Story Time: The Kappa's Abyss (Ep. 75)

In 1803, fishermen on Japan’s Hitachi coast spotted something round and unfamiliar drifting offshore. They hauled the hollow vessel onto the beach—and discovered a mysterious young woman inside. Step into the story as one of those fishermen. Examine the vessel’s clouded windows a ...  Show more

Japan’s 1970s UFO boom gave us some wonderfully strange cases: children capturing a tiny hat-shaped UFO in Kōchi, two boys encountering wrinkled aliens in a Yamanashi vineyard, and a Hokkaidō farmer who claimed repeated abductions, spoon-bending powers, and telepathic contact wit ...  Show more

The podcast returns as sharp as ever with a discussion of an example of a Malaysian blade called a kris! Allyson talks about the transition… 

Battleship Island - Also known as Hashima Island, is an abandoned island off the coast of Nagasaki, Japan. What once was a mining metropolis with a dark secret is now abandoned and inhabited only by ghosts.  Discover more TERRIFYING podcasts at http://eeriecast.com/ Follow Carm ...  Show more

Three connected stories of samurai from medieval Japan. On the first, Kintaro, a buff eight-year-old, discovers his destiny. On the second, Watanabe no Tsuna, a samurai warrior in his prime fights a demon that's been terrorizing a gate in Kyoto, and on the third he's recruited by ...  Show more

Hupia - rooted in Caribbean folklore, are spirits of the deceased known to wander the islands, driven by a relentless desire to possess the living. These ethereal entities, with an insatiable inclination for the corporeal, embody the eerie tales that have endured through centurie ...  Show more