Arcane Station

Send us Fan Mail Entire towns and villages have been intentionally submerged beneath reservoirs, lakes, and waterways across North America and beyond. Homes, roads, churches, cemeteries, and entire communities now rest beneath the surface, hidden but not forgotten. In this episode of Arcane Station , we investigate the history of drowned towns including The Lost Villages of Ontario, Butler, Tennes...

Send us Fan Mail Antarctica is one of the most remote and controlled places on Earth, and one of the most misunderstood. In this episode of Arcane Station, we move from fiction to reality, and then into the theories that live in between. From the isolation and paranoia of The Thing , to real subglacial lakes like Lake Vostok, to persistent claims about ice walls, hidden lands, ancient maps, and un...

Send us Fan Mail What happens when you can no longer trust what you see? In this episode of Arcane Station, we explore the rise of AI-generated media and how it’s reshaping the way we understand evidence, not just in politics, but in the world of cryptids and the paranormal. We examine real historical cases where narrative and perception were shaped, sometimes intentionally,  including the story o...

Send us Fan Mail What if the voice calling your name isn’t who you think it is? Across TikTok, Reddit, and paranormal forums, thousands of people are reporting a strange experience: hearing the voice of a loved one when that person isn’t there. Some hear it in their homes. Others while alone in the woods. In a few cases, the voice has even been captured on audio recordings. These encounters are no...

Send us Fan Mail The Ice Age wasn’t ancient history. Mammoths, mastodons, giant ground sloths, short-faced bears, American lions, and camels once roamed North and South America, and humans walked alongside them. Most of these giants vanished around 11,000 years ago during the Pleistocene extinction event. But reports of mammoth-like silhouettes in Alaska, giant bears in remote regions, and sloth-s...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Arcane Station, we examine the Mothman case from its origin in Point Pleasant, West Virginia through its modern interpretations. We begin with the 1966–1967 sightings near the TNT area and the collapse of the Silver Bridge, separating documented facts from folklore. From there, we trace the historical archetype of winged humanoids and avian harbinger figures acr...

Send us Fan Mail What happens when a human grows up without society? Feral children are real. Cannibalism has occurred in history. And across centuries, cultures have told stories of wild men, cave-dwelling clans, and pale figures watching from the treeline. In this episode of Arcane Station, we investigate documented cases of extreme isolation, the legend of Sawney Bean, rumors from Appalachia an...

Send us Fan Mail In Part Two of The Science of the Paranormal , we move beyond the limits of human perception and into harder territory: technology, biology, and the structure of reality itself. If Part One explored how infrasound, frequency, and sensory limits shape paranormal experiences, this episode asks a deeper question: what happens when encounters don’t behave like biology alone can explai...

Send us Fan Mail In this two-part episode of Arcane Station, we begin with a simple but unsettling question: how much of reality are humans actually capable of perceiving? In Part One, we explore the science behind paranormal experiences by examining the limits of human senses. From the narrow slice of the visible light spectrum we can see, to the frequencies of sound we can feel but never hear, s...

Send us Fan Mail In Part 2 of this Arcane Station series , we move beyond history and into culture. After centuries of being feared as revenants and monsters, vampires underwent a dramatic transformation. In literature, film, and television, they became romantic figures, tragic immortals, rebels, anti-heroes, and eventually something more personal: an identity people chose to live by. This episode...

Send us Fan Mail For centuries, people across the world feared that the dead did not always stay dead. In Part 1 of this Arcane Station series, we examined the historical origins of vampires as revenants, the physically dead believed to rise from the grave to drain blood, spread disease, and terrorize the living. From ancient folklore and early medieval burial practices to Ireland’s revenant tradi...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, we examine the Cecil Hotel in Los Angeles as a documented case of long-term tragedy, recurring deaths, and persistent claims of paranormal activity. Rather than focusing on rumor or dramatization, this episode presents a structured timeline of verified incidents , including suicides, murders, and suspicious deaths spanning nearly a century. We cover the hotel’s hi...

Send us Fan Mail In Part 1 , we cataloged the cryptids of Texas, the creatures that leave tracks, bodies, and biological questions behind. But not everything strange in Texas fits that framework. In Texas Strangeness – Part 2 , we move into the unclassified territory : the one-off creatures, localized anomalies, UFO flaps, hauntings, and unexplained events that resist neat labels and refuse to bec...

Send us Fan Mail Texas has a long history of strange creature reports, some familiar, others barely remembered, and many that don’t fit neatly into any category at all. In Texas Strangeness – Part 1 , we’re laying the groundwork by cataloging the cryptids and unexplained creature sightings reported across the Lone Star State . This episode is a broad survey, covering the usual suspects alongside l...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Arcane Station , we investigate the life and legacy of Count Saint Germain , a documented eighteenth-century figure who appeared suddenly within Europe’s most exclusive courts, moved freely among kings and diplomats, and left behind almost no trace of origin. Saint Germain spoke multiple languages fluently, demonstrated mastery of music and science, and navigate...

Send us Fan Mail Christmas is often presented as a season of comfort, generosity, and familiarity. But beneath the modern imagery of nativity scenes, Santa Claus, and holiday traditions lies a much older structure shaped by fear, survival, and interaction with the unseen. In this episode of Arcane Station , host Mike Porter examines the paranormal and occult foundations of Christmas, tracing the s...

Send us Fan Mail Abandoned tunnels have a way of unsettling people long after their original purpose has ended. Across different regions and eras, tunnels built for railroads, roads, and infrastructure have developed reputations for being haunted. Visitors report hearing voices, footsteps, and unexplained sounds. Some describe seeing apparitions, lights, or movement where no one should be present....

Send us Fan Mail Something is wrong in the woods of Appalachia. Hikers, hunters, and lifelong locals all describe the same eerie moment: a deer steps onto the trail… then moves in a way no deer should. Its legs bend at impossible angles. Its body is too tall, too thin, or shaped just slightly…off. And its eyes don’t reflect the soft amber glow you expect from normal wildlife. Instead, they stare b...

Send us Fan Mail Poveglia Island sits quietly in the Venetian Lagoon, but its history is anything but silent. Once a quarantine station during the deadliest plague outbreaks in Europe, and later the site of a psychiatric hospital with harsh experimental treatments, the island carries a documented past of suffering and isolation. Today, access is restricted, yet modern reports continue to surface,...

Send us Fan Mail What if the United States didn’t emerge through politics alone? What if the Revolutionary era was shaped by divine intervention, unexplained phenomena, and symbolic decisions that reached far beyond ordinary history? In this episode of Arcane Station , host Mike Porter investigates the supernatural side of America’s birth. We examine documented accounts from the Revolutionary War,...

Send us Fan Mail During the 18th and 19th centuries, the Western world became obsessed with a single idea: that the living could communicate directly with the dead. In this episode, we explore the rise of Spiritualism, the séance boom, and the scientific figures who tried to test the limits of consciousness. From the Fox Sisters in upstate New York to the controlled experiments of Sir William Croo...

Send us Fan Mail Arcane Station explores one of America’s oldest and most enduring legends: the Jersey Devil. In this episode, host Mike Porter revisits the classic story of Mother Leeds, the cursed thirteenth child, and the birth of a creature said to haunt the Pine Barrens for nearly three centuries. But instead of trying to prove or debunk the legend, this episode approaches the Jersey Devil as...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Arcane Station , we venture into one of America’s most mysterious regions, the Bridgewater Triangle of southeastern Massachusetts. For decades, witnesses have reported UFOs, ghost lights, cryptid creatures, and chilling encounters within its borders. From the swamps of Hockomock to the shadowed trails of Freetown State Forest, strange things happen here that see...

Send us Fan Mail Have you ever heard a story about someone who seemed to fall out of time, vanishing for moments, hours, or even years, only to return with memories of another era? In this episode of Arcane Station , host Mike Porter explores the mysterious phenomenon of timeslips and out-of-place people , those who appear where (or when) they shouldn’t. We’ll journey through chilling first-hand a...

Send us Fan Mail Step into the dark with host Mike Porter as Arcane Station explores the evolution of fear in video games, from the pixelated ghosts of Haunted House and Alone in the Dark to the cinematic realism of The Last of Us , Resident Evil , and Amnesia: The Dark Descent . This episode dives deep into how horror has changed with technology, storytelling, and our own psychology, from the ris...