Steve Mera - extra content

Steve Mera - extra content

Feb 01, 2021

Hello again, been a while since the last post but I though I'd share some bonus content from a recent interview.

If you've read the recent issue of the magazine there was an interview with Steve Mera, CEO of Phenomena magazine and one of the most respected paranormal investigators in the UK. One small part of the interview I wanted to include but didn't have the room to was Steve's worst experience as an investigator, so here it is, enjoy!

So what’s the scariest thing that you’ve ever encountered?

That would have to be when I was thumped in the back in 1996, in Rochdale. I was doing a case on behalf of the city council and this house we were in was definitely having disturbances, even when the family weren’t there, which was a bit weird so we threw out the whole aspect of poltergeist disturbances only occur around the focus. Those that are somehow connected to the phenomenon. That’s not always the case. So, I was setting something up and I heard a raspy voice, well, not quite a voice, it was like a deep breath. I was just about to turnaround to see what it was and that’s when I got thumped in the back by something unseen, I’m a big guy but I was flung across the room about four feet and I landed on top of a dressing table. I’ll be honest with you, as professional as I am, I ran!

I ran straight out that house and it took some convincing for me to go back in. In fact, I was going to change my career after that, thinking to myself I’ll go back to engineering. But as time passes, you start to wonder and you start to think and you start to see the bruise appear on your body and you just sit there thinking, what is it? How does it do it? And that kind of overtook my interest and I ended up staying in the field, but it scared the living daylights out of me, I was shaking like a little kid! When you suddenly have that realism that you cannot protect yourself in an environment and you don’t know what’s going to happen and you don’t know if it’s going to lash out in the dark. I don’t care how many people out there say you should surround yourself with love and light and all that - it doesn’t bloody work! If the phenomena wants to lash out, it will lash out! I don’t know why it chose me and I don’t know what it was, but I had a hell of a the bruise to show for it, and it was very painful at the time. It changed my whole aspect regarding what to expect with the phenomena and that really is the unexpected.

So there you have it, even an experienced guy like Steve can still get surprised by the unexpected nature of the Phenomena.

NEW ISSUE UPDATE:

While I'm about it, here's a quick update on the latest issue.

Interviews with both Christopher and Ryan Bledsoe about the continuing high strangeness that affects their lives.

An in-depth talk with the SkyHub team, including Jeremy McGowan, who has built a tracker unit into his Land Rover and recently spent a week with Luis Elizondo testing the unit out.

I recently had a fascination conversation with Constance Briggs about her book The Encyclopaedia of Moon Mysteries and some of the incredible anomalies on our satellite.

The Top 10 Sea/Lake monsters list is almost complete.

We celebrate the 20th anniversary of Nick Cook's book The Hunt For Zero Point with Nick himself.

All that and much more coming soon!

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