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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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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 throughout our lives, …
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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 may be possible i…
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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 so that you cann…
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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 Randles. Links…
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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 always stayed with …
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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, you will hear …
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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 slightly delaye…
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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) saw the world”. …
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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 for the poor soun…
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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 some of the sp…
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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 WARNING There is a t…
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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, he hold the view…
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🧚🏻‍♀️ 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 in trees and we…
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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, along with his oth…
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✨ 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 whether it work…
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✨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, scene of the Wol…
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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 of your own. Th…
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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, heartwarming chat . Paul…
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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, Occitaine and Rennes…
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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.scarlettofthefae.com And I h…
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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) plus we hear Wel…
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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 resulting dream …
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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 this interview is …
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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 much more! ⭐️I…
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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 traditions and beliefs t…
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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 with the reality …
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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 shares the pixie ex…
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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 with their fair…
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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 spare time! Kate …
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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 skin "like the…
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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 just as curiously.…
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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 generous and open he…
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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, he hasn't told …
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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, the anthropology …
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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 collection of …
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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? And if so, wh…
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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 Otherworld. 💫 It is base…
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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. After that tim…
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My guest describes how he supported and encouraged his son's explorations and experiences with beings from the Otherworld. I previously spoke to his son, Tristan, in episode 15 but here we hear about how, as a father he became a scribe for Tristan's mystical encounters. Their moonlit forest walks, packed with extraordinary visions and interactions,…
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Our guest tells us of her Otherworldly experiences whilst on a vision quest in the Rocky Mountains and some UFO sightings. We also have a good ol' chat about energies of place and transition that the world is currently going through. Content warning: These are not fairytales and the content is unsuitable for children. Some episodes may contain deta…
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A gentle story in this episode. A man from Maryland describes meeting an Otherworldly being, backstage at a music festival and tells of his son's childhood fairy friend. We look at stories of encounters with tall other-than-human folk who appear and disappear and memories of childhood experiences. This episode has a trigger warning for themes of de…
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Paul Sinclair is a highly acclaimed researcher of unexplained phenomena from North Yorkshire in England. In this episode Paul talks about his personal supernatural experiences over the years, and we discuss some of the mind-blowing encounters featured in his excellent Truth Proof books available on his website (paperbacks) and Kindle on Amazon. Fro…
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A 74 year old woman who has been psychic all her life describes playing with fairies as a young child in her garden rockery. In that same garden - a monk's retreat in times past - she recalls seeing ghostly robed figures wandering around in prayer. We discuss how psychic abilities seem to run in families and she reveals how she was once requested t…
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Dr Simon Young an academic on the subject of the supernatural, fairy sightings and related folklore meets with Jo Hickey-Hall to discuss: Marjorie T. Johnson, The Fairy Investigation Society, fairy sightings research, experiences running through family generations, The Fairy Census and the academic study of fairies. Join us on Patreon for bonus epi…
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My guest, Paolo Sammut is a paranormalist and a magician based in the south west of England. Paolo has had many supernatural experiences over the years, some of which we would recognise as fairy encounters. He chats to me about the time he was awoken by a very angry fairy, possibly a hobgoblin. On other occasions, he and other family members saw be…
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A woman in Cork, Ireland describes a plethora of strange activity in her homes and relays the time that an orb helped rescue members of her family. We discuss communicating with deceased loved ones, childhood experiences, spirits and what is often thought as poltergeist activity. Trigger warning: There are mentions of violent domestic abuse. Althou…
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I chat with Mike Clelland, researcher of the mysterious connections between owls, synchronicities and UFOs, from ancient times to the present day. His first book, The Messengers (2015) details his personal journey and provides a collection of first-hand accounts of contact experiences. During our discussion, Mike shares his own personal experiences…
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A great chat with Lucy Brydon of the One Scot One Not Podcast. Lucy and Karen cover Celtic myth, legends and folklore in their informative yet humorous show, which is always uplifting. Lucy shares a number of her own extraordinary experiences, including a visitation from a female being while in the early stages of pregnancy; and a strange case of a…
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A New Zealand woman describes her beautiful childhood encounter with a tree and gathering of Fae folk. This took place directly after witnessing a 'two suns' phenomenon onboard a fishing boat. It’s a story of stepping into a place of wonder and yet feels very grounding. The experience led to a lifetime relationship with trees and it’s an inspiring …
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My conversation continues with our guest from the last episode who experienced trooping fairies in her bedroom as a child. Now, as an adult she visits an ancient ring of standing stones and along with her party, encounters the guardians of that place. The episode involves experiencing a Beltane fire, warping of time and tall Otherworldly beings who…
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