Welcome to the Strangeology Podcast! I’m your host Jeff Foran. From Cryptozoology, UFOlogy and the paranormal – to legends, forbidden history and more. Listen in and explore the world of the strange & unexplained. Join me as I look into strange and fascinating tales and unearth the truths & theories behind some of the greatest mysteries out there… Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/strangeology-podcast-exploring-the-world-of-weird--6216321/support.
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A podcast that explores the unexplained and explains the unexplored, Blurry Photos seeks the facts behind the fiction of the world’s most fascinating, unbelievable, and chilling mysteries and legends. Focusing on lesser-known topics of Forteana, conspiracy, history, and folklore, Blurry Photos is driven by the desire for a better understanding of fringe subjects through research, storytelling, and rational thinking. Prepare your butts, because it’s time to learn something weird.
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Husband and wife team Zoe and Mike look into topics of the paranormal, folklore, cryptids, hauntings, UAP’s and aliens, conspiracies, and all manner of weird Forteana. Join us as we take it in turns presenting topics to each other, which we then discuss in our own irreverent manner - usually ending up talking about biscuits or something - and get in touch with your questions, comments, and your own stories!
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Unexplained mysteries, curiosities, eerie urban legends, tragic true crime... Mike and Martin discuss the dark oddities of life, with warmth, humour, an open mind, and a critical eye in this fresh new podcast from the team behind the Ghastly Tales Horror Show. Turn down the lights, pour a drink, and stay up with us as we talk till dawn. Tweet us @talkingtill
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The idea of a roadside Museum of Curiosity has always appealed to me. The Spookatorium is my nod to that… There is no dark ride here, no midnight movie house, no miniature golf course full of bizarre obstacles, no dusty oddities or head scratching curios… but I hope to bring you just a little of that spirit.
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Why are we here? Where do we come from? Where are we going?
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Ruddle Me This! With Taylor Ruddle is an independently produced Kiwi podcast based in Christchurch, New Zealand where the host Taylor Ruddle, an Award winning stand up comedian chats to artists, comedians, performers and anybody else interesting in a long form, chilled out, cosy conversation. If you want to know what it's like to be an up and coming Stand Up Comedian, then this is the pod for you!
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Are you a healer? You could be a healer and not even know it! If you're still reading this, you probably are! Grab a cuppa, sit back and relax and join Abby Wynne and guests as they chat about how to look after yourself while keeping your energy-body in mind. Through sharing personal stories about growth and spirituality, Abby and her guests are always forthcoming in sharing tools and techniques to help you heal yourself in mostly every podcast episode - see, I knew you were a healer! You do ...
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Join me for a most unusual and very fun episode of Healing for Healers where I am joined by Thomas Sheridan and Sara Mondaini. We talk about how they met, their thoughts on the paranormal, share some experiences that took us outside of the realms of normality, and, of course, we take a look at their new book, Hocus Focus. I hope you enjoy! --- Get …
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The first ever Ruddle Me This crossover episode! In this episode I'm doing a swapcast with Simone Whitlow from The Tales of History & Imagination Podcast! I'm trying to do a better job at connecting with other podcasters and this was a good first step. In this episode we chat about Simone's history performing in music, as well as how she got into h…
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Another great interview for you, this week I'm joined by comedian, surfer, photographer, civil engineer, wine maker and much more - Elisa Bonnafous! Elisa hails from France and is currently residing in Auckland where she's a cornerstone in the local stand up scene. We initially intended on talking about international travel but as the conversation …
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94. Coffee Guilds, Professional Box-tickers & The Crystal Pineapple with Mark "Chirny" Chirnside
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This episode is a rollercoaster from start to finish! I'm joined by coffee merchant, musician, sometimes comedian, potential future mayor of Christchurch, amateur box-ticker, businessman and Crystal Pineapple guild administrator - it's Mark "Chirny" Chirnside! I've been aware of Mark for several years and so it was great that he was able to stop by…
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Sorry squad, we've missed our Hoss Town upload for the month, Matt came down with a ripper of a migraine on the filming day and that was unfortunately my last window before a super busy 2 week period including a gig on the road and the taping of my special, so Hoss Town shall return in 2025! Luckily I have 1 more podcast in my Break Glass in case o…
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It's time for the 2024 edition of Strangeology's Halloween Spooktacular! For this one I dive into the stories behind some of the world's most cursed objects and places. These items have left a supernatural wake of death, tragedy and misfortune throughout history like the Myrtles Plantation Mirror or the Hope Diamond. Could there really be something…
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It didn't start so great - Anina's wifi crashed and we lost connection, but we did it again and used our intention to make it work regardless - I think we only have one glitch in the show, somewhere in the middle but you can bear with us I'm sure! The power of intention - we got there in the end! Sorry that there has been such a break in flow but I…
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It's another bonus episode! This week I'm joined by my dear friend JinJin from back in Japan. We reminisced about the time we performed an improv show at a hostel in the middle of nowhere to an audience of Chinese tourists with me only speaking English, the other 2 only speaking Japanese, and the tourists speaking neither, somehow it was actually a…
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Shockingly fast, here's another Volume of The Phantom Files! This time featuring four chilling tales and I also share my findings after getting out into the field and doing some research at a pretty commonly accepted haunted location in my town - The Riccarton House! I spoke to a guide there who told me that they were sensitive to spirits and have …
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Camille Sauvé discusses her book Sorcerers of Stone: Architects of The Three Ages Listen to the full show on Legalise Freedom Dot Com All around the world are mysterious ancient monoliths with strange features, and abstract forms with underground grottos and cave systems. Most archaeologists cannot explain them and attribute their construction to t…
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This week I'm joined by local Christchurch Musician Ruby Kush! I booked a meeting room in the central Christchurch Library, Turanga and we recorded the episode there as something a bit different. We talked about her history as a musician, how she got started releasing tracks and what it's like trying to make a living as a musician in Christchurch. …
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On this edition of the Strangeology Podcast I bring on brand new guest, cryptid & Bigfoot researcher, Harley Owens of Bigfoot Reports & Data. We go into his jumping off point of getting into in the field Bigfoot research, along with his encounters with these creatures, and some other terrifying things out in the Appalachian wilderness, like Dogman.…
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Wowza what a guest I have for you this week! It's TV's Courtney Dawson! If you follow comedy then Courtney will be very familiar to you. I was lucky enough to catch Courtney while she was down for a few days and recorded this hilarious podcast. One of the funniest people in NZ on and off stage. We talked about things such as: how does a white perso…
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Get your tickets to my Panic! At The Buffet comedy taping on the 26th of October 2024 HERE I recently watched the film Manjhi – The Mountain Man, about Dashrath Manjhi, a real life Indian man who carved a road through a mountain using only hand tools over the course of 22 years to make a road for his village to get to a nearby bigger village, reduc…
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The conclusion to my 2-part America's Cryptid Road Trip series. This episode covers the West Coast, Mountains, Plains states, and into the Midwest where there are some of the scariest and interesting cryptids and legends can be found. Don't miss this one! Watch this episode over on my YouTube Channel! ----- Be sure to check out our website, strange…
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Get your tickets to my Panic! At The Buffet comedy taping on the 26th of October 2024 HERE In this episode, I brought back my regular compadre, Hamish Mabon-Ross to discuss the Young Adult horror vampire novel series that we both enjoyed in our youth - The Saga of Darren Shan! I had been feeling really nostalgic for this series as of late and when …
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Thomas Sheridan and Sara Mondaini discuss their book ‘Hocus Focus – Merging Forteana, Hauntology and High Strangeness’. Other interviews with Thomas Sheridan Bumper music: Cliff Martinez ‘Traffic OST’由Greg Moffitt
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Get your tickets to my Panic! At The Buffet comedy taping on the 26th of October 2024 HERE Back from the grave! It's another edition of The Phantom Files, just over a year later than Volume III. As usual I've got some fantastic tales to share, in this episode Rebecca from Volume I makes a return telling us about an entity she created called The Hun…
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Get your tickets to my Panic! At The Buffet comedy taping on the 26th of October 2024 HERE In this episode I'm joined by Wellington based stand-up comedian, Dan Boerman who just returned from a hell of a run at the Edinburgh Fringe and so wanted to spread some of the wisdom he acquired while over there doing everything solo and yet still having mas…
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Get your tickets to my Panic! At The Buffet comedy taping on the 26th of October 2024 HERE In this episode I'm joined by a Christchurch based Therapist, Logan Robinson! Hot dog, he's a proper therapist and everything. We met very randomly as I saw a post he made on Reddit about offering cheap therapy, $60 every 2 weeks so just $30 a week. I felt th…
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LF421 Christopher Dunn – Giza: The Tesla Connection – Acoustical Science and the Harvesting of Clean Energy
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Christopher Dunn discusses his latest book Giza: the Tesla Connection – Acoustical Science & The Harvesting Of Clean Energy Listen to the full show on Legalise Freedom Dot Com. Sharing extensive new evidence and cutting-edge research that the Great Pyramid at Giza was an energy-harvesting machine, Christopher Dunn details how the ancient Egyptians …
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Get your tickets to my Panic! At The Buffet comedy taping on the 26th of October 2024 HERE In this episode I'm joined by probably the sweetest man in comedy - it's Kieran Carr! We met in November 2023 ish in New Zealand and even though he's back in the UK now we've stayed loosely in touch and he was keen to join me for an episode where we discussed…
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Dive into the mysterious world of cryptids in the United States of America! For this edition of the show I'm taking a cross country road trip to unveil the stories and legend of strange creatures said to inhabit each state in the USA. From Bigfoot in the Pacific Northwest to the Jersey Devil in the Pine Barrens, you'll learn about their folklore, s…
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Get your tickets to my Panic! At The Buffet comedy taping on the 26th of October 2024 HERE This week I'm joined by improviser, comedian and all round funny fella, Jarrod Cook! We thought it might be fun to do some improv comedy live on the podcast and so independently came up with 5 characters to do small audio-only sketches as and then the other p…
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Get your tickets to my Panic! At The Buffet comedy taping on the 26th of October 2024 HERE This time I'm joined by my Can Do Comedy Compatriate, Matt Threadwell! I've known Matt for several years and this is surprisingly one of the first outside of stand up projects we have done together, sorry it took so long Matt, but it was a great episode! Matt…
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Ruddle me this now has a proper website! Visit www.ruddlemethis.com to check it out! In this episode I'm joined by Christchurch comedian, Tim Kelly! I wanted to bring Tim on to do a bit of an experiment and do a much looser format, this is the first podcast recorded on my new 2 person setup at home and it was so much fun. We chatted about The Olymp…
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In this episode, the Dons of Hoss Town yap up a storm about the potential lockdown 2: electric boogaloo that we might have to go through, before moving on to something a bit lighter in the closing of Big Gary's Takeaways here in Christchurch as well as their favourite fish & chip establishments. Matt bares his soul and talks about the incredibly to…
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Ruddle me this now has a proper website! Visit www.ruddlemethis.com to check it out! Like I mentioned last week in the interview with Kit Zakimi, I lived in Japan for about 3 years between 2014 and 2018, as it turns out I needed to use one of my pre-recorded "Break Glass" episodes due to being very busy the last few weeks so using the Japan one fel…
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August 2024 and things are moving so fast. The last few years have certainly beeb Interesting times, but right now in particular, it feels like a privilege to be alive. We are becoming more intuitive. Healing is faster now. People are having more conversations that they may not have had before. It’s not all bad, you know? I hope you enjoy this chat…
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Today I'm joined by my friend Kit Zakimi, an up and coming YouTuber based in Okinawa. Kit and I have known each other for several years and worked together a few times but never actually had a face to face chat like we did on zoom this time. It was so nice being able to reminisce about Japan with Kit, as well as get an insight into what it's like a…
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On this edition of the show, I invited a brand new guest, author, illustrator, and realm hopper, Michael Thompson. In it we discuss his Winslow Hoffner book series, which encompasses folklore and tales of different sea monsters and cryptids. The show also takes an unexpected dive into the paranormal as well. Check out Michael's website here ----- B…
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In this episode I'm joined by Geoff Wilson and we break down the movie The Menu (2022) which I've seen 3 times and each experience has been a totally different one. We talk about the idea of Greatness in the arts, whether the sacrifice is worth it in the end, how to stay happy as an artist as well as figuring out why we do the things we do. It's a …
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In this episode I'm joined by Dayvid, the second half of the Won Nothing podcast as well as a rising star in the paranormal community via his page Down The Rabbit Hole on Instagram! Initially I brought Dayvid on the pod to do a Tiny Joys episode but we just got chatting and next thing I knew it had been an hour and we had been getting DEEP on some …
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On this edition of the show, I brought on Tate Hieronymus who has been involved in the Bluff Creek Project and more recently, Sasquatch: A Search for Sabe. We chatted all about his field work into researching and looking for the ever elusive Bigfoot. We discussed some of the best evidence out there, such as the Patterson-Gimlin Film and more. Check…
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In this episode I'm joined by The Duchess of Death - Amanda Goodwin, 1/2 of the Won Nothing Podcast who were kind enough to host me a couple of months ago, so now it's my turn to repay the favour! Amanda's Tiny Joys Little fish in pools of water that collect during rainy season Neighbour's bird calls during the day Baby lizards that find their way …
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In this episode, the fellas Big Socra-tays and Big Plate-o wax lyrical on Matt's first Funday Laughs gig, Standard Hoss Behaviour, eating McDonald's, Hosses in Politics, William Taft literally changing the health exam for presidents, which NZ politicians we could beat in a fight, Trump's assassination attempt, and the Tenacious D fallout afterwards…
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You can follow Brendan's YouTube channel here - @Cosmic-Chaplain Get a FREE copy of my new book, Weapons of Mass Protection here: https://bit.ly/MassProtection About Brendan: Brendan Mooney (BA, MA, PG. Dip) is a psychotherapist and spiritual care lead at the Norfolk Hospice, in the U.K. He has over thirty years’ experience working with people with…
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James Howard Kunstler and Greg Moffitt in conversation. Listen to the full show on Legalise Freedom Dot Com. To quote the opening lines from the 1979 science fiction series The Quatermass Conclusion, “In the last quarter of the 20th century, the whole world seemed to sicken. Civilised institutions, whether old or new, fell, as if some primal disord…
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Seán Tinker is BACK and he brings us through his Tiny Joys. If you haven't, go back and listen to his previous episode about how to make it as a musician. Seán Tinker's Tiny Joys Harsh Lessons Misheard/misunderstood lyrics Reoccurring numbers Overanalysing films Follow Seán on Insta HERE -- Ruddle me this now has a proper website! Visit www.ruddlem…
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On this edition of the Strangeology Podcast I bring on brand new guest, Jim Harold of the Paranormal Podcast and Jim Harold's Campfire Podcast. This was a fun conversation with one of the originals in the fortean podcasting realm that had some twists and turns that I was not expecting. We talked about it all, from ghost stories, aliens & UFOs, cryp…
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In this episode I'm joined by Alan McElroy, Irish born comedian currently residing in Auckland, New Zealand. He runs the incredibly popular Crack Up Quiz Nights, Crack Up Comedy Nights, Booze & Craic Comedy Nights and does a whole lot more I'm sure! I'd been wanting to pick Alan's brain forever so this was an awesome opportunity to me and I'm very …
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I watched this show called The Lazarus Project and wanted to ramble about it! Watch my full hour-long stand up special Ruddzilla for FREE on YouTube here! Fill out the Ruddle Me This! Survey HERE I'd love it if you could leave this podcast a review on Spotify, Apple Podcasts or GoodPods. Follow Taylor Online: YouTube, Tiktok, Instagram, or Facebook…
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James Tunney and Greg Moffitt in conversation. Listen to the full show on Legalise Freedom Dot Com. Beyond even transhumanism, posthumanism seeks to eradicate the human being as we know it. Where transhumanism advocates augmentation and enhancement of the mind and body, posthumanism aims to replace humans completely, reducing the population of natu…
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In this episode I'm joined by a good friend Seán Tinker who's recently made the jump to being a full time entertainer like myself. I had so many questions for Seán about how he makes a living, how he got started, what was his breaking point to quitting the day job, etc. so it was awesome to be able to sit down with him and pick his brain. It's a gr…
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In this edition of the show I brought on Nash Hoover of Chasing Legends to chat about his experiences with starting his own company and team which has gone out to investigate a number of the strange and interesting creatures that may lurk in the dark corners of America. Although Chasing Legends has been on a bit of a hiatus, Nash plans to bring thi…
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In this episode I'm joined by Liv McKenzie, one of the new generation of comics in NZ well on her way to becoming a massive star. Easily my biggest comedic guest on the pod so far, so it's a very exciting day for me! We had a chat about what Liv has been up to post-comedy-fest, why it's important to keep yourself grounded as an entertainer and then…
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Watch the FULL episode WITH VIDEO for FREE on YouTube HERE! In this episode the dons of Hoss Town put together their personal list of Mt Hossmore, 4 of the greatest hosses who represent the hossest of the hoss. Taylor’s List Jack Black Andy Ruiz John Pinette Samoa Joe Matt’s List Andre the giant John Goodman Shaq - Charles Barkley Hagrid Honourable…
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Fill out the survey about the show HERE! Episode 70 already, blimey! If there was a comedy guild award for milking my previous content until it was long dry, I'd be the undisputed winner many years running. I watched the movie Contagion a couple of weeks ago and it got me thinking about the pandemic again and I'd always wanted to do a comedy specia…
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On this edition of the Strangeology Podcast return guest, Aaron Deese comes back to talk about his brand new book, Hunting Grounds : Dogmen of the Lakes released though Small Town Monsters Publishing, and it’s a great follow up in his research on the Dogman phenomena with some very interesting lore about this elusive cryptid, and beyond! Aaron's Po…
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LF418 Alan Pearce – Coma and Near-Death Experience: The Beautiful, Disturbing and Dangerous World of the Unconscious
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Alan Pearce discusses the book Coma and Near-Death Experience: The Beautiful, Disturbing, and Dangerous World of the Unconscious Listen to the full show on Legalise Freedom Dot Com. Every day around the world, thousands of people are placed in medically-induced comas. For some coma survivors, the experience is an utter blank. Others lay paralyzed, …
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