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 Juli 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 Juli 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 Juni 31min
GULON – The Ravenous Wolverine Monster of Norse Legend
In the frozen forests of the far north, a greedy fur trapper learns that something has been feeding on his catch — a beast that gorges until its body swells tight as a drum, squeezes itself empty betw...
22 Juni 27min
El-Naddaha - The Woman Who Calls You to the Water of the Nile
Along the canals and riverbanks of rural Egypt, the old fishermen follow one rule: if a voice calls your name from the water after sunset, you do not answer. They call her El-Naddaha — The Caller. A b...
15 Juni 34min
SMILE DOG – The Cursed Image and the Folklore Behind It
A photograph you were never supposed to see is spreading across the internet — and everyone who looks claims to see something different, something wrong, something that follows them home. #SmileDo...
8 Juni 28min
Whispers from the Ouachitas - Granny Witches, Yarb Doctors & the Old Mountain Ways
A little something different this week. Carman Carrion just got back from four days in a cabin on the Ouachita River near Hot Springs, Arkansas—and she didn't come home empty-handed. In this special ...
1 Juni 20min
Nure-onna - The Snake Woman Who Steals Children
Deep in Japanese coastal folklore lurks the Nure-onna, a terrifying yokai that appears as a beautiful woman in a white kimono—until she reveals her serpentine lower body. This "wet woman" haunts beach...
25 Maj 34min
