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On a bitter January day, three men are found to be missing from one of the highest security prisons in the UK, a prison with a reputation as the ‘British Alcatraz’. With seemingly no tools or materials, they have somehow managed to scale two huge perimeter walls. And stranger still is the fact that the men responsible haven’t actually ‘broken out’ of this prison at all. The men responsible have let themselves out, using a key. But with no keys stolen and none of the locks showing any signs of having been picked, how could this be possible? In this week’s episode, Barry and Lora explore the 1995 HMP Parkhurst breakout.
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In 1988, a Florida housewife makes an utterly astonishing claim. She says that, on a regular basis, large golden patches spontaneously form across the whole of her body, as though she is literally sweating gold. And that is not even the limit of her powers. This same woman is also a talented psychic, who has worked with the police. Moreover, she can make precious objects fall from her eyes and ears, as though they have been conjured. But is she really a gifted psychic, possessing some of the most extraordinary paranormal skills ever recorded? Or might there have been a more magical method behind the remarkable phenomena?
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Join Lora and Barry for a very special episode of The Magician’s Wife, to celebrate the launch of Lora’s debut novel The Woman in the Wallpaper. For today’s trick, we invite you to party like it’s 1793. But listen carefully… is everything really what it seems?
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In 1793, a young woman meets her end in the jaws of the guillotine. But when her severed head is held up to the crowd, her expression is clearly seen to change by multiple witnesses, as though she is still conscious. Similar accounts follow, of freshly-severed heads blinking and winking, blushing and moving their lips, until there are so many witnesses to this gruesome phenomena, they can’t all be mistaken. But surely they must be, as a head remaining conscious after it has been decapitated sounds far too much like a magic trick. Doesn’t it? In this episode of The Magician’s Wife, Barry and Lora investigate the grisly topic of ‘lucid decapitation’.
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In 18th century Prussia, a man giving off the foulest stench imaginable is found wandering the streets eating anything he can get his hands on. When he is arrested by the authorities, he claims he is a French spy, carrying top secret documents inside a wooden box that he has swallowed. After waiting for nature to take its course, the authorities realise that the strange man is indeed telling the truth. Little do they know the extent of his extraordinary eating habits, from cutlery to rocks, to a much more sinister menu than anyone could have imagined. But who was this outlandish individual and, more importantly, what was causing his behaviour? Join Barry and Lora as they explore the life of the French showman and criminal Tarrare.
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In the summer of 1986, whilst getting ready for work, a mother suddenly collapses and dies in the bathroom of her home. The headache tablets she took that morning are examined and found to be contaminated with lethal doses of cyanide. Soon, not only have more contaminated bottles been found, but a woman has come forward claiming her husband may have also died from swallowing the same deadly headache pills. Has a pharmaceutical company really manufactured a killer batch of tablets, or is there a little more to this story than meets the eye?
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Pour yourself a wee dram and join Barry and Lora for this special Burns Night episode, which investigates the infamous Scottish export the haggis, exploring the bizarre and legendary creature that is said to dwell north of the border. But could there be any truth behind the strange little snuffling creature native only to Bonnie Scotland? Plus, Barry makes his magical predictions about events yet to happen in 2025!
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On the morning of 30th December, 1978, a series of shocking scenes are discovered at a respectable Colorado home. Two teenagers have been shot in their beds, one of them after a bloody struggle. Their 45 year-old mother is dead, too. She is found in the basement, slumped over her typewriter, having typed up a suicide note. This note, together with a host of other factors, reinforces the belief that the woman shot her own children before turning the gun on herself. But is there more to the story than meets the eye? In this episode Barry and Lora try to work out whether there is a psychopath in the family, sharing a simple psychopath test you can carry out at home.
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In the early part of the 18th century, a bloody and bizarre sequence of events unfolds at a country house in the north-east of England. It all begins when a stranger leaves an innocuous parcel of linens with the servants of the house. But just hours later and the scene is a bloodbath, and the servants quickly realise that the innocent-looking parcel of linens isn’t quite so innocent as it had seemed. In this episode, Barry and Lora investigate the surprising story of the bizarre ‘Lang Pack’.
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One dark autumn day in 1936, two photographers visit a grand house in England to take pictures for a magazine article. What they don’t know is that the image they capture on their camera will go on to become one of the most famous ghost photographs of all time. But just who – or what – is the eerie figure in their picture? Is she really the infamous ghost said to haunt Raynham Hall, or could the photograph actually be nothing more than a brilliant hoax? In this episode, Barry and Lora investigate the chilling haunting known as ‘the Brown Lady of Raynham Hall.’See the original photograph here.
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In the early hours of Christmas morning, a working man is discovered dead in his lodgings, the same man who had been celebrating the festive season with his friends only hours before. The man has been fatally struck on the skull. But could this really be the work of a cold-blooded yuletide murderer? Or could there have been some other reason for this man’s tragic and untimely demise? Join Barry and Lora for a special bonus Christmas episode, during which they discuss the tragic and gruesome death of a New York lamplighter.
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In the early hours of Christmas morning, the residents of a small town in south west England are awoken by a series of inexplicable sounds emanating from the roofs of their houses. Bizarre scrapings and thuddings are coming from the tiles above them, with some people even reporting extraordinary cacophonies, as though their chimneys are being smashed apart with huge and other-worldy force. But just what was going on? Was this a particularly violent visitation from Mr Claus, that most famous Christmas caller of them all? Or could there have been a more logical explanation for these peculiar festive happenings? Join us in this special festive episode as we delve into the case of the Warminster Thing, with added magical sound effects that might not be everything they seem!
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A young boy unearths a beautiful diamond. But, less than an hour later, the diamond has completely, suddenly and, quite inexplicably, vanished. The boy has no idea whether he will ever see it again. And yet, when he returns home that evening, a diamond is awaiting him. The exact same diamond, in fact, that he discovered hours earlier, the exact same diamond that had vanished. This diamond has reappeared, at the very place at which the boy lives, as though it had mysteriously teleported itself there. But surely such a thing couldn’t be possible… could it? In this episode of The Magician’s Wife, Barry and Lora discuss the story of the diamond disappearances on South Africa’s ‘Diamond Coast’.
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In March 2020 an extraordinary passage of text is shared on one of the world’s biggest social media platforms. The text comes from a book written twelve years earlier, and appears to describe the burgeoning global pandemic in clear and accurate detail. The woman who wrote this book was known for making an astonishing series of sensational psychic claims about everything from hauntings to night stalkers to abducted children. But did she really possess the gift of clairvoyance, or was she simply gifted in self-promotion? Join Barry and Lora as they deconstruct the potential methods of magic and mentalism behind the TV psychic Sylvia Browne - and invite you to grab a deck of playing cards and join them for an incredible magic trick!
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In this episode, Barry and Lora explore the little-known yet fascinating 1930 case of the playing card bomb, as well as sharing some listener thoughts and theories on the mysteries explored in previous episodes.
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In the gas-lit, smog-choked streets of nineteenth-century London, reports start to circulate of a tall figure attacking women, swathed in black, claws glinting from every finger, fleeing the scenes of his crimes by clearing walls in a single leap, and emitting a blood-chilling cackle as he makes his escape. But is he supernatural, demonic, an urban legend? Or might there be a more earthly explanation for this classic Victorian terror? Join Barry and Lora as they explore the incredible story of Spring-Heeled Jack.
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An unknown man leaps from a plane with $200K in marked cash and is not only never seen again, but is never identified at all, in a case which remains the only unsolved skyjacking in US history. But just how did this man pull off such an extraordinary aerial heist and where did he go? Surely he didn’t just vanish into the thin air of the skies above the Pacific North West? Because that would be impossible. Join Barry and Lora as they discuss the now-legendary case of D.B. Cooper.
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Over a hot summer in 1971, an unassuming house in southern Spain becomes the centre of one of the most sensational paranormal cases ever recorded, as a relentless series of sinister human faces materialises in its ordinary kitchen floor. But was this definite proof of the paranormal or might there have been a more scientific explanation? Join Barry and Lora as they explore the incredible Faces of Belmez, and conduct a unique magical audio experiment.
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In September 1971, a famous London street becomes the scene of one of the most audacious robberies of all time. A robbery which sends shock waves through the entire British establishment — from the police to the secret service — all the way to the royal family itself. A robbery that, by pure chance, is overheard as it is happening. A robbery inspired by one of the most famous detectives ever created. A robbery that seemed utterly impossible to carry out. Welcome to the first episode of The Magician’s Wife, in which Barry and Lora discuss the sensational Baker Street bank robbery.
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A brand new podcast by professional magician Barry Jones and his mystery writer wife Lora, The Magician's Wife explores a series of fascinating real-life happenings from true crime to the paranormal, and investigates the potential magical methods behind these cases. Also includes brain-bending audio illusions that you, the listener, can experience for yourself!
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