DREAMS IN THE WITCH FARM
A curious case that we reported on back in 1995 (see ‘Paranormal Power Theft’, ) has now become far better known due to its recent retelling in writer/presenter Danny Robins’s eight-part BBC Radio 4 podcast, . Building on the success of his podcast, as well as a similarly in-depth (), told the story of what happened to the Rich family – Bill, Liz (pictured above with Danny Robins) and their four children – when they moved into an old farmhouse in the Brecon Beacons in 1989 and were confronted with an extensive catalogue of strange, and sometimes terrifying, phenomena: phantom footsteps, electrical anomalies, apparitions, illnesses, possession states, oppressive presences and so on. In this issue, parapsychologist Dr Ciaran O’Keeffe, who acted as an expert advisor on the podcast, casts a sceptical eye over the case and argues that even the weirdest events at Heol Fanog can be explained without recourse to the supernatural: but can human psychology account for everything that went on over the six years the Rich family spent in the ‘Witch Farm’? See what you think.
