Strange Tides

Aloha Tide Riders and happy post St. Patrick's day! The little folk aren’t always lucky… and they’re definitely not friendly. In the third installment of our  March Miniatures  saga, Strange Tides dives deep into two of the most infamous pint-sized entities in folklore: the gold-hoarding Leprechaun and the blood-soaked Redcap. One’s a sharp-witted trickster, guarding hidden treasure and bendin...

Aloha and welcome to the second installment of our March Miniatures sage her on Strange Tides. In this episode, we’re digging into the tiny but surprisingly mysterious world of  gnomes  and  nisser —two small folk from European folklore who might look cute on a garden statue but have a reputation that’s a lot more complicated. From the underground earth-spirits of old European legends to the misch...

Aloha Tide Riders. It's a new month, which means a new saga, and on today's episode, we'll be kicking off our series on March Miniatures. We'll be exploring the legends, the lore, the origins - and the modern-day sightings - of diminutive dudes all across Europe. On today's episode of Strange Tides, we'll paddle out to Poland first, then head a bit farther east to talk abou...

Aloha, Tide Riders. As our saga on  February Freakiness  reaches its chilling finale,  Strange Tides  closes the book on one of the most haunting mysteries ever frozen in time — the Dyatlov Pass Incident. In February 1959, nine experienced hikers led by Igor Dyatlov vanished deep in the northern Ural Mountains under circumstances so strange they still defy easy explanation. A tent cut open from th...

Aloha and welcome to another Short Boar Session here on Strange Tides, continuing our saga on February Freakiness. In the quiet suburbs of Long Island in 1958, one ordinary family found themselves at the center of one of America’s strangest paranormal cases. Bottles popped open on their own. Objects flew across rooms. Furniture moved with no one touching it. And before long, police officers, repor...

Aloha Tide Riders and welcome to the first deep dive episode of our February Freakiness saga where we cover strange events from the shortest month of the year . In this episode, we rewind to the early hours of February 24–25, 1942, when Los Angeles—still shaken by Pearl Harbor—went into full blackout as unidentified lights appeared in the sky. Radar contacts and visual sightings triggered a massiv...

Aloha Tide Riders and welcome to another Shortboard Session. Buckle up for a twilight cruise down California’s loneliest highways, where not every traveler is among the living. In this episode — the first stop in our  February Freakiness saga on Strange Tides  — we dive headfirst into the eerie world of California roadside entities. From phantom pedestrians who appear in your headlights only to va...

Aloha, Tide Riders! In the epic finale of the  California Craziness  saga here on Strange Tides , we head deep into the heart of one of Southern California’s most mysterious and unsettling locations: Black Star Canyon. Known for its breathtaking trails by day and chilling legends by night, this canyon has become ground zero for high strangeness — a place where reality seems to blur with the unexpl...

Aloha and welcome to another episode of Strange Tides: the Short Board Sessions. Today, we've got another installment in our California Craziness saga and this one really lives up to the name. On a blistering August afternoon in 1955, a quiet citrus-town neighborhood in Riverside, California, became the epicenter of one of UFO history’s most baffling and unsettling encounters. A group of child...

Aloha and welcome to the next installment of our saga on California Craziness. Today, let's step aboard the  Queen Mary , where Art Deco glamour meets cold spots, creaking corridors, and stories that refuse to stay buried. In this episode of  Strange Tides , we cruise through the ship’s full arc—from her birth in 1930s Britain as a transatlantic flex of engineering and luxury, to her wartime t...

Aloha, Tide Riders. Happy New Year and welcome to a brand new saga to kick off 2026 on California Craziness, where we'll focus on stories from my home state. For our first installment, we've got a doozy. Beneath the sun-baked streets of Los Angeles, a stranger story has been lurking for nearly a century. In  today’s episode of  Strange Tides: The Short Board Sessions , we drop into one of...

Aloha, Tide Riders. Happy holidays and Happy New Year! The Winter Weirdness run wraps up with one last moonlit paddle into the deep end—this time, straight into the black forests of Germany and the legend of the  Morbach Monster . In this final  Strange Tides  episode of 2025, we trace a werewolf-shaped ripple that starts in the late 1700s with cursed soldiers and candlelit shrines, then rolls all...

Strange Tide: Short Board Sessions - Skinwalker Ranch Christmas Entity Aloha Tide Riders and Happy Holidays - Festivus included. Today, we're hitting up one of the freakiest places on the planet and talking about something that shows up just in time for the winter solstice. This Short Board Session dives into one of the strangest recurring cases to come out of Utah’s Uintah Basin: the  Skinwal...

Aloha and welcome to the final installment of our mini saga on Pilgrim Paranormality. In this episode, we drift back to the late 1500s and drop anchor at one of history’s most haunting loose ends: the Lost Colony of Roanoke. Over 100 settlers vanish from North Carolina’s Outer Banks, no bodies, no struggle, no answers—just the word  CROATOAN  carved into a post like a cryptic mic drop from the pas...

Strange Tides: Short Board Session –  The Kecksburg UFO Aloha Tide Riders and welcome to the first episode in our new episode style - the Shortboard Sessions. In this quick-hit episode, we skim across the basics of the 1965 Kecksburg case—an eerie fireball streaking over the Midwest, a mysterious acorn-shaped object in the woods, and a military response that locals still call a cover-up. We lay ou...

Aloha Tide Riders and welcome to a new saga on Pilgrim Paranormality. In this collective, which is only two episodes instead of the usual four, we're gonna cover some crazy cryptos and conspiracies that plagued the dudes and dudettes who brought us the first Thanksgiving. In today's episode of Strange Tides , we venture into the rugged world of the Stone Giants—towering, rock-armored being...

Aloha and welcome to the final stop on our journey down the Witches' Road. In this episode, we’re unraveling one of the strangest and most enchanting legends to come out of World War II:  Operation Cone of Power . The story goes that in the summer of 1940—while Britain stood on the brink of invasion—a secret coven of witches gathered in the New Forest to raise a massive surge of magical energy...

Aloha Tide Riders and welcome to our third stop as we journey down the Witches Road. In this episode, we sail into the stormy waters of 17th-century Spain to meet María Soliña — widow, healer, and alleged witch of the Galician coast. After surviving a brutal pirate raid and rising to local prominence, Soliña found herself accused of conjuring tempests, cursing boats, and cutting deals with the Dev...

Aloha Tide Riders and welcome to our second stop as we journey down The Witches Road. In this episode of Strange Tides , we’re heading to the misty highlands of 17th-century Scotland to unravel one of the most haunting witchcraft confessions ever recorded — the story of Isobel Gowdie. Her words painted a world of midnight dances, shape-shifting spells, and faerie queens who ruled beneath the hills...

Aloha Tide Riders and welcome to a brand new saga that will guide us straight down The Witches Road. Saddle up because this week,  Strange Tides takes you back to early 1800s Tennessee, where one farmhouse became the stage for one of America’s most chilling legends. The Bell Witch haunting wasn’t just a few bumps in the night — it was full-on chaos: ghostly voices, flying furniture, eerie propheci...

On this chilling episode of  Strange Tides’ , we’re taking flight into the eerie world of  Owl Witches  —the feathered phantoms that have haunted Native legends for centuries. From the  La Lechuza  of South Texas to the  Stikini  of Florida and the  Cipelaq  of the Wabanaki up north, these shape-shifting witches are said to scream like babies, stalk wrongdoers, and vanish in smoke when confronted....

Aloha Tide Riders and welcome to the third installment of our Native American Nightmares saga. This week on  Strange Tides , we’re shrinking things down—way down—to explore the mysterious world of tiny tricksters in Native American folklore. These little beings might look small, but their legends loom large, stretching from the misty forests of New England to the rugged peaks of the Rockies. We’ll...

Aloha Tide Riders, and sorry for the delay. For our second installment in the  Native American Nightmares  saga, we’re lifting off from the earth and heading into storm-tossed skies—territory claimed by colossal winged beings who’ve loomed over Indigenous legends for centuries. This time, we’re talking about the Thunderbird, the Piasa Bird, and the Tlanuwa—three very different sky titans who ruled...

Aloha, Tide Riders, and welcome to the first episode of our brand new saga on Native American Nightmares. From the deserts of the Southwest to the icy rivers of Alaska to the powwow grounds of the Midwest, shapeshifter legends ripple through Native American folklore—stories that are as old as the land itself. In this episode, we’re pulling back the curtain on three of the most infamous figures: th...

Aloha Tide Riders and welcome to the last leg of our Anomalous Airports saga. I've saved the strangest for last. Chicago O’Hare might look like just another airport on the surface—crowded gates, endless terminals, and flight delays that test your patience—but if you hang around long enough, you start to notice something weird humming under the surface. O’Hare isn’t just a hub for planes, it’s...