Strange Frequencies | Big Ear Radio

About the Show

Something happened.
But what, exactly?

Strange Frequencies is a six-episode seasonal series from Big Ear Radio that takes the paranormal seriously — without ever losing its rigour. Each half-hour episode examines two genuine strange occurrences from British history, each one introduced by a guest who was there, investigated it, or knows it inside out. No melodrama. No jump scares. Just the facts, and the questions the facts leave unanswered.

After each account, Shelby and Carter take over — and they are not going to agree. Shelby approaches every case as a believer: open, curious, and convinced that the rational explanation is often the least interesting one. Carter is a self-declared sceptic, and a thorough one: patient, evidence-driven and entirely unwilling to let a compelling story substitute for a compelling fact. Their debates are warm, sharp and occasionally spectacular.

Britain has more documented paranormal events per square mile than almost anywhere on earth — hauntings and cryptids, time slips and cursed places, UFO sightings and century-old hoaxes. Strange Frequencies works through the record, case by case, and asks: what would it take for you to believe?

Shelby Marsh Believer

Carter Doyle Sceptic

Show Details

Hosts Shelby Marsh & Carter Doyle

Genre Paranormal & Mystery

Format 2 UK cases · 2 guests · 1 debate

Duration 30 minutes

Season 1 1 Apr – 6 May 2026

Episodes 6 (seasonal run)

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The Territory

Six Categories

Strange Frequencies ranges across the full spectrum of British paranormal history. These are the six territories the show inhabits — each one stranger than the last.

Cryptids

Creatures that science has yet to confirm — or dismiss. From the Loch Ness Monster to the Beast of Bodmin Moor and the Owlman of Cornwall, Britain's cryptid folklore is ancient, stubborn and deeply unsettling.

Loch Ness Monster Beast of Bodmin Owlman of Mawnan Big Grey Man

Shelby: "They've survived because they're real." Carter: "They've survived because we want them to be."

Ghosts

Hauntings, apparitions, electronic voice phenomena and things that go bump with alarming regularity. Britain leads the world in ghost sightings per square mile, and Strange Frequencies intends to find out why.

EVP Recordings Residual Hauntings Poltergeists Crisis Apparitions

Shelby: "The evidence is overwhelming." Carter: "The evidence is people frightening themselves."

Hoaxes

Not everything strange is genuine — and the history of paranormal hoaxes is almost as fascinating as the real thing. Crop circles, fairy photographs, faked footage: the art of the con, and why so many people wanted to believe.

Cottingley Fairies Crop Circles Borley Rectory The Amityville Affair

Shelby: "Even hoaxes hint at something real beneath." Carter: "They hint at human gullibility. That's all."

UFOs & Encounters

Unidentified aerial phenomena over British skies — witnessed by pilots, military personnel and ordinary people alike. From the Rendlesham Forest incident to the Welsh Triangle, the UK has more on record than most.

Rendlesham Forest The Welsh Triangle RAF Cosford Incident Broad Haven

Shelby: "Governments don't declassify nothing." Carter: "They declassify misidentified aircraft."

Time Slips

Ordinary people who walked into the wrong century and came back to tell the tale. The Versailles time slip, the Bold Street incident in Liverpool, the vanishing hotel in Paris — temporal anomalies that defy any rational explanation.

Bold Street, Liverpool Versailles Encounter Kersey Village York's Ancient Streets

Shelby: "Time is not the straight line we think it is." Carter: "Time is exactly the straight line we think it is."

Cursed Places

Locations across the UK with histories so dark, so relentlessly strange, that the land itself seems to carry a weight. Abandoned asylums, ancient stone circles, crossroads at midnight — some places simply do not want to be left alone.

Pluckley, Kent Ancient Stone Circles Highgate Cemetery The A75 Road

Shelby: "The stones remember everything." Carter: "The stones are stones."

When to Tune In

Season One

Six episodes, six Wednesdays, one very big question. All broadcast live at 6:30pm UK time.

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Wed 1 Apr 2026

Season Premiere

Wed 8 Apr 2026

Wed 15 Apr 2026

Wed 22 Apr 2026

Wed 29 Apr 2026

Wed 6 May 2026

Season Finale

All times shown in UK time (GMT/BST). View full station schedule →

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StrangeFrequencies

Something happened.But what, exactly?