Lance Martin

A dark & creative podcast on cryptids & creatures from folklore. Learn their lessons in 15 min or less stories, twice weekly. Dare to step into the shadows?

[Lance Martin @TheHiddenHorde]

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[Lance Martin @TheHiddenHorde]

If something runs beside the road at night and matches your speed, do not slow down. If an animal stands when it should not stand, do not meet its eyes. And if you hear a voice that sounds like someone you love calling from the dark, remember that love does not call that way after the sun has gone. #skinwalker

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The wind off Gichigami never truly dies. Even on still nights it moves across the black water like breath from something vast and patient, waiting below the surface. The Anishinaabe have always known this. The lake is not empty. It is a mouth. They call the one who lives in that mouth #Mishipeshu

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As long as mountains hold unmapped places and stories refuse to walk only forward, something will keep appearing at the edge of the light, reminding us that not every path leads where the powerful expect, and that some truths survive only by traveling in reverse. #ciguapa

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In Episode 46 we get into the story of the #Ciguapa.
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Episode 45 is an original imaginative weaving that stays respectful of the recorded cosmology and the living continuity of Chumash knowledge. Come join me and let's dive in. #nunasis
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In the salt marshes of the Carolina Lowcountry, where the tides pull secrets from the black mud and the Spanish moss hangs like mourning veils, the old people still speak of the Plat-eye. This is Episode 44, Listen close. #plateye
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In Episode 43 we travel to the far northern reaches of what the maps now call Coös County, New Hampshire, where the White Mountains give way to the Great North Woods and the land presses against the Canadian border, the forests are older than the roads that try to cut them. #wooddevil #cooscountywooddevil

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In a time when climate is altering the physical media of the Arctic(ice, ground, water) the older understanding that the world is fluid and responsive remains urgently relevant. Respect for those living systems is not sentiment; it is recognition that the medium itself can turn and claim what stands upon it. #amikuk

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The Baclou is not an Indigenous spirit. It is a Creole creation, born of contact and survival, and it is told here with that clear boundary respected. Listen, then, as the old ones still tell it when the Fromager trees stand black against the moon. Come join me for episode 41. #baclou

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The woods remember older stories, older silences. Over that deep continuum of place, a later legend took root, one born of colonial fear and the human habit of turning isolation into monstrosity. Episode 40: the story of the Melon Heads is live. #melonheads

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This Ohio River Valley has always been a place of thresholds where forest meets water and the known world thins just enough for something else to step through. Episode 39, the Loveland Frogman, is live. #lovelandfrogman

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They say the first sighting was near the old village of Layma in Icacos. A fisherman returning late from the mudflats heard the sound that still freezes blood along the southwestern coast: the slow, deliberate rattle of heavy iron chains being dragged across wet sand and gravel. Not the clean clink of a ship’s anchor. Something older. Something that remembered the weight of the hold. #lagahoo #trinidadandtobago🇹🇹 #folklore

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These immortal spirit folk move between worlds, sometimes helpful, sometimes stern enforcers of balance. In Episode 37 we explore the one called Deer Woman or Deer Lady. #deerwoman #deerlady #folklore

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@imPascalNajadi So what will happen? Who will get arrested? I'll tell you. None.

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To celebrate the US vs Belgium match, we dive into creatures from Belgian folklore this week. Today's episode is about the Processional Giants. Come join me! #belgianfolklore #processionalgiants #worldcup #usvsbelgium

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In the long night of the Arctic, stories are told in the warmth of the Qulliq. Elders speak of the beings that shared the land and water, not as fairy tales for comfort, but as truths woven into survival. Among them was the Qalupalik, the one who waits beneath the ice edge. #qalupalik

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Episode 32 is the tale of Anansi/the spider whose threads bind the world of stories. Born from the rich oral traditions of the akan people, particularly the Ashanti of what is now Ghana. Come join us. #anansi

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In episode 31 we descend into the legend of the Gowrow, a beast of scales and sickles that haunted the hills of Arkansas. #gowrow