Angels and Seerstones: A Latter Day Saint Folklore Podcast

Send us a textFinally, we focus on the stories of the most famous characters from LDS legends.

Send us a textFinally, we focus on the stories of the most famous characters from LDS legends.

Send us a textToday's episode we have on Liz Busby and Carl Cranney from Pop Culture on the Apricot Tree to discuss legends of Spencer W. Kimball having inspired Yoda! 

Send us a textCelebrate Halloween with Angels and Seerstsones! This year we have stories of sleep paralysis, missionary ghost encounters in the Phillippines, and stories of Satanists in Provo! 

Send us a textThis episode we talk to Mahonri Stewart about his new play, Secrets of Sleepy Hollow, now showing at the Hive Collaborative in Provo, Utah. Plus, he tells us about a terrifying sleep paralysis experience that he incorporated into the play.

Send us a textThis episode discusses the folklore that people often discussing when trying to explain why missionaries are forbidden to swim: the apparition of the destroyer on the Missouri River in 1834. This experience led to a prominent belief among Latter-day Saints that Satan had dominion over the water in the last days.

Send us a textLatter-day Saints wear the garment of the priesthood under their clothes. This garment includes promises of protection against spiritual and physical danger. In this episode, Christine and Chris dig into legends of its supernatural protection, legends about its origins, and legends about those who have defiled it. 

In this Episode, Jessica and Barrett Burgin discuss their short film, The Angel, which dives into all the supernatural LDS themes that we love. Plus, Jessica shares a really compelling family story about a supernatural assault that occurred in 1870s Utah.

This episode looks at the representation of Latter-day Saints in popular culture, including the recent depiction of Latter-day Saint sexuality in the form of "soaking" and "jump humping."

Chad Daybell accused the detectives involved in his case of being Immortal disciples of Cain. What was that about? 

This episode includes a review of the upcoming film, Heretic, and a discussion of missionary tracting (door knocking) stories. 

Where did Chad Daybell learn about reincarnation? Did he believe that he was the angel Raphael?

All about Chad Daybell's beliefs on past lives and how he used this belief to manipulate others into believing they had a deep relationship with him and Lori Vallow. 

Where did Chad Daybell come up with his elaborate theology of demons? Turns out some basic ideas had their roots in the Latter-day Saint tradition, as well as the Bible, but the more peculiar developments occurred among  a group of fringe visionaries in the twenty-first century. 

Lori Vallow saw Jesus Christ; she believed she was on the pathway to immortality. In this episode, I contextualize those beliefs.

This episode is on Chad Daybell and Lori Vallow's beliefs about their relationship and the role they would play in the coming apocalypse.

How Chad Daybell's zombies relate to a long history of child murder based on supernatural causes. 

The first episode of our limited series on Chad Daybell entitled "Demons and Pendulums."

This episode looks at stories of Latter-day Saints testing angels with a handshake. 

Stories of the dead reaching out to individuals in the temple. 

In regards to the news that the LDS Church has purchased the Kirtland Temple and Nauvoo sites from Community of Christ, Christine and I talk about our experience giving tours in Nauvoo while working for Community of Christ.  We talk about the nature of historical presentation and we bring in a great story from Mags Edvalson that considers the different ways Community of Christ and LDS members appreciate these sites.

Intro to Season 2

Remastered Episode 5. 

Remastered Episode 4. 

Remastered Episode 3.

Remastered version of Episode 2.

This is a remastered version of Episode 1. 

This a Joseph Smith Birthday Short discussing the legend that Joseph Smith was born in the caul or the veil and what some people believed that meant in the nineteenth century. 

The "Public Dreams, Private Myths" art exhibit is only open until Saturday night at Writ and Vision in Provo!

This episode examines Latter-day Saint folklore and debates over the concept of Guardian Angels, including how they relate to our dead family members. 

In this episode, we look at stories and beliefs about raising the dead, as well as mankind's future participation in the final resurrection following the Second Coming of Christ. 

In this episode, we discuss stories about Joseph Smith and treasure digging. Our special guest, Don Bradley, joins us to tell us about Miner's Hill, a site associated with this history, as well as the legend of Cumorah's Cave.

This episode looks at Latter-day Saint stories about Jesus appearing in modern temples from the Kirtland Temple to the Salt Lake Temple, to the Provo and Washington DC Temples. 

We spent Halloween telling Latter-day Saint ghost stories.

This episode is on secret societies of wayward missionaries sometimes called the Quorum of the 12 Apostates. 

This episode looks at the significance of Moroni in Latter-day Saint culture. We examine stories about Moroni's travels across America dedicating future temple sites, the legend of his appearance to the American founding fathers, the controversy over a statue in Manti, Utah, and conclude with an account told of his death.  

Stories about hearing angelic choirs and singing in tongues. Special Guest: Mchael Hicks.

This episode is a followup discussion on sleep paralysis among Latter-day Saints. We also ask how sleep paralysis relates to Joseph Smith's supernatural assault in the Sacred Grove.

This episode is about Latter-day Saint legends concerning Ted Bundy in Utah, as well as other stories of people who were divinely protected from serial killers.

LDS Folklore about Mother's Visions of their future children. This episode features a story of Russell M. Nelson about his wife's vision of their son. 

This episode is on temple prayer circles as performed outside the temple, a common practice among LDS up to 1978. We discuss prayer rooms in historical church buildings and firsthand accounts from participants.

In this episode, we discuss the "martyrdom canes," relics that were made from the blood soaked boards that transported the murdered bodies of Joseph and Hyrum Smith from Carthage to Nauvoo, Illinois. We discuss how these canes were used and where they ended up.

This episode is about the encounter of Latter-day Saint missionaries with the demonic. 

Just a quick introduction to Angels and Seerstones: A Latter Day Saint Folklore Podcast.