Unexplained Phenomena

ANGELS IN MY HAIR

by Lorna Byrne

read by Maureen O'Brien

running time 11hrs 15mins

Lorna Byrne is a modern-day mystic. As a child, people thought Lorna was 'retarded' because she did not seem to be focussing on what was around her, but she remembers seeing not just the world around her but seeing, equally vividly, angels and spirits. In this book, Lorna recounts her life story.

THE HOLY GHOSTBUSTER

by J Aelwyn Roberts

read by J. Aelwyn Roberts

running time 5hrs

Entertaining account of Rev Roberts' parish work as an exorcist and his investigations into the world of ghosts.

A MONSTROUS COMMOTION: THE MYSTERIES OF LOCH NESS

by Gareth Williams

read by Andrew Cullum

running time 14hrs 40mins

The Loch Ness Monster: a creature that should have died out with the dinosaurs, or a legend built on hoaxes and wishful thinking? For decades, the scientific establishment was determined to quash attempts to investigate Loch Ness – until the journal Nature published an article by Sir Peter Scott, internationally renowned naturalist, featuring underwater photographs of the Monster...

A NATURAL HISTORY OF GHOSTS

by Roger Clarke

read by Fred Parker

running time 10hrs

An authoritative and readable history of the evolution of the ghost in the west, examining the behaviour of the subject in its preferred environment and the stories we tell each other. What explains sightings of ghosts? Why do they fascinate us? What exactly did the haunted see? What did they believe? And what proof is there?

OPEN SKIES, CLOSED MINDS

by Nick Pope

read by David Moreau

running time 8hrs

The author works for the Ministry of Defence. From 1991-1994 his job was to invesigate and analyse claims of UFO sightings and to assess their threat to national security. He presents convincing arguments for the existence of UFOs by using cases that he has researched in his official capacity.

THE SCIENCE OF HARRY POTTER

by Roger Highfield

read by Fred Parker

running time 11hrs 30mins

Science writer Roger Highfield explores the fascinating links between magic and science to reveal that much of what strikes us as supremely strange in the Potter books can actually be explained by the conjurings of the scientific mind. He aims to shed light on the magic that is taking place in labs and science classrooms in our own "muggle" world.

THE UNINVITED

by Nick Pope

read by Patrick Purser

running time 10hrs 45min

Nick Pope first encountered reports of alien abduction while investigating UFOs for the British Government.