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Peer Beyond The Veil

By Mark L. Watson

Join Mark L. Watson as we explore the physical and the metaphysical, and search for the threads that join them.
On each episode we delve into the world of the unknown, the occult, the spiritual and the esoteric.
Always looking. Always learning.
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Skinwalking the 37th Parallel - Chuck Zukowski

Peer Beyond The VeilOct 08, 2020

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2021 Monsters Ball

2021 Monsters Ball

As the nights draw long, the leaves flicker red and brown and carpet the land, and the great hearth fire is stoked.
In from the dark come all manner of creatures, the lost souls of the underworld, seeking shelter from the encroaching frosts.
It is around that fire that we gather tonight for stories of the darkness, tales from the crypt, legends of the beyond.

We are honoured to welcome to the fray;
- Forrest Burgess, the magnificent host of the Astonishing Legends -
www.astonishinglegends.com
- James Shakeshaft, my fellow countryman from Loremen - www.loremenpodcast.com/
- Joshua Cutchin, fantastic author and previous guest on the show - www.joshuacutchin.com/
- Anna Timperley and Lindsey Behee from Ghost In The Attic, Bodies In The Basement - www.facebook.com/GABBPodcast
- 'Toledo' Joe Shortridge, one of the co-hosts of the awesome 222 Paranormal - www.facebook.com/222paranormal
and special guest;
- Allen Greenfield, the incredible mind and author behind many books on the subject of the paranormal and the recent Hellier documentary

So join us for a one-night only special ad-free event, the 2021 Peer Beyond The Veil MONSTERS BALL!
Oct 30, 202101:54:20
Solving the hard problem of consciousness - Stephen Hawley Martin

Solving the hard problem of consciousness - Stephen Hawley Martin

Since the beginning of modern science, going back hundreds of years, the answer to one question has remained elusive. However far our studies of neurology go, however closely we map the human brain, or any animal brain for that matter, it appears that there are parts of our being that are yet hidden.

The approach and theory that everything that is, exists in a physical form in some way, is being increasingly challenged.

That which we know as our consciousness is posing a problem to those trying to find it in a physical sense.

Phenomena such as the near-death experience, the out-of-body experience, dreamwalking, remote viewing, psychic mediumship and reincarnation all go against what we know and can study.

And whilst some may not believe in any of the above being ‘real’ in the sense we know them, there is a mountain of evidence to the contrary.

Thus, if we are to believe that even a mere 1% of the evidence of these things is true, then there must exist a form of being which is outside the physical body.

As German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer said, “all truth passes through three stages; first it is ridiculed; secondly it is violently opposed; then thirdly it can be widely-accepted”

Where you, personally, are on that scale will differ of course.

But if we are to get to the grand truths of these strange things, we must be willing to take the risks, suffer the ridicule, stand up to the opposition, and stay together.

My guest tonight is spearheading the research and reporting of such things, and his wide collection of excellent books cover many aspects of the human consciousness.

It is a joy to welcome the great Stephen Hawley Martin to the show to talk through his work and his books, and to explain how if we want to understand what we truly are at the base level, we should all try without pause, to Peer Beyond The Veil.v

May 07, 202153:44
The reckoning - Terry Lovelace

The reckoning - Terry Lovelace

Last year, in the previous season of the show, we spoke at length to former Lawyer, Assistant Attorney General and Air Force EMT, Mr Terry Lovelace.

The story of his encounter at Devil’s Den State Park, in Washington County, Arkansas, is one of the most thrilling, terrifying, saddening and entirely convincing tales in the annals of extra-terrestrial encounters.

The tale of a young Mr Lovelace and his friend Toby, begins rather innocuously with a camping trip, but ends with two lives completely ruined and more anecdotal evidence of a governmental cover-up than you are ever likely to hear in one place. Both men are split up from each other, sent their different ways, and would never talk again.

But the story does not end there. And nor indeed, does it start there either.

After publishing a contact email address in the back of Incident at Devil’s Den, and asking those with similar stories to contact him, Terry was inundated with incredible tales from hundreds and hundreds of others who have had encounters with beings and entities of other worlds.

And so, after compiling them together, he put pen to paper once more.

He fleshed-out the original tale, reaching back into his own past to piece together some of the building blocks which prefaced his encounter at Devil’s Den, and shared some of the most incredible tales which had been shared with him.

It is a great pleasure to welcome the fantastic Terry Lovelace back to the show again tonight to talk about the second book, The Reckoning, and to expand a little on just how many of you out there have stared at the stars in wonderment and terror, knowing that it is with some ease that we Peer Beyond The Veil.

Apr 30, 202101:27:28
Opening the doors to the mind - Michelle Belanger

Opening the doors to the mind - Michelle Belanger

Since the Bronze Age, cultures around the globe have developed belief systems based on mythology, on anthropomorphic gods who walk between the physical realm and the beyond. They have created complex systems of religion which draw on astrology, astronomy and cosmology, even when studies of such things were in their infancy. Some of the most ancient philosophical concepts in Chinese culture deal with the yin and yang, of a state of being beyond the natural body.

Studies of our very existence are seemingly as old as man, the very first records of our species showing hints that we have always questioned our place. And so they go on, discussing the nature of our being, of the contrast between what is actual and what is potential. The concept of mind vs matter.

These philosophical questions, which we term metaphysics, have broadened to the furthest reaches of our imagination. We question every thing that there is to be questioned.

What is our mind? What is consciousness? What part do we play in our own existence, and what part does existence play in us?

We bring in the quantum concepts of study, of physics and of all the sciences, to help advance our knowledge to a place where we can better understand this meaning of life. In the theoretical quantum field theory, the known concepts of space and time are questioned themselves, as we push into areas of study not always widely accepted. But despite it all, despite what modern scientific study can do, we need to only look back to the beginnings to see that the power of the mind lies in the mind.

No part of the human brain, mapped in its entirety, controls the human consciousness. Yet it is there. And so perhaps we are looking in the wrong places. Perhaps we just need more time.

My guest tonight is constantly questioning the world around her, and the world within herself, and indeed the relationship between the two. Her works on various fields of metaphysics and studies of consciousness are go-to documents for those who endeavour to learn more about the realms of the mind.

An acclaimed writer of numerous works, a fabulously-gifted psychic medium who has appeared on numerous tv shows, and a font of vast knowledge on all manner of strange and wonderful topics, it is an honour to welcome the beautifully-talented Michelle Belanger to the show tonight to talk about her life and her work, and how she carries the light with her whenever she is drawn to Peer Beyond The Veil.

Apr 23, 202155:53
The South Shields Poltergeist - Darren W. Ritson

The South Shields Poltergeist - Darren W. Ritson

There are hundreds and thousands of cases of hauntings and ghost activity, spread across the world, and across time.
We hear the tales of the things which go bump in the night, the whispers of the shadows who duck from sight just as our eyes catch them in the doorways and corners.

We see the grainy photos, the questionable orbs, the video footage of the door creaking open by itself. Some of it is remarkable, some of it could surely be proof of something. Though much of it can also be explained away, debunked, at the very least doubted.

But occasionally, there is a case which cannot be disputed.

A situation, of a haunting by ghosts or spirits, the dead, the passed-on, or by what we know as a poltergeist. Many would posit that such things are not indeed spirits of the once-living, but separate entities entirely. When the great, landmark cases come along, they are documented and studied and remembered throughout time, and the evidence and the happenings which took place during it become the next clues towards what exactly is going on.

We have the case surrounding Borley Rectory or Thornton Heath, the events surrounding the legends of the Bell Witch or the Black Monk of Pontefract, and the infamous Enfield poltergeist.

With a level of intrigue, seeming confidence in itself, and an unparalleled level of violence and intensity, none are more worthy of note than the case of the South Shields poltergeist.

My guest tonight was a writer and researcher of all things paranormal with numerous publications to his name, when he was contacted to help with the case. What ensued over the months which followed present a terrifying and inarguable case of torment and horror.

It is with great pleasure that we welcome Darren W Ritson to the show to talk about his work and the case and to tell us how he was thrown into the middle of a whirlwind which left him no choice but to Peer Beyond The Veil.

Apr 16, 202101:09:42
The journey to where the footprints end - Joshua Cutchin

The journey to where the footprints end - Joshua Cutchin

Since the times before Buddhism spread across the tribes of the east, it’s influences climbing the highest peaks of the Himalayas, reaching those shamanic mountain peoples who occupied the remotest of villages, the legend of the meh-teh, or the yeti, has existed. Known to the people there as the mi rgod, the wild man, he was no folktale. In the 1820s he came to the attention of British explorers and mountaineers, his footprints found on the highest slopes of Everest, inexplicably large, in a place where no other man or beast could roam.

Wild man myths and legends exist across cultures, the orang pendek hides in the forests of Indonesia, the almasty his cousin in Mongolia. In Slavic folklore there are tales of the leshy, the shepherds of northern Pakistan tell of the barmanou and the greyman haunts the highest peaks of the Scottish Cairngorms.

But as yet, no man has stepped forward with irrefutable proof of the existence of any of them. We have no body, no hair, no teeth, no scat, no photograph which is deemed inarguable. So could they possibly exist on this tiny rock of ours with us and entirely evade any capture of cataloguing? Perhaps, such a thing is not entirely impossible. 

But perhaps there is another explanation. Perhaps they exist here with us, but in a way which differs from ours. Should they be able to come and go from our reality, show themselves whenever they choose, however they choose, then perhaps they are here all of the time, and what we catch is the merest glimpse behind the curtain.

Such theories are wild and varied. They are spirits, they are extra-terrestrials, they’re ultra-terrestrials, we of course have no real way to know.
Yet.

The evidence for all of the above is present, but we are yet to gather enough evidence of any of them for us to all land in the same place on such things. My guest tonight is rapidly changing that. A researcher and author on various aspects of the paranormal spectrum, he has penned two of the finest and most well-researched compendiums of knowledge on the bigfoot phenomenon. Meticulous in detail and with the great ability to unearth and analyse the variety of theories which abound, it is with great pleasure that we welcome the fantastic Joshua Cutchin to the show tonight to share some of his work, and to explain how, if we’re going to get to the bottom of bigfoot, then we all need to Peer Beyond The Veil.

Apr 09, 202101:01:03
DMT and the occult with Dick Khan

DMT and the occult with Dick Khan

Since the beginning of time, man has used substances to alter his mind.

Tobacco has been smoked since around 5000BC, its origins in Mesoamerica. Alcohol has been drunk since a similar period in time, its first evidence traced to ancient Persia in modern-day Iran.

But to truly open the mind, man needed to involve hallucinogens.

The Mayans drank Spanish Ash mixed with honey which was known as Balché, imbibed in group rituals to achieve a trance-state.

The Olmec, Zapotec and the Aztecs took naturally-found substances such as mescaline from the peyote cactus, psilocybin from mushrooms and lysergic acid from ololiuqui seeds.

Indeed there is evidence that taking peyote dates back to around 5000BC too, and mushrooms to 3000BC.

So the notion of using external influences to change the impulse within the mind are older than most of what we know in our world. It predates most of the lasting evidence we still have from those times, the cloths and pottery and artwork, the buildings and the tombs and the writings. It predates the pyramids by nearly 2000 years.

It could be said, therefore, that our modern mind and 21st century brain has evolved into one which is perfectly tuned to connect with such things, and that whatever realms such hallucinogens open up within us, or around us, are as much a part of us as any other external factor. We each have cell membrane receptors in our brains to regulate and accept cannabinoids, the compounds found exclusively in the cannabis plant and its derivatives. It’s in our genetic make-up.

One such substance which has been used in shamanic practices in central and south America since the pre-Colombian period of Mesoamerica is Dimethyltryptamine, known more commonly as DMT.

Naturally occurring in many plants and animals, it is known for its quick onset and big-hitting power whilst maintaining quite a short ‘trip’. It can last fifteen minutes if smoked, or up to a few hours if eaten with another substance, and is making what can only be described as a ‘come-back’ in recent years, giving psychonauts the next level of progress to other states of consciousness.

Known colloquially as the ‘spirit molecule’, DMT can take its user on a wild trip to alternate realities, providing glimpses and full encounters with extraterrestrial existences, meetings with other-worldly beings or entities, and the ability to see things that are more real than reality itself.

It provides the power to look at oneself internally, to analyse the way you are and the things you do in ways you have never done before, offer life transforming decision-making and reckoning.

Alternatively, it can strip away what curtain we seemingly have drawn around our own abilities to see the world through truly open eyes, showing that there are entities here beyond description, moving around our world and interacting with us every day, just beyond our understanding or recognition.

At the front of the pack in the field of DMT research is Dick Khan.

A writer and frequent psychonaut with such things, he has began to dig into the other planes of consciousness which seemingly open up when DMT is taken.

Dick joins us tonight for a frank and honest take on the experience, and about how it is one of history’s oldest methods to Peer Beyond The Veil.

Apr 02, 202148:47
The terror of Devil's Den - Terry Lovelace

The terror of Devil's Den - Terry Lovelace

This world that we all obsess over, this world of paranormal and spiritual and extra-terrestrial research is filled with stories and anecdotes that either verify or nullify our beliefs.

Many are hearsay, tales that are passed on from sources unknown, the details around them fluttering and changing like the winds. It is often hard to distinguish what is real and what is merely folklore.

Then occasionally a story comes along that is different. A story that smacks you between the eyes, makes you question everything. It validates things you perhaps suspected may be true, but adds more questions to the ever-growing list.

My guest tonight brings us his story and it is all of that.

A story that begins, as most do, with an innocent event, an unremarkable day, an unsuspecting participant. But one that ends with the world on its head and lives changed irreparably.

In an extended Halloween special, we change the format of the show slightly to welcome former Assistant Attorney General Terry Lovelace to the show to tell us the incredibly disturbing tale of what happens when you have no choice but to Peer Beyond The Veil.


The full account is available in Terry's book here:  https://www.amazon.co.uk/Terry-Lovelace-Esq/e/B07BDMYSHJ/ref=dp_byline_cont_pop_ebooks_1

Mar 27, 202101:28:28
Adventures from the mountains to the mind - Travis McHenry

Adventures from the mountains to the mind - Travis McHenry

Across history, the boundaries of knowledge have been pushed and expanded by the tireless explorers and adventurers who walked before us.

They climbed into ships and boats, onto horses or camels or elephants, and they set off on foot with compass and knife in hand, away into the fog of uncertainty.

They pushed through jungle and discovered new beasts and insects and plants, they crossed oceans in vessels unsuitable for great voyage, never sure of their return. They discovered ancient civilisations, pieced together parts of mysteries which tested our greatest minds, and time and again advanced everything we thought we knew.

But as we move forward into modern times, more and more of our planet has been trekked, mapped and charted. Much of the old school adventuring is done, though there are still many exceptions.

And so, today’s adventurer takes a different path.

Still venturing into darkened jungle, ancient ruins and underground caverns, they search for that which is still very much undiscovered; the truths about our place in the universe and in our reality.

We have no proof that there is life after death, no proof that we aren’t alone in the universe, no proof that there are creatures in the woods who we know from folktales.

But we search, as we must, until the end.

Our guest tonight is an intrepid paranormal adventurer and investigator, who has documented his journey from darkened cemetery to treacherous mountain-top in search of the truth about the unknown and to solve the most intriguing of paranormal enigmas.

A film-maker, actor and musician, as well as an author of the occult and a practicing tarot master, it is our pleasure to welcome Travis McHenry to the show to talk with us tonight, as he takes a quick dive into some of the things that repeatedly draw him back to Peer Beyond The Veil.

Mar 26, 202138:03
Mind control and synchronicity - Marie D. Jones

Mind control and synchronicity - Marie D. Jones

Whilst often shied away from, shunned, or even mocked, a belief in the existence of another realm of consciousness is significantly more widespread than we often acknowledge.

Many are followers of a religion, who believe that there is a omni-present god or an afterlife associated with that, who say prayer at altars to beings unseen.

Others are of a spiritual nature, in tune with natural order. Along the line there are those who believe in things such as fate and destiny, that the universe plays some, quiet, backseat part in your life and your place here. Some believe clearly in life after death, in ghosts, in all manner of spectral entities, and then of course in extra-terrestrial life, ultra-terrestrial existences and the power of the mind over matter.

It is thought that around 84% of the world’s population classify themselves as being religious or followers of a religion. Of the remaining 16% or so, it is safe to say that many would fall into the other categories I describe.

What you are left with, is a picture of a global population whose belief system is structured around the notion that we are not alone.

Whilst many would not regard it as important, It is for others still somewhat needed to try to verify a little of this with science, itself an ever-changing thing. Studies and findings replace those which came before them, beliefs change and adapt to changing circumstances, and we slowly move our knowledge base onwards and upwards.

The issue of course is that things like expanded consciousness, religious existence, and life after death, are largely unable to be proved one way or the other by current scientific methods.

Indeed the very concept of these things may only exist within the conscious itself.

But we’ll get there.

And we’ll get there because of the work done by the pioneers of study. Each takes a subject, or indeed many, and climb onto the shoulders of the giants who walked before them, slowly reaching closer to the light.

Described by New York Times bestselling author Jim Marrs for her work on Quantum Physics and New Science, as having ‘joined the list of forward-thinking individuals who are taking us to the next level in both science and our understanding of the universe and our place in it’, it is with great pleasure that we welcome the fantastic Marie D Jones to the show tonight.

Marie’s work in bridging science and the paranormal has earned her widespread acclaim across the communities of both, and she has a huge list of incredibly researched books and papers on topics of consciousness and the mind, conspiracy, propaganda and mind control, mysteries of the human mind such as deja vu and synchronicity, and a range of other metaphysical studies.

Marie joins us to talk through her work and to share a little about how each of us, when we really think about it, will quite often Peer Beyond The Veil.

Mar 19, 202157:29
The New Jersey Paranormal Project - Richard Moschella

The New Jersey Paranormal Project - Richard Moschella

In 1735 on a dark and turbulent night in the New Jersey Pine Barrens, Jane Leeds was struggling to cope with her twelve children. Upon finding that was indeed pregnant with a thirteenth, she cried out in frustration, proclaiming that the unborn child would be the devil itself.

When it was born the child appeared to have hooves, thick wings and the head of a goat. It growled and moaned, pushed itself free of the midwife, and flew away, up the chimney and away into the pines. Still seen to this day, the unholy child would be known forevermore as the Jersey Devil.

Such stories are surely only folk tales, myths, legends, with little more to them.

But the Jersey Devil is not the only thing haunting the dark corners of the garden state.

The third state to be ratified in 1787, it has a long history which is mired in horror and bloodshed, murder and mystery.

From the Spy House in Bayshore, where legendary pirate Captain Morgan tortured people in the basement to the Devils Tree in Bernards Township, a supposed gateway to the otherworld which curses any who try to fell it, there are no shortage of terrifying locations.

In these twisting times that we all now live, many of us are confined to our homes.

But no virus shall halt the intrepid.

Leading the charge, determined to continue the investigation into what walks those dark hallways, those lonely graveyards and ancient inns, Richard Moschella has a project in his hands.

His New Jersey Paranormal Project, comprising a perfectly-selected group of extremely talented and dedicated investigators, have made it their mission to unearth what lies beneath.

Richard recently compiled some of the most gripping, most compelling, downright weirdest tales from their project into a book, and he joins us tonight to talk about some of them, and to share with us what pulls him from his home, time and again, to Peer Beyond The Veil.

Mar 12, 202149:28
Finding the soul behind the story - Jim Perry

Finding the soul behind the story - Jim Perry

Before we drop off the cliff into the murky waters of season 2, we step outside for a breath of air and to analyse what draws us all to be here, and to allow ourselves to appreciate that we are all just simple humans, all on our own journeys. 

In this small but varied community, we occupy the same websites, chatrooms, conference halls, and we read the same books and listen to the same podcasts.

The overall quest for answers and for the truth, or indeed, our truth, is that which connects us.

But we are all here for very different reasons.

Some may take scientific approaches, eager to put in place the next tiny piece of data which leads us in the right direction. Some are looking for a spiritual enlightenment, a way to connect with themselves, or the universe around them. Some look for ways to communicate with lost loved ones, to pass messages or to understand what lays ahead for themselves.

Amongst us, there are a million people with a million different reasons for why they search for that which they do.

And it is that, which truly connects us.

We are human beings, and we each appreciate that we do not have the answers to life’s mysteries.

And so, if the loud noise and bright lights of the paranormal are taken away, the individuals behind, walking, often alone, through the cluttered darkness, form the basis of all of this.

There is no man I know of who better identifies and showcases the beauty and the pain of the human story than Jim Perry.

Host of the critically-acclaimed Euphomet, a film-maker, researcher and radio broadcaster. We have the great pleasure of welcoming Jim to the show tonight as he tells us a little about what draws him to Peer Beyond The Veil.

Mar 06, 202101:03:45
Season 2 Trailer

Season 2 Trailer

Peer Beyond The Veil is back this March with a brand new season, bringing you more tales from behind the thin grey curtain. 

Feb 17, 202100:44
Explorations in the dark - Paranormal Encounters UK

Explorations in the dark - Paranormal Encounters UK

The county of Lancashire in northern England has a long and varied history of the paranormal and the unusual.

An ancient place, wrapped in centuries of toil and warfare. The buildings, many of them as old as time, still stand in places, holding the memories of what has been. A place of witches, spectres, ghostly black dogs, the lady in white and the lady in green.

The county, and the neighbouring cities of Manchester and Liverpool, paint a textured canvas of spooky colours, wisps of the unknown and the ancient twist around the stone homes and forgotten factories and mills. Where better to be a ghost hunter?

Tonight I am joined by Dan and Lindsay from Paranormal Encounters UK, a leading paranormal investigation team from the area who actively chase down that which many of us hide from.

They get themselves into the darkened spaces, the forgotten old buildings. When the door knocks, they knock back. Employing simple techniques, not swamping themselves in tech, not running for running’s sake, they seek to debunk everything first, yet have a wealth of fascinating, terrifying, entirely unexplainable evidence on film. I asked them what led them to chase the darkness and Peer Beyond The Veil

Dec 07, 202035:50
Parapsychology vs the Supernatural - Randy Liebeck

Parapsychology vs the Supernatural - Randy Liebeck

When the Society for Psychical Research was founded in London back in 1882, it provided a hub for scientists and scholars of multiple disciplines to meet and study the fields of the paranormal, as it was then quite recently termed. It studied hypnotism, telepathy and spiritualism, and gathered them into what would become known as parapsychology.
As study continued, and the disciplines changed and evolved, so too did the understanding of how it all worked.
There are, of course, an endless amount of theories and no concrete proof, and whilst the mainstream media circulates numerous shows on ghost hunting and provides its own evidence of spirits, communicating from beyond the grave, sending messages, manifesting as shadows and moving objects, appearing to psychics in visions and communicating beyond the void, it is still widely theorised in scientific circles, even within the fields of parapsychology, that much of what is seen and heard could well be created in, from or with, our own minds.
That is not to say of course that it should not be treated as paranormal or supernatural.
If our mind truly can project thoughts to such a degree, create visions that are seen by more than merely our own eyes, then that is surely as incredible as any proof of life after death.
However, all that said, a true scientific mind will remain open to all possibilities without closing any avenues off. It is perfectly possible that there are many explanations all at play at the same time.
It may be that there is a life after death, and a way for the passed to communicate or manifest, but that there is also a yet-undiscovered way for the human brain to project itself onto an external canvas and create from seemingly nothing. It may be that there is life living beyond our planet, and they may indeed be visiting us, but that there are cerebral anomalies that hallucinate things in the sky or patch over gaps in consciousness with images of alien creatures.
Our brain, our science, and the massive lack of understanding of both, leave much to be discovered and more questions than answers.
That is why we do this, and probably why you’re listening.
My guest tonight is research specialist, field investigator and journalist who covers the fields of ghost and poltergeist activity. An ex-Law Enforcement officer, he approaches everything he does with a keen eye for detail and a critical and levelled approach. And, crucially, he is not quick to categorise such experiences as pertaining to ghosts, spirits, or any of the alike.
Randy joins us to discuss his work in the field, his study of parapsychology, and how he is just as ready to debunk or to reconsider the evidence, as he is to Peer Beyond The Veil.
Nov 27, 202001:09:45
The enigma of consciousness - Micah Hanks

The enigma of consciousness - Micah Hanks

In the mid-19th Century, as paranormal research groups and organisations sprang up across the continent and into the new world, the great library of such study began to amass on the dusty shelves, each ruffled old page taking us one tiny step closer to a perceived truth, a new enlightenment, a greater understanding of what our place is in the world and beyond, and what is truly going on inside the greatest enigma known to mankind, our own minds.

As we moved into the twentieth century, our minds were as open to such notions of extra-terrestrial existence, post-mortal existence and telepathic ability as they had ever been.

Individuals such as Charles Fort paved the way for the writing of Keel, Barker and Mosely, von Daniken and Vallee.

And then, quite recently, the medium changed and ideas were able to be broadcast internationally at the simple push of a button.

And so today’s researchers, whilst still writing incredible books, have turned to their own voices and the wonder of the internet to broadcast and to connect with one another in instants.

Such is the case with my guest tonight.

Described by my fellow paranormal countryman Nick Redfern as “one of those individuals at the forefront of skilfully negotiating the dark waters that will ultimately provide us with the answers we seek”, he has secured his place at the council fire of today’s true greats. With numerous books and, quite incredibly, numerous active podcasts to his name, Micah Hanks joins us tonight to talk about what it is that keeps making him Peer Beyond The Veil.

Nov 20, 202001:09:34
Whispers from beyond - Eve S. Evans

Whispers from beyond - Eve S. Evans

Warning: contains actual EVP recordings.

There is much to be discussed about what it is that makes certain people more prone to experiencing the paranormal than others, and it is something that we have indeed touched upon in previous episodes.

One thing is certain though, for those whose pathway has been opened to such things, life can be a rollercoaster of weirdness.

Shadow figures stand in the corner of rooms, horrible old hags wake you from your sleep, and flickers of communication from wherever arrive to you throughout the day or week like junk mail.

It is something that most would say cannot be turned off, and something that should ideally be embraced and not shied from. Regardless, it is often beyond their control or command.

My guest tonight has spent her life being visited by the beyond, and has accepted that is now a part of her normality.

With a huge array of published books covering topics such as haunted hospitals, haunted hotels and haunted objects and items, and now her very own fascinating podcasts ‘The Ghosts That Haunt Me’, it is our great pleasure to welcome Eve S, Evans to the show to discuss how she has now come to accept the normalcy of being able to Peer Beyond The Veil.

Nov 13, 202046:13
Acknowledging the cover-up - Andrew Johnson

Acknowledging the cover-up - Andrew Johnson

The glimpses of the truth, the reality, the secret, that we civilians occasionally stumble onto are kept hidden away at all costs.

When information leaks, it is always deliberate. They tell us that there is disclosure, that they are willing to share information, but either it is intentional misinformation or their hands are otherwise forced.

What they know, whoever ‘they’ are, is a secret they will, and indeed have, killed to protect.

Human collateral damage is immaterial. We’re all dispensable when it comes to the master plan.

Former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid admitted himself that what information we have only scratches the surface of the research and materials that the US government hold.

And whilst some nations are more open about their research programs and funding, there is still a huge veil of secrecy draped across government involvement.

My guest tonight is trying to lift the lid, rip down the curtain, kick the door off its hinges and expose the cover-up. His books detail not only the great UFO cover-up, but also that of 9/11 and of global warming, amongst others.

Far from being a conspiracy theorist as such, Andrew Johnson joins us tonight to talk through his work exposing the lies that we are habitually told. Whilst the governments aim to keep we the people in fear, drip feeding their own agendas into our lives and shaping us how they wish, Andrew implores us to try to Peer Beyond The Veil.

Andrew's books can be found here:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Acknowledged-Perspective-Matters-Aliens-Circles-ebook/dp/B07PDSV9MK

Nov 06, 202056:40
Paranormal roads, forests and other hot-spots - Peter McCue

Paranormal roads, forests and other hot-spots - Peter McCue

Many of us, perhaps too many, approach the wide-ranging fields of paranormal research with a little too much paranormal and too little research. A huge element of subjective belief and influence goes into it all, and as there is often no scientific explanation to support or validate it, science often falls at the wayside.

My guest tonight approaches things a little differently.

A clinical psychologist by trade, with a PhD awarded from the University of Glasgow for his work on hypnosis, Peter McCue falls on both sides of the aforementioned fence.

A believer that there are indeed a range of strange, unexplained, and by virtue, paranormal things that occur in our world that are yet beyond the reaches of modern scientific explanation, he approaches each case with a well-trained clinical approach.

The conclusions he draws have seemingly more weight attached to them as a result.

His books, including Paranormal Encounters on Britain’s Roads and Britain’s Paranormal Forests are extensively researched, sources cited in meticulous detail and packed full of the weird and wonderful happenings in our ancient country.

It is our great pleasure to welcome Peter to the show to discuss with us a little about what makes us want to Peer Beyond The Veil.

Oct 25, 202045:43
Tracking and trailing hidden beasts - Richard Freeman

Tracking and trailing hidden beasts - Richard Freeman

Scientists discover many new creatures each year, and they’re not all tiny bugs and sea worms, there are big lizards, monkeys and lemurs and sloths, dolphins and rays and species of deer and in 2010 a new species of clouded leopard. All of them existed in our world and we mostly had no idea they were there.

Some of these creatures appear to us by chance, they show themselves when we were looking for something different, in places we maybe didn’t expect. Others are searched for more intentionally. Perhaps there existed stories or tales of them from remote villages, or we found traces of evidence from a creature we didn’t yet recognise. Many of them take years and years of painstaking research to finally discover, teams of specialists go into the wild season after season, chasing down leads and reviewing hundreds of thousands of images from trail cameras in the hope of catching a glimpse of the illusive beasts.

Not too long ago, a team of specialists knew that Canadian black bears had been coming south, over the border and making homes around the forests of the Pacific North West. Hair and scat was found, very occasionally, but it took the team of highly trained trackers and experts more than five years to actually see them for the first time.

Zoological journalist and author Richard Freeman has dedicated his entire life to tracking down some of the more illusive creatures that may, or may not, share the planet with us.

As a cryptozoologist, Richard has penned 8 books and holds the role of Zoological Director for the Centre for Fortean Zoology.

He has expeditioned to some of the most remote places on the planet in search of cryptids like the Yeti, the Orang Pendek and the Almasty, and made huge strides in his pursuit of the once-presumed extinct Thylacine.

Richard joins me tonight to discuss his work and to tell us why we may not have to try that hard to Peer Beyond The Veil.

Oct 16, 202043:60
Skinwalking the 37th Parallel - Chuck Zukowski

Skinwalking the 37th Parallel - Chuck Zukowski

Most nations of the world have their own paranormal hotspots, sites and locations that seem to attract weirdness, Some are prone to repeated hauntings, places where ghosts and spirits and demons frequent. Others are seemingly home to bigfoots or black cats and dogs. Yet others seem to be highways and byways for the strange things that we see in the skies. In the US, there exist many of the above, but none so seemingly vast as the land which spans the country 37 degrees north of the equator. Known as the 37th Parallel North, or more generally as simply the 37th Parallel, it runs from Chesapeake Bay at the East to Santa Cruz at the west, passing through 12 states on its way.

Despite it’s two and a half thousand mile span across the country, it is seemingly a hotspot for all manner of strange, paranormal and extra-terrestrial phenomena, providing a concentration of accounts not known at any other circle of latitude.

Natives of the Apache, Navajo, Hopi and Pueblo all tell stories of their people being brought to the Earth along the 37th, and all tell of lights, flying glowing objects and visiting 'star people'.

Thousands of cattle have been mutilated in Kansas and Arkansas since the 70s, and further west in New Mexico, Nevada and Arizona they are so frequent that most are no longer even reported. In New Mexico there are tales of giant flying prehistoric birds, walking ape men and chupacabras, portals and vortexes and spirits and even the deep mystery of the fabled Dulce underground base.

At the forefront of the investigations into such things is Chuck Zukowski, chasing down the truth to wherever it may lead. From Skinwalker Ranch to Area 51 and every weird woodland and cliffside in between. His skeptical yet innovative approach to his research has earned him the position of Deputy Director for Animal Mutilation Research at MUFON, an organisation he has frequently investigated for. His book with Ben Mezrich on the 37th Parallel spent two months on the New York Times Best Seller list, but it really only scratches the surface of the reports Chuck has gathered, as a huge swathe of the United States will often Peer Beyond The Veil.

Oct 08, 202046:06
Life and death: Exposed - Lynda Rae

Life and death: Exposed - Lynda Rae

Most of us are not able to pick up on communications with the deceased. We require the assistance of mediums, folk with the ability to bridge the gap, the spiritual chasm between the living and the dead. Such abilities seem to be hereditary.

At the end of it all, when the machine flatlines and the curtain is pulled, we begin a new journey, a new awakening, When we leave the time and space, with all the constraints that it possesses in this world, we move into a place where time and space are not relevant. A week or a year or an eon; perhaps merely the same thing. 

No space. No time. Just being.

In 2001, psychic-medium and author Lynda Rae was in a coma for eight days, and eventually died. She moved off to a place she regards as Heaven, and was presented with the grand truths of, not only her own existence and self, but that of everyone she could ever have influenced with her own actions.

She was shown things, told things, and so realised things that would change the way she viewed reality. Then she returned to her living body to learn those lessons.

Author of three books including My Ticket To Heaven, the story of her own near-death experience, renowned psychic medium Lynda Rae joins me tonight to talk about she has done way more than merely Peer Beyond The Veil

Oct 01, 202001:01:21
From ritual to reality - G. Michael Vasey

From ritual to reality - G. Michael Vasey

We have all, at some time, heard the creaking footsteps on the landing at night when we should be asleep, pulled up the duvet, tucked our toes inside and waited, our little hearts beating away in the silence until we finally realise it was just a sibling or a parent and we laugh and return to sleep.

But for some, the footsteps outside the bedroom door don’t belong to anybody. At least not anybody that we can see. Those children, many of them, learn to shut it out. 

But some show no fear. They untuck their little feet from the warmth of the duvet, step out into the dark and open the bedroom door to the noises beyond. Fear will not rule those people. They are the people whose arms open, whose voices speak into the dark. They are people who begin to look for the answer.

Tonight we are joined by Gary Michael Vasey, multi-bestselling author, podcaster, magician and occultist, as we explore the connections between all things weird.

His book My Haunted Life, tells the tale of his own upbringing in the tumultuous  world of the paranormal, before he started the Haunted Life series, taking all manner of weird, wonderful, and outright terrifying stories submitted to his MyHauntedLife website and putting them to print.

He has since worked on phenomena such as the Black Eyed Children and The Old Hag, whilst steadily becoming a more and more accomplished practitioner of magick, in turn writing many books on the subject.

With over forty to his name, and a new podcast The Magical World Of G. Michael Vasey, we are delighted to welcome him to Peer Beyond The Veil.


Gary's website is http://www.garymvasey.com, where you can find details of his work, his books, his music and his new podcast 'The Magical World of G. Michael Vasey'

His books are available on Amazon at https://www.amazon.com/G-Michael-Vasey/e/B00B8NWTWA/ref=dp_byline_cont_pop_book_1


Sep 23, 202038:15
Tales of the Shadow Chaser - Sean Austin

Tales of the Shadow Chaser - Sean Austin

My guest tonight is psychic-medium, paranormal investigator and researcher, demonologist, tv personality, singer-songwriter and author Sean Austin.

Sean’s work on the shows Ghost Loop and the Demon Files merely scrape the surface of his experiences in the field, his ability to communicate with spirits being with him since he was young. He has worked tirelessly to help both the living and the dead, his faith on one shoulder as a guiding light and a guitar hanging around the other.

It is with great pleasure that we welcome Sean as he tells us why he has no choice but to Peer Beyond The Veil


Sean's Youtube channel is https://www.youtube.com/user/seanaustinsmusic

Sean's book 'Shadow Chaser' is available at https://www.amazon.co.uk/Shadow-Chaser-Sean-Austin/dp/1945950080/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=sean+austin+david+weatherly&qid=1600243991&s=digital-text&sr=1-1

and you can stay up to date with his work and future publications at https://seandaustin.com

Sep 16, 202044:41
Touring the darkness of supernatural Yorkshire - Mike Covell

Touring the darkness of supernatural Yorkshire - Mike Covell

The counties that make up Yorkshire in the uk are notoriously crowded with some of the weirdest and most unexplainable supernatural phenomena ever recorded. 

UFOs fill the skies, ghosts walk the hallways of the ancient towns, and glowing eyes blink in the forests. Documenting it all would take a lifetime.

And that lifetime belongs to my guest Mike Covell.

A writer and historian on all things Yorkshire, he has steadily delved deeper and deeper into the darkness that shrouds the history of the region.

With nearly thirty published books, radio and television credits too long to list though which include Most Haunted, Most Haunted Live and Paranormal Lockdown with Nick Groff, no one man seems better placed to join us as we try to find out why Yorkshire finds it hard not to Peer Beyond The Veil.

Mike's books are available here:  https://www.amazon.co.uk/Mike-Covell/e/B00IYV2ZGY?ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1&qid=1599513713&sr=1-1

Sep 08, 202041:48
Following the synchronicities - Allen Greenfield

Following the synchronicities - Allen Greenfield

Occultist and long-time author Allen H. Greenfield has been one of the key players in his field for many decades. His first published work was the introduction to Silver Bridge by the great Gray Barker, an old friend, colleague and drinking partner of Greenfield’s, and somebody of whom many great stories can, and will, be told.

His work The Secret Cipher Of The Ufonauts, which forms the basis for the treasure hunt that is the documentary Hellier, underpins our very existence with all manner of strange beings, from this world and others, and has served to many as a go-to reference point for confirming the synchronicities encountered throughout their research.

A past member of the Society For Psychical Research and the National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena, and twice voted Ufologist of the Year at the National UFO Conference, Allen joins us tonight to explain how he has dedicated his life to trying to Peer Beyond The Veil

Sep 02, 202044:51
On patrol with The Alien Hunter - Derrel Sims
Aug 28, 202040:40
Experimenting with the paranormal - Penny Griffiths-Morgan
Aug 24, 202043:51