Strange Tides

Aloha, Tide Riders! Grab your flashlights and keep your eyes peeled, because we're clocking in for another shift among the dearly departed! In the third installment of the Graveyard Shift saga, Strange Tides heads south to Buenos Aires, Argentina, to explore La Recoleta Cemetery —an amazing above-ground necropolis packed with mega mausoleums, marble angels, tragic love stories, and enough ghos...

Aloha, Tide Riders! For the second installment of the Graveyard Shift saga, Strange Tides heads to the Czech Republic and one of the strangest final resting places on Earth: the Sedlec Ossuary. Beneath the quiet town of Kutná Hora sits a chapel decorated with the bones of an estimated 40,000 people. But Sedlec isn't just famous for its macabre interior. For centuries, stories have circulated a...

Aloha, Tide Riders! It’s time to clock in for the Graveyard Shift . For the first installment of this brand-new Strange Tides saga, we’re heading to the southwest suburbs of Chicago and Resurrection Cemetery , a sprawling historic burial ground with a reputation that goes way beyond its headstones and mausoleums. This is the home turf of one of America’s most famous ghost stories: Resurrection Mar...

Well, Tide Riders… we’ve reached the final bell. After traveling from California to England to India, our Schoolhouse Scares saga wraps up by heading even farther east — to Japan, where schools have their own supernatural ecosystem of ghosts, urban legends, rituals, and yōkai. From the infamous Hanako-san haunting the school bathroom to Kuchisake-onna, Teke Teke, Kokkuri-san, the Seven Wonders of...

Aloha, Tide Riders! This time on Strange Tides , we’re heading to Lucknow, India, and the legendary La Martinière College—where the halls of the historic Constantia campus have accumulated centuries of history... and more than a few Mart Yarns . From the ghost of founder Claude Martin and spectral teachers to the Phantom Cavalry, Vanishing Horsemen, groaning trees, dancing statues, shadowy figures...

Well, Tide Riders, we’re crossing the pond for the second installment of our Schoolhouse Scares saga and heading to Egham, Surrey, where Royal Holloway, University of London looks less like a university and more like a Victorian architect’s fever dream. Behind those huge red-brick walls and the straight-up French château vibes of the Founder’s Building, you’ve got a crazy history of big money, ser...

September is here, which means Strange Tides is heading back to school, Tide Riders—and trust me, this is one campus you definitely don't want to visit after dark. For the first installment of the Schoolhouse Scares saga , we're rolling into Ione, California, to explore the strange, tragic, and seriously spooky history of Preston Castle . Built in the 1890s as part of the Preston School of...

Aloha Tide Riders. It's been a minute but we're back! What if the birth of the United States was a little weirder than the history books let on? Before America was all constitutions, liberty, and We the People , colonial society was swimming in astrology, alchemy, folk magic, grimoires, supernatural folklore, and unexplained phenomena. And right in the middle of it all stood Benjamin Frank...

Aloha, Tide Riders, we are back with a question: What if the birth of the United States wasn't just a revolution against King George III, but part of a much stranger story hiding beneath the history books? In this episode of Strange Tides , we're paddling back to colonial America to explore the real history—and enduring conspiracies—surrounding the Founding Fathers and secret societies . W...

Aloha Tide Riders, we're back riding the waves of history. The American Revolution wasn't just a bunch of soldiers lining up on battlefields. While muskets were firing and cannons were booming, a whole other war was quietly going down behind the scenes—one fought with coded letters, invisible ink, secret signals, and some seriously clever people who knew how to stay off the radar. In the second in...

Aloha Tide Riders, and welcome to the first installment of our Colonial Curiosities Saga . In this Short Board Session of Strange Tides , we're heading to New York City in the tense summer of 1776, where General George Washington and the Continental Army prepared to face the largest British invasion force ever assembled. But the greatest threat to the Revolution might not've been sailing i...

🎢👻 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...