Boggart and Banshee: A Supernatural Podcast

What spirits (holy and otherwise) haunt churches? Women in white, ghostly clergymen, fairies, angels, organist twins, naughty nuns, and giant maggots. Simon and Chris bicker, in this ecclesiastical outing, about consecrated ground, wimples, the recording properties of stones, the mental health of vicars' families and double dipping. Chris tells of infernal churches in the States, while Simon pontificates about church porches where the dead foretell the coming year. In just forty-five minutes expect to learn: how to get to hell via a church; why churches are like muzzled dogs; and where to get a glimpse of Jimmy Garlick (bring a shilling).

Ghostly rabbits, witchy hares... Welcome to one of the strangest corners of the supernatural warren. Chris and Simon talk sheep-killing, human attacking, Roman-hating, bad luck bringing bunnies and speculate about why rabbits and hares so terrified our ancestors. In this episode you will learn: what a graveyard bunny is; tricks for getting off a poaching charge; and how to sabotage a witch trial with a hare in a sack. Other highlights include: Donnie Darko, the axe-wielding Bunny Man, Lewis Carroll's White Rabbit, Stonehenge encounters, and Chris's ickie rabbit foot embargo. Will the two get hopping mad with each other or will they share a carrot and be friends? Find out on Boggart and Banshee's Night of the Lepus.

It's been 50 glorious episodes of nattering and squabbling and dramatic readings about all forms of the supernatural!  Chris and Simon reminisce fondly about how they first met (it involves a baby, a settee and an unfortunate accident). The duo answer questions from readers: when can we expect Fairy Census 3? What is the origin of the phrase 'fairies at the bottom of the garden'? Why does Simon hate Gef? What are Chris' favourite horror reads? They reveal their favorite episodes, share some ideas about supernatural encounters, and discuss 'Is Bigfoot, known to braid horse's manes and take food offerings just a large hairy fairy?' They also give an honest answer to the question of whether they have actually encountered a fairy/boggart/leprechaun... Tune in to find out!

Roll out the U-Haunt truck while Chris and Simon load up stories of haunted furniture. Simon tests out haunted chairs where ghosts sit and deftly avoids cursed seats. Chris takes joy in bouncing beds from brothels and trap beds that make human sausage meat. There is the murderer trunk and the toy box with angry gnomes. Clocks foretell death (and, in rare instances, prevent premature burials). Do humans get so attached to household furnishings that they cling to them even after death? Can a piece of furniture somehow influence us in weird ways? Or do spirits possess possessions? And what about the IKEA ghost, Chris's vacuum cleaner tale, the Monet painting and Simon's bagatelle board? All will be revealed in the October episode of Boggart and Banshee!

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 Chris's irritation, 'furries': solitary, shaggy shapeshifters that haunted the roads and wilds of nineteenth century Britain. These ambiguous animals, with their trademark fiery, saucer-like eyes, might predict death, assault those who confront them, or protect vulnerable travelers from attack. Then there are the big questions. Did these shapeshifters make their way to the United States as Chris claims? Did they become the Alien Big Cats and Black Dogs of modern folklore, as Simon insists? Are they ghosts, cryptids, fairy-animals, or just a mangy tabby glimpsed in the moonlight? And watch out for swelling sheep on those late-night rambles.

Further Reading
Wilder Mann, Charles Freger https://www.charlesfreger.com/portfolio/wilder-mann-fr/
Explore phantom black dogs, Bob Trubshaw
Black Dog Folklore, Mark Norman
Mystery Big Cats, Merrily Harpur
American Monsters, Linda S. Godfrey
Monsters Among Us, Linda S. Godfrey
http://hauntedohiobooks.com/news/creature-feature-something-between-a-dog-and-a-calf/
Past Praying For: Something Sinister in a Field http://hauntedohiobooks.com/news/12988/
http://hauntedohiobooks.com/news/a-ghost-of-evil-odour/
http://hauntedohiobooks.com/news/black-dogs-and-dynamite-south-mountains-washington-monument/
https://esoterx.com/2018/11/06/exit-stage-left-pursued-by-a-ghost-bear/