Instead of diving into the darkness like we usually do in this podcast, I want to reach up into the light. Instead of exploring the mysterious, I want to talk about the only thing that I KNOW to be true.
Death is not the end...
It is a new beginning.
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Episode Written and Produced by Tyler Liston
Music used with full permissions and licenses from Artlist.io
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Every culture has a legend about werewolves. The Greeks have King Lycaon. The Romans have Moeris. The Norse have Sigmund and Sinfjotli. The list goes on and on. Loup-garous, vukodlaks, skin-walkers, Lobizons, Kurtadams, and the Beasts of Bray Road have been terrorizing humans for centuries.
The State of Michigan is home to one of these fearsome beasts. Is it a flesh-and-blood animal brought into the open by deforestation? Is it a partially-psychic phenomenon like Bigfoot or the Mothman? Is it the king of the Anishinaabe underworld, visiting our realm to feed? Is it an ultraterrestrial being who normally resides in the dimensions next to ours, but can be seen by us when the veil is thin?
In the case of the Michigan Dogman, the answer to all these questions might be "Yes".
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Episode Written and Produced by Tyler Liston
Music used with full permissions and licenses from Artlist.io
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"In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth".
There are 4.8 billion people alive that believe this to be an accurate description of how our world came to be. In the 1920's, there was a man living in Detroit who believed that the true creation story was VERY different than the one were given in the Book of Genesis. So, he wrote his own. Soon, hundreds were coming to him for religious teaching, magic rituals, curses, hexes, and love potions.
He was living the American dream, until one day in 1929 when someone broke into his home and murdered everyone inside with an axe.
Someone who has never been caught.
This is the story of the Benny Evangelist Family Massacre.
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Episode Written and Produced by Tyler Liston
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The Western coast of Michigan has several idyllic and prosperous towns that are surrounded by thousands of acres of dark and foreboding woods. In those woods, there are beings hiding behind the trees, waiting for hikers or travelers to come across their path. Beings with enormous heads, emaciated limbs, and razor sharp teeth.
Were these beings sufferers of a horrific disease, brought to the area to be experimented on by a mad doctor? Or, were they brought to the area from somewhere... else?
This is the story of the Michigan Melon Heads.
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Episode Written and Produced by Tyler Liston
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In the year 985 C.E., a group of Viking settlers led by Erik the Red settled on the frozen tundra of Greenland. Against all odds, they thrived there for almost 500 years. Then, they disappeared without a trace and without warning.
Did they starve after the onset of the Little Ice Age? Were they wiped out by their neighbors to the North, the Thule Inuit? Did they cut off all communication, move deep into a frozen fjord, and continue to live out their lives there like a Norse version of "The Village"?
Or, did they venture too far North, finding themselves lost in the realm of Niflheim? While there, did they stumble across the bubbling and roaring whirlpool Hvergelmir, and get sucked down into Hel?
This is the story of the disappearance of the Norse Greenlanders, a mystery on par with the lost colony of Roanoke, and how one of the world's most famous cartographers and geographers might have proven that Norse mythology is real.
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Episode Written and Produced by Tyler Liston
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In the Northwestern corner of Rhode Island, there is a dark swamp. Inside this swamp lives an ancient being. A being so horrible that residents of the area (and two of history's greatest horror writers) simply called the being... "IT".
This is the story of the Glocester Ghoul.
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Episode Written and Produced by Tyler Liston
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Sources:
Deininger, K. (2020, November 19). Stephen King’s it: Why pennywise is basically a lovecraft monster. ScreenRant.
Gencarella, S. O. (2022). Lovecraft and the Folklore of Glocester’s Dark Swamp. Lovecraft Annual, 16, 90–127.
Girard, M. (2017, October 25). The glocester ghoul. Strange New England. http://www.strange-new-england.com/2017/10/22/the-glocester-ghoul/
Native american legends: Hobomock (chepi). Hobomock, evil spirit of Wampanoag legend (Chepi, Chipi, Hobomok). http://www.native-languages.org/hobomock.htm
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Book Recommendation Links!
Adam Nevill:
The Ritual- bit.ly/3NrhUcA
Last Days- bit.ly/3NyAcJc
Paul Tremblay:
A Head Full of Ghosts- bit.ly/43YbmJH
John Langan:
The Fisherman- bit.ly/3PEj5Z3
Joe Chianakas:
Rabbit in Red- bit.ly/44o9aLl
B.C. Jackson:
Cigarette Man- bit.ly/447XI6N
T.J. Tranchell:
Cry Down Dark (Book 1 of the Blackhawk Trilogy)- bit.ly/46xsvM8
The Perron family were at their wits end when a demonologist and a medium named Ed and Lorraine Warren showed up on their doorstep in 1973. Believing them to be a gift from God, the Perrons opened their home and their hearts to the paranormal pair. What transpired over the next few months almost cost Carolyn Perron her life, and ended up turning an innocent woman into a boogeyman for millions of moviegoers.
This is the story of the Perron Family, the Warrens, and the woman whose name they have dragged through the mud for the last 40 years.
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Episode Written and Produced by Tyler Liston
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The women of the Perron family were keeping their paranormal experiences a secret, but it was time to sit down and let it all out.
Little did they know that things inside that old farmhouse were about to get much, much worse.
The is the continuation of our coverage of the Perron family haunting, the true story that inspired The Conjuring.
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Episode Written and Produced by Tyler Liston
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In 1971, the seven members of the Perron family moved from their suburban home to a 200-acre farm in Harrisville, Rhode Island. They saw this as a fresh start filled with hope for a brighter future, but what they didn't know was that they would soon be torn apart by a torrent of supernatural devastation.
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Episode Written and Produced by Tyler Liston
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One was a demonologist.
The other was a trance medium.
But were either of them what they claimed to be?
Before we dig into one of Rhode Island’s most famous paranormal cases, it’s important to understand the Warrens and the role they played in the creation of the narrative surrounding the case. _________________________________________
Episode Written and Produced by Tyler Liston
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Opened in 1902 as the Illinois Asylum for the Incurable Insane, the Peoria State Hospital treated thousands of patients in its 70+ years of operation. Was it a place of compassion and healing, or was it, as Ghost Asylum described it, a place where "countless people died undergoing barbaric medical experiments”?
All I know is that whatever walks there, does NOT walk alone.
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Episode Written and Produced by Tyler Liston
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In this third episode of Haw Creek, we will take a look at Koji Suzuki's 1991 book, Ring, and how it merged with the film adaptations to create one of horror’s greatest characters:
Sadako Yamamura.
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Episode Written and Produced by Tyler Liston
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Even when I am alone, I am never actually ALONE. For almost four decades, I have had a frequent visitor. A visitor who is darker than dark, like a shadow's shadow. A visitor that will sometimes grab my ankle in the night, or sometimes just stand silently in the corner. Smiling.
Watching me with those smoldering, glowing red eyes.
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Episode Written and Produced by Tyler Liston
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In this first bonus episode, we take a look at one of the most mysterious and tragic cases of the early 2010's and the eerie similarities it shares with a short story that was published 15 years earlier.
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Episode Written and Produced by Tyler Liston
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This is the story of how the media *supposedly* helped create a monster. A story about how one person can *supposedly* be driven to cause harm to others in the service of gaining attention. A story about how *supposedly* the desire for fame and notoriety can make someone do the darkest and most unspeakable acts of evil.
This is the story of the Rose-Mar College of Beauty Massacre.
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Episode Written and Produced by Tyler Liston
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Some say it was the Chinese who were here first. Others say it was the Egyptians or the Phoenicians. Some say it was the Vikings, the Irish, or the Welsh.
Was it a band of survivors who escaped Atlantis before it was destroyed? Was it extraterrestrials?
There are a dozen theories and a dozen more fables about who actually “discovered” America. Let's find the truth.
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Episode Written and Produced by Tyler Liston
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There is supposedly one cave in the Grand Canyon that stands apart from the others. It’s a cave steeped in mystery, found by a scout for the Smithsonian over a hundred years ago, and then systematically covered up by the most powerful institutions in America.
A cave that, if it truly does exist, will change the entire timeline of human history.
This is the story of Kincaid's Cave.
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Episode Written and Produced by Tyler Liston
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In March of 1997, thousands of people living in the Valley of the Sun looked up and saw a strange sight. A series of lights, flying in formation, slowly and silently crossed over the Phoenix metropolitan area. What fascinated, and terrified the citizens of Arizona that night, though, wasn't the lights themselves.
It was the mile-wide ship the lights were attached to.
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Episode Written and Produced by Tyler Liston
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What would you do if you were infested with demons? Who could you possibly turn to? Luckily, Arizona is home to "The REAL Exorcist", Dr. Bob Larson.
Larson has performed over 30,000 exorcisms in the past four decades, and he is willing to meet with you personally to deliver you from your demonic possession...
All for the low-low price of $695
This is the story of how an entire generation of hucksters and charlatans, led by Dr. Bob Larson, has spent decades exploiting the fears of Christians to line their pockets. But that's not all... they might have done something FAR more dangerous.
They might have created a tulpa.
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Episode Written and Produced by Tyler Liston
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A portion of the episode is pulled from:
Stollznow, K. (2012). Bad language: deliver us from Bob Larson. Skeptic [Altadena, CA], 17(4), 6+. https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/A313159913/AONE?u=cens39029&sid=googleScholar&xid=666389ff
There are magical places in Arizona that defy understanding and hum with power.
One of these magical places rests to the east of the valley of the sun. It’s an expansive land filled with some of the most beautiful peaks and valleys in the world. It’s also a dangerous place, filled with supposed monsters and curses… and gateways to the underworld.
It’s where more than 600 people have vanished in the past 150 years.
This is the story of the Superstition Mountains.
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Episode Written and Produced by Tyler Liston
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