Welcome to Roon Soup, a podcast about Magic, Culture and the Paranormal, coming to you from Sunny West London.

My name is Gordon and I shall be your host. Enjoy.

Today on Roon Soup.

Today on Roon Soup, I am very fortunate to be speaking to UFO researcher and author most recently of

Return to Magonia, Chris Elbeck.

If this is your first encounter with the podcast, you can always find the show notes in a whole lot more at Rund soup.com.

But now on with the discussion. Chris, thank you for your time.

Hi, hello, how are you?

I'm well, I'm well and yourself.

Pretty well, I'm here I'm in Spain where the weather is just getting a little bit more

grotty but it's been fine well that yeah that's London calling for you

Anyway, return to McGonia, it's a great book, great book, Chris. I have thoroughly enjoyed it.

We will definitely be talking about that, but typically with these kind of shows we we start with a more left-to-field

question Chris were you a weird kid? Well I was in a, well, you know, my parents moved house quite a lot when I was younger, so I never really had any roots anywhere.

I started in London, then at the age of of two we went to South End then back to London again and then after that to Basing Stoke and Southampton and then I went to America had my adventures, returned to Southampton, then came to Spain.

And I'd say that in a sense my life has been disconnected from, not from reality, but at least from a lot of the things that my peers would have experienced.

So I think you can see that in the character of a person.

Definitely.

Now when you say disconnected from a more common experience of your peers,

are you referring to the kind of gypsy upbringing?

I'm just thinking in my mind, I mean you've done some work and

co-published a book with Jacques Valais and he had UFO sightings or sightings rather

...