This week we went back to reddit for some more creepy stories. We found two christmas ones that are good as well as three other, so a total of 5 short horror stories this week. Also, we most likely will not be recording this week so no new episode next week, I spent news years eve into new years day in the ER and still recovering so most likely won't be able to record. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/arcanumobscura/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/arcanumobscura/support

In 1827 in Polstead, Suffolk, England, a woman, Maria Marten, was murdered at a local landmark known as the Red Barn. The story has some weird turns, such as Maria loving a man and having his child to later loving his brother and being with him. Letters written to the family after she had been murdered to keep up the lie of what happened. Down to supernatural intervention which led to the discovery of the crime as well as the body of Maria Marten. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/arcanumobscura/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/arcanumobscura/support

I heard a bit of this story a while back, I believe I saw it in a little short video, like a youtube short or something and what I heard of her has stuck with me and I've wanted to cover it for some time now and finally decided to do it this week. I also believe, even though I talk about it in the episode, that the saying "hell hath no fury liked a woman scorned" should 100% be about Olga, even though the quote comes froma play nearly 1000 years after her life. I don't want to say too much about Olga here for fear of ruining the story but Olga was from viking heritage, she was a warrior, a princess, a vengeful wife and a Saint. That's a lot of accolades for one person and she damn sure earned all of them. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/arcanumobscura/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/arcanumobscura/support

Staying in the realm of sleep issues Nate talks about sleep deprivation today. We go over causes and effects as well as some stories from people who have experienced weird things when sleep deprived. And spiders, there's spiders in this one! And sorry, no arachnophobia toggle to make them silly or cute! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/arcanumobscura/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/arcanumobscura/support

I was researching a story for this week an it moved into sleep paralysis so I thought it may be interesting to talk a little about Sleep Paralysis, then branch into some legends from around the world that came from this condition that wasn't understood at the time. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/arcanumobscura/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/arcanumobscura/support

We continue on with missing children this week with Virginia Dare. Virginia Dare was the first english born child in America in 1587, then she went missing. Not only did she go missing but the whole colony of Roanoke went missing and it all still remains a mystery to this day. When we were looking for stories we both found this one odd since articles singled her out while the whole colony was missing. The lost colony of Roanoke has been a long standing mystery with several investigations as well as making its way into pop culture, most notably for me was when it was in the show Supernatural. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/arcanumobscura/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/arcanumobscura/support

This is a strange true crime episode about missing children. The Sodder family was a large family with a total of 10 children. The father came to America and did well for himself, he bought a house and married and his family began to grow. He was very outspoken about his beliefs and this may have been what led to a strange series of events leading up to a fateful Christmas Eve that would change their lives forever when 5 of their children go missing. It's a strange story, lots of weird events throughout, things like a fire chief who can't drive a fire truck, sightings of strangers, phones in multiple places not working, missing ladders, and even bumps in the night. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/arcanumobscura/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/arcanumobscura/support

This episode is literally about nothing. We used to do two podcasts a week, this one of course as well as "Listen or the Kitten Gets it!" which was just playing games and rambling. And since we ramble quite a bit throughout each episode we had the idea of doing a "nothing" episode once a month where we just ramble on about whatever, once a month seemed a bit much so now we may just do an episode like this occasionally. Sort of a little break from researching stories and writing and just talk about whatever's on our minds. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/arcanumobscura/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/arcanumobscura/support

We're back with our fourth Halloween Special! And posting a day early to release on Halloween! This year we of course stuck with the creepy, it is for Halloween, the best holiday ever after all! And I'm using lots of exclamations! For this years episode we dove into reddit, and coincidentally we both went to the same subreddit, r/ShortScaryStories, this week we have four stories for you, we each came to the table with two we liked and we hope you enjoy them as well, and have a safe and happy Halloween! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/arcanumobscura/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/arcanumobscura/support

We changed things up a little this week from the past couple weeks. We still wanted to stay around the cryptid type lore, but a slight step off of the path and into strange creatures from Greek myths. So we start with the Empousa (Empusa), a creature said to be a flesh eating beautiful shape shifter who can take on many forms and many combinations of forms. Next up, the Hecatoncheires, these guys are pretty crazy, they are three giants but aside from that I don't want to give away any more, you'll have to listen to find out. Again, not going to say much here, the Skiapodes are a strange race of humanoid creatures, who enjoy lying in the shade the create. Finally, the Erinyes, female deities that serve up vengeance in the underworld. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/arcanumobscura/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/arcanumobscura/support