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Fringe History
by Basti B
Fringe History is an episodic research heavy History & travel podcast! A comprehensive look into Americas strange history that could be in your backyard! Cryptids, paranormal hotspots & abaondoned forts I’ll be sharing weird tales that you can visit the sites of all across America in 3 sections. Their Fantastical stories, the hard facts & cultural significance, and lastly the Travel Tips! Don’t get lost on a dirt road looking for skinwalker ranch, I can help guide you & let ya know if you’re on the right path. Learn about the fringe history in your backyard & how to get there today!
Episodes
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Case 25 SoCal's Rainmaker Wizard, Charles Hatfield!
Welcome to the culture of Pluviculture! Or as folks in America during the late 1800s called Rainmaking! A fringe science where savvy folk would travel to small towns throughout the Midwest & across the sw to draught ridden towns to promise them rain! In Nebraska a whole “rain god association” had...
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SW Cactus Cats! Tale from the Fringes 9
South West Explorer be warned to not try any of the fermented cactus juices you may find leaking out there. Cuz you may have just come along the path of a Cryptid with razor sharp bone claws & a real territorial attitude. So let’s jump into fearsome creatures of the lumberwoods again from da guy...
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Case 24 NJ's Mantis Man 0f the Musconetcong!
Welcome to the forgotten river county of NJ, where the trees overhang creates dark tunnels along the Musconetcong river. In these haunting waters multiple fisherman have reported a creature with incredible powers. A 7ft scaled mantis creature with the ability to cloak itself, massive wings & a...
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WAMP, Tales from the Fringes
Whatchu know about a Wamp? What a strange creature coming to us from a great Cryptid series Yarns of the Bigwoods! A gray sack with arms & legs w/ a wild hollow tail used to shake salt onto the root of trees. A delicious treat for the local deers which makes the Wamp a best friend to the hunters…
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Case 23 NE's Jetpack Monster of Falls City
Have you ever heard of a jetpack monster?? Well there’s been a couple sightings throughout time, but Nebraskas falls city holds on of the most strange encounters with one! Technicolor lights draped across the 15 ft metal wings on the creatures back & the eyewitness could only describe it as a...
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NYs Francis WoolCott & the Valley of ZOAR, Tales from the Fringes!
Criminals & Villiany await in todays tales, from torturous robbers throwing travelers into their Basement pitt to mystic Highwaymen who terrorize farmers & travelers in the hills of eastern NY! These Tales come from Charles M Skinners “myths & legends of our own Lands”, a fantastical text…
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Case 22 NVs Gargantuan Gliders
Have you heard of those Atmospheric Beasts lingering in our sky’s? Well today we aren’t talking about Air Rods or Sky Squids, but instead a vivid description of a haunting desert encounter with what was reported as a flying saucer but the anonymous writer swears it was an animal! An 8 ft metallic...
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Roperite, Tales from the Fringes
Prepare yourself for the Desert Quickness!! This weeks Cryptid is an inescapable beast of the shrublands who kicks roadrunners out of its path & has been known to hunt loggers of the Sierras. I’ll go over the legend of the infamous SW creature of the lumberwoods, The Roperite! From the legends of...
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Case 21 The Phantom Chemist/Mad Gasser of Mattoon
Who’s that peepin through your window? & what’s that sweet odor in the air?? Well don’t worry all your neighbors are on the streets with guns & bats looking for them… welcome to Mattoon IL during WW2, where squads of elite police & even the FBI came to investigate what the town called “the Mad...
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The Albany Hag, Tales from the Fringes
Let’s talk about Witches! Particularly a hag who lurks through the streets of New Yorks Capital! When this shrill old woman only got 12 baked goods when she wanted a dozen, she cursed the German baker! Not only did his business begin to fail, but the smoke from his chimney would choke him &...
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Case 20! Kicked Off SkinWalker Ranch
Join my travels as I road-trip 14 hrs in 2 days around the Unitah basin! I’m excited to bring you all one of my favorite travels to one of Americas most funded supernatural sites, as the American government spent millions of dollars in the mid 2000s to investigate the many anomalies on this...
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Callopode, Tales From the Fringes
Do you hear that song every morning that wakes up the world around us? Especially in spring months some would describe it as the spring chorus, but what if a smol creature whose organs are musical instruments leads this chorus & brings about this song with every step! So I’ll be bringing to life...
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Case 19, Mercy Lena Brown, Americas Last Vampire
Have you heard of the New England Undead / Vampire panic phenomenon in the 18th Century? We are still currently finding graveyards effected by this mass hysteria where bodies were exhumed in a monster hunt lead by superstitious religious folk, sometimes making tonics of the bodies organs. The…
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Phantom Kangaroos, Tales from the Fringes
It’s a phenomenon that has struck 5 nations across the world, on farmland & country roads folk have spotted a phantom creature dashing past their eyes! I couldn’t believe it, but the 2013 Oklahoma Hunter video is undeniable! Then I find news articles from 1930s in PA about Monstrous Blood sucking...
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Case 18 UT's Great Salt Lake Whale Experiment / Northshore Monster
In Americas “Dead Sea” an experiment that was documented by the University of Utahs biology department occurred. In 1875 Ocean Leviathans were hauled by boats then by a 1 of a kind Train to be rehomed in the Great Salt Lake in hope of populating it with WHALES! Now this urban legend has been...
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Gumberoo, Tales from the Fringes
A Hungry Creature from the Lumberwoods slowly comes our way on this Tale! It’s hairless, black, shiny & has no wrinkle on its body, almost rubbery. No predator can pierce is Hide & even the greatest hunters who shoot at it find their bullets coming right back at them! But, as most cryptids do, it...
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Case 17 Jean Laffite, Swamp Smuggler King
OI travelers, buckle up for a Wild tale of high sea swashbuckling adventures of the Smuggler king of the Swamps surrounding Louisiana! This Patriot Privateer belongs to a set of 3 brothers who were arrested for piratey over a century past the golden age of Piracy. But the youngest of the became a...
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Perytion, Tales from the Fringes
Tales from the Fringes brings you a creature unlike most, a flesh eating stag who can fly high above the ocean to hunt Sailors who can’t escape. This beast is said to be unharmed by any weapon the Greek had at the time to stop them. A sibyl once rumored that a great horde of Perytons would bring...
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Case 16 IA’s Van Meter Visitor
What’s that Brilliant light in the sky?? & why is it shimming down a telephone pole like a Parrot?! This Beast is no ordinary Cryptid, as we look into an Iowa legend that has had many theories but it’s original headline was “Winged Monster”! Let’s explore this pterodactyl with a lazer horn & a...
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Case #15 Pecos Bill, Rider of the Storm
Well Howdy there folks! Sit by the campfire & listen up to the story of The First Cowboy! The Rider of the Cyclone! The Coyote boy who tamed all varmints & created the Cattle run. For in West Texas there is the King killer of the Mad Men, Pecos Bill! But was he a cowboy demigod who inspired the...
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Case 14 WA's Batsquatch
This Week we Focus in on a Frozen Volcano to find a Bigfoot, not any kinda of Bigfoot but a massive flying Sasquatch that might be able to psychic control engines of machines! In the Wake of Americas last Mainland Volcanic Eruption, a terrifying Cryptid has arisen from its ashes. The colorful...
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Case #13 California Airship Mystery Craze of 1896-97
Let’s look into the Century+ mystery of the 1896 Airship that cruised over Sacramento & then San Francisco, eventually within 6 months it had soared all the way to Michigan! Was this Americas first Ufo/UAP & did it spark the modern light in the sky craze? Do you live in one of the dozens of towns...
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Bonus Case 2 Cryptid Categories!
Let’s Talk about all Sorta Cryptids! Newcomers welcome & Veteran Cryptid Lorekeepers may even find a new tale or Category for a group of cryptids they hadn’t considered! Cryptozoology is May favorite part of Weird Culture & I wanna tell you guys how I’ve begun categorizing them with years of...
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Case 12 Coelacanth & “Real” Cryptids
Explore what scientists call “The Living Fossil” & a successful case of Cryptozoology! There was a rumored Fish Monster living off the coast of South Africa that hunted at night, 6 feet big & would snap an octopus in half. This creature was said to have gone extinct with the Dinosaurs 66 Million...
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Bonus Case! SQUONKAPOOLZA 2023 & Case Updates
A Bonus Case featuring Folk Heroes, Ghost Towns, Graffiti Havens, psychedelic public art, UFOs & A wonderful Cryptid festival that I promised I’d make it out to! I’ll bring you along on my bday road-trip through many fringe locations like Cement City, Randyville, Kecksburg & the awesomeness that…
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Case #11 Kentucky Meat Shower of 1876
IM BACK & I’ve got a beloved case of mine to share, about things falling out of the sky. In particular I’m talking greasy chunks of flesh & organs raining down onto a Kentucky grandmas farm. Was it Blood Rain? Was it an omen? Maybe the results of a horrendous Knife Tornado?! Or maybe it was what...
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Case 10 WVs MothMan, The Legendary Cryptid
We Head To West Virginia, MOUNTAIN MAMAS… for our next Cryptid Case. & this Creatures birthplace is actually an American EPA Clean up site! A marsh contaminated from abandoned WW2 Explosive bunker! Because it’s time for us to explore one of the most famous Cryptids (sorry Bigfoot & Nessie)…
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Case #9 The Salton Sea & Toxic Dust Storms
A Sea in California? A toxic one at that! Formed via an engineering accident that resulted in a flooded train & 110 miles of water collected in the Salton Basin. Today it is a Toxic wasteland that spur dust storms that waft these chemicals into the air. The Salton sea was once a thriving Summer...
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Case #8 SDs Banshee of Badlands National Park!
South Dakota, the Land of Crystalline Caves, The massive protector of the Plains The Bison & one of the most breathtaking National Parks in All of America! No not Mt Rushmore…. But the Badlands!! Some may imagine a desolate salt flat, but really Badlands is an expansion of wild Lava rock...
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Case #7 Joe Magarac the Folkhero
PA FAKELORE LEGEND! Joe is a simple man, he works 24hrs, puts his everything into the steel mill & saves his Coworkers from many disasters! Oh & he’s made of steel, has incredible strength & can Teleport via furnaces? That’s right today we look into the Folk Hero during the 1930s, created by a...
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Case #6 CA's Fresno Nightcrawler
What are those big ol flowy white legs?? Why is it the big guy on my Cover Art? Because Todays California Cryptid belongs to my Home town! Hear about my backyard as I show ya the popular local food spots & great hikes! But more importantly let’s talk about another Cryptid! Or Spirit? Or Alien?...
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Case 5 The Berkeley Pit
An EPA Superfund site formed from the ruins of what was the Richest Hill in America. A toxic Lake looms over Butte MT & with it comes it’s haunting history. The American folk hero Frank Little assassinated in the streets after trying to shut down this behemoth pitt before it began. Learn about…
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Case #4 PA’s Squonk
CRYPTIDS! Our 2nd state, Pennsylvania & it’s ever elusive weeping piggy hidden deep in the hemlock Forests! Wander through the dense foliage & find a pool of salty tears in the mud, follow the sound of low tone weeping along a moonlit path & you might find this morbid creature looking at its own...
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Case #3 Pando, The Worlds Largest Organism!
The Trembling Giant. Lurking under The highest Lake basin in Utah, is an Ancient being who’s watched humanity rise around it. The root system of a Sprawling Quaking Aspen Colony, Pando uses an asexual form of reproduction called Suckering to Expand new trees. Imagine the all those trees are All...
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Case #2 CO's Slide Rock Bolter
Twin campfires stare down upon a small mining town in CO post Gold Rush. A leviathan Cryptid lurks on the red rock Mesas, waiting for tourists to walk into its greasy path. Join me as we explore the story of the first of many cryptids on this podcast! Also hear the reality, it’s cultural...
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Case #1 High Rock Tower & the Mechanical Messiah
Find some bizarre travel destinations & explore their strange stories! I’m Basti & I’ve traveled across America visiting Abandoned forts, Cryptid homes, dozens of national parks, supernatural hotspots & historical landmarks or disasters! Join me as I help bring some of this weird history to light…
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TRAILER
What is Fringe History & what can it do for you? After roadtripping across america & exploring many strange sites like Skin Walker Ranch, Slab City, The Berkeley Pitt & many Cryptid homes I want to share these stories with you. And more importantly, tell ya how to get there! Using the Atlas…
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Fringe History is an episodic research heavy History & travel podcast! A comprehensive look into Americas strange history that could be in your backyard! Cryptids, paranormal hotspots & abaondoned forts I’ll be sharing weird tales that you can visit the sites of all across America in 3 sections. Their Fantastical stories, the hard facts & cultural significance, and lastly the Travel Tips! Don’t get lost on a dirt road looking for skinwalker ranch, I can help guide you & let ya know if you’re on the right path. Learn about the fringe history in your backyard & how to get there today!
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Basti B
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