Fortean News Podcast

Fortean News Podcast

Your report of the paranormal, supernatural, Fortean and High Strangeness which appears every day in the news. Hosted by James Koppert. Other shows go down the rabbit hole, we give you bite-sized chunks for you listen to with a bite of humour and discussion thrown in our weird and wonderful world. If you like ghosts, UFO's, cryptids, demons, poltergeists etc this is the spot for you. Get in touch forteannewspodcast@gmail.com

Episodes

December 15, 2025 60 mins

Paul brings a brilliant interview about hoaxes of ghosts at Christmas leading to moral panics and huge ghost hunts. Also available visually on YouTube. 

 

Please visit Paul's website https://paulweatherhead.com/ 

You can buy his book here: https://amzn.to/4q4S7IV 

You can listen to Monsters, Myths and Mania here https://weirdcalderdale.podbean.com/ 

 

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This months: 

The mysterious village time-slip

The 3rd interstellar object, 3I/ATLAS, to come into our solar system breaks the laws of science.

UFO over the pyramid in Egypt

Py...

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December 14, 2025 5 mins

See you all soon

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To find out more and see where to buy Dr Paul's books, please visit https://www.paullee.com/  You can also catch Paul on Bluesky at https://bsky.app/profile/drpaullee.bsky.social    Interview summary: Dr Paul Lee, a nuclear physicist and paranormal researcher, discussed his latest book on haunted UK eateries and shared personal experiences with paranormal activity, including challenges in collecting data and gaining access to haunt...
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Listeners send in their stories and experiences of the terrifying and unknown for your spooky listening pleasure 

Please support the running costs at https://ko-fi.com/forteannewspodcast 

Find Dr Alasdair MacCalium on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alasdairmaccaluim?utm_source=share&utm_campaign=share_via&utm_content=profile&utm_medium=android_app 

Find Lewis Pugh's music here: https://open.spotify.com/artist/2UZ...

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A spooky Halloween special, we talk to the wonderful Paul Cowmeadow, who has been immersed in the paranormal and occult since his teenage years. Since then, he has been on a journey of discovery, both of himself and of the unknown and magical world of the paranormal and high strangeness. 

 

Listen to the interview where he tells us how he was chosen by a haunted doll named Peggy, how he has found proof of the other side,  how he wa...

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Thank you so much for listening

 

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on this episode:

Tribal people are terrorised by silver aliens in Peru

Did Einstein’s theories prove the existence of ghosts?

Ghost of an 8 year old boy in a Devon cave inspires new play

A ghost girl appears on camera in the National Asse...

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Part one. Featuring

James sees a weird bird cryptid

Man disappears in Romania and returns thirty years later wearing the same clothes

The lost Atlantis of Europe

Women’s TV sees in other persons house

Bigfoot footprints seen in Missouri

31/ATLASS enters our solar system and people think it is an alien spaceship

Strange triangular UFO a...

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September 22, 2025 4 mins

Go check out the latest episode of Two Guys, What's Up? wherever you get your podcasts

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People describe times they think someone has been possessed and how exorcisms occurred. 

 

We then have the most terrifying stories you have never been able to explain

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Loads of stories on UFO's, Ghosts, Demons, Cryptids and all thing paranormal, supernatural and Fortean. 

 

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Dan Rivera’s death is blamed on the demonic doll Annabelle

Does A.I. clean up an image enough to prove the Roswell Incident is real?

The annual Loch Ness Quest weekend provides evidence of Ness...

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If you prefer to watch the interview you can find it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAPFQBsBOeo 

Liah is a fascinating person. She is an academic, an educator, an author, a  textile artist, historian and much more. She also researches and runs a ghost tour here in Scarborough. She has a thread of the paranormal and strange running through her family and she can sense what may be her own past lives. Join us on this fascinatin...

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James is joined by Iaian from Two Guys What's UP podcast again to discuss the previous month's news. They also look at the Betz Sphere from the Fortean archive and fiinish with a quiz on which Yokai are real and which did James make up? Play along at home. 

 

The second official Loch Ness Sighting this year is a bit pants: https://www.lochnesssightings.com/index.asp?pageid=717286

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In this month's episode:

 

The cryptid of the Orang Pendek

Second official sighting of Nessie in Loch Ness

Loch Ness camera found

Death Superstitions and Folklore

What is the one blob of cold water in the ocean?

Revisiting Spring Heeled Jack

Was an alien caught on a Ring doorbell in the USA look here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3...

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James is joined by Iain from the weekly comedy podcast Two Guys What's Up to discuss a study of UFO's/UAP's which led to seeing cryptids and poltergeist activity and more. While enjoying a few spirits of a different kind, the two gentlemen discuss the philosophical aspects of high strangeness and all things Fortean

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June 4, 2025 47 mins

All the UFO, Paranormal, Weird and Cryptid news for May 2025

Did Annabel the demonic Doll escape? Can you cure cancer by praying? All this and ghosyely news and more

 

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James is joined by Iain from Two Guys Whats Up podcast to discuss James' appearance on the Channel 4 TV Show First Dates with Brocarde, Paranormal investigations and all the Fortean news from UFOs to ghosts of satanic goats and plates of peeled bananas

 

Check out Two Guys, What's Up wherever you get your podcasts

 

to help cover costs, please consider buying James a coffee at https://ko-fi.com/forteannewspodcast

 

 

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February 23, 2025 6 mins

In the last episode I spoke about the poltergeist scratching after I talk about it. Now you can hear it happening

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February 23, 2025 20 mins

An immense head scratcher requires your ideas and James gives a preview of his First Date!

 

email forteannewspodcast@gmail.com

 

Listen to james on BBC Upload here:   https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0kt135c?partner=uk.co.bbc&origin=share-mobile

 

James YouTube Confessions of a Ghostboy channel here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydh2CH5E7mo 

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While the world is seemingly getting more turbulent some of us may be trying to find a way through it all to bring us peace and enlightenment. Could the Aetherius Society be the place where you find your peace? James sits down with Paul Nugent, director of the Aetherius Society to talk about his book Maya Mire for a truly fascinating conversation on how our spiritual understanding links in with UFO's/UAP's and more. 

 

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