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 • 47 episodes
Boggart and Banshee: A Supernatural Podcast
Latest Episodes
Supernatural Feathers: Death Beds, Witchcraft and Angels
Chris and Simon wing it through the strange world of feather folklore — from cursed peacock plumes to pillows that prevent the dying from slipping away. Do feather crowns signal a heavenly reward or a witch’s curse? Simon’s disturbed by beds hi...
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Season 4
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Episode 9
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51:21
The Deerness Mermaid: The Best Attested Nineteenth-Century Cryptid
Simon and Chris dive into a rare cryptid case from Orkney where hundreds of witnesses saw a 'mermaid' swimming in the sea, sitting on a rock, snacking on fish and eels, and tending to her child. Stories of the mermaid went viral in the press. W...
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Season 4
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Episode 8
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49:49
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