Gef
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Oct 30, 2026
Gary AndersonHOST
Tim
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R. Swartz is an Indiana native and Emmy Award-winning television producer-videographer and is the author of a number of popular books, including The Lost Journals of Nikola Tesla and Geff the Talking Mongoose.
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Tim is a contributing writer for such books as Brad Steiger's Real Monsters, Gruesome Critters, and Beasts from the Dark Side, and Real Ghosts, Restless Spirits, and Haunted Places.
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Tim's most recent books, along with author Sean Castile, are Weird Time, Exploring the Mysteries of Time and Space, and Mimics, The Others Among Us.
Tom ThompsonHOST
There's a whole like, I didn't spell that right, but.
Tom ThompsonHOST
Oh, Jeff is spelled G-E-F. Jeff.
Tom ThompsonHOST
Jeff.
Raven LeeGUEST
This
Ursula BielskiNARRATOR
But none of its ancient tales, no matter how thrilling or disturbing, can match the story of the true events which occurred on this island in the early 1930s.
Ursula BielskiNARRATOR
For it was in this secluded and somewhat mystical environment that one of the most truly horrifying and inexplicable events in supernatural history played out, the manifestation of a being locals called the Dalby Spook, a being which called itself by the name of Gef.
Ursula BielskiNARRATOR
The primary figures in the Gef saga were the members of the Irving family, who lived in a remote farmhouse called Doarlish Cashen near the village of Dalby.
Ursula BielskiNARRATOR
The family consisted of James Irving, a retired traveling salesman, his wife Margaret, and their teenage daughter Laurie, her name being the local Manx version of Mary.
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An elder daughter had already left the home before the events transpired.
Ursula BielskiNARRATOR
The Irvings' life was an intensely isolated one, and until the coming of Gef, little happened to offer any diversion from the sometimes painfully ordinary events of each day.
Ursula BielskiNARRATOR
The Irving family first reported strange occurrences in September of 1931.
Ursula BielskiNARRATOR
It was then that they began to notice in their farmyard a creature described as similar in appearance to a weasel, with a small body, long bushy tail, flat nose, and yellow in color.
JohannaHOST
[laughs]
AnnieHOST
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AnnieHOST
Come on, people, give up the ghosts already.
JohannaHOST
Yeah.
JohannaHOST
All right, before we tell you all about Gef, let's see where we left off last week, shall we? And I gonna do it myself because I'm super fast today.
JohannaHOST
We met the Irving family, that are James, Margaret, and their 13-year-old daughter, Worry.
JohannaHOST
The creature also eventually gave the family a name.
JohannaHOST
Gef, spelled G-E-F, and pronounced Gef, like, like Gef
AnnieHOST
Like Gef
JohannaHOST
Gef
AnnieHOST
Yeah, it's Gef, not Gef
JohannaHOST
Like it's Jif, not GIF.
JohannaHOST
See, and that doesn't make sense because it's giggling and not jiggling, and it's gimp and not chimp
AnnieHOST
Yeah, but here we are.