Are you ever awake in the cruellest hours of the night, when the world is quiet, but your mind isn’t?That’s where Paranormia begins.Hosted by journalist and parapsychologist Elizabeth McCafferty, Paranormia is a weekly storytelling podcast where true crime collides with the supernatural, the psychological, and the macabre. Each episode explores real cases where belief in something unseen becomes dangerous, cursed objects drive people to violence, psychic visions predict tragedy, cults where worship turns deadly, and hauntings blur into guilt, obsession, or faith.Elizabeth blends rigorous research with cinematic storytelling to uncover what happens when reason falters and...
Latest episodes
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28 min
Urban Legend: The Flatwoods Monster
In 1952, three boys in West Virginia watched a strange glowing object fall from the sky. When they returned to investigate, they claimed to encounter a terrifying 10-foot-tall figu…
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27 min
Psychic Month: The Psychic and the Missing Nurse
It’s the last episode of Psychic Month on Paranormia, where Elizabeth has been joined by a range of guests exploring the fascinating and controversial world of psychics, mediums an…
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43 min
Psychic Month: The Ghosts of the Funeral Home
It’s Psychic Month on Paranormia, and throughout August Elizabeth will be joined by a range of guests to explore the fascinating and controversial world of psychics and mediums.Wha…
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49 min
Physic Month: The Last “Witch” of Britain
It’s Psychic Month on Paranormia, and throughout August Elizabeth will be joined by a range of guests to explore the fascinating and controversial world of psychics and mediums.Hel…
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51 min
Psychic Month: The Psychic Detective
It’s Psychic Month on Paranormia, and throughout August Elizabeth will be joined by a range of guests to explore the fascinating and controversial world of psychics.In 1983, 25 yea…
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21 min
Unsolved: The Mad Gasser of Mattoon
In 1944, the town of Mattoon, Illinois was gripped by fear as residents reported a series of bizarre nighttime attacks. Victims claimed they were overcome by a sweet-smelling gas t…
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36 min
Cursed Object: The Green Stone
In 1979, a group of paranormal investigators became convinced they had discovered a centuries-old secret. Guided by psychic visions and cryptic clues, they believed they had uncove…
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26 min
Cult: The Manson Family
Listener discretion advised: This episode contains discussion of multiple murders, cult violence, manipulation, and references to graphic crime scenes that some listeners may find…
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33 min
Urban Legend: The Sandown Clown
In 1973, two children exploring the marshes of Sandown on the Isle of Wight report a strange encounter. They hear a wailing sound that leads them to a seven foot figure in clown-li…
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26 min
Possessed: The "Devil Made Me Do It" Trial
In 1981, 19 old Arne Johnson is arrested in Connecticut for the stabbing death of his landlord. At first, it looks like a straightforward murder case. Then Arne says he doesn’t rem…
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40 min
Experiments: The Three Identical Triplets
In 1980, teenager Robert Shafran arrived for his first day at college and was greeted by complete strangers who seemed to know him. Within hours, he discovered he had an identical…
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26 min
Ghosts: The "Guardian Angel" of Flight 401
After Eastern Air Lines Flight 401 crashed in the Florida Everglades in 1972, some of the aircraft's undamaged equipment was salvaged and installed on other planes. Not long after,…
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24 min
Cursed Object: The Busby Stoop Inn chair
An ordinary wooden chair hanging in a museum in North Yorkshire is said to carry a deadly curse. In this episode, Elizabeth explores the legend of the Busby Stoop Chair, tracing it…
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34 min
Spirits: The God Helmet
Elizabeth takes us into the remote mining country of northern Ontario, where a neuroscientist named Michael Persinger has spent decades trying to understand how the brain construct…
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28 min
Serial Killer: Monster of Florence
Elizabeth takes us to the wooded outskirts of Florence, where between 1968 and 1985 a killer known as the “Monster of Florence” stalked young couples parked in secluded cars. Sixte…
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27 min
Possessed: The Inukun Shooting
Paranormia is back for season two! In this episode Elizabeth takes us to the remote Alaskan village where former Marine and actor Teddy Kyle Smith claimed he was being followed thr…
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57 sec
An Update from Paranormia
Elizabeth checks in as Paranormia wraps its first season, with a quick look back at CrimeCon Birmingham and a glimpse into what’s coming next… From the science that might explain g…
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29 min
Witches: Killing of Charles Walton
In February 1945 Charles Walton, a farm labourer in his seventies was found brutally murdered in a field in Warwickshire. The scene was shocking… his throat cut with his own tool a…
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27 min
Cursed Objects: The Crying Boy Painting
In the 1980s a kitsch mass-produced painting of a tearful child was linked to a spate of unexplained house fires across the UK in the 1980s. Firefighters noticed that when they att…
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25 min
Missing: The Piano Man
In 2005, on the Isle of Sheppey, a young man was found wandering near a beach soaked through and unable to explain who he was or where he came from. As weeks passed with no answers…