The Strange and Unusual Podcast

The Strange and Unusual Podcast Fear of the unknown is explored as we focus on folklore, superstition, ghost stories, murder, and more. The unknown. Welcome to The Strange and Unusual Podcast.

It lies at the root of all fear, and has inspired legends, superstition, folklore, customs, and even murder throughout history. Still today we feel the shadowy presence of our ancestors' struggles to explain the mysterious in almost every facet of our lives. Whether it be in the form of religion, urban legends, ghost stories, superstitious rituals, and so much more we are still just fighting to keep our monsters in the dark.

For 300 years, Europeans ate human beings as medicine, with mummy powder, skull, the blood and fat of the executed, and ...
09/01/2026

For 300 years, Europeans ate human beings as medicine, with mummy powder, skull, the blood and fat of the executed, and bought it over the counter from licensed apothecaries. Join me for the new episode ‘The Cannibal in the Apothecary: 300 Years of Co**se Medicine”

1. A 16th century anatomical lecture in London
2. An Egyptian street mummy seller in 1875
3. A jar of mumia, medicine made from the remains of mummified humans

Last summer I covered haunted waters. This summer, we’ve gone into the woods. We’ve done Appalachia and New England. In ...
08/01/2026

Last summer I covered haunted waters. This summer, we’ve gone into the woods. We’ve done Appalachia and New England. In this new episode, we’re all the way out on the other coast, in the green dark of the Pacific Northwest, and it’s the biggest, oldest, strangest forest we’ve walked through yet.

In this episode, I cover erupting mountains, a lake that wouldn’t keep a secret, the wild woman of the woods, a voice in the fog that knows your name, and more.

New episode out now. 🎧 Stay strange.

Imagine that you trip over a stone wall deep in the woods of New England. It’s the ruins of somebody’s life, a life buil...
06/29/2026

Imagine that you trip over a stone wall deep in the woods of New England. It’s the ruins of somebody’s life, a life built there then swallowed back up by the forest. Join me for a new episode to learn more about things hiding in the woods with ‘Ten Things In The New England Woods That Shouldn’t Be There’.

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New episode now available! There’s an old rule in the Appalachian Mountains: if you hear your name called from the woods...
05/31/2026

New episode now available! There’s an old rule in the Appalachian Mountains: if you hear your name called from the woods, don’t answer. This week, we’re delving into the hills to find out why. We explore a 200-year-old Tennessee haunting that killed a man, a 10-foot creature that emerged in West Virginia in 1952, to the thing in the trees that learns your voice.

A new episode ‘Bloom and Rot - A Rural Village Folk-Horror’ is available now! In this episode, we follow Fiona into the ...
04/21/2026

A new episode ‘Bloom and Rot - A Rural Village Folk-Horror’ is available now! In this episode, we follow Fiona into the village of Eldergrove after her aunt’s death. She has inherited her aunt’s cottage and has to make sense of the odd rules and folks of Eldergrove. I wrote this folk horror in honor of the new spring season. Welcome to Eldergrove!

I finally feel recovered enough from my kidney failure to work on the new episode, and my vocal cords have finally heale...
04/03/2026

I finally feel recovered enough from my kidney failure to work on the new episode, and my vocal cords have finally healed enough for me to record. So, recording starts this week on a new episode, which will feature a folk horror fiction story I wrote, called ‘Bloom and Rot’. It will be available next week!

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