Ep 97: The Otherworld is Here

Seán Clancy is An Drí ar Uisnigh (a Druid of the Hill of Uisneach) as well as a tour guide of Uisneach and a seanchaí (Irish storyteller). His family have lived around the base of Uisneach in Rathconrath, County Westmeath, right in the centre of Ireland, for generations. Follow Seán on Instagram where he releases stories, live every Tuesday. https://www.instagram.com/dri_uisnigh/ He's about to celebrate Bealtaine as he does each year on the sacred Hill of Uisneach. It's an ancient fire festival which attracts thousands of visitors. https://uisneach.ie/ Here, he describes the festival of Bealtaine and the history and mythology of Uisneach, as well as his own connections with the local area. Plus! A recent fairy encounter in Sean's local area! Starts at 39.25 mins. In the days leading up to St Patrick's Day, this March (2025) a local young woman (the daughter of a co-worker friend) was repeatedly stopped at a crossroads, late at night by a huge bird in increasingly strange circumstances...could the bird's uncanny owner herself have been one of the Good Neighbours? Seán recounts the TRUE STORY for us. ⭐️ JOIN THE MODERN FAIRY SIGHTINGS COMMUNITY GROUP ⭐️ If you're looking for exclusive bonus material, monthly zoom chats with like minded folks, access to the Discord channels and joining events with other members, join us at: / themodernfairysightingspodcast S U P P O R T If you’d prefer to support the Modern Fairy Sightings with a one off donation, you can ‘buy me a coffee’ and I’d be very grateful 🙂 https://buymeacoffee.com/modfairysight Warning: These are not fairytales and the content is unsuitable for children. This episode describes a wonderful experience but some episodes may contain details which some may find unsettling or frightening. The Modern Fairy Sightings Podcast is designed for listeners 16 years and older. Podcast intro music: Transmutate by Snowflake (c) copyright 2020 Licensed. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License. Green Man Artwork: Peter Hall Studios Thanks for watching 💚 TMFSP is part of SpectreVision Radio SpectreVision Radio is a bespoke podcast network at the intersection between the arts and the uncanny, featuring a tapestry of shows exploring creativity, the esoteric, and the unknown. We’re a community for creators and fans vibrating around common curiosities, shared interests and persistent passions. spectrevisionradio.com linktr.ee/spectrevisionsocial Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Exciting News! This is TMFSP's first published episode with SpectreVision Radio. I have joined the Podcast family featuring other great shows like, Greg and Dana Newkirk's The Haunted Objects Podcast and Mitch Horowitz's Extraordinary Evidence T H E S H O W It was so great to finally meet with R O D W I L L I A M S O N from Lodge Tales Podcast - one of my favourite shows. Rod speaks to fellow members of his Native American community about their strange experiences. The conversations are absolutely wonderful and give a great insight into what we have largely lost in our material-paradigm-focused, modern Western society. https://lodge-tales.podcastpage.io/ We talk about what it was like for Rod to grow up in the Blackfeet Reservation in Montana, - one of the largest reservations in the US - with parents that understand about Otherworld...and others in the wider community who no longer remember their connections with these worlds. It was an honour to hear about Rod's experiences including talking owls, a shapeshifting cricket, Little People, the backward speak of Otherworld, a talking eagle speaking Blackfeet. He tells the terrifying story of the time he went down to the creek with his first cousin and her legs were pulled by an unknown force back beneath the waters. We discuss shapeshifting in general, how we might relate to Spirits and how we feel about the West reawakening to these ways of seeing the world. Huge thanks to Rod, please consider supporting his show and helping it to grow. Support Lodge Tales on Patreon S U P P O R T T M F S P Become a Patron! We have a community called The Curious Crew. https://www.patreon.com/themodernfairysightingspodcast If you are looking for exclusive bonus material, monthly zoom chats with like minded folks, access to the Discord channels and joining events with other members, please go to: https://www.patreon.com/themodernfairysightingspodcast If you’d prefer to support the Modern Fairy Sightings with a one off donation, you can ‘buy me a coffee’ and I’d be very grateful 🙂 https://buymeacoffee.com/modfairysight Warning: These are not fairytales and the content is unsuitable for children. This episode describes a wonderful experience but some episodes may contain details which some may find unsettling or frightening. The Modern Fairy Sightings Podcast is designed for listeners 16 years and older. Podcast intro music: Transmutate by Snowflake (c) copyright 2020 Licensed. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License. Music during the show Environmental Meditation by Hood Faire Green Man Artwork: Peter Hall Studio Please like, share and subscribe 💚 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Send us a text An in-depth conversation with Annick Brofman, long-time healer and wife of Martin Brofman, creator of the Body Mirror System. I trained with Martin from 2005 until 2014. Here’s Martin talking about healing and consciousness https://youtube.com/@iamhealer?si=f9orde0YC9QeXLIB Two Day Workshop BRISTOL November 2025 To mark the 20th anniversary of my healing transition with Body Mirror System, I am organising a two-day workshop in Bristol 22/23 November. https://www.scarlettofthefae.com/body-mirror-system-class-bristol-november-22nd-23rd-2025/ How Does This Relate to Fairy? I credit the profound healing that I received from Martin Brofman in May 2005 with having my first fairy encounter. That healing placed me back on the track of my life, which beforehand had felt distant and impossible. It felt like I had 'come alive' at that point and had been sleepwalking through my life before that transition. Annick and I discuss: 🌈 how Martin healed himself and went on to create the System. 🌈 what each chakra represents in our bodies and our lives. 🌈 some of the experiences that have taken place in these classes. In the exclusive full-length version on Patreon we discuss: 🌈 how the chakra system can be used to understand what is currently happening in the world. During the class you will exchange 5 healings with other participants, using various techniques you have been taught. At the completion of the class, you will be able to: 1. Understand and experience yourself as a Being of energy. 2. Feel and direct energy, and see energy (auras, chakras, thought forms.) 3. Understand the relationship between your body and your consciousness. 4. Understand how symptoms in This July, Modern Fairy Sightings teams up with House of Zophiel to bring you a weekend immersed in the world of faeries. I’ll be part of a residential weekend workshop along with Diane Narraway and www.scarlettofthefae.com or contact me at [email protected] Support the show S U P P O R T Become a Patron! We have a community called The Curious Crew. https://www.patreon.com/themodernfairysightingspodcast Shownotes: www.scarlettofthefae.com If you are looking for exclusive bonus material, monthly zoom chats with like minded folks, access to the Discord channels and joining events with other members, please go to: https://www.patreon.com/themodernfairysightingspodcast If you’d prefer to support the Modern Fairy Sightings with a one off donation, you can ‘buy me a coffee’ and I’d be very grateful 🙂 https://buymeacoffee.com/modfairysight Warning: These are not fairytales and the content is unsuitable for children. This episode describes a wonderful experience but some episodes may contain details which some may find unsettling or frightening. The Modern Fairy Sightings Podcast is designed for listeners 16 years and older. Podcast intro music: Transmutate by Snowflake (c) copyright 2020 Licensed. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License. Green Man Artwork: Peter Hall Studios Please like, share and subscribe 💚 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Send us a text I chat to Simone from New South Wales.  Her first experience was atop a mountain early one morning. Simone and her husband's primal neuroception immediately picked up 'something was not right' and when they saw his eyes, they knew he wasn't human....it was as if he was using that body form to 'see' into this world. And he indicated he had been watching them. Simone also shares her experience of living in a house with what she describes as an elemental of some kind. The house would shake at will. The presence finally made it's appearance in flashing red lights and heavy footsteps approaching Simone's room, when she was alone in the house one night. She also shares her beautiful communion with a river and the vision of a tall white being and lastly, a very nerve-wracking childhood visitation of a large being with long grey curly hair - was it a banshee? UPCOMING EVENTS Support the show S U P P O R T Become a Patron! We have a community called The Curious Crew. https://www.patreon.com/themodernfairysightingspodcast Shownotes: www.scarlettofthefae.com If you are looking for exclusive bonus material, monthly zoom chats with like minded folks, access to the Discord channels and joining events with other members, please go to: https://www.patreon.com/themodernfairysightingspodcast If you’d prefer to support the Modern Fairy Sightings with a one off donation, you can ‘buy me a coffee’ and I’d be very grateful 🙂 https://buymeacoffee.com/modfairysight Warning: These are not fairytales and the content is unsuitable for children. This episode describes a wonderful experience but some episodes may contain details which some may find unsettling or frightening. The Modern Fairy Sightings Podcast is designed for listeners 16 years and older. Podcast intro music: Transmutate by Snowflake (c) copyright 2020 Licensed. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License. Green Man Artwork: Peter Hall Studios Please like, share and subscribe 💚 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Send us a text Dr Jack Hunter discusses Tricksters, his personal experiences with the Mediumship group in Bristol, thresholds/portals in gardens, synchronicities and we even ended up sharing our kids' experiences with goblins/gnomes in our gardens.  Here's the link to Jack's kids discussing what they saw in the garden: :https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0BWjFWYXgwQ Please note we had a few cut outs with Jack's wifi (which is understandable as he's in deepest Wales)...so there are a few glitches here and there. Shownotes Link to Trinity St David's Sophia Centre where Jack Teaches MA in Spirituality and Ecologyhttps://www.uwtsd.ac.uk/ Jack’s upcoming course on fairies: https://mythcosmologysacred.com/imaginal-ecologies-an-exploration-of-spirits-fairies-and-the-other-than-human-with-dr-jack-hunter-4th-11th-18th-and-25th-june-2025-via-zoom-6-30pm-8-30pm-uk-time/ Our fellow Patreon member, Chelsea's 'Tree Encounter' research (Chelsea is a student of Jack's) https://www.patreon.com/posts/patreon-zoom-120576989 Manifesting Spirits which is based on Jack's PhD with the mediumship group https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/51687419-manifesting-spirits Greening the Paranormal https://www.amazon.co.uk/Greening-Paranormal-Exploring-Extraordinary-Experience/dp/1786771098 George P. Hansen - The Trickster and the Paranormal https://amzn.eu/d/hCeKGeu Support the show S U P P O R T Become a Patron! We have a community called The Curious Crew. https://www.patreon.com/themodernfairysightingspodcast Shownotes: www.scarlettofthefae.com If you are looking for exclusive bonus material, monthly zoom chats with like minded folks, access to the Discord channels and joining events with other members, please go to: https://www.patreon.com/themodernfairysightingspodcast If you’d prefer to support the Modern Fairy Sightings with a one off donation, you can ‘buy me a coffee’ and I’d be very grateful 🙂 https://buymeacoffee.com/modfairysight Warning: These are not fairytales and the content is unsuitable for children. This episode describes a wonderful experience but some episodes may contain details which some may find unsettling or frightening. The Modern Fairy Sightings Podcast is designed for listeners 16 years and older. Podcast intro music: Transmutate by Snowflake (c) copyright 2020 Licensed. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License. Green Man Artwork: Peter Hall Studios Please like, share and subscribe 💚 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Send us a text I speak with Pamela and Brian a couple living in Scotland who have had mystical experiences at West Kennet, Silbury Hill, Loch Tay, Kinnoull Hill, Dumgoyach and The Sleeping Giant. This episode is a beautiful reminder that the Otherworld surrounds us and we only have to open to it.  The ShowThere are connections with Beltane, The Wild Hunt, Otherworldly tricksters appearing as the Hare and the motif of being led to fall asleep (like their Scottish counterpart, Thomas of Erceldoune, aka Thomas The Rhymer. See this previous bonus: https://www.patreon.com/posts/thomas-rhymer-83045524 Brian heard a strange language, similar to Neil Rushton's experience. A number of people have suggested it may be a Brythonic/Brittonic language. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8trlxYRBl7Y The music featured in the episode is Environmental Meditation by Hood Faire (our guest Sam McLoughlin from Orbs and Fairies at the Brook episode)https://hoodfaire1.bandcamp.com/album/environmental-meditation-music Links to Workshops: House of Zophiel 5/6 July 2025https://www.houseofzophiel.com/course-events.htmlBody Mirror System of Healing in Bristol 22/23 November 2025https://www.scarlettofthefae.com/body-mirror-system-class-bristol-november-22nd-23rd-2025/Link to my healing experience with Body Mirror System: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxhjlIiBOSs&t=2s Support the show S U P P O R T Become a Patron! We have a community called The Curious Crew. https://www.patreon.com/themodernfairysightingspodcastShownotes:www.scarlettofthefae.comIf you are looking for exclusive bonus material, monthly zoom chats with like minded folks, access to the Discord channels and joining events with other members, please go to: https://www.patreon.com/themodernfairysightingspodcastIf you’d prefer to support the Modern Fairy Sightings with a one off donation, you can ‘buy me a coffee’ and I’d be very grateful 🙂https://buymeacoffee.com/modfairysightWarning: These are not fairytales and the content is unsuitable for children. This episode describes a wonderful experience but some episodes may contain details which some may find unsettling or frightening. The Modern Fairy Sightings Podcast is designed for listeners 16 years and older.Podcast intro music: Transmutate by Snowflake (c) copyright 2020 Licensed. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.Green Man Artwork: Peter Hall StudiosPlease like, share and subscribe 💚 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Send us a text Joshua Cutchin is an acclaimed author and researcher of the paranormal. He is the author of seven critically-acclaimed books: 2015's A Trojan Feast: The Food and Drink Offerings of Aliens, Faeries, and Sasquatch (translated into Spanish as Banquete Troyano); 2016's The Brimstone Deceit: An In-Depth Examination of Supernatural Scents, Otherworldly Odors, & Monstrous Miasmas; 2018's Thieves in the Night: A Brief History of Supernatural Child Abductions; and 2020's Where the Footprints End: High Strangeness and the Bigfoot Phenomenon, Volumes I & II, with Timothy Renner. In 2022, he released his two-part masterwork: Ecology of Souls: A New Mythology of Death & the Paranormal. The day before our interview, Joshua's new film The Lady of The Lake was released on Prime, so I took the opportunity to ask him about it. (frustratingly, it's not available yet in the UK).    • The Lady of the Lake (2024) Trailer -...  The documentary film is a Fortean perspective on the case of the murder of Haille Illingworth whose remains were found in Lake Crescent in 1940, after she had gone missing in 1937. See Joshua's blog for more info. We get into all things watery, sea monsters, thresholds and Otherworldly inversions! Shownotes Joshua's book Ecology of Souls is highly recommended (both volumes) (2022):   / ecology-of-souls  Check out his other excellent books here: https://www.joshuacutchin.com/publica... Rev Robert Kirk' s The Secret Commonwealth of Elves, Fauns, and Fairies (written in 1692, published in 1815) Support the show S U P P O R T Become a Patron! We have a community called The Curious Crew. https://www.patreon.com/themodernfairysightingspodcast Shownotes: www.scarlettofthefae.com If you are looking for exclusive bonus material, monthly zoom chats with like minded folks, access to the Discord channels and joining events with other members, please go to: https://www.patreon.com/themodernfairysightingspodcast If you’d prefer to support the Modern Fairy Sightings with a one off donation, you can ‘buy me a coffee’ and I’d be very grateful 🙂 https://buymeacoffee.com/modfairysight Warning: These are not fairytales and the content is unsuitable for children. This episode describes a wonderful experience but some episodes may contain details which some may find unsettling or frightening. The Modern Fairy Sightings Podcast is designed for listeners 16 years and older. Podcast intro music: Transmutate by Snowflake (c) copyright 2020 Licensed. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License. Green Man Artwork: Peter Hall Studios Please like, share and subscribe 💚 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Send us a text Listeners, I very much needed this chat with Capuchin Franciscan Priest-Friar, Brother Richard. I hope you feel you get a lot from it too. We discuss Brother Richard's personal encounters with Otherworldly beings, first as a child and later as a Priest-Friar. He also talks about the Franciscan Order's understandings of Non-Human beings, they steps they take when protection is required or in rare cases exorcism, and he shares his own experiences of aiding in these circumstances. We also discuss:  - Rites of Passage (particularly in relation to young people) - Offerings to Otherworldly beings and so much more. I found Brother Richard's suggestion of prayer when in a wild place such a gift: "Bless every being present, seen and unseen, even the beings I pass by, around or through, without knowing." Contacts: Brother Richard on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/brorichard/ ⭐️ If you would like to make a donation to Brother Richard's work, please support his Order's daycare centre for the Homeless ⭐️: http://www.capuchindaycentre.ie/ Books and Podcasts discussed: I highly recommend his new book: 'Calming the Storms: Meditation as a Path to Inner Peace and Happiness' Calming the Storms by Brother Richard https://www.awesomebooks.com/book/9781399732017/calming-the-storms?msclkid=e74d9d433d6412437ba5fa271ead2739 Extraterrestrial Intelligence and the Catholic Faith by Paul Thigpen https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/60772154-extraterrestrial-intelligence-and-the-catholic-faith Dissertations upon the apparitions of angels, dæmons, and ghosts, and concerning the vampires of Hungary, Bohemia, Moravia, and Silesia by Father Dom Augustin Calmet https://archive.org/details/bim_eighteenth-century_dissertations-upon-the-a_calmet-augustin_1759 Podcast episode around young people and rites of passage https://www.theearthlydelightspodcast.com/podcast/106-brother-richard-hendrick Support the show S U P P O R T Become a Patron! We have a community called The Curious Crew. https://www.patreon.com/themodernfairysightingspodcast Shownotes: www.scarlettofthefae.com If you are looking for exclusive bonus material, monthly zoom chats with like minded folks, access to the Discord channels and joining events with other members, please go to: https://www.patreon.com/themodernfairysightingspodcast If you’d prefer to support the Modern Fairy Sightings with a one off donation, you can ‘buy me a coffee’ and I’d be very grateful 🙂 https://buymeacoffee.com/modfairysight Warning: These are not fairytales and the content is unsuitable for children. This episode describes a wonderful experience but some episodes may contain details which some may find unsettling or frightening. The Modern Fairy Sightings Podcast is designed for listeners 16 years and older. Podcast intro music: Transmutate by Snowflake (c) copyright 2020 Licensed. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License. Green Man Artwork: Peter Hall Studios Please like, share and subscribe 💚 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Send us a text I chat to Tim about a strange interaction which took place during a hike and tapped deeply into his psyche.It marked both a shift in Tim's life direction and a return to his underlying sense of 'true' self and an openness in life which had slipped away during adulthood. It continues to hold meaning in his current relationships.We discuss how our home environment as a child shapes how we interact with the Otherworld and how, as an adult we can lose our sense of 'being'.I hope you enjoy this discussion.The discussion he watched between Patrick Harpur and 'a philosopher' was the interview between Patrick and Bernardo Kastrup.https://youtu.be/r4hEOJQpbiw?si=NTraD-Iog8xMCEzx Support the show S U P P O R T Become a Patron! We have a community called The Curious Crew. https://www.patreon.com/themodernfairysightingspodcastShownotes:www.scarlettofthefae.comIf you are looking for exclusive bonus material, monthly zoom chats with like minded folks, access to the Discord channels and joining events with other members, please go to: https://www.patreon.com/themodernfairysightingspodcastIf you’d prefer to support the Modern Fairy Sightings with a one off donation, you can ‘buy me a coffee’ and I’d be very grateful 🙂https://buymeacoffee.com/modfairysightWarning: These are not fairytales and the content is unsuitable for children. This episode describes a wonderful experience but some episodes may contain details which some may find unsettling or frightening. The Modern Fairy Sightings Podcast is designed for listeners 16 years and older.Podcast intro music: Transmutate by Snowflake (c) copyright 2020 Licensed. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.Green Man Artwork: Peter Hall StudiosPlease like, share and subscribe 💚 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Send us a text This is the story of a woman from Sheffield in the North of England, who experienced a fairy flying out from a hedge near her home, in an area which had already felt particularly special to her. She later encountered an imp while staying in a holiday cottage with her family.  With a history of mediumship that seems to have been passed down her ancestral lineage through her great grandmothers (listen to the full extended version on Patreon for a discussion on her mediumship experiences) , Corinne shares how her abilities showed up initially and how she was ultimately able to use visualisation to release a fairy being who appeared to be unwittingly 'stuck' in this material plane.  This episode was recorded in July 2024.  ⭐️ BONUS ⭐️ In the extended full length P A T R E O N version we also hear about our guest's encounter with the Angel Metatron and how her experiences with the Otherworld continue to inspire her artwork. Become a Patron! We have a community called The Curious Crew. https://www.patreon.com/themodernfairysightingspodcastShownotes:https://www.scarlettofthefae.com/fairies-of-hedges-and-homes-sheffield-england/If you are looking for exclusive bonus material, monthly zoom chats with like minded folks, access to the Discord channels and joining events with other members, please go to:  https://www.patreon.com/themodernfairysightingspodcastS U P P O R TIf you’d prefer to support the Modern Fairy Sightings with a one off donation, you can ‘buy me a coffee’ and I’d be very grateful 🙂https://buymeacoffee.com/modfairysightWarning: These are not fairytales and the content is unsuitable for children. This episode describes a wonderful experience but some episodes may contain details which some may find unsettling or frightening. The Modern Fairy Sightings Podcast is designed for listeners 16 years and older.Podcast intro music: Transmutate by Snowflake (c) copyright 2020 Licensed. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.Green Man Artwork: Peter Hall StudiosPlease like, share and subscribe 💚 Support the show S U P P O R T Become a Patron! We have a community called The Curious Crew. https://www.patreon.com/themodernfairysightingspodcastShownotes:www.scarlettofthefae.comIf you are looking for exclusive bonus material, monthly zoom chats with like minded folks, access to the Discord channels and joining events with other members, please go to: https://www.patreon.com/themodernfairysightingspodcastIf you’d prefer to support the Modern Fairy Sightings with a one off donation, you can ‘buy me a coffee’ and I’d be very grateful 🙂https://buymeacoffee.com/modfairysightWarning: These are not fairytales and the content is unsuitable for children. This episode describes a wonderful experience but some episodes may contain details which some may find unsettling or frightening. The Modern Fairy Sightings Podcast is designed for listeners 16 years and older.Podcast intro music: Transmutate by Snowflake (c) copyright 2020 Licensed. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.Green Man Artwork: Peter Hall StudiosPlease like, share and subscribe 💚 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices