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I had an interest in UFOs for as long as I can remember. For me the world is always at its best when there is a sense of wonder and a sense of the impossible, the paranormal, the mysterious, it’s so tantalising to the mind and the imagination and I always always, always had an amazing interest them
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AUDIO ZOOM KIND! In conversation with Jon Culshaw
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There seemed to be a tone, if you could put a voice to those books, the Unknown series in particular it would say, “Right ok. So, this is what seems to be going on. Now let’s have a look at this. Let’s see what this could be.” They credited you with some intelligence, which was a lovely tone to take. It really strikes you now how much this information still stands up
When Usborne reprinted and released their 1970s classic “All About … Ghosts” last year, we all went a big ghostly giddy, for many people of a certain age this book meant a lot, not just as a kid but in adulthood too. Then after the ectoplasm had settled down the talk was about another very similar book, again a 1970s classic from The World of the Unknown Series, “All about ... UFO’s”, two questions were tweeted to Anna at Usborne “Are you doing this one too? “and “will there be an apostrophe?”, yes, the grammar police just had to get involved, didn’t they? Anyway to cut a long story short, All about … UFOs (yes no apostrophe) came out in October 2020 to much excitement, the same people of a certain age were just as excited as before, these pivotal books shaped our minds, explained perceived adult things in a way us kids could appreciate and understand. To cut another long story short, actor, comedian, impressionist and amateur astronomer Jon Culshaw, is a big UFO fan, has still got the book he had as a kid and got the chance to write the new introduction for it. We got the pleasure of chatting to Jon about all this (and more) over a recent zoom chat. It was so good, it was so interesting, it was like two mates talking about Aliens, ghosts, the weird, the wicked, the unexplainable, oh and Phil Cool. The initial plan was to copy type the chat but when it became apparent that we would lose the magic, the mystery and the mayhem from the 60 minute chat, we decided to incorporate the actual chat that actually happened between Jon and Paul in full, the humour, the ghost stories, the questions, the answers and everything in between. Use your phone to scan the QR code that you can see and listen to the full conversation. “Jon Culshaw is a legend, he certainly made an impression on me” Paul Stevenson (Editor, Haunted Magazine) HAUNTED MAGAZINE
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