Freaky Folklore

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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?

  1. hace 1 h

    Madam Koi Koi – The Ghost in the Red High Heels

    There's a rule whispered from senior girls to juniors in Nigerian boarding schools, passed on in the dark after the matron locks the doors and carries the only key home: if you wake in the night and hear the slow click of heels down the corridor — koi, koi, koi — you do not move, you do not call out, and whatever you do, you never open your eyes to look. Because once there was a teacher who loved her red high heels more than any student in her care, and death only made her crueler. This week on Freaky Folklore, we walk into the dormitory where she still paces the halls, and we find out exactly what happens to the girls who dare to look. Beyond the ghost story, we dig into where Madam Koi Koi really comes from — a thoroughly modern haunting born inside Nigeria's federal unity schools of the 1960s, where hundreds of children were locked away overnight under adults who answered to no one after dark. We trace her tangled origins across every version of the legend: the vain and vicious teacher, the eardrum she burst, the car that struck her down, the students who took justice into their own hands, and the Ghanaian "Madam Moke" sealed in a closet. Monster or victim, wearing the very same red shoes — because maybe the truest thing about any ghost story is that it depends entirely on who survives to tell it. So tuck in your mosquito net, keep your feet under the sheet, and remember: don't run, don't scream, and don't look.   #FreakyFolklore #MadamKoiKoi #NigerianFolklore #Horror #HorrorPodcast #GhostStories #Folklore #TrueHorror #ScaryStories #BoardingSchoolHorror #AfricanFolklore #Creepy #Paranormal #Urbanlegend #KoiKoi #EeriecastNetwork #HauntedSchool #Nigeria #GhostStory #HorrorCommunity   EXPLORE MORE SPINE-CHILLING CONTENT: Freaky Folklore: https://www.eeriecast.com/podcasts/freaky-folklore Carman's Crypt (Original Horror): https://www.carman-carrion.com/ Deadly Intent (True Crime): https://www.carman-carrion.com/ Destination Terror: https://www.eeriecast.com/podcasts/destination-terror ________________________________________ SUPPORT THE SHOW: Buy Me a Coffee: https://buymeacoffee.com/carmancarrion ________________________________________ CONNECT WITH CARMAN: Website: https://www.carman-carrion.com/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@CarmanCarrion YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@FreakyFolklore Twitter/X: https://x.com/CarmanCarrion Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/carmancarrion/ ________________________________________ SUBSCRIBE & REVIEW: Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0uiX155WEJnN7QVRfo3aQY iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/freaky-folklore/id1550361184 Your support helps bring you more terrifying tales. ________________________________________ DISCOVER MORE HORROR: http://eeriecast.com/ https://www.carman-carrion.com/ ________________________________________ MUSIC CREDITS: Music and sound effects provided by: ElevenLabs Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

    Madam Koi Koi – The Ghost in the Red High Heels

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    The Imbunche - Chile's Monster Made from a Stolen Child

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    The Imbunche - Chile's Monster Made from a Stolen Child

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    SOUCOUYANT – The Caribbean Skin-Shedding Fireball That Drinks Your Blood

    There's an old woman at the edge of the village. She keeps to herself, lives in the shadow of the silk cotton tree, and has no husband, no children, no people anyone can name. And in the mornings, the babies three houses down wake up pale, exhausted, and marked with bruises in the soft places — where the blood runs nearest the skin.   Tonight we travel to the eastern coast of Trinidad to meet the Soucouyant: the skin-shedding fireball witch of the French Creole Caribbean, who peels off her own skin like a wet dress, folds it into a mortar, and flies through the dark as a ball of hungry fire. We'll follow a young nurse home to Mayaro in 1953 as she comes face to face with something her training can't explain — and with a village deciding, by torchlight, who to blame.   But the real story is stranger, older, and sadder than any campfire version. We trace the Soucouyant back across the Middle Passage to her West African roots in the obayifo and asiman, through her collision with the French loup-garou and the European seed-counting vampire, to her Lowcountry sister the Boo Hag — and into the three-in-the-morning terror that every culture on earth has a name for. Because underneath the fire is a question that never stops burning: is the monster the thing in the sky, or is it what a frightened community will do to the loneliest woman among them, and call it protection?   Scatter your rice. Salt your doorway. And keep your skin on.   Freaky Folklore is part of the Eeriecast Network — find every one of our shows at eeriecast.com. For more from me, come dig into Deadly Intent (true crime) and Carman's Crypt (original horror), and subscribe on YouTube at Carman Carrion for full episodes and exclusive videos. Support the show ad-free on Patreon or buy me a coffee — links in the show notes. carman-carrion.com   #FreakyFolklore #Soucouyant #CaribbeanFolklore #Trinidad #TrinidadAndTobago #Folklore #Mythology #Horror #HorrorPodcast #FolkloreHorror #BooHag #Loogaroo #OleHigue #Vampire #Witch #Jumbie #SleepParalysis #Caribbean #Gullah #WestAfricanFolklore #ScaryStories #Paranormal #Creepy #Eeriecast #CarmanCarrion #FolklorePodcast #MythsAndLegends #DiasporaFolklore #SkinWalker #NightHag   EXPLORE MORE SPINE-CHILLING CONTENT: Freaky Folklore: https://www.eeriecast.com/podcasts/freaky-folklore Carman's Crypt (Original Horror): https://www.carman-carrion.com/ Deadly Intent (True Crime): https://www.carman-carrion.com/ Destination Terror: https://www.eeriecast.com/podcasts/destination-terror ________________________________________ SUPPORT THE SHOW: Buy Me a Coffee: https://buymeacoffee.com/carmancarrion ________________________________________ CONNECT WITH CARMAN: Website: https://www.carman-carrion.com/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@CarmanCarrion Twitter/X: https://x.com/CarmanCarrion Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/carmancarrion/ ________________________________________ SUBSCRIBE & REVIEW: Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0uiX155WEJnN7QVRfo3aQY iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/freaky-folklore/id1550361184 Your support helps bring you more terrifying tales. ________________________________________ DISCOVER MORE HORROR: http://eeriecast.com/ https://www.carman-carrion.com/ ________________________________________ MUSIC CREDITS: Music and sound effects provided by: ElevenLabs Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

    SOUCOUYANT – The Caribbean Skin-Shedding Fireball That Drinks Your Blood

  4. 27 jul

    BAUK – The Serbian Cave Monster That Eats Misbehaving Children

    Deep in the karst mountains of eastern Serbia lives a monster no one has ever described, because no one who saw it came back. The Bauk waits in caves, holes, and abandoned houses, lurching through the dark on a clumsy gait, and it can only be driven off by two things: light and noise. For centuries, Serbian parents used it to make children behave. Tonight, two American YouTubers turn its cave into content... and learn why the old rules exist. In this episode: the real folklore preserved in the era of Vuk Karadžić, the meaning of "bauljanje," why scholars believe the Bauk is the ghost of a vanished predator, and an original story with an ending you will not shake off.   #Bauk #SerbianFolklore #SlavicMythology #FreakyFolklore #Boogeyman: #CaveHorror #BalkanFolklore #Cryptids #ScaryStories #FolkHorror #EeriecastNetwork   EXPLORE MORE SPINE-CHILLING CONTENT: Freaky Folklore: https://www.eeriecast.com/podcasts/freaky-folklore Carman's Crypt (Original Horror): https://www.carman-carrion.com/ Deadly Intent (True Crime): https://www.carman-carrion.com/ Destination Terror: https://www.eeriecast.com/podcasts/destination-terror ________________________________________ SUPPORT THE SHOW: Buy Me a Coffee: https://buymeacoffee.com/carmancarrion ________________________________________ CONNECT WITH CARMAN: Website: https://www.carman-carrion.com/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@CarmanCarrion Twitter/X: https://x.com/CarmanCarrion Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/carmancarrion/ ________________________________________ SUBSCRIBE & REVIEW: Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0uiX155WEJnN7QVRfo3aQY iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/freaky-folklore/id1550361184 Your support helps bring you more terrifying tales. ________________________________________ DISCOVER MORE HORROR: http://eeriecast.com/ https://www.carman-carrion.com/ ________________________________________ MUSIC CREDITS: Music and sound effects provided by: ElevenLabs Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

    BAUK – The Serbian Cave Monster That Eats Misbehaving Children

  5. 21 jul

    A-Mi-Kuk - The Alaskan Monster That Swims Through Land

    Every coastal people on earth knows the same rule: if something takes you in the water, you swim for shore. The shore is safety. The A-mi-kuk does not care about the shore. Four long arms. No legs. A body of slick, naked hide, like an animal that was skinned and never got the message. It rises up under kayaks off the Alaskan coast and drags men down into the silt. And when you claw your way onto the mud, certain you have survived it, it keeps coming. It swims through solid ground the way it swims through the sea. Under the tundra. Under the ice. Under the floor of your house. This week, Carman goes into the folklore of the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta, separates the real ethnographic record from a century of cryptid encyclopedias copying each other, and tells the story of two brothers, a fishing net, and a thing that peels its victims out of their own skin. Because the A-mi-kuk was never a story about the sea. It was a story about the fact that the ground is a promise nobody ever actually made you. Content warning: graphic depiction of a fatal attack, including detailed injury and body horror. Freaky Folklore is part of the Eeriecast Network. Every show at eeriecast.com. Watch on YouTube for the full animated experience. More from Carman: Deadly Intent, Carman's Crypt, and Destination Terror.   #FreakyFolklore #Amikuk #AMiKuk #Amikuq #AlaskanFolklore #AlaskaCryptid #Yupik #Inupiaq #BeringSea #YukonKuskokwim #ArcticHorror #Cryptid #Cryptozoology #FolkloreHorror #IndigenousFolklore #SeaMonster #ScaryStories #HorrorPodcast #FolklorePodcast #Eeriecast #CarmanCarrion #CreepyPodcast #MythsAndLegends #MonsterFolklore #BodyHorror #FolkHorror   EXPLORE MORE SPINE-CHILLING CONTENT: Freaky Folklore: https://www.eeriecast.com/podcasts/freaky-folklore Carman's Crypt (Original Horror): https://www.carman-carrion.com/ Deadly Intent (True Crime): https://www.carman-carrion.com/ Destination Terror: https://www.eeriecast.com/podcasts/destination-terror ________________________________________ SUPPORT THE SHOW: Buy Me a Coffee: https://buymeacoffee.com/carmancarrion ________________________________________ CONNECT WITH CARMAN: Website: https://www.carman-carrion.com/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@CarmanCarrion Twitter/X: https://x.com/CarmanCarrion Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/carmancarrion/ ________________________________________ SUBSCRIBE & REVIEW: Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0uiX155WEJnN7QVRfo3aQY iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/freaky-folklore/id1550361184 Your support helps bring you more terrifying tales. ________________________________________ DISCOVER MORE HORROR: http://eeriecast.com/ https://www.carman-carrion.com/ ________________________________________ MUSIC CREDITS: Music and sound effects provided by: ElevenLabs Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

    A-Mi-Kuk - The Alaskan Monster That Swims Through Land

  6. 13 jul

    Why Did Parents Invent Jenny Greenteeth?

    Jenny Greenteeth — Beneath the still, duckweed-choked surface of Britain's ponds and canals lurks Jenny Green Teeth, an ancient water hag from English folklore with elongated grasping arms, needle-sharp teeth, and a centuries-old hunger for children who wander too close to the water's edge. When a drainage project disturbs the old binding that has held her captive for generations, two young siblings discover that some legends were never just stories meant to frighten. Listener discretion advised.   freakyfolklore.com   #JennyGreenTeeth #EnglishFolklore #WaterHag #FreakyFolklore #BritishHorror #Cryptids #FolkHorror #DrowningLegends #Lancashire #ScaryStories #PodcastHorror #Ginnygreenteeth #Horror #Creepy #Folklore #Mythology #Monsters #WaterSpirits and #Rusalka   EXPLORE MORE SPINE-CHILLING CONTENT: Freaky Folklore: https://www.eeriecast.com/podcasts/freaky-folklore Carman's Crypt (Original Horror): https://www.carman-carrion.com/ Deadly Intent (True Crime): https://www.carman-carrion.com/ Destination Terror: https://www.eeriecast.com/podcasts/destination-terror ________________________________________ SUPPORT THE SHOW: Buy Me a Coffee: https://buymeacoffee.com/carmancarrion ________________________________________ CONNECT WITH CARMAN: Website: https://www.carman-carrion.com/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@CarmanCarrion https://www.youtube.com/@FreakyFolklore Twitter/X: https://x.com/CarmanCarrion Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/carmancarrion/ ________________________________________ SUBSCRIBE & REVIEW: Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0uiX155WEJnN7QVRfo3aQY iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/freaky-folklore/id1550361184 Your support helps bring you more terrifying tales. ________________________________________ DISCOVER MORE HORROR: http://eeriecast.com/ https://www.carman-carrion.com/ ________________________________________ MUSIC CREDITS: Music and sound effects provided by: ElevenLabs Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

    Why Did Parents Invent Jenny Greenteeth?

  7. 6 jul

    TOYOL– The Stolen Infant Spirit of Malay Folklore

    In the villages of Malaysia and Indonesia, desperate people pay shamans to raise a toyol—the enslaved spirit of a dead infant that steals riches for its master—but every coin it brings home comes with a debt no one can afford to pay.   #FreakyFolklore #Toyol #Tuyul #MalayFolklore #MalaysianLegends #IndonesianFolklore #SoutheastAsianMythology #GhostStories #BlackMagic #Bomoh #FolkHorror #CreatureFeature #SupernaturalPodcast #UrbanLegends #ParanormalPodcast #FolklorePodcast Sponsors: EVERYONE who signs up wins a FREE toy or gift card! https://www.bboutique.co/vibe/freakyfolklore-pod EXPLORE MORE SPINE-CHILLING CONTENT: Freaky Folklore: https://www.eeriecast.com/podcasts/freaky-folklore Carman's Crypt (Original Horror): https://www.carman-carrion.com/ Deadly Intent (True Crime): https://www.carman-carrion.com/ Destination Terror: https://www.eeriecast.com/podcasts/destination-terror SUPPORT THE SHOW: Buy Me a Coffee: https://buymeacoffee.com/carmancarrion CONNECT WITH CARMAN: Website: https://www.carman-carrion.com/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@CarmanCarrion Twitter/X: https://x.com/CarmanCarrion Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/carmancarrion/ SUBSCRIBE & REVIEW: Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0uiX155WEJnN7QVRfo3aQY iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/freaky-folklore/id1550361184 Your support helps bring you more terrifying tales. DISCOVER MORE HORROR: http://eeriecast.com/https://www.carman-carrion.com/ MUSIC CREDITS: Music and sound effects provided by: Epidemic Sound Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

    TOYOL– The Stolen Infant Spirit of Malay Folklore

  8. 29 jun

    The Grootslang - South Africa's Diamond-Cursed Serpent | The Monster That Was Never an Elephant

    Deep in the Richtersveld, where the Orange River cuts through some of the oldest, driest land on Earth, there is a cave the locals call the Bottomless Pit. They say it runs sixty feet straight down before it opens into the dark — and that it is the source of every diamond South Africa has ever surrendered. They also say something guards it. Something forty feet long, with diamonds set in its eye sockets, that leaves a trail three feet wide in the river mud and never, ever leaves the print of a foot.   This is the Grootslang — the "great snake" — and tonight we're separating the legend from the legend. Because the elephant-serpent monster you've seen online, the one the gods supposedly split apart at the dawn of creation, isn't the real story. The truth is older, quieter, and far more frightening: a creature that prospectors tried to dynamite out of the rock, that the Khoekhoe and the settlers both feared, and that may have swallowed a real man whole in 1917 — at least, that's who the desert decided to blame.   Pour something strong. Mind the water's edge.   #FreakyFolklore #Grootslang #SouthAfricanFolklore #Cryptid #Cryptozoology #Folklore #Mythology #Richtersveld #Monster #ScaryStories #Horror #Legends #Paranormal #OrangeRiver #DiamondCurse #Africa #FolkloreHorror #CreatureFeature #UrbanLegend #Eeriecast   Tonight, on Freaky Folklore: The Grootslang — South Africa's diamond-hoarding serpent of the Richtersveld. We trace the creature from the prospecting camps of the early 1900s to the cartoon that rewrote its mythology, and we follow the 1917 disappearance of Peter Grayson into the place where folklore is actually made. F.C. Cornell, The Glamour of Prospecting (firsthand early-1900s account of the "Groot Slang" of the Orange River)   EXPLORE MORE SPINE-CHILLING CONTENT: Freaky Folklore: https://www.eeriecast.com/podcasts/freaky-folklore Carman's Crypt (Original Horror): https://www.carman-carrion.com/ Deadly Intent (True Crime): https://www.carman-carrion.com/ Destination Terror: https://www.eeriecast.com/podcasts/destination-terror ________________________________________ SUPPORT THE SHOW: Buy Me a Coffee: https://buymeacoffee.com/carmancarrion ________________________________________ CONNECT WITH CARMAN: Website: https://www.carman-carrion.com/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@CarmanCarrion Twitter/X: https://x.com/CarmanCarrion Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/carmancarrion/ SUBSCRIBE & REVIEW: Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0uiX155WEJnN7QVRfo3aQY iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/freaky-folklore/id1550361184 Your support helps bring you more terrifying tales. ________________________________________ DISCOVER MORE HORROR: http://eeriecast.com/ https://www.carman-carrion.com/ ________________________________________   Written & narrated by Carman Carrion. Music & sound design: Epidemic Sound. The Grootslang is a creature of folklore; the historical figures named are presented as their legends are commonly told. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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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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