Jackalope Carnival: A Sideshow of Stories
Mysteries, legendary creatures, historical oddities, strange occurrences and spooky stuff all are fair game in this carnival sideshow of stories. Eric and Bekah are your guides to looking at the unknown through the lens of human belief. Step right up! It's a Jackalope Carnival! Jackalope Carnival has a new episodes coming mid-September 2025! Stay tuned!
Episodes
49 episodes
George Rapp: Occult Garden Gnome or Cult Leader?
Thesis: History in general, and the 19th in specific, was weirder than you told.Evidence: Jackalope Carnival submits for you approval Georg Rapp, a capitalist commune cult leader, alchemist and home brewer who founded three towns in Amer...
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Season 5
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Episode 9
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33:09
Winter Ragers and The War on Christmas: Jackalope Carnival Holiday Special 2025 Part 2!
What does Oliver Cromwell, Calvinist Lord Protector of England (and infamous prig), British garage rockers The Kinks and the Insane Clown Posse have in common? Come for Christmas list of song goodies, stay for how Ghost Riders in th...
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Season 5
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Episode 8
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Hard Candy Christmas: Jackalope Carnival Holiday Special 2025, Part 1
It's that time again folks, our annual holiday episode. This year Christmas brings fond memories of tube socks and hard candy. Enjoy this candy dish of musically inspired Christmas trivia and then listen to our playlist just for you!Happ...
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Season 5
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Episode 7
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Koreshan Unity: Just a Florida Man and his Hollow Earth Cult
Whatever you do, don't put your recently deceased cult leader in a bathtub in Florida for a week to see if he'll make good on his promise to come back to life. Is it occult? Sure. Is it a cult? Sure? Do they ...
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Season 5
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Episode 6
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Hollow Earth Controversy: Pita or Arepa?
What is this hollow Earth business? What, is it the 1820s again? Or how about the 1920s?Fire up he blimp, we're heading for the North Pole in the latest episode of Jackalope Carnival where we spin another yarn that will make ...
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Season 5
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Episode 5
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32:49
Phantom Hitchhikers: Not All Who Wander Are Alive!!
Think you know everything about this well studied trope? Think again. Jackalope Carnival will join folklorists of the past as they try to track down what is one of the oldest urban legends of them all! Along the way, will they pick up a strange...
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Season 5
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Episode 4
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32:40
The Goatman: Of Goats and Men, and Men Who are Goats
Legends tell of a terrifying figure: half-man, half-goat, and fully armed with an axe. But is the Goatman a single creature wandering across America, or do multiple horned horrors haunt the land?From eerie folklore to strange encounters,...
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Season 5
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Episode 3
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Southern Cousins: Wild Men and Bigfoot Kin
-Is there a connection between sightings of "wild man" in the Southern US, the Civil War and Sasquatch-like creatures? Why would anyone "buy a box of bats"? What made Bekah exclaim, "I just want a cryptid that wears pants!" Find out...
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Season 5
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Episode 2
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Bell Witch: The Pettiest Poltergeist
At what point does legend become fact? Is there any evidence that the legend of the Bell Witch was concocted to cover for something more nefarious? We don’t know what strange girls in green dresses hanging about in trees showing off...
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Season 5
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Episode 1
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Christmas Episode '23: Santa's Friends Are Not Okay
In our 4th Christmas episode, which may or may not have been done under the influence of holiday cheer, we take a look at some of the dark and devilish company that Saint Nicholas keeps in France, Belgium and regions of Germany. They say ...
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35:04
Mermen and more!
Where did all the stories of mermen go? When merpeople are so popular in fiction, why are they not talked about so much in cryptozoology circles? Was a merman sighted in Redondo Beach, California? Discover the answers to these questions a...
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30:13
Civil War Ghosts and Otherwise
Ghosts a plenty. Ghost-o-rama, Plethora of hauntings here. Boooooy Howdy. Also: Eric talks about his connections to the Civil War. Bekah wonders if her cold is making her manifest ectoplasm.
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Season 4
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Episode 2
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40:59
Channeling for Fun and Prophet
A new (mini) season of Jackalope Carnival! In this episode there's Ouija boards, automatic writing, earnest but (probably) poorly pronounced Mandarin and voices from the spirit world telling a famous poet to get over his ex. And no...
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Season 4
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Episode 1
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34:21
Winged Harbingers and Scary Sky Creatures!
The final episode of Season Three speaks of DOOOM! DOOOOOOOOOM! Were Chernobyl and the eruption of Mt Saint Helens prophesied by winged har-binge-rs? Or is it Har-bing-ers? Find out on this episode of Jackalope Carnival where we loo...
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Season 3
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Episode 11
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44:09
Worst Valentine's Day Episode Ever
In this pretty inappropriate, and not particularly family friendly episode, we look to Sylvester Graham and John Harvey Kellogg to talk about past diets that were intended to keep one's vision 20/20 and palms bald as cue ball. <...
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Season 3
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Episode 10
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38:45
Ghost Ships: The Carroll A. Deering and the Flying Dutchman
Jackalope Carnival again takes to the high seas in search of abandoned ghost vessels, ghosts on ships and ships that are ghosts. Also: phantom ships, missing crews and ruddy men who leave their shoes lying about in strange...
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Season 3
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Episode 9
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47:08
Out of Body Experiences, Psychic Spies and Dangerous Artichoke Aliens
Did the government open doors it couldn't close? Do dangerous aliens wear hot pants in the produce aisle? Why do they wave artichokes about? Good thing the Men in Black got there just in time! We will literally mention all of this,...
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Season 3
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Episode 8
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51:06
MORE Jackalope Carnival Holiday Special 2022!!
Our second helping of international Christmas folklore and fun At one point, Bekah tries to convince Eric that if you beat a log with a stick while screaming at it, it will poop candy into your bed. So far the results ...
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Season 3
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Episode 7
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27:53
Jackalope Carnival Christmas Holiday Special 2022!!
Are werewolves and ghosts only for Halloween? What are the "stretchy pants days of December" and why do mischievous little men crawl from underground to sour my milk? A very merry Christmas and happy holidays from Jackalope C...
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Season 3
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Episode 6
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35:52
Urban Legend -or- is it? The Bunny Man and More.
This all totally happened to my friend's cousin back in the 80s...In this episode we talk about stories that sound way too unbelievable to be true. But of course, this is Jackalope Carnival, nothing is ever that simple...Lederho...
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Season 3
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Episode 5
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40:11
To Owl or Not to Owl? That is the Question.
Join us as we look into two monster sightings that are often blamed on owls, talk about some owl lore and ask the question: owl or not owl?Owlman, Hopkinsville Goblins, Eurasian Eagle Owls, Barred Owls, Barn Owls &...
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Season 3
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Episode 4
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43:00
The Stone of Scone: Legends of British Rock(s)!!!!!
If you came looking for Zeppelin or The Beatles... um, wellllll... It's more sandstone and quartz. But while we may not have The Rolling Stones, we do have the Stone of Destiny, and a troop of monkeys tasked with keeping the Emp...
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Season 3
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Episode 3
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39:59
Accidental Time Travel- Your Timeslip is Showing!
Don't you just hate it when you're taking an elevator from the office to go home and you accidentally end up in one of the bloodiest battles in American History? Or how about when you put in a full day's work, go to clock out and f...
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Season 3
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Episode 2
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39:15
You Wouldn't Have Heard of It, They're Totally Underground
Jackalope Carnival is excited to be back in the studio for you! This week we're going to get deep, like subterranean and dig up the secrets of hidden tunnels and passageways in Norwich and elsewhere. We missed you, it's good to be ...
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Season 3
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Episode 1
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