
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 • 50 episodes
Boggart and Banshee: A Supernatural Podcast
Latest Episodes
Victorian Shapeshifters: Furries, Shaggies or Folk Angels?
Is it a dog!? Is it a calf?! No, it’s something in between or just possibly a headless bear or a giant lolloping rabbit, instead. Simon and Chris debate the appearance and habits of a class of supernatural creatures Simon insists on calling, to...
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Season 4
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Episode 12
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50:14

Highway to Hell: Road Ghosts and Phantom Hitchhikers
Chris and Simon hit the road with tales of spectral travelers: headless motorcyclists, driverless hearses, ghostly coaches, and hitchhikers who vanish mid-ride. Highway hobgoblins leap into passing carriages and crossroads—where suicides were b...
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Season 4
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Episode 11
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52:44

Household Helper Spirits: from Brownie to Hob
Simon and Chris are pixelated by household helpers, those elusive, often hairy beings like Brownies, Tomten, and Skrats who muck out stables, scrub pans, rock babies, edit podcasts and occasionally fetch the midwife, all in exchange for a humbl...
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Season 4
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Episode 10
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47:32

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
