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.