12th podcast - more local ghost stories!

Can you believe, we're already up to our twelfth podcast. And they said it wouldn't last! Well, there's lots more where this came from, and this time we share more local ghost stories from the comfort of a Skype call.

Will we go off on tangents all the time and keep inserting silly sound effects? You betcha...

Stream the podcast up there, download the full 42¾ minutes at the bottom of this page, or subscribe to us on iTunes.

Live podcast from Hagg Hill

You've read about our adventures on Hagg Hill before (see here).

Well, not content with our written account, we decided to return to the scene of the crime and record a live podcast really late at night (it was nearly 10 o'clock!). Did we finally find the hag of Hagg Hill, or did we just chat about her bloomers?

Find out by streaming the podcast up there, downloading the full 43¾ minutes at the bottom of this page, or subscribing to us on iTunes.

The first 2MG podcast of 2011

Yup. Finally! It's the first 2MG podcast of 2011.

The guys behind Two Men and a Ghost look back, look forward, and look strange. Includes exclusive audio of their nocturnal excursion to haunted Beauchief Abbey. Whew!

You can stream the podcast up there, download the full 27½ minutes at the bottom of this page, or subscribe to us on iTunes.

Happy 2nd day of 2011!

We're so considerate here at 2MG. We decided to wait until the avalanche of New Year's Greetings died down before conveying our own best wishes for 2011.

It's nothing to do with the fact that we forgot to post this yesterday ... nosiree ... not us...

The 2MG e-card ('cause we're too cheap to send a real card)

2MG Christmas podcast!

It's here! Our very first podcast Christmas special! It comes to you live from Meadowhall Shopping Centre in Sheffield amidst the hustle and bustle and all the festive anticipation.

Or maybe not. Maybe we couldn't be arsed and stayed at home instead, swapping seasonal ghost stories and telling Christmas cracker jokes...

You can stream the podcast up there, download the full 37 minutes at the bottom of this page, or subscribe to us on iTunes.

Hans and Olaf from Bovaria

Wow! The plot thickens. Just received this email from Mike:

Hi Wooders,

I don't believe it! So there I was checking out loads of dusty old files in the 2MG Mansions basement, when I suddenly came across the attached picture. Totally up to you if you feel you'd like to use it.

Reading the background information, it appears that after Sir Reggie Droppings received the charter to set up 2MG from Queen Victoria, two members of the original team came from Bovaria. Hans and Olaf Biggiedickiesonn were sent out to investigate the Beast of Baildon Moor, but whilst nothing is mentioned as to what really happened, it appears that Hans returned to live out his days in Bovaria, whilst Olaf went to live in Sheffield. It seems that he opened a joke shop in Fulwood called Olaf A Minute!

Just as a side note, I discovered that many years later in the '60s, Sister Betty of The Holy Order of the Bearded Lady and Donkey equally tried to look into the case of the Beast of Baildon Moor, but with no success.

All amazing stuff, isn't it?

Best,

Mike ... covered in dust!

PS. Forgot to mention, I think that Olaf is the one on the right.

PPS. I was just thinking, do you think it possible that either Hans or Olaf were ever married? I couldn't find any details of a next of kin. I'll keep looking.

Another revealing document

Exclusively revealed here is another document from our basement which was revealed to me by Mike. (Click on the image above to reveal the full-sized version and read the revealing text.)

As you can see, it reveals more about our origins and is very revealing.

Andrew

PS. Did I say it was revealing?

The founder of Two Men and a Ghost

Following on from yesterday's revealing blog post, here is another startling document from the anals of time (or should that be annals?).

Could it be true that Two Men and a Ghost was founded by a Sir in 1859 rather than two struggling comics professionals over a cheap milkshake in Meadowhall Shopping Centre?

The truth is out there...

(In other words, it isn't here...)

Important documents come to light

Mike found the above while ferreting around in the basement of 2MG Mansions. He was trying to find the box of well-used Christmas decorations for our fold-up plastic tree, but instead he unearthed some important documents relating to the history of our organisation.

Turns out Two Men and a Ghost started decades before our casual chat in Meadowhall Shopping Centre two years ago. None other than royal personage Queen Victoria may have had a hand or two in setting us up, before we were even born! Anyone would think we were Torchwood or something.

More intriguing documents to come...

The 7 posts of Christmas

As a special treat to our thousands of ... er, hundreds of ... er, couple of followers, we will be posting something each day for the next seven days, leading up to a specially designed Christmas card, appropriately enough on Christmas Day itself!

Call it our own special Two Men and a Ghost Advent calendar, but without the tiny chocolates and the snakes and ladders game on the back.

Today's tasty treat is our appearance this morning on Rony's Panel on BBC Radio Sheffield (listen at this link while you can - the file will be out of date by Boxing Day). Hear what the men behind Two Men and a Ghost think about faith schools, the nativity story and what our favourite Christmas songs are.

We are joined by the legend that is Van Morrison, Ulster musician who has entranced millions throughout the decades with his soulful voice and catchy compositions.

(What was that? Sorry. Got it wrong. It was Val Morrison, moderator of the general assembly of the United Reformed Church. But we're sure she's just as soulful and catchy.)

8th podcast - Yorkshire ghost stories!

Amazing! Eight podcasts in ... and still going strong! Just...

This time we have a natter about true-life Yorkshire ghost stories, take to the road for the mad monk of Stocksbridge bypass, wear out the batteries on Mike's novelty sound machine, and try (but fail desperately) not to go off on too many tangents.

You can stream the podcast up there, download the full 40¾ minutes at the bottom of this page, or subscribe to us on iTunes.

7th podcast - What exactly is a ghost?

In our latest podcast, we confront the thorny question at the heart of our endeavours: 'What exactly is a ghost?'

Along the way we listen to a story from the making of Doctor Who's 'Revenge of the Cybermen', we read two entries from our ghost story competition and announce the winner, and Mike dances naked to torchlight while humming the theme to 'Tales of the Unexpected'. Good job this isn't a video podcast...

You can stream the podcast up there, download the full 36½ minutes at the bottom of this page, or subscribe to us on iTunes.

Amy Wake is the winner of our ghost story competition, and her entry will be featured on this very blog shortly, along with a specially drawn cartoon which will be winging its way to her in the post.

In the meantime, here is the runner-up's entry from Keith Webster in Sheffield. The runner-up's prize is ... erm ... having your story read out loud on our podcast and published on this blog. Sorry it's not a car or a package holiday in Marbeya or anything...

I used to live on Broomgrove Road in Sheffield. Our accommodation consisted of two rooms on one side of hallway, one room other side. I had to stand at bottom of staircase to unlock the door to room.

One evening I was unlocking door when I saw someone standing at the side of me. I said, ‘Can I help you?’ No answer when I looked round at the person. I saw it was someone in uniform. The uniform was from the First World War type. The person just smiled at me. I turned my head away to put key in door, and when I turned back, the person had gone.

They could not pass me on the stairs, and the entrance door at the end of the hallway was too far away for them to have reached it and gone outside in such a short time. The building at that time was a block of flats.

A couple of weeks later we heard screaming coming from one of the upstairs flats. We ran up to see what was happening.

The young lady who lived in the flat was terrified. She had been laid on her bed, watching TV, when she felt as if someone was watching her. She looked over to where her chair was and saw a man sitting there. Her windows were locked and no one had come down the stairs. When we asked her to describe the man, it was the same as the man I had seen.

A few months later, I was clearing out an old attic room for the landlord when I found an old chest inside it. I found old account books, NAAFI price lists for Blanco, moustache wax, etc. Also were account books for wages for staff and running of premises, wages, food and sheets and shrouds.

When I approached the landlord with these, he decided to look into the history of the building and found out that during the First World War it had been a home for wounded and badly injured officers.

The house number was 39. It now belongs to the university.

6th podcast - celebrity ghosts!

Here's the fantastic (ish) 6th podcast from Two Men and a Ghost. This time, Mike and Andrew talk into a crappy laptop microphone about celebrities and ghosts: Lady Gaga, Karen Gillan, Liberace, CS Lewis (and more). Also, do animals have an afterlife? All this, and Mike's annoying sound machine.

We've already had some nice feedback from Dave in Huyton, who said he ... 'stumbled upon your podcast and it has cheered me up no end'.

So if you want to cheer up your end, stream the podcast up there, download the full 34 minutes at the bottom of this page, or subscribe to us on iTunes.

Halloween podcast (just a little bit late...)

Only the good folks at Two Men and a Ghost have the guts to bring you a Halloween podcast that's two weeks late. That's just the sort of guys we are.

And what a podcast!

Recorded on two continents, Andrew found himself in southern California during the Halloween festivities, and Mike found himself in ... er ... Butlin's, Skegness.

Is Halloween different in England and America? Mike had a chat with a zombie, and he describes the world's worst ghost train. Andrew, meanwhile, experiences the House of Horrors at Universal Studios and has a lengthy chat with a rollercoaster addict at Knott's Scary Farm, who reveals that she's taking her ex-boyfriend to court.

It doesn't get much better than this.

(Actually, it probably does.)

Stream it here, download the full 30 minutes at the bottom of this page, or subscribe to us on iTunes.

Happy Halloween from 2MG!

Halloween greetings from your friends at Two Men and a Ghost!

Currently, the two men (but not the ghost) are on holiday in two separate continents: Andrew's in sunny Southern California, while Mike is living it up at Butlin's in Skegness.

Not wanting to neglect their 2MG duties, they have gone armed with tape recorders and promise to report on the differences between Halloween festivities in the UK and the USA.

Their conclusions will be expertly edited together into a seamless multinational podcast. Just as soon as Andrew's managed to find a cheap tape splicer at a car boot sale...

4th podcast ... with voices from beyond!

Yes, we're proud to unveil our fourth podcast, with voices from beyond ... sanity: namely, Mike Kazybrid and Andrew Wooding.

They swap ghost stories in a car down a dark country lane in the appropriately named Hell-Clough. Mike reveals his ghostly globes, and Andrew unveils his EMF recorder which appears to record sounds from the spirit world.

Eavesdrop on their conversation as they natter about death, revenge, infidelity ... and Des O'Connor!

Stream it here, or download the full 30 minutes at the bottom of this page.

3rd podcast live from Meadowhall shopping centre

In our 3rd podcast we rave about the latest issue of Haunted magazine, now on sale in WH Smith's shops all over the UK. We start off in the WH Smith's in Meadowhall shopping centre in Sheffield and are gobsmacked to discover that it's already sold out. Then we wander down the escalator to Costa Coffee to crunch ice cubes and have a lively natter about ghosts in the House of Fraser, the joys of Poundland, Rolf Harris, hoovers, and quite a lot more.

Stream it here, or download the full 40 minutes at the bottom of this page. The paranormal was never as abnormal as this...

2nd podcast from Two Men and a Ghost!

This time we go out and about on the streets of Sheffield really late at night. While trying not to bump into clubbers or get run over, we natter about local sightings of Dick Turpin, an infamous goosing ghost, the spectral smell of smelly vegetables, Kate Bush (nothing to do with ghosts - we just like Kate Bush), and the fact that we desperately need the loo. Do we manage to hold out till the end of the recording...?

Stream it here, or download the full 39 minutes at the bottom of this page. You will ... I mean, won't regret it.

1st ever Two Men and a Ghost podcast!

At last. Here it is. In all its primitive audio goodness! The first ever podcast from the men (and ghost) behind Two Men and a Ghost.

We ventured forth to Bunting Nook at night in search of that which cannot be found. Then afterwards we retired to Mike's car to pick our noses, crunch a few Polo mints and record our thoughts ... and get stopped by the police twice, live on mp3.

Stream it here, or download the full 37 minutes at the bottom of this page.

Then listen in the dark under the covers at night ... if you have insomnia.