Goblin Kwain

Tonight I’m continuing my “deconstructing a haunted house” series, where I examine houses room by room and piece by piece to see what area is the most ‘haunted’. This episode we focus on staircases; I’ll read some interesting personal experiences from Reddit and also examine some dream interpretation and symbology. The stories involve creepy disembodied whispers, phantom guiding lights, floating down the stairs, and some side quests involving creepy puppets and more…

✶ To hear more episodes in the Deconstructing a Haunted House series, click here.

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✶ music by j sease & goblin kwain

Tonight I am reading stories from Liminal Earth, a website where people submit their first-hand paranormal experiences and tag the location where the experience occurred. All the stories in this episode take place in Ohio, so I’m joined by Ohio ghostlore author and expert Chris Woodyard. In addition to reading several experiences, we take a dive into legends of women in white, ghostly dogs, and disembodied hands while we take a virtual drive around the buckeye state.

✶ to view more episodes in my Liminal Earth series, click here.

☙CHRIS WOODYARD LINKS & BIO❧

Chris Woodyard is an Ohio-based writer and historian of death and supernatural folklore. She is the author of nine books on Ohio ghost-lore, the Haunted Ohio series, as well as three volumes on historical ghost stories and A is for Arsenic: An ABC of Victorian Death, on the basics of mourning traditions and artifacts, and The Victorian Book of the Dead, on the material culture of Victorian mourning and death. Her chapter on fairy changeling belief in North America will be included in upcoming book, The Exeter Companion to Changelings, Exeter University Press, 2025. She co-hosts the Boggart and Banshee podcast with Dr Simon Young.

✶ Blog: https://thevictorianbookofthedead.wordpress.com/

✶ Blog: http://hauntedohiobooks.com/the-blog-of-chris-woodyard/ [archived]

✶ BlueSky: @chriswoodyard.bsky.social

✶ Podcast: Boggart and Banshee: A Supernatural Podcast

✶ Facebook: The Victorian Book of the Dead and Haunted Ohio by Chris Woodyard

🟎 you can contact me at [email protected]

music by j sease & goblin kwain

✶ Thumbail image credits: Rien Poortvliet

Tonight I’ll be reading experiences with gnomes! The stories are collected from Reddit, Your Ghost Stories, and the Fairy Census and are alleged to be real encounters by their authors. The beings encountered in these stories are similar but also in many ways different. While they all have the general appearance of a very small human, the details differ. Some wear pointed hats, some have pointed teeth; some are going about their workday and others are ice skating! You’ll find that these stories permeate through many different cultures and locations around the world, be it in folklore or personal experience, and I’ve tried to showcase this in tonight’s episode. I have encounters from the US, Fiji, Sweden, the UK, as well as anecdotal accounts from Mexico, the Philippines, and Malaysia.

✶ This is my second episode featuring gnome encounters, so if you want to hear part one, click here.

✶ If you want to hear the episode where I talk about orang bunian (Malaysian elves), click here.

✶ To view my source list for this episode, click here.

✶ To submit to the Fairy Census, click here.

☙ you can contact me at [email protected]

Music by j sease & goblin kwain

Tonight I’ll be reading stories from Liminal Earth, a website where people submit their strange personal experiences. In addition to posting their encounter, they also tag the location where it took place. So, as I read the stories I’ll be showing Google streetview footage of each experience’s locality. In addition to taking a virtual wander through some stunning places, we’ll find some fascinating folklore and local history.

The stories, themselves, involve a variety of shapeshifting, the possible presence of fairies, a very haunted house, and a strange illuminated humanoid creeping outside of a witness’ tent.

✶ for more in the Liminal Earth series, check this playlist.

✶ for additional content, check Patreon.

❧ you can contact me at [email protected]

❧ music by j sease & goblin kwain

Tonight I’ll be reading a handful of stories from Your Ghost Stories, a website where people post their first-hand paranormal experiences. The stories tonight include a creepy Slenderman-like entity, an Easter Bunny, a winged man, and more. I’ll also be reading some of the comments under each story as they offer similar experiences and interesting ideas.

❧ for additional content, check Patreon.

🟎 you can contact me at [email protected]

✶ Music by j sease & goblin kwain

Tonight I’ll be reading a collection of experiences that were posted on the Forteana Forums. These stories have a few things in common; they’re highly strange, they took place in childhood, and they all involve bizarre animal visitors. Tiny rhinos, winged humanoids with lion heads, and a cartoon octopus. In between the stories I’ll ramble about my thoughts on each account, providing gentle analysis and speculation.

Thanks for tuning in!! See below for links referenced in the show or to be redirected to a podcast platform.

☙ for additional content, check Patreon.

✶ The episode of Strange Familiars that I referenced.

✶ The ‘Lion Man’ thread.

✶ ‘Bedroom Animals’ story.

🟎 you can contact me at [email protected]

⋆ music by j sease & goblin kwain

In this installment of my ‘roadside sightings’ series I’m reading accounts from the Fairy Census. The variety of experiences from this ongoing research project (compiled of anonymous first-hand sightings) is staggering, and this episode contains stories of tree people, goblins, flower-dressed tiny women, mysterious radio broadcasts, and much more. In between stories I share my thoughts and gentle analysis, drawing any parallels to folklore that spring to mind.

The Fairy Census is an ongoing research project, if you have had an encounter and would like to submit to the census, you can do so here.

☙ for additional content, check Patreon.

🟎 you can contact me at [email protected]

music by j sease & goblin kwain

Tonight’s episode concerns the very strange, specific, and seemingly rare phenomenon that I’m calling “little doctors”. So far I’ve found only three accounts that share the same very distinct details of seeing short-statured doctors and/or nurses at one’s bedside when they otherwise shouldn’t be there. This is no dream and certainly not a house call from actual human doctors, so who are these bizarre visitors?

I’m grateful to be joined by two guests (Timothy Renner from Strange Familiars podcast, and artist and experiencer Alex Hood) who relate their encounters with the little doctors. Together, we will also read and discuss a third account I found on the website Your Ghost Stories that bears striking similarity to their experiences.

Please refer to the links below for info on my guests and how to listen to this episode on a podcast platform if you prefer. Thank you so much for tuning in!!

TIM

🟎 Strange Familiars podcast

🟎 LostGrave Etsy (Tim’s artwork, books, music, & more)

ALEX

🟎 Alex’s appearance on Fairy Whispering podcast

🟎 Alex’s Linktree

☙ find additional content on Patreon

🟎 you can contact me at [email protected]

music by j sease & goblin kwain

Tonight I’ll be reading experiences from reddit that all concern small humanoids. Elves, gnomes, fairies, gremlins… From little cloaked goblins to winged women in doorways. I also read interesting comments and it kind of goes in a few different directions from there as people bring up their own encounters, and some of them are quite strange…

✶ For additional content, check my Patreon page: https://www.patreon.com/goblinkwain

🟎 “Duende” video mentioned in the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrnU0-Gsczs&t=0s

🟎 you can contact me at [email protected]

☙ music by goblin kwain & j sease

Tonight, we are fortunate to hear some of Emma’s personal experiences, straight from her mouth! While she has had many strange encounters throughout her life, on this episode we will focus on stories that involve some of my favored themes: green orbs, floating down the stairs, and disembodied hands…

✶ To hear the episode where I previously read Emma’s story from the Fairy Census, click here.

✶ Here are links to Emma recounting some of her experiences on the Fairy Whispering podcast

☙ Goblin Market and Pixie Encounter with Emma Welsh

☙ Whisked Away by the Fae

✶ Here is the episode of the Modern Fairy Sightings Podcast Emma referenced that made her recall her own memories of floating

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🟎 you can contact me at [email protected]

music by j sease & goblinkwain.