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The Magician’s Wife

Lora and Barry Jones

Join magician Barry Jones and his writer wife Lora as they reveal the methods behind the world’s craziest real-life mysteries. How can a murderer be in two places at once? A diamond teleport itself five miles as if by magic? Or a host of ghostly faces materialise in an ordinary kitchen floor? Prepare to be amazed, as Barry and Lora pull back the curtain to expose the smoke and mirrors behind these bizarre happenings and more. And you’ll also have the chance to participate in a series of

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47. The Magician’s Wife Book Launch

The Magician’s Wife ·

2025/10/27

A woman vanishes without trace during a live TV talent show, only to reappear the following week… dead. With threats that more women are in danger, can journalist Clare Deyes and expert-in-deception Mara Knight work out who was behind this baffling murder – and how it was done – before it’s too late?Join Lora and Barry for a very special episode of The Magician’s Wife, to celebrate the launch of Lora’s new novel, also called The Magician’s Wife. Order The Magician's Wife novel here. Download

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46. The Circleville Letters (Paper Anniversary Special)

The Magician’s Wife ·

2025/10/13

In the late 1970s, an ordinary American town begins to be plagued by a series of venomous letters. They start by accusing one of the residents of having an affair, but soon escalate into a large-scale campaign of hate. So when a man is imprisoned as the letter-writer, the town breathes a sigh of relief. Yet the letters continue, even with the supposed possessor of the poison pen safely behind bars. But how is this possible? And just who might the real culprit be? Plus, grab a sheet of paper and join

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45. The Silent Congregation

The Magician’s Wife ·

2025/09/29

When locals of one of the most isolated villages in Cornwall become concerned for their vicar, they go to his home to investigate, finding the building encircled by barbed wire and fully barricaded. Inside, the vicar lies dead, surrounded by bizarre decor and disturbing slogans scrawled onto the walls – decor and slogans which continue in the village church, where they’re accompanied by a far more chilling sight: peculiar cardboard figures, installed in the pews, as if waiting for a sermon. Could

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44. BONUS. The Great National Security Prank

The Magician’s Wife ·

2025/09/22

For this bonus trick, we present to you a brilliant prank you can share with all your friends. An innocent online questionnaire, testing your aptitude to join the secret service, turns out to be a questionnaire that extracts your victim’s most private and personal information. Listen and find out how you can use this questionnaire to fool your friends.Click here to create a link to send to a friend/enemy agent: https://nationalsecurity.pages.dev/ Download Lora's free novella here:

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43. The Spy in the Bag Part II

The Magician’s Wife ·

2025/09/15

On a hot August day, police are called to the residence of a man who has been absent from work for the past week. They find his flat empty, except for a large red holdall which has been padlocked from the outside. When they open the bag, a horrifying sight confronts them: the body of the missing man. The man’s death is later declared accidental. But just how could anyone padlock themselves inside a holdall? Furthermore, was the man’s job as a British government codebreaker key to his demise?Watch a

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42. The Spy in the Bag Part I

The Magician’s Wife ·

2025/09/15

On a hot August day, police are called to the residence of a man who has been absent from work for the past week. They find his flat empty, except for a large red holdall which has been padlocked from the outside. When they open the bag, a horrifying sight confronts them: the body of the missing man. The man’s death is later declared accidental. But just how could anyone padlock themselves inside a holdall? Furthermore, was the man’s job as a British government codebreaker key to his demise? Take

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41. How to Win at Roulette

The Magician’s Wife ·

2025/09/01

In the summer of 1891, an unassuming gentleman walks into the Monte Carlo Casino. He sits down at a roulette table and begins an impossible winning streak, ‘breaking the bank’ ten times over and walking away with a fortune. The world celebrates him as a hero who beat the system. But was this legendary feat a miracle, luck, or was the famous 'Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo' pulling off his greatest con of all? In this episode, Lora and Barry investigate the incredible story of Charles

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40. The Stonehenge Joker

The Magician’s Wife ·

2025/08/18

During the midsummer solstice of 2025, a strange grinning face suddenly appears in a field next to the historic monument of Stonehenge. This pattern forms the bizarre likeness of a playing card joker. But it is just the latest in a long line of so-called ‘crop circles’ to have materialised in this ancient landscape, some of which have apparently formed in broad daylight in the space of just forty-five minutes. The question is what in the world – or universe – could have caused them?See an image of

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39. The Liverpool Locked Room Murder Part II

The Magician’s Wife ·

2025/08/04

On a damp, dark January day in 1931, a businessman is telephoned by a potential new client, who requests that they meet the following evening. But when the man goes in search of the address he’s been given, he discovers that it doesn’t exist. Furthermore, when he arrives home that night, a truly horrifying scene is awaiting him. His wife has been brutally murdered. And, not only that, but the house has been locked… from the inside. In this episode, Lora and Barry investigate the unsolved muder of

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38. The Liverpool Locked Room Murder Part I

The Magician’s Wife ·

2025/08/04

On a damp, dark January day in 1931, a businessman is telephoned by a potential new client, who requests that they meet the following evening. But when the man goes in search of the address he’s been given, he discovers that it doesn’t exist. Furthermore, when he arrives home that night, a truly horrifying scene is awaiting him. His wife has been brutally murdered. And, not only that, but the house has been locked… from the inside. In this episode, Lora and Barry investigate the unsolved muder of

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37. The Cloak of Invisibility

The Magician’s Wife ·

2025/07/21

In the early 18th century, a Scottish Earl languishes in an English cell, in one of the most formidable prisons in the country. The man has been condemned to die a traitor’s death, and his wife travels south to see her husband in prison one last time. However, the following morning and the Earl is gone, vanished, even though the women who entered his cell were also seen exiting it, and were carrying nothing with them. But could the answer to the Earl’s disappearance lie in one of the cloaks the

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36. Lightning Made me Psychic

The Magician’s Wife ·

2025/07/07

In a raging South Carolina storm, a man makes a telephone call with disastrous consequences. An intense bolt of lightning hits his phone line, travelling down the man’s body and blowing him across the room. The man is subsequently declared dead. But, against all the odds, this same man regains consciousness, having had a life-altering near death experience. Furthermore, the man now appears to possess an array of truly extraordinary psychic abilities. But just how could this have happened? In this

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35. The Ghostly Anson Lights

The Magician’s Wife ·

2025/06/23

Outside a small town in west Texas, a series of supernatural lights are observed. The lights, which seem to materialise from nowhere, behave very strangely: splitting, hovering and receding again before people’s very eyes. Could these eerie illuminations really have their roots in a tragic local legend, or might there be another explanation for the ghostly lights of Anson? Join Lora and Barry as they investigate this strange visual phenomenon.Enjoying our podcast? Support us by buying us a 'coffee'

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34. The Fresno Nightcrawler

The Magician’s Wife ·

2025/06/09

In the early 2000s, a man’s outside security camera records a truly unprecedented sight. A completely peculiar, seemingly other-worldly being, consisting solely of a pair of glowing white legs and a tiny head, is waddling across the man’s front yard. The being’s physical appearance is like no other creature ever recorded. But with the man swearing the footage is real, and a second video emerging later which appears to back up his story, just what could it be? Is it an alien, a spirit… or something

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33. Kill Me With a Spoon & an Update!

The Magician’s Wife ·

2025/06/02

In this episode, Barry shares a killer magic trick which you can take part in from the safety of your own home. There’s also a quick update with some exciting bits of upcoming book news!Enjoying our podcast? Support us by buying us a 'coffee' here: ko-fi.com/themagicianswife Buy Lora’s debut novel here: thewomaninthewallpaper.com Email your thoughts and theories on this case to us at: themagicianswifepodcast@gmail.com. Find us on social media... Lora: Instagram | Facebook | TikTok | X

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32. The Ghost in Dolly’s Attic

The Magician’s Wife ·

2025/05/26

In a quiet Los Angeles neighbourhood, a brutal and baffling crime is discovered. A businessman is dead, having been shot three times. The only other person in the house is his wife, but she is trapped in a closet that has been locked from the outside. However, neighbours report hearing strange noises coming from the property, shadows passing before its windows and ghostly scratching emanating from the attic. So was this a robbery gone wrong or a fatal haunting… or might there be another explanation

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31. The Green Children of Woolpit

The Magician’s Wife ·

2025/05/19

In 1153, an extraordinary event occurs in a picturesque English village. Two children suddenly appear... as if by magic. From a distance they look quite ordinary, but they wear unfamiliar clothes, speak an unrecognisable language and, strangest of all, have bright green skin. But just what might be behind the children's bizarre appearance? And, furthermore, where have they come from? Could they really be visitors from a mythical realm, or might there be another explanation? In this episode, Barry

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30. The Gardner Heist

The Magician’s Wife ·

2025/05/12

In March 1990, two policemen arrive at a Boston art gallery to investigate a disturbance. But by the following morning the gallery is in disarray, and thirteen priceless works of world famous art have seemingly vanished into thin air. Though with no signs of a break in just how was this possible? And, furthermore, despite the value of the works taken, why were so many more valuable pieces of art left behind? Join Barry and Lora as they explore the Gardner Heist, the world’s largest art robbery.Buy

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29. The Mystery of the Poisoned Baby

The Magician’s Wife ·

2025/05/05

In 1989 a young mother frantically rushes her baby boy to hospital. The baby is severely ill, and hospital tests suggest he has been poisoned. Although the baby recovers, his mother instantly falls under suspicion, and when the baby suffers from the same symptoms of poisoning just weeks later she is arrested. But, if his mother is indeed guilty, she could only have poisoned her baby in a specific forty-five second window, while not actually in possession of any poison. But how?Buy Lora’s debut

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28. Chopin and his Ghosts

The Magician’s Wife ·

2025/04/28

In 1848, Frederic Chopin is giving a piano recital when he is seized by a truly terrifying vision. Hoards of strange, ghostly beings are crawling out of his piano. And it is not the first time he has been haunted by these creatures. Nor will it be the last. But is Chopin really being plagued by the supernatural? Or might there be another explanation for these seemingly other-worldly terrors? In this episode, Barry and Lora examine the frightening hallucinations of this world-famous composer.Watch

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