Fortean News Podcast

James gets together with medium Pamela Heyward and author and Paranormal tour guide Liah Thorley, aka The Black Widow to discuss a paranormal investigation we did in the Market Vaults in Scarborough. Liah is a brilliant guide who runs ghost tours, and she organised and invited us along to investigate the vaults for Halloween. Tune in and see what happened

If you want to go on one of Liah's incredible tours and delve into spooky tales and history, please book on: https://blackwidowtours.co.uk/ 

My investigation with Paul here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPCIIO8BCT0

And an interview with Paul Sinclair on one of my experiences https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61LkzwR-0uU

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On this episode:

Ghost activity https://www.tiktok.com/@confessions_of_ghost_boy/video/7585921645886311702?_r=1&_t=ZN-92ZXChWjRSg

The etymology of the word ghost

The introduction gateway book for us all. Osbourne book of ghosts

Standish Church in Maine being researched by paranormal investigators

Somerset named as most haunted in UK

Top ten most haunted regions of the UK

James has his own JOTT

Meet the Basingstoke ghost hunters

Has someone caught the photo of a ghost monk at Conisbrough Castle? https://www.doncasterfreepress.co.uk/news/people/paranormal-investigator-claims-to-have-spotted-ghost-of-monk-at-conisbrough-castle-5382702

Nurses and the paranormal

The Ghost Club, the worlds oldest paranormal society

The majority of Americans believe in the paranormal

What is ghost hunters Steve Gonsalves most scary moment?

Nearly half of Canadians believe in the paranormal

Jedward can see ghosts

The scariest paranormal roads in Europe are over in Ireland

A third of the English believe in the paranormal

What is behind the #HauntedAppalachia trend and is the real haunted Appalachia folklore scarier?

The Greenbrier Ghost: Zona Shue

The Screaming Skull of Burton Agnes Hall

Man marries a rice cooker

Haunted English Heritage sights at the sites

Adults share the creepiest things children have said to them

Country Living’s top ten signs your house is haunted

The real origin of the MIB

Frogs rain down in Brazil

A peer-reviewed study finds aliens may have been observing us blowing up nuclear bombs

A Dr. States ghost hunting isn’t actually about hunting for ghosts

The Ghosts of Bluebell Hill

Ghost Adventures' Aaron Goodwin won’t watch the moment his wife tried to have him killed

Does the paranormal affect house sales

Did Steve Jobs have a deathbed vision

Quantum computer passes the lie detector test

Polish pipeline digs up ancient warriors, merging the pagan with Christianity

Car picks up ghosts on its sensors?

Was Jesus the ultimate pagan sorcerer?

Area 51 road trip

Nurse sees 7ft shadow figure standing by dying patient's bed

Do aliens only “virtually” abduct you?

UFOs are shutting down nuclear bunkers and flying off

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Thank you all for your continued support this year. I sincerely appreciate it. 

Unearthly:

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This is a ghost story in a poem I wrote for Christmas for you all to enjoy. Merry Christmas to you all, and thank you for supporting the show this year

Hope you have a beautiful one. 

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Iain and Jordan from the top ten global podcast Two Guys What's Up? join James at the Britannia Pub to have a couple of drinks and celebrate the end of the year together. 

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This months: 

The mysterious village time-slip

The 3rd interstellar object, 3I/ATLAS, to come into our solar system breaks the laws of science.

UFO over the pyramid in Egypt

Pyramid UFO in Texas

Underwater UFOs are real

Everything we thought we knew about consciousness is wrong

RIP to the UKs oldest witch

Exorcisms to try and get rid of a hex on Charlie Kirk

Is the Bissell Mansion in St Louis the most terrifying haunted mansion in America?

The holographic inter soul

Meeting Jesus in death

The most haunted road in Scotland

UAP cover up

Has the cryptid Ogopogo moved lakes?

Brocarde chats to motor heads Lemmie who is eating pizza on a black horse

Is Bruce Forsyth’s ghost joking about fire extinguishes?

Is there an ancient pyramid submerged off New Orleans

Teacher loses job spraying poop spray

Tech billionaire loser tells people regulating AI is the antichrist

Ohio mansion is most haunted

More investigation into Utah cattle mutilations

Were the Anunakki aliens?

The 13 Ghost of the Joelma Building in Brazil

S.k. Pierce Mansion sold for one million dollars

Strange UFO seen over Tulcingo de Valle, Mexico see here https://www.youtube.com/watch?si=Uamlx-TTWtzkQ7S8&v=HE2Ih2IaaNE&feature=youtu.be&themeRefresh=1

The Nessie was a hoax all along?

San Antonio folklore stars in new paper Occulto

All living things emit a glowing aura

Have archaeologists found ancient aliens in Kuwait?

Hail so big it can be seen from space

Did we face the rapture?

V Shaped UFO over Los Angeles

The High Strangeness of the Wold Newton Triangle

Are Labubu actually things for Pazuzu to possess?

Can welcome mats invite in demons?

Is remote viewing intelligence laundering

Has Noah’s ark been discovered

Answers found for the dragon stones

The Siirt poltergeist

The UFO/UAP Coverup of reverse engineering

Who is the hat man?

The real Stranger Things, The Montuak Experiments

21 grams the weight of the soul

The Whitey river monster

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