34.04 - MU Podcast - The Occult Wyrm

Mysterious Universe

8th Kind

Social Sciences, Religion & Spirituality, Science, Society & Culture, Philosophy, Spirituality

4.5 • 6.1K Ratings

🗓️ 25 July 2025

⏱️ 81 minutes

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The mystery of the Loch Ness Monster is far from settled. This episode dives deep into the legends and firsthand accounts of strange beings not only in Loch Ness but in surrounding bodies of water—creatures described as black-skinned beasts, spectral water horses, and other mythic entities that seem deeply tied to the land itself. Are these guardians of the landscape? Spirits of place? We revisit the curious investigations of Ted Holiday, whose search for the monster led him into a tangled web of high strangeness and encounters with dark, paranormal forces. Then, for our Plus+ members, we follow the remarkable journey of T.C. Lethbridge and his evolving research into the hidden energies of the Earth. After a powerful induction experience, Lethbridge claimed to glimpse what lies behind the veil—an invisible world that shapes ghost sightings, psychic phenomena, and even physical boundaries. His exploration of a haunted landscape led him to an invisible force field that defied logic and deepened the mystery of what truly haunts our world. Loch Ness Monster: Nessie spotters not swayed by postcard depictions, says Scots university Loch Ness: Well known misinformation, little known truths Significance of the Loch Ness “monsters” (Nessies) --- Some morals of the story The case for the Loch Ness ''Monster'': The scientific evidence Tim Dinsdale. Loch Ness. The Enigma of Loch Ness: Making Sense of a Mystery Serpents of the Sky, Dragons of the Earth The Goblin Universe The dragon and the disc: An investigation into the totally fantastic Glen County Galway Ballynahinch Castle Dragons West of Loch Ness: Tales of dragons roaming the hills and forests near Scotland's infamous loch Nessie! : Exploring the Supernatural Origins of the Loch Ness Monster The essential T. C. Lethbridge T C Lethbridge: The Man Who Saw the Future The Haunted Universe by D. Scott Rogo Straight Track, Crooked Road: Ley's, Spirit Paths and Shamanism Ghost and Ghoul - An Archaeologist's Account of His Personal Experiences with the Supernatural Extrasensory Perception: Beyond Time and Distance Ghosts and the Weird World of the Stone Tape Theory LinksPlus+ ExtensionThe extension of the show is EXCLUSIVE to Plus+ Members. To join, click HERE. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:30.2	Thank you. Welcome to Mysterious Universe, Season 34, Episode 4. Coming up on this show, we've got the Cult of the Worm, The Whispers of the Stones, and the Disc of the Dragon. I'm your host, Benjamin Grundy, joining me as Aaron Wright. Oh, the Disc of the Dragon, is that Holiday? Yeah, it's one of Ted Holliday's books. I think the Disc of the Dragon is his second after, what was the first one, The Orm? That's right. The Orm of the Lorm. Yes, which was, it was supposed to be a worm, wasn't it? Well, Ted Holliday, if you don't know, he was the infamous Loch Ness Monster researcher, who, he wrote his first book in, what was it, 1968. He was convinced that the Loch Ness monster was a giant mollusk.
1:28.6	That's it.
1:29.3	The orm.
1:30.2	He called it the orm.
1:32.2	And it was like a boneless, formless creature that could change shapes and kind of go through
1:37.3	the lock.
1:37.9	I recall correctly, didn't you have a series of weird encounters with other paranormal
1:41.9	phenomena that kind of dismissed that idea?
1:43.8	Yeah, well, the Tent Holiday story, as we know, culminates in men in black encounters.
1:49.6	And he ended up investigating UFO sightings and ET sightings.
1:54.2	And that's when it all fell apart for Ted.
1:57.0	Did you manage to hunt down a copy of that book, did you?
1:59.2	Well, the whole thing today started when I saw this meme again on my timeline. I love this meme. Me too, yeah. It's got the
2:05.9	soy jack character on the right, and on the left side are all these images of a griffon and then a
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