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Legends of the Hidden Horde
Legends of the Hidden Horde is a dark folklore podcast for anyone searching the night for cryptids, mythical creatures, and the old warnings we stopped believing. Hosted by Lance Martin, each short episode is an atmospheric retelling drawn from the record: oral history, older accounts, and the edge cases collectors usually skip. Not a monster-of-the-week joke. Not a hunt for proof. A lantern held up to the thing the village already knew by name. Cryptids and folk monsters from every reach of…
Episodes
Legends of the Hidden HordeEpisode 66: The Adze
In episode 66 we sit inside the mosquito net after the lamp has been turned down, where the night is already full of small things that want blood. This is the…
Legends of the Hidden HordeEpisode 65: The Dullahan
In episode 65 we stand on a narrow Irish road at the hour when the hedges have already taken the light. This is the Dullahan, the headless rider. The name is…
Legends of the Hidden HordeEpisode 64: Bake-kujira
In episode 64 we go out past the last buoy off the Shimane coast, where the water is the color of iron and something white is moving that should not still be…
Legends of the Hidden HordeEpisode 63: The Impundulu
In episode 63 we stand in the storm line over the Eastern Cape, where lightning does not always strike where the weather says it should. This is the Impundulu…
Legends of the Hidden HordeEpisode 62: The Draugr
In episode 62 we go into a howe in Iceland, where the dead were not trusted to stay dead. This is episode 62 the draugr. The older myth beside it is aptrganga…
Legends of the Hidden HordeEpisode 61: The Encantado
In episode 61 we go down to the river after the lamps are lit, where the water is the color of tea and something breaks the surface without wanting to be seen…
Legends of the Hidden HordeEpisode 60: The Sluagh
In episode 60 we stand on the west side of a house in the Hebrides, where the Atlantic has already taken the sun and the window is the only argument left. This…
Legends of the Hidden HordeEpisode 59: Penanggalan
Tonight we go under the floor of a Malay house on stilts, where the night smells of river mud and woodsmoke. This is episode 59 the Penanggalan. The name comes…
Legends of the Hidden HordeEpisode 58: Leshy (Lesovik)
In Episode 58 we head deep into eastern Europe where the elders will tell you that the forest north of the last fence does not begin with trees. It begins with…
Legends of the Hidden HordeEpisode 57: Popobawa
In episode 57 we cover a legend that includes nocturnal assault, paralysis, and, in some tellings, sexual violence. Those elements are named because they are…
Legends of the Hidden HordeEpisode 56: A-Hool
Science is very good at things that sit still, leave bones, or emit a consistent signal, but it is weaker at rare, intelligent, landscape-scale phenomena that…
Legends of the Hidden HordeEpisode 55: Sasabonsam
The forest does not begin where the last farm ends. Among the Akan it begins where human time thins: where the hoe is not welcome, where the path forgets its…
Legends of the Hidden HordeEpisode 54: Bunyip
There is no single bunyip. There are hundreds of languages on this continent, and the English word is a loan that flattened them. Episode 54 stays with names…
Legends of the Hidden HordeEpisode 53: Dobhar-chú
Glenade does not announce itself. It lies in a long green trough in north County Leitrim, pinched between the Arroo mountains and the Dartry range, with…
Legends of the Hidden HordeEpisode 52: Mapinguari
The canopy in the western Amazon does not open. It closes over you the way a hand closes over a mouth. Light arrives late and leaves early. The air is thick…
Legends of the Hidden HordeEpisode 51: Mokèlé-mbèmbé
There are places on this Earth where the water does not hurry. This is where we heading in Episode 51. In the northern Congo Basin the rivers thicken into…
Legends of the Hidden HordeEpisode 50: Nuckelavee
Well, we hit a milestone tonight. Episode 50. For Fifty nights we’ve opened the door and let the old stories walk back into the light. These are not just…
Legends of the Hidden HordeEpisode 49: Adar Llwch Gwin
In episode 49 we walk into the dark folds of the old Welsh hills, where mist clings to the bracken like a second skin and the wind carries the salt of distant…
Legends of the Hidden HordeEpisode 48: Skinwalker (Yee Naaldlooshii)
In episode 48 we climb into the high desert of the Four Corners, where the night wind carries the scent of sage and distant rain that never quite arrives, the…
Legends of the Hidden HordeEpisode 47 - Mishipeshu
This is an original, atmospheric retelling inspired by Anishinaabe oral traditions, historical accounts, and pictographs. These stories belong to living…
Legends of the Hidden HordeEpisode 46: Ciguapa
In Episode 47 we step into the high folds of the Cordillera Central, where the mountains of El Cibao hold their secrets close and the night does not merely…
Legends of the Hidden HordeEpisode 45: Nunasis
Episode 45 is an original imaginative weaving that stays respectful of the recorded cosmology and the living continuity of Chumash knowledge. Let's dive in…
Legends of the Hidden HordeEpisode 44: The Plat-eye(Plateye)
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…
Legends of the Hidden HordeEpisode 43: The Wood Devil
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…
Legends of the Hidden HordeEpisode 42: A-Mi-Kuk
The following is an original dark narrative inspired by documented Yup’ik oral traditions concerning the Amikuk. It draws carefully from ethnographic accounts…
Legends of the Hidden HordeEpisode 41: The Baclou
The rains of the Guianese interior never truly stop; they only pause long enough for the forest to remember its own silence. On the ancestral lands of the…
Legends of the Hidden HordeEpisode 40: The Melon Heads
In the dense forests of southwestern Connecticut the night holds its own memory. Long before the asphalt and the streetlights, these hills and hollows belonged…
Legends of the Hidden HordeEpisode 39: The Loveland Frogman
In the dark hours before dawn, the Little Miami River moves like something that remembers. Its black water slides past the old factories and quiet bridges of…
Legends of the Hidden HordeEpisode 38: Lagahoo (or Lugarhoo)
On the southern tip of Trinidad, where the Gulf of Paria meets the Columbus Channel and the mangrove fingers of Icacos reach into the night, the land holds…
Legends of the Hidden HordeEpisode 37: Deer Woman (Deer Lady)
This story draws respectfully from the living oral traditions of multiple Indigenous nations, including the Lakota, Cherokee, Muscogee, Seminole, Ponca, Omaha…
Legends of the Hidden HordeEpisode 36: The Kludde
In the oral traditions of the Flemish people, passed down through generations in farmhouses and along lonely paths, lives the Kludde, a shapeshifting spirit of…
Legends of the Hidden HordeEpisode 35: The Processional Giants of Mons
In Belgian culture, the processional giants stand as towering emblems of identity, resilience, and communal memory. Belgium is home to more than 2,000 of these…
Legends of the Hidden HordeEpisode 34: Qalupalik
This is Episode 34: Qalupalik In the long night of the Arctic, where the sea breathes under thick ice and the wind carries secrets older than memory, the…
Legends of the Hidden HordeEpisode 33: The Daughters of Airitech
In the ancient heart of Connacht where rolling plains meet the brooding hills and mists rise like forgotten memories, there stands a place of power and peril…
Legends of the Hidden HordeEpisode 32: Anansi
In the deep forests of the Akan lands, where ancient trees whisper secrets to the wind and the earth pulses with the heartbeat of generations, there dwells a…
Legends of the Hidden HordeEpisode 31: The Gowrow
In the deep hollows of the Ozarks, where limestone caves swallow secrets and rivers carve forgotten paths, something ancient stirs. Not the whisper of wind…
Legends of the Hidden HordeEpisode 30: The Honey Island Swamp Monster
Deep In the heart of southeastern Louisiana, where the Pearl River bleeds into a labyrinth of bayous and ancient wetlands, lies the Honey Island Swamp. Nearly…
Legends of the Hidden HordeEpisode 29: Walking Sam / Chiye-Tanka
In the vast, windswept lands of the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota, where the Badlands stretch like ancient bones under an endless sky, stories…
Legends of the Hidden HordeEpisode 28: Tata Duende
They say the monte does not forget. It remembers every footfall, every greedy swing of the machete, every broken promise whispered, or forgotten, beneath its…
Legends of the Hidden HordeEpisode 27: Stikini
In the misty cypress groves and hammocks of the southeastern lands long stewarded by the Seminole people, a story endures, passed in hushed tones by those…
Legends of the Hidden HordeEpisode 26: The Snallygaster
For thousands of years before any European foot pressed into what settlers would name Frederick County, the Piscataway, Susquehannock, and other Indigenous…
Legends of the Hidden HordeEpisode 25: The Red Ghost
In the vast, whispering expanse of the Arizona Territory, where the red earth meets the jagged spines of mountains and the wind carries secrets older than…
Legends of the Hidden HordeEpisode 24: Old Green Eyes
Episode 24: Old Green Eyes The fog came first, thick and low like breath from the earth itself, rolling through the pines and hickories of what the old maps…
Legends of the Hidden HordeEpisode 23: Le Nain Rouge
Along the narrow strait where the great waters meet, long before any fort rose on its banks, the land held its own memory. The Anishinaabe peoples had moved…
Legends of the Hidden HordeEpisode 22: Lizard Man of Scape Ore Swamp
The swamps were not empty wilderness; they were sacred, watched, and alive with stories that taught respect for boundaries. The modern tale of the Lizard Man…
Legends of the Hidden HordeEpisode 21: Hvcko Capko
Reapply your bug spray and grab a mosquito net, we are heading into Seminole country on Episode 21: Hvcko Capko Deep in the margins of the old lands—where the…
Legends of the Hidden HordeEpisode 20: El Cadejo
Long before the Spanish galleons crested the horizon, indigenous wisdom taught that every soul walked with a nahual, a spirit companion often manifesting as an…
Legends of the Hidden HordeEpisode 19: The Dark Watchers
In the dark folds of the Santa Lucia Mountains, where the Pacific’s breath meets ancient rock and the trails of Big Sur wind like veins through fog-shrouded…
Legends of the Hidden HordeEpisode 18: White Thang
Episode 18: White Thang In the shadowed folds of northern Alabama, where the ancient pines of the Bankhead National Forest lean like silent sentinels over…
Legends of the Hidden HordeEpisode 17: Yara-ma-yha-who
Pack your vegemite sandwich and follow me into the land down under in Episode 17: Yara-ma-yha-who In the ancient coastal woodlands of southeastern Australia…
Legends of the Hidden HordeEpisode 16: Chenoo
The story of Chenoo is part of a deep cultural cosmology that has been passed down through generations, by the broader Wabanakli peoples, to teach about…
Legends of the Hidden HordeEpisode 16: Chenoo
This tale is respectfully inspired by the living oral traditions of the Mi’kmaq, Passamaquoddy, and broader Wabanaki peoples, as well as related Algonquian…
Legends of the Hidden HordeEpisode 15: The Blue Men of Minch
In the clouded straits of the Minch, where the Atlantic claws at the bones of Scotland like a forgotten grudge, the sea does not merely rage, it remembers. Old…
Legends of the Hidden HordeEpisode 14: Borinkus - St. John's River Monster
Grab your life vest and pack a lunch, we are heading up stream in Episode 14: Borinkus, aka Jonnie, The St. John's River Monster In the shadowed bends of the…
Legends of the Hidden HordeEpisode 13: The Tikbalang
Grab some supplies and follow me into the darkness. We are heading to the Philippine islands in Episode 13: The Tikbalang In the velvet-black heart of the…
Legends of the Hidden HordeEpisode 12: The Boo Hag
In the dark folds of the South Carolina Lowcountry, where the salt marshes breathe with the tide and live oaks drip Spanish moss like funeral veils, the Gullah…
Legends of the Hidden HordeEpisode 11: The Pukwudgie
Episode 11: The Pukwudgie In the shadowed folds of Hockomock Swamp, where the mist clings like a shroud to the twisted roots of ancient cedars and the water…
Legends of the Hidden HordeEpisode 10: The Piasa Bird
Tonight, we soar into the shrouded bluffs overlooking the mighty Mississippi to confront a chimeric nightmare born from ancient Native American rock art and…
Legends of the Hidden HordeEpisode 9: The Lac Wood Screecher
The deep woods of Lac Wood do not welcome intruders. They enfold you in silence so complete it feels deliberate, as though the trees themselves have agreed to…
Legends of the Hidden HordeEpisode 8: Jenny Greenteeth
Tonight we jump into the haunted history of England where legends and ghosts dance in abundance. Now grab your mask and snorkel and let's dive into the muddy…