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Strange Tides
by Strange Tides
A podcast about the world of the weird, ancient mysteries and modern conspiracies, and everything under the umbrella of high strangeness - plus all sorts of other cool stuff - brought to you by your host, Ryan Ford.
Episodes
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La Recoleta Cemetery
Aloha, Tide Riders! Grab your flashlights and keep your eyes peeled, because we're clocking in for another shift among the dearly departed! In the third installment of the Graveyard Shift saga, Strange Tides heads south to Buenos Aires, Argentina, to explore La Recoleta Cemetery—an amazing...
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Sedlec Ossuary
Aloha, Tide Riders! For the second installment of the Graveyard Shift saga, Strange Tides heads to the Czech Republic and one of the strangest final resting places on Earth: the Sedlec Ossuary. Beneath the quiet town of Kutná Hora sits a chapel decorated with the bones of an estimated 40,000...
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Resurrection Cemetery
Aloha, Tide Riders! It’s time to clock in for the Graveyard Shift. For the first installment of this brand-new Strange Tides saga, we’re heading to the southwest suburbs of Chicago and Resurrection Cemetery, a sprawling historic burial ground with a reputation that goes way beyond its headstones...
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Schoolhouse Yōkai
Well, Tide Riders… we’ve reached the final bell. After traveling from California to England to India, our Schoolhouse Scares saga wraps up by heading even farther east — to Japan, where schools have their own supernatural ecosystem of ghosts, urban legends, rituals, and yōkai. From the infamous...
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La Martinière College
Aloha, Tide Riders! This time on Strange Tides, we’re heading to Lucknow, India, and the legendary La Martinière College—where the halls of the historic Constantia campus have accumulated centuries of history... and more than a few Mart Yarns. From the ghost of founder Claude Martin and spectral...
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Royal Holloway
Well, Tide Riders, we’re crossing the pond for the second installment of our Schoolhouse Scares saga and heading to Egham, Surrey, where Royal Holloway, University of London looks less like a university and more like a Victorian architect’s fever dream. Behind those huge red-brick walls and the...
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Preston Castle
September is here, which means Strange Tides is heading back to school, Tide Riders—and trust me, this is one campus you definitely don't want to visit after dark. For the first installment of the Schoolhouse Scares saga, we're rolling into Ione, California, to explore the strange, tragic, and...
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Founding Fathers Feycraft
Aloha Tide Riders. It's been a minute but we're back! What if the birth of the United States was a little weirder than the history books let on? Before America was all constitutions, liberty, and We the People, colonial society was swimming in astrology, alchemy, folk magic, grimoires…
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Founding Fathers & Secret Orders
Aloha, Tide Riders, we are back with a question: What if the birth of the United States wasn't just a revolution against King George III, but part of a much stranger story hiding beneath the history books? In this episode of Strange Tides, we're paddling back to colonial America to explore the…
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Washington's Spies & Agent 355
Aloha Tide Riders, we're back riding the waves of history. The American Revolution wasn't just a bunch of soldiers lining up on battlefields. While muskets were firing and cannons were booming, a whole other war was quietly going down behind the scenes—one fought with coded letters, invisible…
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The Hickey Plot
Aloha Tide Riders, and welcome to the first installment of our Colonial Curiosities Saga. In this Short Board Session of Strange Tides, we're heading to New York City in the tense summer of 1776, where General George Washington and the Continental Army prepared to face the largest British…
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Lake Shawnee Amusement Park
🎢👻 Theme Park Terrors comes to a chilling close at one of America's most infamous haunted amusement parks. This week on Strange Tides, we're making our final stop in the Theme Park Terrors saga at the legendary Lake Shawnee Amusement Park in West Virginia—a place where history, heartbreak, and...
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Alton Towers
Aloha, Tide Riders, and welcome to the third installment of our Theme Park Terrors saga. This week on Strange Tides, we're crossing the pond to explore one of Britain's most iconic—and allegedly most haunted—theme parks: Alton Towers. Behind the record-breaking roller coasters and family...
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Nara Dreamland
Welcome back, Tide Riders, to another eerie installment of our Theme Park Terrors saga. This time, we're traveling across the Pacific to explore the mysterious history and haunting legends surrounding Nara Dreamland, Japan's long-abandoned amusement park that has become one of the most infamous...
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Haunted Disneyland
Aloha Tide Riders! Welcome to the first episode of our brand-new Theme Park Terrors saga, where we'll explore the eerie legends, ghost stories, and unexplained encounters said to lurk behind the happiest places on Earth. For this inaugural voyage, we're heading to the legendary Disneyland Resort…
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Bird-men
Aloha Tide Riders! The Historical Hybrids saga reaches its grand finale as Strange Tides takes flight into the strange and mysterious world of Bird-men. From the falcon-headed gods of Ancient Egypt and the winged Apkallu of Mesopotamia to the harpies and sirens of Greece, the tengu of Japan, the...
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Satyrs & Minotaurs
Aloha Tide Riders! This took a bit to get out but here we are with the third installment of our Historical Hybrids saga! In this episode of Strange Tides, we venture deep into the wild places of mythology to explore two of the most iconic hybrid beings ever imagined: satyrs and the Minotaur. From...
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Serpentfolk
Aloha Tide Riders! This week, the Historical Hybrids saga continues on Strange Tides as we slither deeper into myth, mystery, and high strangeness with one of humanity’s oldest and weirdest recurring legends: serpent folk. From ancient stories of divine snake-beings and shape-shifting reptilian...
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Centaurs
Aloha Tide Riders! Welcome to the Mash-up Month of May here on Strange Tides, where we're launching a brand-new Historical Hybrids saga. We're kicking things off by charging headfirst into the wild world of centaurs — the legendary half-man, half-horse beings that have thundered through…
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The Time Machine Deep Dive
Aloha and welcome to a brand-new experimental series from Strange Tides—Beyond the Waves. This is a trial run, a fresh format where we paddle out past our usual shoreline of hauntings and cryptids and dive deep into the media, stories, and theories that shape the world of high strangeness. In…
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Houska Castle
Aloha and welcome back, Tide Riders—this is it. The final chapter of our Castle-Mania saga, and we saved one of the strangest for last. In this episode, we head deep into the forests of the Czech Republic to explore Houska Castle—a 13th-century fortress with a reputation that goes way beyond your...
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Château de Brissac
Aloha, Tide Riders, and welcome back to Strange Tides, where history gets weird and the past refuses to stay buried. In this third installment of our Castle-Mania saga—which is also a Short Board Session—we’re heading deep into the haunted heart of France at Château de Brissac. Known as the…
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Chillingham Castle
Aloha Tide Riders and welcome back to Strange Tides as we dive into the second installment of our “Castle-Mania” saga—this time heading deep into the shadowy halls of Chillingham Castle, often called Britain’s most haunted fortress. From its brutal origins along the Anglo-Scottish border to its...
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Leap Castle
Aloha Tide Riders. Welcome to a new month and a new saga - Castle-Mania. All month long, we'll be dive into the haunted histories of creepy castles all over the world. To kick things off, we step into the shadowy halls of Leap Castle — a place often called the most haunted castle in Ireland, and...
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Duendes
Aloha, Tide Riders! March is coming to a close, and with it, our March Miniatures saga—but we’re ending on a high-strangeness note with one of Iberia’s most iconic and elusive entities: the duende. This week on Strange Tides, we’re diving into the history behind these mischievous spirits, tracing...
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Leprechauns and Redcaps
Aloha Tide Riders and happy post St. Patrick's day! The little folk aren’t always lucky… and they’re definitely not friendly. In the third installment of our March Miniatures saga, Strange Tides dives deep into two of the most infamous pint-sized entities in folklore: the gold-hoarding Leprechaun...
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Gnomes & Nisser
Aloha and welcome to the second installment of our March Miniatures sage her on Strange Tides. In this episode, we’re digging into the tiny but surprisingly mysterious world of gnomes and nisser—two small folk from European folklore who might look cute on a garden statue but have a reputation...
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Skarbnik and Domovoi
Aloha Tide Riders. It's a new month, which means a new saga, and on today's episode, we'll be kicking off our series on March Miniatures. We'll be exploring the legends, the lore, the origins - and the modern-day sightings - of diminutive dudes all across Europe. On today's episode of Strange...
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Dyatlov Pass Incident
Aloha, Tide Riders. As our saga on February Freakiness reaches its chilling finale, Strange Tides closes the book on one of the most haunting mysteries ever frozen in time — the Dyatlov Pass Incident. In February 1959, nine experienced hikers led by Igor Dyatlov vanished deep in the northern Ural...
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Seaford Poltergeist
Aloha and welcome to another Short Boar Session here on Strange Tides, continuing our saga on February Freakiness. In the quiet suburbs of Long Island in 1958, one ordinary family found themselves at the center of one of America’s strangest paranormal cases. Bottles popped open on their own....
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Battle of Los Angeles
Aloha Tide Riders and welcome to the first deep dive episode of our February Freakiness saga where we cover strange events from the shortest month of the year . In this episode, we rewind to the early hours of February 24–25, 1942, when Los Angeles—still shaken by Pearl Harbor—went into full...
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California Roadside Entities
Aloha Tide Riders and welcome to another Shortboard Session. Buckle up for a twilight cruise down California’s loneliest highways, where not every traveler is among the living. In this episode — the first stop in our February Freakiness saga on Strange Tides — we dive headfirst into the eerie…
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Black Star Canyon
Aloha, Tide Riders! In the epic finale of the California Craziness saga here on Strange Tides, we head deep into the heart of one of Southern California’s most mysterious and unsettling locations: Black Star Canyon. Known for its breathtaking trails by day and chilling legends by night, this…
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The Casa Blanca Entities
Aloha and welcome to another episode of Strange Tides: the Short Board Sessions. Today, we've got another installment in our California Craziness saga and this one really lives up to the name. On a blistering August afternoon in 1955, a quiet citrus-town neighborhood in Riverside, California,...
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The Queen Mary
Aloha and welcome to the next installment of our saga on California Craziness. Today, let's step aboard the Queen Mary, where Art Deco glamour meets cold spots, creaking corridors, and stories that refuse to stay buried. In this episode of Strange Tides, we cruise through the ship’s full arc—from...
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Lizard People of Los Angeles
Aloha, Tide Riders. Happy New Year and welcome to a brand new saga to kick off 2026 on California Craziness, where we'll focus on stories from my home state. For our first installment, we've got a doozy. Beneath the sun-baked streets of Los Angeles, a stranger story has been lurking for nearly a...
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Morbach Monster
Aloha, Tide Riders. Happy holidays and Happy New Year! The Winter Weirdness run wraps up with one last moonlit paddle into the deep end—this time, straight into the black forests of Germany and the legend of the Morbach Monster. In this final Strange Tides episode of 2025, we trace a...
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Skinwalker Ranch Christmas Entity
Strange Tide: Short Board Sessions - Skinwalker Ranch Christmas Entity Aloha Tide Riders and Happy Holidays - Festivus included. Today, we're hitting up one of the freakiest places on the planet and talking about something that shows up just in time for the winter solstice. This Short Board…
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The Lost Colony of Roanoke
Aloha and welcome to the final installment of our mini saga on Pilgrim Paranormality. In this episode, we drift back to the late 1500s and drop anchor at one of history’s most haunting loose ends: the Lost Colony of Roanoke. Over 100 settlers vanish from North Carolina’s Outer Banks, no bodies…
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The Kecksburg UFO
Strange Tides: Short Board Session – The Kecksburg UFO Aloha Tide Riders and welcome to the first episode in our new episode style - the Shortboard Sessions. In this quick-hit episode, we skim across the basics of the 1965 Kecksburg case—an eerie fireball streaking over the Midwest, a mysterious...
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Stone Giants
Aloha Tide Riders and welcome to a new saga on Pilgrim Paranormality. In this collective, which is only two episodes instead of the usual four, we're gonna cover some crazy cryptos and conspiracies that plagued the dudes and dudettes who brought us the first Thanksgiving. In today's episode of...
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Operation Cone of Power
Aloha and welcome to the final stop on our journey down the Witches' Road. In this episode, we’re unraveling one of the strangest and most enchanting legends to come out of World War II: Operation Cone of Power. The story goes that in the summer of 1940—while Britain stood on the brink of...
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Maria Soliña, Witch of Galicia
Aloha Tide Riders and welcome to our third stop as we journey down the Witches Road. In this episode, we sail into the stormy waters of 17th-century Spain to meet María Soliña — widow, healer, and alleged witch of the Galician coast. After surviving a brutal pirate raid and rising to local...
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Isobel Gowdie
Aloha Tide Riders and welcome to our second stop as we journey down The Witches Road. In this episode of Strange Tides, we’re heading to the misty highlands of 17th-century Scotland to unravel one of the most haunting witchcraft confessions ever recorded — the story of Isobel Gowdie. Her words...
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The Bell Witch
Aloha Tide Riders and welcome to a brand new saga that will guide us straight down The Witches Road. Saddle up because this week, Strange Tides takes you back to early 1800s Tennessee, where one farmhouse became the stage for one of America’s most chilling legends. The Bell Witch haunting wasn’t...
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Owl Witches
On this chilling episode of Strange Tides’, we’re taking flight into the eerie world of Owl Witches —the feathered phantoms that have haunted Native legends for centuries. From the La Lechuza of South Texas to the Stikini of Florida and the Cipelaq of the Wabanaki up north, these shape-shifting...
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Tiny Tricksters
Aloha Tide Riders and welcome to the third installment of our Native American Nightmares saga. This week on Strange Tides, we’re shrinking things down—way down—to explore the mysterious world of tiny tricksters in Native American folklore. These little beings might look small, but their legends...
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Fearsome Flyers - Thunderbird, Piasa Bird, and Tlanuwa
Aloha Tide Riders, and sorry for the delay. For our second installment in the Native American Nightmares saga, we’re lifting off from the earth and heading into storm-tossed skies—territory claimed by colossal winged beings who’ve loomed over Indigenous legends for centuries. This time, we’re...
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Animorphs - Skinwalkers, Kusthaka, and Deer-Woman
Aloha, Tide Riders, and welcome to the first episode of our brand new saga on Native American Nightmares. From the deserts of the Southwest to the icy rivers of Alaska to the powwow grounds of the Midwest, shapeshifter legends ripple through Native American folklore—stories that are as old as the...
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Chicago O'Hare
Aloha Tide Riders and welcome to the last leg of our Anomalous Airports saga. I've saved the strangest for last. Chicago O’Hare might look like just another airport on the surface—crowded gates, endless terminals, and flight delays that test your patience—but if you hang around long enough, you...
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A podcast about the world of the weird, ancient mysteries and modern conspiracies, and everything under the umbrella of high strangeness - plus all sorts of other cool stuff - brought to you by your host, Ryan Ford.
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