S05-E02 - Paranormal Firestarters
Haunted UK Podcast: History, Hauntings and the Unexplained
Steven Holloway
4.5 • 652 Ratings
🗓️ 15 December 2023
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
A child says the word “fire” — and objects begin to burn.
A farmhouse erupts into flames again and again with no clear cause.
A young nanny is accused of witchcraft, arson and something far stranger.
This episode explores one of the rarest and most disturbing areas of paranormal investigation: unexplained fires linked to people, places and possible poltergeist activity.
From the reported pyrokinesis of Emma Tablate in the Philippines, to the strange 1820 case of Elizabeth Barnes in London, the Willey Farm fires in Illinois, the Caledonia Mills farmhouse haunting in Nova Scotia, and the infamous case of Scottish nanny Carole Compton, these stories move through courtroom accusations, frightened families, psychical research, folklore, superstition and fires that witnesses claimed began without any ordinary source.
The episode also touches on Benedetto Supino, the Italian boy said to ignite objects simply by looking at them, and asks whether these cases point towards fraud, emotional disturbance, poltergeist energy, unexplained human ability — or something still beyond our understanding.
Atmospheric, unsettling and carefully balanced, this is a journey into the terrifying idea that fire itself may sometimes become part of the paranormal.
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| 1:25.7 | Here on the Hunted UK podcast, if you include all the listeners' contributions, |
| 1:29.4 | we've sifted through literally hundreds of cases, |
| 1:31.2 | of ghost sightings, |
| 1:34.1 | strange encounters with mysterious creatures, |
| 1:36.7 | sightings of dark shadow entities, |
| 1:39.4 | cases of alleged psychic ability, |
| 1:41.7 | ancient and modern day curses, |
| 1:43.5 | eerie premonitions, |
| 1:46.7 | haunted houses, poltergeist encounters, |
| 1:53.9 | time slip stories, the list goes on. But there's still one topic of the paranormal which I find absolutely fascinating, one topic which we've never covered, an avenue of the paranormal which is so strange and so incredibly rare |
| 2:03.6 | that when it happens, attention is drawn to it. |
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