It's back to business-as-usual this week on WTFolklore as we re-calibrate our fairy tale senses with some good ol' fashion eastern european fare, "The Glass Mountain", which stars a guy dressed as Hugh Jackman, who is dressed as Jack Black, who is dressed as a school boy.

DISCLAIMER: Gordie lost about half of his audio recording this week, so we had to improvise. See if you can guess the parts that got re-recorded! Spooklore 2025 draws to a close this week, and we have another WTFolklore-exclusive, custom made Cryptid tale for you! Join us as we venture to the most terrifying location in North America...New Jersey...

Spooklore 2025 continues this week, with a bit of a twist. Rather than continually avoiding every instance of a "This is a THING, and here are it's SCARY FEATURES" type stories, Carman has elected to assemble her own folktale about one such THING, "The Santa Compaña". So enjoy this custom-made spooky story!

Spooklore begins in earnest this week, as we read what may well be the earliest-recorded Found Footage ghost story, "The Haunting of Athenodorus", or as we elected to call it, "Ghost Hunters: Ancient Athens Edition".

On what is TECHNICALLY the first Spooklore installment of the year...we got a little distracted. Thankfully, our spooky instincts kicked in and we accidentally turn "The Vision of Mac Conglinne" into a ghost story anyway.

This week we return to our good friend Carl Sandburg for a Rootabega-adjacent story, "The Haystack Cricket, and How Things Are Different Up in the Moon Towns". If you like random sounds strung together with no evident rhyme or reason, buddy look no further than a Carl Sandburg story...

We are joined this week by very special guest T. Kingfisher! We had to call in back-up to wade our way through "Princess Miranda and Prince Hero", a Polish tale featuring everyone's favorite creep, Koschei the Deathless. It also features a hero (named Hero) who makes some staggeringly questionable inventory-management choices on his quest.

After talking about some crucial current events (read: Stuart Little Lore), we dive into "The Little Purse with Two Half-Pennies", a Romanian tale with some stunning revelations about Project Birdfall's humble beginnings.

This week on What the Folklore, we read FOUR different explanations for where the heck all these god-dang mosquitos came from. As is our want, we take a more...buffet approach to the answer.

This week on What the Folklore, we read two different stories, "The Eye Juggler" and "Gobbleknoll", which inadvertently creates our most Body Horror-oreinted episode yet! It's Spooklore Summer, baby!

This week on What the Folklore, we read "The Nodding Tiger", a Chinese story that introduces us to the humble beginnings of a beloved friend.

This week on What the Folklore, we read the Spanish tale "The Bird of Truth", which has some serious texture pop-in issues. Either that, or the protagonist is legally blind and shy about it.

This week on What the Folklore, we're reading "Ligur the Water Giant", an obscure German-language tale with a wizard that rivals even the mighty Gaznak!

This week on WTFolklore, we head back to our old stomping ground of France for "Blanche and Vermeille". You can tell it's a riveting tale, because we spend a good chunk of the episode discussing things you could wear instead of pants.

I'll be honest, it's a doozy of a story this week. We are subjected to the whimsical mind of Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, AKA Lord Dunsany, who delivers us to "The Fortress Unvanquishable Save for Sacnoth, AKA The Fortress of Doom". Get your High-Fantasy britches on for this one, folks.

It's a Tale of Two Tales, this week on WTFolklore, again! Again! This time, at least, there's some connective thematic tissue. "First up is A Man That Was Married to a Goose", followed up by "Uinigumasuittuq and the Origin of Living Beings"

It's a Tale of Two Tales, this week on WTFolklore, again! First up is "The Snake Who Became the King's Son-in-Law", followed up by "God's Godson"

It's a Tale of Two Tales, this week on WTFolklore, as we read both "The Tale of the Silver Saucer and the Crystal Apple" and "The Tale of the Silver Saucer and the Trasnparent Apple". But not before we spend much too much time discussing World Milk Day, which is apparently a thing.

This week on WTFolklore, we read "The Story of the Black Cow", and as with most things, we try to contort it into a Willy Wonka-esque shape.

This week on WTFolklore, we read "The Legend of Coatlicue & Coyolxauhqui", which are two Aztec names we can absolutely pronounce without mangling them! We learn a lot about the Moon, the Blue Collar Comedy Tour, and a surprising revelation about Dr. Seuss. Thanks, Mesoamerica!