What's Out There?

A little Halloween treat...or is it a trick!!Join Juliette and Nigel in discussing a road trip adventure to High Wycombe to attend their first ever Paracon.While there, they grabbed hold of everyone's favourite parapsychologist, Ciaran O'Keeffe, for an in depth discussionabout Poltergeists and hauntings. Which turned into a fascinating chat indeed.

Poltergeist meaning..The word poltergeist comes from the German poltern, 'to make sound, to rumble,' and Geist, 'ghost, spirit.' The term itself translates as 'noisy ghost', 'rumble-ghost', or a 'loud spirit'.One of the tricks a poltergeist is known for is making "knocking" noises, so it will come as no surprise to learn that the word poltergeist translates literally from German as "knocking spirit." The German verb poltern means "to knock," and Geist is the German word for "spirit." Yes, we have finally decided to look at everyone's favourite, the Poltergeist. Of course, we couldn't just take a run-of-the-mill look at them. Oh no, we decided to take a deep dive and question whether poltergeists are something special or just another ghost with added oomph!!Poltergeist hauntings are often some of the most intense and terrifying haunting experiences. We will not deny that but do these intense hauntings need their unique label? Are poltergeists something completely separate from the average haunting experience?Some schools of thought believe that Poltergeist is a convenient label to attach to specific hauntings. Others believe poltergeist hauntings follow a set process or go through certain stages. We share a few of our thoughts and tell a few haunting stories related to poltergeist experiences to let you all decide what you think about poltergeists. We would love you to tell us your theories or, better yet, share your own ghostly experiences with us.You can email us at outtheregroup@icloud.com or use the contact form on our website, www.outtheregroup.netIf you want to read Juliette's article, you can find it herehttps://outthereparanormal.substack.com/p/remembrance-of-a-childhood-haunting?r=1uflo1Background music by CO AG https://www.youtube.com/@co.agmusicSound effects from https://freesound.org/

Welcome to the third and final episode in our "Haunted and Cursed" trilogy. In this episode, we cover the sinister side of cursed objects.Once again, we have gone on an internet deep dive to bring you a selection of strange items, each with a terrible tale to tell.Of course, it's much more exciting if you can see the objects in question, and once again, we have added a post to our Substack with pictures of all the items mentioned in the episode. Just click on the link below as you listen to the episode. It's surprising just how mundane some of these items are. It just goes to show you can never judge by appearance!!https://outthereparanormal.substack.com/p/some-items-to-die-forA warning to the curious: if someone offers you an item they are desperate to get rid of, think very carefully before you accept it because you may be getting a lot more than you bargained for!😱😱🫣

After our shopping spree in the last episode, we realised that our possessed furniture quest had seriously sidetracked us. So much so, in fact, that we did not really get into any in-depth explanation as to why there could be haunted or, worse still, cursed objects around.Well, we hope we have put that right in this episode. Join us as we wax lyrical about how something spooky might have got into your Gran's old teapot or why everyone sitting on Uncle Fred's chair ends up having a nasty accident!We both talk a lot on this episode and as always, we go off on a few tangents, disappearing down various paranormal rabbit holes. So please bear with us as we share some interesting points.Now, if you have any creepy tales of your own haunted or cursed objects, a ghostly tale of your own to tell, or want to ask us a question, we would love to hear from you. Email us at outtheregroup@icloud.com, and we will share your email on the show.

Juliette has been house hunting and looking for a new paranormal pad. So, Nigel decided to help with a few home furnishings to add that unique ambience!!Of course, he couldn't buy run-of-the-mill stuff, so he hunted down a few niche items to add that paranormal punch to Juliette's new place.Join us as we unveil a collection of truly "haunting" items for your delectation and delight. These are all completely unique, one-off treasures with amazing stories to tell.To get the most out of this epic experience, we have even put together an article on Substack. Click on the link below as you listen to see a collection of images of all the items we mentionin the podcast episode.https://outthereparanormal.substack.com/p/phantoms-in-your-paintings-and-spooks?r=1uflo1&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&triedRedirect=trueIf you want to see the videos we mentioned, here is the link to the YouTube channel.https://www.youtube.com/user/MrModnation

Yes, it's time to dive into the murky waters of experimental warfare.Join Juliette and Nigel as they open a few dusty files in the archives of the Department of Psychological Warfare to tell you all about some top-secret experiments that you may or may not have heard of.Mind-altering drugs, telepathic dogs, microwaves, mind reading, object moving, etc. All here in their WTF glory for you to enjoy.From MKUltra to StarGate, with a Midnight Climax on the way, we touch on some of the most mind-bending and completely insane operations undertaken by the Soviet Union, the United States of America and others.There was so much to cover that we have taken the steps to include a few links for those of you who wish to delve a bit deeper.We hope you enjoy the episode😜Crazy Rulers of the World..TV Serieshttps://thoughtmaybe.com/crazy-rulers-of-the-world/#topSovietshttps://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/dog-telepathyhttps://psi-encyclopedia.spr.ac.uk/articles/ninel-kulagina-0https://www.nytimes.com/1977/06/19/archives/emigre-tells-of-research-in-soviet-in-parapsychology-for-military.htmlhttps://medium.com/@littlebrown/the-soviet-threat-260e16953d14https://arxiv.org/pdf/1312.1148.pdfhttps://www.dia.mil/FOIA/FOIA-Electronic-Reading-Room/FileId/161361/https://allaboutheaven.org/sources/vasiliev-leonid/190Americanshttps://history.howstuffworks.com/history-vs-myth/cia-operation-midnight-climax.htmhttps://www.unrevealedfiles.com/psychotronic-torture-mind-control-using-electromagnetic-radiation/https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-conservative-social-psychologist/202004/us-government-mind-control-experimentshttps://medium.com/@jarod_75051/what-the-hell-is-project-stargate-7cc95161c4abhttps://skepticalaboutskeptics.org/examining-skeptics/guy-lyon-playfair/the-stargate-conspiracy/