Madam Koi Koi – The Ghost in the Red High Heels
There'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 wake in the night and h...
19 Aug 31min
The Imbunche - Chile's Monster Made from a Stolen Child
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10 Aug 31min
SOUCOUYANT – The Caribbean Skin-Shedding Fireball That Drinks Your Blood
There'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. And in the mornings, the...
3 Aug 36min
BAUK – The Serbian Cave Monster That Eats Misbehaving Children
Deep 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 houses, lurching through the...
27 Jul 34min
A-Mi-Kuk - The Alaskan Monster That Swims Through Land
Every 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. Four long arms. No legs. ...
21 Jul 32min
Why Did Parents Invent Jenny Greenteeth?
Jenny 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 grasping arms, needle-sha...
13 Jul 30min
TOYOL– The Stolen Infant Spirit of Malay Folklore
In 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 brings home comes with...
6 Jul 35min
The Grootslang - South Africa's Diamond-Cursed Serpent | The Monster That Was Never an Elephant
Deep 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 feet straight down be...
29 Jun 31min
