545 // British Bigfoot, Conspiracies & Much More - A Tribute to James McMahon

Crawlspace - True Crime & Mysteries

Crawlspace Media

True Crime, News, Society & Culture

4 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 25 July 2025

⏱️ 61 minutes

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⁠⁠⁠⁠Welcome to Crawlspace. In this episode, Tim Pilleri and Lance Reenstierna speak with writer, podcaster and fun guy James McMahon about British Bigfoot, alien big cats, the Smiley Face Killer theory, conspiracy theories and so much more. James sadly passed away in November of 2024 from soft tissue sarcoma. This episode was previously published on Crawlspace on February 24th, 2021. Obituary: https://www.theguardian.com/music/2024/nov/27/james-mcmahon-obituary. James's Spoook substack: https://substack.com/@spoook. Tribute to James from some friends of Spoook: https://spoook.substack.com/p/james-mcmahon-drinks-free. James on British Bigfoot, as mentioned in the conversation: https://theface.com/life/british-bigfoot-thetford-forest-norfolk-uk-countryside. More of James's writing: https://www.vice.com/en/contributor/james-mcmahon/. James's OCD Chronicles podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-ocd-chronicles/id1564009467. Follow Crawlspace: IG:⁠⁠⁠⁠ https://www.instagram.com/Crawlspacepodcast⁠⁠⁠⁠. TT:⁠⁠⁠⁠ https://www.tiktok.com/@crawlspacepodcast⁠⁠⁠⁠. FB:⁠⁠⁠⁠ https://www.facebook.com/Crawlspacepodcast⁠⁠⁠⁠. X:⁠⁠⁠⁠ https://twitter.com/crawlspacepod.⁠⁠⁠⁠ Spotify:⁠⁠⁠⁠ https://open.spotify.com/show/7iSnqnCf27NODdz0pJ1GvJ⁠⁠⁠⁠. Youtube:⁠⁠⁠⁠ https://www.youtube.com/crawlspace⁠⁠⁠⁠. Apple:⁠⁠⁠⁠ https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/crawlspace-true-crime-mysteries/id1187326340⁠⁠⁠⁠. Follow Missing: IG: ⁠⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/MissingCSM⁠⁠⁠. TT:⁠⁠⁠ https://www.tiktok.com/@missingcsm⁠⁠⁠. FB:⁠⁠⁠ https://www.facebook.com/MissingCSM⁠⁠⁠. X:⁠⁠⁠ https://twitter.com/MissingCSM⁠⁠⁠. Spotify:⁠⁠⁠ https://open.spotify.com/show/0yRXkJrZC85otfT7oXMcri⁠⁠⁠. Youtube:⁠⁠⁠ https://www.youtube.com/missingcsm⁠⁠⁠. Apple:⁠⁠⁠ https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/missing/id1006974447⁠⁠⁠. Check out our entire network at⁠⁠⁠ http://crawlspace-media.com/⁠⁠⁠. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I'm I'm going to be. Welcome to Crawl Space.
0:30.8	Today we are re-releasing an episode that aired several years ago.
0:40.8	And I am Tim here today with Lance.
0:49.4	And the reason we are doing this is because a former friend and guest of ours passed away several months ago.
0:52.7	Yeah, it's a real somber intro here.
0:55.8	When you say a friend, he really was.
0:59.0	He really was a great friend, James McMahon.
1:07.4	He would reach out on occasion without being motivated to do so other than to just check in and see how we were doing.
1:09.8	And we would check in with him to see how he's doing and just an awful loss,
1:13.0	an awful tragedy. Way too young, I believe he was 44, way too young to be taken by such a
1:20.2	aggressive and rare disease that he had. And I just really feel for his family and his other close friends that he had
1:29.6	the work he did in so many different avenues in the media.
1:34.8	I mean, that's a gigantic loss.
1:36.5	He was such a great supporter of indie rock bands, like beyond indie, right?
1:41.2	Like he would cover bands that only had like a dozen people show up at their shows,
1:45.7	and he would try to promote the hell out of them.
1:47.9	You know, that's not even the true crime stuff that he worked on.
1:50.1	But yeah, very, very sober and sombering intro here
1:54.1	and really necessary to keep his voice out there as much as we can.
2:00.1	And if you haven't checked out any of James's work,
2:02.8	or if you haven't checked it out recently,
2:05.6	and you want to go back and look at his writing style
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