HeyJaredFolkloric
Folkloric is a paranormal and mythology podcast hosted by Michelle and Beth, one a witch attuned to the supernatural, the other a skeptical secular witch.
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The Van Meter Visitor: Iowa’s Glowing, Bulletproof Mystery (opens the original)
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In 1903, something strange came to Van Meter, Iowa. For several nights, townspeople reported mysterious lights moving across rooftops, a huge winged creature with a glowing light on its forehead, enormous three-toed tracks, and a smell powerful enough to leave one witness disoriented. Naturally, the people of Van Meter responded by shooting at it. A lot. This week on Between Myth and Belief, Beth and Michelle dig into the story of the Van Meter Visitor, one of Iowa’s strangest cryptid legends. W
Blood, Ashes, and Consumption: The New England Vampire Panic (opens the original)
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What do you do when a disease is killing your family, medicine has no answers, and your neighbors are convinced the dead are responsible? This week on Between Myth and Belief, we dig into the New England Vampire Panic, a strange and deeply human chapter of American folklore born from fear, grief, and the devastating spread of tuberculosis, then known as consumption. We talk about the exhumations, burned hearts and organs, desperate folk remedies, and the belief that dead family members could som
No Skin, No Mercy: The Nuckelavee of Orkney (opens the original)
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Meet the Nuckelavee: Orkney folklore's most relentless water horse, a fused horse-and-rider with no skin, a single burning red eye, and breath that poisons crops and livestock. Unlike the Kelpie or the Each-uisge, there's no taming this one, no trick, no deal. Just one rule that might save your life: never let it catch you between salt water and fresh. This episode traces the Nuckelavee back to Walter Traill Dennison's 1891 folklore collection, unpacks its ties to the Norse spirits Mither o' the
The Butterfly People of Joplin (opens the original)
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On May 22, 2011, an EF5 tornado tore through Joplin, Missouri, killing 158 people in one of the deadliest storms in modern American history. In the aftermath, something strange surfaced, child survivors across the town began describing the same figure: a tall, human-like being with enormous butterfly wings who appeared in the worst moments of the storm, shielding them from debris and standing between them and collapsing buildings. This week, Beth and Michelle dig into the legend of the Butterfly
Ong's Hat: New Jersey's Gate to Another Earth (opens the original)
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In the late 1980s, a photocopied brochure started circulating through coffee shops, bulletin board systems, and fax machines. It described a research commune hidden in the New Jersey Pine Barrens, a homemade machine called the Egg, and a doorway to a parallel Earth with no people on it. This week Beth and Michelle dig into Ong's Hat, the true ghost town turned collaborative fiction that became one of the earliest alternate reality games on the internet. They trace the story from a real 1700s lan
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