Brad Steiger
Referenced in 2 episodes
Definition
A prolific American author (1936-2018) of more than 150 books on UFOs, ghosts, and the paranormal. He wrote 'Things That Go Bump in the Night,' the source of the invisible strangler story.
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36.17 - MU Podcast - Super Special Spooky Halloween Special
Mysterious UniverseOct 30, 2026
Hosts Brandon Thomas and Joe Hodgden trade campfire-style ghost stories for a Halloween special. The tales include British ghosts said to have followed the London Bridge to Lake Havasu, Arizona, and a 1963 Boy Scout who woke up with 1870s-era shell casings after an apparent encounter with outlaw Black Jack Ketchum. They also revisit two famous English poltergeist cases, the Cock Lane Ghost and the Drummer of Tedworth, plus an invisible strangling entity from a Brad Steiger book.
36.07 - MU Podcast - Strange Powers of the Mind
Mysterious UniverseAug 21, 2026
Hosts Brandon Thomas and Joe Hodgdon dig into Warren Smith's 1968 book 'Strange Powers of the Mind' and its accounts of premonitions, mind reading and mental mastery. They cover a Wisconsin teen who ignored a fatal premonition, a Polish count buried alive under a baseball diamond, and a German mentalist who allegedly read a murderer's mind to find a hidden rifle. They also discuss the 1944 Mad Gasser of Mattoon panic, Kenyan witch doctors cursing soccer matches, and hypnosis used to boost athletes' performance.