Occultor

Not much is better than a good tale about a ghost ship, so here are three! There are possible pirates, the Devil, true love, horrified corpses, potential axe murders, and up-n-vanished people. All elements of a wonderful story perfect for sending shivers down your spine.

This is the return of both Occultor and the Mythology miniseries from their breaks!

In this episode, we explore a few death and death-related deities. We talk about their history, associations, and mythology, and a little about the afterlife they're associated with.

Marie Laveau was the Vodou queen, an incredibly charitable lady, and a cultural icon. If this isn't cool enough for you, wait until you find out the mystery and magic that surrounded the last parts of her life...

I've been putting this episode off for a while because of the mixture of history and legend, but we're halfway to 50 so now's an occasion for it!

This week is all about UFOs and sightings surrounding them. There are far too many to stick them all in one episode, but I got just enough in to hopefully touch on important and cool historical sightings in a timeline from ancient Egypt all the way to about 1990. Even with a speedrun, this episode really is a monster!

Well, it's been hectic recently, and we're still in the kind of weather where you can cuddle up with a sweater, a blanket, and a cup of tea. So what better point in time to have some good ol' fashioned fairy tales? This episode has some classics and some lesser-known ones, and because I felt in the mood for it you even get some voices. Sort of. I'm sorry.

It would be bad enough if you were just paralyzed for a few minutes, but most of us know that's not usually the case. Strange sounds, sensations, floating......it's all bad enough. But then come the "sleep paralysis demons" as so many of us have heard about. Old hags with a penchant for strangling, and lurking, unnaturally tall and thin shadow men are the most common but definitely not the limit of the horror. And the worst of all? We still don't know why we see what we do...

This week's episode is white, flavorless, and can kill you within 20 minutes...well, okay, it might be two of those things. 

Episode 21 is on poisons, their origins, and what exactly they do to the human body when taken. You can't pretend that you haven't been curious! I did the research so you don't have to have it on your search history. This week, we cover arsenic, cyanide, deadly nightshade, strychnine, and hemlock.

Apotropaic symbols are any marking or symbolic charm used to protect from misfortune, harmful entities, or evil in general. This episode covers a few different kinds, the reasoning behind them, and how they have evolved over the centuries.

This mouthful of a title means the start of a new series! In the first installment, I tell about a few of my favorite lesser-known Greek deities and the mythology surrounding them. Hestia, Tyche, Hypnos, Thanatos, and Melinoe are all featured in this episode. Because of the holidays, I got my schedule mixed around. This really is episode 19, don't let the intro fool you!

While Christmas is a Christian holiday, it's rooted in many much older practices. This episode goes over some of the history surrounding Christmas traditions and how & why they were carried over from Pagan celebrations.