The ShadowBear Story Sessions

Today's episode features a tale about a thief who tries to catfish an entire kingdom and a kingdom with the worst security in history. Dive on into this week's story session! Welcome to the dark, strange, hilarious world of The ShadowBear Story Sessions. Each week host Zach Stewart digs into the dark, twisted, brutal original versions of the folk tales, fairy tales, myths, and legends that laid th...

Today's episode features a trio of tales about the fickle and mysterious lives of elves. One moment they're naked and breaking into your house to save your shoe business, the next they're kidnapping your baby and forcing you to do comedy for a literal monster. Dive on into this week's story session! Welcome to the dark, strange, hilarious world of The ShadowBear Story Sessions. Each week host Zach...

Today's episode features a paranoid fox and his bigoted wife in a pair of nonsensical folk tales with very questionable messages. Dive on into this week's story session! Welcome to the dark, strange, hilarious world of The ShadowBear Story Sessions. Each week host Zach Stewart digs into the dark, twisted, brutal original versions of the folk tales, fairy tales, myths, and legends that laid the fou...

Today's tale features a greedy psychopath who uses clothes and accessories to instigate wars and destroy the world. Dive on into this week's story session! Welcome to the dark, strange, hilarious world of The ShadowBear Story Sessions. Each week host Zach Stewart digs into the dark, twisted, brutal original versions of the folk tales, fairy tales, myths, and legends that laid the foundation for al...

Today's tale features a lying goat, a passive aggressive bee, a donkey that explodes gold from its orifices, and yet another terrible folk tale father. Dive on into this week's story session! Welcome to the dark, strange, hilarious world of The ShadowBear Story Sessions. Each week host Zach Stewart digs into the dark, twisted, brutal original versions of the folk tales, fairy tales, myths, and leg...

Today's tale features a family of sparrows that take many different paths to arrive at same conclusion: the life of a bird is a terrifying hellscape. Dive on into this week's story session! Welcome to the dark, strange, hilarious world of The ShadowBear Story Sessions. Each week host Zach Stewart digs into the dark, twisted, brutal original versions of the folk tales, fairy tales, myths, and legen...

Today's tale features an old-timey relationship brimming with confusion, terrible communication, and psychological torture. Dive on into this week's story session! Welcome to the dark, strange, hilarious world of The ShadowBear Story Sessions. Each week host Zach Stewart digs into the dark, twisted, brutal original versions of the folk tales, fairy tales, myths, and legends that laid the foundatio...

Today's tale features a cat who is a social-climbing conman and an eccentric, completely clueless king who is obsessed with partridges. Dive on into this week's story session! Welcome to the dark, strange, hilarious world of The ShadowBear Story Sessions. Each week host Zach Stewart digs into the dark, twisted, brutal original versions of the folk tales, fairy tales, myths, and legends that laid t...

Today's tale features a terrifyingly stupid man and a woman who gives him WAY too many chances. A tale as old as time but with some psychotic morbid details. Dive on into this week's story session! Welcome to the dark, strange, hilarious world of The ShadowBear Story Sessions. Each week host Zach Stewart digs into the dark, twisted, brutal original versions of the folk tales, fairy tales, myths, a...

Today's tale features a showdown with the devil (who has some surprising loopholes to prevent him from taking your soul), a very strong contender for the competitive title of "worst folk tale father", and a... well, a maiden who doesn't have any hands. Dive on into this week's story session! Welcome to the dark, strange, hilarious world of The ShadowBear Story Sessions. Each week host Zach Stewart...

Today's tale features a pair of beer-brewing insects who kick off a series of events that ends in panicky, smelly tragedy. Genuinely one of my favorite tales so far. Dive on into this week's story session! Welcome to the dark, strange, hilarious world of The ShadowBear Story Sessions. Each week host Zach Stewart digs into the dark, twisted, brutal original versions of the folk tales, fairy tales,...

Today's tale features an arrogant coward on a dangerous mission... who then gets someone else to do the hard part. Seriously, this guy is the worst. Dive on into this week's story session! Welcome to the dark, strange, hilarious world of The ShadowBear Story Sessions. Each week host Zach Stewart digs into the dark, twisted, brutal original versions of the folk tales, fairy tales, myths, and legend...

Today's tale features a compounding series of horrible decisions and another king giving his daughter away as reward for an obscure, arbitrary task. Dive on into this week's story session! Welcome to the dark, strange, hilarious world of The ShadowBear Story Sessions. Each week host Zach Stewart digs into the dark, twisted, brutal original versions of the folk tales, fairy tales, myths, and legend...

Today's tale features a depressed goose shepherd who meets the grim reaper and... somehow that makes things better maybe? This tale also seems to imply that if you know how to swim, you and your pets will live forever! Dive on into this week's story session! Welcome to the dark, strange, hilarious world of The ShadowBear Story Sessions. Each week host Zach Stewart digs into the dark, twisted, brut...

Did you know Little Red Riding Hood originally had a Part 2? This week's story session features that classic tale of an alarmingly oblivious child and a wolf who REALLY overthinks his plan. Dive on into this week's story session! Welcome to the dark, strange, hilarious world of The ShadowBear Story Sessions. Each week host Zach Stewart digs into the dark, twisted, brutal original versions of the f...

This week's story session features one of the trippiest folk tales I've ever heard and I loved every minute of it. What begins as a young girl's journey to find her lost brothers quickly turns into a horrifying interstellar hellscape. Dive on into this weeks' story session! Welcome to the dark, strange, hilarious world of The ShadowBear Story Sessions. Each week host Zach Stewart digs into the dar...

This week's story session features talking bread, lessons in karma, and yet another awful mother who treats her hardworking daughter like garbage and her lazy daughter like a princess (my theory is that the lazy daughters are way more fun to hang out with). And in this week's adaptation, I take that story and turn it into a modern-day classic guaranteed to make many billions of dollars. Guaranteed...

This week's story session features a tale about an unlikely trio of roommates who have a great thing going... and then ruin it all in spectacularly gruesome fashion. And in this week's adaptation, I take that story and turn it into a slapstick bank robbery flick. Dive on into this weeks' story session! Welcome to the dark, strange, hilarious world of The ShadowBear Story Sessions. Each week host Z...

CONTENT WARNING: This week's story from Grimm's Fairy Tales features violence that involves children. It's... it's real bad, guys. This week's story session features easily the most disturbing story of Grimm's Fairy Tales up to this point, How Some Children Played as Slaughtering. I honestly can't even bring myself to come up with a funny description. This one's just... super messed up. It was not...

This week's story session features an all-time classic, Cinderella. As expected, the original version is far messier, bloodier, and more nonsensical than the versions of today. And who knew that everything good that happens in this story is entirely thanks to a pair pigeons? To top it off, the adaptation at the end of the episode turned out to be one of my favorites. All that and more in this week...

This week's story session features a tale that begs the question: if someone cons their way into a job but is then AMAZING at that job, are they still a conman? Also: Bickering giants! A pesky unicorn! A wild boar in a church! All that and more in this week's story session. Welcome to the dark, strange, hilarious world of The ShadowBear Story Sessions. Each week host Zach Stewart digs into the dar...

This week's story session features more talking fish, an insatiable desire for power, and LOTS of lining people up in order of height. All that and more in this week's story session! Welcome to the dark, strange, hilarious world of The ShadowBear Story Sessions. Each week host Zach Stewart digs into the dark, twisted, brutal original versions of the folk tales, fairy tales, myths, and legends that...

This week's story session is a 2-for-1! The first is another story that sets unrealistic expectations for what to expect from animals if you do them a single favor, while the second answers the question nobody is asking: "why do beans look like that?" All that and more in this week's story session! Welcome to the dark, strange, hilarious world of The ShadowBear Story Sessions. Each week host Zach...

This week's story session features Herr Fix-It-Up, a tale about a fellow with psychotic levels of confidence who only cares about one thing: get the job done. You can (and should) question his methods and motivations, but you can't question that the guy gets results... horrifying, bloody results. All that and more in this week's story session! Welcome to the dark, strange, hilarious world of The S...

This week's story session features the classic Hansel and Gretel, that old tale about abandoning children to die in the woods, only for them to be kidnapped by an old witch who can only do food magic and doesn't really seem to be a legitimate threat in any way. I honestly don't know why this was such a difficult situation for the kids to get out of. We'll get into all that and more on this week's...