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being out? And you take a fine time for it? Hello and welcome
to the show. I'm David Young. Well, I've had some amazing news
this week. Paranormal Dimensions has ended up in the final three in the nominations
for a GPN award, and that's with the Ghost Planet Network. So I
must think every body for voting for the show. It's amazing news and thank
you so much. Unbelievable really, Okay, this show was intended to have
two guests on it, but unfortunately one of them can't attend today, so
we'll have her on another point. But one of those guests announced on the
last show is able to attend. Her name's Rachel Ashman. Rachel is one
of the owners and organizers of Festival of the Unexplained, which we have here
in the UK. My wife have attended the previous two and the third one
is coming up next year for twenty twenty four, so we'll be talking a
bit about the twenty twenty three one and the twenty twenty four one coming up,
and all I can say is that if the twenty twenty four one is
as good as the twenty twenty three one, it's going to be amazing.
So we'll be talking about that in the new year, or we'll be having
some other of the organizers and the older namely Karen, Jemma and Nikki,
and then it'll be having our own separate show so we can talk about all
sorts of things about the festival and their own outlook for it, and we'll
find out a bit about all of them. But for this show, I'm
really pleased to welcome Rachel Eshmand to the show. Hello, Rachel, welcome
to the show. Good evening, David, thank you for having me.
No, I'm very pleased to welcome you sort of show. We've had an
amazing year with the Festival The Unexplained twenty twenty three. Yeah, we're still
recovering from it. Actually this end after that booze. Oh, I don't
know. I think some of us worked really hard. It was a very
very long weekend. There's that a lot of preparation goes into the festival every
year. It's I think you see, if people saw the photos on Facebook,
it looks like it was just a long, boozy weekend, but it
wasn't quite like that at all. No, but it was the perfect lighting
for selfies, you see, heavily filtered selfies. So that's probably why there
are more photos of everybody socializing out of the actual event. It's just down
to line thing. Also, the Festive explaineds be put up with a gp
IN Award, which is the Ghost Planet Network, and luckily Perible Dimension has
been put up for it as well. Congratulations we're in the final indeed,
which is actually mind blowing to me, you know. But so I think
the festival, their explaining actually really does deserve of it. I'm not quite
sure about my show. Oh, I don't know. I think you're selling
yourself a bit short that. I don't think it's any surprise that you've been
nominated, And what's been great about about the awards and that the nomination process
is that it's actually been people. People have been able to choose themselves,
people have been able to put their own nominations in and who they're looking forward
to seeing and who they like working with, you like watching the events they
like to attend as well. So I'm really honored that we've been recognized in
that nomination process, and I think it just goes to show how popular your
show's becoming as well. So nominated, it's really wind blowing. I couldn't
believe it. Well, I saw that. You know, is this crazy
when you think there's all those sales as of podcast out there in the unexplained
area paralleal there's thousands literally, well probably tens of hundreds anyway. But I
think one of the great things, one of the great things about your your
podcast, though, David, is that you speak to real people, and
these are people that have got real experiences. They run teams, and it
becomes like a friendship network rather than it it's just somebody that you're seeing on
TV on a regular basis. You're opening up platforms for people that wouldn't necessarily
get those, so I think it's a great opportunity for people to come on
and talk about their experiences and what they love and different elements of paranormal and
supernatural. It's not just focused on this as ghost hunting, and that is
the USOS. It's so broad and you give people that platform, so we
should be thanking you, and I think that nomination is well deserved. So
congratulations, thank you. But it is true is obviously down to the guests
that I can get. I mean, I've had some big name guests that's
a bigger, bigger names, and I've had some small names as well,
but there all been fairly interesting guests. I must say. I've had the
odd one or two that have a bit a bit strange. But well,
I'm not naming any names, but you tell me one more off record stops.
No, but the festival that I've explained, I'm looking forward to next
year, the twenty twenty four, but let's have a little bit of a
talk about the festival for twenty twenty three, which we've just passed a little
a few months back. You had such amazing guests there. Dave Schrader,
Yeah, yeah, Dave Schrader, Yeah, Dunny mask. Yeah, he's
great. Rob Thompson back for a second visit again, he was there twenty
twenty two. Darryl Marston from Ghost Hunters. We had Jay Austin, thepologist
Neil story, the lovely Neil story, the history and horror story, the
old rogue, always good for a story, and he did a great adult
to believe in the party in the evening. But so he did. I
have some wonderful video evidence of that and I may share it. I may
share it. Yeah, I saw a bit of it and we got a
lovely Penny Griffiths good as it was the local historian for then. She's actually
part of the team now, isn't she understand? Yeah, we've kind of
we've kind of roped in a little bit. So it's every year she blows
us away with the locations that she takes us to and just how engaging she
as while she's doing these tours. There's so much research goes into the locations
that she takes us to, and the way that she delivers that information isn't
just somebody stood there and this is where somebody did this. If you look
here, this world Garden was built in eighteen forty two. She's up there
talking about people with pokers at their bottom, and you know, she might
drop a couple of squear words in there, and she encourages everybody else to
get involved as well. At Wear Crown this year, Rob loves to get
himself thrown in there as well, and he likes to act like a king.
It's great, but she includes everybody and what would usually maybe be a
two hour being talked at tour turns into something that's so quick. It's like,
is that it? It's like, I want to go again. It
was great. So she's so engaging and so encouraging when she's doing these tours.
She makes history so fascinating that we just don't want to let her leave.
So as a result, we've asked to come on board as our team
historian in order to be able to do these events every year, to be
able to go and do these day trips. So Penny chooses the location and
Nicki, who is one of the event organizers, she heads off and she
starts booking everything and then we just rock up on the day and Penny just
smashes it with knowledge and the props as well. She always brings props it's
great. So we couldn't let Petny go. We couldn't let Penny defect or
go somewhere else, and we just want to keep hold of her forever.
But she's such a great asset to the festival. So yeah, she's she's
listed as part of the team, but she's also one of our key speakers
as well, so she will always speak at the events and she'll always be
on the post for everything. So she's she's got two hats when it comes
to the festival. As Penny. She has been on the show. Actually,
she's very interested on the show. It's brilliant and the name you mentioned
just now Nikki, she's going to be on the show earlier in the new
year. So she said the post of the other day, when I'm doing
a thing, I'm like, what's the thing? I'm doing a chat and
I'm like show, like who's it with you? She sent the picture,
so she's super excited about that. It's it's not often that we do things
solo. We don't tend to do things step up there individually. NICKI general
thought when you said so low, I thought you'd been sort of low down
on the picking order, not exactly what I mean no sol. Sorry,
apology. It must be the Yorkshire accent because NICKI general and I we're we're
in a team, so we go out, we do we do events.
We only tend to do two or three a year, but we we bring
over some of the people that you see on TV quite frequently and we do
quite large scale events with them. So we have our own team. So
usually when we're doing podcasts, our interviews, or we're appearing at conferences,
it's as a team rather than solo. So I'm really excited to listen to
Nicky's to see what she's got to say, because I'm the one that tends
to do all the talking, and then she's messaging me in the background saying,
rain it in, Rachel, it's raining in. So it's so I'm
really glad that she's got an opportunity to come and speak because it's something you
don't get to do very often. It's good. I'll see what we can
dig out of I'll see if I'll dig some secrets out from them, not
about me though you're not allowed to use them. And I've also got Jemma
coming on as well. Now tonight's show. This show we're doing there.
We were supposed to have Karen with us as well, Karen Fray, but
unfortunately she's working, so we had to do a quick change and you're on
your own. But I will get I will get Karen to do a show
on her own as well, so you've all so we'll ever a four up
show. So you've will there to go and the only one that makes sense.
So it's better to start with me, get all the sensible information first
and then worry about everybody else. Yeah, I was thinking that if it
was your card or the show, so I could just sit back and let
you roll away, I would have to say much because no, you don't
want that. That would have turned into chaos. We'd have forgot you were
there and then would have been letting secret sleep and should have been swearing,
and I'd have called her all sorts of aims. So it's probably would I
tell you what, Let's talk a little bit more about the what we've just
had this. What was your favorite part of the festival? Do you think
my favorite part? What I thought was really looked at. There are so
many things that I loved about the festival. One of the great things about
it was that we had a coach tour join us this year. So Dave
Schreder Neil's story. They were doing a tour of the UK with some American
guests and they'd only been on the coach together for about two three days before
they turned up to Boss with Paul and I checked them all in on the
Thursday evening and everybody knew each other, and they all knew each other's names,
and they were helping each other with bags, and it like there'd been
lifelong friends. And they walked into the room to join everyone else, to
join the British contingency, and they were just welcomed. And before we knew,
everybody knew everybody else's names, and you've got Americans sat with bricks and
they were swapping telephone numbers, taking selfies and there was just there was no
divide there at all. They came and they were welcomed, and I think
that speaks volumes for the kind of people that we have that turn up to
the festival year and year out. We have a great set of people that
come. The guests are amazing, the speakers are great, and there's no
no nobody seems to think that they're better than anyone else. We're all just
people turning up, spend some time with like minded folks, make some friends,
see some people we see on the telly and that we respect to admire.
And it's just really nice to see people come together, regardless of where
you're from. Where You've had somebody that flew all the way over from Ireland
and she came alone, and by the time she left, you know,
she'd made so many friends and she's had photos with everybody and she'd just had
a really great time. So it's really nice to see how everybody comes together
and makes friends. And that's what I love when you see everybody leaving with
new friendships. Yeah, and it's like you and I we'd never connect just
before the festival, well dodged by the way. You've managed to escape you
all these years, but now you stuck with me and I'm going to come
visit you next year. Jill says hello by the way, while she says
looking for looking forward to seeing you again, not just you, everybody else.
She definitely means me, but congratulations on send your anniversary as well.
I was lovely to see how she hasn't strangled you yet, is or be
hush when she starts singing. When she starts singing sometimes but she's not listening.
I love her patients. But that's I think that's another great thing as
well about the festival is that, Yeah, another great example of how a
para unity of how people come together is we'd gone on the coach on the
day trip and we've made sandwiches and we've got loads of snacks and drinks,
and rather than it just be Nikki Gemmer and I carrying everything, other people
came to the coach to help with that. It's you know that there's no
well I'm paying guests, I'm not doing that. Everybody kind of gets stuck
in and everybody looks after each other. It's not us against them kind of
thing. Everybody just wants to be involved, no matter how small that part
might be. And that's what's really lovely about the festival as well, is
those connections, not just you know, your networking opportunities, but real connections
with people that you may not bump into on a regular basis. I think
that when we look at when I look at who went to the festival this
year, I keep trying to say last year because it's already been. Yeah,
last year, yeah, I keep saying last year. I do it
every time and I have to correct myself. But the festival in twenty three,
when we look at where people were from, if we look at them
where that they located geographically, there weren't that many from up north, so
there weren't that many Northerners. We had the Kindred Spirits investigations. They came
down there a little further north than me, their Newcastle Way, but everybody
else was kind of Midlands and down south. And I think it's it's really
great now that I can say I've actually got some friends that live in Portsmouth,
and I've met some great people that were being Chelmsford and then go.
I know that I can go and drop in any time I want to welcome
and investigations or just go and hang out with them if I'm in the area.
And there's an opportunity that would never have had had it had not been
for the festival. So I think it's a great opportunity to make some some
beautiful friends. It is. Yeah, definitely now this year, here are
go doing it? Next year? You are doing it now twenty four?
Yeah, No, I don't know You're going to go back to twenty twenty
three, Again, that day out that we hated, actually was a fantastic
day, wasn't it. The weather was glorious, absolutely brilliant when you compare
it to the year before when we went to the the battlefield, the buzz
tracking it there all day long. But this was absolutely beautiful day at the
castle. And yeah, that was a fantastic day, I must say.
With Rob Tompson putting the crown wan to being the king and everything, it
just made them He just loved to Yeah, he just loved to dress up.
And Penny was like, come stand over here, please, Rachel.
That okay, Like, now put this crown on. So I struck a
crown on. Next thing. I'm married to Danny Moss. When did this
happen? So she does like to get people involved, and I think it's
great, you know, to inject a bit of humor. History isn't just
you know, it isn't just battles into caplications, and it isn't just all
buildings that were set fire. It's it's a chance to know where we come
from. And there are some real characters that I love the way that Penny's
able to bring those characters to life by using us, although next time I'm
not getting involved. I will just take the photos because I looked so round
and terrible in those photographs of myself if it was the angle. But I'm
not getting involved. Next time she can choose a new victim for the next
tour. So I'm looking forward to next ye because obviously I know what we're
doing next year and I'm not I'm not disclosing that, so you're not going
to get that out of me today. We're going next year. In a
minute, it's going to take more than that to buy me chocolate. But
the next year is slightly different. It was still doing the day trip again,
but it's a little there are parts of it we coolvention or no,
but we'll get around to that. But I'll tell you what I really thought
was amazing the fact that we were doing paranormal investigations with Dave Schrader. I
mean, big, can you, yeah, how often can you say that
you did an e BP session with Dave Shrader? I was not there,
and I'm like, this is really surreal. This is the kind of thing
you see on TV. And he's so passionate about what he does as well
methods that he uses so he's actually got the little recorder that he uses on
the show. He loved it. It was actually like being in the TV
show, wasn't it really? And what was great about investigating with Dave as
well as it wasn't just Dave leading on that He wasn't just Dave that was
doing it, you know he was. He was like right, everybody asked
questions, this is how it works. So he took you through the method
and engineer that the different sort of vocal tones that come through on those recorders.
So I know that quite a few people learn quite a lot from him.
But we tried to do something different with each investigator throughout the course of
the evening, no matter what room we were in. When so my team,
I actually took some of the guys from Bottles to the Paranormal. They
were in my team, So I went with Nando and Sarah and a few
others, and we'd started off actually with Neil and Dave and we'd gone down
to the Dice Art room, did some vps in there, got some got
some pretty interesting sounds coming through, and we could actually hear things in real
time as well, rather than it just being an e VP. So we
did we did catch quite a bit in there, and then the next room
we went to, we were actually with Jay and Daryl, and we thought
that might be an interesting combination to put them both together. Just before we
joined them, they'd actually caught some really great e vps. What sounded like
a human replicating a dog barking, Yes, that your tao. Jay was
banging on about that for hours. He was so blown away by it.
He was banged on about it, well, probably days actually. He thought
it was the greatest thing he's ever heard. But it's something that he would
never have thought to have done because he's not necessarily an investigator. It's not
his area of expertise, whereas that that was Daryl's. So it was nice
that Daryl was able to bring something new for j But when my team went
to go and join Jane Daryl, we always sat around the table. It
was a little bit flat, nothing was really happening. I just thought,
you know what, let's do something different. I nipped off into the corridor,
came back with the table, and so a few of them tried tables
to prom for the first time. So we sat around the table and they
were actually feeling that the table vibrating quite quite vigorously. I put my hand
on it. He could actually feel the table really vibrating. It was a
so concrete floor. Everybody had the lightest of touches and you could actually see
the reaction out on Darryl's face and particularly they were done table tipping. Wasn't
particularly interested in it, and he seemed quite it seemed quite impressed with it.
Saying for Jay and the other people around the table, we did an
experiment where everybody took at the hands off the table one at a time.
It was still vibrating, so it was just really nice to mix it up
a little bit. And then my group ended up in that was actually my
bedroom in the end, so everybody went to my bedroom. We didn't have
a well party, but then Rob Thompson was able to do his thing and
Penny was there to corroborate as well, so she knows all that the history
from the building. She was able to say whether the things that were coming
through, what the people coming through to Rob accurate. So it was a
really good night. It was nice to be able to investigate at Bosworth.
But what we've done for next year is we're taking that investigation outside of Bosworth
Hall, and that's just because we have so many returning guests. We don't
want to just keep selling the same thing to people. We think it's a
little unfair to expect people to investigate the same rooms, especially if it's not
particularly active. We're conscious that people want to experience something new, and by
using Bosworth Hall for the third year and a road just takes away that magical
a bit. We'll still be there anyway. You can sort of still little
bits of the investigations if you want to do your own going. Absolutely,
some of the rooms are wide open. There are lots of commune spaces,
so if you are wanting to go to the festival and maybe do a little
bit of investigating in Boswe or take some kit with you, set it up
in your bedrooms. You go down to the Wollstone Lounge as well. That's
a great location in the Wollstone so a lot of things happen in that room.
Just set up some kits, sit there, chats and friends and just
see what happens. But we won't be investigating as part of our itinery for
next year twenty twenty four. So for next year, what we're going to
do is We've actually booked the Justice Galleries in Nottingham, so we're going to
do a coach trip on the Thursday evening and take our paying guests through to
Nottingham to the Justice Galleries, which includes me, me and Jill. You
deal, okay, have you give you done the galleries before? Well?
I have been to go these twice actually, but it's still it's still fascinating.
It's it is one of my favorite locations in the United Kingdom. There
aren't many places at top it only the Blacks One in York topsy for me.
But it's an incredible location. And I know I've said this many times
on lots of chats from podcasts and lives, but it is the only place
I've ever been to and I brought home an attachment. There's been something that's
come home with me, and this was there was a rookie mistake. I
was stood at the end of the pit. I think they've closed the pits
off at the moment, but I was at the end of the pit,
so I'm like, right, you don't have to be down here anymore.
You're free to go. Come on, let's go, come with me.
Well, I shouldn't have said that should I because something did come with me
and it came all the way back to Yorkshire with me, and it terrorized
that she was seven at the time, my seven year old daughter, and
it took some shifting did that so I specialized in house cleansings and my goodness
did it put my skills to test. But we yeah, we did.
We brought something home that that weekend. But it just makes you want to
go back again, like, who on earth was that? Why did they
come with it? What are they there for? Lots of very strange experiences
at Justice Galleries, so I'm really excited to be able to take everybody there.
We were also taking all the American Coach Tour with us this year as
well, so it's going to be great for them to go and investigate somewhere
as olders Justice Galleries and see Nottingham as well. Love Nottingham my favorite city.
Yeah. Is it so that the Caves are involved in this as well
on this trip? Is that right? We're just waiting for confirmation because it
is on our booking forms. We are waiting for confirmation with regards to the
Caves because the closing times are ever so slightly different. If we're wanting to
split the caves as well. Some I had to look at the logistics of
what found would get there for, how long we'd actually have in the galleries,
and how long we'd have to be able to turn out three teams three
groups within the caves as well. So I'm waiting for confirmation from the caves
just to see if they can stay up a little longer, because we don't
want to be abut to like So, we've got a really busy day on
the five early morning. For the next early morning, yeah, so it's
going to be on the coach or one o'clock. Everybody back at Bosworth for
about one thirty one five straight to bed. I'm sending you all to bed.
We'll take flass of hot chocolate on the coach with us, but everybody's
in bed for at least two o'clock, so that's the intention. And then
we're having a slightly later start then on the Friday Friday trip, which I
can't tell you where it is, which I already said, I'm sure it
will be amazing. It will Pennies in charge of course, it's going to
be amazing. So yeah, I'm excited about the trip next year. It
is a little bit different. It's not just one location, so that is
the only clue that I'm going to give you. It's not just one location.
So it is ever so slightly different. So we will be announcing some
more information about that. We've tried to make it as accessible for everybody's possible,
so everything's kind of flat, there's going to be no climbing over things,
and you're going to see some real history, some really beautiful locations whilst
we're in this particular place. And it's not too far away either, so
that's why we can have it. We can afford to have a later start
on the Friday. Yeah, we're we're looking forward to it anyway. But
right now, let's get down to the twenty twenty four guests, because this
is amazing. It's a right line, isn't it. This is actually mind
blowing. And anyone that doesn't know this ship we've got, well you've got
I should say it's a joint effort. It's a joint effort. Back,
Yes, he is, Cindy Kazar, yeah, and Shane Pittman, yeah,
yeah, from the Wholeseophiles. Yeah, so this is this is the
only time that the whole cast of the hales of files have are going to
be seen in the United Kingdom. It's not happened before, it's probably not
likely to ever happen again. So we are so honored that the three of
them are coming at the same time. They're all going to be in one
room. So yes, we have the Holes of Files coming, So that's
pretty big for us. We're really thrilled by it. And what's great is
that we don't just have Dave, Shane and Cindy coming on the investigation when
it's on the Friday, sorry for Thursday, that they're on the day trip
on the Friday also, but the Friday evening, Cindy's actually going to be
doing a platform evening for us. So what we're doing is those that have
the Angelic tickets, they get to go to Cindy's Platform evening. Now,
if anybody else would like to come and see Cindy do her magic, do
her work, you can purchase a ticket to see that through the custom build
your own Package link which is on our website, which is Festival than Explained
dot com going to tickets and you can build your own package, create what
you want from there and you can actually go and see Cindy that evening doing
an evening of the Platform Mediumship, so really excited about that, and she's
she's thrilled by it. So she was like, Oh, I'll do it.
I'll do it, We'll do the Platform. It's like, yeah,
this is wonderful. And so we're really excited by that. And then on
the Saturday, then we've also got this. We have stallholders, got the
speakers, and then you'll be able to go up and actually talk to the
cast of the Holes of Files. They're going to be sat right there in
the room and you can go and approach them, get autographs by some merch
take some photos. So what I love about that kind of atmosphere of where
we have the stallholders and the speakers is that it's just so accessible. Nobody's
queuing, nobody's paying stupid money for a photograph. You just turn up and
talked to somebody like you've known them years. So I'm really excited to see
that dynamic that the three of them together and how they interact with guests.
I'm really excited about that. But I love having Daves back. Dave's been
a really great friend to the festival since he appeared this year continue is to
be a great friend and support for me personally. We met Shane for the
first time the other the other week we did the announcement. He seems like
a really great guy, going to fit in perfectly. And Cindy has been
super busy, so whilst we've exchanged messages, we've not yet had the opportunity
to have that live chat with her and sort of do a big live announcement
with her there sat in the chair with us. So really looking forward to
meeting Shane and Cindy in person. So it's really exciting. You're not going
to see it anywhere else or all three of those going to be the Galleries
of Justice, Yes, so that will be like an investigation for the Holes
of Falls that goes Yeah, you will be Yeah, that's going to be
amazing, investigating with the holes of files. Yeah, it's amazing. That
is brilliant, that's fantastic, and we look aft to you. We haven't
even finished talking about. And then that's just the first three. That's the
first three, which is a lot of big one really as individuals as well.
But and the next one we've got is Danny Walsh's can be back as
well. He was fantastic. He is so Danny Moss brings something a little
bit different to the festival. He's he's just sort of your average lad that
you would sit next to in a pub, but his passion for the paranormal
is just so contagious. And not only does he have lots of other projects
going. One of the reasons why we asked him back for this year.
I've done it again this year for next year. Next year, we're almost
there. Let's get Christmas out of the way, is that there's so much
happening at the moment within my Haunted Hotel. It's such an incredible location.
If you haven't done my home today, tell in Chester, I highly recommend
it. So. Karen and I have been there twice. The first time
it was just Karen and I and we were there with the members of the
public. The second time he went, we actually stayed over with Daryl and
it was just the three of us in that building on our own all night.
We're just cameras rolling and some of the weirdest stuff happened in that In
that building, could hear women talking in the bathroom and Karen was Karen was
asleep next to me, snoring so I know it wasn't Karen, unless it's
like I'm hearing things and I've lost my marbles. I could hear scratching on
the wall. You could hear the floorboards creaking. We'd all been in bed
for a good hour or two hours, the floorboards. I have no reason
to Greek. It's such an incredible location. If you get the opportunity to,
is it actually even worth driving up for go and spend some time like
home today telling Chester it's absolutely brilliant. You won't regret it. Yeah,
I've seen plenty of bits on the on the TV or you know, or
YouTube, et cetera, and they do have some amazing things happening in there.
But then he's then he's a great guy. Anyway, it was great
to just walk up and talk to and I'll show you a couple of photos.
Actually that's air particle, that's parts and stuff like that. Yeah,
he's not solved with the ORB thing. Nothing's an orb it's always dust.
But yeah, I think that I like the way that Danny looks at things
as a skeptic as well. Not you know, he's not straight away,
Oh that's absolutely a ghost. Oh look at that like that it's an orb
it's not it's duff. It's just stuff. And I think he's got a
great way of he's got a great way of saying things that some of us
are thinking. It just comes out and says it's like calls a spade a
spade. But we kind of like that dynamic, you know that he brings.
He's just a normal guy who's passionate about what he does. He's succeeding
in what he does. It's been a great sense of humor. He's a
great people person as well. We'll talk to anybody, except when he vanishes
to go watch his football team lose on the TV. So he's Yeah,
he brings a, you know, a really great dynamic to the festival as
well, and we're just like being around him. He's got great energy and
he's so popular with with all the speakers, other speakers and the guests that
came in twenty twenty three. So we want a thing back. We want
to know what's happening at the hotel because it's such a great it's a great
investigation and it's a long, long term experiment, and I think it's it's
great to hear how that's progressing. So there we love Danny and he's coming
back. Would see he reacts with the other people that are coming over with
that, Dave Schrader and Cynthia and everything. And are they going to get
the shots to go to the hotels? You think? I hand Tali Shaw
because the schedule for the coach tour that Dave the Dave is on, I
an't entirely shure where they're going to get the opportunity to And we're looking at
logistics of where we're going to take people before the festival. Cindy I believe
is she she's got to come to the festival and then she has all the
commitments, so it all depends on work schedules. Really, I'd love to
take them to the hotel, but I just don't know how practical that's going
to be just yet without seeing their their schedules. It's just I was thinking
that once I hear about if they want to go, won't they It's it's
great, it's We took Darryl and he was like, that is a really
weird place. We went for breakfast next door. The day after we went
for breakfast in the sandwich shop next door and he sat there and He's like
that place is just weird. It's a great look sitting sitting next to you
at the meal actually is a really nice He's a completely normal bloke, isn't
he. That's That's what I love about all the speaker. I've always been
completely normal. I found that just a bit of speaker. You know,
the big names that they all seem very down to earth. You know,
there's no sort of real egos with any of them. Ultimately, they're you
know, they're interested in the things that we have to say as well.
It's learning opportunity to them. And Aaron and I we did some filming with
Daryl at my home to hotel, and I think I said in there the
interview before we we did the investigation is that I like to see how how
things are done differently in America compared to how we do them here. When
I go out investigating, I like to use a lot of Victorian methods,
you know, the sort of the old parlor tricks with twists they rather than
just using tech. I also like to try new sensors, and I don't
know whether that's something they're particularly big on in America. So I think it's
great to see how those two different techniques work alongside each other. And words
they're using compared to the words that we use. That Daryl was playing tag
with a spirit, we don't call it tag, we call it tig.
So it's just just little differences like that. And do you know, just
changing the word make any difference, you know to the experience you're having,
you know, a spirit able to understand what you're trying to say to them.
Do you have to translate for them either, just pick up. Yeah,
that's the thing we don't know unless we try. So I think that's
what's great about working with them, with people different nationalities, if you get
to pick up on their styles and so they like to hear what we have
to say, what we have to teach, just as much as we want
to talk to them. So if anybody hasn't been successful before and you're a
little bit hesitant about approaching somebody Macy on TV and maybe sounding you know,
like a like an impostor or you know, they have a little bit of
doubt and their own abilities, don't because they appreciate everything that you've got to
say, whether you agree, whether they agree with you or not, they
will always listen just as we would always listen to them and their methods and
that's just a mutual respect thing. So it's no they I think they will
be fully on board with everything that we're doing. Yeah, well removal.
We've got the next guest, run Yakobti. Yes, so we actually have
run lord is Actually so there are a couple the Lords as a separate person
but okay Lords Gonzales. Yeah, so we have the two of them coming
and they have been working on a new piece of technology in which they're able
to isolate voices. So it's a it's a prodigal staticom and they were actually
recommended by Darryl. He said, do you know what I know some people
that you need to bring to the festival next year. They are absolutely amazing.
They're blowing up America. They're getting some of the most incredible evidence anyone
has ever heard. And he was actually talking to me about when they actually
tended an event that he was running at Fort Delaware and they asked if they
could come along and bring their tech and they showed him how it worked and
some of the voices that were coming through there blew Daryl away. So so
you know, so far away that he's like everybody needs to know about this.
So he's been a it's been chapping them and it's been a real campaigner,
a staticom on what they're trying to achieve. And they're everywhere. There
are all the para coms, they're at convention, there are festivals all over
America, and they're going to be huge. Ron actually sent me a piece
of evidence over they managed to capture and I've never ever heard anything that clear.
Ever. It was such a long sentence, there was no static,
there was no interference, it was just pure sentence, clear vocal tone,
and I've never ever heard anything like that. But it's the technology that they've
devised and they're using. And on top of that, they are two of
the most beautiful humans as well, and they're just so lovely to talk to,
incredibly humble, really enthusiastic, and they're so excited to be coming to
the festival as well. And I cannot wait to actually see them using their
technology. I can't wait to see that. I'm probably more excitated about that
than anything else because some of the evidence they're recording from that is mind blowing.
So I'm really excited to meet with them in person. Yeah, that's
so well. The last guy actually, he has actually responded to a few
of the things that I've said, you know, and look a law school.
I actually getting on the show. Actually, I wonder if you I'm
sorry Wood, I'm sorry Wood, and so they both would. They're just
they're just such lovely people and I think that they're going to fit in perfectly
great sense of humor. They love the paranormal, they love the community around
them as well and working with others. So I'm actually heading over to American
next year with Penny and absolutely desperately want to meet up with them. I'd
love to meet up with them while I'm over there. To the States next
year as well. I know you're going just after me, aren't you.
From backing you go absolutely, of course you go to Memphis. I'm starting
in Canada, Gettysburg, and then Delaware. The members. That's great again
anyway, it's brilliant. Well not only Memphis, We're going on all the
places as well. It just looks like it suits you. It just suits
you, both suits you. That's why I find it funny, is that
the absolutely suits you. If I was to choose somewhere for you both to
recital it would absolutely be membhis when it's hot and sweaty. He passed out
A lost time for me. It was so hot. Yeah, she keeps
on telling me to not I don't drink enough water and stuff. You know,
we got to appoint We were actually queuing up and with messages of people
and I really I really need I'll tell I've got to go and sit down.
He passed out. Oh holiday, Yeah, I thought I was dying.
But anyway, that's a that's another story forever till that's for the podcast
experiences in America. Waits I come back. That was my experience. We
move on down down the line. We've got We've got then needam of ghost
trip investigations we do. Indeed, I don't actually know what their surnames are
because it's just listening to but I don't actually know, so moving swiftly on,
No, unfortunately I do so that so Dan and Adam they have been
really big on TikTok O the last few years. They've been doing solo stuff,
you know, they do sort of family videos, and then they started
doing some paranormal investigations and not only are they doing locations in the UK,
but they've started heading over to the States as well. They've got such a
great following and we were actually asked by some of the community whether we could
actually bring them to the festival. So they were requested quite heavily to be
guests at the festival for twenty twenty four. So we reached out. We
had a chat with them, realized that they're both completely bonkers. They're going
to fit imperfectly. They're going to fit in perfectly, yet and again they're
going to bring something completely different. You know, they're relatively new to the
scene, you know, to the paranormal field. So whilst they're they're absolute
experts on social media and they're getting to all the right locations and they're enjoying
what they do. It's also nice to see people that have never been exposed
to the paranormal before, other than maybe watching Most Haunted ten years ago.
They're now starting to get back into that. It's no longer a social media
taboo. People are watching and they're becoming believers, they're wanting to get involved,
and they're booking onto investigations themselves. So they were heavily requested actually,
so that's why we reached out to them. But it is nice to see
that what we love to do is now being exposed to a completely different audience,
those who wouldn't necessarily look at it, or would would just sort of
skim through it, like, yeah, that's fake, that's fig that's fishing
wire. And people are now and that's because they're engaging with their personalities because
there's somebody that they've seen on social media from a personal aspect where they've seen
them playing pranks on their other halves, and they've seen them in their family
lives and it's well, actually, this is what we also love to do.
So it's it's showing, it's showing them in a different light, and
it also shows the paranormal fielding it in a very different way as well.
So they've been greater pulling people back in because we all see the same faces,
don't we. You know, we go to investigations and it's lovely to
see the same people over and over. But it's also great to see people
becoming interested in something something that not many people spoke about. For years,
it was still a taboo. We weren't really we were the weirdos, and
now it seems to becoming so much more mainstream, and whilst some might say
that that's a bad thing, that you know, the paranormal's becoming completely mainstream
and it's over publicized, but it's waking it's waking people up to what's out
there. This isn't this isn't about what you see on TV. This isn't
about what Hollywood's got to show. This isn't about playing with the weedy board
in your bedroom. I don't bring up a whole new way of thinking about
our reality, our existence, what happens once we pass over, And it's
nice that people are starting to become interested in that again. And I think
that their social media presence and the attention that receiving from TikTok and YouTube and
other social media platforms is really highlighting that there is something out there. Let's
work together to figure out what that is. So I think that that's a
great way of thinking about what they were able to contribute to the paranormal field.
But whilst they might not necessarily get involved with other teams, and you
know, they may not go after other conventions or even whether they don't appear
on TV, they're doing their own thing and what they're doing is quite important
I think for us as investigators nationally and internationally. Now they're heading over to
the States. So I think it's credit to them that they're managing to change
minds and bring more people on board. Yeah about no, And I'm not
really big into social media. Is stick Facebook up some cryptic posts on Facebook
and then I just wander away for a couple of weeks and don't respond to
anything. I'm really bad with social media. So when people were requesting saying,
you know, can we quickly see Dan and Adam keep bringing ghost investigations
and so I had to go away and have to sit through and I'm like,
oh, actually, that's a really good location they're going to there.
You know, they're not just turning up at a local boos when investigating the
book. You know, they're actually going to places that have got some historical
value. So it's really great to see that, you know that they're actually
looking at places and trying to put a different spin on that and introducing some
of the general public to these locations as well, and doing it a safe
way rather, you know, it's not encouraging urbexing or trespassing or breaking entering.
You know, they're these they're encouraging people to attend locations that you might
not be able to access on a day to day basis, and letting people
have that experience of investigating and looking around somewhere historical. And these are people
that would never have thought of doing that in first place, or would never
envisage. That's what they're doing on a Saturday and night, you know,
satnical, building shivery and waiting to we knocked on walls and it's I think
that's what a lot of us do on most weekends. So yeah, it's
something very different. So I think that whilst views might be very different,
I think that collectively, after meeting everybody and getting to know them and their
personalities, I think that everyone's going to get on really well. We've had
a great mix of speakers next year. That sounds great. Are there any
tickets left? We only have a few of the Angelic tickets left. So
all of the early birdy keets sold out within forty eight hours the first I
think by the first ones, I think done potentially. But the thing is
we hadn't even announced any speakers. If we'd sold out of them, all
is like, how did this happen? That we did release some more which
were that they are price slightly higher because we wanted to give sort of returning
customers that opportunity to we want to thank you basically for coming again and again
and again and join us and supporting us and being our friends. So who
was that sort of our thank you was the early bit of discount. But
we do have a few of the Angelic tickets left and you can build your
own package. All of the ghost Hunt tickets except one now has sold,
so if you are wanted to go the Ghost Hunt, there is only one
ticket available, so you need to grab that as quickly as possible. But
you can go on and custom build your own package. You can choose a
Saturday day, choose a Sunday day, can choose the investigation, you could
choose going to see Sunday. The only things you can't pick to in the
create your own package is the dinners on Friday and Saturday they are VIP only,
and also the day trip on the Friday. You cannot book those three
things they have for VIP ticket holders only. See you can custom build.
So if you intend to go and have a wild night on a Saturday and
think that you know what Sunday, I'm probably going to sleep and then just
go home. So you don't have to buy the ticket for the Sunday.
You could just purchase a Saturday and so there are lots of things you can
pick and choose from. So you can also buy a ticket for the party
on Saturday night. See you come party with everybody. We have festival awards
next year as well, so I don't we've mentioned the GPM Awards, which
is through Paramaid and the fabulous Neil Packer. We're doing something ever so slightly
different. So yes, we are doing some festival awards. Yes, you
are choosing your own nominations and it is just the highest count that gets the
award. But they're slightly bonkers. We're not taking ourselves too seriously with these
awards. We're not celebrating people we might see. We're not celebrating I think
it was the best carry. Yeah they are. They are ridiculous categories.
But sometimes it's nice just to have a little bit of a laugh at yourself,
you know. I think it's so so easy to take yourself seriously within
the paranormal field because there are so many people that feel they've got something to
prove, or that you know, they're trying to get somewhere, or they're
trying to achieve a goal, and I think we get lost sometimes we are
just people and we shouldn't we shouldn't be competing against each other. It's this
is an opportunity for us to come together and you know, as a collective
and all be strange and unusual together and make friends. So what the festival
awards are is things like most stepper chap you know, the best dressed lady,
the greatest karaoke singer, the worst dancer, the most abused liver,
and we have the Ultimate. The ultimate award is the most ridiculous host of
twenty twenty three. So I have been assured that Karen is pretty much nailed
on for this award. She keeps trying to get people to vote for me,
but it's not no. But this is how it's going so far.
But it is looking like it might be a Karen win. You do still
have time to change this. But the winner of that award has to get
on stage with the live band on the Saturday evening and they have to sing
with the live band. So I've told Karen to start warming a couple of
vocal cards. So if anybody does want it to vote, you can get
in touch with us on Facebook or you can email Nicky. So Nicky is
in charge of the awards. Is that she's being partial and she's not nominated
for anything, so it's nikkiated. I have you. She's very straight laced
Nikki. So whatever comes through will be the winner. She would nothing will
be figgled. She's like, no, that is that drives me nuts.
Sometimes she's she's quite angle about things. So she's been nominated, you'd often
tell us what category. We can all vote for her if anybody does want
to nominate. If anybody does want to vote, just send it, just
sending names of who you think, you know you'd like to see. When
these awards, we have got some very cheesy little plastic cups that were handing
out. You know, you're not getting anything fancy or or you know,
made of gold or glass. Nothing's engraved. It is probably just a pound
shop cup. So you will just be you'll just be pleased to be honored
with the award. But that that's what we're doing with our past to make
a long speech as well, I'm not sure about that. We'll have a
time limit and pay for a band, I'll want the money's worth out of
them. So it is just a little bit of fun. Is our festival
awards. We're not taking ourselves too seriously. You know. We can do
that during the day. You know, we can go and learn things during
the day. We can go and network during the day. Evening time is
a chance for to just bells, let our head down a little bit and
just make friends. I've already got the dinner suit ready, so I'm so
glad because you came to dinner. Came to dinner. This game, you
wropped a par of jeans. We all turned up in bowl gowns and tuxedos
jeans. It was a fancy dress competition. We turned up as paranormal investigators.
It was not a fancy dress. I'm not having that though it was.
It was a gothic masquerine ball. No I could I could see Jill
wanted to strangle you. Yeah she did. She didn't know. She's looking
for a good dress. I've already got more dinner suit, so we should
will all be part of the party. This time we were sneaking. We
were sneaking away quietly this time. Yeah, it's not happening you're not allowed
to go to have a few dances out of you. We'll start a mush
pit. You and I. I've got a side. The food was very
good as well this year. The meals were brilliant, there plenty of it
as well as she was it was it was very nice, ye. But
we also have some some other amazing guests as well next year. So we
had Dan Classes returning for twenty twenty four. Unfortunately couldn't make it this year.
Is he just started a new job, so Dan is back. For
those who don't know, Dan is the owner of the Infamous in course,
I forgot to mention him. Yeah. Yeah, so we've got Daniel Class's
returning, so he's coming back. And then we also have a new face
for us at the festival is Kate Cheryl. So Katie's joining us as well
and she's going to be there throughout the course of the weekend as well.
Gets chat to her that canning because I know he was disappointed he couldn't come
for twenty three. So yeah, yeah it was. It was really upset
last year and it was really lovely that you know, he sent a video
through and apologize for not being there and I actually took a video of verybody
applauding him, you knows, and sent that over and he was quite emotional
when he saw the video with everybody's response that that video that he's sent through.
So he's you know, he's sort of part of our little festival family
as well. We'd be lost without him, and so I'm really glad that
he's coming back. He's such a lovely human. He's a great man.
So so glad that he's coming back. It's not a great story to all
he does, and I'm just the Fay brings a completely different dynamic because he
owns a building that is so unbelievably haunted. I love to hear what's happening
there, you know, what's happening on a daily basis, and who's going
in and who's finding what. And he's always finding odd bits within the house
as well, So I love listening to the stuff that he says. And
he's quite a dry, sarcastic British sense of humor as well, so I
really think I love that. I need to buy his book. So I'm
actually I missed out the last time, but I will get it this time.
I was terrible last year in the twenty twenty three by any books at
all. This year, however, twenty three he came back with the books
from Everybody, and whilst I was on well, when I came back from
the festival, I just sat and read everything. I ordered my body waiting
Greggs and just sat and read books for frilling fire week. And it's just
so great to be able to read other people's accounts and see how sometimes actually
how familiar or how sim they are to some of your own experiences. So
that's and you wouldn't think it, you know, just by looking at a
book cover, you wouldn't think had to go about well by it just to
be polite. And actually you read it, you can't put it down.
And I in particularly I really loved Daryl's book, So it was The Horror
of the House of Wills. That was a great book, a really raw
and insightful, you know, telling of what you'd experienced at the House of
Wills. And got the book no spoilers. Then I need to go through
that properly because it is it does look a really interesting book. It was
actually a really good read. I was because you know, it's I'm not
great with biographies or autobiographies or anything like that. But you know, you
start reading something like, actually, something very similar happened to me, or
I can relate to that or and would have maybe have done that in that
situation. And that's what's been great about some of the books that I purchased
from the festival this year were just seeing you know, how vulnerable they are
as well. You know, they're not just people that we see on TV.
They aren't just you know, overproduced, heavily edited, you know,
whatever it is. They are normal human beings that go out investigating and they
are you know, they have emotions, they take things home with them,
and it's quite nice to see something so honest and raw. So yes,
some of the books have been great, So get it, read, read
it. I will. Yeah. Is he on the poster yet, So
we haven't released the post yet, So the poster is. We have done
the poster at the moment, it just says copy all over it, so
it is the proof copy at the moment. So we will be releasing that.
So we will probably do that over the Christmas period and we won't be
doing that on the twenty second of December because it is Mad Friday and the
chances are that our writing might be a bit squiffy. So the whole festival
team is out on mad Friday, but we will be releasing it just before
Christmas so everybody can see the full line up. Still have to do the
official announcement of Penny as well, say Penny's coming, and she won't mind
be saying that. We have spoken out already, so yeah, Penny will
be attending. Well, we've been waiting what it is. We've just been
waiting for for other people's schedules. We didn't really want to announce anybody and
then to the same Unfortunately, I've got a filming commitment that day, so
it's fun to make sure that everything everybody was setting, everybody was ready so
we could announce it. So we were just waiting on one person and that's
it. We've got the full lineup. I do. I do have a
sneaky additional guest, but I'll work tell you about that yet. You have
to follow the page anyway. Yeah, we should look forward to all that,
Rachel, And as I said, I'm going to get Karen and she
Eva and Nikki on separate shows, so we'll be talking a little bit more
about it. We'll probably go through the whole thing again, talking about their
guests and how they felt about the last year's show and everything. But it's
been great talking to you again. You know. We're looking forward to seeing
you in September next year, if not before, because I understand you might
be coming down my way, so we'll there in January, so expect to
lock on your door. Yeah, you're always welcome. I told you I'll
come and pick you up or whatever from Yorkshire. Well I could do.
I could even do that. You wouldn't want to go back. I know,
I know what was like. But I know you. You've not been
very well over the last week or so, so I wish you better.
Thank you very much. I'm going to go and uh and drink a lot
of mess my voice a little bit, but thank you so much for having
me on. I really appreciate it. Catch up. It's lovely to catch
up again. Send my love to Jill, love that woman. Lots of
love to you and and all your team, and we look forward to seeing
you all the gain of course, and absolutely thank you so much for finding
the time to come on and putting up with me and more city jokes and
things. Thanks to listening to me ramble, And just one more thing before
I go. If anybody does want tickets for the festival, it is www
dot Festival of the Unexplained dot com and there's lots of ticular options on there,
so go grubby tickets now, And thank you very much, David.
It's been a pleasure. That's been great. And what the last thing I
shall say is I shall put all the links I can on the Paranormal Dimensions
page on Facebook. So really, if you can't find it, you can
get in touch with me and I'll put you in the right direction. But
so we should get on the all the links on on my page as well
anyway, so if anyone wants to follow you on Facebook, I can find
yours as well. Rachel, Is that right? Yeah? I actually I
actually have got a touch now a page that's not great to have paid unfortunately
because they are too many friends. So if you do want to keep up
to date, up to date with any festival news, or you just want
to have a general stock of me, I am quite weird, but you
can find me on Facebook. So it's it's Rachel f f O t u
SO Festival of the Unexplained so f O t you, Rachel to you and
that's that's my page also on Instagram as a girl who goes hunts and face
my normal name. There you you have lots of stalkers coming to for I'm
everywhere. I've got bless the block button. Honestly, it's coming hand in
his net right, go and have a load down. Thank you, thank
you of yourself, Rachel to bye bye bye bye bye. Here we are
there was Rachel Ashman. Thank you, Rachel. That was absolutely brilliant.
For the next show, I've got a special coming up and that will be
on December the eighteenth. We've got Mark boll you to the show for his
third visit and Mark will be talking about crystal skulls and alien heads. An
extra show to be looking out for. So I hope you're joined with that
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