Have you ever wondered how our ancestors dealt with the mysteries of the supernatural world? Ancient Mesopotamian society held a treasure trove of beliefs and practices related to ghosts, spirits, and the unseen. Delving deep into the world of magic…
This month sees the podcast celebrate a HUGE milestone of 100 episodes. To celebrate this marker I wanted to take a moment to reflect on the journey thus far and give some special shout outs to episodes and moments along the way. I also wa…
In 2012 I began researching what proved to be my very strangest and indeed most life-changing book. Having acquired the dubious distinction of becoming the world expert on Medicinal Cannibalism in 2011 with the first edition of Mummies, Cannibals an…
By Rachel Hayward One evening in the late 1950’s some ten years plus before I was born, my parents put my two brothers, aged eighteen months and two and a half years, to bed as they did every evening. My parents were bless…
Unconscious Bias Our brain making judgements and assessments unknowingly- your brain making judgements on your behalf. An example could include the group of people we spend time with. Sometimes we like a stranger for no apparent reason. They’…
A group of Canadian parapsychologists came together in 1972 to create a ghost and prove that the human mind could conjure a spirit through collective imagination, visualisation and expectation. It is a thought I have spoken about more than once on s…
KRAMPUS Santa’s European counterpart and earliest incarnation Saint Nicholas brings something other than just presents to your house. He brings along a horned demonic sidekick, Krampus. Although Krampus appears in many variations, most share …
Oxfordshire and Warwickshire in England during the nineteenth and early twentieth century was a relatively impoverished region with agricultural wages among the lowest in the country, Anglicanism was strong and chronic want persisted in the villages…
The Ghost of Ann(ie) Walker In 1735, according to Arthur L Hayward’s ‘Lives of the most remarkable criminals: Who have been Condemned and Executed for Murder, the Highway, Housebreaking, Street Robberies, Coining or other offenc…
"FOR SALE--Haunted wardrobe.--Advertiser will be glad to deliver same to anybody interested, complete with ghost, which would also no doubt feel more at home if welcomed.--Write Mrs. B. Barclay, Carterton Manor, Oxon." August 19th, 1937, Lond…