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Devilry
by devilrypod
A show about the monster among us, around us, and in us.
Episodes
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The White Wolf of the Hertz Mountains
Written by Henry Colburn in 1839, this short story is a near perfect rendition of folk belief in Werewolves put to pen.
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All Hallows Eve
All Hallows Eve, the night the dead wander the earth. Traditionally it was believed the spirits of dead relatives returned. Some to do penitence, some to say goodbye to loved ones, and some... Some returned for vengeance. Barmbrack Bread Recipe...
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Poe
A select reading of the poetry of Edgar Allen Poe, to get you through while we are traveling without internet
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Believing is Seeing
What is the Nature of perception? How does it relate to reality? And are science and magic the similar than we understand?
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Seeing is Believing Part 2(of 2)
The year was 1971, Puharich had been studying Extrasensory perception now for around twenty years, and when he heard of Uri Geller, he took the first flight he could to see for himself, the man who could predict the future and move matter with his mind. When he went to that night club in Tel Aviv...
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Seeing is Believing Part 1(of 2)
Remote viewing was made popular by the recent phenomenal Netflix series, Stranger Things. Which by the way, you can get all your information on at Stranger Things Talk Podcast hosted by friend of the show Michael Whitney. Cough! In the first season we find the lead character, Eleven, able to…
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Cursed
In October of 1994, three student filmmakers disappeared in the woods near Burkittsville, Maryland while shooting a documentary. A year later their footage was found. So opens Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sanchez’s masterpiece sleeper hit, The Blair Witch Project. Little do people know, that The…
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Carmilla Part 2(of 2)
Carmilla Part 2 out now! Years before the publication of Dracula, the 19th century swarmed with delectable Vampire fiction that rivaled Stokers great work. Saved by and today recounted in remembrance of, the Right Rev. Montague Summers. Music by Kevin Macleod https://soundcloud.com/kevin-9-1...
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Carmilla Part 1(of 2)
Carmilla is an fictional Gothic novella by Irish author Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu and one of the early works of vampire fiction, predating Bram Stoker's Dracula by 26 years. It was saved from the obliteration of time by the legendary Montague Summers. It is very accurate to the source material, the...
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Mans best Fiend
The small market town of Bungay in the UK is today a quite respite from the common bustle of the outside world. And as with any old town, it has its ghosts, whispered about in passing stories. Signs in the towns center put it on display and wind vines display its form. That of a large black dog,...
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The Watseka Wonder
Demonic possession often takes a lethal overtone in many cases, the more playful sort of possession has been known among fairy spirits and those of the elemental or deamon type of creatures talked about before in previous podcasts. These possessions are often much more obscure, like the fay...
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Haggard
Everyone has bad dreams, there’s no denying. And others have dreams that feel like they are real, and upon waking have difficulty distinguishing between dream and wakefulness. Vivid as they are, their effect eventual fades with the forceful gravity of reality. But what do you call a dream that...
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Echoes Through Time Part 2 (2/2
This week we continue the story of the Cameron family's strange experiences while living at the house on Rose Tree Lane, otherwise known as the Heilbron Manor. After learning to live with the haunting's, they begin to discover the dark history of the house and the many souls it has claimed…
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Echoes Through Time Part 1 (1/2)
“No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under the conditions of absolute reality; even Larks and Katydids are supposed by some, to dream. Hill House, not sane, stood by itself against its hills, holding darkness within; it had stood so for eighty years and might stand for eighty...
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Those Who Have Gone Before
Were in the past we have dealt with manifestations of creatures in the liminal spaces of reality, here we disembark from the human world with all its mystery and wonder and look up to heaven, or down into the depths of Hell. And there is no better guide for us on this journey than the Warrens.…
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Here There be Monsters Part 3: At the Hand of Destiny
Whispers are heard of such creatures that exist as some kind of manifestation of our psyche. Practices today still produce the strange results of our fore fathers manifesting incorporeal beast which are encountered today, if only we would look in the right places. Research on hallucinogenic...
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Here there be Monsters Part 2: The People of Peace
Balquhidder has always been seen as a “Thin Place” as the Celts say, were the boundary between Heaven and Earth is naturally not as robust as the rest of the world. All of this Rev. Kirk likely knew when he wrote his second book, for which he would be better remembered Today. The Secret...
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Here there be Monsters Part 1
Fixed the media issues and republished. Like many of our subjects, obscured by media, Hollywood, and modern fantasy, fables of the dragon languish behind fictional depictions of physical manifestations of fire breathing winged serpents, most are content to regurgitate Tolkien like fairytales. The...
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Chasing Tales
Our venerable for bearer Rev. Montague Summers eagerly devoured the subject of the European Werewolf in a single manuscript, and much of what we now recount and know of the subject is from his delicate mind. He studiously pointed out that the origin of the shapeshifter is nothing new, it existed...
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The Legend
Steve Cook of WTCM-FM in Traverse City recorded a song for April fool’s day in 1987 called The Legend. The song recounts a strange myth whispered by his friends and family. The joke was on him when he became inundated with stories from listeners who claimed to have seen a strange dog or wolf like...
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The Widow Paris
The dark arts used by sorcerers through the ages was often an amalgamation of ancient wisdom mixed with the dominate religion of the time. Abramelin said in his own book that his magic could be practiced by anyone who believed in God, be he Christian, Muslim, or Jew. A city on the bayou stands...
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An Undying Love
A lovely Valentines Day treat for all you lovers out here, a story about eternal love, poison, horrible death, and of coarse, necromancy. Through the ages since Valentines ascension into Sainthood, tales have arisen to fill the hearts and minds of the simple folk throughout history. In Norfolk, a...
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A Creature of the World
If you ever find yourself vacationing on the majestic Islands of the Cyclades archipelago, perhaps overlooking the beautiful beaches of Santorini, or maybe on the ancient cobblestone steps of Mykonos and you hear an unexpected knock at your door after dark, it might be wise, as the locals would...
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The Terror by Night
In October of 2018 The Washington Post ran an article titled “Archaeologists find ‘vampire burial’ site of a child feared capable of rising from the dead” the Articled went on to detail a strange burial ritual they have come to be familiar with in the field. More than fifteen hundred years ago…
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The Wizard of Europe
In last weeks episode Tell me Strange Things, we looked at the curious life and works of Montague Summers and explored his odd views on the literal existence of Vampires, Werewolves and Witches. His exploration and translations of works of Inquisitors and Witchfinder generals did not endear him…
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Tell me Strange Things
In 1926 a strange looking man, with a black cape, black shovel hat, wearing a black cassock with a white collar came bounding out of the reading room of the British Museum of Oxford, cape fluttering behind him. In one hand was a silver doped cane, in another, a black portfolio with the words...
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