WEIRD TALES RADIO SHOW
Coinciding with the launch today of her new book A Field Guide to Larking our guest on this week’s Weird Tales Radio Show #177 is Sunday Times best selling author Lara Maiklem talking about the joys of hunting for lost treasures while out mudlarking, beachcombing or fieldwalking – there’s one thousand, thousand years of history lurking in the mud beneath our boots just waiting to be rediscovered.
Links: https://twitter.com/LondonMudlark + https://www.instagram.com/london.mudlark + https://www.facebook.com/LondonMudlark
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We have a Friday 13th ghost story... a ghost that is said to walk every 13th of August. The location is the Pilchard Inn, a pub on Burgh Island in Devon. Now Burgh Island is an interesting place in its own right as it can be reached at low tide by walking across a strip of sand but at high tide you need either a boat or to take a life on the island’s sand tractor – which is a kind on mini open top bus on stilts. The main attraction on the island is the art deco hotel, which was used by the crime writer Agatha Christie for the setting of two of her detective stories And Then There Were None and the Hercule Poirot mystery Evil Under the Sun.
However it is not the hotel that is haunted but the pub which is said to date back as long ago as the 14th century, when it was used as a refuge by fishermen fishing for pilchards. According to legend, in later years the island became the home of smugglers and pirates, including a character called Crocker who may at one time even been the landlord of the Pilchard Inn. Sometime in the 18th century he met his match when he was shot dead in a fight - on the 13th August – with either a rival gang or customs officers. Apparently today you can buy a baguette and a pint at the Pilchard Inn – the baguette being something that would have definitely not been on the menu at the pub in Crocker’s day. Incidentally fans of Swinging Sixties pop trivia might like to note that Burgh Island and its sand tractor were the setting for the final scene of 1965 movie Catch Us If You Can featuring The Dave Clark Five – a band that at one time were rated as the main rivals to The Beatles.
In this week’s Weird Tales Radio Show #176 our guest is anatomist Janet Philp talking about the science of werwolves, zombies and dragons. Is it physically possible for them to exist in the real world? We also say Happy Birthday to Folklore, consider the Meaning of Life with the assistance of a celebrity chef and The Hitch Hikers Guide, and of course we have a Friday the 13th ghost story.
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In this week’s Weird Tales Radio Show 175 our guest is American author Colin Dickey talking about mythical monsters, alien encounters and our obsession with the unexplained. We also have the strange tale of Hollywood star Jimmy Stewart and the Yeti's missing finger – because that's the kind of show we run.
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In this week’s Weird Tales Radio Show #174 we have a smorgasbord of weirdness including a new book on the legend of Black Shuck, a ghoulish guide to English gibbet sites, a possible connection between dreams and aliens, the mystery here today gone, tomorrow island, the Devil’s Tramping Ground, and dragons – yes dragons!
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In this week’s Weird Tales Radio Show #173 our guest is Doctor Paul H. Smith, an expert on remote viewing and a former member of the US Army’s Project Stargate attempt to create psychic spies and wage paranormal warfare. Yes, we're in the men who stare at goats zone - but without George Clooney.
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In this week’s Weird Tales Radio Show #172 our guest is Norfolk (UK) witch Valerie Thomas talking about the “Nameless Tradition”, magic, and her latest book “Of Chalk & Flint”. We also have tales of the phantom keyboard of Old Norwich town, the Great Gorbals vampire hunt, and a surprisingly recent fatal encounter with a dinosaur.
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In this week's Weird Tales Radio Show #171 it's more high strangeness as our guest Joe Montaldo talks about the Pentagon UFO Report, encounters with flying saucers, and military secrets. The truth may be out there but the government sure isn't going to tell us.
In this week’s Weird Tales Radio Show #170 our guest is American writer Mark O’Connell, author of the legendary Star Trek Deep Space Nine episode “Who Mourns for Morn”, talking about screenwriting for television as well as his non-fiction work, including his biography of Dr J. Allen Hynek, the “Close Encounters Man” who through his 20-year career on the US Air Force Project Blue Book, helped turn UFOs from fringe to mainstream.
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It's the weekend and in this week’s Weird Tales Radio Show #169 we've a creature feature special: our guest is American film-maker Seth Breedlove talking about his Small Town Monsters movies and TV series, which now include Bigfoot, Mothman, ghost hunting and UFOs. We've also stories on werewolves, fairy folk and Swinging Sixties-inspired demonology, plus midsummer folklore and solstice ghosts.
Here are the links: https://www.youtube/c/weirdtalesshow + https://www.smalltownmonsters.com + https://www.smalltownmonsters.com/on-the-trail-of + https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfu4MCqbUGvcnQZ5uICx9RA + https://www.ancient-origins.net + https://www.paranormaldatabase.com |
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