Welcome to the culture of Pluviculture! Or as folks in America during the late 1800s called Rainmaking! A fringe science where savvy folk would travel to small towns throughout the Midwest & across the sw to draught ridden towns to promise them rain! In Nebraska a whole “rain god association” had formed teaching folk how to make rain grow in the sky! There were countless methods to do this from explosions to noxious fumes & chemicals. & today I bring you one of the most famous rainmakers who saved… or cursed the city of San Diego. Cuz in 1914 San Diego was plagued for years by draughts & LA taking their water. So the locals demanded the city council hire their local famous rainmaker, Charles Hatfield. & while the city accepted his offer to fill their dam, the city attorney, Cosgrove, made sure the city would never pay out even if rain came. & rain definitely came, but then it never stopped! & after a major storm smashed into San Diego, the rainmaker expected to be paid. Rumors say he told the city council they gotta pay now or the will witness REAL RAIN! & this was only days before the famous Hatfield Flood. So I’ll talk about this sensational story & Charles Hatfields whole life to figure out if he was just an excellent grifter, or a mad scientist bent on helping his nation! I’ll also talk other big names in Pluviculture & modern rainmakers! From Californias dowsing rod wielding Water Witches to a Florida company that claims it can make rain on demand! Plus some insight on real life weather modification & CLOUDSEEDING to see if the rainmakers where actually onto something! Lastly I’ll take you to these exact locations & many more around San Diego including abandoned gold mines, worlds largest objects & a church teaching 4th dimensional travel! I’ve got it here for you on the Season 1 Finale of Fringe History! The Podcast will be on hiatus for the rest of the summer after bringing you dozens of folklore legends over 1 year now. I’ll be returning in the fall with many more legends, but in the mean time I’ll be streaming folklore & metazoo cards on twitch! @FringeHistorygames. Checkout my other my project, a mature post-apocalyptic audiodrama called Grease Valley Radio for more cryptid adventures! & if ya need to reach me I’ll always be on the Instagram @fringehistorypod ! Thank you for all the great times & I hope to be back to ya soon with many more Cryptids & Americana legends! Fringe History is Created, Produced & hosted by Basti B.

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South West Explorer be warned to not try any of the fermented cactus juices you may find leaking out there. Cuz you may have just come along the path of a Cryptid with razor sharp bone claws & a real territorial attitude. So let’s jump into fearsome creatures of the lumberwoods again from da guy William T Cox as we learn about this desert legend who’s been spotted all over Arizona back in the 1910.

But these big cats made of plant are on a path to get wasted! The drunk cats love to dance and sing shrieking songs while rasping its bone claws together to make a sorta music! So listen out for its songs & let’s see what the legend of the cactus cat brings, with modern appearances in the secret saturdays Cartoon Network show & pokemon!

Let’s start the summer with a South West legend, what does this folklore represent & what animals really do claw out catci & drink their juices? Plus I do some spec bio on the creature & speculate on variants that could populate our world & could see on desert hikes! Join the Cactus cat on this weeks Fringe History! Fringe History is Created, Produced & hosted by Basti B.

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Welcome to the forgotten river county of NJ, where the trees overhang creates dark tunnels along the Musconetcong river. In these haunting waters multiple fisherman have reported a creature with incredible powers. A 7ft scaled mantis creature with the ability to cloak itself, massive wings & a hypnotic buzz that can daze those it encounters. But no attacks have been reported, the opposite actually as some have said the can sorta “talk” via a kinda telepathy!

So are these creatures friends or for? Maybe just observers, from space perhaps? Others say they could be mutant bug / man hybrids made in the NJ hills or even say a large Cryptid bug we haven’t discovered! Well I’ve got the lowdown on the eyewitness accounts & what the lead researcher on this phenomena has got to say! Fringe History is Created, Produced & hosted by Basti B.

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Whatchu know about a Wamp? What a strange creature coming to us from a great Cryptid series Yarns of the Bigwoods! A gray sack with arms & legs w/ a wild hollow tail used to shake salt onto the root of trees. A delicious treat for the local deers which makes the Wamp a best friend to the hunters of the lumberwoods!

But as with many Cryptid tales, for all the details i don’t get I get to sus out for myself, so using some spec bio I wanna figure out it’s behaviors, diets, locomotion & biomes it could potentially live in! I’m talking PNW arboreal fruitivore versions to a tide pool lurking ones that fish out crabs, fish & seaweed then returning to its sea cave homes! I’m thrilled to crack back into yarns of the Bigwoods from newspaper articles from 1922-1925 across America & Canada! So ima try to bring art child’s wild Cryptid creation to the modern era, on this weeks Tale from the Fringes! Fringe History is Created, Produced & hosted by Basti B.

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Have you ever heard of a jetpack monster?? Well there’s been a couple sightings throughout time, but Nebraskas falls city holds on of the most strange encounters with one! Technicolor lights draped across the 15 ft metal wings on the creatures back & the eyewitness could only describe it as a demon!

Could this had been a mad scientist from the deep corn fields? I mean most actual jetpack tech was developed by private inventors! The most famous, Yves Rossy, vowed to never give his jetpacks to any military or company! I mean that’s the first human to reach & maintain a jets altitude… he flew over the Grand Canyon, from France to Britain in 9mins. But we’ll talk about all sorts of jetpack history & how the French government debuted hoverboard snipers in 2019😂

So let’s look into the Falls city jetpack monster, but also Kazakhstans Jetpack monstrosity, the 3 chelahis jetpack minutemen, modern spring heel Jack reports & the 1835 NYC great moon hoax where folk believed in bat winged humans building temples on the moon! All of that on this case of Fringe History! Fringe History is Created, Produced & hosted by Basti B.

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Criminals & Villiany await in todays tales, from torturous robbers throwing travelers into their Basement pitt to mystic Highwaymen who terrorize farmers & travelers in the hills of eastern NY! These Tales come from Charles M Skinners “myths & legends of our own Lands”, a fantastical text featuring folklore across America from 1860-early 1900s. But these come from his stomping grounds along the Hudson! So let’s talk about Francis WoolCott, a tall dark man who gained his warlock gifts from a mystic message on a meteor he found crashed atop Mt Riga State park. He & his nightriders use their magic steeds to extort folks of all their goods, but learn how to escape their wrath today! A great campfire legend for a summer in Upstate New York’s Capital region! Plus Monster mosquitoes, Mold Vampires & learn who lurks in the deep Valley of Zoar & why the usage of natural deformations in Horror has been a problematic trope living to modern film. Let’s talk about what our criminals & outlaws say about our own society on this weeks tale from the Fringes!

Have you heard of those Atmospheric Beasts lingering in our sky’s? Well today we aren’t talking about Air Rods or Sky Squids, but instead a vivid description of a haunting desert encounter with what was reported as a flying saucer but the anonymous writer swears it was an animal! An 8 ft metallic clam like beast that reacted to him & bled a frothy wirey substance.

But before he could fully observe this beast, him & his friends fled as the scene was eclipsed in shadow by a 30ft version of the Same specie. Was this the creature that injured our lil buddy or was this it’s potential parent or mate? If the larger one didn’t harm the smaller one then what did? I’ll look into some other Atmospheric Beasts including the original account of the Indiana’s Crawfordville Monster! An Eldritch beast, an 18 foot white shroud with a large flaming eyeball wriggling through the country sky! Plus air rods, sky squids, cloud whales & sky serpents!

Let’s talk about Nevadas Gargantuan Gliders on this weeks Case of Fringe History! Highly recommend hearing “In The Field” podcast for further descriptions of Atmospheric Beasts in their “cloud animal” ep!

Fringe History is Created, Produced & hosted by Basti B.

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Prepare yourself for the Desert Quickness!! This weeks Cryptid is an inescapable beast of the shrublands who kicks roadrunners out of its path & has been known to hunt loggers of the Sierras. I’ll go over the legend of the infamous SW creature of the lumberwoods, The Roperite! From the legends of William T Cox to Henry Tyron & even schoolastic pages, this animal of Americana folklore has popped up throughout time. But modern days the strange animal has no creature feature or references in shows! So I’m gonna bring this creature to life & even do a lil spec Bio on its Life & behaviors. Stick around to the end to hear about the otherworldly beast a Air Force pilot meet on top of a mesa, for a hint at next weeks, FRINGE HISTORY! Fringe History is Created, Produced & hosted by Basti B.

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Who’s that peepin through your window? & what’s that sweet odor in the air?? Well don’t worry all your neighbors are on the streets with guns & bats looking for them… welcome to Mattoon IL during WW2, where squads of elite police & even the FBI came to investigate what the town called “the Mad Gasser of Mattoon”. Im gonna bring back the story with the original newspaper articles & breakdown a timeline of the events before looking into Scott Maruna’s 2003 book “The Mad Gasser: dispelling the hysteria”. This case has been used to officially describe mass hysteria, but what if there’s another culprit? Maybe even a police cover up when they locked away a local chemical engineer into a mental institute! I’ll dive into Farley Llewelyn’s story & if his sister helped this gay man seek revenge against the town that othered him. & of course the travel as always as eastern Illinois homes witch graves, an abandoned observatory in the prairie for some potential urban exploring, & the city that holds the most worlds largest objects in America!! Check it all out on this weeks case of Fringe History. Fringe History is Created, Produced & hosted by Basti B.

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Let’s talk about Witches! Particularly a hag who lurks through the streets of New Yorks Capital! When this shrill old woman only got 12 baked goods when she wanted a dozen, she cursed the German baker! Not only did his business begin to fail, but the smoke from his chimney would choke him & invisible hands pelted him with hot coals! Only when visited by the ghost of a saint did he realize how to end the Albany Curse!

I’ve got this exciting story from Charles M Skinners, Myth & legends of our own lands, a favorite of mine! Plus mentions of a few other nearby Hudson River legends, from a Dutch dress wearing queen Goblin, Heer, of Dunderburg or the widely told tale of ol time traveling Rip Van Winkle! & the origins of French toast?! Plus more Old Albany talk, a local urban legend where the Albany Hag could be living today leading a cult who lives under our sewers! Hear about it all today on Tales from the Fringes! Fringe History is Created, Produced & hosted by Basti B.

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