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Monsters, Myths and Manias explores strange and forgotten corners of history. Join Professor Weird (Paul Weatherhead) as he explores bizarre but true stories of mass hysteria, ghost panics, scary folklore and strange creatures...
weirdcalderdale hosts Monsters Myths and Manias, a history show with 21 episodes published.
In 1893 composer Erik Satie wrote Vexations, a dissonant, repetitive and unnerving piano piece that takes up to 24 hours to play. Demonic music that warps the minds of those who played it, a topless cellist, a bra made o
Yorkshire in the 1300s was a strange and frightening place. The living dead crawled from their graves, wandered round the lanes and accosted the villagers, at least according to accounts written by an anonymous monk. But
In recent decades there have been some fine zombie films, but these mainstream offerings tend to suffer from one fatal flaw: respectability. The zombie films from the golden age (which I’ve taken as being from the late 6
In this episode, bizarre and spooky urban legends about ghost hoaxes going wrong and scarring the hapless victim to death!
Atheist philosopher A.J. Ayer choked to death on a piece of smoked salmon and had a bizarre vision of the afterlife before being revived... What did he see and did it change his mind?
Naked ghosts – people who wandered the streets at night starkers frightening any unlucky victim they happened to meet - were surprisingly frequent, especially in the early nineteenth century. They were a combination of g
Professor Weird explores the castration cult that swept Russia and Eastern Europe in the late seventeenth century. They were known as the Skoptsy, and the operation (which they called the Fiery Baptism) involved a red ho
The West Yorkshire village of Calverley became the centre of public attention over Christmas 1904 after reports of a mysterious phantom were widely published. However, the Christmas ghost of Calverley has a long history,
To mark the release of his new book, Phantoms of Christmas Past: Festive Ghost Hunts, Ghost Hoaxes and Ghost Panics, author Paul Weatherhead examine the weird history of ghost hoaxing, a bizarre activity that was surpris
In January 1726 the British ships the Compton and the James and Mary anchored off a desolate uninhabited island in the South Atlantic for repairs. Men were sent ashore to find provisions, but instead came across a tent w
Fishermen are known for their tall tales, but few are as tall as the tale told of the gigantic fire breathing sea serpent that attacked a Scottish trawler in 1903. Reports of sea monsters were fairly common in the newspa
In 1954 a group of undercover psychologists joined a doomsday UFO cult who believed the world was about to be destroyed and the true believers whisked away in a flying saucer. What would happen to the believers' faiths w
In early 1923 a Fenland farm was visited by strange destructive phenomena – household objects mysteriously flying across the room and smashing. Some said the house was haunted by a poltergeist, others blamed witchcraft o
The strange history of prophetic herring and how they spelled doom for mighty men. Plus, how herring farts nearly brought about the apocalypse...
A monster fly three feet in length and with an 18 inch dagger like tongue caused mayhem when it escaped from a laboratory and went on the rampage in Yorkshire in February, 1932. This is according to a contemporary Bulgar
The Hippy Babysitter (also known as the Baby Roast) is one of the darkest pieces of acid lore to emerge in the late 1960s and early 1970s. This cautionary tale about the dangers of drugs is actually older and more widesp
The true story of Professor Charles Munter, the real life Svengali who invented the Corsets of Immortality... SOURCES: ‘She is Trilby in real life’, Milwaukee Leader, 18 May 1912, p.12 ‘Woman, hypnotised, sings operatic
In this week's episode, a brief history of talking cats, cat organs and cat orchestras... Sources For talking cats see the following: Hamilton Daily News, 16 February 1912 Nelson Leader, 3 June 1932 Dundee Evening Telegr
Panic about maniacs lurking in the shadows ready to jab innocent girls with syringes dripping with evil drugs is nothing new. Similar episodes have been occurring for over a century. In this week's Monsters, Myths and Ma
The bizarre story of Mary Bateman, witch, serial killer and psychopath and how she made a fortune from a chicken who laid eggs that predicted the end of the world... Sources Arthur Vincent, Lives of twelve bad women; ill
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