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Hosted by Cris Frickenschmidt · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 14 episodes
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Mythology, folklore, legends. We all know and love them. But where did they come from? How did they evolve? How is everything connected. Let's dig in together. This is a journey into the stories that come from the darker days of old.
Cris Frickenschmidt hosts Grey Tales, a science show with 14 episodes published.
Every year on the first weekend after Ash Wednesday, thirty-metre wooden towers are erected across Vorarlberg, Austria — and set ablaze along with a gunpowder-filled witch doll. The custom is called "Funken," it's UNESCO
The grand finale of our four-part series on the real myths behind the monsters of "The Witcher" takes us away from the Slavic forests – south, to Portugal, Spain and Galicia. There the bruxa waits: in the games a beautif
He's one of the most iconic creatures in "The Witcher 3": the Leshen, a towering forest terror with a deer skull and antlers. But in Part 3 of our four-part series on the real myths behind the monsters of "The Witcher,"
It's the very first monster of the Witcher saga – and the moment Geralt became a hero: the striga, a cursed princess who rises from her crypt by night. In Part 2 of our four-part series on the real myths behind the monst
Geralt calls her a "Noonwraith." The Poles call her Południca. And in Lusatia she was feared as the Noon Woman — sickle in hand. In Part 1 of our new four-part series on the real myths behind the monsters of "The Witcher
Forty minutes east of Munich lies one of the largest unbroken forests in Germany — ninety square kilometres, with not a single settlement to break it up. Cutting straight through it runs State Road 2080, and along it, le
In 1576, a gravedigger on a plague island in the Venetian lagoon reopened a mass grave. One of the corpses — a woman — was bloated, red-lipped, and her burial shroud was torn to shreds around her open mouth. It looked li
Imagine a bathtub. Stone, or maybe copper. In a cold chamber of a castle high in the Carpathians. Filled not with water — but with the blood of young girls. In it sits a countess who believes this bath will keep her youn
Nuremberg, 1488. A printing press spits out a pamphlet with a woodcut on the cover: a crowned prince dining at a table, surrounded by a forest of stakes. Men, women, children — skewered like insects. It becomes one of Eu
In January 2004, six men in a Romanian village dug up a dead man. He had been in the ground for six weeks. They cut open his chest, removed his heart, burned it at a crossroads, mixed the ashes with well water, and gave
In part two of our journey into the Nøkken, we go down into the cellar — to the place where music becomes more dangerous than any knife. Because the most terrifying thing about this Scandinavian water spirit isn't that h
For more than a thousand years, the lakes, rivers, and millponds of Scandinavia have been haunted by a creature that has no fixed shape. He is a bearded old man with water dripping from his beard. He is a grey horse with
Imagine looking up at the sky tonight and knowing that out there—invisible to the naked eye—a mysterious object is hurtling through our solar system. A visitor from the unimaginable depths of the galaxy that has been wan
Imagine you are living in 1903 in a small mining town in Iowa. It is the middle of the night when suddenly a bright light shines through your window. You look outside and see a huge, winged figure with glowing eyes movin
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Grey Tales is hosted by Cris Frickenschmidt. The show is categorised under science (natural) and has published 14 episodes.
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