Between Myth and Belief

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...

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...

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...

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...

They live in the sea as seals. On land, they pass as human. And if someone steals the skin they shed on shore, they can never go home. Selkies are one of the oldest and most quietly heartbreaking figures in Celtic and...

<p>In the highlands of southern France, something was hunting people. For three years, from 1764 to 1767, La Bête du Gévaudan killed over a hundred men, women, and children across 700 square miles of rugged countryside...

<p>Before ghost hunting was a TV staple, Dr. Nandor Fodor was already doing it weirder and smarter than anyone else. In this episode we dig into the strange career of the paranormal investigator almost nobody talks...

<p>This week, Michelle and Beth dig into one of the strangest, saddest, and most compelling folk traditions ever pulled from a forgotten archive box: the Benandanti of Friuli, Italy. Born into a calling, dispatched four...

<p>What are dreams, really? Science says your brain is filing memories and simulating threats. Psychology points to the subconscious doing its messy work. Metaphysics suggests something far stranger, that it’s a doorway...

<p>What happens when a community’s justice system fails, and the line between vigilante law and supernatural lore begins to blur?</p> <p>In this episode of Between Myth and Belief (formerly Folkloric), Michelle and Beth...

<p>In the spring of 1973, in a small Southern Illinois town of about 800 people, something scratched at Henry McDaniel's door. He opened it. What he described was four feet tall, three-legged, pinkish-grey skin, eyes...

<p>They were here before us. They will be here after we're gone. And in the meantime, they are definitely watching. For as long as people have been brave enough to go into the woods, trees have given us shelter, oxygen...

<p>Let's breathe in the strange and suffocating tale of the Mad Gasser of Mattoon, the phantom prowler who paralyzed an entire Illinois town in the summer of 1944 with nothing but a sweet smell and a whole lot of...

<p>Let’s take a walk through a blood soaked history of Greyfriars Kirkyard and the apparitions who do or maybe do not haunt there. We discuss the plague victims, mass graves, the Covenanters, and the monster who may be...

<p>Follow along with us as we enter a different realm, beyond the known and into... Toronto, Canada. Where we watch the 1970s every day citizens embark upon a journey of mysticism and science. Philip never existed but...