Some Other Sphere

Feb 26 2025 130 ep. 65 mins 266
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Interview style podcast where Rick Palmer talks to knowledge experts on a range of unusual subjects including Folklore, the Paranormal, Magic, the Occult, and much more.

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Episode 130 - Dr. Josh Bullock - Weekday Worldviews - Update

Feb 26 2025 59 mins  
Joining me for this episode is returning guest Dr. Josh Bullock. Josh is part of the team behind Weekday Worldviews, a sociological project which in 2023 began investigating the relationships between personal worldviews and psychological well-being amongst those attending public psychic events in the UK. He was my guest for episode 114 of the podcast, where we discussed the project

Episode 129 - Dr Ed Barnhart - The Maya Civilisation

Feb 12 2025 72 mins  
My guest for this episode is archaeologist, explorer and educator Dr Ed Barnhart. Ed specialises in studying the ancient civilizations of the Americas and has over twenty years of experience working at archaeological sites in North, Central, and South America. Of particular interest to him during his career have been the Maya, who are is the main subject of the interview. In 1994,

Episode 128 - Elin Heron and Callum James - Magic, Landscape and the Dead

Jan 22 2025 73 mins  
Joining me as my guests for this episode are Elin Heron and Callum James. Elin is returning to Some Other Sphere, having first been interviewed by me in the very early days of the podcast. She is a writer and musician, a talented tarot reader and a speaker of Welsh. Callum is a poet, artist, bookseller and magical practitioner. Both have long been close friends and 2024 saw them ea

Episode 127 - Loren Hughes - The Ancients of Avalon

Dec 18 2024 66 mins  
My guest for this episode is paranormal researcher Loren Hughes. Loren is the creator of 'The Ancients of Avalon', an eclectic amalgam of blog and social media where he shares his own unusual experiences along with the folklore and weird history associated with the area around Glastonbury in Somerset, England where he lives. UFOs, Cryptids, the Fae and of course, the myths and lege

Episode 126 - Timothy Grieve-Carlson - American Aurora

Dec 04 2024 73 mins  
My guest for this episode is historian and author Timothy Grieve-Carlson. Tim’s work focuses on the intersection of esotericism, ecology, American religious history and the paranormal and his writing has appeared in magazines like Hellebore and in academic journals such as American Religion, Correspondences: A Journal of Esotericism, and Magic, Ritual, and Witchcraft. 2024 saw th

Episode 125 - Allison Jornlin - Catherine Crowe and the Night Side of Nature

Nov 13 2024 81 mins  
Joining me as my guest for this episode is paranormal historian, researcher, writer and speaker, Allison Jornlin. Allison has been investigating strange phenomena for more than twenty years. Inspired by Chicago’s Richard Crowe, who kick-started U.S. ghost tourism in 1973, she developed Milwaukee’s first haunted history tour in 2008. Allison currently works as a professional wei

Episode 124 - Greg Eghigian - After the Flying Saucers Came

Oct 23 2024 67 mins  
My guest for this episode is Greg Eghigian, who joined me to talk about his new book After the Flying Saucers Came: A Global History of the UFO Phenomenon. Greg is a Professor of History and Bioethics at Pennsylvania State University. An expert on the history of the abnormal and the paranormal in the modern world, his research has been supported by NASA and the Smithsonian National

Episode 123 - Ruth Roper Wylde - Researching Hauntings and High Strangeness

Oct 02 2024 61 mins  
Joining me for this episode is returning guest, paranormal researcher and author Ruth Roper Wylde. Ruth has written extensively on strange happenings in Britain, beginning with her book The Ghosts of Marston Vale and continuing with titles such as The Almanac of British Ghosts, The Roadmap of British Ghosts and These Haunted Times, with the latter two titles extending into multiple

Episode 122 - Dash Kwiatkowski - Comedy, Paranormal Investigation and Phil Gravy

Aug 28 2024 65 mins  
My guest for this episode is paranormal investigator, writer and podcaster Dash Kwiatkowski. Prior to their paranormal investigation career, Dash spent a decade as a touring stand up comedian, featuring in festivals around the United States. Now based in Providence Rhode Island, their latest project is the paranormal documentary series 'Liminal', in which Dash and their team search

Episode 121 - Amanda Paulson -The Emotional Considerations of Paranormal Investigation

Aug 07 2024 74 mins  
Joining me as my guest for this episode is paranormal researcher and investigator Amanda Paulson. Amanda has been actively investigating paranormal phenomena since 2008 and since then has visited numerous places with haunted reputations across North America, including locations such as Waverly Hills Sanatorium and the Lizzie Borden house. She specialises in focusing on the emotiona