We’re on the hunt for a good ole fashion Greek tragedy story of a heroic hunt. Along the way we learn that Atalanta is the very best, like no one ever was, don’t forget to role call every single god during the harvest festival, and what happens when you try to go against the 3 fates. All to do with one feral hog.
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.
Read MoreTwue love brings us togedder twoday.
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 MoreIn the thrilling conclusion of The Snow Queen, Gerda is joined by in media res Rudolph on his way to the North Pole to save her beloved Kai who has been struggling with a puzzle and turning to Kaicicle over the past year. Will the power of love be able to melt his frozen heart and defeat the Snow Queen? Get ready for some Reindeer Games like you’ve never heard.
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 MoreIt’s Spooktember as we delve into an Irish ghost story! Meet one ambitious big stick energy woman and the world’s most annoying ghost as they commit murderous hijinks and walk there and back again. Ain’t no man can keep a good Kate down, dead or alive.
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.
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 MoreThe first week of June was Rusalka week. May is considered Mermay in the art community. Coincidence? We don’t think so! If you take away one thing from this episode about Murderous Slavic River Wenches, it’s that they are always down to party.
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 MoreHide yo kids and stay away from waterways and woods and roads because La Llorona is out catching kids. She’s hunting for hijos today to get into those pearly gates. We drink Pisco, trash on the name Martin, and admit we’re too scared to see the Curse of La Llorona, but we gonna tell you folks about the weeping boogie-woman.
Read MoreWe ain’t foolin’! It’s our 50th episode! Can you dig it?! We take a celebratory tickleback shot and start talking one of our favorite trickster gods and all around friend of man, Anansi. Coming all the way from the Ashanti people in Ghana in West Africa. Let us spin you a yarn of two Anansi stories: How the Trickster Spider god got all stories and you’re gonna carry that weight, ant.
Read MoreIn this episode we talk two tales of two lovers. Starting out is Pyramus and Thisbe who met through a glory hole?! And later we draw the parallels to the most well known doomed star-crossed lovers story: Romeo and Juliet. That once again proves Shakespeare stole it from the French, who stole it from Italy, who stole it from Greece, who stole it from Babylon.
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!
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