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Freaky Folklore

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  • SIGBIN - The Backward-Walking Blood-Sucker of the Philippines

    October 12, 2026 · 29 min

    It 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 shadow. This week we're headed to the Visayas and Mindanao in…

  • Melusine The French Water-Fairy Whose Curse Built a Royal Dynasty

    October 5, 2026 · 30 min

    Every 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 cursed to become a serpent from the waist down every…

  • Trows - The Shetland Creatures That Steal Fiddlers and Babies

    September 28, 2026 · 33 min

    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 a fiddler for a night that lasts a…

  • A Case from My Other Show: The Sodder Children

    September 25, 2026 · 6 min

    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 almost as quickly as it was opened. For…

  • Mami Wata — The Water Spirit Worshipped and Feared Across Africa

    September 21, 2026 · 30 min

    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 in shrines and feared on riverbanks for…

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  • TENGU – Japan's Prideful Mountain Demon That Punishes You for Whistling in the Dark

    September 14, 2026 · 27 min

    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 swordmaster you'll ever train under, or the…

  • The Chindi of the Diné - What the Dead Leave Behind

    September 7, 2026 · 28 min

    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 wise thing, the safe thing, is to leave…

  • LOCH NESS MONSTER – The Dark Folklore the Postcard Hides

    August 31, 2026 · 28 min

    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 photograph. It begins in the year 565, with a…

  • The Pig Farm Killer

    August 28, 2026 · 1 hr 4 min

    Today, 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 #1 True Crime podcast, covering everything from high-profile…

  • The Chenoo - The Ice-Hearted Cannibal Giant of Wabanaki Legend

    August 24, 2026 · 28 min

    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 trapper Alistair Crewe into a winter he…

  • Madam Koi Koi – The Ghost in the Red High Heels

    August 19, 2026 · 31 min

    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 hear the slow click of heels down the…

  • The Imbunche - Chile's Monster Made from a Stolen Child

    August 10, 2026 · 31 min

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About the show

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?