Join 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 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 MoreToday-O, we got a Dwayyo. It’s a tall, black dog that wants to eat you. Hey-O, it’s in Maryland-O. Could be another case of small-town fake news. Wait-O, maybe real-O. A little boy says he sees them everywhere too.
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 MoreHere we go again! Fa Hai’s gotta catch ‘em all. And by ‘em all we mean one specific snake demon. This time he schemes to catch that demon wife once and for all. But not if Bai Su Zhen and her son Xu Shi Lin have anything to say about it.
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This Valentine’s Day season, we’re bringing back the Myth Love stories! This time, we’re going to ancient China to follow the Immortal White Snake Bai Shu Zhen and her journey to save her man Xu Xian from a terrible fate brought on by the meddling monk Fa Hai, who’s the real snake in the grass.
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 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.
Read MoreTime to get some knowledge about the Aztec Creation myth and the first four ages and what went wrong every time. Spoiler alert: the gods are gonna wreck shit. We gonna bring you back to the very beginning, when Ometeotl made the gods out of the primordial void, and then we gonna about the first four suns and the four Tezcatlipocas. Every age begins and ends with one of the elements, like hurricanes, floods, rains of fire, and best of all — the JAGUARNADO!
Read MoreHello Listeners! We are back from our long hiatus (we took a vacation), you know how it goes. We have a special treat for you fine folks, we are joined today by Adam DeCollibus, author of the new novel, Caravan. Adam joins us in talking about story inspirations and what keeps a young writer going at it when they are new to the craft.
Read MoreIt’s the tale as old as time, the beauty and the Greek. Love is blind for Psyche, who cannot look upon her new husband for some reason unbeknownst to Psyche but beknownst to us. One day her jealous sisters trick her into breaking this golden rule to look upon her husband and setting off a quest for some impossible tasks for Psyche to prove her love to the goddess of love herself, Venus.
Read MoreTo Hell and Back Again, a Bards tale by Orpheus of Thrace. Orpheus would do anything for love, and he would do that. Go to hell with Orpheus in pursuit of his lost love, Eurydice. He’ll prove that true love and love songs conquer almost all, even death as he plays his lyre and sways the crowds including Pluto, Proserpina, Charon and Cerberus. And if that don’t touch your heart, then you might be a murder-lusting Maenad Bacchus groupie.
Read MoreIt’s part 2 of Jason and the Argonauty Bois’ (and Atalanta’s) epic quest to Kolchis to get the Golden Fleece to earn his kingdom from evil usurper Pelias. They’ll fight stone giants, dragons, Aeetes and fate! But they wouldn’t have gotten far without Medea, who does everything. Ask Euripides though, you better keep Medea on your side, Jason, cause she’ll mess you up and then peace out on her own dragon-pulled chariot!
Read MoreANTIQUITY AVENGERS ASSEMBLE! Strap on a single sandal and hop aboard the Argo cause we’re going on a quest for the Golden Fleece! We are setting sail for high jinks on the high seas with Jason and every hero in Ancient Greece! Old man Demigod Hercules will be there, as will Orpheus the master musician, Peleus (Achilles’s dad), the Boreas Bois (literal sons of the North Wind), Castor and Pollux, Meleager and Atalanta (Greece’s most famous lady hero)! Listen in to learn about the Golden Ram of Hermes, Jason’s quest for his inheritance, the ladies of Lemnos, and Zeus’s most petty revenge. Tune in for a smashing ending!
Read MoreBaby, it’s a Bad Ra-mance! We’re tackling the Egyptian origin story with our resident Egyptian and editor, Anthony Saweres. He’s giving us the deets on the birth of Golden Egg boy Ra and thus the world of Egypt. Ra the creator is gonna make a whole bunch of good things to serve him while he’s working the Pharaoh biz, until he gets too old and everyone stops respecting him.
So angry Ra makes the powerful Sekhmet to lay down the hurt on man for the dis until she takes the lion’s share of man-flesh and clever Ra’s gotta fix it all with some craft beers.
But the real trick is Isis, who’s gotta know Ra’s real name, the source of his power, and the hook for this episode.
Read MoreHello from the undead side! We are kicking off October with our series Vampires around the world with the Aswang of the Philippines. We got Aswangs, we got Tik-Tiks, we got Wak-Waks, we got Sok-Sok, and Bayot, and Zegben, and so many more regional varieties all across the Philippine islands. We take a deep dive into this shape-shifting, day-walking, baby amniotic fluid eating, proboscis having creature of the night. So be friendly to your neighbors, your butchers, and get yourself a stingray tail-whip because they’re coming for you!
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