34.09 - MU Podcast - Hermit Magic

Mysterious Universe

8th Kind

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

4.5 • 6.1K Ratings

🗓️ 29 August 2025

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Tony Cornell stands out as one of the most remarkable investigators to ever work with the UK’s Society for Psychical Research, and this episode follows his extraordinary life and career. Drawing on long lost archives uncovered at the University of Cambridge, author Ben Machell resurrects Cornell’s world through unpublished memoirs, tapes, and case files, revealing a man determined to probe the mysteries of haunted houses, phantom hounds, and baffling manifestations while keeping a sceptic’s eye. In the Plus+ extension we travel to the mist shrouded shores of Maryland’s Eastern waterfronts with Mysterious Middle River, where Joshua and Dolores Bell recount decades of chilling encounters filled with spectral visitations, ghostly apparitions, and otherworldly forces that linger at the edge of the supernatural. Chasing the Dark eBook Chasing the Dark: Encounters with the supernatural Tony Cornell Phantasms of the Living Tony Cornell - The S.P.I.D.E.R. Mysterious Middle River: Unexplained Phenomena & Forgotten History East of Baltimore APG R2C2 Facility Rake Middle River Confidential: Business Secrets - Getting Theirs, Keeping Yours Pooles Island Light Encounter with The Aberdeen Wildman The Alien Factor (1978) 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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0:11.9	That's the Zendesk AI effect. Find out more at Zendesst.com. Welcome to Mysterious Universe, season 34, episode 9.
0:40.9	Coming up on the show, we've got the side decline effect, the middle river corridor,
0:45.3	and fooling the spider prototype.
0:48.3	I'm your host Benjamin Grundy, joining me is Aaron Wright.
0:50.3	What's this corridor?
0:51.5	It's like a window area.
0:53.3	Oh, right, like the John Kearlyan-style window
0:55.3	area. Yeah, in Baltimore, Maryland, or East Baltimore, I should say. It's a new book called
1:01.0	The Mysterious Middle River by Joshua S. Bell, some additional material supplied by Dolores Bell.
1:07.2	I don't know if that's his wife or his family member, maybe not related. But this is one of these books. You see these all the time where it's focusing on a very specific area. You know, you'll see... Like the land between the lands, for example. Well, you see these books all the time, like the Monsters of Wisconsin. Oh, sure. Yeah. And they always suck. They're always the same. Well, not always, but... You know what you're going to get.
1:28.3	Yeah, yeah.
1:28.5	It's like the McDonald's of paranormal books.
1:31.6	It lists the well-known cases.
1:33.6	You know, you get a bunch of crypted reports.
1:36.7	All the classics.
1:37.6	When I first saw this, I thought, okay, well, this is just going to be the same, but it's just Baltimore.
1:42.6	What's happened in Baltimore?
1:43.8	I was so wrong. Really?
1:45.2	This is a really interesting investigation. And it starts with Joshua's experience that he had
1:50.9	as a teenager in the mid-90s, where him and some friends are joyriding as they do at night.
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