The Spoook Podcast

On this Season One finale of The Spoook Podcast, your host James McMahon talks cryptids with Derek Hayes from the fantastic Monsters Among Us podcast as well as with the extremely funny/wise/cool Alyssa Onofreo from Crypt TV. They're excellent chats, if we do say so ourselves. You'll never go into the woods in the same way again. You won't watch Disney's Mulan in the same way either.Spoook is a magazine radio show. It's also a promoter, a shop, a Substack - it's many things. But it's weird and it's strange and it lives under your bed. Follow us on Instagram and Twitter. And please do Like, Review and Subscribe - it actually really helps people find us!

The 2021 news agenda is dominated by talk of UFO's - or UAP's to use a term which is receiving more and more currency. What's different now, as opposed to years gone by, is that this conversation isn't punctuated by laugher. It feels like something is happening. Something big. Something important. On this episode of The Spoook Podcast, your host James McMahon talks to Andy McGrillen from That UFO Podcast. It's an illuminating and far ranging chat.Spoook is a magazine radio show. It's also a promoter, a shop, a Substack - it's many things. But it's weird and it's strange and it lives under your bed. Follow us on Instagram and Twitter. And please do Like, Review and Subscribe - it actually really helps people find us!

When Jeff Wayne released Jeff Wayne's Musical Version Of The War Of The Worlds in 1978 - an adaptation of H. G. Wells' 1898 novel The War Of The Worlds - a record was produced that has been synonymous with all of Spoook host James McMahon's life. This week he meets his musical hero, and asks the questions he's wanted to ask ever since he was a small boy, listening to the record on double cassette, in the dark, spoooked to his very essence.Spoook is a magazine radio show. It's also a promoter, a shop, a Substack - it's many things. But it's weird and it's strange and it lives under your bed. Follow us on Instagram and Twitter. And please do Like, Review and Subscribe - it actually really helps people find us!

Can We Not Knock It? is a podcast about the England Football Team at Euro 2020.It's brought to you by Spoook Mediargh, the people behind The Spoook Podcast and The OCD Chronicles. If you like either of those, maybe you'll like this too!Tell you what... why not subscribe now, and never miss an episode!

Anyone with an interest in true crime knows who Sarah Turney is. Whether it's the enduring fight for answers surrounding the disappearance of her older sister Alissa in 2001 - which I (James McMahon) wrote about for MEL magazine some time ago. Or via her excellent podcast Voices For Justice. Sarah is an advocate with great empathy - most likely as a result of her own lived experience. For this special episode of The Spoook Podcast, I had a conversation with her about the nuances of the true crime genre.Spoook is a magazine radio show. It's also a promoter, a shop, a Substack - it's many things. But it's weird and it's strange and it lives under your bed. Follow us on Instagram and Twitter. And please do Like, Review and Subscribe - it actually really helps people find us!

This weeks episode of The Spoook Podcast sees host James McMahon meet French metal titans Gojira for a deep dive on their environmental work, while we catch up with Covey about the monsters that make up his brilliant forthcoming album, Class Of Cardinal Sin - oh, and there's a spoooky interview with Spencer Charnas from Ice Nine Kills.Spoook is a magazine radio show. It's also a promoter, a shop, a Substack - it's many things. But it's weird and it's strange and it lives under your bed. Follow us on Instagram and Twitter. And please do Like, Review and Subscribe - it actually really helps people find us! 

This special episode of The Spoook Podcast sees host James McMahon in conversation with Dr. Jules from the Riddle Me That! podcast, in a deep diving conversation about the bias of true crime reporting. Topics covered include Maura Murray, Claudia Lawrence, the Noida double murders, Madeleine McCann, Amanda Knox, Andrew Gosden, Jill Dando, Keith Warren, The Delphi Murders, Ellen Greenberg and more.Spoook is a magazine radio show. It's also a promoter, a shop, a Substack - it's many things. But it's weird and it's strange and it lives under your bed. Follow us on Instagram and Twitter. And please do Like, Review and Subscribe - it actually really helps people find us!

This weeks episode of The Spoook Podcast sees host James McMahon talk Galician weirdness with Bala - one of his very favourite bands - and the end of the world with the brilliant Chicago born singer songwriter, Trevor Sensor. There's also a conversation with author and former Deputy Coroner Donna Francart about what working with death has taught her about the end. Oh, and there's a few uncredited celebrity guests! If you can identify them, tweet us, and we'll send you a Spoook goodie bag!Spoook is a magazine radio show. It's also a promoter, a shop, a Substack - it's many things. But it's weird and it's strange and it lives under your bed. Follow us on Instagram and Twitter. And please do Like, Review and Subscribe - it actually really helps people find us! (NB: This episode features Episode 5 of another Spoook Mediargh production - James McMahon's The OCD Chronicles - spliced onto the end. If you like it, please do investigate the other episodes on wherever platforms that you get your podcasts). 

This weeks episode of The Spoook Podcast sees host James McMahon meet legendary British pop culture journalist and now author Kate Hodges. A conversation about weird London and the occult ensues. There's also a conversation about weird Chicago - ghosts, UFO's and haunted trees - that takes place with the brilliant indie rock troupe Beach Bunny, and we talk to British wrestling promoter Dann Read - from the Pro-Wrestling Eve promotion - about the future of British indie wrestling. Spoook is a magazine radio show. It's also a promoter, a shop, a Substack - it's many things. But it's weird and it's strange and it lives under your bed. Follow us on Instagram and Twitter. And please do Like, Review and Subscribe - it actually really helps people find us!

What a treat we have for you this week. This episode of The Spoook Podcast sees host James McMahon meet Roddy Bottum (Faith No More, Imperial Teen) and Joey Holman, who comprise the excellent new indie rock band Man On Man. We talk about Trump, growing up gay and Christian, the splendour of love... and sasquatch. Their self-titled debut is out now.Spoook is a magazine radio show. It's also a promoter, a shop, a Substack - it's many things. But it's weird and it's strange and it lives under your bed. Follow us on Instagram and Twitter. And please do Like, Review and Subscribe - it actually really helps people find us!

This special episode of The Spoook Podcast sees host James McMahon meet paranormal investigator Hayley Stevens. You can investigate - pun intended - more of Hayley's work at https://hayleyisaghost.co.uk. We talk ghosts, Bigfoot, UFO's and ask whether our traditional approach to death in The West isn't especially helpful. Spoook is a magazine radio show. It's also a promoter, a shop, a Substack - it's many things. But it's weird and it's strange and it lives under your bed. Follow us on Instagram and Twitter. And please do Like, Review and Subscribe - it actually really helps people find us!

This weeks episode of The Spoook Podcast sees host James McMahon meet journalist Andrew Gold. We talk about the evil of exorcisms - and Andrew's excellent documentary.Not only that, but there's a conversation with indie rock legend Lou Barlow - !!! - and a chat with the very funny Dan St. Germain about paranormal wrestling. Spoook is a magazine radio show. It's also a promoter, a shop, a Substack - it's many things. But it's weird and it's strange and it lives under your bed. Follow us on Instagram and Twitter. And please do Like, Review and Subscribe - it actually really helps people find us!

This weeks episode of The Spoook Podcast sees host James McMahon meet journalist Kevin Fagan who tells us the strange story of The Doodler - when you're done with us, go check out his podcast. It's remarkable work! We also catch up with friends of Spoook We Are Scientists and have a fun - if unsettling - conversation with British culture journalist Thomas Hobbs. Spoook is a magazine radio show. It's also a promoter, a shop, a Substack - it's many things. But it's weird and it's strange and it lives under your bed. Follow us on Instagram and Twitter. And please do Like, Review and Subscribe - it actually really helps people find us!

Enjoyed Episode 0.5? Well, The Spoook Podcast now arrives proper, with interviews with death metal titans Cannibal Corpse, British horror movie genius Jed Shepherd (HOST) and Danny Robins, the brains behind the hit BBC podcast, The Battersea Poltergeist. Yikes. Spoook is a magazine radio show. It's also a promoter, a shop, a Substack - it's many things. But it's weird and it's strange and it lives under your bed. Follow us on Instagram and Twitter. And please do Like, Review and Subscribe - it actually really helps people find us!

Video Nasties are an excellent heavy metal band from Liverpool, England. What better way to tee up the forthcoming The Spoook Podcast proper - coming 12/04/21 - than to have a chat with them about horror movies? Then when you're done, why not sign up for the Spoook Substack at https://spoook.substack.com?