Modern Fairy Sightings Podcast

Ep 88. Jeremy Harte: Medieval Fairy Encounters

Fairy Encounters in Medieval England: Landscape, Folklore and the Supernatural

Jeremy Harte is an independent folklore researcher and author. He’s written a number of books on the subject including Explore Fairy Traditions which won the 2005 Katharine Briggs Award and Cloven Country: The Devil and the English Landscape

His new book Fairy Encounters in Medieval England: Landscape, Folklore and the Supernatural is a really great read. It’s entertaining and wittily written. Supernatural encounters from primary source material are tied together through the chapters and also include stories related to documented miracles. The second half covers fairy-related place names in the English landscape.

His new book Fairy Encounters in Medieval England: Landscape, Folklore and the Supernatural is a really great read. It’s entertaining and wittily written. Primary source encounters are tied together through the chapters and also include stories related to documented miracles too. The second half covers place names in the English landscape.

⭐️ In the B O N U S on P A T R E O N I read a couple of pages of the new book!

🤩 Jeremy is a bit of a legend in the folklore circles, so do catch him live at an event if you can…he’s a great speaker.

Warning: These are not fairytales. The Modern Fairy Sightings Podcast is designed for viewers and listeners 16 years and older. This show is unsuitable for children or anyone who might be sensitive to creepy content.

Warning: These are not fairytales. The Modern Fairy Sightings Podcast is designed for viewers and listeners 16 years and older. This show is unsuitable for children or anyone who might be sensitive to creepy content.

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Ep 86: Dark Man Appears on Glastonbury Tor: Jessica Mitchell

Big thanks to Jessica for sharing her story 🌿

I first heard about Jessica’s encounter with a tall dark man on Glastonbury Tor on Darragh Mason’s Spirit Box Podcast. Since then, she feels her sense of this being has developed further. This discussion is a chance to chat about what their meeting now means to her.

We hear how he has entered her life in other ways and how he is a source of guidance and support to her.

I was amazed to hear an updated detail about The Dark Man’s request for “a cup of tea” and “a cigarette” that he made to Jessica and her friend, as they stood, terrified on the hill of the Tor at 4.30am.

Jessica takes tarot appointments and her contact details are: jessietwobears1210@gmail.com and @jessie_twobears

🌟 The Patreon-Exclusive full length episode looks at listeners experiences with Hat Men.

Video version available on YouTube

SHOW NOTES

Other encounters involving Dark Men / Glastonbury:
Episode 91 of Spirit Box Podcast: Jessica Mitchell ‘I saw the Dark Man on Glastonbury Tor • #91 / Jessica Mitchell; I saw the Dar…

Modern Fairy Sightings Ep 80: Neil Rushton’s experience on Glastonbury Tor
• Dr Neil Rushton’s Experience on Glast…

Modern Fairy Sightings Ep 78: The Dark Rider on Glastonbury Tor
https://www.scarlettofthefae.com/ep-7…

Modern Fairy Sightings Ep 46: A Series of English Encounters
https://www.scarlettofthefae.com/a-se…

Modern Fairy Sightings : Ep 76: Otherworldly People: Encounter on the Thames https://www.scarlettofthefae.com/ep-7…

Modern Fairy Sightings Ep 73: Green Gnome Visitation Changed My Life (Oklahoma)
https://www.scarlettofthefae.com/ep-7…

Host of Spirit Box Podcast, Darragh Mason’s book, Song of the Dark Man:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Song-Dark-Ma…

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My mindfulness meditation free here:
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Ep 85: “They Want To Talk To Us” South Wales Encounter

Our guest was only eleven years old when he wandered away from his holiday caravan site and found himself in the woods, communicating with two white beings.

They guided him through ‘rooms’ which seemed to have glass walls facing into the forest and showed him some kind of technical representation of how they were aiding us here on Earth. He also experienced lost time during the event.

Until recently he had never been able to speak about his experience. When he heard others talking on the show, he decided to contact me.

Every single encounter shared in the Project offers us greater understanding of this Universe. As you will see, this is no exception.

🌟 The Patreon-Exclusive full length episode is a whole extra hour of conversation with our guest. He describes what he feels is ahead for us in the future and part of that is all about ‘changing our perspective’. He also talks about how this experience developed over time for him. Join us on Patreon for lots of bonus content and most of all, our beautiful, warm community of like-minded folks.

Our guest’s artist’s impression of the two beings that he met.

Links

Ep 28: Illumined Communion (A woman has an encounter with a blue light shape in her home).
https://www.scarlettofthefae.com/episode-28-illumined-communion/

Ep 82: “The Puppets are Coming for Me…” -( our guest in mentions how the fairies got excited and couldn’t help themselves – much like episode 82)
https://www.scarlettofthefae.com/ep-82-the-puppets-are-coming-for-me/

Ep 83: Jason Atomic and the Blue Being
https://www.scarlettofthefae.com/ep-83-jason-atomic-and-the-blue-being/

Patreon Bonus episode: Blue Man of Studham Common
https://www.patreon.com/posts/bonus-little-man-108255098

Ep 21: Todd Grube: Awakening to Them (Todd describes being inside a craft and being able to view out of it’s walls)
https://www.scarlettofthefae.com/episode-21-awakening-to-them/

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Recommendations for Wellbeing:

Pathworkings/Meditations for Wellbeing:

My ‘Connecting with Ancestors’ meditation is free here:
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My mindfulness meditation free here:
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Ep 84 Danu Forest and Gwyn ap Nudd, King of the Fairies

Danu is an author, teacher and traditional Celtic wise woman, who was called to Glastonbury many years ago to work with Gwyn, who is said to dwell in Glastonbury Tor and the Black Mountains of Wales. Danu offers Celtic Fairy Tradition Courses and Natural Magic Courses online.

Having researched a series of recently reported encounters here at The Modern Fairy Sightings Project with the figure known as Gwyn ap Nudd, King of the Fairies, Lord of Annwn (the Welsh Otherworld) I chat to Danu Forest, author of, Gwyn ap Nudd: Wild God of Faerie, Guardian of Annwfn about her understanding of him, how she came to be a dedicated priestess of Gwyn and what he offers to us, in encountering him.

We also discuss the secrets held within the hollow hills of Glastonbury Tor!

I previously recorded one of Danu’s pathworkings to meet Gwyn which is found in her book about him (pictured above).

You can find that pathworking read by me for listeners on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/posts/gwyn-ap-nudd-by-100454770

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Links

Other encounters involving Gwyn ap Neath / Glastonbury:

Episode 91 of Spirit Box Podcast: Jessica Mitchell ‘I saw the Dark Man on Glastonbury Tor’
Modern Fairy Sightings Ep 80: Neil Rushton’s experience on Glastonbury Tor
Modern Fairy Sightings Ep 78: The Dark Rider on Glastonbury Tor
Modern Fairy Sightings Ep 46: A Series of English Encounters

Other encounters featuring The Dark Man:

Modern Fairy Sightings : Ep 76: Otherworldly People: Encounter on the Thames
Modern Fairy Sightings Ep 73: Green Gnome Visitation Changed My Life (Oklahoma)
Modern Fairy Sightings Ep 83: The Puppets are Coming for Me

Host of Spirit Box Podcast, Darragh Mason’s book, Song of the Dark Man releases soon. Preorder your copy here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Song-Dark-Man-Witches-Crossroads/dp/1644119099

Recommendations for Wellbeing:

Pathworkings/Meditations for Wellbeing:

My ‘Connecting with Ancestors’ meditation is free here:
https://www.patreon.com/posts/94431793

My mindfulness meditation free here:
https://www.patreon.com/posts/96431208

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Ep 83: Jason Atomic and the Blue Being

Artist, Jason is a well known face in London’s underground ‘freak’ subculture scene. His art background originated in creating comics which he now feels may link originally to an experience he had as an 11 year old child, when he came face to face with a small blue non-human being in his bedroom in East Grinstead, West Sussex.

Having researched UFO lore and demonology throughout his life, Jason decided to contact me with his encounter after hearing paranormal researcher, Paul Sinclair on this show, describing his experience of seeing a small creature with ‘elephant-like skin’.

We discuss later experiences, including powerful ritual experiences, his witnessing of anomalous light forms in clouds in Japan, synchronicities around manifesting and we mention Voodoo spirits, Papa Legba and Dhamballa.

Thanks to Jason for sharing his experience with us.

🌟 In our bonus episode this time we’ll be looking at the Studham Common encounter in Bedfordshire, in 1967, when five or six children saw a small 3ft blue being during their lunchtime. Plus we’ll look at other blue-being encounters 💙

Jason’s impression of the blue being he saw as an eleven year old child.

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Satanic Flea Markets take place throughout the year.

Utagawa Kuniyashi’s impression of Karasu

Jason’s performance aesthetic with the elongated smile, which may echo his earlier experience.

The incredible Fetish Hat (improved replacement)

Artist, Matt Fox’s impression of ‘The Intruder’

‘Dhamballa La Flambeau’ by Hector Hyppolite

Links

Jason Atomic
https://jasonatomic.co.uk/home.html

Follow Jason’s work on Instagram and Twitter

Satanic Flea Market
https://www.baphomart.com/satanic-flea-market/

Slimelight club
https://electrowerkz.co.uk/slimelight/

Paul Sinclair’s experience
https://www.scarlettofthefae.com/episode-40-paul-sinclair-personal-experiences-and-paranormal-activity-in-uk/

1950s/60s Comic Artist Matt Fox
https://issuu.com/twomorrows/docs/mattfoxpreview

Papa Legba
https://symbolsage.com/who-is-papa-legba/

Dhamballa Voodoo Snake God
https://atlasmythica.com/damballah-wedo-vodou-snake-god/

Japanese Shinto Shrines
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shinto_shrine

Recommendations for Wellbeing:

Pathworkings/Meditations for Wellbeing:

My ‘Connecting with Ancestors’ meditation is free here:
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My mindfulness meditation free here:
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Ep 81: Experiencing the ‘Wee Folk’ in Ireland

chat with a woman from Ireland who had number of experiences as a child in Ireland and describes a later experience as an adult, being ‘pixie led’ in a forest in Edinburgh.

We also hear about her Grandmother’s experience as a child, churing butter on her father’s dairy farm in Cork and how a priest came to heal a hex that was put on the family’s dairy production pre-mechanisation.

Image: Image: ‘Dewdrops from Fairyland’ (1912) by Lucy M. Scott illustrated by A. Duncan Carse

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Ep 78: The Dark Rider on Glastonbury Tor

In 2008 an English woman encountered a figure on Glastonbury Tor, who has appeared in a number of episodes thus far. He is known as…The Dark Rider.

In this and previous episode Ep 76: Otherworldly People: Encounter on the Thames he appears and then disappears. He is clad in black leather clothing, each time wearing a black helmet with the visor down so that you cannot see his face. He features in, Green Gnome Visitation Changed My Life (Oklahoma) when a man recalls his terror at seeing him appear in his childhood home.

In this episode I refer to S4 Ep46: A Series of English Encounters and episode 91 of Spirit Box Podcast: Jessica Mitchell ‘I saw the Dark Man on Glastonbury Tor’

Read more about Dr Neil Rushton’s experience on Glastonbury Tor here: Disembodied Faerie Voices: Some Personal Experiences. I will be speaking to Neil this month.

Host of Spirit Box Podcast, Darragh Mason’s book, Song of the Dark Man releases soon. Preorder your copy here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Song-Dark-Man-Witches-Crossroads/dp/1644119099

⭐️ The bonus episode on Patreon is a special on Gwyn Ap Nudd, King of the Fairies and bright god of Annwfn, the Brythonic Underworld. Gwyn is said to dwell in a glass castle within Glastonbury Tor. (Releases Friday 15th March)

Recommendations for Wellbeing:

Pathworkings/Meditations for Wellbeing:

My ‘Connecting with Ancestors’ meditation is free here:
https://www.patreon.com/posts/94431793

My mindfulness meditation free here:
https://www.patreon.com/posts/96431208

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Ep 76: Otherworldly People: Encounter on the Thames

Jo Hickey-Hall speaks to Frank Scannella about his encounter next to the river in Walton-on-Thames in 1982. His story ‘Meeting Nicola’, was published in the, “It Happened To Me…” section of The Fortean Times (Issue 350, 2017). This episode was also released as a video on YouTube.

The sense of uncanniness about this meeting has always stayed with Frank. There are many liminal aspects to consider: the proximity to water, crossing a bridge, the time of his life between studies. As well as this, various folklore motifs abound: black dog, dark man, strange stillness in the environment (Oz Factor) and the way that the beings appeared and disappeared in a mysterious manner.

Most of all, there was a sense that one cannot fully describe. But you will know, if you’ve ever had a brush with the Otherworld.

The main image is Frank’s own impression of ‘Nicola.’

⭐️ BONUS EPISODE ⭐️
In the bonus episode on Patreon I share related folklore about river-related merfolk, we hear some comparable encounters submitted to Simon Young’s Fairy Census and we end with a particularly unsettling story that was posted on Reddit. It is a strikingly similar experience of a young man who came into contact with a strange man along the river in York, England, featuring lost time and other very strange factors Both men view their experiences as near misses with beings from the Otherworld and feel lucky that they lived to tell the tale.

Shownotes

Frank is the author of Sicilian Shadows – a compelling memoir of his struggle for survival in the heartland of the Mafia as a young boy.

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Ep 75: Winter Solstice Centaur

A winter solstice trip to a cottage in the forest, brings an Austrian couple face to face with a human/horse hybrid. This will leave you with many questions, I’m sure. If you are thinking of taking a trip into forest areas this Christmas then…keep your ears and eyes peeled!

⭐️ BONUS EPISODE ⭐️
In the full length episode on Patreon, you will hear the second experience this same man encountered with his now-husband some years later. Again, it was a horse being but this time it was a beautiful experience accompanied by an aspect of The Lady.

Main Image: from Monstrorium Historia by Ulisse Aldrovandi (1642)

Guest’s image of the church roof tiles at Hasen von St Michael

Shownotes

http://www.macroevolution.net/human-horse-hybrids.html

Monstrorum Historia (1642) by Ulisse Aldrovandi

Krampus- great episode by Bone and Sickle goes into the history of the Krampus

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2023/dec/05/shock-of-the-old-10-demonic-depictions-of-europes-disturbing-christmas-customs

https://www.ancient-origins.net/history-ancient-traditions/krampus-son-hel-ancient-origins-christmas-devil-007627

https://oldcorpseroad.co.uk/the-devils-footprints/

Chambers Dictionary of the Unexplained

Music:

The Snowfall Slasher by Cimitir

God Rest you Merry Gentlemen by Chillmore

Falling Snow (Ambient Bells) by Dream Protocol

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Ep 73: Green Gnome Visitation Changed my Life (Oklahoma)

A most poignant story about a little boy from Oklahoma who came face to face with a gnome in his bedroom.

As a child he had felt very alone and afraid for much of his childhood but it was an Otherworldly being that reached out and showed him love. Now as an adult, he recalls how this experience, “changed (his) life and the way (he) saw the world”.

Trigger Warnings:
Our guest describes having survived an abusive childhood with aspects of neglect. As an adult, they were the first one to find their parent who had sadly, passed away.

⭐️ BONUS EPISODE ⭐️
In this Patron-exclusive full-length version, we hear of another experience which you may find shocking. Our guest’s elder brother was attacked by some kind of Otherworldly creature which is well-known in Native American Seminole folklore.

Main Image: ‘Robin Goodfellow, A Sprite‘ by Charles Folkyard (1910)

Shownotes

‘It’ (1990) Dir. Stephen King https://archive.org/details/stephenkingsit

Cornish Knockers (Blog by Icy Sedgwick) https://www.icysedgwick.com/knockers/

Descriptions of green skinned gnomes recall the story of The Green Children of Woolpit. See here for a great blog piece by Dr Neil Rushton: https://deadbutdreaming.wordpress.com/2016/05/20/the-green-children/

Paul Devereux: Haunted Land: Investigations into Ancient Mysteries and Modern Day Phenomena

Information regarding The Trail of Tears:
BBC Radio Documentary

https://stacker.com/history/stories-behind-trail-tears-every-state-it-passed-through

https://americanindian.si.edu/nk360/resources/The-Trail-of-Tears-A-Story-of-Cherokee-Removal.cshtml

https://www.nativehope.org/

Our guest shared the following picture of a Duende which he says looks similar to the being he saw:

Interestingly, while looking for the artist of the above Duende I came across this intriguing story about ‘The Toucan Man’ who, in Belizean folklore was said to abduct children (this is a well known folkloric trope). Although our guest did not hear music, the guy who later told our guest’s brother about his encounter, had heard music.

It sounds like a different sort of being, however there are some interesting similarities also with the patron-only section in which our guest’s brother received deep scratches to his back when encountering another, more terrifying entity. :
https://skepticalinquirer.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/29/2016/01/SI-JF-16-31.pdf

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