Cian is joined at the cabin by David & Mercedas from the Worker’s Cauldron to talk about a variety of paranormal topics and their cultural/political influences. Subjects include: -evolution of Wicca -social context and the paranormal -alien abduction in the 90s -creating episodes -David’s trip to Bluff Creek -colonial literature’s influence on Forteana -Demonic possession and economic anxieties -Ghost-hunting groups -The Ballinspittle Moving Statues -70s Haunted House Stories -Vampire as political satire -Phantom helicopters -Influence of the X-Files Worker’s Cauldron Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-workers-cauldron/id1527590843 Books & Articles Mentioned: Our Most Troubling Madness, Tanya Luhrmann Drawing Down The Moon, Margaret Adler Triumph Of The Moon, Ronald Hutton They Know Us Better Than We Know Ourselves, Brigette Brown Communion, Whitley Strieber UFO Abduction Reports: The Supernatural Kidnap Narrative Returns in technological Guise, Thomas E Bullard Explorers Of The Nile, Tim Jeal The Great Orm Of Loch Ness, Ted Holiday Hunting Dinosaurs In Central Africa, Edward Guimont The Water Horses of Loch Ness, Roland Watson Hostage To The Devil, Malachi Martin Monsters Of The Market, David McNally

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Paranormal, People, & Politics with the Workers Cauldron

Sharon Hill joins us to speak about Spooky Geology and Ley Lines! We discuss the origins of the lines before they became associated with mystical ideas, leys as a way to connect with landscape, how they’re thought of in the paranormal community today, connections to UFOs (of course!), a little bit of Stone Tape Theory, and some real geological processes that might have been an influence on the idea. Sharon’s Strange Times https://sharonahill.substack.com/ Spooky Geology https://spookygeology.com/ Sharon’s Twitter https://twitter.com/IDoubtIt Scientifical Americans https://sharonahill.com/scientifical-americans/ Sharon discussing Paranormal Researchers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hgmTl12isA&t=1704s Spooky Archaeology, Jeb Card https://unmpress.com/books/spooky-archaeology/9780826359148 Analogue Ghosts of the 1970s and Hauntology https://celluloidwickerman.com/2015/07/20/analogue-ghosts-of-the-1970s-and-hauntology/

Ley Lines and Spooky Geology (with Sharon Hill)

The history of beliefs regarding lost cities and civilizations beneath the Earth's surface is as vast and winding as the caverns of Agartha itself. In this episode we welcome Edward Guimont back to the cabin for a chat about some of the most interesting characters who have contributed to Hollow Earth thinking. Beginning with an apocryphal  tale of American pilot Admiral Byrd encountering a super-civilization of Nordic Masters inside the Hollow Earth, we cycle back to John Cleeve Symmes and his manifest destiny-style plans to conquer the Hollow Earth for the USA. Meet Raymond Bernard, the health food utopian who placed flying saucers within the Hollow Earth, Willy Ley, who wrote on occult Nazi beliefs, and Gerard Kuiper, respected astronomer who lended legitimacy to the idea that Nazis studied the sky in order to spot the movements of allied vessels on the far side of the concave Hollow Earth.  NOTES: Buy Me A Coffee https://buymeacoffee.com/wideatlantic Dr Edward Guimont on Twitter https://twitter.com/edward_guimont Dr Edward Guimont’s Website https://edwardguimont.com/ Impossible Archive Podcast https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-impossible-archive/id1571034015 Full text of the supposed Admiral Byrd secret diary http://www.v-j-enterprises.com/byrdiar.html Pseudoscience in Naziland, Willy Ley http://www.alpenfestung.com/ley_pseudoscience.htm German Astronomy During The War, Gerard Kuiper http://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1946PA.....54..263K

Tales From The Hollow Earth (with Dr Edward Guimont)

Pack your harmonica and join an expedition into the murky world of 1970s low-budget docudrama-making as we take a look at Bigfoot hunter Robert Morgan's 1974 'American Yeti' Expedition into the Pacific Northwest, and the recobbled film 'Bigfoot: Man Or Beast' that chronicles this epic event! NOTES: Sasquatch hunters need coffee. Help me out here: https://buymeacoffee.com/wideatlantic Bigfoot: Man Or Beast on Youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XeJ-KORUt5E&t=73s Bigfoot, The Life And Times Of A Legend, Joshue Blu Buhs https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/B/bo6407648.html The Mysterious Monster Mash of the Mid 70s, Sharon Hill https://sharonahill.com/2019/07/05/the-mysterious-monster-mash/ Regional Horror Films 1958-1990, Brian Albright https://mcfarlandbooks.com/product/regional-horror-films-1958-1990/

Bigfoot At The Movies: Man Or Beast

Cian and Victoria discuss the definitive Dracula of their childhood, Francis Ford Coppola's 1992 'Bram Stoker's Dracula!,' which is a mouthful. NOTES: Buy Me A Coffee because I never drink wine! https://www.buymeacoffee.com/wideatlantic Victoria's Twitter https://twitter.com/vpearsonduffy The Impossible Archive, Project Blue Book episode https://impossiblearchive.podbean.com/e/project-blue-book-ft-kate-dorsch/ Marsh's Library Dublin exhibition on Bram Stoker https://www.marshlibrary.ie/digi/exhibits/show/haunting From The Shadow Of Dracula, Paul Murray, 2004 https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/151492.From_the_Shadow_of_Dracula In Research Of Podcast - Dracula (*NOT Monster Talk as I mistakenly said in the episode! Listen to their addendum too!) https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/in-research-of/s01e16-dracula-CGz6e8YudIF/ Bram Stoker And The Seduction Of Old School Movie Magic, David Crow https://www.denofgeek.com/movies/bram-stoker-dracula-visual-effects-francis-ford-coppola/ The Art of Dracula 1992, Nick Louras https://nicklouras.com/2020/10/17/the-art-of-dracula-92/

Oceans Of Time: Thoughts On Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992) with Victoria Pearson

Recorded at the tail (aha!) end of an uncharacteristic Irish heatwave, and following a spot of solo camping that accidentally strayed into mystery big cat territory, Cian marshalls some thoughts on the subject of ABCs or Alien Big Cats. With some detail on the Exmoor Beast and the Surrey Puma, as well as thoughts on whether this is a flesh-and-blood happening, or something more mystical.

Some Thoughts On Mystery Big Cats

In a MUSICAL episode long delayed, Cian welcomes Leanne from The Strange Ways blog to talk about the special place the chilly polar extremes have always held in fact and specifically horror fiction. The poles themselves become mirrors through which colonial-era Europeans saw themselves and measured their achievements. We discuss Dan Simmons' book The Terror, the more recent TV adaptation, the clairvoyants who searched for the lost Captain Franklin, Arthur Conan Doyle's captain Of The Pole Star, ghost stories of Scott and Shackleton, Frankenstein and its polar bookend, and lovecraft's At The Mountains Of Madness. And there's even a couple of polar exploration-themed songs along the way! Songs performed by Geraldine Gill, Kevin Gill and Cian Gill. Intro music by Kevin Gill and Cian Gill Buy Me An Eldritch, Cyclopian Coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/wideatlantic Leanne's Blog, The Strange Ways http://www.thestrangeways.co.uk/ The Spectral Arctic, Shane McCorristine https://www.uclpress.co.uk/products/107752 Writing The Disaster, Franklin and Frankenstein, Adriana Craciun https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/ncl.2011.65.4.433 The Sea of Ice And The Icy Sea, The Arctic Frame Of Frankenstein, Janice Cavell https://www.jstor.org/stable/26379743 

Lost Souls and Lost Cities: Stories of Polar Terror

Take THAT, Bembridge scholars! Cian is delighted to welcome Lauren the Gothic Bookworm to the cabin for an awesome chat about all things Mummy, curses, and of course, Victorian Gothic! So many of our favourite writers, books, historical topics and more appear, including but not limited to: -the mummy in comparison to other 'classic' monsters -The Victorian/Edwardian fascination with Egypt and mummies; colonialism & orientalism -Victorian 'invasion' literature -early Victorian mummy fiction -Arthur Conan Doyle's mummy & curse stories -HR Haggard's mummy and Egypt in his fiction -The British Museum unlucky mummycase -Favourite mummy movies, including the 1959 and 1999 mummies Buy Me A Coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/wideatlantic Gothic Bookworm https://www.instagram.com/gothicbookworm/ Mummy Mania Mondays https://www.instagram.com/mummymaniamondays/ The Anatomy Shelf https://Theanatomyshelf.substack.com The Mummy’s Curse, Roger Luckhurst https://www.bookdepository.com/Mummys-Curse-Roger-Luckhurst/9780199698714 Other sources: Nicky Nielsen: Egyptomaniacs Bob Brier: Egyptomania & Mummies Jasmine Day: Mummymania

Mummy Lore In Myth And Fiction (with Lauren the Gothic Bookworm)

Best remembered today for his incredible output of genre-defining early science fiction novels during the 1890s, for much of his career Herbert George Wells was perhaps better known for other things. From the early 1900s he positioned himself as a man who would predict the future. Cian and Dónal chat about War of The Worlds, When The Sleeper Wakes, Well' ideas about progress and eugenics, and about his amusing meetings with other famous folks from his day - Joseph Conrad, George Orwell, Orson Wells, Charlie Chaplin and even Joseph Stalin. No-one would have believed, in the last minutes of listening to the podcast, that you would support the show by sending us a coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/wideatlantic War of the Worlds: One More Day cardgame https://www.instagram.com/waroftheworlds_onemoreday/

Man Of The Year Million: The Ideas and Futurism of HG Wells (with Dr Dónal Gill)

From the vaults, comes a Crichton-adjacent bonus episode in which Cian and Chris 'The Voice' Joyce discuss Jurassic Park: Trespasser, a famous over-reaching early open-world game that pretty much disappointed everybody upon its release. But, sifting through the wreckage of this abandoned dream, the guys discover that somehow, life ... has found a way. NOTES: After much consideration, you have decided to endorse the podcast: Buy Me A Coffee The Jurassic Time Youtube videos of Hammond's memoir Jurassic Time

Bonus Episode: Jurassic Park Trespasser

Cameron McCormick, writer on marine monster mysteries and sea serpent superfan, drops into the cabin to talk about the work and influence of Bernard Heuvelmans, remembered as the 'father of cryptozoology.' Heuvelmans was important as an early figure in the codification of cryptozoology, but many of his ideas were to remain unique to him in the decades that followed. Despite his respected status as a pioneer, not many who followed built upon the specific zoological ideas he came up with to explain monster sightings. In this episode we focus particularly on Heuvelmans' classification system for sea serpent sightings. He believed there were (approx) nine different categories of unknown enormous underwater animals. NOTES Buy me a coffee, ya landlubber https://www.buymeacoffee.com/wideatlantic Cameron's Blog https://thelordgeekington.wordpress.com/ Cameron's Tumblr https://biologicalmarginalia.tumblr.com/ Cameron with Sharon Hill and Tyler Greenfield talk about the International Society of Cryptozoology, recommended! Eddie's new podcast The Impossible Archive, recommended! https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-impossible-archive/id1571034015?i=1000524899589 Plastic Plesiosaur podcast episode https://plasticplesiosaurpodcast.buzzsprout.com/1751781/8671862-meet-your-maker-interview-with-monsterquest-creator-doug-hajicek Brazil That Never Was https://www.nottinghilleditions.com/product/brazil-that-never-was/#:~:text=Brazil%20That%20Never%20Was,-As%20a%20boy&text=The%20book%20told%20the%20true,the%20Amazon%2C%20and%20never%20returned. Montreal Bloomsday Video Interview https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iel_Ypqk1qI Searching For Sasquatch by Brian Regal https://www.isu.edu/media/libraries/rhi/book-reviews/Eggheads-and-Crackpots.pdf The ISC Journals http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/Cryptozoology%20(ISC)/ 

Heuvelmania: Bernard's Sea Serpent Classification System (with Cameron McCormick)

Michael Crichton had a habit of recycling various Victorian-era fringe beliefs and obsessions in his techno-thriller fiction. With Eaters Of The Dead, he created a faux-academic 'translation' of the travels of the real-life Ibn Fadlan. The resulting novel has echoes of Beowulf, elements of cryptozoology, relic hominids, and a positive portrayal of Vikings as part of America's changing process of self-identification. Incoming professor of history at Bristol Community College, Fall River, MA, Dr Edward Guimont rejoins the pod to discuss all this, with many links to other subjects familiar to listeners here at the cabin in the woods, in NEANDERTHALS AND NORTHMEN: EATERS OF THE DEAD. BuyMeACoffee, you Viking dog! https://www.buymeacoffee.com/wideatlantic Dr Edward Guimont’s Twitter https://twitter.com/edward_guimont Dr Edward Guimont's Website https://edwardguimont.com/ Love In The Time Of Chasmosaurs article about the Ladybird Lost World https://www.buymeacoffee.com/wideatlantic Ladybird Lost World on Tape https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvNLbyuqsLU In Search Of First Contact, Annette Kolodny https://www.dukeupress.edu/in-search-of-first-contact 

Neanderthals And Northmen: Eaters Of The Dead (with Dr Edward Guimont)

A classic episode about the fascination 1950s America had with a woman who relived a past life as a 19th century woman from Cork! Hypnotism, regression, and a time in podcasting history ...

From The Vaults: The Reincarnation of Bridey Murphy

Dr Tom Ellis talks about the myth of the Lost Cosmonauts, why this symbol has had such staying power, and what it tells us about Western perceptions about the Soviet Union and its space programme. Topics include: -American reactions to Yuri Gagarin’s flight -The secrecy of the Soviet space programme breeding rumours and myths -The idea of the ‘communist mind’ and communism as a ‘secular religion’ -Robert Heinlein and the Lost Cosmonauts -‘Yurimania’ and promoting Yuri Gagarin as a sex symbol -The Italian Battista brothers’ claims of recording lost cosmonauts -The Lost Cosmonaut image in film and art as a representation of memories of the Soviet state -Vladimir Komarov, the ‘real’ lost cosmonaut -Lost cosmonauts as a political idea vs a cultural idea LINKS Buy Me A Coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/wideatlantic Tom Ellis on Twitter https://twitter.com/Tomsomol Tom Ellis’s Blog https://redskyatdawn.wordpress.com/ Gagarin And The Lost Moon https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000v24g Tsar-Bomb album https://heimatderkatastrophe.bandcamp.com/album/hdk-68-bajkonur Imogen Knox’ article on Haxan https://terribleimaginations.wordpress.com/2021/04/24/haxan-rationalism-and-retrospective-diagnosis/ Bobcat Goldthwait’s American Bigfoot https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTY8xinMrSI Conspiracy Culture, Peter Knight, 2000 https://www.routledge.com/Conspiracy-Culture-From-Kennedy-to-The-X-Files/Knight-Knight/p/book/9780415189781 Hermann Oberth https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermann_Oberth Roadside Picnics Article by darmon Richter: Chernobyl and the Falcon Lake UFO Incident https://www.exutopia.com/chernobyl-ufos-falcon-lake/ The Space Suit Film, Gary Westfahl, 2012 https://books.google.ie/books/about/The_Spacesuit_Film.html?id=kej2ygAACAAJ&redir_esc=y Supposed Lost Cosmonaut Recordings http://web.archive.org/web/20180309024747/http://www.lostcosmonauts.net/man.htm http://web.archive.org/web/20180309024745/http://www.lostcosmonauts.net/wom.htm Sven Grahn’s Article about Torre Bert http://www.svengrahn.pp.se/trackind/Torre/TorreB.html Into The Silent Sea: Short Lost Cosmonaut Film https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2rmTVKU37Y The Cosmonaut Who Couldn’t Stop Smiling, Andrew L. Jenks, 2012 https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13226355-the-cosmonaut-who-couldn-t-stop-smiling 

Red Sky At Night: In Search Of The Lost Cosmonauts (with Dr Tom Ellis)

Cian is joined by Imogen Knox for a chat about witchcraft belief during the early modern period. Subjects covered: -stereotypes about medieval vs early modern witch trials -witch hunts as a 'top down' or 'bottom-up/ phenomenon? -vomiting of pins, apports, and other witch-related phenomena -the role of authorities in witch hunts -Matthew Hopkins, the Witchfinder General -witch-hunting before/after the Reformation -a case from Co Antrim and an earlier case it may be patterned after -the role of Margaret Murray, Montague Summers and Dennis Wheatley in shaping modern ideas about witches NOTES: Buy Me A Coffee!! Please and thank you :) https://www.buymeacoffee.com/wideatlantic Imogen Knox on Twitter https://twitter.com/Imogen_Knox Imogen's Blog, Terrible Imaginations https://terribleimaginations.wordpress.com/ Wonderful and True Tale of the Bewitching of a Young Girl in Ireland https://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebo/B03653.0001.001/1:2?rgn=div1;view=fulltext Alternative original version of the story http://witching.org/production/brimstone/detail.php?mode=assertions&pid=153 Fantastic Fights Podcast, House of Hell episode https://www.hauntedphonograph.com/fantastic-fights-and-where-to-find-them/tag/house+of+hell 

Early Modern Witchcraft Belief (with Imogen Knox)

In the new Post-Truth world, it's hard to know what to believe. That's why Wide Atlantic Weird explores conspiracies, cryptids, urban legends and weird fiction to find out just why people believe weird things. Enter the WAW cabin with Cian and his guests (but have a beer handy!)

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