Freaky Folklore
Host Carman Carrion explores myriad myths both modern and ancient to discover what mankind fears - and why we fear it. From monsters old and new as well as unexplained and unsolved cases, this podcast is sure to terrify. Where does our folklore come from, and why is it so freaky?
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October 6, 2025 • 8 mins
Reality is the real horror.
Every Monday, poet and paranormal obsessive Heidi Wong unearths the chilling true stories behind the world’s most terrifying legends. From haunted dolls to cursed houses, each episode of Twisted Tales reveals the disturbing real-life events that inspired horror’s biggest blockbusters and the ones too twisted to make it to screen.
Some stories are stranger than fiction. These are darker.
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October 6, 2025 • 44 mins
When a stepmother's jealousy transforms domestic life into unspeakable horror, a murdered child's bones sing out for justice from beneath an ancient tree—proving that some truths refuse to stay buried.
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September 29, 2025 • 41 mins
When an experienced midwife makes a desperate bargain with the shape-shifting witch Matinta Pereira during her daughter's difficult childbirth, she discovers that some promises extract prices far worse than the suffering they were meant to end.
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September 22, 2025 • 45 mins
Journey into Japan's terrifying world of Onryō – vengeful spirits so powerful they toppled emperors and reshaped civilizations, born from injustices so profound that death itself couldn't contain their rage.
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September 15, 2025 • 36 mins
In the windswept highlands of Scotland, where ancient stones mark forgotten graves and the mist carries whispers of the dead, something dark rides the winter gales---something that transforms the very air we breathe into a highway for the restless spirits of the damned.
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September 8, 2025 • 34 mins
In the late 1980s, hackers interrupted a Wyoming television broadcast with a video of disembodied human heads performing disturbing poses while high-pitched sounds caused viewers to experience everything from nausea to hallucinations. The perpetrators were never found, and in July 2025, the same footage hijacked a Brazilian news broadcast, proving that some digital nightmares refuse to stay buried.
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September 1, 2025 • 35 mins
In the sleepy town of Enfield, Illinois, something stalks the shadows—something that defies every natural law and haunts every dark corner of the human imagination.
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August 25, 2025 • 38 mins
Sister Marie Inconnue was a French nun who protected Acadian refugees' treasure during the 1755 expulsion, was brutally murdered and beheaded by sailors seeking the gold, and now her headless ghost eternally wanders the shores of French Fort Cove in New Brunswick, asking anyone she encounters, "Where is my head?"
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August 18, 2025 • 34 mins
The Mul Gwishin are Korean water spirits—the faceless, drowned dead who call to the living from dark waters, mimicking the voices of lost loved ones to lure victims into joining their eternal drowning.
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August 11, 2025 • 38 mins
The Will-o'-the-wisp is a malevolent spirit that manifests as floating lights in marshes and swamps, luring lost travelers deeper into treacherous terrain by mimicking familiar sources of illumination like campfires, lanterns, or distant homes, ultimately leading them to their doom in the dark waters where they too may join the eternal dance of deceptive lights.
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August 4, 2025 • 47 mins
The Stallo is a cannibalistic giant from Sami folklore that hunts humans in the Arctic using its ability to perfectly mimic the voices of loved ones to
lure victims away from safety before devouring them.
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July 28, 2025 • 40 mins
The old-timers in Frederick County have a saying: "When the moon is dark and the woods grow still, the Dwayyo walks." They warn you never to venture into the Catoctin Mountains alone after sunset. Never follow the howls that sound almost human. As the legends tell it, the creature that stalks those ancient Appalachian hills can smell fear from miles away, and it delights in the chase more than the kill. It's not just a predator—it'...
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July 25, 2025 • 20 mins
In this bonus episode of Freaky Folklore, host Carman Carrion explores how Bigfoot went from ancient Native American legends to TikTok fame—discovering how this legendary creature has changed with each generation, from sacred forest guardian to reality TV star, and what that tells us about ourselves.
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July 21, 2025 • 47 mins
In the cold vastness of space, where humanity's greatest achievement—the colonization of distant worlds—has drawn the attention of something ancient and impossibly powerful, a message arrives that will forever change the meaning of evolution itself: beings of godlike intelligence who view our species not as equals to be contacted, but as clay to be molded into forms that serve their incomprehensible purposes.
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July 18, 2025 • 16 mins
In this bone-chilling bonus episode of Freaky Folklore, we explore the sinister psychology behind our shifting monster obsessions—from the domestication of vampires into romantic heroes to our current hunger for creatures like the Wendigo that resist all attempts at sanitization—revealing how our entertainment choices serve as an early warning system for the horrors our collective unconscious believes are coming.
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July 14, 2025 • 37 mins
In Scandinavian folklore, a myling is the vengeful ghost of an unbaptized,
abandoned child who haunts the forests, attaches itself to travelers, and grows increasingly heavy as it demands to be carried to consecrated ground for proper burial.
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July 11, 2025 • 18 mins
Three ordinary people share their terrifying encounters with the unexplained—a nurse's roadside sighting of an impossibly tall figure in a Nebraska cornfield,a trucker's repeated encounters with ghostly children on an Ohio highway, and a college graduate's basement confrontation with something that knows her name—proving that modern folklore is still being written by those brave enough to witness it.
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July 7, 2025 • 44 mins
Along the mist-shrouded coastlines of Scotland and Ireland, where ancient cliffs meet churning seas and the boundary between land and ocean dissolves in salt spray and seafoam, fishermen tell tales of creatures more beautiful and terrible than any siren's song—beings that emerge from the depths wearing sealskin like armor, their eyes holding the cold depths of the abyss and their touch carrying the irresistible pull of tides that n...
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July 4, 2025 • 16 mins
In this chilling bonus episode of Freaky Folklore, host Carman Carrion uncovers the dark histories lurking beneath innocent playground activities—from the plague-born tragedy of Ring Around the Rosie and the medieval execution ritual of London Bridge to the ancient divination practices hidden in Red Light Green Light and the haunting death omens of Duck Duck Goose—revealing how children's games preserve humanity's darkest memories ...
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June 30, 2025 • 36 mins
Across the moonlit savannas and highland forests of Africa, where shadows dance between acacia trees and ancient stone outcropping, a sound pierces the darkness that chills even the bravest hunter's blood: the maniacal laughter that signals the approach of something far more terrifying than any natural predator—creatures that walk as men by day but hunt as demons when darkness falls, their jaws crushing bone and sinew while their h...
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