Stone Houses

We’re back and we’re going to hell! This week Kaitlin and LB begin their expedition into the depths of the afterlife! This episode’s hot topics: souls, moral codes, logistics and fallacies, making it illegal to be horny, ghost jaegers, existentialism, death gods, monks-for-hire, and much more! Find us on Twitter for more info about our show and upcoming episodes: twitter.com/stonehousescast

This week we’re learning about Kitsune! Join Kaitlin and LB as they chat about the incredibly diverse lore behind these funky little foxes. This episode’s hot topics: terrible jokes, manga, trickery, omniscience, Inari, fried tofu and other favorite foods, divine tails, Yōkai , foxy foxes, illusions, fake money, possessions, sun showers, and much more! Find us on Twitter for more info about our sh...

 This week Kaitlin and LB are talking about the Manananggal! A malevolent creature from the Philippines with bat wings and an a taste for human liver. Let’s hear it for our guts-out gals! This episode’s hot topics: poor pronunciations, muppets, women loving women, man eaters, guts-out gals, lobster pets, large crustaceans, manananggal transformations, and much more! Find us on Twitter for mor...

 LB and Kaitlin prepare for Valentine’s Day by learning about Eros, the Greek god of love! This episode’s hot topics: the Greeks and the Romans, primordial lore, stealing religions, gaggles of gods, cherubs, more Metamorphoses, Hallmark-ification, Psyche, red flags, fairytale temptation, divine paperwork, and much more! Find us on Twitter for more info about our show and upcoming episodes: twitter...

 LB and Kaitlin are snowed in! Join them in the first ever Creature Crunch as they rank all the creatures they’ve talked about so far by criteria suggested by listeners… NOTE: the audio in this episode is less than optimal but we’ve found that it sounds a little better if you aren’t using headphones. Thanks for your patience and we will be back to better quality next week. This episode’s hot topic...

This week LB and Kaitlin make a new friend, the ocean-dwelling Ningen! This episode’s hot topics: oceans, blobfish, the corporeal consistency of cryptids, volcanic vents, cryptozoology, men in black, government cover-ups, decaying underwater, dinosaurs, the evolution of whales, aliens, and much more! Find us on Twitter for more info about our show and upcoming episodes:  twitter.com/stonehous...

 Kaitlin and LB talk about sound and atmospheric phenomena in this week’s episode all about the Big Grey Man of Ben MacDhui! This episode’s hot topics: mountains, Queen Victoria, sorry Gaelic, witness accounts, tall shadow men, moondogs, poetry, the human brain, infrasound, fight or flight, Brocken Spectre, equilibrium and the lack of it, ghost careers, mountain sensations, aliens, and much more!...

This week LB and Kaitlin are talking about animated armor and are extremely good at staying focused. Hi welcome to our Bedknobs and Broomsticks fancast! This episode's hot topics: automatons, suits of armor, ancient robots, our good friend Leonardo, art historians, chess playing machines, golems, relevant parts of armor, Orson Welles, Ironman, fake latin, Substitutiary Locomotion, and much more! F...

Starting the new year right with some... architecture? In today's episode Kaitlin and LB learn all about gothic tendencies, fancy drainage systems, and GARGOYLES!  This episode's hot topics: gargling gutters, hunky punks, salvation in flying buttresses, art history flashbacks, the mouth feel of the word apotropaic, why agriculture was a mistake, starting a cult, Gargoyles: the 1994 animated series...

This week we conclude our two-part series on werewolves! WARNING: Some of the topics we discuss in this episode are a little gruesome and a few parts may be unsettling to some listeners. This episode's hot topics:  Teen wolves, blue eyes, the crimes of Peter Stumpp, wolf hunts, more cannibalism, European wolves, medical werewolvery discourse, becoming the wolf, slapping hounds of god, Kidz Bo...

This week LB and Kaitlin talk lycanthropy as we dive into part one of our first ever multi-episode topic! Werewolves! Stick around at the end to hear some exciting news about Stone Houses in the new year... WARNING: Some of the topics we discuss in this episode are a little gruesome and a few parts may be unsettling to some listeners. This episode's hot topics: Werewolf ASMR, French wolves, other...

This week's episode is all about Koschei the Deathless! Join us as we make jokes about an undying man who is probably supposed to be scarier than we make him out to be. (Ducks, rabbits, and needles! Oh my!) This episode's hot topics: witty horses, immortality, avian boy-wizards, crying princes and helpful bees, warrior wives, Baba Yaga, horseback riding (in the nude), Matryoshka-style horcruxes, l...

This week we talk about the Jiangshi, also known as "hopping vampires"! Let's have a corpse party! This episode's hot topics: Rigor mortis, Qi, decomposition, long tongues, more phosphorescent glowing, comic recommendations, peach tree wood swords, "saint bits", the rise of kung fu horror comedy, video games, and much more! Find us on Twitter for more info about our show and upcoming episodes: twi...

This week LB and Kaitlin learn about a whole assortment of legends about beings who have been relieved of their heads! Things get real goofy... This episode's hot topics: Sleepy Hollow, real swords in Arthurian poetry, headless vigilantes, really goth carriages, fanfiction, bad (good?) band names, hoarse horses, carrying your head around, fiery headless mules, and much more! Find us on Twitter for...

Episode two! 2 Stone 2 Houses! This week we talk about the Goatman and several of its iterations as we dig down through the many layers of goat symbolism. It's a doozy. This episode's hot topics: cryptids, why are goats associated with the devil, statues of Baphomet, the Knights Templar, esotericism, the Stonemasons, trains and why you should avoid them, more childhood anecdotes but this time abou...

The very first episode of Stone Houses! This week LB and Kaitlin dive into tales of fairies. This episode's hot topics: Richard Dadd, the Cottingley Fairies, the Victorians, fairy art, Theosophy, fairy protection, William Blake, unsettling youtube videos, and much more! Find us on Twitter for more info about our show and upcoming episodes: twitter.com/stonehousescast

Stone Houses: An amateur guide to fiction, fable, and folklore! Have you ever wanted to learn about folklore, myths, legends, cryptids, obscure artists, sightings, and hoaxes? Specifically from a duo of comic artists and amateur folklore enthusiasts? Well, we've got you covered! Join Kaitlin Bruder and LB Meeker as they weave together an audio guide through fiction, fable, and folklore every other...