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Nightmares of the Americas: Indigenous Tales

Joseph & Gabriel Behill

166 episodes

1 week ago

Send us a text Last time, we traced how Mexico’s past built the world we see now. The old systems never vanished—they just changed names. Power shifted hands, but the structures stayed the same. This episode picks up in the mid-1980s, when a young man named Adolfo de Jesús Constanzo stepped out of Miami’s shadows and into Mexico City. He wasn’t a priest, but he carried candles, bones, and promises. He called himself El Padrino. From the crowded streets of Zona Rosa to the back rooms where nar...

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Send us a text Last time, we traced how Mexico’s past built the world we see now. The old systems never vanished—they just changed names. Power shifted hands, but the structures stayed the same. This episode picks up in the mid-1980s, when a young man named Adolfo de Jesús Constanzo stepped out of Miami’s shadows and into Mexico City. He wasn’t a priest, but he carried candles, bones, and promises. He called himself El Padrino. From the crowded streets of Zona Rosa to the back rooms where nar...

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Nightmares of the Americas: Indigenous Tales

Mexico Is Indigenous, Part Two: El Padrino Rises

Send us a text Last time, we traced how Mexico’s past built the world we see now. The old systems never vanished—they just changed names. Power shifted hands, but the structures stayed the same. This episode picks up in the mid-1980s, when a young man named Adolfo de Jesús Constanzo stepped out of Miami’s shadows and into Mexico City. He wasn’t a priest, but he carried candles, bones, and promises. He called himself El Padrino. From the crowded streets of Zona Rosa to the back rooms where nar...

1 week ago

45 minutes

Nightmares of the Americas: Indigenous Tales

Three Years, Two Stories: The Lucifer Telescope and the Bigfoot Hotline

Send us a text It’s been three years — thanks for sticking with us. Without you, this show wouldn’t even be possible. For our anniversary episode, we’re going a little X-Files with it. First, we head down to Arizona and talk about the Vatican, the Jesuits, and a telescope on Apache land nicknamed Lucifer. Yeah, you read that right. A state-of-the-art observatory in the middle of a land dispute, wrapped up with questions about who gets to look at the stars — and why they needed a name like tha...

1 month ago

49 minutes

Nightmares of the Americas: Indigenous Tales

Mexico’s Indigenous Heart

Send us a text In this episode Joseph, Gabe, and RedBear dig into Mexico’s Indigenous heart — the food, the languages, the rituals, the medicine, all of it still alive today. Tortillas, tamales, pozole, Day of the Dead, Nahuatl and Maya, curanderos doing limpias — this isn’t the past, it’s daily life for millions. This week we’re talking about how that continuity runs through Mexico, from the table to the altar to the healer’s smoke. And at the end, we point to what was coming in the 1980s, w...

2 months ago

51 minutes

Nightmares of the Americas: Indigenous Tales

Listener Tales: Knives Out, Bacon On, and Things in the Dark

Send us a text We’re back with a full table of listener stories — and they’re wild. Garrett’s got a bald, gray-skinned thing popping up in a Texas field like it’s playing peekaboo. Someone else swears a mimic opened the garage door and called them in their mom’s voice. Jarett runs into a pale, twisted figure in South Jersey that could give the Jersey Devil nightmares. And from Australia, River shares an encounter with the Mulu — part dog, part kangaroo, all bad news. In between, we somehow en...

3 months ago

52 minutes

Nightmares of the Americas: Indigenous Tales

Bigfoot Revisited!

Send us a text In this episode of Nightmares of the Americas: Indigenous Tales, the crew dives back into the forest to revisit one of the most iconic figures in North American lore: Bigfoot. But this isn’t your typical campfire story. We explore how a few different Native tribes view Bigfoot — not as a monster, but as a spiritual guardian, a symbol of nature’s balance, and sometimes even a teacher. Joseph, Gabe, and RedBear share Indigenous perspectives, slightly discuss the legendary Patters...

3 months ago

52 minutes

Nightmares of the Americas: Indigenous Tales

The Heart-Eater – The Stikini Part 2

Send us a text This week we are continuing our story about the Stikini – Part 2. Last episode, we explored the Seminole origins of this terrifying owl-like being, the legends of transformation, and the powerful warnings that still ripple through Native oral traditions today. But now, things get weirder. This time, Joseph, RedBear, and Gabe dig deeper into the blood-chilling reality of the Stikini’s transformation, what it really means when owls appear out of nowhere, and why some stories say ...

4 months ago

1 hour

Nightmares of the Americas: Indigenous Tales

The Heart-Eater – The Stikini Part 1

Send us a text In this episode of Nightmares of the Americas: Indigenous Tales, we talk about survival, resistance, and the things that still haunt the night. We explore the history of the Seminole people—how they formed out of conflict, escaped colonization, and built a life deep in the Florida swamps. From alligator wrestling to stomp dances, their culture is rooted in power and defiance. But we also uncover something darker: the Stikini. A person by day. A heart-eating owl spirit by night....

4 months ago

45 minutes

Nightmares of the Americas: Indigenous Tales

Seasons, Spirits, and Spring Work part 2

Send us a text This week, we keep moving with the season. The weather’s shifting, the land’s changing, and Native people are doing what we’ve always done: preparing, planting, dancing, gathering, and listening. We talk about the Snake Men that still guard the Fraser Canyon, the horned serpents that rise from Salish waters. We visit the Ute Bear Dance, where people come together every spring to honor the bear and reset the balance for a new year. Then we head down to LA where...

5 months ago

36 minutes

Nightmares of the Americas: Indigenous Tales

We're Back... Turt Turt!

Send us a text We’re back, turt turt! 🐢 And what better way to kick things off than with a brand-new Turtle Island Talk. In this episode, your hosts Joseph, Gabe, and RedBear catch up, talk trash cookies, Waffle House memories, and dive into some real stories from Native communities across Turtle Island. We’re talking about Canada’s $24 million investment into dementia care that actually centers Indigenous languages and traditions, the powerful mobile vet teams helping rez dogs and their huma...

5 months ago

1 hour 10 minutes

Nightmares of the Americas: Indigenous Tales

Seasons, Spirits, and Spring Work

Send us a text This week, we’re taking a different path—one that starts in Cherokee and Mohawk territory and winds its way across the Americas, ending with the Rarámuri in northern Mexico. We’re not talking about monsters or murder today. We’re talking about what Indigenous people would be doing right now—planting, gathering, fishing, dreaming—and the spirits, warnings, and weirdness that come with it. We talk about the Cherokee Raven Mocker, a heart-stealing death spirit that shows up when t...

6 months ago

43 minutes

Nightmares of the Americas: Indigenous Tales

Something's Below the Lava Part 2

Send us a text On this episode of Nightmares of the Americas: Indigenous Tales, we dive into Part Two of our deep-dive into the lava tubes of Northern California and the surrounding sacred land. We pick up where we left off — with the Achomawi and their warnings, the government mapping that followed the Indian Wars, and the places where people keep going missing without a trace. We’ll get into field reports, signal anomalies, electromagnetic interference, theories the government won’t print, ...

6 months ago

56 minutes

Nightmares of the Americas: Indigenous Tales

Something's Below the Lava Part 1

Send us a text This week, we’re taking a real look at the River People — the Achomawi — who made a life out of some of the roughest ground in Northern California. Volcanic fields, cold rivers, high desert — they knew every inch of it. They fished, they hunted, they moved with the seasons — and they passed down warnings about something they knew was still living underneath all of it. Pale beings that couldn’t survive the sun. Caves and cracks where the air still breathes cold. We’ll walk you t...

6 months ago

53 minutes

Nightmares of the Americas: Indigenous Tales

Sacred Geometry

Send us a text In this episode of Nightmares of the Americas: Indigenous Tales, we uncover the patterns from the ceque lines of the Inca to the serpent coils of the Mississippi Valley, sacred geometry was functional. Ceremonial. Required. We cover the knowledge keepers who still carry it, the lines that organize spirit roads and cities, and the songs tied to visual patterns in the Amazon. We also document what happens when the pattern is broken — when sacred designs are taken without in...

7 months ago

47 minutes

Nightmares of the Americas: Indigenous Tales

Turtle Island Talk 12

Send us a text This week on Turtle Island Talk, we’re bringing you some powerful updates and stories from across Indigenous nations — from justice long overdue to spiritual encounters that defy explanation. We begin with a major update in the Jeremy Skibicki case out of Winnipeg. After continued advocacy, the remains of Morgan Harris and Marcedes Myran have been found, and “Buffalo Woman” has now been identified as Ashlee Shingoose. Next, we turn to a rare win for land back: Illinois has retu...

7 months ago

41 minutes

Nightmares of the Americas: Indigenous Tales

Ganokos – The Giants of Copper Canyon

Send us a text Deep in the canyons of northern Mexico, the Rarámuri people tell stories about giants—real ones. They're called Ganokos, and they’re not friendly spirits or misunderstood creatures. These things are tied to an ancient vegetation god named Ganó, who was said to steal and eat children. In this episode, we break down the legend of the Ganokos and how it's still very real to the Rarámuri today. We’ll go through their deep history, the culture they’ve protected for centuries, and th...

7 months ago

54 minutes

Nightmares of the Americas: Indigenous Tales

Ucumar: Bigfoot’s Andean Cousin or Just a Hairy Hermit?

Send us a text The Ucumar, often called the Andean Bigfoot, is said to roam the remote mountainous regions of Argentina and Bolivia. Unlike its North American counterpart, it is typically described as shorter, stockier, and faster—ranging between five to seven feet tall. The body is covered in thick, dark fur, and most accounts claim it walks upright like a human but can drop to all fours when moving at high speed. Most encounters occur at night or in heavily wooded areas, making it almost im...

7 months ago

58 minutes

Nightmares of the Americas: Indigenous Tales

Listener Tales Cont......

Send us a text Last week, things got a little… strange. Our equipment went haywire, and according to Gabriel, we even “lost” Joseph—who knows what happened? But we’re back, and this week, we’re continuing with stories from you, the listener. Before we dive in, don’t forget to resubscribe on Apple Podcasts if you haven’t already! And while you’re at it, rate and review the show for a chance to score a free sticker Now, sit back, turn down the lights, and get ready for another round of ...

8 months ago

44 minutes

Nightmares of the Americas: Indigenous Tales

Listener Tales 7

Send us a text History isn’t just something we read about—it lingers. It listens. And sometimes… it reminds us it’s still here. In this episode of Nightmares of the Americas: Indigenous Tales, we dive into listener-submitted stories that bring us face-to-face with the unexplained. From Mission San Luis de Apalachee in Florida, where voices from the past still echo in locked rooms and empty churches, to the shadowed roads of the Navajo Nation, where something unnatural watches and waits, these...

8 months ago

36 minutes

Nightmares of the Americas: Indigenous Tales

Send us a text In this special edition of Nightmares of the Americas: Indigenous Tales, we are on a mission to determine the most feared Indigenous creature of Latin America! Six legendary nightmares, each with centuries of terror behind them, will face off in a single-elimination battle royale, where we decide who truly reigns as the most terrifying being of them all. Will it be Camazotz, the bloodthirsty Mayan bat god who ruled the underworld? Or La Lechuza, the cursed owl-witch whose cries...

8 months ago

38 minutes

Nightmares of the Americas: Indigenous Tales

Turtle Island Talk 11

Send us a text Welcome to Turtle Island Talk 11, where we go into real stories impacting Indigenous communities across North America. From government surveillance and historical injustices to Indigenous resilience, activism, and culture—nothing is off the table. In this episode, we explore the case of Jason Kennedy, a First Nations man who underwent surgery at Grace Hospital in Winnipeg—only to wake up and discover that doctors had amputated the wrong leg. Was this a tragic mistake, or part o...

8 months ago

37 minutes