

The Modern Fairy Sightings Podcast
Jo Hickey-Hall
Most people are baffled at any idea that fairies could exist...and telling people you've had a fairy encounter is a major taboo. The Modern Fairy Sightings Podcast hears from people who’ve had experiences and want to share them. Whether you’re already a believer, or full of intrigue, come open-minded and open-hearted…simply listen, and make your own mind up. But take heed, these are not winged Tinkerbells. These are real fairies. Please note: this podcast is not suitable for children as it may contain some unsettling, frightening or creepy material from time to time. Artwork: Peter Hall Studios Music: Transmutate by Snowflake.SpectreVision Radio is a bespoke podcast network at the intersection between the arts and the uncanny, featuring a tapestry of shows exploring creativity, the esoteric, and the unknown. We’re a community for creators and fans vibrating around common curiosities, shared interests and persistent passions.https://www.scarlettofthefae.com/the-modern-fairy-sightings-podcastspectrevisionradio.comlinktr.ee/spectrevisionsocial
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Jul 30, 2025 • 1h 56min
Ep 109: Meeting a Forest Gatekeeper (with Tiyi Schippers) North Michigan
Tiyi lives in North Michigan where she is the Mayor of her town! She has Irish, Creole and Nordic ancestry and can trace her lineage back to Haiti in 1702. Her family's story is fascinating.
Tiyi starts off by telling us about her Great-Grandmother who met a leprechaun in Cork, Ireland and shows us the resulting enchanted shillelagh that has been passed down her family. We hear also about her grandfather's Hoodoo practices and the wisdom he passed down to her.
Being a sensitive soul and clearly bearing the generations of practice of sensitive and honourable spiritual contact, Tiyi recalls hearing ghosts and voices as a child. On occasion she would encounter what she describes as 'The Slinky Lady' and one of her stories details flying out-of-body experience where she felt herself as part of the landscape.
Tiyi works with forest spirits and shares a life-changing experience in a woodland which took place at a very difficult time in her life. During this wondrous encounter, she received a blessing from the forest. On another occasion she perceived 'The Gate Keeper' in the forest, from which she produced the painting that is shared in the episode.
We hear about the 'talking tree' that her grandchildren reported, and we end with a series of mind bogging photos that could potentially indicate a Sasquatch encounter!
It was a great honour to speak with Tiyi and I'm very grateful for all she shared about her life and experiences, so rich with meaning. Here is the beautiful blessing that she provided:
"Spirit of this sacred place,
Grant your blessing, grant your grace,
Keep me safe in night and day,
Hold me ever in your sway,
Spirit of Water earth and Green
Grant me sight for things unseen"
Contact Tiyi via her website and be sure to subscribe to her YouTube channel.
https://youtube.com/@spookymstiyi?si=eer9ZYefAiicPRb6
https://spookymstiyi.com/https://youtube.com/@spookymstiyi?si=eer9ZYefAiicPRb6
https://spookymstiyi.com/
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Warning: These are not fairytales and the content is unsuitable for children. This episode describes a wonderful experience but some episodes may contain details which some may find unsettling or frightening. The Modern Fairy Sightings Podcast is designed for listeners 16 years and older.
Podcast intro music: Transmutate by Snowflake (c) copyright 2020 Licensed. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.
Green Man Artwork: Peter Hall Studios
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Jul 24, 2025 • 2h 10min
Ep 108: Sandown Clown 'Fay' Comes Forward! (with Paul A.T. Wilson)
The Case of the 'Sandown Clown' on the Isle of Wight has intrigued researchers for decades. Now, a woman claiming to be the long-sought-after witness, 'Fay' (a pseudonym) who was seven when the encounter took place has made contact with fellow Wight Islander, Paul Wilson.
The woman who has provided compelling material evidence now reports subsequent encounters took place with the same being in 1982, 1983, 1984 and 1989. Here Paul describes those encounters and reveals further information about the original encounter, which was reported to BUFORA in 1978
We also hear about her father's experiences, how they may relate to her encounters and much more.
Links to Paul's contact info and upcoming talks:Upcoming talk 9th August (which will be recorded - but I don't think streamed):https://www.bembridgefort.org/whats-on-events?store-page=The-Mystery-of-the-Sandown-Clown-Declassified-09-08-25-p758046058
Follow up presentation 1st November:https://www.bembridgefort.org/whats-on-events?store-page=Hello-are-you-still-there-The-Sandown-Clown-Part-Two-01-11-2025-p758049215
Paul's Contact on Blue Sky:https://bsky.app/profile/wihtlore.uk
Paul's recent interview on the AP Strange Show (really worth a listen - an excellent discussion)
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Warning: These are not fairytales and the content is unsuitable for children. This episode describes a wonderful experience but some episodes may contain details which some may find unsettling or frightening. The Modern Fairy Sightings Podcast is designed for listeners 16 years and older.
Podcast intro music: Transmutate by Snowflake (c) copyright 2020 Licensed. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.
Green Man Artwork: Peter Hall Studios
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Jul 17, 2025 • 51min
Ep 107: "It seemed familiar to me..." Fairy Sighting in the Home
Artist, Gina McAdam kindly shares her memories of childhood companionship with the presence of fairies in her garden and more recently, right before Covid Lockdown, seeing a small "conker shaped", rodent-sized being who walked into her lounge on it's knuckles and reversed out backwards!
In the full length (1.5 hour) version on Patreon we discuss the resistance Gina felt towards talking about her experiences and how that shifted for her during our chat. She shares the story of the female spirit of a previous owner who regularly visited Gina's family in their childhood home. We hear how Gina and her two sisters became familiar with Otherworld, despite having parents who were atheists, and how her Father's family may have been more familiar with these worlds.
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Warning: These are not fairytales and the content is unsuitable for children. This episode describes a wonderful experience but some episodes may contain details which some may find unsettling or frightening. The Modern Fairy Sightings Podcast is designed for listeners 16 years and older.
Podcast intro music: Transmutate by Snowflake (c) copyright 2020 Licensed. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.
Green Man Artwork: Peter Hall Studios
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Jun 27, 2025 • 1h 35min
Ep 106: Circle of White Beings: Siôn from NW Wales
Siôn from Gwynedd, North West Wales shares some astonishing stories: A circle of beings appearing and reappearing, supernatural attack at a Crossroads, his childhood experience of a being seemingly impersonating his teddy, 'Pinky', his encounter a Green Wisp, the 'Egryn Lights' case and local 'Fairy Lakes' folklore.
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SHOWNOTES
Full shownotes at: https://www.scarlettofthefae.com/ep-106-circle-of-white-beings-sion-from-nw-wales/
Mary Jones and the Harlech Light Flap/The Egryn Lights
https://www.sufon.co.uk/post/the-egryn-lights
These are the lakes we discussed and some information from Siôn:
Llyn Cynwch
https://nannau.wales/folklore/the-fairies-of-llyn-cynwch/
https://faeryfolklorist.blogspot.com/search/label/Wales?m=0
Llyn Barfog/The Bearded one's lake (literally=Bearded Lake)
The green clad fairy women and the white cow story …http://faeryfolklorist.blogspot.com/2012/09/the-fairy-women-of-llyn-barfog-north.html?m=0
Llyn Hafod y Llyn (the green wisp experience)
It happened around two miles from Siôn's brother’s house near a picturesque lake nestled in a forest.
Llyn Hafod y Llyn (The Lake of the Lake Lodge/Shelter!!)
‘Hafod’ is the word for a place on high land where the shepherds would stay in summer while tending their sheep. ( ‘Haf’=Summer ‘Fod’ = place/to be).
Lastly, the story of the circle of beings that I was trying to remember actually happened in Westmeath, Ireland...It's in Dermot MacManus's The Middle Kingdom. It is set at Clonmillan Hill. The circle of beings move in a similar way to that reported by Siôn. In addition, just like report from NW Wales, this area was also known to be connected with Otherworldly experiences. The description of bagpipes suggest music may have also played an element. Check out the story on the shownotes at scarlettofthefae.com
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Warning: These are not fairytales and the content is unsuitable for children. This episode describes a wonderful experience but some episodes may contain details which some may find unsettling or frightening. The Modern Fairy Sightings Podcast is designed for listeners 16 years and older.
Podcast intro music: Transmutate by Snowflake (c) copyright 2020 Licensed. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.
Green Man Artwork: Peter Hall Studios
Editing Assistance: Sinéad Eeles
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Jun 23, 2025 • 1h 7min
Ep 105: Childhood Experiences: Ishtar Howell
Ishtar Howell, monk, meditation teacher and intuitive astrologer joins me for a chat about his childhood experiences with various spirit entities crossing his path. We discuss how it was for him to keep a foot in either world.
ishtarhowell.substack.com
youtube.com/ishtarishaya
Ishtar's workshop dates for the Ascension Meditation course:
June 21 and 22 2025, Stroud
June 28 and 29 2025, Richmond, North Yorkshire
https://www.ascension-meditation.com/
Reach Ishtar for intuitive and astrological readings
www.awakenedlightastrology.com
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Music during the show Environmental Meditation by Hood Faire
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Jun 9, 2025 • 1h 11min
Ep 104: Willa and the Forest Spirits
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A delightful chat with Willa, an Australian woman who has made her home in Zürich, Switzerland. A video version of this chat is on YouTube: https://youtu.be/oTsepRFupcc?si=5KGtwaH-N81DALqp
Willa's encounter took place five years ago in the Tarragona region of Spain. Early one morning, she took a stroll through her friend's garden and came face to face with some beings, whom she describes as 'forest spirits', sitting in three trees growing inside a spiral of arrangement of rocks. As Willa described:
"I saw them, they seemed to be “looking” at me. My impression was they were aware I could see them. The situation...lasted only for about a minute before they seemed to fold in on themselves and disappear."
Describing herself as a lifelong 'skeptical person', we discuss how coming into contact with these beings has made a subsequent impact on Willa's life and how she feels about visiting this location in the Tarragona region again, later in the year.
We also discuss Willa's call, to aid people like me and you who have become homeless. Here she is volunteering during lockdown in the kitchen of the Pfuusbus in Zürich.
If you would like to donate or find out more about the Pfarrer Sieber organisation here's the website: https://www.swsieber.ch/In the UK there are several homelessness charities including Crisis, Shelter and St Mungo's
In America: Habitat for Humanity, The Salvation Army and Covenant House.
The other episodes which I refer to re Tree Beings:
https://www.scarlettofthefae.com/episode-2-a-call-to-the-otherworld/
https://www.scarlettofthefae.com/episode-33-tree-teacher-and-two-suns/
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Warning: These are not fairytales and the content is unsuitable for children. This episode describes a wonderful experience but some episodes may contain details which some may find unsettling or frightening. The Modern Fairy Sightings Podcast is designed for listeners 16 years and older.
Podcast intro music: Transmutate by Snowflake (c) copyright 2020 Licensed. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License
Music during the show Environmental Meditation by Hood Faire
Green Man Artwork: Peter Hall Studio
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Jun 9, 2025 • 1h
Ep 104: Willa and the Forest Spirits (Spain) Video Version on Spotify
Video version of a delightful chat with Willa, an Australian woman who has made her home in Zürich, Switzerland.
Willa's encounter took place five years ago in the Tarragona region of Spain. Early one morning, she took a stroll through her friend's garden and came face to face with some beings, whom she describes as 'forest spirits', sitting in three trees growing inside a spiral of arrangement of rocks. As Willa described:
"I saw them, they seemed to be “looking” at me. My impression was they were aware I could see them. The situation...lasted only for about a minute before they seemed to fold in on themselves and disappear."
Describing herself as a lifelong 'skeptical person', we discuss how coming into contact with these beings has made a subsequent impact on Willa's life and how she feels about visiting this location in the Tarragona region again, later in the year.
We also discuss Willa's call, to aid people like me and you who have become homeless. Here she is volunteering during lockdown in the kitchen of the Pfuusbus in Zürich.
If you would like to donate or find out more about the Pfarrer Sieber organisation here's the website: https://www.swsieber.ch/In the UK there are several homelessness charities including Crisis, Shelter and St Mungo's
In America: Habitat for Humanity, The Salvation Army and Covenant House.
The other episodes which I refer to re Tree Beings:
https://www.scarlettofthefae.com/episode-2-a-call-to-the-otherworld/
https://www.scarlettofthefae.com/episode-33-tree-teacher-and-two-suns/
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If you’d prefer to support the Modern Fairy Sightings with a one off donation, you can ‘buy me a coffee’ and I’d be very grateful 🙂
https://buymeacoffee.com/modfairysight
Warning: These are not fairytales and the content is unsuitable for children. This episode describes a wonderful experience but some episodes may contain details which some may find unsettling or frightening. The Modern Fairy Sightings Podcast is designed for listeners 16 years and older.
Podcast intro music: Transmutate by Snowflake (c) copyright 2020 Licensed. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License
Music during the show Environmental Meditation by Hood Faire
Green Man Artwork: Peter Hall Studio
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May 20, 2025 • 1h 13min
Ep 103: Rose Aurora, Fairy Seer and Sorceress
💫 Rose is a fairy sorceress and seer, specialising in Fairy, Elf, and Troll-related issues & spiritual needs. She comes from a spiritual lineage of Celtic origin and has trained in other traditions including 'Trolldom', apprenticed under Johannes Gårdbäck.Here, she shares some of her earliest experiences with spirits. We also hear about the meaning and history of fairy traditions and lineages and original mythologies.Rose goes on to describe some of her interactions with The Good People, and warns why we shouldn’t seek out a fairy beau!
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🌟 Over on the exclusive full-length version for Patreon Members Rose talks about:
the different kinds of fairies that she meets
her thoughts on where we are at the current time, in terms of human and fairy connections
what fairies might think of AI.
Sound Quality: unfortunately, I think my mic wasn't working properly. Very sorry for the lack of quality in my audio. If there's someone out there that would like to help me on the production side of things, do get in touch at scarlettofthefae@gmail.com
Shownotes
Check out Rose's previous interviews here (they are all great! I think I've listened to most if not all of them). My faves are with Chad from Radical Elphame Darragh from Spirit Box Podcast.
Connect with Rose on Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/roseauroras/Rose provides readings (scrying & cartomancy) spellwork, scrying, coaching and ongoing mentorship in the magical arts. https://www.roseauroras.com/about
Rose will be presenting at Salem Witch Fest later this year:https://www.salemwitchfest.com/
and June 6th at the virtual Northern Folk Traditions Conference!
https://school.ritualcravt.com/class/starlight-forge-fire-and-hearth-embers-the-elves-trolls-dwarves-in-scandinavian-folklore-and-practice/
I mentioned Pam Gregory's Sunday/Daily meditation 7pm GMT
https://youtu.be/h1gZTkw04E4?si=cTIf1us-lntWKVPL
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If you’d prefer to support the Modern Fairy Sightings with a one off donation, you can ‘buy me a coffee’ and I’d be very grateful 🙂
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Warning: These are not fairytales and the content is unsuitable for children. This episode describes a wonderful experience but some episodes may contain details which some may find unsettling or frightening. The Modern Fairy Sightings Podcast is designed for listeners 16 years and older.
Podcast intro music: Transmutate by Snowflake (c) copyright 2020 Licensed. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License
Music during the show Environmental Meditation by Hood Faire
Green Man Artwork: Peter Hall Studio
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May 1, 2025 • 1h 10min
Ep: 102 Bealtaine Fire at The Hill of Uisneach, with Seán Clancy
Seán Clancy is An Drí ar Uisnigh (a Druid of the Hill of Uisneach) as well as a tour guide of Uisneach and a seanchaí (Irish storyteller). His family have lived around the base of Uisneach in Rathconrath, County Westmeath, right in the centre of Ireland, for generations.
Follow Seán on Instagram where he releases stories, live every Tuesday.
https://www.instagram.com/dri_uisnigh/
He's about to celebrate Bealtaine as he does each year on the sacred Hill of Uisneach. It's an ancient fire festival which attracts thousands of visitors.
https://uisneach.ie/
Here, Sean describes the festival of Bealtaine and the history and mythology of Uisneach, as well as his own connections with the local area.
Plus! A recent fairy encounter in Sean's local area! Starts at 39.25 mins.
In the days leading up to St Patrick's Day, this March (2025) a local young woman (the daughter of a co-worker friend) was repeatedly stopped at a crossroads, late at night by a huge bird in increasingly strange circumstances...could the bird's uncanny owner herself have been one of the Good Neighbours?
Seán recounts the TRUE STORY for us.
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Warning: These are not fairytales and the content is unsuitable for children. This episode describes a wonderful experience but some episodes may contain details which some may find unsettling or frightening. The Modern Fairy Sightings Podcast is designed for listeners 16 years and older.
Podcast intro music: Transmutate by Snowflake (c) copyright 2020 Licensed. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.
Green Man Artwork: Peter Hall Studios
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Apr 10, 2025 • 2h 9min
Ep 101: Lodge Tales: Shapeshifters and Talking Owls
It was so great to finally meet with R O D W I L L I A M S O N from Lodge Tales Podcast - one of my favourite shows. Rod speaks to fellow members of his Native American community about their strange experiences. The conversations are absolutely wonderful and give a great insight into what we have largely lost in our material-paradigm-focused, modern Western society.
https://lodge-tales.podcastpage.io/
We talk about what it was like for Rod to grow up in the Blackfeet Reservation in Montana, - one of the largest reservations in the US - with parents that understand about Otherworld...and others in the wider community who no longer remember their connections with these worlds.
It was an honour to hear about Rod's experiences including talking owls, a shapeshifting cricket, Little People, the backward speak of Otherworld, a talking eagle speaking Blackfeet.
He tells the terrifying story of the time he went down to the creek with his first cousin and her legs were pulled by an unknown force back beneath the waters.
We discuss shapeshifting in general, how we might relate to Spirits and how we feel about the West reawakening to these ways of seeing the world.
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