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Using immersive audio, The Whispering Woods transports listeners to another time, or even realm. Join us as we explore the unimaginable and terrifying, relaying tales of the supernatural from poltergeists to cryptids, The Hat Man to skinwalkers.
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The Whispering Woods is a podcast devoted to the darker side of life. Join us every Sunday as we discuss and share true, scary stories of the paranormal from ancient folklore to modern hauntings.
Using immersive audio, The Whispering Woods transports listeners to another time, or even realm. Join us as we explore the unimaginable and terrifying, relaying tales of the supernatural from poltergeists to cryptids, The Hat Man to skinwalkers.
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Welcome to Day 2 of 12 Days of Festive Frights and Merry Christmas if you celebrate!
In today's episode we share 3 spooky stories. So grab your blanket, and let's get stuck in.
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Stories:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Paranormal/s/DGPtrJXytG
https://www.reddit.com/r/Paranormal/comments/s4dn1p/creepiest_thing_thats_happened_to_me/
https://www.reddit.com/r/Paranormal/s/MgzaaO1Bgm
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Welcome to Day 1 of 12 Days of Festive Frights and Merry Christmas if you celebrate!
In today's episode we share 1 long spooky story. So grab your blanket, and let's get stuck in.
Special thanks to CosmicOrphan2020 for allowing us to share your story.
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Have an amazing Christmas everyone, if you celebrate, and thank you so much for all of your support!!
In the winter of 1596, famine and desperation turn London’s Newgate Prison into a place of cannibalism and despair. What follows is a chilling legend of a spectral black dog that stalks the guilty through cells, streets, and snow-covered alleys, raising the question of whether the monster was supernatural, or born from human cruelty itself.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Dog_of_Newgate
https://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofEngland/Newgate-Prison/
https://londonist.com/2014/11/the-black-dog-of-newgate
https://factschology.com/factschology-articles-podcast/black-dog-of-newgate-prison-london
https://www.spookyisles.com/black-dog-of-newgate/
https://blackcablondon.net/2017/01/22/the-black-dog-of-newgate/
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As winter closes in, the landscape changes. Roads disappear, sound is swallowed, and distance becomes impossible to judge. Snow does not just cover the world. It erases it.
In this episode, we share three unsettling accounts set against whiteout conditions and prolonged snowfall.
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https://www.reddit.com/r/nosleep/comments/1jjm2v2/i_was_trapped_in_my_car_during_a_snowstorm_and/
https://www.reddit.com/r/nosleep/comments/10336z/a_heavy_snow/
https://www.reddit.com/r/nosleep/comments/27n13z/longfingers_and_the_children_of_the_snow/
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On frozen backroads from Ohio to Michigan and Connecticut, stories persist of small, feral figures with grotesquely swollen heads stalking the tree line. From Dr. Crow’s abused “patients” on Wisner Road to asylum escapees along Connecticut’s infamous “Dracula Drive,” the Melon Heads legend blends real medical conditions, social cruelty, and spooky eyewitness accounts into one of America’s most unsettling modern monster tales.
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https://www.damnedct.com/murder-on-melon-head-road/
https://www.clickondetroit.com/features/2017/01/18/the-legend-of-the-michigan-melon-heads/
https://wwmt.com/news/local/michigans-melon-heads-legend-has-its-roots-in-allegan-county
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melon_heads
https://www.onlyinyourstate.com/experiences/connecticut/haunted-road-melon-heads-ct/
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On a stormy night, a girl reaches down for the comforting lick of her dog under the bed—only to discover at dawn that her pet is dead in the bathroom and the words “HUMANS CAN LICK, TOO” are written in blood. In this episode, we unravel the infamous “Licked Hand” urban legend, its variations and origins, and the real-world intruder cases that make the story feel disturbingly possible.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Licked_HandWikipedia
https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/507300/how-urban-legends-licked-hand-are-bornMental Floss
https://www.thrillist.com/entertainment/nation/humans-can-lick-too-how-urban-legends-spreadThrillist
https://ils.unc.edu/~sturm/storytelling/cuecards/peoplecanlicktoo.htmlils.unc.edu
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2008/may/31/japanThe Guardian
https://japantoday.com/category/crime/woman-arrested-for-living-in-closet-in-fukuokajapantoday.com
https://grokipedia.com/page/Theodore_Edward_ConeysGrokipedia
https://www.heartstartspounding.com/episodes/denverspiderman
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A baby’s cry in the dead of night can stir the soul, or freeze the blood. These spooky accounts reveal how a sound meant to summon comfort becomes the call of something far darker.
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https://www.reddit.com/r/HighStrangeness/comments/lr1sun/babies_crying_in_the_woods/#:~:text=We%20had%20just%20started%20walking,hundred%20feet%20away%20from%20us
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In today's episode we share 4 spooky Reddit stories. Special thanks to cattorii, Alternative-Ad-1924 and Anon for allowing us to share your stories!
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https://www.reddit.com/r/BackwoodsCreepy/comments/1ox86ti/pacific_northwest_watchman/
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In the mist-shrouded marshes of the Lincolnshire Fens, ghostly lights roam the night and not all of them are friendly. When a spectral flame pursues two travellers near the Boston Stump, ancient warnings about the Lantern Man flare back to terrifying life.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lantern_man
https://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/news/local-news/lantern-man-wicken-fen-folklore-18517642
https://www.mysteriousbritain.co.uk/hauntings/white-lady-of-shooters-hill/
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In the dark forests and lonely farms of Scandinavia, the wailing of a child means something far worse than sorrow. It’s the cry of a myling, the restless ghost of an abandoned soul. Born from tragedy and buried in shame, these vengeful spirits haunt the living until they’re named, baptized… or avenged.
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https://godsandmonsters.info/myling/
https://mythicalencyclopedia.com/myling/
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From backward feet to eerie whistling in the jungle, the duende is Latin America’s most elusive trickster spirit. These chilling encounters explore what happens when you laugh at legends… and the legends laugh back.
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https://culturarecreacionydeporte.gov.co
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From flying skinless witches to rooftop salt rituals, Colombian folklore paints a terrifying portrait of the bruja. This episode explores real legends, eerie encounters, and the chilling cultural memory that still haunts towns like La Jagua.
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Sources include Colombian oral folklore, traditional beliefs, and cultural journalism. Referenced material reflects public legends from La Jagua, Antioquia, Huila, and Llanos regions, as well as general folklore motifs reported in El Tiempo, Acento (Dominican Republic), and academic notes from Colmex and OpenEdition.
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In the snowbound forests of the Northeast, Wabanaki legends tell of the Chenoo: once-human souls twisted into cannibal giants with hearts of ice. This episode follows their origins and eerie modern encounters that suggest something still howls in the winter dark.
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https://www.native-languages.org/chenoo.htmnative-languages.org
https://www.native-languages.org/ice-cannibal.htmnative-languages.org
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wendigo
https://www.strangenewengland.com/native-legends/cannibal-with-an-icy-heart-the-legend-of-the-chenoo/FullReads
https://newenglandfolklore.blogspot.com/2009/01/newenglandfolklore.blogspot.com
https://www.worldstoriesbank.org/story/girl-the-chenoo/World Stories Bank
https://grokipedia.com/wechuge/Strange New England
https://www.bangordailynews.com/
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In today's episode we share 4 spooky Reddit stories. Special thanks to Excellent_Opinion673 for allowing us to share your story!
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https://www.reddit.com/r/Ghoststories/comments/1kbpn89/the_unseen_classmate/
https://www.reddit.com/r/Paranormal/s/RQfGyLmVhM
https://www.reddit.com/r/ParanormalEncounters/s/qmNY6lwHk8
https://www.reddit.com/r/ParanormalEncounters/s/dH2AVVpbRJ
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A violent storm struck Suffolk on 4 August 1577 and with it the legendary Black Shuck burst into St Mary's Church, Bungay and later Holy Trinity Church, Blythburgh, slaughtering parishioners and leaving scorch-marks on church doors forever dubbed “the devil’s fingerprints.” This tale of thunder, fire, and a spectral hound haunts East Anglian folklore. A ghost dog that still prowls lonely lanes when lightning splits the sky.
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https://www.thesuffolkcoast.co.uk/articles/the-legend-of-the-bungay-black-dog
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Shuck
https://www.bungay-suffolk.co.uk/about/history/bungay-history-the-black-dog/
https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/the-devils-fingerprints
https://www.thebarkingbugle.co.uk/the-black-dog-of-east-anglia/
https://www.thestrangeways.co.uk/2019/06/bad-dog-black-shuck-of-suffolk.html
https://dannyechase.com/blog/blackshuck/
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More than a monster, the Wendigo represents the terror of winter and the danger of losing yourself to greed and desperation. From folklore to first-hand accounts, we follow the creature that has haunted the northern wilderness for centuries.
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https://www.reddit.com/r/WendigoStories/comments/i5052w/never_been_more_glad_to_have_a_bear_nearby/
https://www.reddit.com/r/WendigoStories/comments/n9qr7o/my_wendigo_encounter/
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Across the lakes and rivers of Zimbabwe there are legends of the Njuzu, mysterious water spirits said to dwell beneath the surface, capable of both blessing and destruction.
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https://www.voazimbabwe.com/a/zimbabwe-mermaids-problem-for-water-minister-138664059/1467126.html
https://mg.co.za/article/2020-02-06-chasing-mermaids-in-zimbabwe/
https://www.thepatriot.co.zw/culture/of-marine-spirits-manjuzu-and-mermaids/
https://www.heraldonline.co.zw/two-women-who-drowned-at-manjuzu-ceremony-identified/
https://cfuzim.org/celebrating-rain-and-the-flooding-of-save-river/
https://www.womenshealthmag.com/life/a42267720/wednesday-netflix-mermaid-african-folklore/
https://pamberineruzhinji1980.wordpress.com/2019/08/09/njuzu-zimbabwean-spirit-and/
https://shumbaliterarymagazine.wordpress.com/2025/05/09/are-the-njuzu-mermaids-real/
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High above the Bedfordshire countryside stands the crumbling shell of St Mary’s. A medieval church twisted by time, ritual, and whispers of evil. In 1963, villagers discovered the defiled remains of a woman exhumed from her grave, arranged in the nave for a black mass. What followed was a decades-long saga of satanic panic, grave desecration, phantom monks, and chilling apparitions.
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In central European folklore, Krampus is a Christmas devil who visits on the eve of St Nicholas Day, to punish naughty children. He's also known to drag an unfortunate few back to hell with him in a basket carried upon his back. Some children are merely whipped with birch tree branches known as switches whilst others serve as supper to St Nicholas' rather unconventional companion. The name Krampus may have evolved from the German word Krampen which means claw and this half goat, half human, demon monster is thought to have been part of the Pagan rituals performed around the Winter Solstice, with legend saying that Krampus is the son of Hel, the Norse god of the underworld.
Yule is one of the oldest winter celebrations and with Norseman being hunters, who spent much of their time outdoors, they worshipped the Sun and saw it as a wheel that changed the seasons. The word for this wheel was Houl and it is from this word that Yule is thought to have derived from. At midwinter, the Norsemen would sacrifice cattle, gather around bonfires, drink sweet ale and tell stories as the long nights would again, begin to shorten.
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In today's episode we share 2 creepy Krampus stories.
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https://www.reddit.com/r/nosleep/comments/rngf9v/there_are_things_worse_than_the_krampus/
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