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Thank you for your patience, in waiting for Weird in the Wade to return! And we’re back with an hour long special with wonderful expert guests talking about women who haunt, are haunted and investigate those hauntings!
Meet the experts
Evelyn Hollow
Evelyn Hollow is a Scottish writer and paranormal psychologist.
She is a former psychology lecturer and holds a Master of Research degree in Paranormal Psychology. She now consults as a paranormal psychologist and expert for various TV shows and podcasts — most recently the smash-hit BBC shows The Battersea Poltergeist , The Witch Farm, and Uncanny. She is also from the Warner Bros. TV shows Spooked Scotland and Spooked Ireland, which stream on Discovery Channel+.
She was a resident author at Esoterica Zine for several years, was the recipient of the 2015 Lonely Planet Travel Writing Scholarship, the occult columnist for Corvid Culture, has written numerous articles for HAUNTED magazine, and has taught writing classes at everywhere from universities to arts festivals. She has also been featured in exhibitions at ESAF and is the creator of The Baer Archive. Her first book, ATLAS OF PARANORMAL PLACES, was published worldwide on Ivy Press (Quarto Publishing Group) in September 2024.
Evelyn gives guest talks on paranormal history, folklore, and the quantum physics of anomalous phenomena.
Deborah Hyde
From Deborah’s about information on her website:
Deborah Hyde wants to know why people believe in weird stuff. She attributes her fascination with the supernatural to having spent her childhood with mad aunties. She approaches the subject using the perspectives of psychology and history. Here is more about her on Wikipedia.
During the day, she’s a film/TV industry coordinator/production manager who has worked in makeup effects and scenery. She also gets on the wrong side of the camera from time to time.
Deborah is a Skeptic. Skeptics like an evidence-based approach to life, especially if someone is telling them what to do. The American spelling – ’Skeptic’ – is deliberate. The noun denotes a growing movement of people; more coagulated than coordinated, most of them like science and a rational approach to life.
For ten years, Deborah was the editor of The Skeptic Magazine, the UK’s only regular magazine to take a critical-thinking and evidence-based approach to pseudo-science and the paranormal. The magazine was previously edited by Professor Chris French of Goldsmiths, who stepped down to take a well-earned break in 2011.
Deborah was Co-Convenor of Westminster Skeptics and Speaker Liaison of Soho Skeptics. Soho Skeptics was an alliance of Little Atoms, The Pod Delusion, Skeptic Magazine, Skeptics in the Pub and independent writers and film-makers.
In February 2018, she was very honoured to have been elected a fellow of The Committee for Skeptical Inquiry.
PS Deborah has one sane auntie too.
Bethan Briggs-Miller
Bethan is a passionate folklorist and paranormal historian, with a degree in Medieval Studies from the University of Wales, Lampeter. She co-hosts two podcasts, Eerie Essex and Spectre of the Sea, where she explores the strange tales and folklore of Essex and Wales. Additionally, She is an artist and creates dreamlike landscapes using alcohol inks and oil paint. She enjoy combining these interests and skills to create unique and captivating content and experiences.
Steph Lay
Dr Steph Lay, is a writer, photographer and parapsychologist. She is also a cognitive psychologist and wrote her PhD on the uncanny valley.
She is currently applying her academic and analytics background in exciting new directions: Steph is researching the prevalence of hauntings and strange experiences in her home town of Milton Keynes.
Steph also works on the YouTube channel Into The Fog, where she uses data, user stories and creative design to help bring tales of the unexplained to life – where she says a solid grounding in the uncanny comes in extremely useful there!
Show Notes
The Green Lady of Kempston
Recommended women leading or who led in their fields
Read more about all the women recommended on the show:
Caroline Watt: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caroline_Watt and here: https://edwebprofiles.ed.ac.uk/profile/caroline-watt
Susan Blackmore: https://www.susanblackmore.uk/
Icy Sedgwick: https://www.icysedgwick.com/about-icy-sedgwick/
Gemma Garwood: https://www.eastanglianfolklorecentre.co.uk/about
You can hear Ailsa Clarke with Bethan Briggs-Miller on every episode of Eerie Essex podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/eerie-essex/id1579236448
Emma Holohan: https://ghostcatcherisles.com/about/
Terrie Howie-Moore aka Red Phoenix: https://redphoenixstory.co.uk/about-us-1
Marie Clothilde Balfour: https://tellinghistory.co.uk/content/marie-clothilde-balfour-bibilography
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