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PODCAST

Freaky Folklore

Eeriecast Network

Host Carman Carrion explores myriad myths both modern and ancient to discover what mankind fears - and why we fear it. From monsters old and new as well as unexplained and unsolved cases, this podcast is sure to terrify. Where does our folklore come from, and why is it so freaky?

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All Episodes

45:42

ONRYO - The Ancient Curse That Still Haunts Modern Japan

Freaky Folklore ·

2025/09/22

Journey into Japan's terrifying world of Onryō – vengeful spirits so powerful they toppled emperors and reshaped civilizations, born from injustices so profound that death itself couldn't contain their rage.Discover more TERRIFYING podcasts at http://eeriecast.com/ Follow Carman Carrion! https://www.instagram.com/carmancarrion/?hl=en https://twitter.com/CarmanCarrion Subscribe to Spotify! https://open.spotify.com/show/0uiX155WEJnN7QVRfo3aQY Please Review Us on iTunes

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36:20

THE SLUAGH - When Death Takes Flight

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2025/09/15

In the windswept highlands of Scotland, where ancient stones mark forgotten graves and the mist carries whispers of the dead, something dark rides the winter gales---something that transforms the very air we breathe into a highway for the restless spirits of the damned.Discover more TERRIFYING podcasts at http://eeriecast.com/ Follow Carman Carrion! https://www.instagram.com/carmancarrion/?hl=en https://twitter.com/CarmanCarrion Subscribe to Spotify

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34:26

THE WYOMING INCIDENT - When Television Becomes Terror

Freaky Folklore ·

2025/09/08

In the late 1980s, hackers interrupted a Wyoming television broadcast with a video of disembodied human heads performing disturbing poses while high-pitched sounds caused viewers to experience everything from nausea to hallucinations. The perpetrators were never found, and in July 2025, the same footage hijacked a Brazilian news broadcast, proving that some digital nightmares refuse to stay buried. Discover more TERRIFYING podcasts at http://eeriecast.com/ Follow Carman

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35:00

THE ENFIELD HORROR - When Nightmares Walk on Three Legs

Freaky Folklore ·

2025/09/01

In the sleepy town of Enfield, Illinois, something stalks the shadows—something that defies every natural law and haunts every dark corner of the human imagination. Discover more TERRIFYING podcasts at http://eeriecast.com/ Follow Carman Carrion! https://www.instagram.com/carmancarrion/?hl=en https://twitter.com/CarmanCarrion Subscribe to Spotify! https://open.spotify.com/show/0uiX155WEJnN7QVRfo3aQY Please Review Us on iTunes

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38:33

THE HEADLESS NUN – Canada’s Most Persistent Ghost

Freaky Folklore ·

2025/08/25

Sister Marie Inconnue was a French nun who protected Acadian refugees' treasure during the 1755 expulsion, was brutally murdered and beheaded by sailors seeking the gold, and now her headless ghost eternally wanders the shores of French Fort Cove in New Brunswick, asking anyone she encounters, "Where is my head?"Discover more TERRIFYING podcasts at http://eeriecast.com/ Follow Carman

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34:42

MUL GWISHIN – Korea’s Water Wraiths

Freaky Folklore ·

2025/08/18

The Mul Gwishin are Korean water spirits—the faceless, drowned dead who call to the living from dark waters, mimicking the voices of lost loved ones to lure victims into joining their eternal drowning.Discover more TERRIFYING podcasts at http://eeriecast.com/ Follow Carman Carrion! https://www.instagram.com/carmancarrion/?hl=en https://twitter.com/CarmanCarrion Subscribe to Spotify! https://open.spotify.com/show/0uiX155WEJnN7QVRfo3aQY Please Review Us on iTunes

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38:58

WILL-O’-THE-WISPS – DEADLY Beacons of the Night

Freaky Folklore ·

2025/08/11

The Will-o'-the-wisp is a malevolent spirit that manifests as floating lights in marshes and swamps, luring lost travelers deeper into treacherous terrain by mimicking familiar sources of illumination like campfires, lanterns, or distant homes, ultimately leading them to their doom in the dark waters where they too may join the eternal dance of deceptive lights. Discover more TERRIFYING podcasts at http://eeriecast.com/ Follow Carman

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47:32

THE STALLO - Giants in the Arctic Dark

Freaky Folklore ·

2025/08/04

The Stallo is a cannibalistic giant from Sami folklore that hunts humans in the Arctic using its ability to perfectly mimic the voices of loved ones to lure victims away from safety before devouring them. Discover more TERRIFYING podcasts at http://eeriecast.com/ Follow Carman Carrion! https://www.instagram.com/carmancarrion/?hl=en https://twitter.com/CarmanCarrion Subscribe to Spotify! https://open.spotify.com/show/0uiX155WEJnN7QVRfo3aQY Please Review Us on iTunes

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41:56

DWAYYO – Wolf-Walkers of the Blue Rigdge

Freaky Folklore ·

2025/07/28

The old-timers in Frederick County have a saying: "When the moon is dark and the woods grow still, the Dwayyo walks." They warn you never to venture into the Catoctin Mountains alone after sunset. Never follow the howls that sound almost human. As the legends tell it, the creature that stalks those ancient Appalachian hills can smell fear from miles away, and it delights in the chase more than the kill. It's not just a predator—it's a hunter with human intelligence wrapped in a wolf's body, standing

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21:33

THE EVOLUTION OF BIGFOOT - FROM ANCIENT STORIES TO...

Freaky Folklore ·

2025/07/25

In this bonus episode of Freaky Folklore, host Carman Carrion explores how Bigfoot went from ancient Native American legends to TikTok fame—discovering how this legendary creature has changed with each generation, from sacred forest guardian to reality TV star, and what that tells us about ourselves. Discover more TERRIFYING podcasts at http://eeriecast.com/ Follow Carman Carrion! https://www.instagram.com/carmancarrion/?hl=en https://twitter.com/CarmanCarrion Subscribe to

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48:53

ALL TOMORROWS - The Qu's Garden of Flesh

Freaky Folklore ·

2025/07/21

In the cold vastness of space, where humanity's greatest achievement—the colonization of distant worlds—has drawn the attention of something ancient and impossibly powerful, a message arrives that will forever change the meaning of evolution itself: beings of godlike intelligence who view our species not as equals to be contacted, but as clay to be molded into forms that serve their incomprehensible purposes.Discover more TERRIFYING podcasts at http://eeriecast.com/ Follow Carman

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17:28

THE MONSTER MARKETPLACE - HOW ANCIENT TERRORS BECOME...

Freaky Folklore ·

2025/07/18

In this bone-chilling bonus episode of Freaky Folklore, we explore the sinister psychology behind our shifting monster obsessions—from the domestication of vampires into romantic heroes to our current hunger for creatures like the Wendigo that resist all attempts at sanitization—revealing how our entertainment choices serve as an early warning system for the horrors our collective unconscious believes are coming.Discover more TERRIFYING podcasts at http://eeriecast.com/ Follow Carman

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38:01

Myling – The Monster Born of Discarded Children...

Freaky Folklore ·

2025/07/14

In Scandinavian folklore, a myling is the vengeful ghost of an unbaptized,abandoned child who haunts the forests, attaches itself to travelers, and grows increasingly heavy as it demands to be carried to consecrated ground for proper burial. Discover more TERRIFYING podcasts at http://eeriecast.com/ Follow Carman Carrion! https://www.instagram.com/carmancarrion/?hl=en https://twitter.com/CarmanCarrion Subscribe to Spotify

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19:56

WHEN REALITY GETS FREAKY - Three Listener Stories

Freaky Folklore ·

2025/07/11

Three ordinary people share their terrifying encounters with the unexplained—a nurse's roadside sighting of an impossibly tall figure in a Nebraska cornfield,a trucker's repeated encounters with ghostly children on an Ohio highway, and a college graduate's basement confrontation with something that knows her name—proving that modern folklore is still being written by those brave enough to witness it.Discover more TERRIFYING podcasts at http://eeriecast.com/ Follow Carman

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45:05

SELKIE – When the Sea Reclaims Its Own

Freaky Folklore ·

2025/07/07

Along the mist-shrouded coastlines of Scotland and Ireland, where ancient cliffs meet churning seas and the boundary between land and ocean dissolves in salt spray and seafoam, fishermen tell tales of creatures more beautiful and terrible than any siren's song—beings that emerge from the depths wearing sealskin like armor, their eyes holding the cold depths of the abyss and their touch carrying the irresistible pull of tides that never stop calling the living back to the sea's eternal

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17:32

CHILDREN'S GAMES WITH SINISTER ORIGINS

Freaky Folklore ·

2025/07/04

In this chilling bonus episode of Freaky Folklore, host Carman Carrion uncovers the dark histories lurking beneath innocent playground activities—from the plague-born tragedy of Ring Around the Rosie and the medieval execution ritual of London Bridge to the ancient divination practices hidden in Red Light Green Light and the haunting death omens of Duck Duck Goose—revealing how children's games preserve humanity's darkest memories through generations of seeminglyinnocent play. Discover more

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37:13

WEREHYENA – Deadly Laughter in the African Night

Freaky Folklore ·

2025/06/30

Across the moonlit savannas and highland forests of Africa, where shadows dance between acacia trees and ancient stone outcropping, a sound pierces the darkness that chills even the bravest hunter's blood: the maniacal laughter that signals the approach of something far more terrifying than any natural predator—creatures that walk as men by day but hunt as demons when darkness falls, their jaws crushing bone and sinew while their human eyes gleam with inhuman hunger.Discover more TERRIFYING

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23:01

THE CLOWN DOLL - WHEN WATCHERS BECOME THE WATCHED

Freaky Folklore ·

2025/06/27

A teenage babysitter's evening of routine childcare transforms into psychological terror when she realizes that the life-sized clown decoration watching her from the corner isn't a decoration at all---and it's been studying her every move.Discover more TERRIFYING podcasts at http://eeriecast.com/ Follow Carman Carrion! https://www.instagram.com/carmancarrion/?hl=en https://twitter.com/CarmanCarrion Subscribe to Spotify

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42:49

THE BOILED ONE – The Cognito-Hazardous Entity That...

Freaky Folklore ·

2025/06/23

In the summer of 2003, a hijacked children's television broadcast introduced 530 viewers to PHEN-228—a cognito-hazardous entity whose very appearance creates permanent, unforgettable memories that eventually lead to psychological paralysis. Discover more TERRIFYING podcasts at http://eeriecast.com/ Follow Carman Carrion! https://www.instagram.com/carmancarrion/?hl=en https://twitter.com/CarmanCarrion Subscribe to Spotify

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23:28

SHAPESHIFTERS IN FOLKLORE: BEYOND WEREWOLVES

Freaky Folklore ·

2025/06/20

In this bonus episode of Freaky Folklore, host Carman Carrion ventures beyond the familiar werewolf to explore the diverse world of shapeshifting entities—from the seductive Selkies of Celtic seas and vengeful Werehyenas of Africa to the trickster Kitsune of Japan and terrifying Wendigo of the North American wilderness—revealing how transformation myths reflect our deepest fears about identity, control, and what it truly means to be human.Discover more TERRIFYING podcasts at

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