Boggart and Banshee: A Supernatural Podcast
So a Brit and a Yank walk into a supernatural podcast… Nattering on fairies, folklore, ghosts and the impossible ensues. Cross your fingers, turn your pockets inside out and join Simon and Chris as they talk weird history, Fortean mysteries, and things that go bump in the night.
Podcasting since 2021 • 45 episodes
Boggart and Banshee: A Supernatural Podcast
Latest Episodes
Supernatural Serpents: Flying, Milking and Shape-Changing Snakes
Chris and Simon lift the stone on a nest of ancient terrors, with bosom serpents, snakes on tombs and in graves, helpful household ophidians, and the medicinal horrors of Asclepius’s temple. ('It did what to you?!') Simon tells of his own blood...
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Season 4
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Episode 7
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46:46
The Green Children of Woolpit: Fairies or Foreigners?
The Green Children of Woolpit: Fairies or Foreigners? Simon and Chris celebrate the new and definitive book by John Clark on the Green Children of Woolpit: two children with ‘leek-green’ skin who, in the middle of the twelfth century, said that...
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Season 4
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Episode 6
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45:42
Supernatural Music: Fairy Bagpipers, Phantom Fiddlers, and The Choir Invisible
***This episode has been our Jonah and has been cursed from the beginning! We are re-releasing it because the first version had fuzzy audio***Chris and Simon wind up the old gramophone and share some numbers from angelic choirs, the nodd...
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Season 4
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Episode 5
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44:49
Pixy-Led? The Truth about Fairy Disorientation!
Get lost in familiar places? You're not alone! Simon and Chris are bewildered by supernatural disorientation, including cases of people being pixy-led by Newfoundland fairies and Balkan witches. Discover traditional defenses against non-h...
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Season 4
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Episode 4
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48:21
Hells Bells: Polts, Underground Cities and Supernatural Disinfectant
Chris and Simon ring the changes on bell folklore: bells mysteriously rung by polts (or rats or monkeys or blackbirds), bells ringing in churches beneath the waves and in coalmines, and bells with the power ('supernatural bleach') to drive away...
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Season 4
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Episode 3
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46:34