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The award-winning podcast (also a TV show & book series) about dark historical tales. Each episode explores the mysterious creatures, tragic events, and unusual places that fill the pages of history. Because sometimes the truth is more frightening than fiction.
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Legends 71: Homewrecker
Home sweet home. We go there for safety, peace, and hopefully love. But for a very long time in some parts of the world, the home was ruled over by so...
Deeper Lore: 297 (11, 83, & 113)
Go deeper into the subject matter of our most recent episode (297: Bloody) with these three recommendations from further back in the Lore catalog:
Lore 297: Bloody
Much of folklore is fun in a creepy sort of way, something that we often revel in here on Lore. But there are darker, more insidious corners of folklo...
Special Announcement: Exhumed
I'm pleased to announce that my newest book, Exhumed: Unearthing the History of the American Vampire, is scheduled for August 4th, and it's available...
Legends 70: Something Lost
We might call them the Great Lakes, but the folklore in and around them is so much greater. And—if the stories are true—much more terrifying as well.<...
Deeper Lore: 296 (25, 41, & 56)
Go deeper into the subject matter of our most recent episode—which was a rerun of Episode 12: Half-Hanged—with these three recommendations from furthe...
Lore 296: Revisiting "Half-Hanged"
This week, as the holidays draw near, the Lore team takes a well-earned break to relax with their loved ones. To give them that break, we're reissuing...
Legends 69: The Last Frontier
Out beyond the edge of the known, where simply existing comes with risk, you will always find stories of threats that defy rational explanation.
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Deeper Lore: 295 (54, 74, & 87)
Go deeper into the subject matter of our most recent episode (295: Making Your Luck) with these three recommendations from further back in the Lore ca...
Lore 295: Making Your Luck
It's all fun and games until someone has a cursed dream. The history behind these risky gambles is almost as fascinating as their eventual outcome.
Legends 68: Erupt
Legends often contain clues about our greatest fears. Oftentimes they are small and invisible. But as today's collection of stories reveals, they can...
Deeper Lore: 294 (34, 112, & 117)
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Lore 294: Upon Reflection
She's the most famous name in horror, and the theories behind the legend are more frightening than you'd ever expect.
Narrated and produced by A...
Legends 67: Northern Exposure
Some stories are fascinating because they go against our expectations. And among them are a few that are absolutely chilling.
Narrated and produ...
Lore 293: Mother Knows Best
Figures from folklore are often one-dimensional. But if the popularity of this particular woman tells us anything, it's that legends can sometimes bec...
Legends 66: Devour
The stories of people who cross the line are often the most terrifying. And that fear has turned those tales into weapons of a different kind.
N...
Deeper Lore: 292 (90, 202, & 229)
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Lore 292: Message in a Bottle
Our world can often feel like an open book, with every secret laid bare. But there are still locations that cling tightly to mystery, and the question...
Trick or Treat 5: Drained
For the final Trick or Treat episode of the season, we're taking a tour through some of the lesser-known vampire folklore around the world. But just b...
Legends 65: Twin Spirits
At the heart of their dual history and shared rivalry, this pair of midwestern cities hides a darker common ground, and the stories that live there ar...
Trick or Treat 4: From the Beyond
Humans have reached out to communicate with the dead for millennia, and as this collection of tales will show, that hasn't always gone according to pl...
Deeper Lore: 291 (111, 143, & Legends 30)
Go deeper into the subject matter of our most recent episode (291: Dream Come True) with these three recommendations from further back in the Lore cat...
Lore 291: Dream Come True
We often use the phrase "dream come true" to describe wonderful things you envision for our lives. But looking at the folklore behind it, there might...
Trick or Treat 3: Loved & Lost
Our passions create powerful bonds. And it turns out that even something as permanent as death can't totally separate us from the people or places we...
Legends 64: No Rest For the Wicked
Some graves give us answers to the gaps in our understanding of history. A few, though, fill those gaps with terrifying legends that are still alive t...
Trick or Treat 2: Too Young
Tragic loss is often the catalyst for powerful tales that haunt us for generations. Today's collection of stories gathers some of the most chilling ex...
Deeper Lore: 290 (24, 207, & 265)
Go deeper into the subject matter of our most recent episode (290: Growing Pains) with these three recommendations from further back in the Lore catal...
Lore 290: Growing Pains
They might appear to be nothing more than simple words spoken by the youngest in our communities, but there's a darkness hidden beneath many of them....
Trick or Treat: Lavish
For the first of our weekly Halloween bonus episodes (every Friday in October), we're visiting a number of haunted castles. You might want to keep a l...
Legends 63: Dance With the Devil
Humans have, historically, shown themselves to be risk-takers. But in one particular branch of folklore, many of those gambles have come at the hands...
Deeper Lore: Episode 289 (18, 48, & 101)
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Lore 289: Shake It
Folklore can take many forms, but most involve words in a specific language. One exception, though, are the traditions passed down through a very diff...
Legends 62: The Little Things
While you're guaranteed to find a lot of spooky tales in the biggest, brightest cities, sometimes all it takes is a quick trip upstate to find a set o...
Deeper Lore: 288 (50, 111, & 151)
Go deeper into the subject matter of our most recent episode (288: Doom & Gloom) with these three recommendations from further back in the Lore catalo...
Lore 288: Doom & Gloom
Folklore might be all around us, but sometimes the most frightening kind of story points in a very particular direction.
Narrated and produced b...
Legends 61: Drowning Deep
One of the most iconic creatures from folklore has a terrifyingly evil nature hidden beneath its beautiful facade.
Narrated and produced by Aaro...
Deeper Lore: 287 (25, 140, & 156)
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Lore 287: It Takes a Village
If these dark tales from history prove anything, it is that powerful things often come in small packages.
Narrated and produced by Aaron Mahnke,...
Legends 60: Operatic
Some places only have a handful of dark stories to explore. Today's subject, though, is the land of a ten-thousand tales.
Narrated and produced...
Deeper Lore: 286 (86, 113, & 186)
Go deeper into the subject matter of our most recent episode (286: Lazarus) with these three recommendations from further back in the Lore catalog: