Ghosts

The show takes a spooky turn as we go on a ghost hunt through the
natural world. Sebastian shares his adventures finding fossils –
the traces of animals that once lived, and Rutendo talks about
her experiences in The Cradle of Humankind, the South African
UNESCO World Heritage site containing early human fossils.


Deep in the Peruvian Amazon there is a species of wild dog so
rarely sighted it has become known as the ‘ghost dog’. We hear
from Renata Leite Pitman, one of the few scientists to
successfully track down and study the elusive creature as it
moves quietly through the forest.


Gravedigger turned ecologist Dan Flew leads Rutendo and Sebastian
through Bristol’s Arnos Vale Cemetery in the dead of night, for a
close and thrilling encounter with some of the UK’s rarest bats.


We venture to the world’s most northerly permanently inhabited
place, Svalbard, in the Arctic Circle, where TikToker Cecilia
Blomdahl reveals the magical secrets of this isolated yet
beautiful landscape, on a trip out on her boat with her dog Grim.


And we hear rare recordings of the Northern White Rhino, sadly
now extinct in the wild, a recently departed ghost of a more
biodiverse world.


Credits:


The BBC Earth podcast is presented by Sebastian Echeverri and
Rutendo Shackleton.


This episode was produced by Rachel Byrne and Geoff Marsh.


The researcher was Seb Masters.


The Production Manager was Catherine Stringer and the Production
Co-ordinator was Gemma Wootton.


Podcast Theme Music was composed by Axel Kacoutié, with mixing
and additional sound design by Peregrine Andrews.


The Associate Producer is Cristen Caine and the Executive
Producer is Deborah Dudgeon.


Special thanks to:


Renata Leite Pitman for the feature on the ghost dogs.


Dan Flew for leading the bat walk in Bristol.


Cecilia Blomdahl for her report from Svalbard.


Martyn Stewart for providing the sounds of the Northern White
Rhino.


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