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?
Episodes
January 12, 2026 • 44 mins
The Lauma: a Baltic sky-spirit of kindness, only spotted by the river when disappointment turns her guardianship into something with teeth.
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January 9, 2026 • 1 min
A special cross-promotional message from Carman introducing Freaky Folklore and Destination Terror listeners to her true crime podcast, Deadly Intent. Discover why sometimes the real monsters are more terrifying than any legend or haunted location. If you love exploring the darkness in our world, it's time to meet the predators hiding in plain sight.
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January 5, 2026 • 35 mins
The Rat King is a European folklore phenomenon where multiple rats become unnaturally fused by their tails into a single, living knot, seen as a grotesque omen of plague, famine, and collective misfortune.
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December 29, 2025 • 45 mins
Arachne tells the story of a talented weaver punished by the gods not for being wrong, but for exposing their truth—cursed to spin webs forever as a spider, making her the embodiment of talent silenced and creativity punished.
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December 22, 2025 • 36 mins
Before Santa's jolly image took hold, Christmas was patrolled by terrifying entities who punished the wicked and devoured the unwary—and some say they still roam the winter nights, waiting for those who've forgotten the old rules.
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December 15, 2025 • 41 mins
Bloody Thomas - In Bavaria's darkest forests, Thomas was a master mask-carver who vanished centuries ago after the townspeople rejected his terrifyingly lifelike Krampus masks as too evil. Now he appears during harsh winters to take children who mock the old ways, teaching them his craft with wood that bleeds and masks that show people's true faces.
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December 8, 2025 • 21 mins
Dive into the bone-chilling tale of Koschei the Deathless, the immortal sorcerer whose soul lies hidden, as we explore both the terrifying folklore and the ancient origins of this Slavic legend.
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December 1, 2025 • 37 mins
Deep in Indonesian villages, a hereditary curse transforms women into disembodied heads that detach from their bodies to hunt pregnant mothers and newborn children.
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November 24, 2025 • 34 mins
In the shadowed hills of Cherokee country, where ancient burial mounds dot the landscape like warning markers, something that wears the face of compassion feeds on the final moments of human life. Something that can smell approaching death from miles away and arrives wearing the mask of mercy, offering comfort to the dying while stealing the very years they have left to live.
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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
Hey, if you love the kind of stories we tell here, you’ll want to check out Deadly Intent — my true crime podcast where we explore not just what happened, but why.
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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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