What The Folklore?

Spooklore 2026 begins with an important question: "What if Final Fantasy was Spooky?". 1998's Parasite Eve dared to answer that question, with a dubious grasp on the concept of mitochondrial DNA


Check out Gordie's TTRPG, Mythomorphosis
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Welcome to Season 2! Our inaugural story is Cherry the Frog Bride, a Grimm tale that starts silly and becomes increasingly...well...Grimm.

Suggested talking points: Time for Numbers to Go on Vacation, Mandatory Internet Buddy-System, Specializing in Guilt and Shame, Eavesdropping on a Pig Race, Corn Jacuzzi, Double-Negative Taxes, Welcome to Dog-Corpse Island

Check out Gordie's TTRPG, Mythomorphosis
If you'd like to support Carman's artistic endeavors, visit: https://www.patreon.com/carmandaartsthings

If you like our show, find us online to help spread the word! Follow us on Twitter, Facebook, and Youtube. Support us on Patreon to help the show grow at www.patreon.com/wtfolklore. You can find merchandise and information about the show at www.wtfolklorepodcast.com.

Episode 500

This week, on the eve of episode 500, we read The Baker's Apprentice, a story that serves as a tortured metaphor for the kingdom of Heaven, but works great as a metaphor for the worst cake you've ever heard of.

Suggested talking points: Season 2 Eve, Linkin Park Shaped Gummies, Audio SkyMall, Passed the Point of Poignant, Anti-Dipping Propaganda, VIP Ticket to Hell, Report In For Your Scheduled Beating

Check out Gordie's TTRPG, Mythomorphosis
If you'd like to support Carman's artistic endeavors, visit: https://www.patreon.com/carmandaartsthings

If you like our show, find us online to help spread the word! Follow us on Twitter, Facebook, and Youtube. Support us on Patreon to help the show grow at www.patreon.com/wtfolklore. You can find merchandise and information about the show at www.wtfolklorepodcast.com.

This week, after a brief look at the stupid, stupid future of Golf, we journey to Scandinavia for the tale of Wet George.

Suggested talking points: Golf With Sidequests, Bath Taxi, Breaking New Dum-Dum Ground, Bad at Existing but Really Good at Knots, A Rich Minefiled

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What's the best way to chill out and relax after the 5-Part Epic of Sundiata? Well, I can think of several, but the one Carman CHOSE is to read a Rootabaga Tales double feature...so please enjoy How The Potato-Faced Blind Man Enjoyed Himself on a Fine Spring Morning and Pokerface the Baboon and Hotdog the Tiger

Suggested talking points: Thor 2: Better Thor, Jorts Vampire, A Quick Sundiata Refresher, Saint Al of Yankovic, Like if a Sesame Street Episode had a Horrible Car Crash, Living Nunchucks, In the Eyes of Hotdog

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Are we...are we free???

Suggested talking points: Milk Nightcrawlers, Psycho-Sexual Lamps for Sale, The Tree that Oscars Grow On, Them Cheeks Check Out, Sorcerer-War Etiquette, Hundreds of Animals Dying Constantly

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Oh, hey, look at that...still talking about Sundiata this week!

Suggested talking points: Rooting for Captain Dirk, Adopted by Foxes, Missed Thirst-Trap Opportunity, Oral Tradition Ad-Break, Throbbing for War, Acute Benjamin Button Syndrome

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Think you've heard enough about Sundiata yet? Because I have terrible news...

Suggested talking points: Futuristic Flavor-Drink, A Threatening Quantity of Cowboy Hats, I Guess These are Proverbs, Getting Fed to Hang Out, Unmanned (AKA, "Re-Boyed"), A Storage-Room of Power, The Tube-of-Meat King

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This week, we FINALLY hear about Sundiata! Or Do We??? (We do).

Suggested talking points: Groundhog Godzilla Year, A One-Scheme Limit, It's Birthin' Time, One-String "Wonderwall", Invalidated King Warranty, Baby Brings the Thunder, Checking all the Boy Boxes, Free Tickets for Gawking

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