Lost in the Pages

In our first episode back Isaac and John discuss the interesting case of Nashville's very own baby toed, magical creature, the Willapus Wallapus! We also delve into the wild cryptid, the Wampus Cat. Is the Willapus Wallapus a mysterious monster cat? Is it even a cat? Is it a Bigfoot? Or something totally different? Join us and decide for yourself!

It's Winter Solstice across the world and we have some changes to announce! So Isaac and John decided to take it back to basics for our topic and talk about a mystery out of rural Kentucky. The Valley Hill Lights (as featured on Unsolved Mysteries) are seen by some locals as a miracle, but were they just fooled by the tricky lighting? Join us this week and decide for yourself!

We have an Amish adjacent episode this week with a brief discussion on the religious movements of the Quakers and the Shakers. We get into William Penn, Mother Ann Lee, and a short history of each group; plus we talk about Kentucky's very own Shaker Village that can still be visited today.

We're back with the final installment in our probing of the Amish culture! We get caught up to the 21st century and discuss groups like the New Order and Beachy Amish as well as the Bolivian congregation. Join us in talking about a man named Elmo, Amish gang life and more!

In part 2 of the Amish story, the boys confabulate on the rules that made the Amish and how they splintered into many many many different groups all across the country. Plus Isaac tells another personal Amish experience, we talk rumspringa and so much more!

The boys are doing a deep probe into an American classic, The Amish! There's a lot to be said about these rural, horse n' buggy folk, so we're diving in heard first! In the first part of this multi-episode series, we start looking at the earliest origins of the religious communities that make up the Amish. Our journey takes us to Europe as we look into figures such as Jakob Ammann and Menno Simons. We also give a brief overview of who they are, some personal experiences and a whole lot of opinions.

It's that time again! You may have heard about Tennessee's favorite large haired diet guru in the news lately, and we're here to tell ya the full story! Gwen Shamblin leaves behind one heck of a strange legacy, is she a cult leader? A grifter? A prophet? Or just a crazy lady? We'll let you be the judge! Plus you can hear us talk a lot about televangelists, local church TV, and weird childhood church stories.

In this installment of our spiritual fall we go steampunk with the story of the New Motor! Listen as we get into the life of John Murray Spear and how he became a Frankenstein-esque cult leader who's sole mission was to create a Godlike Machine that would solve the world's problems! Somehow this ends up being what Dalton describes as our kinkiest episode yet, find out why by joining us on this weird ride!

It's Halloween everyone! We're celebrating here at Rumors & Confabulation with a couple of completely unrelated but strange stories! One is the haunting of the Phelps Mansion in the 1850's that many refer to as the Stratford Knockings; the other is a cult sacrifice ritual with a twist out of the hills of Eastern Kentucky in 1933. Somehow or another we also get into the mean ole Grinch, the Blueridge Parkway, and Everybody Loves Raymond (a Halloween classic...right?)

The guys are back with another cult! This time we are talking about the Fountain of the World or WKFL from the 1950s and it's leader, Krishna Venta. We go into how a Jewish turned Mormon named Francis became an Indian man from another planet named Krishna, the beliefs behind WKFL, and the ultra violent event that put an end to Krishna Venta and, as always, so much more!