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Hosted by Danielle Christmas · 🇺🇸 US · EN-US · 24 episodes
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You've heard the story. Now hear the case. Every culture tells stories about violence, betrayal, revenge, disappearance, obsession, grief, and power. Over time, those stories become myths, legends, and folklore, passed from generation to generation long after the original events have been forgotten. Humanity's oldest stories preserve humanity's oldest crimes. Folklore Forensics reopens humanity's oldest cases, investigating myths and legends from around the world as if they were real crimes. We reconstruct timelines, examine evidence, question witnesses, and follow the trail wherever it leads. Along the way, we ask not only what happened, but why cultures chose stories as the way to remember it. Because folklore is more than entertainment. It is a record of the fears, desires, anxieties, and transgressions that societies could not stop talking about. A way of preserving difficult trut
Danielle Christmas hosts Folklore Forensics, a history show with 24 episodes published.
Witches. Hags. Sorceresses. Child-stealers. Monsters. This season, Folklore Forensics reopens the case files of history's most infamous wicked women. You've heard the story. Now hear the case. Coming in September, Season
History remembers Lamia as the monster who stole children. But before she became every parent's nightmare, she was a mother who lost her own. You've heard the story. Now hear the case. For centuries, Lamia has been remem
The Odyssey remembers Scylla as one of Greek mythology's most terrifying monsters. But before the legend, there was a young woman whose life was stolen by someone else's obsession and revenge. You've heard the story. Now
What if the real crime in Antigone wasn't burying the dead, but making burial a crime in the first place? You've heard the story. Now hear the case. Antigone is one of the defining figures of Greek mythology: a young wom
The greatest hero in Greek mythology survived monsters, wars, and impossible labors. In the end, the thing that killed him arrived as a gift from his wife. You've heard the story. Now hear the case. The evidence appears
A young woman disappears while visiting her sister. When Philomela is finally found, she has been assaulted, imprisoned, and mutilated, her tongue removed to ensure she can never tell the truth. But silence doesn't end t
After the murder of King Agamemnon, his son is sent into exile while the killers remain in power. You've heard the story. Now hear the case. In this episode of Folklore Forensics, we reopen one of the most famous trials
What if Greek mythology remembered Medusa as a monster because it forgot what happened to her first? You've heard the story. Now hear the case. Medusa is one of the most recognizable figures in Greek mythology: a monster
You've heard the story. Now hear the case. Season 2 of Folklore Forensics investigates the crimes hidden inside Greek mythology. From murders and disappearances to betrayals, conspiracies, and acts of revenge, we reopen
A king returned home from war expecting celebration. Instead, he walked into a murder ten years in the making. This week, we reopen one of the most infamous domestic killings in classical mythology: the murder of King Ag
A desperate bargain inside a locked spinning room should have saved a miller’s daughter from execution . Instead, it ends years later in a nursery, when a strange man arrives to collect payment for a debt the young queen
Three hunters vanished into the winter wilderness. And the man who returned with their remains claimed he was no longer human. In the winter of 1879, a hunting party returned to Rat Portage, Ontario, reduced to three sur
Three Roman cities burned. Tens of thousands died. And the woman who led the attack had once been publicly flogged by the empire she destroyed. Entire settlements were destroyed as Roman forces struggled to contain a reb
A teenage queen collapsed beside a half-eaten apple—no pulse, no breath, and yet her body refused to decay. Witnesses reported multiple prior attacks: laces drawn tight enough to suffocate, a poisoned comb pressed into h
For over a thousand years, rulers, generals, and empires trusted a single voice: the Oracle of Delphi. Kings crossed borders because of her words. Wars were launched. Dynasties fell. From King Croesus of Lydia to the leg
Ireland’s ‘changeling’ killings: when fairy folklore justified child murder and torture. In 19th-century Ireland, some families believed that illness or disability wasn’t sickness at all. Instead, the fairies had stolen
In the Black Forest of medieval Europe, young women begin vanishing on the forest paths between village and cottage —always on errands of care, always near dusk. Their bodies are found days later in the underbrush. Their
For years, Athens was required to send seven young men and seven young women to Crete as tribute—fourteen victims per cycle who were said to vanish inside the labyrinth beneath the palace and be devoured by the Minotaur.
Deep in Russian forests, in times of famine and social upheaval, children sent to gather food or seek help from distant relatives frequently vanished without trace . Local accounts attributed these disappearances to a ca
Across Mexico and the American Southwest, dozens of child drowning cases spanning centuries share disturbing commonalities: bodies found in rivers and irrigation canals, often following reports of a woman in white near t
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Folklore Forensics is hosted by Danielle Christmas. The show is categorised under history (society) and has published 24 episodes.
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