Fringe History

Welcome to the culture of Pluviculture! Or as folks in America during the late 1800s called Rainmaking! A fringe science where savvy folk would travel to small towns throughout the Midwest & across the sw to draught ridden towns to promise them rain! In Nebraska a whole “rain god association” had formed teaching folk how to make rain grow in the sky! There were countless methods to do this from ex...

South West Explorer be warned to not try any of the fermented cactus juices you may find leaking out there. Cuz you may have just come along the path of a Cryptid with razor sharp bone claws & a real territorial attitude. So let’s jump into fearsome creatures of the lumberwoods again from da guy William T Cox as we learn about this desert legend who’s been spotted all over Arizona back in the 1910...

Welcome to the forgotten river county of NJ, where the trees overhang creates dark tunnels along the Musconetcong river. In these haunting waters multiple fisherman have reported a creature with incredible powers. A 7ft scaled mantis creature with the ability to cloak itself, massive wings & a hypnotic buzz that can daze those it encounters. But no attacks have been reported, the opposite actually...

Whatchu know about a Wamp? What a strange creature coming to us from a great Cryptid series Yarns of the Bigwoods! A gray sack with arms & legs w/ a wild hollow tail used to shake salt onto the root of trees. A delicious treat for the local deers which makes the Wamp a best friend to the hunters of the lumberwoods! But as with many Cryptid tales, for all the details i don’t get I get to sus out fo...

Have you ever heard of a jetpack monster?? Well there’s been a couple sightings throughout time, but Nebraskas falls city holds on of the most strange encounters with one! Technicolor lights draped across the 15 ft metal wings on the creatures back & the eyewitness could only describe it as a demon! Could this had been a mad scientist from the deep corn fields? I mean most actual jetpack tech was...

Criminals & Villiany await in todays tales, from torturous robbers throwing travelers into their Basement pitt to mystic Highwaymen who terrorize farmers & travelers in the hills of eastern NY! These Tales come from Charles M Skinners “myths & legends of our own Lands”, a fantastical text featuring folklore across America from 1860-early 1900s. But these come from his stomping grounds along the Hu...

Have you heard of those Atmospheric Beasts lingering in our sky’s? Well today we aren’t talking about Air Rods or Sky Squids, but instead a vivid description of a haunting desert encounter with what was reported as a flying saucer but the anonymous writer swears it was an animal! An 8 ft metallic clam like beast that reacted to him & bled a frothy wirey substance. But before he could fully observe...

Prepare yourself for the Desert Quickness!! This weeks Cryptid is an inescapable beast of the shrublands who kicks roadrunners out of its path & has been known to hunt loggers of the Sierras. I’ll go over the legend of the infamous SW creature of the lumberwoods, The Roperite! From the legends of William T Cox to Henry Tyron & even schoolastic pages, this animal of Americana folklore has popped up...

Who’s that peepin through your window? & what’s that sweet odor in the air?? Well don’t worry all your neighbors are on the streets with guns & bats looking for them… welcome to Mattoon IL during WW2, where squads of elite police & even the FBI came to investigate what the town called “the Mad Gasser of Mattoon”. Im gonna bring back the story with the original newspaper articles & breakdown a time...

Let’s talk about Witches! Particularly a hag who lurks through the streets of New Yorks Capital! When this shrill old woman only got 12 baked goods when she wanted a dozen, she cursed the German baker! Not only did his business begin to fail, but the smoke from his chimney would choke him & invisible hands pelted him with hot coals! Only when visited by the ghost of a saint did he realize how to e...

Join my travels as I road-trip 14 hrs in 2 days around the Unitah basin! I’m excited to bring you all one of my favorite travels to one of Americas most funded supernatural sites, as the American government spent millions of dollars in the mid 2000s to investigate the many anomalies on this property. On this ranch all of weird cultures mash together from poltergeist & ghosts, to ufos & unexplained...

Do you hear that song every morning that wakes up the world around us? Especially in spring months some would describe it as the spring chorus, but what if a smol creature whose organs are musical instruments leads this chorus & brings about this song with every step! So I’ll be bringing to life the legend of the Callopode, a yarn of the big woods created by Art Child’s in a collection of fantasti...

Have you heard of the New England Undead / Vampire panic phenomenon in the 18th Century? We are still currently finding graveyards effected by this mass hysteria where bodies were exhumed in a monster hunt lead by superstitious religious folk, sometimes making tonics of the bodies organs. The Last “Vampire” to meet this fate of Lena Mercy Brown, who some called a teenage psychic Vampire. But was s...

It’s a phenomenon that has struck 5 nations across the world, on farmland & country roads folk have spotted a phantom creature dashing past their eyes! I couldn’t believe it, but the 2013 Oklahoma Hunter video is undeniable! Then I find news articles from 1930s in PA about Monstrous Blood sucking Kangaroos! So just what is the Phantom Kangaroo Phenomenon?! Do you live in one of the many towns effe...

In Americas “Dead Sea” an experiment that was documented by the University of Utahs biology department occurred. In 1875 Ocean Leviathans were hauled by boats then by a 1 of a kind Train to be rehomed in the Great Salt Lake in hope of populating it with WHALES! Now this urban legend has been disputed for over a century & most facts of the Salt Lake would tell us this should be impossible. But loca...

A Hungry Creature from the Lumberwoods slowly comes our way on this Tale! It’s hairless, black, shiny & has no wrinkle on its body, almost rubbery. No predator can pierce is Hide & even the greatest hunters who shoot at it find their bullets coming right back at them! But, as most cryptids do, it has a weakness! An explosive weakness! So if you live on the west coast, be careful as this beast may...

OI travelers, buckle up for a Wild tale of high sea swashbuckling adventures of the Smuggler king of the Swamps surrounding Louisiana! This Patriot Privateer belongs to a set of 3 brothers who were arrested for piratey over a century past the golden age of Piracy. But the youngest of the became a legend cemented in Creole, Jewish & American history as we look into the tale of the Smuggler King who...

Tales from the Fringes brings you a creature unlike most, a flesh eating stag who can fly high above the ocean to hunt Sailors who can’t escape. This beast is said to be unharmed by any weapon the Greek had at the time to stop them. A sibyl once rumored that a great horde of Perytons would bring Rome to ruins. So let’s look into this fantastical beast on this new series, featuring shorter stories...

What’s that Brilliant light in the sky?? & why is it shimming down a telephone pole like a Parrot?! This Beast is no ordinary Cryptid, as we look into an Iowa legend that has had many theories but it’s original headline was “Winged Monster”! Let’s explore this pterodactyl with a lazer horn & a bulletproof forcefield on as we look into the Van Meter Visitor this week on Fringe History! I never knew...

Well Howdy there folks! Sit by the campfire & listen up to the story of The First Cowboy! The Rider of the Cyclone! The Coyote boy who tamed all varmints & created the Cattle run. For in West Texas there is the King killer of the Mad Men, Pecos Bill! But was he a cowboy demigod who inspired the rowdy folk to have fun again & taught the cattle rancher how to become a full cowboy? Or was he a tricks...

This Week we Focus in on a Frozen Volcano to find a Bigfoot, not any kinda of Bigfoot but a massive flying Sasquatch that might be able to psychic control engines of machines! In the Wake of Americas last Mainland Volcanic Eruption, a terrifying Cryptid has arisen from its ashes. The colorful Batsquatch emerges on this week of Fringe History! We’ll talk about Super Volcanoes, Americas last devasta...

Let’s look into the Century+ mystery of the 1896 Airship that cruised over Sacramento & then San Francisco, eventually within 6 months it had soared all the way to Michigan! Was this Americas first Ufo/UAP & did it spark the modern light in the sky craze? Do you live in one of the dozens of towns that spotted this phenomenon?? Thousands of folk across America reported this Airship & hundreds of ne...

Let’s Talk about all Sorta Cryptids! Newcomers welcome & Veteran Cryptid Lorekeepers may even find a new tale or Category for a group of cryptids they hadn’t considered! Cryptozoology is May favorite part of Weird Culture & I wanna tell you guys how I’ve begun categorizing them with years of experience! I’ll share More “Real”Cryptids like De loys Ape & even some critters who were have thought to g...

Explore what scientists call “The Living Fossil” & a successful case of Cryptozoology! There was a rumored Fish Monster living off the coast of South Africa that hunted at night, 6 feet big & would snap an octopus in half. This creature was said to have gone extinct with the Dinosaurs 66 Million Years ago in the last Extinction Event. Yet here a museum Curator was seeing it in a marketplace being...

A Bonus Case featuring Folk Heroes, Ghost Towns, Graffiti Havens, psychedelic public art, UFOs & A wonderful Cryptid festival that I promised I’d make it out to! I’ll bring you along on my bday road-trip through many fringe locations like Cement City, Randyville, Kecksburg & the awesomeness that is a Primanti Bros in Pittsburgh! But more importantly hear about the amazing artists who dedicated the...