Nightmares of the Americas: Indigenous Tales

Send us a text The last episode we talked about the wonderful Zapotec people and their belief in a shapeshifting human called a Nagual.  Imagine walking through the jungles of Mexico on your way home when you see a dog, jaguar, or even and owl that doesn't look just right.  Then you hear it speak... HA HA! I have a deal to make with you. Would you take the deal? Sit back and listen to a few t...

Send us a text Welcome to our Mesoamerica series. We have had a lot of request for the indigenous people of this region and I have to tell you the people are amazing.  So please sit back and enjoy.  A Nagual, is a human capable of turning into an animal like a jaguar, eagle, hummingbird, owl, coyote, or snake. Including the metamorphosis, they are capable of performing incredible magic, cast spell...

Send us a text To close out the National Week of Action for MMIW we are realeasing our final Willy Pickton Patreon episode today. Please remember our lost sisters to this broken system.  For more information please go to  https://www.niwrc.org/?gclid=CjwKCAjwxr2iBhBJEiwAdXECw7FfIGTXvgStDoQk0GScSFX2Sq0eQFF0i-I9z73ITTg_KIXwVAHJURoCBNMQAvD_BwE We are also selling a MMIW shirt on our Merch store and a...

Send us a text In honor of MMIW week we are realeasing our Willy Pickton series this week. Please remember our lost sisters to this broken system.  For more information please go to  https://www.niwrc.org/?gclid=CjwKCAjwxr2iBhBJEiwAdXECw7FfIGTXvgStDoQk0GScSFX2Sq0eQFF0i-I9z73ITTg_KIXwVAHJURoCBNMQAvD_BwE Sit back and enjoy this wild ride. This is part two of three. What will Willy do next. This mons...

Send us a text This week we will be releasing the entire Patreon Willy Pickton series to bring awarness in this MMIW crisis. May 5th is National Day of Awareness for Missing and Murdered Native Women and Girls. We hope you enjoy the extended episode.  At least 65 women disappeared from Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside between 1978 and 2001. A man known as Willie Pickton owned and operated a pig farm...

Send us a text           Today we go over the story of the Qallupilluk. Is it real or is it just a myth from Inuit folklore?   No one really knows why these creatures love to take children. Perhaps they take children because they are lonely and like the company, or maybe they like how children taste,  what if they are feeding off of their life force? Or may it be something even darker?           M...

Send us a text The Qallupilluit lurk under the water, living along the coast. They hunt along the ice floes, kidnapping children that wander too close. They tend to emit an ethereal hum that will draw the child closer to the water so they can be pulled in. It is assumed that the child is simply devoured, while others say that they are held in a stasis-like state and used to fuel the youth of the Q...

Send us a text Were the Giants of the Northern Paiute a myth? Did  these cannabinols exist, is there evidence, or were the bones they found just misidentified? In this episode we have some facts that may surprise you. As one anthropologist suggest maybe the red hair found is due to the fact that the hair changes after death. You decide in this latest episode.  Nightmares of the americas and the be...

Send us a text In western Nevada, on the outskirts of the Humboldt Sink, is a small cave. It's hot and dry and isolated, but it wasn't always this way. It was once part of the enormous Lake Lahontan, a lake that was around some 13,000 years ago, and at the time one of North America's largest lakes. But it eventually dried up, leaving a number of smaller lakes, among which was Humbol...

Send us a text Please enjoy the extra content. We will be dropping a new show new week. The accounts of the Piasa bird were first written down by a French explorer. We've  talked a lot about the Europeans but when I think of Europeans I think of the British or the Spanish. I don't really think of the French. Maybe it's because of our location in California. The explorer goes on to s...

Send us a text In the last episode we discuss the Sioux People and the Deer lady.  Today we'll go over what she just might be. Is she a vengeful spirit of revenge, somewhat of a vigilante taking the law into her own hands, a protector of women who may have been mistreated my evil men,  or maybe just a mere legend? Some of  these encounters may  sway your mind one way or another. The next time...

Send us a text The Deer Woman stories are found in a number of Indigenous tribes, they are often told to children in the communities of the Sioux, Oceti Sakowin, Ojibwe, Ponca, Omaha, Cherokee, Muscogee, Seminole, Choctaw, Otoe, Osage, Pawnee, and the Iroquois. The Deer Woman, sometimes known as the Deer Lady, is said to be a shape-shifter. She is seen as a beautiful woman just off the trail or be...

Send us a text We hope you enjoyed Part one of the Ogopogo and learning so much about Secwépemc "the people".  In Part 2 we hear the story passed down from the elders of what the Ogopogo might be.  Also, some creepy encounters of what people believe may have been the creature. Did they really encounter the Ogopogo? Some have the pictures to prove it, you decided.  Nightmares of the ameri...

Send us a text The Secwepemc called the creature the Naitaka, as "an evil supernatural entity with great power and ill intent." The word "n'ha-a-itk" has various translations, such as "water-demon", "water god", or "sacred creature of the water".  Suwapma means “The People”. Early settlers had trouble pronouncing the word and chose to say “Shu...

Send us a text In todays show we talk about tales of warning.  We as indigenous people are not a magical fairy wizard like people. We are only a spiritual people. I do believe in ghost bc what is a ghost isn't it energy. I do believe in what people would call residual hauntings, more energy. I will also say I believe in curses because the one that believes in the curse gan give and receive cu...

Send us a text Hey everyone I know we just talked about the listener tale episode and we have a special treat for all of you guys. We have a very spooky episode today. These have to be the creepiest tales you have submitted to date. From shadow people to perhaps a Wendigo story and maybe even a missing child. You have to listen to find out the horrors we have for you. Please don't forget to f...

Send us a text We know how you love native tales. For this episode we go over a few unknown tales from various tribes. Gabriel found this really cool book titled American Indian Myths and Legends  that is a very good read. In this book there are many stories from creation stories to monsters and monster slayers. We go over a few of these stories such as The Eye Juggler from the Cheyenne, The Trick...

Send us a text Most people are familiar with the Cherokee people and the trail of tears. In this episode we'll cover that and much more. I hope you're not afraid of giant snakes! The Uktena is a great snake, as large around as a tree trunk, with horns on its head, bright blazing crest like a diamond upon its forehead, and scales glittering like sparks of fire. Whoever is seen by the Ukte...

Send us a text The Tlingit people pronounced “Klinkit” believe that some otters are actually shape-shifters that look like men. These creatures take delight in tricking poor sailors to their deaths, And their evil purpose is to trap their victims souls and prevent them from reincarnating. It certainly wouldn't be the first time a cute face has been used to ensnare victims. Remember to follow...

Send us a text The police still don't know who is taking these women after a decade of reports and task force implementation. We gave a little background into a few key players in Willy’s game last week and in this final episode you'll see how it is played out. Lynn Elingson saw a body hanging in the barn and Willy told her if she didn’t keep her mouth shut she would end up right next to...

Send us a text Sit back and enjoy this wild ride. We apologize for the late upload but the native brothers had Covid last week. Trigger warning, this is a 1998 Pizza Hut episode. You know, remember when you had the book club and got a coupon for a free personal pan pizza at Pizza Hut after reading so many books? Well If you make it through this entire episode you are a true trooper 5 star, Pizza H...

Send us a text We have been out with Covid the past week and wanted to give all of you a little bonus.  Here is the extended version of the Piasa Bird. This is a little taste of what we have on our Patreon. Please enjoy the show! The accounts of the Piasa bird were first written down by a French explorer. We have  talked a lot about the Europeans but when I think of Europeans I think of the Britis...

Send us a text At least 65 women disappeared from Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside between 1978 and 2001. A man known as Willie Pickton owned and operated a pig farm in nearby Port Coquitlam during this time. He was eventually charged with the murder of 26 women however he claimed the number was closer to 50. This monster was convinced on 6 charges and sentenced to life in prison. While in prison Wil...

Send us a text The accounts of the piasa bird were first written down by a French explorer. We’ved talked a lot about the Europeians but when I think of Europeans I think of the British or the spanish. I don't really think of the French. Maybe it's because of our location in California. The explorer goes on to say We came across “two painted monsters” that were as large as a calf; they h...

Send us a text In today's episode we cover one of the most creepy creatures we have ever discussed. The Beaver people believe in these giant animals that are all man eaters. These people  go on vision quests and they gain one of these man eating spirit animals. What could happen next may seem like a bad dream, but is it?  The Wechuge is a man-eating creature or evil spirit appearing in the le...