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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November 17, 2025 • 40 mins
In the ancient peaks of Scandinavia, an intelligent mountain spirit lures experienced hunters deeper into the wilderness than they've ever gone before, where the familiar becomes foreign and the only way out is a path that leads to madness.
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November 10, 2025 • 35 mins
In the dense forests of Ohio, a nine-foot-tall creature that moves like Bigfoot but hunts like a predator stalks hikers with terrifying intelligence and an appetite for human prey.
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November 8, 2025 • 7 mins
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November 3, 2025 • 40 mins
Walking Sam is a seven-foot-tall shadow figure from Lakota folklore who stalks the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, appearing to vulnerable youth and whispering that they should take their own lives, carrying the souls of his previous victims beneath his outstretched arms.
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October 27, 2025 • 63 mins
In the muddy trenches of World War I, death wasn't always the end of duty. Join Carman Carrion for a special Halloween collaboration with historian and author Jake Barrett as we explore the phantom soldiers who still patrol No Man's Land over a century after the armistice.
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October 20, 2025 • 35 mins
In the harsh winter of 1879, a Cree hunter named Swift Runner emerged from the wilderness alone, leading to one of the most disturbing trials in Canadian history and decades of documented cases where authorities executed people for becoming something they claimed was beyond human.
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October 13, 2025 • 39 mins
When a traveling merchant refuses shelter to a desperate stranger on a storm-ravaged night, he awakens something in the Louisiana swamps that collects debts in tears and screams—one victim at a time.
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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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