Most people are baffled at any idea that fairies could exist...and telling people you've had a fairy encounter is a major taboo. The Modern Fairy Sightings Podcast hears from people who’ve had experiences and want to share them. Whether you’re already a believer, or full of intrigue, come open-minded and open-hearted…simply listen, and make your own mind up. But take heed, these are not winged Tinkerbells. These are real fairies. Please note: this podcast is not suitable for children as it m ...
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Ep 92: David Halpin: Irish Folklore - Children, Fairies and Cillíns
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Send us a text Writer, David Halpin is a mine of information on Irish folklore, fairylore and mythology in general and ideas around consciousness. David looks at the Irish stories and fairy folklore in a refreshing way, through the lens of writers such as Jacques Vallée and John Keel. His Circle Stories on Facebook is an excellent resource and ther…
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Ep 91: Darragh Mason: The Dark Man
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Send us a text I chat to Darragh Mason author, researcher and host of Spirit Box Podcast about his new book, Song of the Dark Man. Our discussion begins with an overview of what, rather than who, 'The Dark Man' is. We then move onto the folklore and finally go over some of the first hand encounters which make up the second half of Darragh's book. I…
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Ep 90: Druid Adrian Rooke and Gwyn ap Nudd, King of the Fairies
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Send us a text Adrian is a well-known and much-loved Druid of The Order of Bards, Ovates and Druids. He is a dear friend. I often join him at Stanton Drew to provide the the equinox and solstice public ceremonies. Everyone is welcome. The link to the Facebook page for dates etc is below. Some years ago, he told me about his experience with Gwyn ap …
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Ep 89: Pat Noone: 'The Lads from the Other Side'
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Send us a text Pat Noone is a well known Irish farmer of Green Hills Farm in Kilconnell, Galway. He has led the way in teaching fellow farmers and people around the world about how to be a good guardian of the land, living in harmony with nature and the fairy realm. Pat has fairy forts, and fairy trees in his fields and folk are able to book overni…
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Ep 88: Jeremy Harte: Medieval Fairy Encounters
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Send us a text (re 'Send a Text', please note that I cannot access any contact info here - please contact me at scarlettofthefae@gmail.com) Jeremy Harte is an independent folklore researcher and author. He has written a number of books on the subject including Explore Fairy Traditions which won Katharine Briggs Award and the more recent Cloven Coun…
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Ep 87: Andreas Kornevall: Waking the Dragons
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Send us a text This interview with Andreas Kornevall was prompted by my watching the very excellent discussion 'Myth, Imagination and Truth', on Podcast Adventures in Awareness between Patrick Harpur and Bernardo Kastrup. https://www.kornevall.com https://www.youtube.com/watch?si=X1bYxHRCOzxvF-PB&v=r4hEOJQpbiw&feature=youtu.be During their chat, ho…
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Ep 86: Dark Man Appears on Glastonbury Tor: Jessica Mitchell
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Send us a text You can send a text message but I can't seem to reply! Better to send me an email to scarlettofthefae@gmail.com Big thanks to Jessica for sharing her story 🌿 I first heard about Jessica's encounter with a tall dark man on Glastonbury Tor on Darragh Mason's Spirit Box Podcast. Since then, she feels her sense of this being has develope…
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Ep 85: 'They Want to Talk to Us'- South Wales Encounter
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Send us a text Our guest was only eleven years old when he wandered away from his holiday caravan site and found himself in the woods, communicating with two beings. They guided him through 'rooms' which seemed to have "glass walls" into the forest and showed him some kind of representation of how they were aiding us here on Earth. He experienced l…
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Ep 84: Danu Forest, Priestess of Gwyn ap Nudd, The King of the Fairies
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Send us a text Danu is an author, teacher and traditional Celtic wise woman, who was called to Glastonbury many years ago to work with Gwyn, who is said to dwell in Glastonbury Tor and the Black Mountains of Wales. Danu offers Celtic Fairy Tradition Courses and Natural Magic Courses online. Having researched a series of recently reported encounters…
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Ep 83: Jason Atomic and The Blue Being: A Childhood Encounter
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Send us a text Artist, Jason is a well known face in London’s underground 'freak' subculture scene. His art background originated in creating comics which he now feels may link originally to an experience he had as an 11 year old child, when he came face to face with a small blue non-human being in his bedroom in East Grinstead, West Sussex. Having…
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Ep 82: "The Puppets Are Coming For Me..." Greater Manchester childhood experience
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Send us a text This episode is one of those kind that seem to lead us through a new threshold of understanding. We hear from a guest who, as a child living in rural Greater Manchester, encountered small black creatures emanating from a chimney breast in her bedroom. (see drawing attached of long nosed being and the hairy 'leader' which were drawn b…
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Ep 81: Experiencing the 'Wee Folk' in Ireland
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Send us a text Jo Hickey-Hall chats with an Irish woman from Cork who had number of experiences as a child and describes a later experience as an adult, being 'pixie led' in a forest in Edinburgh. We also hear about her Grandmother’s experience as a child, churning butter on her father’s dairy farm in Cork and how a priest came to heal a hex that w…
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Ep 80: Dr Neil Rushton's Experience on Glastonbury Tor
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Send us a text Jo Hickey-Hall chats with Dr Neil Rushton about his inexplicable audio experience on Glastonbury Tor in October 2023. He very candidly describes the difficult time he underwent this last winter, following the encounter. This episode offers our thoughts on what can happen when we journey down to the Underworld. We all go there through…
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Ep 79: 'Night Time Gnome' Came Looking for Me! (New Zealand)
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Send us a text I speak to a man in Auckland New Zealand, who grew up in what was originally native bush land. As a child, he had what sounds like a gnome encounter inside his home. His response to the frightening experience had a profound effect on how he decided to live his life from that point forward. Our guest's inspiring story suggests what ma…
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Ep 78: The Dark Rider of Glastonbury Tor
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Send us a text I speak with a woman who encountered a figure on Glastonbury Tor, who has appeared in a number of episodes thus far...The Dark Rider. In this and previous episode Ep 76: Otherworldly People: Encounter on the Thames he appears and then disappears. Always in black leather clothing, each time wearing a black helmet with the visor down s…
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Ep 77: Fairies and Orbs at the Brook (Lancashire)
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Send us a text Jo is joined by musician Sam McLoughlin who, as a young man aged 17 or 18 experienced an enchantment in a local woodland in Lancashire. He and a friend heard what sounded like children’s voices coming from the river. They experienced orbs and a sense of strange shift in reality, commonly known as the Oz Factor, a term coined by Jenny…
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Ep 76: Otherworldly People: Encounter on the Thames
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Send us a text Jo Hickey-Hall speaks to Frank Scannella about his encounter next to the river in Walton-on-Thames in 1982. His story 'Meeting Nicola', was published in the, "It Happened To Me..." section of The Fortean Times (Issue 350, 2017). This episode was also released as a video on YouTube. The sense of uncanniness about this meeting has alwa…
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Ep 75: The Winter Solstice Centaur
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Send us a text A winter solstice trip to a cottage in the forest, brings an Austrian couple face to face with a human/horse hybrid. This will leave you with many questions, I'm sure. If you are thinking of taking a trip into forest areas this Christmas then...keep your ears and eyes peeled! ⭐️ BONUS EPISODE ⭐️ In the full length episode on Patreon,…
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Send us a text Wintertime is innately full of magic but imagine coming face to face with a winter sprite at your bedroom window? We hear a magical memory shared, look at some other frosty encounters and ask ourselves, "who is Jack Frost?” ⭐️ BONUS EPISODE ⭐️ The bonus is a reading of The Snow Child. But due to an ongoing viral illness this will be …
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Green Gnome Visitation Changed My Life (Oklahoma)
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Send us a text A most poignant story about a little boy from Oklahoma who came face to face with a gnome in his bedroom. As a child he had felt very alone and afraid for much of his childhood but it was an Otherworldly being that reached out and showed him love. Now as an adult, he recalls how this experience, “changed (his) life and the way (he) s…
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Ep 72: Californian Gnome Portals
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Send us a text Our guest describes a sighting in 2016 in California, which occurred after a plant medicine church meeting. Whilst sitting in his car waiting for a friend, he watched two gnomes, no more than three ft tall in height, appear from a bush one after the other. They 'waddle' across the street and disappear into another bush. (Apologies fo…
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Ep 71: Halloween Special with Eerie Essex's Listeners Stories plus Time Between Times' Owen Staton
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Send us a text An audio recording of our patron-exclusive live stream 🎃 Halloween Special gathering with Bethan Briggs-Miller and Ailsa Clarke of Eerie Essex Podcast and Owen Staton of Time Between Times . Bethan and Owen also create Spectre of the Sea Podcast together. ⚡️Recorded live stream on the Modern Fairy Sightings YouTube channel: 👻 We hear…
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Ep 70: Anubis and The Hat Man: In the Shadows
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Send us a text We hear of one woman's experiences with shadow people. The first appears as Anubis the Egyptian Protector god, while the other is a well-known archetype: The Hat Man - an entity who has appeared to many people and is traditionally seen as malevolent...though the story shared in this episode provides another perspective. TRIGGER WARNI…
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Ep 69: Beckoned by Forest & Lake: Upper Peninsula of Michigan
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Send us a text Our guest describes his extreme childhood experience in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, involving musical enchantment, levitation, loss of time and senses and deep connection to raw nature. We hear how he was enchanted into the woods and ended up in a potentially life-threatening situation. Despite the intensity of the experience, h…
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Ep 68: 'A Gnome Ran Across My Bed!': Maintaining Childhood Wonder: Real Fairy Experiences
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Send us a text 🧚🏻♀️ I chat to a woman originally from the south east of England, about her real experiences with fairy beings. ✨They include childhood levitation, a bedroom based fairy visitation, and a multiple-witness sighting of a tiny humanoid disappearing into a hedge. She describes seeing orbs inside her bedroom as a child as well as lights …
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Ep 67: Patrick Harpur: Daimons and The Otherworld
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Send us a text To kick off series 7 we are joined by author, Patrick Harpur who is well known to many of us for his book, Daimonic Reality: A Field Guide to the Otherworld. I also highly recommend reading The Philosopher’s Secret Fire: A History of the Imagination which heds a lot of light on the sorts of experiences we hear about on this show, alo…
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Ep 66: Guest Host Takeover 2 - Icy Sedgwick & Bethan Briggs-Miller
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Send us a text ✨ In this second and final Summer Guest Host Takeover special* I'm delighted to introduce two more spectacular human beings: Bethan Briggs-Miller of Eerie Essex and Spectre of the Sea and Icy Sedgwick of Fabulous Folklore with Icy 🧌🧚🏻♀️ Icy and Bethan share encounters from their original homelands, discuss psychic home-clearing and …
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Ep 65: Guest Host Takeover Special with Kate Ray and Claire Casely
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Send us a text ✨Welcome to part one of two Guest Host Takeover specials produced by my fellow podcasters and researchers.* In this episode I'm delighted to introduce hosts Kate Ray of Hare in the Hawthorn and Claire Casely of ‘Fairy Whispering Podcast’. Their fabulous chat includes a discussion on the merits of gnomes (Kate hails from Nottingham, s…
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Ep 64: 'The People That Aren't People'
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Send us a text A woman from San Diego, California shares a whole host of extraordinary encounters with people who took the appearance of human beings but felt decisively, not-of-this-world. From a strangely terrifying family in a Walmart car park to a disappearing cowboy, you may even find that these stories strike a chord with some odd encounters …
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Shape-Shifting Tree Folk and a Love of Nature 🌳
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Send us a text I meet Paul from Alberta, Canada who tells me about his experience with a shape-shifting being. The encounter took place during a visit to a forest environment which he had grown to love. We discuss the importance of nature in our lives and the instinctive responses which we should always pay attention to. This is a lovely, heartwarm…
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Ep 62: Visitations from 'The Lady' with Amanda Mariamne Radcliffe
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Send us a text I chat with High Priestess and Bishop of the French Gnostic Church, Amanda Mariamne Radcliffe. We explore Amanda's experiences with the Divine which include a visitation from 'The Lady' and a number of fairy sightings. She describes her deep connection with the Cathars and how she came to live in 'Cathar Country' in Mont Segur, Occit…
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Ep 61: A Wollaton Gnomes Special with Kate Ray and Dr Neil Rushton
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Send us a text This episode, is part of a Wollaton Special which initially released on Sunday evening as a video on my YouTube channel. If you are not familiar with the Wollaton Gnomes encounter, where a group of children encountered gnomes at Wollaton Park, Nottingham in 1979, there is more information on my shownotes at: https://www.scarlettofthe…
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Ep 60: Owen Staton Storyteller: Welsh Fairies and Legends
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Send us a text I chat with Owen Staton, host of storytelling podcast, Time Between Times and Spectre of the Sea, an atmospheric thriller series weaving Welsh legend and folklore, which he co-hosts with Bethan Briggs-Miller. We are treated to not one but TWO fantastic stories...including my personal favourite about the Tylwyth Teg (Welsh Fae folk) p…
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Ep 59: The Burgundy Kingdom: Shropshire Fairies
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Send us a text This episode, full of childhood encounters, holds a particularly enchanting quality. As a sick child lies in bed, he is visited by pixies. On another occasion, at the end of the Second World War, a terrifying goblin appears at the end of his bed. A member of the same family later experiences a bedtime parade of magical wonders. Her r…
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Ep 58: Professor Ronald Hutton's Encounter with a Leanan Sídhe
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Send us a text Professor Ronald Hutton, leading expert on ancient and medieval paganism and magic, shares an Otherworldly encounter which took place on the west coast of Ireland during his twenties. We discuss his personal experience and he offers what traditional fairylore can tell us about modern encounters with the Unseen. A video version of thi…
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Ep 57: Processional Gnomes, Psychopomps and Chanting Monks of Staffordshire
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Send us a text A plethora of encounters and experiences from two sisters who grew up in the Staffordshire Moorlands. Twins, Gemma and Kate lived on a farm in Leek and their experiences shared here include: trooping gnomes, lights in trees, a visitation from a Raven at a funeral, spectral chanting monks, disappearing and reappearing objects and much…
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Ep 56: London Goblins Pt 2: "They Live Among Us"
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Send us a text Following, Terrified by Goblins in my London Flat, in the second part of our interview my guest reveals what was going on in her life at the time of the encounter and describes the sense of trauma that these extraordinary experiences can leave you with. We also discuss her childhood and the kinds of home environment, family tradition…
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Ep 55: Terrified by Goblins in my London Flat!
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Send us a text In 2018, after months of unusual phenomena in her London flat, a woman finally came face to face with the troublesome culprits. During a night time trip to the bathroom she was horrified to see two goblins stacked one atop the other, peering at her from the threshold of the door. Since that time, she has struggled to come to terms wi…
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Ep 54: Chat with Claire Casely, 'The Fairy Whisperer'
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Send us a text A relaxing chat with Claire Casely, known as The Fairy Whisperer. Claire lives in Magical Dartmoor and is an intuitive artist, researcher, and storyteller, engaging people with faery enchantment through nature, the landscape and creativity. She has a podcast called Faery Whispering and she also writes and makes faery art. Claire shar…
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Ep 53: Dartmoor Gnomes and Seer Lineage
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Send us a text Another delve into the original interview recordings I made in early 2017 when the Modern Fairy Sightings Project first launched. Mark Norman and I were at the time researching for the Devon chapter in Simon Young’s book Magical Folk. One particular woman responded to a poster I'd pinned up in Dartmoor, calling for people to contact …
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Ep. 52 Chat with Kate 'HareGirl' Ray of Hare in the Hawthorn
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Send us a text I speak with paranormal investigator, Kate 'Hare Girl' Ray from YouTube show Hare in the Hawthorn. Originally hailing from Nottingham, Kate has a particular interest in the Wollaton Gnomes case, and is a published author on the subject. She also writes for Haunted Magazine and creates magnificent mushroom-related art pieces in her sp…
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Ep 51: The Brazilian Ent Fairy (multiple witness sighting)
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Send us a text A multiple witness sighting of a 'walking tree trunk' in the grounds of a university in Brazil, in around 1999/2000. A Brazilian man and his companion simultaneously observed the tree trunk walking along the side of the road. They caught up with it after losing sight and felt certain he had changed into an old man with leathery lined…
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Ep 50: Healing Hums and Curious Folk
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Send us a text After suffering illness, our guest involved shamanic approaches in his quest to return to full health. During his successful process of recovery he discovered a deep resonance with chanting, which led to an extraordinary experience. Later, on a trip to Iceland, he encountered a couple who showed up out of the blue and disappeared jus…
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Ep 49: Brett Manning artist and creator of 'One Foot in The Green'
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Send us a text A beautiful in-depth chat with Brett Manning - a well known and much admired artist of the strange. Her new book, One Foot in the Green presents insightful and characterful interpretations of the Fae and cryptid beings. Brett's sense of the Otherworld is inspired by her own dreams and personal experiences. This chat is a really gener…
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S4 Ep 48: Santa is Real and he landed in Washington State!
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Send us a text A man from Washington State describes hearing Santa's Sleigh land on his roof complete with the sounds of sleigh bells, hooves and a heavy sack and footsteps ! At the time he was 20 years old and at college. He had never had any strong belief in Santa and his family generally took a skeptical view on strange phenomenon. To this day, …
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S4 Ep 47: Paul and Charla Devereux’s Green Man (Fairy) Sighting
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Send us a text Paul Devereux and his wife Charla shared an unexpected and startling fairy encounter in 2003, during a research trip in Ireland. This event transformed Paul's outlook on the reality of fairy sightings. Paul is a well-known author and long-time researcher into the study of sound at ancient places, ancient and traditional life-ways, th…
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S4 Ep46: A Series of English Encounters
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Send us a text My guest's numerous encounters include a multiple witness sighting in some British woods, the story of a haunted fairy painting that you won't forget and a Samhain-timed brush with the Fae on Glastonbury Tor. Perhaps unsurprisingly, it's revealed that these experiences run in the family! Sit back, relax and listen to this fascinating…
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Send us a text It's the 2nd birthday of the Podcast! 🎂 🎉 In this special episode I return to the location of my fairy sighting, on the island of Jersey, to meet with a woman who had a very similar experience to me, at the very same place. We exchange notes during a picnic and I am blown away by what she has to say. Did she meet the same fairy being…
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🎃 Samhain Pathworking: Journey to the Otherworld
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Send us a text Journey to the Otherworld : A 15 minute-long Samhain pathworking 🍂 I love this time of year and you can go deep with these sorts of exercises. Light a candle, get comfortable and open to the experience. The pathworking will provide a means of accessing personal insights and potentially offers deep spirit connection with the Otherworl…
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S4 Ep 44: Contact with Star Beings and Coping with Personal Awakenings
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Send us a text Todd Grube is a long-time experiencer and a previous guest from Episode 21, Awakening to Them. We discuss the apparent upsurge in encounters and people’s personal awakenings. He describes his observation of an orb-like ship that shot into the sky from a lake near his previous home. He and his wife later experienced entering the ship.…
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