagh's 1994 film 'Mary Shelley's Frankenstein.' It's a spoilerfest so beware - we take the film apar...
Monsters Of The Frontier: Mokele Mbembe and Mammoths (with Dr Edward Guimont)
12 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Cian is delighted to welcome Dr Edward Guimont to the cabin for a wide-ranging chat about monster hunters and strange beliefs in the context of post-c...
Even Stranger Things: The Montauk Project (with Misfits & Mysteries Pod)
05 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Cian is joined by Emmy & Steve from the Misfits & Mysteries podcast, direct from NYC, to talk about New York state's pet 'window area' and myt...
American Militia 3: The Oklahoma City Bombing (with Ali Keane)
28 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Cian and Ali return to the American Militia miniseries, and take a look at the life and crimes of Timothy McVeigh, a man who was inspired by the event...
Those Babies Were Huge: Apollo 11 And UFOs On The Moon
21 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
It's flying saucer time once again! Join Cian at the cabin for a chat about the Pepper Transcript, a forgotten bit of UFO lore. There's UFOs in space,...
Clever Girls And Bad Science: The Jurassic Park Reread
14 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Cian enjoys a coffee (forgot to mention the beverage but hey the episode's long enough already) at the cabin in the woods and pores over Michael Crich...
Colonialism And Kong: Peter Jackson's Remake Reconsidered
07 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Cian is a massive Kong fan, and after years of resigning Peter Jackson's 2005 remake to the 'dud' bin, he dusts off this 3-hour love letter to the ori...
A Formative Haunting: Borley Rectory, The Definitive Haunted House
31 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Our Halloween mega-episode: the entire twisted history of Borley Rectory, the infamous Most Haunted House in England! -we cover the four eras of Borle...
Bonus Episode: Lick It Up, The No Makeup Years of KISS
31 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
A sample bonus episode of Wide Atlantic Weird Extra, which will be available only to supporters of our new Patreon! Cian & Dónal talk KISS - in p...
The Great Grey Man and other Ghost Stories of Mountaineering
24 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Enjoy a wee drop of whiskey at the cabin for a chat about the infamous Great Grey Man of Ben Macdhui - whether it be a cryptozoological Bigfoot-like c...
Evil Fairy Folk: Arthur Machen’s Novel Of The Black Seal
17 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Join Cian at the cabin for a beer as he gets to know influential Welsh writer of the strange, the inimitable Arthur Machen, and focuses on his 1895 ta...
Swift’s Monsters: Irish Identity and Gulliver’s Travels (With Dónal Gill)
14 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Join Cian & Dónal at the cabin for another October monster episode .... this time, the monsters of Gulliver's Travels! We discuss: -Swift's life ...
Lovecraft and the Irish (with W. Scott Poole)
10 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Cian is delighted to invite to the cabin in the woods W. Scott Poole, author of In The Mountains Of Madness: The Life And Extraordinary Afterlife of H...
Bonus Episode: The Devil Rides Out (1968)
07 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Join Cian at the cabin in the woods for an informal, off-the-cuff bonus episode on the 1968 classic The Devil Rides Out! There's folk horror, Hammer h...
Crypto-Ornithology: Washington's Sea Eagle and the life of John James Audubon (with Brent Burton)
03 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Join Cian on a bright cold Autumn morning for a cup of green tea and a deep-dive into the history of America's most mysterious bird. Special Guest: Mr...
A Chair Made Of Antlers: Red Dragon And The Fetishisation Of Serial Killers
26 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Join Cian for a coffee on an autumn morning at the cabin in the woods to discuss: -Thomas Harris' 1981 book Red Dragon -memories of serial killers fro...
Hellfire Club Part 2: The Road Trip (with Victorian Pearson)
23 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Hi folks – this episode is part two of a two-part miniseries! To get the full story of the background of Dublin’s infamous Hellfire Club, and the ...
The Hellfire Club: Lore Of Dublin's Hell House
19 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
On a wooded hill overlooking Dublin city sits a mysterious stone lodge shrouded in legend and lore. Dubliners know it as the haunt of the Hellfire Clu...
Sounds In The Sierras: Investigating Famous Bigfoot Vocalisations
16 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In the early 1970s, two men climbed into the Sierra Nevada mountains in California. They came to a remote spot in the woods, miles from civilization. ...
What Is QAnon And Should You Be Worried (with Dónal Gill)
12 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Not a fun episode, but one that had to happen. Cian and Dónal (now a Dr of political science) talk about: -the origins of Qanon and 4chan 'fake insid...
Old Stinker: English Eerie, Ecology, and the Yorkshire Werewolf
09 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In 2016, tabloid newspapers were telling tales of a werewolf-like creature sighted in Yorkshire. Variously known as 'Old Stinker' and 'The Beast Of Ba...
British Israelites And The Hunt For The Ark Of The Covenant In Ireland
05 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In 1899, a group representing the so-called British-Israelite movement descended upon the ancient ceremonial burial site at the Hill Of Tara in County...
Time And Again: Versailles And Other Timeslips (with Faye Sewell)
02 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Cian welcomes Faye Sewell from Youtube's The Ghost Trail to the cabin in the woods to talk about a curious subdivision of ghost stories: Timeslips! Th...
Cryptids In Classic Fiction: The Monster Of Lake LaMetrie
31 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
An unexpected and relatively short BONUS EPISODE about the 'weird western' short story The Monster Of Lake LaMetrie written by Warden Allen Curtis in ...
Budd Hopkins' Intruders: How Alien Abductions Got So Popular
29 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
It's a quiet night in the woods by the cabin, and the stars are out. That means it's time for a tale of UFOs - but this one is darker than usual. Rele...
Irish Lake Monsters: The 1969 Connemara Expedition
26 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In 1969, a small group of international monster-hunters came to the wind-swept west of Ireland in response to a spate of recent lake monster sightings...
Love And Other Bugs: Beyond The Mothman Prophecies
22 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Mothman has been done. A lot. So here at the cabin in the woods, we said we wouldn't cover this weirdest of all cryptid creatures unless we had a pers...
Dawn Of The Wild - An Audiodrama About Monsters In 1950s California
19 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
You're very welcome to the cabin in the woods once again! Usually on Wide Atlantic Weird, we investigate real-life stories of ghosts, monsters and UFO...
Horrific Hauntings: In Search Of The Walsingham Ghosts
17 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Cian cracks a can of Native IPA at the cabin in the woods to investigate a classic American haunting from Georgia, USA. The Walsingham Ghosts case has...
Lord Dufferin's Irish Ghost: A Victorian Urban Legend
15 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Ulsterman and Victorian celebrity Lord Dufferin held the highest positions in the British Empire during its heyday, but he was most famous for a class...
Howard-Bury's Footprints: The Discovery Of The Yeti
08 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In 1921, an Anglo-Irish explorer leading a reconnaissance expedition on Mount Everest reported seeing strange footprints on the slopes of that mighty ...
For Fear Of Little Men: Voices In The Woods (with Andrew Byrne)
05 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Cian takes another trip into the realms of folklore. A stray Reddit tale introduces our host to the Native American legends of disembodied voices that...
The Miracle of 1985: Ireland's Moving Statues
01 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In the summer of 1985, a strange phenomenon broke out all over Ireland. Statues of the Virgin Mary were seen to move, hover and speak. Whether this wa...
Tales Of Living Mammoths: Kind Of A Big Deal
29 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
It sometimes seems the human need to believe in unspoiled wildernesses full of large, overlooked creatures knows no bounds! And it feels like there's ...