Arcanum Obscura

Hello! This week we're doing some legends from the Appalachians. First up we have Nate with the Wampus Cat, and two different legends and depictions of the cat. The Wampus can is well known for his two front pugilist arms and his extreme talents in the fine art of fisticuffs.... or not at all, we shall see! Following the Wampus Cat I talk about the Moon-Eyed people, there's not much inform...

This week we're still covering some true crime. First I bring you a strange story, the story of Teresita Basa and how she helped solve her own murder from beyond the grave. It's an interesting and strange story and definitely not what I had expected. After, Nate brings the sad story of Ryan Waller and Heather Quan, this one involves murder and some serious mishandling of the situation from...

More true crime this week, we have two more stories for you. Nate brings us a story from the reddit "lets not meet" community of a creepy Norman Bates sounding story, mothers, and medicines, and soda oh my! The reddit description for the community describes the stories best "A place to read spine-tingling, unusual, terrifyingly true stories about people you never want to meet again&...

So this week we decided to focus on military conspiracies. However, I (Chris) couldn't find anything interesting that wasnt just political nonsense. So I broke from our chosen subject and went with two cases of illegal and unethical human experimentation, one perpetuated by the government and the other by a psychologist. So this week I have Project Artichoke and the Monster Study. Nate however...

We decided we wanted to talk about Yokai this week. If you don't know what Yokai are they are supernatural entities and spirits in Japanese folklore. Nate talks about four different Yokai, Tomoe, Kanibozu, and Akateko. After the break we come back and I tell the story, and some variations or changes that occurred throughout the years of an Oni know as Shuten-Doji. As always we hope your well a...

We are back! Nate was ill last week so we had to take a week off but we have returned. This week we read a couple creepypasta stories. Nate brings us Herobrine, a story involving strange occurences in Minecraft. After that I have a bit of a long story, The Infinity Game (part 1) by Page Turner, check out her other stories they're all pretty damn good.

For this weeks episode I wanted to do something a little different so we went with puzzles. We start with a book from '82 called The Secret: A Treasure Hunt. Then move to the viral marketing game/advertisement ILoveBees which was for the game Halo 2. Lastly, the one that brought the idea of this episode to mind, no ones really sure what this is, a viral game, recruitment, something darker?, it...

This week Nate brings the story of the Harpe brothers. Joshua Harper aka Micajah "Big" Harpe, and William Harper aka Wiley "Little" Harpe. Considered to be the first american serial killers, or at least documented ones. They were British Crown Loyalists who terrorized settlers near the Appalachian Mountains during the American Revolution. After a bout of true crime episodes I c...

Back to true crime again this week. I was looking for a case that I hadn't heard of before and came across the case of Timothy Evans. This is an interesting case with a twist and an example of the miscarriage of justice. Timothy Evans was accused of killing his wife and infant daughter, he went to trial and was convicted and sentenced to death for the murders. But what really happened to Beryl...

This week we decided to go for mysteries. The story Nate brins is the one of Kenny Veach, a man who liked hiking in the desert. On one of his hikes he found a strange cave that made him feel strange and uncomfortable, after some time he set back out to find this cave once more and was never heard from again. After that I talk a bit about the Voynich Manuscript, its a very strange book of unknown o...

We have three true crime cases today, two of which are unsolved. First we have the story being called "Don't Trust Yoko" about a woman from Japan who disappears one day and the strange incidents afterwards including the strange note during an interview that read "don't trust what yoko says". After that we go into the Japan SOS Incident where two lost hikers were found d...

We delve back into some true crime this week. We start with the story of Mike Malloy aka Durable Mike, this is a bizaare case of an innocent man at the center of insurance fraud. Its really weird and strange, I found it pretty interesting and hopefully you do as well. Next Nate brings us the story of Gypsy Rose, this is a pretty bad case. Possibly one of the worst cases of munchausen by proxy ever...

We have some more reddit stories. We were both busy this week with work so we fell back to some reddit stories we liked. I have a possible skinwalker story which I enjoyed. Then Nate brings us some two sentence horror stories which I also join in with a add some more, we found more as we were recording so kept adding as we went.

This week we're going to talk about a couple of ghost ships again, two different ships of course. While looking for a specific ghost ship whose name I couldn't recall I stumbled on the Lady Lovibond, its not a very long story but due to it bering a re-occuring event I thought it was a pretty interesting story. Mine was more what most people think when you hear ghost ship, at least what I t...

This week Nate talks about the Pollock Twins, Gillian and Jennifer. An interesting case on the possibilty of reincarnation. The Twins case has been looked in to and written about. It's considered one of the stronger cases that may prove reincarnation. It's definitely interesting, and I found it extra interesting due to having a friend and a family member who would tell stories when they we...

This week were back at it with reddit stories that we enjoyed. Last week we rambled on quite a bit and only got one story in so we decided to do a second round with 2 new stories. Though my favorite story is in last weeks I think we have a couple good ones this week as well if i do say so myself.

This week we attempted to do some creepy reddit stories. We managed to get one story in and a whole lot of joking and rambling, next week we will attempt it again with to new stories. This weeks story was "A Parallel Life", this is one of my favorite strange creepy stories. I read it some time back and wanted to start this little series off with this one.

Episode 102! Salad episode! The wheel of morality chose salad twice so were back to a salad episode. This week we travel all over the place. We start in Louisiana with the Honey Island Swamp Monster. From there we go all the way to Australia and talk about the feircest of all tourist attackers, the infamous DROP BEAR! Then we move on over to Scotland for some scottish folklore and learn about the...

This week we delve back into the paranormal with some spooky scaries. We love us some ghost stories but it seems like a lot of them never have much detail so I went with some of the multpiple ghosts at Smith College and Nate took a jaunt across the pond to talk about Ye Olde Kings Head pub. We hope you enjoy and maybe get a few laughs at our banter, since as you know, we can never stay on topic.

It's our 100th episode! So since very early on we've been talking about going to one of the many dirt crossroads nearby and attemtping to summon a crossroads demon. And since when we first started we used a little digital micro recorder to record (you can clearly tell by the sound quality in the early episodes lol) we decided that since we'll be out in the middle of nowhere and being F...

okay, first thing I need to mention, due to a phone change and the complete and utter lack of support on instagram we are unable to get back into our instagram account. Seriously, try and contact instagram support lol. So the new one should be up as soon as I have time to refollow and contact all our followers. Now, this weeks episode, episode 99. I saw a docu some time back then a friend sent me...

This week, the infamous german cannibal Armin Meiwes, its a crazy case and if I remember correctly one they weren't quite sure how to take to court since there was some consent involved. 

So we decided on a loghter episode, well, mostly. We chose some fan theories to talk about from cartoons like The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast and generally movies from that specific company. Some are dark theories others just how they tie together in one way or another but we thought it was pretty interesting and we hope you do as well.

This week we go aquatic! We start with the chimera-like cryptid, the Lusca, half shark, half octopus, all bad news! And fresh from his canadian vacation, well, slightly fresh from, Nate brings us the Ogopogo!

We have returned! Nate has returned from his long vacation and we are still tweaking the new equipment, it was a bit hard to do when we tried remote recording but we hope to get the best sound quality for our listeners and have it all tweaked in quickly. It doesnt seem to help that we record in a cardboard box under active railroad tracks, it makes for lots of background noise. Sp please just bare...