Girls! Girls! Watch out! Watch out! There’s a Blue-bearded animal roaming about! Happy spooky season listeners! Today’s scary fairy tale takes us to once upon a time in the land of France and the tale of Bluebeard, or Barbe Bleue. Beware the stupidly wealthy man with a stupidly blue beard. He’s rich, his beard is blue, he’s got a locked closet room that you are never to go into. Red flags everywhere 🚩🚩🚩.
Read MoreSomebody once told us that we’d be talking to you today about Shamash, the Sun God and a major deity of the Pantheon of the Mesopotamian cultures. Sumerians know him as Utu, Sin knows him as his son, Ishtar knows him as a brother, and we (and the Akkadians) know him, we love, him, it’s Shamash time! He’s taking the Sun Chariot all the way, he’s laying down the laws and the justice, Shamash is coming to an arena near you.
Read MoreBonjour cher! Today we going down the bayou and we gonna find ourselves a Rougarou. This Cajun werewolf is known to haunt Catholic kids and Lent breakers in Louisiana. Go grab your colanders and 13 of anything cause the Rougarou is coming to you.
Warning: Really bad cajun accents and baby shark beats coming your way.
Read MoreJoin us for a wild ride in Ireland as we hop on the back of a tricksy Pooka for Pookapalooza 2021. We’re going all over the Emerald Isle to find shape-shifting tricksters who like to take drunk people for wild rides down to Demon Holes. Next stop: tales of Viking-fighting High Kings, Easter Bunnies, and yes, sexy furries.
Read MoreAll the way from Scotland, we have the tale of Princess Janet and her sexy elf man Tam Lin. Janet is in it to win it and no fairy queens or sacrifices to hell are gonna stop this lassie from getting her Tam Lin.
Read MoreThe thrilling conclusion of our talk on kings and succession. Good-Boy-Falcon-God Horus and his uncle Storm-and-Sex-God Set take their war for who’s the next King of Egypt from the battlefield to the tribunal court of the Ennead. Now, we will have order in the court of Atum-Ra.
Read MoreListeners! Be prepared! We’re talking about kings and succession. Falcon-God Horus and his uncle Storm-and-Sex-God Set are gonna duke it out for King of Egypt. Featuring awkward family reunions. Boat races. Horny horny hippos. Butt races. And unplanned pregnancies. Ya better yeet that skeet. And for the love of Ra, don’t eat that salad.
Read MoreBAD DRAGONS! Want to know more about the worst bad boy dragons of pop culture and mythology? We share our rankings of the best of the worst dragons from Babylonian, Arabic, Norse and Greek mythology. We got world serpents, hydras, pythons, and greedy dwarf princes turned into dragons. Did we miss your favorite dragon to hate? Let us know.
Read MoreDRAGONS! Want to know more about the best good boy dragons of pop culture and mythology? We got em both here! We share a few of our favorite dragons and learn about a few of the coolest dragons from China, Japan and Korea. Stick around til the end for our new 2021 Eat The Rich Dragon Mascot. Did we miss your favorite? Let us know.
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Read MoreHeads up! This week we have a ghost story from Japan featuring the nosiest Yokai on this side of the Pacific - the Rokurokubi. Prepare to learn about what really happens to people who crane their necks to listen on the hot goss. But don’t worry about those long necks, it’s the Nukekubi you really gotta watch out for. It’s samurai monk up to bat against bouncing head ghosts.
Read MoreWe are joined by Nicole O’hara and Giada Fornello, some of the creators of Myth Illogical, an upcoming animated series dealing with Gods and Goddesses in the modern day and their struggle to stay relevant in the era of tik-tok and followers. We search for the heart in animation today and Giada leads us with another story of siblings. This time it’s Romulus and Remus, and you’ll never guess what those sons of Mars are up to now — founding the eternal city of Rome. For more, we hope you’ll check out more info about Myth Illogical at www.mythillogicaltheseries.com.
Read MoreSome places are better left at rest. Some stories are better left untold. Someday maybe we’ll learn that lesson, but not this day. This day we’re talking about another urban legend local to Maryland… the legend of Hell House. Buckle up for some rumor milling and ghostly gossip-mongering as we have fun mixing myths and facts in the history and “history” of St. Mary’s College in Ilchester, Maryland.
Read MoreWe are back from a long hiatus with our first recently recorded episode in a long time! Today, we are talking about the Orishas of the Yoruba religion and tradition, as well as their ties to Santeria and other mythologies and religions in the Americas! We’ll dish the hot goss on the coolest spirits/deities/forces of nature in the Yoruba pantheon. And if you stick around to the end, we share a surprisingly relatable creation myth for anyone who’s ever had a bad boss or employee.
Read MoreJoin us for a conversation with gaslamp fantasy author, Barbara Barnett, as we talk mythological inspirations in her recent novel, Alchemy of Glass, her latest follow up to The Apothecary’s Curse. Barbara shares the Greek and Celtic myths that inspired her work, like the Tuatha Dé Danann. We get to hear firsthand how she blends elements of magic, science, history, and myth together to tell wonderfully compelling stories. Also featuring great anecdotes from Barbara’s days going to Comic-Con press parties and more!
Both Alchemy of Glass and The Apothecary’s Curse are available anywhere books are sold! Go check them out!
Read MoreHide yo chickens, children, and moonshine! It’s been 25 years and the Snallygaster is gonna get you! Watch out for its ever-increasing list of scary descriptors and powers as we go back 111 years to the wilds and small towns of central Maryland. Hold on to your butts, we got another backyard cryptid coming your way.
Read MoreJourney with us this winter to the icy wilds of Copenhagen… ooooh mystical, Copenhagen - where Gerda must rescue her sister the Ice Queen with the frozen heart, no wait, that’s Frozen. Where Gerda must save the land from the Ice Queen who has taken her brother Edmund and threatens Narnia, wait no, that’s The Chronicles of Narnia. Ok now, journey with us and Gerda into Hans Christian Andersen’s The Snow Queen to rescue her beloved Kai from the frozen heart’s corruption and hear the story that inspired them all.
Read MoreCountry roads, take us to Point Pleasant to go see the Mothman. To wrap up our 2019 American Cryptids tour, we head one state over to West Virginia seeking out the biggest name in cryptids on this side of the Mississippi. Better buckle up for this one listeners, we got cryptids, UFOs and even some Men in Black shenanigans.
Read MoreAmateur podcasters and even more amateur cryptozoologists Krista and Christian attempt to enter the world of their friendly neighborhood Goatman of Prince Georges County, Maryland and answer the question — does he have hoof hands for holding axes or ax hands for doing baaaad deeeds?
Also heads up, there is some mention of animal cruelty in the form of four-legged victims of the Goatman so if that’s not your bag you may want to skip some parts, but we’ll let you know when those pop up.
Read MoreSláinte! In this episode, learn about the most famous Irish warrior of Celtic Myth, Finn McCool! We recall back to our past episode where Finn got into a fight and accidentally created the Isle of Man and inadvertently, the Giant’s Causeway and now we’re going to give you the origin story on old Fionn Mac Cumhaill! Hear the very Game of Thrones-like circumstances of his birth and how the boy got so smart with the help of some great Druid and Fianna mentors and a thumbsuckingly delicious accident involving hazelnuts and a giant salmon!
Read MoreLast time, we covered the first four ages and their epic ends at the hands of the gods, extreme elemental forces and Jaguarnado! Now, we bring you into the Fifth age of the poor and brave sun boy, Nanahautl, and the rich and cowardly moon boy, Tecuciztecatl.
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