Freaky Folklore
by Eeriecast Network
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Amarok - The Giant Wolf of Inuit Folklore That Hunts Alone
Amarok - The Giant Wolf of Inuit Folklore That Hunts Alone
About this podcast
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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- Amarok - The Giant Wolf of Inuit Folklore That Hunts Alone · 33 minIn the Arctic dark, Greenlandic hunters follow one rule: never go out alone. The Amarok, a giant lone wolf from Inuit folklore, is said to stalk anyone who does, and nothing…
- CURUPIRA - The Backward-Footed Monster of the Amazon · 30 minIn 1560, a Jesuit priest wrote a letter from the coast of Brazil about demons that whip, torment, and sometimes kill people in the bush. It was the first monster ever recorded in…
- Abhartach - The Irish Undead Chieftain Said to Have Inspired Dracula · 38 minLong before Count Dracula, something in the north of Ireland refused to stay buried. Abhartach, the dwarf chieftain of Slaghtaverty in County Londonderry, was a magician and a…
- Special Announcement · 2 min🎃 A quick announcement for the Freaky Folklore family! If your podcast feed looked a little different this past Monday, don't worry! We participated in a feed swap, and there's…
- Loch Ness Monster Photo of 1934: The Story Behind the Legend · 21 minHappy Halloween week! This is a special feed swap with History Daily, a co-production from award-winning podcasters Airship and Noiser. Every weekday, host Lindsay Graham…
- POPOBAWA - Zanzibar’s Shapeshifting Demon · 30 minBi Mwanaidi has washed the dead for thirty-one years and has never been afraid of a body. Then she finds the same tiny puncture beneath the eyelid on three bodies that seem to…
- SIGBIN - The Backward-Walking Blood-Sucker of the Philippines · 29 minIt walks backward, with its head hung between its hind legs. It claps its enormous ears like a hand. And it doesn't drink your blood from your throat. It drinks it from your…
- Melusine The French Water-Fairy Whose Curse Built a Royal Dynasty · 30 minEvery Saturday, a woman locks her door. Her husband swore he'd never open it. This week on Freaky Folklore, we dive into the legend of Melusine, the medieval French water-fairy…
- Trows - The Shetland Creatures That Steal Fiddlers and Babies · 33 minDeep in the peat hills of Shetland, the old folk won't cross the green mounds after dark. Those hills belong to the trows: small, grey, limping hill-folk descended from the Norse…
- A Case from My Other Show: The Sodder Children · 6 minOn Christmas Eve, 1945, the Sodder family's home in Fayetteville, West Virginia, burned to the ground. Five of the ten children were never found. No remains were recovered, and…
- Mami Wata — The Water Spirit Worshipped and Feared Across Africa · 30 minShe's been called a goddess. A demon. A healer. A thief of husbands, minds, and sometimes lives. Across an entire continent — and every shore the diaspora ever touched — Mami…
- TENGU – Japan's Prideful Mountain Demon That Punishes You for Whistling in the Dark · 27 minDeep in the cedar mountains north of Kyoto lives a creature that has spent over a thousand years being both worshipped and feared — sometimes in the same breath. The Tengu can be…
- The Chindi of the Diné - What the Dead Leave Behind · 28 minWhen a person dies, the Diné believe the good in them moves on — and everything else stays behind. It gathers in that last breath, steps out of the body, and waits. It's called…
- LOCH NESS MONSTER – The Dark Folklore the Postcard Hides · 28 minScotland's most famous cryptid has her face on a shortbread tin — but the folklore underneath is one of the deadliest water legends in all of Europe, and it doesn't begin in 1933…
- The Pig Farm Killer · 1 h 3 minToday, we’re excited to share part one of a two-part series from the award-winning true crime podcast RedHanded, hosted by Suruthi Bala and Hannah Maguire. RedHanded is the UK's…
- The Chenoo - The Ice-Hearted Cannibal Giant of Wabanaki Legend · 28 minDeep in the frozen forests of the Wabanaki Dawnland lives a giant with a heart of solid ice — a monster that was once a human being, transformed by the cruelest cold there is…
- Madam Koi Koi – The Ghost in the Red High Heels · 31 minThere's a rule whispered from senior girls to juniors in Nigerian boarding schools, passed on in the dark after the matron locks the doors and carries the only key home: if you…
- The Imbunche - Chile's Monster Made from a Stolen Child · 31 minLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
- SOUCOUYANT – The Caribbean Skin-Shedding Fireball That Drinks Your Blood · 36 minThere's an old woman at the edge of the village. She keeps to herself, lives in the shadow of the silk cotton tree, and has no husband, no children, no people anyone can name…
- BAUK – The Serbian Cave Monster That Eats Misbehaving Children · 34 minDeep in the karst mountains of eastern Serbia lives a monster no one has ever described, because no one who saw it came back. The Bauk waits in caves, holes, and abandoned…
- A-Mi-Kuk - The Alaskan Monster That Swims Through Land · 32 minEvery coastal people on earth knows the same rule: if something takes you in the water, you swim for shore. The shore is safety. The A-mi-kuk does not care about the shore…
- Why Did Parents Invent Jenny Greenteeth? · 30 minJenny Greenteeth — Beneath the still, duckweed-choked surface of Britain's ponds and canals lurks Jenny Green Teeth, an ancient water hag from English folklore with elongated…
- TOYOL– The Stolen Infant Spirit of Malay Folklore · 35 minIn the villages of Malaysia and Indonesia, desperate people pay shamans to raise a toyol—the enslaved spirit of a dead infant that steals riches for its master—but every coin it…
- The Grootslang - South Africa's Diamond-Cursed Serpent | The Monster That Was Never an Elephant · 32 minDeep in the Richtersveld, where the Orange River cuts through some of the oldest, driest land on Earth, there is a cave the locals call the Bottomless Pit. They say it runs sixty…
- GULON – The Ravenous Wolverine Monster of Norse Legend · 28 minIn the frozen forests of the far north, a greedy fur trapper learns that something has been feeding on his catch — a beast that gorges until its body swells tight as a drum…
- El-Naddaha - The Woman Who Calls You to the Water of the Nile · 35 minAlong the canals and riverbanks of rural Egypt, the old fishermen follow one rule: if a voice calls your name from the water after sunset, you do not answer. They call her…
- SMILE DOG – The Cursed Image and the Folklore Behind It · 28 minA photograph you were never supposed to see is spreading across the internet — and everyone who looks claims to see something different, something wrong, something that follows…
- Whispers from the Ouachitas - Granny Witches, Yarb Doctors & the Old Mountain Ways · 20 minA little something different this week. Carman Carrion just got back from four days in a cabin on the Ouachita River near Hot Springs, Arkansas—and she didn't come home…
- Nure-onna - The Snake Woman Who Steals Children · 34 minDeep in Japanese coastal folklore lurks the Nure-onna, a terrifying yokai that appears as a beautiful woman in a white kimono—until she reveals her serpentine lower body. This…
- Incubus - The Medieval Sex Demon Still Haunting Bedrooms · 27 minThe male demon that visits women in their dreams, stealing more than just sleep. Handsome, seductive, and deadly—the Incubus is the dark counterpart to the Succubus, and his…
- Mongolian Death Worm - The Acid-Spitting Worm That Hunts Beneath the Gobi Deser · 35 minThe Gobi Desert holds a secret that has terrified Mongolian herders for centuries: the Olgoi-Khorkhoi, or Mongolian Death Worm. This two-to-five-foot creature allegedly kills…
- Père Malfait – The Moss-Covered Demon That Crushes You in Its Arms · 40 minDeep in the Louisiana bayou, where Spanish moss hangs like funeral shrouds and cypress trees rise from black water, Cajun parents have been warning their children for…
- Aufhocker – The Leaping Demon That Crushes Your Back · 31 minIn the dark forests and lonely roads of Germany, travelers learned to fear something worse than bandits or wild animals. The Aufhocker didn't rob you or tear you apart—it jumped…
- Vetala – The Corpse-Possessing Spirits of Hindu Folklore · 35 minIn the cremation grounds outside ancient Indian cities, where funeral pyres burned and the boundary between life and death grew thin, something waited in the darkness. The Vetala…
- The Serbian Dancing Lady – Internet Horror Made Flesh · 35 minIn the summer of 2019, videos started appearing on TikTok that made viewers sleep with the lights on. A woman in a white dress, dancing alone on empty streets. Nothing that…
- Baykok – The Flying Skeleton Warrior of Ojibwe Folklore · 36 minLong before European contact transformed the Great Lakes region, the Ojibwe people told stories about something that hunted from the skies—a skeletal warrior with glowing red…
- Monsters of the Jungle - 6 Deadly Creatures · 3 h 38 minAs winter finally loosens its grip and warmer days call us toward beaches, jungles, and humid nights under foreign stars, I find myself drawn to the monsters that thrive in heat…
- Redcap – The Blood-Soaked Goblin of the Borderlands · 45 minFor centuries along the Anglo-Scottish border, crumbling castles and forgotten towers whispered warnings about something far worse than human violence. Redcap doesn't haunt these…
- Aka Manto – The Red-Cloaked Spirit That Haunts the Last Stall · 40 minBorn from 1930s Japanese schoolyard whispers and now embedded in global horror culture, Aka Manto represents modern urban legend at its most psychologically visceral. This isn't…
- Rawhead Rex – The Ancient Pagan God That Hungers Beneath the Fields · 37 minBorn from Clive Barker's 1984 horror fiction but rooted in genuine British pagan tradition, Rawhead Rex represents modern folklore at its most visceral. This isn't an ancient…
- Special Message: The Kill Kit Architect · 4 minA special cross-promotional message from Carman introducing Freaky Folklore and Destination Terror listeners to Deadly Intent through the chilling case of Israel Keyes a serial…
- GASHADOKURO – The Starving Skeletons That Hunt in the Japanese Night · 38 minGashadokuro - Born from the bones of those who died from starvation and left unburied, the Gashadokuro are massive skeletal yokai that tower fifteen to ninety feet tall, hunting…
- Nachzehrer – The German Grave Chewer That Devours Its Family from Beyond Death · 35 minBeneath the frozen soil of northern Germany, something is chewing. The Nachzehrer doesn’t rise from the grave—it feeds from inside its coffin, devouring its own burial shroud and…
- Pontianak - Malaysia’s Deadliest Female Ghost (Terrifying Folklore Explained) · 37 minIn the humid jungles of Southeast Asia, where frangipani flowers perfume the night air and the cries of infants echo through kampong villages, she waits—a woman of impossible…
- Appalachian Folklore Legends | A Freaky Folklore Compilation · 5 h 36 minThis episode is a compilation of previously released Freaky Folklore episodes. Appalachian folklore was never meant to entertain. It was meant to warn. This Appalachian…
- Baobhan Sith – The Vampire Fairy of the Scottish Highlands · 40 minA deadly fairy dances beneath the Highland moon, luring men to their doom as we uncover the chilling folklore of the Baobhan Sith, Scotland’s vampiric woman of the wild…
- The White Lady Ghost: Europe's Most Terrifying Death Omen · 37 minFor over seven centuries, pale figures in flowing white have appeared in European castles and manor houses as omens of impending death. The White Lady is folklore's most…
- Winter Storm Special: Stallo, Kushtaka & Strzyga - Northern Predators from Frozen Folklore · 1 h 51 minLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
- Winter Storm Special: Wendigo, Revenant & Qallupilluit - Arctic Horror & Survival Folklore · 2 h 23 minWhen winter becomes a killer and survival turns desperate, folklore gives us the Wendigo's cannibalistic hunger, the Revenant's undead vengeance, and the Qallupilluit's icy…
- Legendary Creatures of Snow & Ice: Part 1 · 1 h 56 minTrapped by a winter storm? Perfect time to explore the deadly snow creatures of world folklore - from the bone-collecting Yeti to the kiss-of-death Yuki Onna! #WinterStorm…
