Trows - The Shetland Creatures That Steal Fiddlers and Babies
Deep 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 trolls. They'll steal...
28 Sep 32min
A Case from My Other Show: The Sodder Children
On 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 the case was closed alm...
25 Sep 5min
Mami Wata — The Water Spirit Worshipped and Feared Across Africa
She'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 Wata has been worshipped ...
21 Sep 29min
TENGU – Japan's Prideful Mountain Demon That Punishes You for Whistling in the Dark
Deep 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 greatest swordmas...
14 Sep 27min
The Chindi of the Diné - What the Dead Leave Behind
When 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 the chindi, and the wis...
7 Sep 28min
LOCH NESS MONSTER – The Dark Folklore the Postcard Hides
Scotland'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 with a grainy photogr...
31 Aug 28min
The Chenoo - The Ice-Hearted Cannibal Giant of Wabanaki Legend
Deep 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. Tonight we follow trappe...
24 Aug 28min
