Podcasts about Folklore

That's right, Isabel Cañas is BACK! And she is here to chat about her newest book, The House of Gardenias, as well as socio-economic drama, The Awkward Dinner ™, and the little voice inside of her that begs for Spooky House and Teeth and Claws!Content Warning: This episode contains conversations about or mentions of pregnancy, birth, Covid, war, military coup, and family death. GuestIsabel Cañas is a Mexican American speculative fiction writer. She holds a doctorate in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations and writes fiction inspired by her research and her heritage. She is the author of The House of Gardenias, The Possession of Alba Díaz, Vampires of El Norte, and The Hacienda. Housekeeping- Books: Check out our previous book recommendations, guests' books, and more at spiritspodcast.com/books- Call to Action: Get MultiCrew bonus audio for FREE with any paid tier at patreon.com/spiritspodcast- Submit Your Urban Legends Audio: Call us! 617-420-2344Sponsor- Attend “Wine, Dine & Death” at the Little Theatre of Walla Walla or bid in their fabulous online auction at https://galabid.com/ltww-wdd2026 Find Us Online- Website & Transcripts: spiritspodcast.com- Patreon: patreon.com/spiritspodcast- Merch: spiritspodcast.com/merch- Instagram: instagram.com/spiritspodcast- Bluesky: bsky.app/profile/spiritspodcast.com- Twitter: twitter.com/spiritspodcast- Tumblr: spiritspodcast.tumblr.comCast & Crew- Co-Hosts: Julia Schifini and Amanda McLoughlin- Editor: Bren Frederick- Music: Brandon Grugle, based on "Danger Storm" by Kevin MacLeod- Artwork: Allyson Wakeman- Multitude: multitude.productionsAbout UsSpirits is a boozy podcast about mythology, legends, and folklore. Every episode, co-hosts Julia and Amanda mix a drink and discuss a new story or character from a wide range of places, eras, and cultures. Learn brand-new stories and enjoy retellings of your favorite myths, served over ice every week, on Spirits.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Tracy's Website:https://folkloringlife.com/about/What makes magick work—and how much do our beliefs shape the experience?Tracy Nicholas joins Rob Kalil for Typical Skeptic Podcast #2829 to explore her book, Mind Over Magick, and the connections between folklore, psychology, mindful living, and spiritual practice.A folklore researcher, author, and animist, Tracy brings a nature-centered perspective to everyday spirituality. Her podcast, Folkloring, explores practical ways to bring folklore off the page and into our lives. She also serves as the theatre and film correspondent for The Folklore Podcast.We'll explore the science and psychology behind beliefs about magick, the role of intention and ritual, and how folklore can inform a more creative and connected life.

BEWARE THE MOON!   Today we are concluding our Folklore in Horror month with AN AMERICAN WEREWOLF IN LONDON! Join Anneliese and I as we discuss werewolf lore throughout history, the film's perfect balance of comedy and horror, and the legendary Rick Baker. Enjoy!   Follow Would You Die? on  IG @wouldyoudieshow Twitter @wouldyoudieshow Facebook @  Would You Die? Email wouldyoudiepodcast@gmail.com for business inquiries Follow Austin everywhere @austinmtorres Follow Anneliese everywhere @whimsiwillow   Join us on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/wouldyoudiepodcast   Subscribe to our YouTube Channel! You can find my short films, like The Blood Witch, and much more! https://www.youtube.com/@WouldYouDieShow   Visit the FANGORIA store: shop.fangoria.com/wouldyoudieshow Use Promo Code: WOULDYOUDIESHOW The Would You Die? Podcast can also be found on TikTok @wouldyoudiepodcast. Follow Austin on Letterboxd @austinmtorres. Follow me on Bluesky @austinmtorres.bsky.social NEW Music is composed by Josie Palmer @josiepalms Podcast produced by Jeremy Lippitt @annuallyfunny Podcast graphics created by Crosshook Creative @crosshookcreative Visit https://www.wearecrosshook.com/ today!   Watch the trailer for my next short film, DIETARY RESTRICTIONS, here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NddBP3mp9nM Watch my short film, The Blood Witch, here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Foz3PeQKJ4 Watch my short film, Spider, here: https://youtu.be/IJlqp9QJ1qo Watch my short film, Ice Scream, here: https://youtu.be/tghxuuJjPxM Watch my short film, Best Day Ever, here: https://youtu.be/WDJbfRl2Qh4 Find Three Y's Men Media here! ThreeYsMenMedia.com

Every lake in this episode was somebody's pasture once. On this stop of the Backwoods Cryptid Road Trip, Brian King-Sharp drives into Oklahoma, where the three lakes said to hide the Oklahoma Octopus were all built by the government inside living memory.Lake Tenkiller, Lake Thunderbird, and Oologah Lake are reservoirs, not natural water, and under every one of them are drowned roads, standing timber, fence lines, and the foundations of houses that were dry ground three generations ago. That's the ground this legend grew on, and it's why this is a don't-swim-after-dark episode.The stories start on the Fourth of July, 1978, with a seventeen-year-old girl floating on her back off a houseboat on Tenkiller when something wraps her leg from ankle to knee and pulls her under. From there the episode follows a bass fisherman in the drowned timber at Thunderbird who watched an arm feel its way around a dead oak, a scuba diver who cut himself loose from something in the old river channel at thirty-five feet and came up with sucker marks pressed into his wetsuit, and a farm kid on Oologah who saw two arms come over the tops of his family's flooded fence posts and pull the wire down.Between the encounters, Brian traces the real paper trail behind the legend, which is thinner and stranger than the television version. It starts with a June 2, 1982 item in the Daily Oklahoman about two boys and a dead saltwater octopus found in the Verdigris River near Lock and Dam 18 on the barge canal, runs through a 1987 article by Kiowa writer Russell Bates about a horse-sized, reddish-brown creature said to drag people into sandstone caverns, and picks up again in 2007 with two cryptid books that named the three lakes without citing a source, a reporter at the Oklahoma Gazette who found that no park manager or diver on those lakes had ever heard of the thing, and Loren Coleman's guess that it all began with a planted carcass.Then in January 2009 Animal Planet's Lost Tapes turned it into a monster with a name. Along the way the episode looks at why man-made lakes breed this kind of story, from the cold water sitting in the old channel to the drownings that happen every summer in water nobody can see into.The second half leaves the water for the timber. It begins with the Noxie Monster of September 1975, when farmer Kenneth Tosh, Sheriff Robert Donald, researcher Hayden Hewes, and two dozen witnesses in Nowata County put a seven-foot hairy creature on the wire services and a Tulsa Tribune artist's drawing in front of the whole country.Then come the encounters that never made a newspaper: a noodler chest-deep in the Verdigris below Oologah dam watching something on the gravel bar bite the head off a fish, a deer hunter above a spring in the Kiamichi Mountains a few miles from where the Honobia Bigfoot Festival now stands, a nurse stopped on Highway 82 in the Cookson Hills above Tenkiller at 12:14 in the morning with a gray figure shading its eyes from her headlights, and a woman on a rock at Clear Bay on Lake Thunderbird who watched something wade out of the blackjack oak at dusk and come back with a fish held against its chest.The episode also covers the Siege at Honobia in 2000, the founding of the Honobia Bigfoot Festival in 2005, and how a valley in the Choctaw Nation turned its stories into college scholarships.If you've got a sighting, a story, or a stop to add to the map, email brian@paranormalworldproductions.com.Until the next stop, stay out of the water after dark, and keep your eyes on the tree line.Email BrianJoin Our FREE NewsletterGet Brian's Books Leave Us A VoicemailVisit Our WebsiteHave you experienced a Bigfoot sighting, Sasquatch encounter, Dogman experience, UFO sighting, or any unexplained cryptid or paranormal event deep in the woods? We want to hear your story.Email your encounter to brian@paranormalworldproductions.com for a chance to be featured on a future episode of Backwoods Bigfoot Stories.Backwoods Bigfoot Stories is a paranormal storytelling podcast featuring real Bigfoot encounters, Sasquatch sightings, Dogman reports, cryptid experiences, and true scary stories from the backwoods.Follow the show and turn on automatic downloads so you never miss a chilling encounter from the forest. Listen with the lights off… if you dare.

Installez-vous au coin du feu : dans cet épisode d'Au coin du checkpoint, on remonte aux origines du mythe du vampire pour voir comment il a mordu la culture geek, des vieilles légendes jusqu'aux jeux vidéo, aux films et aux jeux de rôle.On parle évidemment aussi de The Blood of Dawnwalker de son lore, son worldbuilding, son gameplay et de notre avis à chaud !_____Soutenez-nous sur Patreon en devenant un Compagnon du Checkpoint !Accédez à des avantages exclusifs et ludiques… et offrez-nous un bon café ou une tournée de bières!

Halloween ghost stories meet the lost world of midnight spook shows. Henrique Couto and Michelle explore the glowing ghosts, stage illusions and blackout scares that turned movie theaters into haunted attractions. Then dig into a claimed Loch Ness Monster sighting, ghost rumors in Indian schools, a Polish 'vampire' burial and a Bigfoot mystery with a human explanation. A creepy roadside encounter rounds out this Monthly Spooky hangout. Join us for paranormal mysteries, cryptids, vampire folklore and horror history as we count down to Halloween. What would you see when the theater lights go out?Bonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

Today - The University of Arizona is offering the Arizona Folklore Preserve five more years in its Ramsey Canyon theater — but keeping the doors open could come with a price the nonprofit isn’t sure it can afford.Support the show: https://www.myheraldreview.com/site/forms/subscription_services/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Today's story is called Broadcast, and is about connections.The next episode is due on the Hunter's Moon, 26th of October.If you are where the message lands, you are the one it was meant for.Episode transcript: https://www.patreon.com/modemprometheus/posts/episode-3-12-167923057/If you like Modem Prometheus and would like bonus episodes, extra podcasts and other perks, please support us on Patreon!https://www.patreon.com/modemprometheus▶️ FOLLOW US HERE ▶️Mastodon https://namtao.com/@modemprometheusTumblr https://modem-prometheus.tumblr.com▶️ STUDIO EQUIPMENT ▶️Mic: Røde NT1v5 (USB in f32)DAW: REAPER on Linux▶️ CREDITS ▶️Written by Neil Murton, @nigethehatPerformed by Gina SneesbyDirected & Produced by Tris Oaten, @tris@namtao.com, http://namtao.comMP Logo by Carl Huber, http://carlh.comEpisode Logo by Tris OatenTHANKS SO MUCH TO OUR PATRONS!

From Highland Games, to lifting rocks, to the ba, there is plenty of sportsmanship in Scottish folklore! Kofi: ko-fi.com/folklorescotland Check out our socials to keep in the loop!
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instagram.com/folklorescotland Folklore Scotland is a Scottish registered charity whose aim is to connect the tales of the past with the technology of today. You can visit our website and explore your local folklore at www.folklorescotland.com. If you would like to become one of our voluntary contributors or would like to get in touch, email us at info@folklorescotland.com SOURCES https://ntsusa.org/highland-games/ https://www.eftours.com/travel-blog/places-perspectives/highland-games https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highland_games https://www.scotland.org/events/highland-games/about-highland-games https://www.northlandsbandb.com/whats-on/the-history-of-highland-games-and-gatherings/ https://www.absoluteescapes.com/blog/our-guide-to-scottish-highland-games/ https://www.dunsehistorysociety.co.uk/the-ba-game https://electricscotland.com/history/sport/pastimes8.htm https://www.scottishfootballmuseum.org.uk/football-for-all/scotlands-football-origins/ https://blog.washingtonpost.com/why-we-compete/2007/12/tradition.html https://orcadian.co.uk/uppies-revenge-as-both-new-year-bas-hit-the-wall/ https://www.orkney.com/about/culture/the-ba https://www.scotland.org.uk/features/kirkwall-ba-orkney https://www.lyonandturnbull.com/stories/the-kirkwall-ba https://sheilafleet.com/blogs/news/orkney-traditions-the-kirkwall-ba https://www.scottishbanner.com/2021/12/20/the-kirkwall-ba-orkneys-alternative-festive-tradition/ https://www.northlinkferries.co.uk/orkney-blog/beginners-guide-to-the-ba/

Today, as it's Martin's birthday, we thought we would share with you a special little bonus gift recording in his birth county - our two Three Ravens Live Show pop-up performances at 3 Wishes Fairy Festival in Somerset from last month!Hopefully timed just about perfectly to mark the very end of Summer and start of Autumn, in the first part we discuss Glastonbury's fairy folklore explicitly, addressing Somerset's Celtic mythology relating to King Arthur, the 'Winter King' under the Tor as mentioned in The Mabinogi, and the legend of the Glastonbury Thorn.In the second part we turn our attention to Somerset's folklore more widely, from Wassailing and Punkie Night to tales of giants, witches, dragons, piskies, and the Devil...Including live performances by us of the songs Three Ravens and Broomfield Hill, the whole then then concludes with Martin's live rendition of The Restless Witch of Sandhill from our book Three Ravens Folk Tales, last performed way back in our second ever episode!We hope you enjoy it, do listen back to Eleanor's Local Legends interview with Karen Kay from earlier in the Summer, and learn more about 3 Wishes Fairy Festival through its website!https://www.yeahniceevents.co.uk/festivals2026/3wishesfairyfestivalAbout Three Ravens

Thunder and lightning offer one of nature's more cinematic spectacles, so it's unsurprising they would accrue a degree of folklore. The danger that lightning particularly poses sees a range of practices to ward off storms, while other traditions offer a way to predict events using storms. Thunder and lightning also work together, as the Met Office explains: "When the electrical current from a lightning strike passes through the air, it heats the surrounding air rapidly—up to 30,000°C. This sudden heating causes the air to expand explosively, creating a shockwave that we hear as thunder. [...] A sharp crack indicates a nearby strike, while a low rumble suggests the lightning occurred farther away". Many cultures also have storm deities, such as Thor, Perun, Ọya, Jupiter, Set, Susanoo-no-Mikoto, and Taranis, among others. Yet as fascinating and complex as they are, we're going to focus on the folklore around the storms, rather than those who control them.  So what does folklore tell us about storms, thunder, and lightning? Let's find out in this week's episode of Fabulous Folklore! Find the images and sources used on the associated blog post: https://www.icysedgwick.com/thunder-and-lightning/ Get your free guide to home protection the folklore way here: https://www.icysedgwick.com/fab-folklore/ Become a member of the Fabulous Folklore Family for bonus episodes and articles at https://patreon.com/bePatron?u=2380595 Get weekly articles and bonus content at Substack: https://fabulousfolklore.substack.com/ Buy Icy a coffee or sign up for bonus episodes at: https://ko-fi.com/icysedgwick Find the Fabulous Folklore Bookshop, Icy's social media links, and other useful bits at: https://icysedgwick.com/start-here

For generations, people in rural Thailand have told stories of the Krasue, a woman whose head leaves her body after dark with her internal organs hanging beneath it as she travels in search of blood, carrion and filth. Strange red, green and orange lights seen moving above fields have repeatedly been linked to the creature, and remarkably, alleged sightings continue today, with reports from Ratchaburi and Lopburi in 2023, Surin and Buriram in 2024, and Phetchabun as recently as February 2026.The BOOKBY US A COFFEESubscribe to our PATREONEMAIL us your storiesJoin us on INSTAGRAMJoin us on TWITTERJoin us on FACEBOOKVisit our WEBSITEResearch:https://intellectdiscover.com/content/journals/10.1386/host.5.2.183_1https://en.thairath.co.th/news/local/2911706https://www.thairath.co.th/news/local/central/2696702https://www.thairath.co.th/news/local/central/2733893https://www.nationthailand.com/thailand/general/40032079https://thethaiger.com/news/national/ghost-hunt-in-lopburi-village-creates-chaos-as-million-baht-reward-retractedSarah xx"Spacial Winds," Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licenced under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 Licencehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/SURVEY Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Varla Ventura is a bestselling author, folklorist, and curator of the strange who has dedicated her career to exploring the mysterious worlds of folklore, mythology, and the supernatural. With a fascination for ghosts, cryptids, monsters, witches, fairies, and forgotten legends, Varla has become a distinctive voice in modern paranormal storytelling. Through her books and research, she brings centuries-old stories back to life, uncovering the eerie traditions, strange creatures, and cultural mysteries hiding within history and folklore.Known for her captivating personality and entertaining approach to the unexplained, Varla takes audiences deep into a world where legendary creatures, supernatural encounters, and bizarre folklore collide. From Bigfoot and mysterious cryptids to haunted places, magical traditions, and strange beings from cultures around the world, she combines serious research with wit, curiosity, and a genuine love for the weird.Spaced Out Radio is your nightly source for alternative information, starting at 9pm Pacific, 12am Eastern.  We broadcast LIVE every night. #UFO #UAP #AlienDisclosure #UFOSightings #UFOCoverUp #Aliens #SpacedOutRadio #Paranormal #UFOCommunity #disclosure -------------------------------------------------------You can now join the Space Traveler's Club;Join us at  https://www.patreon.com/sor_space_travelers_club  Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/spaced-out-radio--1657874/support.

Names have power, witches. But when someone knows yours, what do they actually have access to?This week on Back on the Broomstick, Laylla and Chelle explore the folklore of true names, secret identities, and supernatural bargains, from Rumpelstiltskin toThe Wizard of EarthSea. Why do so many stories hinge on discovering a name, and how does that idea show up in modern witchcraft?We're talking about names as taglocks, the connections they create in spellwork, and why a “true name” might mean something very different from the one on your birth certificate. We also explore the power of choosing a name that expresses who you are or who you're becoming, and why some names are shared freely while others are kept between a witch and their practice.Then we get into warding your name. What exactly are you protecting, and how can you put some magick behind the boundaries you set? From private ritual names to the usernames we put all over the internet, there's plenty to consider about who gets access to us and on what terms.Plus, two simple spells: one to reflect unwanted energy directed at your name, and one to give your name a magickal cleansing. Because you can't always keep your name out of someone's mouth, but you can have a say in what power that gives them.Got a question? Send the witches a message here!Support the showWant to send us a letter? Witchy things to review?Our mailing address is:Back on the BroomstickPO Box 21Tioga, PA 16946Email: backonthebroomstick@gmail.comYoutube FacebookInstagramBack on the Broomstick Website

We continue on our journey to Mount Doom with a Midnight Ritual of The Lord of The Rings: The Two Towers(2002)! TNC: https://linktr.ee/thenightclub

In this special episode, I'm joined by writer and screenwriter Thom Burgess for a chat about ghost stories, folklore and a lifelong fascination with the supernatural.Thom talks about growing up surrounded by the ghostlore of Kent, from the phantom bride of Bluebell Hill to the stories that first frightened and fascinated him as a child, and how that interest eventually found its way into his own writing and the Paramount horror film Passenger.Along the way, we get into M. R. James, haunted pubs, phantom hitchhikers, the strange ways folklore has moved online and, inevitably, those deeply unsettling Cat in the Hat videos. Thom also shares a couple of his own unexplained experiences, including a very strange night in a Seattle hotel.We also talk about City of Ghosts: The Canterbury Ghost Story Festival, taking place in Canterbury on 3 October, which brings together more than 300 years of ghost stories, folklore, literature, film and the supernatural.Links to the festival, tickets and Thom's work can be found below:Early Haunts https://www.amazon.co.uk/Early-Haunts-T-W-Burgess/dp/B0BQ4X2WLFMalevolents - Click Clickhttps://www.amazon.co.uk/Malevolents-Click-Thom-Burgess-ebook/dp/B077F4XB87Ghoster : TW Burgesshttps://www.amazon.co.uk/Ghoster-Thom-Burgess-Toby-Meakins-ebook/dp/B088Q4PKPNThe Eyrie https://www.amazon.co.uk/Eyrie-Thom-Burgess-ebook/dp/B077F17L3BHallows Fellhttps://www.amazon.co.uk/Hallows-Fell-T-W-Burgess/dp/B08W7SPT3CManoghosts Youtube https://www.youtube.com/c/ManoghostsTVAnd here is the link for City of Ghosts: The Canterbury Ghost Story Festival:https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/city-of-ghosts-the-canterbury-ghost-story-festival-tickets-1998994102171?keep_tld=trueTake care everyone and I'll catch you again tomorrow.Sarah xxSURVEY Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Le Martinisme, grande tradition initiatique de l'Occident, est au cœur de notre entretien avec Philippe Deschamps, membre de l'Ordre Martiniste Traditionnel.  Nous explorerons ensemble ses origines, son héritage spirituel, ses méthodes initiatiques, ainsi que la pensée de figures majeures telles que Martinez de Pasqually, Louis-Claude de Saint-Martin et Papus.  Entre mystique chrétienne, symbolisme ésotérique et quête de réintégration, le Martinisme se révèle comme une voie intérieure conjuguant spiritualité, recherche de connaissance et transmission initiatique.⛎ Soutenir l'émission sur Tipeee : https://www.tipeee.com/arcana-mysteres-du-monde

Where did we go wrong with the city of Atlantis? From Plato using it as an allegory for the rise and fall of nations, it spun out of control and was co-opted by pseudo-archaeologists and Flat Earthers. Join us as we seek to dive deep and uncover the murky waters surrounding Atlantis. Content Warning: This episode contains conversations about or mentions of racism, white supremacy, genocide, colonization, antisemitism, and Nazis. Housekeeping- Books: Check out our previous book recommendations, guests' books, and more at spiritspodcast.com/books- Call to Action: Will you join us for year 10, episode 500, and beyond at patreon.com/spiritspodcast??- Submit Your Urban Legends Audio: Call us! 617-420-2344Find Us Online- Website & Transcripts: spiritspodcast.com- Patreon: patreon.com/spiritspodcast- Merch: spiritspodcast.com/merch- Instagram: instagram.com/spiritspodcast- Bluesky: bsky.app/profile/spiritspodcast.com- Twitter: twitter.com/spiritspodcast- Tumblr: spiritspodcast.tumblr.comCast & Crew- Co-Hosts: Julia Schifini and Amanda McLoughlin- Editor: Bren Frederick- Music: Brandon Grugle, based on "Danger Storm" by Kevin MacLeod- Artwork: Allyson Wakeman- Multitude: multitude.productionsAbout UsSpirits is a boozy podcast about mythology, legends, and folklore. Every episode, co-hosts Julia and Amanda mix a drink and discuss a new story or character from a wide range of places, eras, and cultures. Learn brand-new stories and enjoy retellings of your favorite myths, served over ice every week, on Spirits.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

This week, our co-host Mary Grahame welcomes two professors she studied under during her undergrad years: Dr. Anne E. Duggan, Ph.D. (from Wayne State University) and Dr. Julie Koehler, Ph.D. (currently at Michigan State University), the co-editors of Women Writing Wonder: An Anthology of Subversive Nineteenth-Century British, French, and German Fairy Tales. We talk a lot about fairy tales, and especially about the stories collected in the anthologies they've worked on, which feature under-recognized 19th-century texts by women authors who subverted traditional fairy-tale tropes in many ways, challenging the perception that marriage is mandatory and exploring class, race, and female agency.  

Missing children lead FBI agent Francheska 'Frannie' Carter to a fairy ring—and a realm where beautiful faces hide something monstrous. In The Fair Folk, a supernatural investigation takes her from wooded suburbs into Fairyland to bring the children home. But the Fae queen has no intention of letting her captives go. Can Frannie outwit creatures whose hypnotic songs are meant to deceive? This dark folklore horror story brings evil fairies, a dangerous rescue and woodland terror to your Halloween listening. Step beyond the mushrooms, if you dare.The Fair Folk by Tyler BelmontBonus episodes & support: https://weeklyspooky.com/joinMore scary stories: https://weeklyspooky.com/Story submissions: WeeklySpooky@gmail.com

This time we're setting up for the finale with a shiny new mysterious weapon that makes Caleb reaaaaally quiet (isn't it awesome?!!), a little love triangle with Angel (he's back!) and Spike, and of course that secret order of women who watched the Watchers and we definitely always knew about. Plus Dawn uses a stun gun on Xander! Good times!

Everyone in town knows there is something wrong with the old Carter place. No one will tell about it, though..In “The Old Carter Place,” Whitney R. Holp follows two boys who become fascinated by an abandoned house surrounded by rumors, mystery, and a disturbing history. Their curiosity eventually leads them to the house and unexpected experiences. Blending haunted house horror, supernatural fiction, dark folklore, childhood curiosity, and psychological horror, the story creates an atmosphere of growing unease as an ordinary childhood adventure becomes something much darker.Whitney R. Holp is a student of surrealism who seeks gnosis through dreams, intoxication, and objective chance. “The Old Carter Place” comes from his unpublished book of the same name. This story first appeared in Blood Moon Rising Magazine #89, October 2022The Kaidankai Podcast features original short fiction exploring horror, fantasy, science fiction, and the strange.New episodes every Wednesday.Subscribe on Spreaker, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen to podcasts.Read the stories at kaidankaistories.comFollow the show:InstagramFacebookBlueskyHave a story you'd like us to read? Send submissions to kaidankai100ghoststories@gmail.com.

Director Casey Walker joins Nasty Neal on Without Your Head Horror Podcast to discuss ITHAQUA, the chilling new survival-horror film from the returning Hammer Films that premiered at FrightFest in London.Described as Lovecraft meets Hammer in the snow, ITHAQUA draws upon Indigenous ties to the Wendigo legend to tell a haunting story of isolation, paranoia, starvation and an ancient presence stalking the Canadian wilderness.Casey discusses his remarkable 12-year journey to bring ITHAQUA to the screen, its historical fur-trade setting, the influence of folklore and cosmic horror, and the challenges of creating terror in a frozen and unforgiving landscape.As a brutal winter grips a remote trading outpost, American mercenary Cole Franklin is sent to investigate the mysterious silence surrounding a nearby Indigenous settlement. What he discovers unleashes fear throughout Fort William, where hunger, violence and madness threaten to destroy the isolated community from within.ITHAQUA stars Luke Hemsworth, Kevin Durand, Craig Lauzon, Leenah Robinson and Michael Pitt.Hosted by Nasty NealWithout Your Head Horror PodcastWant to be part of the podcast and jump in the chat? Win free horror prizes? Youtube gives access to our live chat! Subscribe to to get notifications for upcoming live interviews and events.https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCOmwH7xVAhD-OOAqFWyTYTAJoin the youtube community for perks:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCOmwH7xVAhD-OOAqFWyTYTA/joinIf you'd like to help support The Headyversehttps://account.venmo.com/u/headyverse#Ithaqua #HammerHorror #CaseyWalker #Wendigo #LovecraftianHorror #FrightFest #HammerFilms #FolkHorror #SurvivalHorror #WithoutYourHead #NastyNeal

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Brought to you by Up! The Bank That’s Got Young Aussies Backs…Talon Clemow is back with his second feature length documentary (Thundercloud 2012), Stern Fever, which shines a light on the iconic Shipsterns Bluff like you’ve never seen before. From the folk heroes who first dared to roll the dice out there (and later fell out), to the efforts to keep it secret, Rastas unbelievable first surf out there, Kieren Perrows eternal effort on a 12 foot mutant, teenage Laurie Towner putting AI on show, and much more. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

I loved this conversation I had recently with Seren Hawley-Plows following the release of her book The Ancient Ways - A Year of Folklore, Traditions and Rituals to Reconnect with Nature. Seren Hawley-Plows is a second generation new-age traveller who was raised as a hedgewitch, with a deep connection and love for the natural world. She was taught herbalism and ancient practices from an early age by her parents and their community, and spent much of her youth travelling around festivals, full moon gatherings, and attending ceremonies at sacred sites. She is now on a mission to reconnect people with the natural world, by demonstrating how using ancient practices and discovering forgotten knowledge can be beneficial on a journey to re-establishing our relationship to the land. You can find Seren on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hedgerow_healing/?hl=en Find my Wheel of the Year witch boxes here - 13% discount code available for purchases across Etsy - https://thewhitewitchcompany.etsy.com?coupon=WHEELOFTHEYEAR13 Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/thewhitewitchpodcast/?hl=en For PR enquiries etc please email carly@thewhitewitchcompany.co.uk Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Links For The Occult Rejectshttps://linktr.ee/theoccultrejectsOccult Research Institutehttps://www.occultresearchinstitute.org/Substackhttps://substack.com/@theoccultrejects?r=7auau0&utm_campaign=profile&utm_medium=profile-pageCash Apphttps://cash.app/$theoccultrejectsVenmo@TheOccultRejectsBuy Me A Coffeebuymeacoffee.com/TheOccultRejectsPatreonhttps://www.patreon.com/TheOccultRejectsGreek and Roman Primary SourcesAristotle. Generation of Animals. Translated by A. L. Peck. Loeb Classical Library 366. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1942.Galen. On Semen. Edited and translated by Phillip De Lacy. Corpus Medicorum Graecorum V 3, 1–2. Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, 1992.Galen. On the Usefulness of the Parts of the Body. Translated by Margaret Tallmadge May. 2 vols. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1968.Hippocrates. Generation, Nature of the Child, Diseases IV. Translated by Paul Potter. Loeb Classical Library 520. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2012.Hippocrates. On the Seed and the Nature of the Child. In Hippocratic Writings, edited by G. E. R. Lloyd and translated by J. Chadwick and W. N. Mann. London: Penguin, 1978.Soranus. Soranus' Gynecology. Translated by Owsei Temkin. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1956.Greek and Roman Medicine, Gender, and SexualityConnell, Sophia M. Aristotle on Female Animals: A Study of the Generation of Animals. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016.Dean-Jones, Lesley. Women's Bodies in Classical Greek Science. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1994.Flemming, Rebecca. Medicine and the Making of Roman Women: Gender, Nature, and Authority from Celsus to Galen. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000.King, Helen. Hippocrates' Woman: Reading the Female Body in Ancient Greece. London: Routledge, 1998.Laqueur, Thomas. Making Sex: Body and Gender from the Greeks to Freud. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1990.Lloyd, G. E. R. Science, Folklore and Ideology: Studies in the Life Sciences in Ancient Greece. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983.Mattern, Susan P. The Prince of Medicine: Galen in the Roman Empire. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013.Nutton, Vivian. Ancient Medicine. 2nd ed. London: Routledge, 2013.Ayurveda, Kāma, and South Asian Sexual TraditionsDoniger, Wendy, and Sudhir Kakar, trans. Kamasutra. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002.Flood, Gavin. The Tantric Body: The Secret Tradition of Hindu Religion. London: I. B. Tauris, 2006.Meulenbeld, G. Jan. A History of Indian Medical Literature. 5 vols. Groningen: Egbert Forsten, 1999–2002.Sanderson, Alexis. “The Śaiva Age: The Rise and Dominance of Śaivism during the Early Medieval Period.” In Genesis and Development of Tantrism, edited by Shingo Einoo, 41–350. Tokyo: Institute of Oriental Culture, University of Tokyo, 2009.White, David Gordon. Kiss of the Yoginī: “Tantric Sex” in Its South Asian Contexts. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003.White, David Gordon. The Alchemical Body: Siddha Traditions in Medieval India. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996.Wujastyk, Dominik. The Roots of Ayurveda: Selections from Sanskrit Medical Writings. 3rd ed. London: Penguin, 2003.Chinese Medicine and Daoist CultivationDespeux, Catherine. Taoism and Self Knowledge: The Chart for the Cultivation of Perfection. Leiden: Brill, 2018.Furth, Charlotte. A Flourishing Yin: Gender in China's Medical History, 960–1665. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999.Kohn, Livia. Daoist Body Cultivation: Traditional Models and Contemporary Practices. Magdalena, NM: Three Pines Press, 2006.Lo, Vivienne. “The Influence of Nurturing Life Culture on the Development of Western Han Acumoxa Therapy.” In Innovation in Chinese Medicine, edited by Elisabeth Hsu, 19–50. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001.Pregadio, Fabrizio, ed. The Encyclopedia of Taoism. 2 vols. London: Routledge, 2008.Schipper, Kristofer. The Taoist Body. Translated by Karen C. Duval. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993.Wile, Douglas. Art of the Bedchamber: The Chinese Sexual Yoga Classics Including Women's Solo Meditation Texts. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1992.Comparative and Methodological StudiesFoucault, Michel. The History of Sexuality. Vol. 2, The Use of Pleasure. Translated by Robert Hurley. New York: Vintage Books, 1990.Hopwood, Nick, Rebecca Flemming, and Lauren Kassell, eds. Reproduction: Antiquity to the Present Day. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018.Wiesner-Hanks, Merry E., and Mathew Kuefler, eds. The Cambridge World History of Sexualities. Vol. 2, Systems of Thought and Belief. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024.Also want to remind people about the website, if you're into reading we have tons of information by multiple contributors, and we got t-shirts up on the site if you're interested. Fun fact, the art is all based on the eyeball. 

This week we visit Sligo County, Ireland on a June day in 2009. Today we're not the only tourists in town.. Who was the mysterious Peter Bergmann (or failing that) why did he go to Sligo, of all places to die?      Content Warnings: Suicide, terminal illness, spousal abuse, marriage breakups, wartime violence - including assassination, espionage and torture.    Sources Include: The Unsolved Mystery of Peter Bergmann by Rosita Boland Things Fall Apart: The Apocalyptic Appeal of W.B. Yeats The Second Coming by Dorian Lynskey The Man Who Deleted His Past Before He Was Found Dead by Francisco Garcia Our Man in Vienna by Panagiotis Dimitrakis Military Conscription in Austria by Anat Peled Rosses Point from Discover Ireland Rosses Point History and Folklore at Rosses point's website           Support Tales on Patreon for $2 US a month and get access to exclusive content, or Try our 7 Day Free Trial.  Please leave Tales a like and a review wherever you listen. The best way you can support us is to share an episode with a friend - Creative works grow best by word of mouth. I post episodes fortnightly, Wednesdays. Tales of History and Imagination can be found on… | Facebook |TikTok | Threads | YouTube | Bluesky |  

A cartoon says I have no soul, a hair-dye company says I'm going extinct, and a folklorist in Illinois says you should rub my head. I've been a redhead for fifty-seven years, and this is what the world thinks about me… and what God thinks of me. Oh, and you too if you are a redhead, a Ginger, a copper top, or whatever other moniker you've been tagged with due to your hair color.Look for this podcast on YouTube Music, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora, TuneIn Radio, and numerous other podcast apps. Get the full list of options here: https://pod.link/1651062114EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources and print version):https://weirddarkness.com/cotu-gingervitisWeird Darkness® and Church Of The Undead™ are trademarked. Copyright © 2026.

Steve is joined once again by Cathida Katt Gray to discuss legends and folklore from Appalachia. Find Cathida on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@GhostLoreYTBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/missing-persons-mysteries--5624803/support.

On this stop of the Backwoods Cryptid Road Trip, Brian heads into North Dakota and follows the Missouri River in search of one of the strangest creatures ever recorded in the folklore of the northern plains: the Miniwashitu.More than a century ago, ethnologist Melvin Randolph Gilmore wrote of a mysterious being said to live beneath the Missouri. Covered in red hair like a buffalo, with a single eye, one horn, and a jagged backbone resembling the teeth of an enormous saw, the Miniwashitu was believed to swim upstream each spring as the river broke apart.Witnesses were said to hear its terrible roar, see a strange redness trailing through the water, and know better than to look directly at it in daylight.According to the story Gilmore preserved, the last man who did was struck blind, lost his reason, and died soon afterward.From that chilling piece of recorded folklore, Brian travels the Missouri and the reservoirs connected to it through five unsettling accounts involving something moving upstream beneath breaking ice. A nine-year-old girl watches a saw-toothed back rise from the river north of Washburn. A worker below Garrison Dam sees an enormous red-haired form tear through an ice jam. Teenagers on Standing Rock watch a red glow moving beneath frozen Lake Oahe. Kayakers encounter something impossibly large fighting the Missouri's current.And an ice fisherman feels the frozen lake rise beneath his feet before hearing a roar coming through the ice.Then the episode leaves the water behind.North Dakota may be known for open prairie, but its river bottoms, wooded valleys, badlands, and scattered forests have produced another kind of report.Brian heads into the Turtle Mountains, Pembina Gorge, Missouri River bottoms, Killdeer Mountains, and Sheyenne Valley for five accounts of enormous upright, hair-covered figures seen by hunters, riders, ranch hands, and families.Along the way, Brian also reflects on the unexplained things he's encountered on his own property in the Appalachian woods—footprints, strange nighttime vocalizations, bent saplings, tree structures, and rock stacks—and why stories from people who encounter something impossible in familiar country hit differently once you've experienced something you can't easily explain yourself.From something roaring beneath the Missouri River ice to massive figures watching from the timber, North Dakota may be one of the most unexpected—and unsettling—stops on the entire road trip.Email BrianJoin Our FREE NewsletterGet Brian's Books Leave Us A VoicemailVisit Our WebsiteHave you experienced a Bigfoot sighting, Sasquatch encounter, Dogman experience, UFO sighting, or any unexplained cryptid or paranormal event deep in the woods? We want to hear your story.Email your encounter to brian@paranormalworldproductions.com for a chance to be featured on a future episode of Backwoods Bigfoot Stories.Backwoods Bigfoot Stories is a paranormal storytelling podcast featuring real Bigfoot encounters, Sasquatch sightings, Dogman reports, cryptid experiences, and true scary stories from the backwoods.Follow the show and turn on automatic downloads so you never miss a chilling encounter from the forest. Listen with the lights off… if you dare.

The autumn equinox falls on 23 September in the UK in 2026. This marks the definite slide towards the winter solstice! In terms of folklore, there are many articles about the autumn equinox from a neopagan perspective. Yet the festival only gained the name 'Mabon' in the 1970s, named by American Aidan Kelly. He chose 'Mabon' from Mabon ap Modron, who appears in Welsh mythology, though there is little in Mabon's story to link him with the autumn equinox. There's little evidence that anyone celebrated the equinox in the same way they might celebrate the winter solstice. Instead, this period of the year is traditionally a time of harvest festivals.  But as we're looking at the Folklore of the Skies this month, I wanted to know: is there anything folklore about the autumn equinox in an astronomical sense? Let's find out in this week's episode of Fabulous Folklore! Find the images and sources used on the associated blog post: https://www.icysedgwick.com/autumn-equinox/ Get your free guide to home protection the folklore way here: https://www.icysedgwick.com/fab-folklore/ Become a member of the Fabulous Folklore Family for bonus episodes and articles at https://patreon.com/bePatron?u=2380595 Get weekly articles and bonus content at Substack: https://fabulousfolklore.substack.com/ Buy Icy a coffee or sign up for bonus episodes at: https://ko-fi.com/icysedgwick Find the Fabulous Folklore Bookshop, Icy's social media links, and other useful bits at: https://icysedgwick.com/start-here

Fluent Fiction - Norwegian: Unlocking Secrets: The Mystery of Vågåmo's Bottled Message Find the full episode transcript, vocabulary words, and more:fluentfiction.com/no/episode/2026-09-19-07-38-19-no Story Transcript:No: Det var en frisk høstdag i Vågåmo.En: It was a crisp autumn day in Vågåmo.No: Lufta var klar og kjølig, og det knaste i bladene under føttene til dem som vandret langs stiene.En: The air was clear and cool, and the leaves crunched under the feet of those who walked along the paths.No: Sindre var på vei ned til Lake Vågåvatnet med fiskestangen sin, akkurat som han gjorde nesten hver dag.En: Sindre was on his way down to Lake Vågåvatnet with his fishing rod, just as he did almost every day.No: Han elsket stillheten ved vannet og lyden av bølger som lappet forsiktig mot stranden.En: He loved the silence by the water and the sound of waves gently lapping against the shore.No: Denne morgenen oppdaget han noe uvanlig.En: This morning, he discovered something unusual.No: En flaske lå mellom noen steiner ved vannkanten.En: A bottle lay between some stones by the water's edge.No: Den glinset i sollyset, og inni flaska så Sindre et stykke papir.En: It glistened in the sunlight, and inside the bottle, Sindre saw a piece of paper.No: Øynene hans lyste opp av nysgjerrighet.En: His eyes lit up with curiosity.No: Han bøyde seg forsiktig og plukket opp flaska.En: He bent down carefully and picked up the bottle.No: En beskjed i en flaske – noe fra et eventyr.En: A message in a bottle – something out of a fairy tale.No: Elin, en besøkende fotograf, gikk langs sjøen med sitt kamera.En: Elin, a visiting photographer, was walking along the lake with her camera.No: Hun hadde ankommet Vågåmo for å fange høstens skjønnhet.En: She had arrived in Vågåmo to capture the beauty of autumn.No: Men bak linsa lette hun egentlig etter noe mer – en savnet gnist.En: But behind the lens, she was actually searching for something more – a missing spark.No: Når hun så Sindre undersøke flaska, ble hun interessert og gikk bort til ham.En: When she saw Sindre examining the bottle, she became interested and walked over to him.No: "Hei, hva har du der?En: "Hi, what do you have there?"No: " spurte hun.En: she asked.No: "En beskjed," svarte Sindre mens han vridde korken av.En: "A message," Sindre replied as he twisted off the cork.No: Sammen leste de ordene på det gamle papiret.En: Together they read the words on the old paper.No: "Faren nærmer seg.En: "Danger is approaching.No: Vokt landsbyen," sto det i en vaklende håndskrift.En: Guard the village," it said in shaky handwriting.No: De stirret på hverandre, forvirrede men også tenta av mysteriet.En: They stared at each other, confused but also sparked by the mystery.No: Ord om fare spredte seg raskt blant innbyggerne.En: Words of danger spread quickly among the inhabitants.No: Sindre visste at han måtte finne ut av beskjedens betydning.En: Sindre knew he had to find out the meaning of the message.No: Han tenkte på gamle legender fra landsbyen.En: He thought of old legends from the village.No: Kanskje denne beskjeden var knyttet til dem?En: Maybe this message was connected to them?No: Elin bestemte seg for å følge med, hennes kamera klart til å dokumentere.En: Elin decided to tag along, her camera ready to document.No: De begynte å følge ledetråder i nærheten av sjøen.En: They began to follow clues near the lake.No: Gamle merker, en steinstøtte som knapt kunne sees gjennom de høstfarget trærne.En: Old marks, a stone pillar barely visible through the autumn-colored trees.No: De fant en helt spesiell stein som hadde sittet der lengre enn noen kunne huske.En: They found a very special stone that had been there longer than anyone could remember.No: Elin knipset bilder mens Sindre utfordret seg med å forstå symbolene gravert inn i steinen.En: Elin snapped pictures while Sindre challenged himself to understand the symbols engraved into the stone.No: Snart oppdaget de sannheten.En: Soon they discovered the truth.No: Beskjeden i flaska refererte ikke til en kommende fare, men en glemt hendelse fra fortiden.En: The message in the bottle did not refer to upcoming danger, but a forgotten event from the past.No: Det var en advarsel som hadde forhindret en katastrofe for mange år siden.En: It was a warning that had prevented a catastrophe many years ago.No: Nå, steinen fortalte historien, men hadde vært skjult av tidens tann.En: Now, the stone told the story but had been hidden by the ravages of time.No: Med denne nye forståelsen delte Sindre og Elin sine funn med landsbyen.En: With this new understanding, Sindre and Elin shared their findings with the village.No: Angsten ble erstattet med lettelse, og en dypere interesse for lokal historie oppsto.En: Anxiety was replaced with relief, and a deeper interest in local history emerged.No: Elin følte inspirasjonen bruse gjennom seg som en frisk høstvind.En: Elin felt inspiration rushing through her like a fresh autumn wind.No: Hennes fotografier, nå rike med mening, ble til en hyllest til stedet og folket.En: Her photographs, now rich with meaning, became a tribute to the place and its people.No: Sindre, med en fornyet respekt for landsbyens fortid, delte historier han aldri før hadde tenkt mye på.En: Sindre, with a renewed respect for the village's past, shared stories he had never thought much about before.No: Vågåmo føltes mer levende, koblet sammen av felles arv og et nytt kapittel skrevet i høstens gyldne farger.En: Vågåmo felt more alive, connected by shared heritage and a new chapter written in the golden colors of autumn. Vocabulary Words:crisp: friskcrunched: knasteglistened: glinsetcuriosity: nysgjerrighetspark: gnistcork: korkshaky: vaklendeinquiry: forespørsellegend: legendepillar: steinstøtteengraved: gravertravages: tidens tanncatastrophe: katastrofeheritage: arvautumn: høstautumn-colored: høstfargetphotographer: fotografdocument: dokumentereshore: strandcataclysm: kataklysmeinhabitants: innbyggerneobserve: observereventure: vandremystery: mysterietribute: hyllestinvigorate: bruseunderstanding: forståelseshared: fellessparked: tentacapture: fange

"Stretta la soglia e larga la via, dite la vostra ché ho detto la mia. . .” (Narrow the threshold and broad the way. Now you tell your tale, for I have told you mine)"- Gina M. Miele, Italian Folklore, Chapter 1 - What is Italian Folk Tradition?Welcome to Episode #151:Today we gather to share a conversation about keeping the traditions of ancient Italy alive. Dr Gina M. Miele, Professor of Italian studies at Montclair State University in the US is here to talk about her beautiful book Italian Folklore: Rituals, Celebrations, and Ancient Traditions.Gina is a treasure trove of information and lived experience. Her book Italian Folklore is the perfect companion, providing us a synthesis of the history, the knowledge, the traditions, the secrets and yet celebrating the sacred and the daily, while honouring the folkloric traditions, the oral wisdom, the past, the ancestry and the spirit of the old ways in Italy. Gina is a wonderful story teller, she holds space for the old and the new and shares a way to walk the path between the mystical and the mundane in Italian culture; that many ways, many layers can co-exist, be honoured and celebrated.As a lover of books, the beauty of this work and the illustration is also an invitation. The design is by Italian artist and designer Sylvia Virgillo is another special layer to this book, you will want to hold this work in your hands and open to a page to see for yourself. Italian Folklore is on preorder and released on the 29th September and I thought I would publish this share on the Feast Day of Saint Gennaro of Naples, and there is a reason for that you will get to know at the end of our conversation, a little of that Italian magic is afoot.Enjoy this conversation and thank you Gina for sharing your work with us.About the Author:Dr. Gina Miele is a Professor of Italian at Montclair State University, where she also served as the founding director of the Coccia Institute for the Italian Experience in America. She holds a PhD in Romance languages and Literatures from Harvard University.For many years, she has traveled throughout Italy and Italian - American communities, documenting living folklore traditions and the stories that continue to be shared across generations. The Book - Italian Folklore: Rituals, Celebrations and Ancient Traditions by Gina M. Miele PhD*Visit Gina on Instagram @profgmmShownotes A Writer in Italy InstagramSubstack - At My TableMichelle's BooksMusical Scores by Richard JohnstonA Writer in Italy is about travel and life. A place to share the beautiful travel journeys and the discoveries along the way. Italy has many attractions - art, design, architecture, history and the wonderful food culture. Michelle shares her love of books on Italy and the places and regions that have inspired her along the way.Michelle started 'A Writer in Italy Podcast' to share personal stories and the love of books on Italy that would lead to beautiful conversations with people and like minded souls who share a deep love affair with Italian Culture and the country as a place of beauty and spiritual renewal.Michelle Johnston lives in Australia with her family.© 2026  A Writer In Italy - travel, books, art and lifeMusic Composed by Richard Johnston © 2026A Writer in Italy Podcast respectfully acknowledges that this work is created on the country of the Ngambri peoples and culture, and pays respects to their Elders, past and present.A White Chalk ProductionSupport the show

This week I bring back film director Blake Cortright to talk all about movies and television shows that were filmed here in the Adirondacks. The list was much more extensive than we expected. Grab some popcorn.Watch Blake's documentary film "The 46'ers" HEREFollow on Instagram & Facebook:@46of46podcast@jamesappleton46COACHING & TRAINING PROGRAMS FOR HIKERS:Start training towards stronger mountain adventures, download the MTN STRENGTH app in the app stores, or click HERE**Use promo code "PODCAST" to save an extra $50 off a yearly membership for listenersHere are 3 more ways I can help you enjoy stronger mountain adventures:1.) Pick up my new book HIKE STRONG to learn how to train to get strong & fit for the mountains. Complete with DIY training plans. Available wherever you get your books or HERE2.) Join the next GREAT RANGE ATHLETE Team training programA 6-week online fitness program to help you imporve your strength and endurance for hiking mountains. Train alongside a likeminded team of fellow hikers who will give you the support, guidance, and accountability you need to succeed.Over 350 hikers worldwide have joined the Great Range Athlete team program with great sucesss from first time hikers to multi-round Adirondack 46'ers and everywhere inbetween. Plus, enjoy an Adirondack group hike at the end of the program with your coach and teammatesJoin the next team HEREwww.GreatRangeAthlete.com3.) Work with James 1-on-1 (online)Apply to work with directy with James 1-on-1 in his Seek To Do More program where he'll help you build the right kind of strength & conditioning for better hiking adventures, along with the nutrition and daily habits needed to support long term transformation. Book a call with James to see if it's the right fit for you HEREwww.seektodomore.com Get my Adirondack hiking books:1.) The Adirondack 46 in 18 Hikes: The Complete Guide to Hiking the High Peaks 2.) Adirondack Campfire Stories: Tales and Folklore from Inside the Blue Line3.) Pick up my digital eBook "From 1-to-46" instantly HEREVisit my websites:www.46OUTDOORS.comwww.46OF46.com

Two people who love analyzing Taylor Swift songs together discuss two people who can never be together in this episode of "The Taylor Seminars." Exquisite and Hannah talk about "exile," track 4 of "folklore," to see how the two people are on completely opposite poles and compare it to a different song where a disagreement was resolved. Enjoy the episode? Buy us a cup of coffee on Ko-Fi! ⁠And don't forget to join the conversation with #FolkloreSeminars on X/TwitterFollow us on Instagram: @thetaylorseminars Follow us on Twitter: @taylorseminarsCover Art by Alef Vernon: Follow him on InstagramSupport Alef on Patreon.

Our journey to Mordor begins with the first installment of Peter Jackson's The Lord of The Rings trilogy, The Fellowship of The Ring(2001)! Three Rings for the Elven Kings, those androgynous guys Seven for the Dwarf Lords, hairy women they will bone Nine for Mortal Men, who love beer and pizza pies One for the Dark Couyon on his silly throne In the bar down the street where the drunkards lie One couyon to rule them all, one couyon to find them That one couyon was in the darkness and fell down the stairs In the bar down the street where couyons go to die TNC: https://linktr.ee/thenightclub

Send us Fan MailJoin the Boozy Bitches as we discuss the mysterious Bennington Triangle. During a five year timespan in the 1940s, five people disappeared in Vermont, with only one of them ever found. Were the disappearances connected? And what happened to them? Listen in while we discuss this enduring mystery. For this episode, listen on all platforms or watch on YouTube!Connect with us on Instagram>>> https://www.instagram.com/boozybanterwithfriends/Watch this episode on YouTube>>> http://www.youtube.com/@boozybanterwithfriendsFor more info, visit our website>>> https://boozybanterwithfriends.com/

Welcome to LTP:Healed Version, where Jacqueline and Meghan get their emotions destroyed by Folklore and Evermore. Obviously the sister albums had to be in the same month because they are sisters and not at all because August quite literally slipped away like a moment in time…..This may be a good time to mention that we will be trauma dumping, just a little bit, but it's okay because we both got to see bestie therapist Rachel. Put on your flannel, braid your hair, and lets use $15 words. Follow LTP on Social Media

Dan introduces us to a new thing to be afraid of, the qareen. This entity feels like a suped up doppleganger. We hope you like it! The, a much kinder entity helps a young woman out when she is having a really bad day. Then Lynze also has a helpful ghost called Sarah, who helps keep a baby safe. Lastly, the creepiest version of Winnie The Pooh makes an appearance.  AMAZING new merch in the store this month, head on over to badmagicproductions.com to grab your killer clown t's, dancing moth designs or maybe the same apron that Maggie wore at Peterson's!  Do you want to get all of our episodes a WEEK early, ad free? Want to help us support amazing charities? Join us on Patreon! Want to be a Patron? Get episodes AD-FREE, listen and watch before they are released to anyone else, bonus episodes, a 20% merch discount, additional content, and more! Learn more by visiting: https://www.patreon.com/scaredtodeathpodcast. Send stories to mystory@scaredtodeathpodcast.com Send everything else to info@scaredtodeathpodcast.com Please rate, review, and subscribe anywhere you listen. Thank you for listening! Follow the show on social media: @scaredtodeathpodcast on Facebook and IG and TT Website: https://www.badmagicproductions.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/scaredtodeathpodcast Instagram: https://bit.ly/2miPLf5 Mailing Address: Scared to Death PO Box 3891 Coeur d'Alene, ID 83816 Opening Sumerian protection spell (adapted): "Whether thou art a ghost that hath come from the earth, or a phantom of night that hath no home… or one that lieth dead in the desert… or a ghost unburied… or a demon or a ghoul… Whatever thou be until thou art removed… thou shalt find here no water to drink… Thou shalt not stretch forth thy hand to our own… Into our house enter thou not. Through our fence, breakthrough thou not… we are protected though we may be frightened. Our life you may not steal, though we may feel SCARED TO DEATH." Subscribe to SiriusXM Podcasts+ to listen to new episodes of Scared to Death ad-free and a whole week early. Start a free trial now on Apple Podcasts or by visiting siriusxm.com/podcastsplus. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

We're talking about the Exemplar Templar this episode: Gawain. You probably know his story about The Green Knight, but do you know his other fascinating tales like his cursed wife, his best horse, and his epic feud with Lancelot??Content Warning: This episode contains conversations about or mentions of abduction, violence, sexual assault, arophobia, murder, and infidelity. Housekeeping- Books: Check out our previous book recommendations, guests' books, and more at spiritspodcast.com/books- Call to Action: Will you join us for year 10, episode 500, and beyond at patreon.com/spiritspodcast??- Submit Your Urban Legends Audio: Call us! 617-420-2344- Check out the fabulous sexual education podcast Sex Ed with DB! Find Us Online- Website & Transcripts: spiritspodcast.com- Patreon: patreon.com/spiritspodcast- Merch: spiritspodcast.com/merch- Instagram: instagram.com/spiritspodcast- Bluesky: bsky.app/profile/spiritspodcast.com- Twitter: twitter.com/spiritspodcast- Tumblr: spiritspodcast.tumblr.comCast & Crew- Co-Hosts: Julia Schifini and Amanda McLoughlin- Editor: Bren Frederick- Music: Brandon Grugle, based on "Danger Storm" by Kevin MacLeod- Artwork: Allyson Wakeman- Multitude: multitude.productionsAbout UsSpirits is a boozy podcast about mythology, legends, and folklore. Every episode, co-hosts Julia and Amanda mix a drink and discuss a new story or character from a wide range of places, eras, and cultures. Learn brand-new stories and enjoy retellings of your favorite myths, served over ice every week, on Spirits.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

In this episode of Fabulous Folklore Presents, I'm joined by writer Charlie Creed, to chat about his new book, The Faery Rules: Forgotten Folklore for Living in Harmony with the Fae. We talk about why people persist in thinking fairies are all lovely and light when folklore says otherwise, ways you can protect yourself from fairies, and some of the more unusual beliefs that abound when it comes to talking about all things fairy-like! Charlie Creed is a writer from Bristol. He studied English Literature at Cambridge University before working as a musician, newspaper subeditor, and freelance writer. He is the author of The Cat's Tales: Feline Fairy Tales and Folklore and The Faery Rules: Forgotten Folklore for Living in Harmony with the Fae. He lives in Bristol with his wife and two daughters. Buy The Faery Rules: https://uk.bookshop.org/a/12992/9781446317433 Find Charlie Creed on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/charliecreedwriter/ Get your free guide to home protection the folklore way here: https://www.icysedgwick.com/fab-folklore/ Become a member of the Fabulous Folklore Family for bonus episodes and articles at https://patreon.com/bePatron?u=2380595 Get weekly articles and bonus content at Substack: https://fabulousfolklore.substack.com/ Buy Icy a coffee or sign up for bonus episodes at: https://ko-fi.com/icysedgwick Find the Fabulous Folklore Bookshop, Icy's social media links, and other useful bits at: https://icysedgwick.com/start-here

The swan has carried more symbolic weight in European tradition than almost any other animal — beauty understood as divine since at least the Greeks, grace that the old stories treated as a kind of power in disguise. The Moon in Carolina host Shelby Bundy traces the folklore from Apollo's sacred bird to the Irish Children of Lir, through the belief that swans arrive from the Otherworld in the dark months of the year, and the quiet folk tradition that a person cannot die peacefully on a pillow stuffed with swan feathers. 

The Wild West wasn't all shootouts and saloons – but when danger came, it carved legends in blood, bullets, and bone.EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/ToDieInTheOldWestREAD or DOWNLOAD the full transcript of this episode: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/2p9b8raxFEATURED STORIES IN THIS EPISODE: The Wild West, where no matter how tough and rugged you might be, you can never defeat Old Man Death. And he was creative in how he dispensed his touch. (To Die In The Old West) *** Charles Howard Schmid Jr. charmed and befriended the teenagers of Tucson, Arizona in the 1960s — all while brutally murdering three young girls. (The Pied Piper of Tuscon) *** One of the lesser-known crytpids is something called the Hidebehind, a mysterious creature that stalked 19th-century lumberjacks, preying on those who let their guard down in the forest. (The Hidebehind) *** Brianna Maitland left her dishwashing job and was never seen alive again. Despite various theories and sightings, Brianna's disappearance continues to baffle investigators and haunt her family, who still hold out hope for answers and her safe return. (The Vanishing of Brianna Maitland) *** In 1906, explorer Robert Peary claimed to have discovered a mysterious island he named Crocker Land, but was it a genuine find, a calculated deception, or something even more bizarre? (The Myth of Crocker Island) *** Lyndia Morel's quiet drive home took a chilling turn when she encountered a mysterious craft and experienced a baffling episode of missing time. Was it a case of alien abduction? (The Lyndia Morel Incident) *** In May of 1963, a bizarre creature terrorized Centreville, Illinois, prompting over 50 calls to the police from alarmed residents. Descriptions ranged from a "half man, half woman" to a "half man, half horse." (The Centerville Monster)CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…00:00.00.000 = The Foreboding00:01:31.179 = Show Open00:04:10.280 = To Die In The Old West00:19:01.581 = The Hidebehind ***00:21:49.186 = The Pied Piper of Tuscon00:26:56.983 = The Lyndia Morel Incident00:41:06.311 = The Vanishing of Brianna Maitland ***00:48:52.055 = The Myth of Crocker Island00:56:42.239 = The Centerville Monster ***00:58:30.243 = Show Close*** = Begins immediately after inserted ad breakLISTEN ON PODCAST APPS: Look for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora, TuneIn Radio, and other podcast apps. Get a list of free listening apps here: https://weirddarkness.com/wdapps*No AI Voices Are Used In The Narration Of This Podcast*SOURCES and RESOURCES:BOOK: “Giants, Monsters, and Dragons: An Encyclopedia of Folklore, Legend, and Myth” by Carol Rose:https://amzn.to/3VpnkKk“To Die In The Old West” source: Quinn Armstrong, Weird History: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/2p884ck2“The Hidebehind” source: Astonishing Legends: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/4nj3h5en“The Pied Piper of Tuscon” source: Bernadette Giocamazzo, All That's Interesting: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/4dzvmspf“The Lyndia Morel Incident” source: Marcus Lowth, UFO Insight: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/4v8yewbr“The Vanishing of Brianna Maitland” by Troy Taylor (used with permission): https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/2d6fbz5h“The Myth of Crocker Island” source: Kaushik Patowary: Amusing Planet: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/bdz38sce“The Centerville Monster” by Troy Taylor (used with permission): https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/4h8wpeee(Over time links may become invalid, disappear, or have different content. I always make sure to give authors credit for the material I use whenever possible. If I somehow overlooked doing so for a story, or if a credit is incorrect, please let me know and I will rectify it in these show notes immediately. Some links included above may benefit me financially through qualifying purchases.)WeirdDarkness® is a registered trademark. Copyright ©2026, Weird Darkness.Originally aired: May 29, 2024LIKE WHAT YOU'RE HEARING? WEIRD DARKNESS posts episodes 7 DAYS A WEEK! Listen FREE wherever you get podcasts or visit https://weirddarkness.com/listen. • Paranormal • True Crime • Ghosts • UFOs • Cryptids • Unexplained • Want even more? Become an OFFICIAL WEIRDO for commercial-free episodes, bonus episodes, weeknight live chats, audiobooks & more at https://WeirdDarkness.com/OFFICIAL

#vampire #folklore Join us on Patreon for zero ads ALWAYS! www.patreon.com/hauntedcitypodcast.comHistorian, folklorist, and author Adam Marrow joins us to explore the strange supernatural beliefs of early America. We dive into his new book, *By Stake and Prayer*, uncovering colonial witchcraft, the New England vampire panic, werewolf lore, witch bottles, pirate ghosts, buried treasure, and the very real history behind some of America's darkest legends.Plus, Adam shares the story behind his historically accurate vampire-hunting kit and a centuries-old pirate treasure mystery that may still be waiting along the South Carolina coast.Catch Adam Marrow at the Savannah Paranormal Museum on September 25th for a book signing and meet-and-greet! www.savannahparanormalmuseum.com

Episode: 3407 In which we forget that John Jacob Niles gave us some of our best-loved music. Today, who wrote the song?

On this episode of Mothboys, your favorite T-shirt company smashes another months long hiatus and discusses The Cisco Grove UFO Encounter, a tale that somehow combines UFOs, robots, and Danny DeVito. We also discuss our huge new project that is coming in 2027, and again we talk about our merch, because we are now a t-shirt company not a podcast.....Mothboys is sponsored by:Visit Braxton, WV-Braxton County, West Virginia is Home of the Flatwoods Monster, as well as sightings of Bigfoot, UFO's  and ghosts… Visit the link above for more information on all the wonderful things that Braxton County offers.Follow along on our moth-journey on Instagram at @mothboyspodcast and on Facebook at Mothboys.

THE DEVIL WITHIN The New Monsters: Alligators in the Sewers — Episode Three: The Monster Under Manhattan By 1980, the alligator had escaped. The legend that began with misplaced reptiles, a very real 1935 newspaper story and Teddy May's extraordinary tales of an underground colony had finally crawled out of the sewers and into American popular culture. Hollywood was waiting. In the wonderfully excessive 1980 creature feature Alligator, a little girl brings home a baby alligator named Ramon. Her father eventually decides reptile ownership has run its course and flushes the animal down the toilet. Twelve years later, Ramon has survived beneath the city by eating discarded laboratory animals pumped full of experimental growth hormones. The adorable souvenir has become an enormous, man-eating monster. And the remarkable thing is that audiences barely needed the premise explained. By then, everybody knew the story. Baby alligator. Toilet. Sewer. Darkness. Monster. In the final episode of Alligators in the Sewers, we explore how one of America's greatest urban legends escaped New York and became part of our shared cultural imagination. Robert Daley's 1959 book The World Beneath the City gave Teddy May's stories a permanent home. Thomas Pynchon's 1963 novel V. populated Manhattan's sewers with albino alligators. Books, newspapers and word of mouth continued adding details until ordinary abandoned pets had evolved into enormous, pale, blind creatures supposedly feeding on New York's endless population of rats. By the 1970s, the city itself had become the perfect setting. Aging infrastructure, graffiti-covered subway cars, crime, disinvestment and the fiscal crisis transformed New York's underground from a symbol of nineteenth-century engineering triumph into something darker. The tunnels beneath Manhattan became a place where anything might be hiding. Then Alligator gave the legend its monster movie. But reality has an irritating habit of occasionally helping folklore along. In 2001, a caiman appeared in Central Park's Harlem Meer. In 2010, police found a young alligator beneath a parked car near a storm drain in Queens. And in 2023, workers discovered an emaciated four-foot alligator in Brooklyn's Prospect Park. None were evidence of some secret breeding colony beneath New York. They were almost certainly abandoned or escaped exotic pets. Which, of course, was exactly how the legend supposedly began. Nearly ninety years after East 123rd Street, New Yorkers were still finding alligators where alligators had absolutely no business being. And perhaps that is why this particular monster refuses to die. The sewer alligator was assembled from pieces of reality. Americans really did buy baby alligators. People really did abandon exotic pets. Crocodilians really have appeared in New York. Beneath the streets really does exist an enormous hidden geography of sewers, subway tunnels, utility corridors, buried waterways and infrastructure most of us will never see. Folklore simply connected those facts and populated the darkness between them. Today, New York has gone one step further and embraced the creature. In 2023, artist Alexander Klingspor's NYC Legend placed an enormous bronze alligator atop a manhole cover in Union Square. The monster supposedly hunted beneath the city had finally returned to the surface as public art. First New York feared the alligator. Then it laughed at it. Eventually, it made the thing a mascot. And that may make the sewer alligator one of the prototypes for everything we've been exploring in The New Monsters. Long before Slender Man spread through internet forums, before the Backrooms became a collaboratively constructed online universe, and before millions of people analyzed pixels searching for the Fresno Nightcrawler, New Yorkers were already creating folklore in real time. They simply did it with newspapers, books, schoolyards and stories passed from one person to another. New York built an extraordinary artificial wilderness beneath itself. And every wilderness eventually gets a monster. NEXT TIME ON THE NEW MONSTERS: THE BUNNY MAN Next time, we leave Manhattan behind and head for the rapidly expanding suburbs of Northern Virginia, where another distinctly American monster emerged from an entirely different landscape. Our backdrop this time isn't the sewer. It's the suburb. In October 1970, police began receiving reports of a strange man wearing a rabbit costume who allegedly threatened people with an axe. Newspapers picked up the story. Then came another encounter. Over the decades, those incidents accumulated escaped mental patients, mutilated animals, murdered children and a lonely railroad overpass that generations of teenagers would eventually visit after dark. The strangest part of the Bunny Man legend isn't that much of what people believe about him never happened. It's that something really did happen first. Next time on The New Monsters: The Bunny Man. LISTEN • WATCH • FOLLOW Listen & Follow: Follow The Devil Within wherever you get your podcasts so you never miss an episode of The New Monsters. Rate & Review: Leave a five-star rating and review. It remains one of the most effective ways to help new listeners discover the show. Watch & Subscribe: Watch The Devil Within on the Evio Creative YouTube channel. Subscribe and turn on notifications for full episodes, videos and exclusive content. Join the Conversation: Follow @thedevilwithinpod and tell us which modern monster you want us to investigate next. 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Do you think you're more or less likely to be haunted if you sleep naked? How about if you take lots of baths? We're asking the hard hitting questions about why ghosts are kind of creepers sometimes with these urban legends! Content Warning: This episode contains conversations about or mentions of strained family relationships, victim blaming, and voyeurism. Housekeeping- Books: Check out our previous book recommendations, guests' books, and more at spiritspodcast.com/books- Call to Action: Will you join us for year 10, episode 500, and beyond at patreon.com/spiritspodcast??- Submit Your Urban Legends Audio: Call us! 617-420-2344- Check out the fabulous sexual education podcast Sex Ed with DB! Find Us Online- Website & Transcripts: spiritspodcast.com- Patreon: patreon.com/spiritspodcast- Merch: spiritspodcast.com/merch- Instagram: instagram.com/spiritspodcast- Bluesky: bsky.app/profile/spiritspodcast.com- Twitter: twitter.com/spiritspodcast- Tumblr: spiritspodcast.tumblr.comCast & Crew- Co-Hosts: Julia Schifini and Amanda McLoughlin- Editor: Bren Frederick- Music: Brandon Grugle, based on "Danger Storm" by Kevin MacLeod- Artwork: Allyson Wakeman- Multitude: multitude.productionsAbout UsSpirits is a boozy podcast about mythology, legends, and folklore. Every episode, co-hosts Julia and Amanda mix a drink and discuss a new story or character from a wide range of places, eras, and cultures. Learn brand-new stories and enjoy retellings of your favorite myths, served over ice every week, on Spirits.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.