Strange Tides

🎢👻 Theme Park Terrors comes to a chilling close at one of America's most infamous haunted amusement parks. This week on Strange Tides , we're making our final stop in the Theme Park Terrors saga at the legendary Lake Shawnee Amusement Park in West Virginia—a place where history, heartbreak, and the paranormal seem permanently intertwined. Long before roller coasters and carnival lights,...

Aloha, Tide Riders, and welcome to the third installment of our Theme Park Terrors saga. This week on  Strange Tides , we're crossing the pond to explore one of Britain's most iconic—and allegedly most haunted—theme parks: Alton Towers. Behind the record-breaking roller coasters and family attractions lies a landscape steeped in nearly 2,000 years of history, from Iron Age settlements and...

Welcome back, Tide Riders, to another eerie installment of our  Theme Park Terrors  saga. This time, we're traveling across the Pacific to explore the mysterious history and haunting legends surrounding  Nara Dreamland , Japan's long-abandoned amusement park that has become one of the most infamous urban exploration sites in the world. Originally opened in 1961 and heavily inspired by earl...

Aloha Tide Riders! Welcome to the first episode of our brand-new  Theme Park Terrors  saga, where we'll explore the eerie legends, ghost stories, and unexplained encounters said to lurk behind the happiest places on Earth. For this inaugural voyage, we're heading to the legendary Disneyland Resort, a place known for magic, imagination, and childhood wonder—but also a location surrounded by...

Aloha Tide Riders! The Historical Hybrids saga reaches its grand finale as Strange Tides takes flight into the strange and mysterious world of Bird-men. From the falcon-headed gods of Ancient Egypt and the winged Apkallu of Mesopotamia to the harpies and sirens of Greece, the tengu of Japan, the kinnari of Southeast Asia, and countless feathered beings from folklore around the globe, stories of hu...

Aloha Tide Riders! This took a bit to get out but here we are with the third installment of our Historical Hybrids saga! In this episode of Strange Tides, we venture deep into the wild places of mythology to explore two of the most iconic hybrid beings ever imagined: satyrs and the Minotaur. From the wine-soaked forests of ancient Greece to the dark corridors of the Labyrinth, we trace the history...

Aloha Tide Riders! This week, the Historical Hybrids saga continues on Strange Tides as we slither deeper into myth, mystery, and high strangeness with one of humanity’s oldest and weirdest recurring legends: serpent folk. From ancient stories of divine snake-beings and shape-shifting reptilian entities to half-human, half-serpent creatures found across cultures around the world, we’re diving head...

Aloha Tide Riders! Welcome to the Mash-up Month of May here on Strange Tides, where we're launching a brand-new Historical Hybrids saga. We're kicking things off by charging headfirst into the wild world of centaurs — the legendary half-man, half-horse beings that have thundered through mythology, folklore, art, and human imagination for thousands of years. From the savage chaos of the Cen...

Aloha and welcome to a brand-new experimental series from Strange Tides— Beyond the Waves . This is a trial run, a fresh format where we paddle out past our usual shoreline of hauntings and cryptids and dive deep into the media, stories, and theories that shape the world of high strangeness. In this debut episode, we crack open The Time Machine by H. G. Wells—a sci-fi classic that doesn’t just exp...

Aloha and welcome back, Tide Riders—this is it. The final chapter of our  Castle-Mania  saga, and we saved one of the strangest for last. In this episode, we head deep into the forests of the Czech Republic to explore Houska Castle—a 13th-century fortress with a reputation that goes way beyond your standard haunted castle. Built over a mysterious fissure said to be a “gateway to hell,” Houska has...

Aloha, Tide Riders, and welcome back to  Strange Tides , where history gets weird and the past refuses to stay buried. In this third installment of our Castle-Mania saga—which is also a Short Board Session—we’re heading deep into the haunted heart of France at Château de Brissac. Known as the tallest château in France, Brissac isn’t just stacked with royal history—it’s layered with betrayal, viole...

Aloha Tide Riders and welcome back to  Strange Tides  as we dive into the second installment of our “Castle-Mania” saga—this time heading deep into the shadowy halls of Chillingham Castle, often called Britain’s most haunted fortress. From its brutal origins along the Anglo-Scottish border to its infamous dungeon—where echoes of torture, chains, and screams still seem to linger—we unpack the chill...

Aloha Tide Riders. Welcome to a new month and a new saga - Castle-Mania. All month long, we'll be dive into the haunted histories of creepy castles all over the world. To kick things off, we step into the shadowy halls of Leap Castle — a place often called the most haunted castle in Ireland, and for good reason. In this episode, we dig into centuries of blood-soaked history, from brutal clan r...

Aloha, Tide Riders! March is coming to a close, and with it, our  March Miniatures  saga—but we’re ending on a high-strangeness note with one of Iberia’s most iconic and elusive entities: the duende. This week on  Strange Tides , we’re diving into the history behind these mischievous spirits, tracing their roots through centuries of Spanish and Portuguese folklore where they’ve haunted homes, fore...

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...