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Stories and interviews about the paranormal, cryptids, forgotten history, folklore, and more.
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Proudly brought to you by the fine folks at the Astonishing Legends Podcast- Not just another show but a place you can go: The Midnight Library. You alone, can climb the stairs of the strange, old Victorian mansion and be somewhat welcomed by your Hosts, Miranda Merrick & Mr. Darling. Curl up in a window seat or beside the grand fireplace and hear a tale of times long ago. Be transported to forgotten lands, learn about ancient customs and mysterious happenings… all in the company of your unu ...
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The Familiar Strange is a podcast about doing anthropology: that is, about listening, looking, trying out, and being with, in pursuit of uncommon knowledge about humans and culture. Find show notes, plus our blog about anthropology's role in the world, at https://www.thefamiliarstrange.com. Twitter: @tfsTweets. FB: facebook.com/thefamiliarstrange. Instagram: @thefamiliarstrange. Brought to you by your familiar strangers: Ian Pollock, Jodie-Lee Trembath, Julia Brown, Simon Theobald, Kylie Won ...
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Strap in. We're going on a trip! Robert and Topher, cofounders of advertising agency Territorial, explore the weird, compelling, and sometimes forgotten corners of our culture through a surprising lens: the brands we all know and/or love. Every episode uses a familiar brand as a roadmap to stories you would never imagine to help you see the world in a new way. To learn more about Robert Balog & Topher Burns, and their work at Territorial, visit www.weareterritorial.com or find them on LinkedIn.
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From the fun and familiar to the strange and obscure, learn something new every day with Merriam-Webster.
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Storytellers and best friends Josie Mitchell and Taylor Basso share the stories that live on in infamy: the strange and the familiar, the tragic and the comic—the bitter and the sweet. New episodes every other Sunday; returning from break December 24! Support the show: ko-fi.com/bittersweetinfamy
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Limited Capacity is a collection of six short stories about the strange and twisted ways we interact with the internet, and with each other. Punctuated with dark humour and surprising twists, each episode blurs the lines between horror, thriller, mockumentary and satire. The stories take on digital appropriation, toxic positivity, a self-help podcast for people who hate self-help and a talking chicken. Each immersive episode is packed with intimate and jarring stories that are both completel ...
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Welcome to the basement of the Derry Civic Center. Pay no mind to the strange sounds coming from behind the Unfound Door. It’s just your ka-tet, who are here to provide you with a variety of perspectives on Stephen King’s work – ranging from the comfortably familiar to the frighteningly fanatic. Derry Public Radio is here to keep you up-to-date with all that’s happening in Derry, Maine and “beyond.” Check us out on Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/derrypublicradio. Your support helps us ke ...
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podcasting pop culture: smart conversations for smart people
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Strange and Familiar brings together Toronto teens, and seniors living in long-term care to share tales of hardship, humour and love. contact: eva@mammalian.ca
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Do you ever feel like you’re being watched? Don’t trust the government? Are aliens real? Is time travel possible? Will artificial intelligence actually take over the Earth? Do ghosts actually exist? Is Bigfoot real or just media hype? Are all UFO reports falsified? These questions are only the beginning... Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/troubled-minds-radio--4953916/support.
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We take the stories you know and make them sillier! Pen and Paper and Popcorn is an improvised comedy podcast that reimagines well-known stories through the medium of roleplaying games. While each game starts in a familiar place, player choices and luck always ensure they end somewhere new and strange. The podcast is hosted by Charlie Rowland, and features a rotating cast of actors, improvisors and gamers.
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Welcome to "the only investigative journalism podcast about sh*t that may or may not have even happened in the first place"! Brought to you by besties Aly and Nat, Let's Get Haunted is here to bring scary tales of hauntings, aliens, urban legends, and unsolved mysteries to the masses. Enjoy your daily dose of paranormal year-round with LGH!
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Parallel worlds! Imaginary tales! Alternate realities! Join us as we travel the comic book omniverse to discuss the tales which attempt to answer the question "what if...?" and give us new and strange takes on characters as familiar as yesterday!
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On My Strange Bible, we're focused on exploring the strange and fascinating aspects of the Bible that often go unnoticed or forgotten. Delve along with us into the oddities, miracles, and unexplained events in the Bible that make it truly unique. In each episode, we'll uncover these hidden gems and invite you to reimagine familiar stories and discover new perspectives. This ain’t your grandma’s Bible.
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The Best PodCast you've never heard of!
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How many ways are there to be human? Each week Anthropologist on the Street Dr. Carie Little Hersh invites different cultural experts to illuminate the hidden ideas, practices, and power dynamics that make our lives both familiar and strange.
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For the first captain to be filmed leading the USS Enterprise, Christopher Pike has gotten precious little screen time over the years. That's about to change. Star Trek: Strange New Worlds will bring us the stories of the Enterprise under Pike's command, together with Number One, Spock, and a host of familiar faces. Saddle Up! explores the characters and stories that Strange New Worlds brings us each week as we celebrate Star Trek and try to have a little fun along the way.
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Welcome to Flyts of Fancy, a booze-laden mythology podcast by Cate and Trish! We're best friends of nearly 20 years with an intensely strange and strangely intense love of mythology. Join us while we continuously subject our livers to alcohol and your ears to hot takes on classic stories you may or may not be familiar with. Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/flytsoffancy/support
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Do you live outside the world of straight white males (or aspire to)? From Hirah Media, each episode of Sample Space is a collection of narratives centered around a theme, like This American Life, for non-white folks. These are our stories, sad and sweet, funny and dramatic, familiar and strange. They are the stories of our lives, the stories of color, gender, abilities, culture ethnicity, age, and poverty. Ideas? Comments? Burning desire to be featured? Reach out at info@hirahmedia.com
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Do you remember the first time you watched The Wizard of Oz? The familiar pair of red shoes that sparkle as Dorothy skips down the yellow brick road, a rare collector’s item worth millions. In the summer of 2005, a pair was stolen from the Judy Garland Museum in the small town of Grand Rapids, Minnesota. No Place Like Home follows a classic heist story against the nostalgic backdrop of one of the most famous movies and Hollywood props of all time. Journalist Ariel Ramchandani and editor Seyw ...
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—a podcast where curiosity and imagination run free. Imagine if you wake up one day to find a completely different world. Animals and plants you are familiar with are replaced by strange ones. The air smells and tastes different. Each episode, we will explore our world with an imaginary item or without a familiar one. You can participate by leaving your imagination via voice at http://anchor.fm/ourworldofimagination or (717) 804-4297. Let me know if you would like your voicemail played on th ...
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"Amusing, yet slightly offensive" - Some lad on YouTube. Monster Fuzz podcast is a twice-weekly Irish comedic podcast about Cryptozoology, the Paranormal, Extraterrestrials, Folklore, Mythology, and everything in between! Have you ever wondered if there are actually Dinosaurs in the Congo? Or what about that guy that lives down the street and says he was abducted by Aliens? Did Patterson and Gimlin really capture Sasquatch on film? These are all questions your hosts Rob and Eamonn set out to ...
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NeoScum is a future-fantasy comedy podcast featuring five Chicago improvisers antagonizing their way through the roleplaying classic, Shadowrun. It follows a group of misfits and outsiders: a chromehead decker, a teenage candy-junky klepto, a kid's show wizard with a petulant thirst for adventure, and the nastiest trucker this side of the robo-Mason-Dixon. Join the irascible NeoScum crew as they make their way across a strange but familiar America in 2077, doling out street justice to every ...
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Real Fairies Radio In our experience, fairies ARE real and we're here to talk about them. Even though this is a new radio show, we aren't new to the subject of real fairies. As strange as it may sound, we have been communicating with residents of the fairy realm, elves in particular, since 2004. For some of you, this is old news, especially those who are familiar with our website, RealFairies.net. To others, this may be a bit out there but we're hoping you will keep an open mind as we take y ...
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It has happened to me and it has probably happened to you. It is sudden and quick, leaving you as unexpectedly as it came. It is a feeling which is more unfamiliar than familiar. This podcast is all about that feeling of familiarity that you can't do away with. Stories that are not just compelling, but rebelling. This is The Unfamiliar Déjà Vu.
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Winner of the Adirondack Center for Writing’s People’s Choice Award 2016 A sister grows inside the body of another and wants to return; a woman accidentally walks through walls where her newfound intimacy offends. By turns surreal, mournful, and droll, this collection of short stories investigates our conflicting urge for intimacy and transcendence. Enter this cabinet of wonders to find your mind and spirit expand. While the concerns and struggles are familiar — loneliness, troubled marriage ...
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Kit and the Mystical Forest (spoken as Kit and the Mystic Forest) is a fairytale adventure series telling the story of a young girl named Kit Woods whose mother suddenly and inexplicably becomes gravely ill with a strange affliction that hardens her skin, changing her into an inert, inhuman husk. Her father, who finds the illness familiar, rushes off to a mysterious Forest to obtain the cure; however, after a long, long, very long time, only his horse returns home. It is now up to Kit to sav ...
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Ever had a strange experience you couldn't explain? You're not alone. From the paranormal and supernatural, to conspiracies and folklore, let us be your guides on this expedition into the farthest reaches of the unknown! Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/the-farthest-reaches/support
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Stories to Tell When You Stay at Home Specially developed during April 2020, when large part so the globe were on lockdown. It is strange times, we all know that, oddly familiar yet completely unknown. These are stories for adults, while they tidy up, do the washing up, sit very still, try to get some sleep….They are recorded in lockdown, created in a homemade recording studio made from duvets and light fittings. Stories to Tell in the Middle of the Night A series of 9 episodes of short, str ...
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We talk about all things paranormal. Hauntings, UFOS, Bigfoot Dogman and more paranormal activity.
Matt Harvey, Amanda Harvey
On our podcast we talk about paranormal topics that are considered paranormal activity. Hauntings, ghosts, demons, poltergueist, Bigfoot, Sasquatch, Dogman, aliens, UFO, cryptid creatures, paranormal gear, our paranormal investigations and more. We will interview guest about their paranormal experiences and talk about paranormal activity. There is no judgment on our show. Deep Woods Paranormal, making the paranormal, normal. If you have a question or want to be a guest and share your paranor ...
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From the author who started it all and New Zealand's original podcast authoress, Tee Morris and Pip Ballantine return to Podiobooks.com with Tales from the Archives, a collection of original steampunk short stories set in the world of their award-winning series, The Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences. Featuring voices familiar and new, Pip and Tee invite you to sample the fantastic world of their shadowy organisation that fights for Queen and Empire against the mysterious and unknown. This vol ...
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A mysterious door-way, an incident of ferocious violence, a respectable and popular scientist, well-known for his enjoyable dinner parties who suddenly changes his will, the brutal killing of an elderly Member of Parliament, a diabolical serum that can transform one person into another – truly the ingredients of a fast good thriller! Robert Louis Stevenson's The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde has captured the imaginations of readers ever since it was first published in 1886. It met wi ...
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Set in the small secluded valley of Sleepy Hollow, Irving’s short speculative story follows the rivalry between Ichabod Crane and Brom Van Brunt for Katrina Van Tassel’s hand in marriage. Mostly inhabited by descendants from Dutch settlers, the residents are known for their belief in superstitions and the supernatural, and have many stories to suffice their colorful imaginations. The story begins when the scrawny schoolmaster Ichabod Crane from Connecticut moves to Sleepy Hollow for a teachi ...
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First serialized from January to August, 1845, Twenty Years After is the second book in The D’Artagnan Romances, and follows the gallant adventures of the musketeers, as they are once again summoned to alleviate the various threats that lurk in the political scene of France, as the country is threatened by a possible uprising. Enriched with exciting and well-developed characters, the novel adds more detail to its familiar characters, as the musketeers have matured and are portrayed in a more ...
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Samhain Special w/ Strange Familiars!
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In Today's episode we sit down with Tim and Alison of Strange Familiars to talk all things Halloween and beyond! Check it. www.strangefamiliars.com Support the pod: www.patreon.com/monsterfuzz Check out our merch: https://monster-fuzz.creator-spring.com Everything else! www.linktr.ee/monsterfuzz Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.sprea…
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Happy Halloween! Rob and Eamonn from Monster Fuzz join Alison and Timothy for our annual Halloween hangout. We discuss books, records, movies, comics, cryptids, and more. If you would like to help us continue to make Strange Familiars, get bonus content, t-shirts, stickers, and more rewards, you can become a patron: http://www.patreon.com/StrangeFa…
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Episode 198: The Dead Internet Theory feat. Strange Familiars (plus Aliza Kelly of Horoscope Weekly)
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SKIP TO 00:24:00 TO GET TO THIS WEEK’S STORY! The Dead Internet Theory posits that the internet we are all using to communicate with one another is no longer a digital message board meant to connect us across the globe. Instead, what we perceive as being an organic community of humans is actually a wasteland of ads, AI generated content, and bots f…
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SKIP TO 00:13:00 TO GET TO THIS WEEK’S EPISODE Welcome to Episode 201: The Backrooms! Have you ever heard of The Backrooms? The Backrooms are widely considered to be the most popular and prolific internet urban legend in existence. The Backrooms are often depicted as an endless series of empty, yellow-lit rooms with old, stained carpet, fluorescent…
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Cryptids and Genetic Memory - Primordial Totemic Archetypes
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Are cryptids more than figments of folklore? Could they be echoes of ancient survival instincts, manifestations of generational trauma embedded in our DNA, or symbols of fears passed down through millennia? If creatures like Mothman and Bigfoot tap into primal memories of dangers our ancestors knew all too well, then these legends might be more tha…
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Skeleton Crew has dazzled with its second trailer, and PhantasticGeek.com's Pete and Matt start the countdown for the series! Thanks as always to everyone who supports the podcast by visiting Patreon.com/PhantasticGeek. Share your feedback by emailing PhantasticGeek@gmail.com, commenting at PhantasticGeek.com, or tweeting @PhantasticGeek. MP3…
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Agatha All Along: Episode 8, ”Follow Me My Friend / To Glory at the End;” and Episode 9, “Maiden Mother Crone”
Agatha arrives at the end of the Road as an epilogue illuminates the way. Matt and Pete grasp Episode 8, ”Follow Me My Friend / To Glory at the End,” and Episode 9, “Maiden Mother Crone.” Thanks as always to everyone who supports the podcast by visiting Patreon.com/PhantasticGeek. Share your feedback by emailing PhantasticGeek@gmail.com, commenting…
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The Cerritos takes a working vacation. Mariner confronts a former partner. Matt and Pete discuss episodes 503, “The Best Exotic Nanite Hotel.” Thanks as always to everyone who supports the podcast by visiting Patreon.com/PhantasticGeek. Share your feedback by emailing PhantasticGeek@gmail.com, commenting at PhantasticGeek.com, or tweeting @Phantast…
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The Cat State - Familiar Spirits Reimagined
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Could it be that cats, ancient companions of mystics, genuinely hold the keys to unseen realms? Are they quiet sentinels bridging our world to others, interpreting hidden dimensions through a language of shadows and guiding their bonded humans to perceive beyond the veil of reality? Perhaps the question isn't whether these mysteries exist—but if we…
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Possessed by the Future - Are We Haunted by Tomorrow's Technology *Short Format*
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Could it be that our minds are subtly possessed, guided by echoes of technology from the future? Are our digital obsessions—our reliance on AI, fascination with retro gadgets, and unbreakable attachment to screens—mere habits, or whispers of influence from a world that already sees us as vessels for its agenda? If we’re being touched by tomorrow, t…
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Limited Capacity Introduces: Tunnel Runners from PlayME
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Welcome to your digital stage, where bold theatre meets cutting-edge audio drama. Each episode of PlayME draws you into captivating stories brought to life by top actors, acclaimed writers, and cinematic sound design that places you at the center of the action. More episodes of PlayME are available at: https://link.chtbl.com/u2StuooR…
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Thresholds of Power - The Intersection of Belief, Law, and Magic
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Can protective symbols carry traces of consciousness, influencing outcomes through the power of intent? Could rituals—whether ancient carvings or modern algorithms—truly act as stabilizing forces, shaping the flow of reality by managing unseen energies? If thought can leave an imprint on matter, blurring the line between belief and physics, perhaps…
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On a quiet street, in a quiet town in Illinois there is an urban legend about a terrifying serial killer who terrorizes its citizens. Donning a terrifying alabaster death mask and killing innocent people with glee. Is the urban legend of the Boogeyman of Haddonfield true? Support the pod: www.patreon.com/monsterfuzz Check out our merch: https://mon…
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Episode 200.5: Listener Stories #31
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SKIP TO 00:25:00 TO GET TO THIS WEEK’S LISTENER STORIES! Welcome to Episode 200.5: Listener Stories #31! This is the episode where our Haunties (aka listeners) write in with their first-person spooky tales of cryptids, ghosts, curses, and aliens AND where Nat & Aly unbox fan mail sent by listeners just like YOU. This week, we unbox mail from: Karen…
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Where the Dead Still Walk - Forgotten Roads and Restless Spirits *Short Format*
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If you are having a mental health crisis and need immediate help please go to https://troubledminds.org/help/ and call somebody right now. Reaching out for support is a sign of strength. LIVE ON Digital Radio! http://bit.ly/3m2Wxom or http://bit.ly/40KBtlW http://www.troubledminds.org Support The Show! https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/troubled-mind…
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Seven days of Samhain continues! In Today's episode we have a spooky story that is both written, and performed, by our very own Eamonn. Tune in, find out. Support the pod: www.patreon.com/monsterfuzz Check out our merch: https://monster-fuzz.creator-spring.com Everything else! www.linktr.ee/monsterfuzz Become a supporter of this podcast: https://ww…
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Episode 169 – Pet Sematary: Bloodlines - “Micmac Paddy Whack”
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This week Derry Public Radio revisits the world of "Pet Sematary" with a dive into the recent adaptation, "Pet Sematary: Bloodlines". Join CM, Josh, and Eve as they dissect this prequel to the 2019 remake. Listen in as they explore the film's attempt to expand on Jud Crandall's backstory, the missed opportunities in storytelling, the strange motiva…
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Folklore and Hyperstition - Recreating All Hallow's Eve
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Can human consciousness directly shape reality? From ancient monks manifesting entities through meditation, to modern groups creating verifiable phenomena through focused belief, to digital myths taking physical form - these cases suggest our minds might hold reality-bending powers we're only beginning to understand. The line between imagination an…
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Mini Fuzz: Halloween Shenanigans and Questions!
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In Today's episode we answer our followers burning questions. Tune in, find out.. Support the pod: www.patreon.com/monsterfuzz Check out our merch: https://monster-fuzz.creator-spring.com Everything else! www.linktr.ee/monsterfuzz Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/monster-fuzz--4349429/support.…
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Red Eyes from the Witch Digger Woods
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During their second trip to the Witch Diggers’ property, Timothy, Jon Darby, and Tyler Strand interviewed a man in a nearby cabin who has been experiencing weird activity coming from the woods around him: whoops, tree knocks, tree breaks, unknown language, and strange laughter. He also observed large, red eyes, glaring at him from the trees. If you…
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Welcome to The Reading Room, Spooky Lovelies! Imagine being accused of witchcraft because of the cute, little pets you own-- and that cute, little mole on your chin... and several of your spouses dropping dead while in your care. Please find your favorite spot because tonight, Ms. Merrick has for you, the spellbinding story of the very first famili…
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