Cobbled together from corpses, the Tokoloshe is a South African monster that is particularly wicked. Night after night, Nomble is terrorized by the goblin-like creature, whose bag of tricks runs from deadly... to dreamlike. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Megabats aren’t the only massively winged creatures you’ll find on the Zanzibar Archipelago. The Popobawa is a bat-like shapeshifter that sows terror in times of political turmoil. It doesn’t matter if you don’t believe in it. It will find you anyway. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
The vetala is a winged corpse, a necromancer, and in today’s story... a stowaway. Lieutenant Lambton has just arrived home to England, and his daughter Viola couldn’t be more excited to reunite — until she realizes her father’s brought something back with him. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
In a cautionary tale from ancient Greece, a weaver declines to join the wine-soaked revelry of the Bacchanalia… and gets a surprise visit from the daughters of King Minyas. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
From Aboriginal Australia, Balayang is a powerful bat deity who exists outside of linear time. But that doesn’t make him invincible… Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Lurking in the sewers of a German town, the Bahkauv is a hybrid monster that’s lured out by loud noises and the smell of alcohol. So revelers, beware. If you make a ruckus on your way home from a night out, you could lose your wallet… or your life. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
In turn-of-the-century France, an artist’s muse meets the beguiling Green Fairy after tasting absinthe for the first time. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Lurking in the cellars of Ireland’s noble families, the clurichaun is a red-clothed, ruddy-cheeked terror. He offers his services in exchange for wine. But when the stores run dry, misfortune follows. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
In Greek mythology, Silenus is the adoptive father of Dionysus – the god of wine. And despite having a taste for the drink himself, Silenus’s mind is keen and cunning. Which makes it all the harder for King Midas to use him as a pawn in his schemes. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Appearing in Indigenous stories all across America, the Deer Woman is a beautiful stranger who keeps your eyes on her at every moment. Even when she’s about to kill you. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
In Ireland, a supernatural muse appears to artists of great talent, promising to be a wellspring of new ideas. But her help comes with a catch. She won’t just earn your devotion. She’ll feed on it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
On an island off the coast of Chile, in the darkest part of the rainforest, lives a troll named Trauco and his wife Fiura. You don’t want to meet them… But if you hear three knocks in the woods, it’s already too late. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Lurking in the depths of the Amazon river, the Boto Encantado is a smooth-talking shapeshifter. He sheds his dolphin form to emerge onto land, with a proposition for you. And you won’t want to say no… Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
After Kytgy races into the polar night, she comes face to face with an undead monster and the doctor who created it. The encounter leaves her shaken, but more determined than ever to get back what was taken from her. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Agnes Carew loved her fiancé. The refined doctor Henry Jekyll was everything she wanted in a husband. But she had no idea what — or who — was hiding within him. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
In this retelling of Richard Marsh’s “The Beetle,” a downtrodden man and a great politician struggle against the mesmeric grip of a supernatural shapeshifter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Ancient, vengeful, powerful… and free. What happens when the corpse of an Egyptian queen is reanimated in London? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
An eight-headed dragon named Yamata-No-Orochi becomes obsessed with devouring a young farmer. She meets a powerful ally just in time, but making a deal with the god of chaos is going to cost her… Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Loviatar is a goddess and reigning queen of the icy, dark Finnish north. But she's also a mother to nine disease-carrying children. And she has no qualms about sending them away from the nest to wreak havoc on humanity. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Poreskoro is a Romani demon with command over the worst diseases known to man: cholera, smallpox, and the plague. It has four dog heads, four cat heads, the body of a bird, and a snake for a tail. It's so gross that even its father, the King of the Demons, is disgusted by it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Jwara is the lord of all diseases. Part Ayurvedic medical concept and part Hindu god, he’s a shapeshifting figure that causes a mysterious fever that has no cure. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Sopona is one of the most powerful gods of the Yoruba religion. He's the god of the earth, in charge of blessing the crops and grains. But if you anger him, he'll clap back in a fearsome way, infecting your body with a deadly rash — a disease known today as smallpox. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Deep in the forests of Germany and Britain lies a creature seemingly made of darkness. It will render you immobile in sleep, then crush your lungs so you can't breathe. This is the Mara, and she's the origin of the word “nightmare.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
A beautiful woman transforms at nightfall, sprouting bat wings and severing the lower half of her body. Dragging her entrails, she goes in search of the one thing that will sate her appetite: fetuses. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
A fearsome bat god of the K’iche’ Mayans, the Camazotz is at home in both the underworld and the apocalypse. And it specializes in slicing heads. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
In the Caribbean, a blood-sucking fireball has an insatiable hunger, a terrible grudge, and a secret that will divide a family… Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
The monsters of Hercules’ eighth Labor put the ‘mare’ in ‘nightmare’ — they may look like ordinary horses, but these creatures are supernaturally strong, with an insatiable taste for human flesh. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Hercules heads south to meet the Minoans. You might know them from the stories of Icarus, Daedalus, Theseus, and the Minotaur. But there was another fearsome beast that started it all... with plenty of blood, gore, and savage hatred. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
On the surface, hunting the Stymphalian Birds seems right in Hercules' wheelhouse: it should be a simple point and shoot. Unfortunately, things start to look a little more complicated once our hero gets to Lake Stymphalia... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
The chase is on when Hercules is tasked with capturing the fastest creature in the world — a deer that can outrun the goddess of the hunt herself, Artemis. But the real challenge may come later, when Hercules must outwit a king… Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
