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
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 Juli 34min
