All sorts of things fall under the Cryptid banner, even plants, or plant spirits. Nathan talks about Leshy, a sometimes malevolent sometime benevolent spirit who protects the forest, and punishes those who do harm to nature. Depicted differently in different media, we get to discuss the weird stories surrounding this little piece of Slavic...
Wine, but make it counterfeit.
I'll be the first to admit that I eat my fair share of things that really aren't good for me, even if my body doesn't always approve. Because cheese.
When it comes to Chuck Tingle, the line between fantasy and reality is as muddled as it is curvy and alluring. When Dr. Tingle came onto the scene and the internet was taken by storm with his bizarre and unusual gay literature, very little was known about him
Have you ever woken up unable to move? Maybe it felt like someone or something was standing on your chest, or something was in the room with you? Sleep paralysis is a condition that impacts a pretty significant section of the world's population. Nathan talks about the myths and lore behind it, and ends off with the science that explains...
It was September 13th 2005 when the disease first began to spread, hopping from animal hosts into their owners and from there into the shop-keeps and other civilians. It came out of nowhere, no one could have expected something like this, there simply was no precedent.
The Morrígan or Mórrígan, also known as Morrígu, is a figure from Irish mythology. The name is Mór-Ríoghain in Modern Irish, and it has been translated as "great queen" or "phantom queen".
Many a tale of intrigue start just steps from our own home. The Mothman, Bigfoot, Wedigos, and ghosts in abandoned buildings, but what happens when a whole region is cursed? Nathan tells the story of the Fernie Curse in Fernie, British Columbia, Canada, a small coal mining town nestled in the Kootenay region of the Rocky Mountains.
In Japan there is a genre of story known as Kaidan that has existed for as long as there has been Japanese literature. Often confused for ghost or horror stories, this is not the case at all. Most Kaidan are not intended to be scary in fact many can be funny, but the most predominant theme is strange....