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Across continents and across centuries, cultures around the world have told stories of small humanlike beings who live in forests, mountains, caves, mounds, and hidden places beneath the earth. From the Cherokee Yunwi Tsunsdi and the Pukwudgie traditions of New England to the Muqui of the Andes, the hidden folk of Europe, the Koropokkuru of Japan, and the mysterious Ebu Gogo of Flores Island, this episode of Arcane Station takes a worldwide documentary look at one of humanity’s oldest recurring mysteries.

Are these beings purely creatures of folklore and sacred geography, cautionary stories tied to dangerous places, or could some traditions preserve distant cultural memory of real peoples and even extinct human relatives like Homo floresiensis?

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