Some Other Sphere Podcast

Podcast Wednesday! Episode 158 - Felix John Taylor - The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn #Podcast #Magic #Arts #Occult #History #Paranormal #WyrdWednesday @felixjrt.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/e...

Great piece in The Nerve all about my wife's new documentary All Rivers Spill Their Stories To The Sea. The next Post Office scandal? Meet the fishermen fighting an ecocide www.thenerve.news/p/all-rivers...

"That night Carter camped in a roadside meadow beneath a great lygath-tree to which he tied his yak, and in the morning resumed his northward pilgrimage." (H.P. Lovecraft "The Dream Quest Of Unknown Kadath") 🎨 "Brehm's", 1891 #WyrdWednesday

#WyrdWednesday A vision of a hellish voyage by Coleridge: Are those her ribs through which the Sun Did peer, as through a grate? And is that Woman all her crew? Is that a DEATH? and are there two? Is DEATH that woman's mate? The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Part III, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1834.

The legendary Flying Dutchman is condemned to sail forever, unable to reach port. Versions differ about the captain's offense, but seeing the ghost ship became an omen of disaster. The world's most famous maritime curse is an eternity without landfall. #WyrdWednesday

"The Dream of Rhonabwy" is a magical tale from the "Mabinogion" in which Rhonabwy witnesses a game of gwyddbwyll between King Arthur and his follower Owain mab Urien. #WyrdWednesday @wyrdwednesday.bsky.social

Wyrdlings! Even in our favourite season, we might be inclined to be elsewhere for a spell. So, for Coleridge’s birthday, we give you: “Suspension of Disbelief – Opium Dreams & Wyrd Voyages!” as this week’s #WyrdWednesday topic. Come, sit & tell of strange matelots, pleasure domes & demon lovers!

Episode 158 is out this week! My guest is author Felix John Taylor, who joined me to discuss his book 'The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn: Magic Arts and the Occult Revival'. Available on all good podcast platforms from Wednesday. #Podcast #Magic #Art #Occult #Paranormal @felixjrt.bsky.social

From the Spherical Archives: Back in March 2023 I had the pleasure of interviewing Patrick Harpur about his groundbreaking book 'Daimonic Reality'. It was a very interesting conversation! #Podcast #Archive #Paranormal podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/e...

Podcast Wednesday! Episode 157 - Sian Sibley - Black Paths and Green Cathedrals #Podcast #Paganism #Animism #Ecology #Nature #Magic #Trees #Spirits #Paranormal #WyrdWednesday podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/e...

Episode 157 is out this week! My guest is writer, witchcraft practitioner and ecologist Sian Sibley, who joined me to discuss her book 'Black Paths and Green Cathedrals: A Guide to Ecological Paganism'. Available Wednesday! #Podcast #Paganism #Animism #Ecology #Magic #Trees #Spirits #Paranormal

From the Spherical Archives: Episode 78 - Michelle Souliere - Bigfoot in Maine - released 20/04/2022 @msouliere.bsky.social #Podcast #Paranormal #Bigfoot #Cryptoloology #Maine podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/e...

Some topics I'd love to discuss as a podcast guest ✨️ ☆Bird Folklore ☆Death Omens ☆Folk Magic ☆Devil Folklore (ofc) ☆Witchcraft ☆Hauntings ☆Hermits and Cunning Men ☆What we can learn from the land ☆Folk customs #podcast #folklore #history #writer #Folkhorror #witchcraft #witches #ghosts

Podcast Wednesday! Episode 156 - Jeremy Harte - Buried Wealth in Landscape and Legend #Podcast #Folklore #Treasure #History #Magic #Ghosts #WyrdWednesday @reaktionbooks.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/e...

Ragnarök isn't quite the absolute end. After gods fall, monsters break free, and the world is consumed by catastrophe, the earth rises green again from the sea. A new generation survives. Even one of mythology's wildest apocalypses leaves room for another beginning. #WyrdWednesday

Wyrdlings! On the anniversary of the long ships battling at Baltic Svolder in CE 1000, we give you: "Norse Myths and Wild Viking Vibes!" as this week’s #WyrdWednesday topic. Come, turn skald or völvur and work some story seidr with us!

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Episode 156 is out tomorrow! My guest is author and folklorist Jeremy Harte, who joined me to discuss his new book 'Treasures on Earth: Buried Wealth in Landscape and Legend'. It was a fun and interesting conversation. #Podcast #Folklore #Treasure #History #Magic #Ghosts @reaktionbooks.bsky.social

In Norse mythology, Garmr is a terrifying hound associated with the realm of the dead and the events of Ragnarök. Bound before the end of the world, he eventually breaks free as chaos erupts. Even the apocalypse, apparently, requires an enormous supernatural dog. #WyrdWednesday

The Yeth Hound of English folklore is a headless spectral dog said to race across the countryside at night, howling as it hunts. Some traditions connect these eerie hounds with the souls of unbaptized children, giving an already disturbing phantom an especially grim origin. #WyrdWednesday

A quick reminder that it's #SpookySunday again tomorrow, the feed for all things #ghost and ghostly. Please feel free to join in with posts about #ghosts in #folklore, fact(ish), fiction, poetry, art and popular culture. All reposts will be found here: @spookysunday.bsky.social

Part one of a three part Canadian Summer history mysteries series. I hope you enjoy reading these as much as I enjoyed researching and writing them. @apstrange.bsky.social @lunarose.bsky.social @homosatanis.bsky.social susandemeter.substack.com/p/the-phanto...

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"Below the thunders of the upper deep; Far, far beneath the abysmal sea, His ancient, dreamless, uninvaded sleep The Kraken sleepeth" Surely Tennyson's short, creepy poem (which also includes 'enormous polypi' etc) must have been the inspiration for Cthulhu? #WyrdWednesday #Lovecraft

The Dutch village of Saeftinghe was drowned by a giant tidal wave during the All Saints Day Flood of 1570. According to legend, it suffered this fate after being cursed by a merman for its decadence and cruelty. The village is thought to remain submerged to this day. #WyrdWednesday

Wyrdlings! With the birthday of a weird literature icon due this week, we give you: "Pulpo Fiction - Wyrd Things from the Bottom of the Deep Blue Sea" as this week’s #WyrdWednesday topic. Share your tales of sunken cities, eldritch gods from the abyss & deep, dead ones that crawl up the beaches!

Podcast Wednesday! Episode 155 - Jamie Lewis and Andrew Bartlett - Bigfooters and Scientific Inquiry @drjamielewis.bsky.social #Podcast #Science #Bigfoot #Sasquatch #Cryptozoology #Paranormal #WyrdWednesday podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/e...

This is out Wednesday 19/8. A podcast with Andy and me discussing our book and the broader research project #STS #Bigfooting

Episode 155 is out next week and is Bigfoot related! @drjamielewis.bsky.social and Andy Bartlett joined me to discuss their book 'Bigfooters and Scientific Inquiry: On the Borderlands of Legitimate Science'. You can enjoy listening to our conversation from next Wednesday. #Podcast #Bigfoot #science

Wyrdlings! When the moon passes between the Earth and the Sun on a #WyrdWednesday, we simply have to give you: “Going Dark – Eclipses of the Sun, the Moon and the Heart” as this week’s topic with the Solar eclipse due on 12 August in the Northern Hemisphere. Come and go dark with us!

Back In 2020 I had the pleasure to interview Bigfoot researcher Ron Morehead. Ron is best known for the Sierra Sounds project, where a compelling range of vocalisations made by unknown entities were recorded in the forests of Northern California. #Podcast #Bigfoot podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/e...

Thank you Mothers Sam and @cwreeve.bsky.social for collecting wyrd horn tales all day - h̶o̶r̶n̶y̶ horned(!) Mother @wunderkammertales.eurosky.social is here now, grabbing #wyrdwednesday by the horns - and ready for more stories from you. Do sit down and tell your wynderful tales, Wyrdlings all!

Podcast Wednesday! Episode 154 - Robert Williams and Jacqui Thackway-Winn - The Magical Rites at Cley Hill #podcast #magic #paranormal #landscape #mysticism #UFOs #WyrdWednesday podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/e...

Horns have long symbolized power, divinity, protection, and the untamed wild. From ancient gods and forest spirits to crescent moons and ceremonial crowns, they appear throughout mythology not as marks of evil, but of sacred authority and mystery. #WyrdWednesday

Once, a boy from Sabert saw a procession of skeletal goats with enormous horns. #WyrdWednesday https://wiki.sunkencastles.com/wiki/Procession_of_the_Irrlichts

Wyrdlings! With the Buck Moon rising late in July this year, we give you: “Taken by the… Horned Beings, Horned Hats, Horned Moons” as this week’s #WyrdWednesday topic! Let’s meet by moonlight and share tales of all horned things.

Cernunnos is a Celtic god with antlers. The only surviving reference to his name is on "The Pillar of the Boatman," a 1st-century CE stone pillar in Paris. Though Cernunnos is often linked with other Celtic art of an antlered figure, it's not proven that they're the same person. #WyrdWednesday

Episode 154 is out tomorrow! My guests are Robert Williams and Jacqui Thackway-Winn, who joined me to discuss a year-long magical project they took part in centred on Cley Hill in Wiltshire, which is the subject of Robert's book 'The Magical Rites at Cley Hill'. #Podcast #Paranormal #Magic

The Pesanta from Catalan folklore is an enormous black-furred dog with steel paws who lives in abandoned ruins, mostly old churches. At night it creeps into people’s homes and sits on their chests, giving them nightmares and breathing problems. #WyrdWednesday

The latest addition to the Sphere HQ bookshelves - I've heard Where Bigfoot Walks by Robert Michael Pyle mentioned often as recommended reading on the subject and am glad to have finally made the effort to get my own copy. If you've read it, what did you think? #Books #Bigfoot

@sphericalpod.bsky.social got a podcast coming out in August with Some Other Sphere where Andy and I talk about the sociology of Bigfooting

Interesting chat. Something I've noticed recently is the flipping in a large part of the public mind of the traditional roles where the internet is seen as reality and offline meat-space is just a place you film your content in. Certainly parallels with my understanding of Gnosticism. Thanks Rick!

I did a podcast with the delightful Rick Palmer from @sphericalpod.bsky.social where we talked about all kinds of things from the esoteric internet to the backrooms. Check it out!

Podcast Wednesday! Episode 153 - Shira Chess - The Unseen Internet #Podcast #Paranormal #Occult #Cyberspace #Backrooms #Mysticism #WyrdWednesday @shirachess.bsky.social @mitpress.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/e...

1/2 The sorceress Circe became jealous of a beautiful woman named Scylla. She poisoned the waters and turned her into a 6 headed sea monster. Scylla lived on one side of the Strait of Messina, a crucial passage. redbubble.com/shop/ap/3310... #WyrdWednesday #folklore #art #mythology #fineart #gifts

Come aboard and RO, you Wyrdlings, RO! because: 'Shanties, Strange Shores, Sea Serpents – Oceanic Adventures!' is this week’s #Wyrdwednesday topic. Bring your sea chests and tall tales and Ro! away with us!

Episode 153 is out this week! My guest is author and academic Shira Chess, who joined me to discuss her latest book 'The Unseen Internet: Conjuring the Occult in Digital Discourse'. You can listen from Wednesday. @shirachess.bsky.social #Podcast #Paranormal #Occult #Cyberspace #Magic #Mysticism