Strange Tides

Aloha, Tide Riders. Happy holidays and Happy New Year! The Winter Weirdness run wraps up with one last moonlit paddle into the deep end—this time, straight into the black forests of Germany and the legend of the  Morbach Monster . In this final  Strange Tides  episode of 2025, we trace a werewolf-shaped ripple that starts in the late 1700s with cursed soldiers and candlelit shrines, then rolls all...

Strange Tide: Short Board Sessions - Skinwalker Ranch Christmas Entity Aloha Tide Riders and Happy Holidays - Festivus included. Today, we're hitting up one of the freakiest places on the planet and talking about something that shows up just in time for the winter solstice. This Short Board Session dives into one of the strangest recurring cases to come out of Utah’s Uintah Basin: the  Skinwal...

Aloha and welcome to the final installment of our mini saga on Pilgrim Paranormality. In this episode, we drift back to the late 1500s and drop anchor at one of history’s most haunting loose ends: the Lost Colony of Roanoke. Over 100 settlers vanish from North Carolina’s Outer Banks, no bodies, no struggle, no answers—just the word  CROATOAN  carved into a post like a cryptic mic drop from the pas...

Strange Tides: Short Board Session –  The Kecksburg UFO Aloha Tide Riders and welcome to the first episode in our new episode style - the Shortboard Sessions. In this quick-hit episode, we skim across the basics of the 1965 Kecksburg case—an eerie fireball streaking over the Midwest, a mysterious acorn-shaped object in the woods, and a military response that locals still call a cover-up. We lay ou...

Aloha Tide Riders and welcome to a new saga on Pilgrim Paranormality. In this collective, which is only two episodes instead of the usual four, we're gonna cover some crazy cryptos and conspiracies that plagued the dudes and dudettes who brought us the first Thanksgiving. In today's episode of Strange Tides , we venture into the rugged world of the Stone Giants—towering, rock-armored being...

Aloha and welcome to the final stop on our journey down the Witches' Road. In this episode, we’re unraveling one of the strangest and most enchanting legends to come out of World War II:  Operation Cone of Power . The story goes that in the summer of 1940—while Britain stood on the brink of invasion—a secret coven of witches gathered in the New Forest to raise a massive surge of magical energy...

Aloha Tide Riders and welcome to our third stop as we journey down the Witches Road. In this episode, we sail into the stormy waters of 17th-century Spain to meet María Soliña — widow, healer, and alleged witch of the Galician coast. After surviving a brutal pirate raid and rising to local prominence, Soliña found herself accused of conjuring tempests, cursing boats, and cutting deals with the Dev...

Aloha Tide Riders and welcome to our second stop as we journey down The Witches Road. In this episode of Strange Tides , we’re heading to the misty highlands of 17th-century Scotland to unravel one of the most haunting witchcraft confessions ever recorded — the story of Isobel Gowdie. Her words painted a world of midnight dances, shape-shifting spells, and faerie queens who ruled beneath the hills...

Aloha Tide Riders and welcome to a brand new saga that will guide us straight down The Witches Road. Saddle up because this week,  Strange Tides takes you back to early 1800s Tennessee, where one farmhouse became the stage for one of America’s most chilling legends. The Bell Witch haunting wasn’t just a few bumps in the night — it was full-on chaos: ghostly voices, flying furniture, eerie propheci...

On this chilling episode of  Strange Tides’ , we’re taking flight into the eerie world of  Owl Witches  —the feathered phantoms that have haunted Native legends for centuries. From the  La Lechuza  of South Texas to the  Stikini  of Florida and the  Cipelaq  of the Wabanaki up north, these shape-shifting witches are said to scream like babies, stalk wrongdoers, and vanish in smoke when confronted....

Aloha Tide Riders and welcome to the third installment of our Native American Nightmares saga. This week on  Strange Tides , we’re shrinking things down—way down—to explore the mysterious world of tiny tricksters in Native American folklore. These little beings might look small, but their legends loom large, stretching from the misty forests of New England to the rugged peaks of the Rockies. We’ll...

Aloha Tide Riders, and sorry for the delay. For our second installment in the  Native American Nightmares  saga, we’re lifting off from the earth and heading into storm-tossed skies—territory claimed by colossal winged beings who’ve loomed over Indigenous legends for centuries. This time, we’re talking about the Thunderbird, the Piasa Bird, and the Tlanuwa—three very different sky titans who ruled...

Aloha, Tide Riders, and welcome to the first episode of our brand new saga on Native American Nightmares. From the deserts of the Southwest to the icy rivers of Alaska to the powwow grounds of the Midwest, shapeshifter legends ripple through Native American folklore—stories that are as old as the land itself. In this episode, we’re pulling back the curtain on three of the most infamous figures: th...

Aloha Tide Riders and welcome to the last leg of our Anomalous Airports saga. I've saved the strangest for last. Chicago O’Hare might look like just another airport on the surface—crowded gates, endless terminals, and flight delays that test your patience—but if you hang around long enough, you start to notice something weird humming under the surface. O’Hare isn’t just a hub for planes, it’s...

Welcome aboard, Tide Riders, to our third installment of our Anomalous Airports saga. This week on  Strange Tides , we’re taking off from familiar runways and heading straight into the weird skies above London Heathrow. Sure, it’s Europe’s busiest airport, a place where millions of travelers shuffle through terminals every year—but behind the duty-free shops and endless security lines, Heathrow ha...

Aloha Tide Riders and welcome to the second installment of our Anomalous Airports saga. Grab your boarding pass and your EMF reader, because Strange Tides is wheels-up over two of Japan’s busiest — and strangest — airports:  Narita International  and  Haneda International . These aren’t just hubs for travelers and cargo; they’re ground zero for decades of bizarre reports, spectral sightings, UFO e...

Welcome to the weirdest airport on Earth. Aloha, Tide Riders, and thanks for tuning in to our first installment of our brand new Anomalous Airports saga. In this deep-dive episode of  Strange Tides , we’re cracking open the hangar doors on the swirling storm of conspiracies, high strangeness, and bold public art that make Denver International Airport (DIA) one of the most mythologized places in mo...

Aloha Tide Riders and welcome to the final installment of our New School Classic Cryptids Saga. In this fog-laced episode of  Strange Tides , we dive headfirst into one of the most legendary—and most elusive—cryptids of all time: the Loch Ness Monster. From ancient legends and obscure medieval texts to grainy photographs and viral videos, Nessie has haunted the deep waters of our imaginations for...

Aloha Tide Riders and welcome to this third installment of  our New School Classic Cryptids , here on Strange Tides. In today's episode, we sink our teeth into the legend of the  Chupacabra —a creature that slashed its way onto the scene in the 1990s and never looked back. First reported in Puerto Rico during a wave of livestock killings, this bloodthirsty mystery quickly became a full-blown p...

Aloha Tide Riders and welcome to the second installment of our  New School Classic Cryptids  saga. In this episode of Strange Tides, we spread our wings and glide straight into the legend of the Mothman—a creature that’s equal parts mystery, menace, and misunderstood icon. First spotted in the wooded backroads and crumbling munitions bunkers of Point Pleasant, West Virginia, in the fall of 1966, t...

Aloha Tide Riders and welcome to the first installment of a brand-new saga on New School Classic Cryptids. In this jam-packed episode of Strange Tides , we head deep into the tangled forests, icy mountain passes, and fog-shrouded folklore of the world’s most enduring mystery primates—Bigfoot and his global cousins. From the towering redwoods of the Pacific Northwest to the snowy slopes of the Hima...

Aloha Tide Riders, we've reached the end of yet another awesome set here on Strange Tides. In the climactic finale of our Old School Classic Cryptid Saga , we’re turning up the heat and diving headfirst into one of the most iconic and enduring mythical creatures of all time—dragons. These legendary beasts have appeared in cultures all around the world, each with their own twist on what it mean...

Aloha Tide Riders and lo siento for this message. My computer crashed this week and I lost a ton of data, including pretty much everything I needed to get the new episode out on time. But that being said, no worries 'cause my computer's in the shop and I'm working on a back-up to hopefully give you dudes and dudettes out there a double dose of the Tides next week, so stay tuned. I'...

Aloha Tide Riders and welcome to the third installment of our Old School Classic Cryptids saga! Get ready to howl at the moon, dudes and dudettes, because this episode of Strange Tides takes you deep into one of the gnarliest mysteries lurking in the shadows — Werewolves and Dogmen. We’re tracing the hairy trail from ancient mythology to modern backwoods sightings. From the chilling Greek tale of...

Aloha Tide Riders and welcome to the second installment of our Old School Classic Cryptids Saga. This week on Strange Tides, we’re diving deep into the ancient waters of myth, mystery, and maybe even multiverse truth, as we explore two of the most legendary creatures to ever gallop through human imagination: unicorns and winged horses. These aren't just bedtime stories or fantasy filler—these...