Boggart and Banshee: A Supernatural Podcast

About Boggart and Banshee: A Supernatural Podcast

So a Brit and a Yank walk into a supernatural podcast… Nattering on fairies, folklore, ghosts and the impossible ensues. Cross your fingers, turn your pockets inside out and join Simon and Chris as they talk weird history, Fortean mysteries, and things that go bump in the night.

Publisher

Chris and Simon

Category

history

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

26 Sept 2021

Latest episode

1 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

2 of 63 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   1 Oct 2026

   Fifth Anniversary: Question-and-Answer Episode

   Hosts Liam and Chris answer listener questions about supernatural phenomena, from newspaper telepathy to filming fairies, in this fifth-anniversary interview.

2. 

   1 Sept 2026

   The Oz Factor: When the World Falls Silent

   Simon and Chris have a feeling they’re not in Kansas anymore as they follow Jenny Randles down the yellow brick road into the Oz Factor: that peculiar sense of silence, isolation and altered reality that sometimes accompanies UFOs, ghosts, time slips and fairy encounters. Is this strange quiet a gateway into the supernatural, or simply what the brain does when confronted by something terrifying? Can supernatural experiences ever be separated from the people who have them? Chris brings in magn...

3. 

   1 Aug 2026

   Supernatural Smells: Roses, Brimstone, and Decomp

   Chris and Simon sniff out some supernatural scents, ranging from the prosaic, like tobacco and flower perfumes to the sinister, like the odor of rotting bodies. They note the link between scent and memory and wonder whether some ghostly scents are just a spirit’s shortcut to announce its presence or even to communicate. 'Odor Mortis', a musky aroma said to predict death, may, it transpires, be a physiological, rather than a supernatural, phenomenon: ask the hospital cat 'Death'. Simon gives l...

Inside a recent episode

Supernatural Hats: From Witches to Freddy Krueger

Published 30 Apr 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] The most common thing I find in hats in a supernatural vein is the hoodoo hat. Meaning an unlucky hat. An unlucky hat. And there's a lot of superstitions about hats. I was shocked. I was looking at one of my Wayland handbooks and there were probably 300 reports from different people. Do not put a hat on the bed. It will cause death. It will cause destruction. It will cause bad luck. It will give you a headache. It will give you ill health. On and on and on. And I'm just fascinated by why this would be. What is it about putting a hat on a bed? Isn't there a lot more etiquette with hats? I'd hoped to avoid this earlier. […]

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

Apple Podcasts (US)

4.9 / 5

39 ratings

Spotify

4.7 / 5

116 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 40 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

46

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

85

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