Freaky Folklore

Deep in the cedar mountains north of Kyoto lives a creature that has spent over a thousand years being both worshipped and feared — sometimes in the same breath. The Tengu can be the greatest swordmaster you'll ever train under, or the reason you vanish off a mountain trail and turn up days later on a rooftop with no memory of how you got there. There's only one rule that decides which one you get: respect the mountain, or don't whistle in the dark.

Tonight on Freaky Folklore, we trace the Tengu from its origins as a corrupted Chinese meteor-omen to one of Japan's most iconic yokai — the red-faced, long-nosed mountain demon blamed for centuries of real disappearances known as tengu-kakushi. Along the way, we follow a search-and-rescue volunteer whose eleven years of training and standard-issue whistle mean absolutely nothing to a mountain that's been enforcing its own rules a lot longer than he's been alive.

We cover the Tengu's origins, its two forms, its supernatural powers, the traditional defenses against it, and exactly what you're supposed to do the moment you feel something pacing you in the treeline.

If tonight's episode hit that "humans are the real monsters" nerve, check out my other show, Deadly Intent, where I dig into the psychology of real killers. And if you want brand-new horror built from scratch instead of pulled from history, Carman's Crypt has a new original story every week. Both are part of the Eeriecast Network — find everything at eeriecast.com.

Until next time, stay safe out there, because this world is a strange one.

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When a person dies, the Diné believe the good in them moves on — and everything else stays behind. It gathers in that last breath, steps out of the body, and waits. It's called the chindi, and the wise thing, the safe thing, is to leave the dead alone: their homes, their names, the things buried with them.



Wade Corliss dug where he was warned not to. He carried something home from a death hogan out in the red-rock country — and it followed him. This week on Freaky Folklore, we walk carefully into a living Diné tradition to talk about ghost sickness, whirlwinds that turn the wrong way, and the price of taking what was never yours.



Leave the dead alone. Some of them don't stay that way.



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Scotland's most famous cryptid has her face on a shortbread tin — but the folklore underneath is one of the deadliest water legends in all of Europe, and it doesn't begin in 1933 with a grainy photograph. It begins in the year 565, with a burial.



In this episode of Freaky Folklore, we drag Nessie out of the gift shop and back into the black water where she came from: the deepest, coldest, most lightless loch in Britain. We get into the 1,400-year-old account of Saint Columba and the "water beast" that had already killed a man before he ever reached the shore. We uncover the each-uisge — the Highland water horse that lures you close, fuses to your skin, drags you under, and leaves only your liver floating back to shore by morning. We expose the beloved "Surgeon's Photograph" for the revenge hoax it always was. And then I tell you an original story about a boy, a brother, and a warm, calm, silent night on the loch in the winter of 1889 — and the one thing the postcards will never tell you about what's waiting down there.



Turn the lights off. Just… not near the water.



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Today, we’re excited to share part one of a two-part series from the award-winning true crime podcast RedHanded, hosted by Suruthi Bala and Hannah Maguire. RedHanded is the UK's #1 True Crime podcast, covering everything from high-profile murders and cults to con artists and cultural catastrophes, always asking not just what happened, but why.

In this episode, Suruthi and Hannah dive into the story of Robert "Willie" Pickton, otherwise known as the Pig Farm Killer. They uncover the investigation into the missing women, the community whose cries for help went unheard, and the systemic failures that kept authorities from discovering what was really going on at the pig farm from hell. Head over to RedHanded to catch part two, where Hannah and Suruthi continue uncovering the full details behind Canada's most notorious serial killer case.

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Deep in the frozen forests of the Wabanaki Dawnland lives a giant with a heart of solid ice — a monster that was once a human being, transformed by the cruelest cold there is. Tonight we follow trapper Alistair Crewe into a winter he barely survives, and uncover the origin, powers, and one strange weakness of the Chenoo: the cannibal ice giant of Mi'kmaq, Maliseet, and Passamaquoddy legend. Warmth, hunger, and the terrifying question of what a person can turn into… one frozen choice at a time.



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