Tracing Owls
247 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 2 months ago - ★★★★★ - 30 ratingsAn eccentrically nuanced exploration into Fortean philosophy, focusing on the roles of Mother Nature, the Trickster and the experiencer in shaping phenomena, with tremendous doses of absurdity, mischief, but also humility! Cryptids, UFOs, Paranormal phenomena, High strangeness and Fortean anomalies, do they all possibly originate from the same source? Are they actually a mirror to our own subconsciousness, and what may they teach us about ourselves? We seek to catalogue the overlooked, spotlight the disregarded, and remind that the cosmic expanse is much greater than our understanding of it!
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Check my guest appearances (I'm all over the place)
February 20, 2024 10:36 - 2 minutes - 2.48 MBAll my guest appearances can be found in the Linktree below: https://linktr.ee/tracingowls I will continue to keep this up to date with every guest appearance I do. I urge all of you to check out (and binge) all of these shows. They are amazing creators with wonderful content.
Tale of the Guglucanga
February 01, 2024 10:35 - 4 minutes - 5.47 MBA fitting end to the show. I created this little skit about 3 years ago and it is uncanny how much it still resonates and expresses my views on cryptozoology, and by extension most of "paranormal investigation" as a whole. Thanks to all the listeners who stuck around despite always hearing me say stuff they do not want to hear, but probably should. Thanks to all the guests who helped us better understand the complex linguistic, cultural, social and personal nuances of these odd interests ...
REWIND | Psychedelic Sasquatch Bedtime Cocktail - with UFO Bigfoot
August 29, 2023 22:23 - 1 hour - 59.5 MBUFO Bigfoot snuggles with me in bed to discuss awesome paranormal books, the Bigfoot/UFO connection, Bigfoot as an egregore and a plethora of connections between the Fae and other liminal entities! He is a bit shy at first snuggling in bed with a stranger, but eventually opens up to share his own personal experiences: a childhood ghost encounter, the sighting of a light orb splitting into 12 pieces, and a shamanic initiation under the influence of 90s acid! DISCLAIMER: Please don't use drugs...
Hungry Hungry Hippos
August 25, 2023 10:19 - 9 minutes - 10.9 MBMight river monster legends be projected ancestral memories of freakin' hippos, passed onto us from our earliest roots in Africa? Discussed are the Kelpie, Dobhar-chu, Ahuizotl, and their possible achetypal ties to the #1 deadliest animal in Africa!
Oogie Boogie Bookmarks
August 24, 2023 09:58 - 14 minutes - 26.9 MBDo cryptids and ghosts serve as personified reminders of obscure historical events? And are we using them as middle men who allow us to gracefully disassociate ourselves from the errors of our past? Discussed is the idea that cryptids and ghosts may serve as bookmarks which help us rediscover our own history, with special emphasis on the Hull Werewolf and the Sliderock Bolter.
REWIND | Why So Sad, Squonk? - with Lisa Russell of Cryptid Comforts
August 23, 2023 05:55 - 46 minutes - 61.9 MBBe sure to plan a trip to Central Park, Johnstown, PA on August 26th for Squonkapalooza! More info on Squonkapalooza can be found on their Instagram @squonkapalooza or their website Squonkapalooza.com ====================== Huge THANK YOU!!! to Lisa Russell from Cryptid Comforts for keeping this wonderful legend alive! Follow Cryptid Comforts on Instagram @cryptid_comforts and their website CryptidComforts.com ====================== Episode artwork by Ben from @thehodagstore Send...
Catching the Idea Butterfly
August 22, 2023 23:45 - 13 minutes - 12.9 MBI have been pursuing the idea butterflies so intensely that my head has found its way up my butt! So as I am taking a break, my plans are to create audio blog content where I may ramble and pass these butterflies (and some gas) onto y'all! P.S. I was informed that "divinating" is not a real word, but since "divining" sounds very Christian for some reason I don't care 🤣
REWIND | Egregoric Humbuggery - with Jordan Heath
August 19, 2023 13:17 - 1 hour - 95 MBJordan joins my attempt to piss off the cryptid community by endorsing them darn hoaxers! We blatantly declare the Patterson-Gimlin footage a hoax, using its mangled remains alongside other fraudulent cryptid shenanigans to demonstrate how Bigfoot actually IS real, but not the way you want it to be! Can hoaxes actually spark genuine phenomena? Can they manifest monsters in the form of egregores or tulpas? Or are these monstrous manifestations rather our instinctual projections which insp...
REWIND | Invasion of the Culture Snatchers - with Cracking Cryptids and Curios
August 15, 2023 07:50 - 1 hour - 105 MBMatt and Angel lose their minds digging through the questionable origins of beloved international cryptids! Starting a cryptid podcast just as a fun way to talk about monsters, their desire for proper research oftentimes leads them head first into the dark underbelly of our historical past they never anticipate! Cultural appropriation, colonial imperialism, and even blatant racism have been a staple of cryptozoology since its inception. Has this changed at all in modern times, or are we ...
SPOTLIGHT | Autopsy. Podcast - Elisa Lam
August 11, 2023 08:00 - 25 minutes - 23.2 MBThe autopsy of Elisa Lam. Much has been said and made of the tragic death of this young woman. Odd circumstances to be sure. The truth, however, is quite elementary. ====================== Check out Landern's podcast, creatively named Autopsy. HERE Follow Landen on Instagram @autopsypodcast or Twitter @autopsy_podcast Check out his website as well at www.autopsypod.com (yes, he is semi-professional) Also, if you can't get enough of his logo, which is not stroke inducing like my...
REWIND | Pickled Martian Monkey - with Autopsy. Podcast
August 08, 2023 08:03 - 1 hour - 66.3 MBThe 1953 Martian Monkey Hoax: at the time Georgia's most enduring unsolved mystery! This scandal grabbed the imagination of international newspapers, and the poor judgement of bad veterinarians, sparking the annoyed granddaddy of Georgian forensic science himself to crack the case within just a few hours! Nevertheless, this odd story is now forever catalogued within the annals of Georgian forensic history via a pickled-up monkey carcass, safely tucked away in a so-called museum of the GBI ...
SPOTLIGHT | 6 Degrees of John Keel: Don't Fear the Weird with Christina
August 04, 2023 08:00 - 1 hour - 102 MBAn artist, art teacher and experiencer, Christina has an overwhelmingly positive view of the paranormal. Shadow people don’t worry her—humans do. (I can’t fault her—humans are scary critters.) We had fun talking together about art, digital art, the Weekly World News, cryptids, strange occurrences, and mushrooms. We’ll be getting back together again sometime soon to talk more in depth about some of these topics. ====================== Huge THANK YOU!!! to Barbara Fisher for letting me sh...
REWIND | Coonigator: Chimeric Dumpster Orgy - with TheCrescentHare
August 01, 2023 08:00 - 1 hour - 79.2 MBWhat do you get when an alligator falls in love with a raccoon? A vile atrocious unsightly mess... named the Coonigator! Or not, because Mother Nature is a bigot and does not approve of inter-species romance! Along the way we will educate you on just why natural selection prevents the formation of hybrid monstrosities, why it is never a good idea to hug a raccoon, why possums are terrifying, and just why this cute lil cryptid enjoys bananas so much. There is hardly any info on it, so we try...
SPOTLIGHT | Uncle Monster's Spooky Time Fright Hour: Nucklavees and Horse Dongs
July 28, 2023 08:00 - 1 hour - 48.2 MBI guested on Uncle Monster's Spooky Time Fright Hour to talk about the tale of the Nucklavee! The evil horse and rider, fused into one, horrible, skinless beast that emerges from the sea every time you burn sea weed. Tune in, and remember, don't get spooked! =============== Huge THANK YOU!!! to Shibble from Uncle Monster's Spooky Time Fright Hour for letting me share this amazing episode which I ruined by constantly bringing up horse fuckers! 🤣 Follow Shibble on Twitter @christhefrien...
Speculative Hypnotic Alibi Method
July 26, 2023 20:53 - 2 minutes - 1.86 MBBrought to you by Coelenteratan Office of Neurology (CON)
REWIND | Meat-Eating Murder Horses - with Horsegirl Kat
July 25, 2023 08:00 - 2 hours - 142 MBHorsegirl Kat, an avid horse rider, joins to discuss a dark secret we have willfully ignored throughout the centuries. Are horses bloodthirsty carnivorous killers? From baby chicks, to human testicles, to even others of their kind, horses have consistently been witnessed throughout history devouring meat and sipping on blood. When pitted against mountain lions, tigers or even humans, they are capable of mercilessly eliminating their enemies! Are they true monsters, or is this the result of...
A Roswellian Utopia
July 22, 2023 11:47 - 17 minutes - 22.9 MBAs July is nearing an end, we attempt to milk the Roswell cow dry of its spoiled trendiness, plucking at the nerves of old-school UFO fanboys like a marionette! Was Roswell a myth perpetuated by our own puppet masters, and if so, why have they abandoned their baby? Exchanged spooks for kooks, and saucers for tic-tacs? It's not just a mint... it's a sugar daddy! ====================== Send us suggestions and comments to [email protected] Follow us on Instagram @tracingowls o...
SPOTLIGHT | Spooky Skeptics: Bell Witch and Gef the Mongoose, with Todd Purse
July 21, 2023 08:00 - 1 hour - 43 MBTrina, Tonya, and Todd talk about whether or not the Bell Witch and Gef the Mongoose are Fae and if they are two sides of the same coin. Also, Todd talks about other dimensions, aliens, and human's artwork. As well as Grandma’s talking to us from beyond the grave. The song at the beginning and end of the episode is Todd’s band Martin performing Locals Only from their album Slaughter Beach on Square of Opposition Records ====================== Check out "Spooks, Creeps & Assorted Devilry" ...
REWIND | Kentucky Goblin Fairy-Go-Round - with Todd Purse, Kris Galeano and TheCrescentHare
July 18, 2023 08:00 - 59 minutes - 80 MBWe are ending the year with a wacky 4-person Kentucky Fried Chicken Coop! An amazing assortment of weirdo artists, Kris, Christina and Todd, join to completely subvert the traditional podcasting approach towards the Kelly-Hopkinsville goblin incident. Instead of bothering you with the same old spiel of presenting case details, we tear the case to shreds to rather discuss the creative impact this incident had on pop culture, spawning the Little Green Men trope and forever incorporating gobli...
SPOTLIGHT | Ye Olde Crime: Baba Anujka
July 14, 2023 08:00 - 44 minutes - 61.4 MBLindsay and Madison discuss Baba Anujka, as well as how you can turn heartbreak into a money-making glow-up, that snitches get theirs, and how it’s the #YearOfLindsay. Information pulled from the following sources: 2022 Oddity Central article 2022 Short History article by Peter Preskar 2021 Vintage News Daily article 2020 Index International article 1929 The Angola Record article 1929 St. Louis Globe-Democrat article People Pill Slavorum article by Ivan R. Weird History facts artic...
REWIND | Zana of Abkhazia: Victim Turned Cryptid - with Lindsay from Ye Olde Crime
July 11, 2023 08:00 - 56 minutes - 69.4 MBLindsay shares her research into the sad story of an abused woman lost to history and falsely mythologized as a monster. TRIGGER WARNING: This is a very harsh, very sad episode about abuse, racism, mistreatment of women, child loss and a whole plethora of ethical issues which led cryptid nuts, scientists, and even the public to label an abuse victim as not just less than human... but a Yeti of all things! We shed light on a very important topic, as we attempt to bring back the humanity to...
SPOTLIGHT | Pods Like Us meets The Crescent Hare
July 07, 2023 08:00 - 1 hour - 87.7 MBMarv chats with the fabulous artist and occasional co-host of Tracing Owls, The Crescent Hare, to discuss her history as an artist, as an observer of nature, her fascination with the strange and unusual, how illustrative and photographic art can work for media, and so much more. ====================== Check out Marv's podcast Pods Like Us HERE Follow the podcast on Instagram @podslikeus TikTok @podslikeus and Twitter @podslikeus Contact Marv via e-mail at [email protected] ==...
REWIND | Pixie-Led by Cryptids - with TheCrescentHare
July 04, 2023 08:00 - 1 hour - 80 MBChristina joins an unintentional creative channeling, as we unify the concepts of fairies and cryptids to reach an epiphany: The Fae realm is an invisible microcosmos continuously regulating the ethereal ecology of souls! Sounds familiar, hopefully we are not bastardizing a recently released book...much 😏 Attempting to explain cryptids as members of the fairy folk, we inadvertently realize they may act as elementals, land spirits or even psychopomps! The rest of the episode we spend breaki...
SPOTLIGHT | The Esoteric Book Club: Passport to Magonia
June 29, 2023 08:00 - 41 minutes - 95.2 MBAre fairies, angels, demons, and aliens all really just a manifestation of the same phenomena? Dr. Jacques Vallee examines the similarities in this classic text, Passport to Magonia. ====================== Check out Jason's podcast The Esoteric Book Club HERE or visit their website at esotericbookclub.org Follow them on Instagram @esotericbookclub or Facebook @esotericbookclub Support them on Patreon HERE ====================== Passport to Magonia by Jacques Vallee:...
The Superspectrum of Gaia - with Barbara Fisher
June 26, 2023 08:00 - 1 hour - 141 MBBarbara opens a never-ending can of worms as we tackle animism, Gaia, light phenomena, consciousness and death! As the host of 6 Degrees of John Keel, Barbara talks with various experiencers and researchers of high strangeness. She is also a bookworm who memorizes every book she reads! Thanks to this vast knowledge, and her own personal experiences, Barbara has been developing a theory proposing that the origin of The Other lies within its purest form: anomalous lights. She puts her Keeli...
Iron, Silver and Salt: The Chickcharney
June 23, 2023 08:00 - 1 hour - 88.9 MBI guested on Iron, Silver and Salt Podcast to talk about the mysterious, fae-like owl beings from the Bahamas: the Chickcharney! In this special collaborative episode, we discover how Adrian's voice was always this deep. Chris extolls the virtue of Hawaiian shirts. Vuk blames the Chickcharneys for a lot of things. Will sits this one out. And the guyzos tell you how to handle an encounter with the Chickcharney! =========== Huge THANK YOU!!! to my buddies over at Iron, Silver and Salt for ...
6 Degrees of John Keel: Science, Gaia and Archetypes
June 20, 2023 08:00 - 2 hours - 123 MBI guested on6 Degrees of John Keel to talk about my ideas how James Lovelock’s Gaia Hypothesis may give us a new perspective on the manifestations of the paranormal, such as ghosts, Greys, Mothman and Bigfoot. It’s a fun talk, with lots of science, lots of woo-woo, psychology, folklore, mythology and quite a few laughs along the way. ====================== Huge THANK YOU!!! to Barbara Fisher for letting me share this amazing conversation we did a while back for her show! ❤️ Check out her...
Some Other Sphere: Gaia Theory
June 16, 2023 08:00 - 59 minutes - 53.6 MBI guested on Some Other Sphere to talk about the Gaia hypothesis, how I started to realize its value for the Fortean sphere, and the importance of symbology in shaping our perception of the universe. I am very proud to share my guest appearance on Rick's show, as I consider this episode my best Gaia discussion to date! ====================== Huge THANK YOU!!! to Rick Palmer for having me guest on his show! Check out his podcast, Some Other Sphere HERE Follow their podcast on Twitter ...
One of Us - with AP Strange
June 13, 2023 08:00 - 1 hour - 92.1 MBAP Strange returns to carefully tap-dance around the miraculous yet ethically questionable history of sideshows! Our idea was to discuss the 1932 Todd Browning movie "Freaks", emphasizing the amazing careers and inspirational life stories of its diverse cast, who came in all shapes and sizes. But as is the case when discussing the old timey sideshow circuit and its performers, we quickly ended up having to navigate through a minefield of controversy, exploitation, moral dilemmas, and a gia...
Small Strangeness: The Alien Head in a Croatian Graveyard
June 11, 2023 08:00 - 14 minutes - 21.5 MBAre alien tourists losing their heads while vacationing in Croatia? Is the Cosmic Trickster just messing with our heads via mundane tree roots? Or am I way over my head in frustration over international media misrepresenting my culture? None of this will be answered! Enjoy this oddity for what it is, allow it to briefly disrupt the stagnation of your mundane existence, and then just move on with your life! ====================== Send us suggestions and comments to tracingowlspodcast@gmai...
Bug in a Rug Podcast: Averasboro Gallinipper
June 09, 2023 08:00 - 1 hour - 60.9 MBI guested on Bug in a Rug Podcast to talk about a giant mosquito cryptid! If you were on Fear Factor and had to decide between an eagle-sized mosquito drinking your blood or a hot coal thrown on your back, which would you choose? Join us as we discuss the tall tale of the Averasboro Gallinipper, a giant mosquito that supposedly tormented the swamps of North Carolina! ====================== Huge THANK YOU!!! to Kaitlyn for letting me feature my guest appearance from her show! Everyone kno...
Divination Abomination - with Jason and Karly
June 06, 2023 08:00 - 1 hour - 108 MBJason and Karly join a roundtable to discuss the most bizarre divination methods from ancient history, and how our need to interpret messages from our environment paved the way to our modern scientific understanding of the world! ====================== Huge THANK YOU!!! to Jason from Esoteric Book Club. ❤️ Check out his podcast The Esoteric Book Club HERE or visit their website at esotericbookclub.org Follow them on Instagram @esotericbookclub or Facebook @esotericbookclub...
Creative Weirdos: Vuk - An Audio Photograph
June 04, 2023 08:00 - 2 hours - 113 MBI guested on Todd Purse's podcast Create Magic to share a plethora of creative weirdo ideas relating to consciousness, the nature of the paranormal, Gaia theory, and the spooky synchronicities I encountered when making my prior podcast! P.S., This discussion was recorded almost a year ago. Though I have scrapped my project to remaster Darwin's Deviations, and a lot has changed, this conversation amazes me with how relevant it still is and inspires my present self in my spiritual journey. =...
Fearful Transitions - with Trina Close
June 02, 2023 08:00 - 1 hour - 115 MBA peek into an open and honest conversation between 2 friends about fear, change and personal growth! Trina co-hosts the podcast Spooks, Creeps and Assorted Devilry, a role she found very difficult adapting to but which ultimately transformed her into a more positive and sincere individual. Today we sat down not as podcast hosts, but as two regular, honest and vulnerable people, discussing the role of fear in shaping our decisions and beliefs, the masks we wear in order to avoid confrontat...
Spooky Skeptics: Dyatlov Pass Incident
May 31, 2023 08:00 - 1 hour - 48.1 MBI guested on Spooks, Creeps and Assorted Devilry to discuss the mysterious Dyatlov Pass Incident with my friends Trina Close and Cole Herrold. We start the show off laying down the facts of the case, but it does not take me long to deviate the whole discussion into crazy talk about magic mushrooms, fairies, reindeer pee, the incompetence of communism, and even Mother Nature's thirst for blood sacrifices! ====================== Huge THANK YOU!!! to Trina Close for letting me feature my gue...
Headless Animal Ghosts - with Cole Herrold
May 29, 2023 08:00 - 1 hour - 124 MBCole and I lose our heads sharing creepy stories of ghost animals missing their heads! (or even other body parts) TRIGGER WARNING: Ghost animals are most often dead animals. If they're missing their heads, they obviously died a gruesome death! Though no animals were harmed during the making of this episode, we will be dancing around suggestions of animal cruelty or mutilation. Discussed are spooky tales of a ghost cow with a detached floating head, a frozen ghost chicken in London, haunted...
Slice of Sleep Paralysis - with Elizabeth from Slice of Life | REPLAY
May 26, 2023 08:00 - 1 hour - 100 MBElizabeth shares a slice of her experiences with sleep paralysis, as well as all associated entities! Shadow people, hags, hatman, biblical angels, fae... even knife man (a new one), she's seen 'em all! We even throw unicorns and mermaids into the mix to make the episode more whimsical! Can sleep demons actually be angels, and can sleep paralysis be a gateway towards lucid dreaming? Along the way we discuss the relationship between religion, spirituality and science, we attempt to communica...
Never Sleep Again - with Landen and Shibble
May 23, 2023 07:31 - 1 hour - 113 MBLanden and Shibble join my roundtable to discuss the cultural impact of Freddy Krueger, as well as the inception and evolution of the Nightmare on Elm Street franchise, emphasizing its unique place in the annals of horror history! ====================== Huge THANK YOU!!! to Landen from Horror Makes You Brave for joint hosting this episode with me. Check out his podcast Horror Makes You Brave HERE Follow Landen on Instagram @autopsypodcast or Twitter @autopsy_podcast =========...
Small Strangeness: TVs, EBEs & OBEs
May 21, 2023 08:00 - 17 minutes - 24.2 MBWe share 2 tales of high strangeness involving the witness enveloped by a mist while watching TV, resulting in an out-of-body experience, communication with extraterrestrial entities, and in the case of one man a brief, yet ennoying, intergalactic trip with a strange masked woman he met on his balcony! ====================== Send us suggestions and comments to [email protected] Follow us on Instagram @tracingowls or Twitter @TracingOwls Check our Linktree: linktr...
The Other F-Word - with Morgan Daimler and Luke Greensmith
May 18, 2023 07:01 - 51 minutes - 62.8 MBMorgan and Luke join forces to discuss the convoluted etymology of the term "fairy", as well as its prevalence (and oftentimes misuse) in pop culture and the paranormal! Grab a fresh-off-the-press copy of Pagan Portals - 21st Century Fairy: The Good Folk in the new millennium HERE ====================== Huge THANK YOU!!! to Morgan Daimler for engaging in yet another fascinating conversation, and always bringing the techno pixies to my show! ❤️ Follow Morgan on Instagram @morgandaimler T...
Horror Makes You Brave: Goosebumps - The Haunted School
May 16, 2023 08:00 - 1 hour - 79.3 MBI guested on Horror Makes You Brave to discuss one of the most 90s nineties things that's ever 90s: R.L. Stine's Goosebumps series! For this special collaborative episode, I suggested Goosebumps as a topic and Landen chose his favorite of the series -- and one of the more obscure titles -- The Haunted School. Spoilers: there are no ghosts in this haunted school. Also spoilers: this is one of THE BEST Goosebumps books ever written! ...also, why not check out my 2 prior appearances on Horr...
West Virginian Pilgrimage - with Mothboy Mike
May 13, 2023 08:00 - 50 minutes - 66.7 MBMothboy Mike shares his spiritual pilgrimage through West Virginia, paying homage to a cast of colorful Fortean icons! Co-hosting the Mothboys Podcast, and authoring a new children's book about the Vegetable Man, Mikey has been nurturing a recent interest in the writings and colorful life of Gray Barker. Driven by an otherworldly compulsion, Mike has been making multiple pilgrimages to the Gray Barker archives in Clarksburg, WV, familiarizing himself with Gray's often overlooked case mater...
Appalachian Archetypes - with Jason from The Esoteric Book Club
May 11, 2023 08:30 - 1 hour - 137 MBJason shares his vast knowledge of West Virginian history, helping me divinate their cryptids via tarot! As a teacher, outdoorsman, West Virginian and host of The Esoteric Book Club, Jason is very knowledgeable on the history of his home state, and all the cultural eccentricities which make it a hotspot for high strangeness! Today we spend almost 2 hours analyzing the symbology of the most popular West Virginian cryptids, breaking down their societal roles and cultural impact through the a...
The Woods Have Eyes - with TheCrescentHare
May 08, 2023 08:00 - 1 hour - 80.3 MBChristina shares her childhood initiation into high strangeness, leading her down a path of UFO research and a Man in Black encounter! Witnessing an image of the Flatwoods Monster in a tabloid at an early age initiated Christina into a world of the weird, where otherness is the norm and rules are non-existent. A later teenage psychedelic experience in the forest left a permanent impression that there is much more to nature, and reality itself, than what we can see with our naked eyes. We d...
Gorgonized at Birth - with Erin from Myth Monsters | REPLAY
May 05, 2023 08:00 - 1 hour - 89 MBToday we celebrate Erin reaching 100 episodes of Myth Monsters Podcast, by re-releasing this amazing discussion we had talking about the role of female monsters in Greek mythology! Medusa, Harpies, even the The Chimera for centuries have been used as slaying fodder of manly heroes hellbent on displaying their masculinity, to the detriment of the much subtler feminine natural forces. Just look at the story of Hades and Persephone (also discussed). Are the feminine monsters of myth a cultu...
Mamlambo: Sins, Serpents, Sacrifice - with Theshira from Legendary Africa
May 02, 2023 08:00 - 1 hour - 136 MBTheshira helps us navigate the world of South African river deities, serpentine cryptids and black magick! As the host of Legendary Africa Podcast, and resident South African, Theshira researches folklore and legends from all across the African continent, stories which throughout the centuries have most often been lost to history or irreparably warped by colonial influence. Today we present our collaborative research into the Mamlambo, a figure which has assumed many forms throughout the y...
Monstrous Misreadings - with Shibble from Uncle Monster's Spooky Time Fright Hour | REPLAY
April 29, 2023 09:05 - 1 hour - 108 MBFor more wacky (and politically incorrect) conversations with myself and Shibble check out his podcast Uncle Monster's Spooky Time Fright Hour! I guested on their newest episode yesterday where Shibble, Ethan and I discussed the Scottish horse monster known as the Nuckelavee... as well as a lot of horse penises! Listen to it on: Episode 408: Nucklavees and Horse Dongs Featuring Special Guest, Vuk! =============== Huge THANK YOU!!! to Shibble from Uncle Monster's Spooky Time Fright Hour f...
The Devil in Shropshire - with Amy Boucher
April 27, 2023 08:00 - 1 hour - 77.4 MBBritish folklorist Amy Boucher shares tales of ghosts, witches, mermaids and devils from her home county of Shropshire, England! Through her blog Nearly Knowledgeable History, Amy explores oftentimes overlooked folk tales of Shropshire, which highlight the county's unique cultural and historic identity, but also an immense amount of high strangeness. Among the many tales discussed are stories of ghost barges carrying victims of the Black plague, encounters with a tricksterish devil known a...
Death and the Maiden - with Brigid Burke from Chthonia Podcast
April 24, 2023 08:01 - 1 hour - 88.5 MBBrigid mercilessly devours the show with a vast knowledge of Chthonic deities and the Dark Feminine! As a mythology lecturer, author of "Death and the Maiden", and creator of Chthonia Podcast, Brigid Burke possesses an extraordinary knowledge of deities and creatures of the underworld, with a strong focus on dark feminine figures from a diverse pool of worldwide pantheons. Today she joins to share insights into female monsters and muses of Greek myth, embodiments of Hindu goddesses, the ti...
Fay Goo - with Morgan Daimler
April 20, 2023 08:00 - 56 minutes - 67.1 MBAuthor and folklorist Morgan Daimler returns to discuss the role of A.I. in reshaping folklore, leading to a potential future where cultural nuance is lost in favor of a bland tasteless gray goo! With the rise in popularity of A.I.-driven writing tools, nowadays we are witnessing never-before-seen transformations of cultural tropes into incoherent, conflicting and homogeneous gobbledygook. But is this truly a new phenomenon, or have we been diluting and mixing up folklore for centuries? Mo...