Arcane Station
Arcane Station is a storytelling and research-driven podcast exploring cryptids, paranormal encounters, folklore, conspiracies, and high strangeness, blending historical accounts, modern sightings, and speculative theories into immersive narratives. Each episode invites listeners to journey into the mysterious and unexplained, where fact and legend often blur.
Episodes
42 episodes
Episode 42 - Lake Monsters
From the depths of Loch Ness to the remote lakes of Oklahoma, creatures lurk in the dark waters of our world. For centuries, eyewitnesses across continents have reported encounters with intelligent, elusive lake monsters, yet tangible pro...
Episode 41: Mountains: Where gods and God Congregates
Why do mountains appear again and again in ancient mythology, religious texts, paranormal encounters, and stories of supernatural beings? Across cultures and throughout history, humanity has viewed mountains as places where the physical world a...
Episode 40 - The Klickitat Ape Cat
In the forests of southern Washington, there are reports of a creature that looks like a black cougar, but with a face that doesn’t belong to any known animal. It’s been called the Klickitat Ape Cat. But unlike most cryptids, this one doesn’t c...
Episode 39 - Jack the Ripper
In 1888, the streets of Whitechapel were more than just dangerous, they were disorienting, oppressive, and on edge. Thick industrial fog choked the air, gaslights distorted what people thought they saw, and entire neighborhoods lived under cons...
Episode 38 - The Little People
Across continents and across centuries, cultures around the world have told stories of small humanlike beings who live in forests, mountains, caves, mounds, and hidden places beneath the earth. From the Cherokee Yunwi Tsunsdi and the Pukwudgie ...
Episode 37 - The Ahnenerbe
What happens when history, mythology, sacred sites, and wartime legend begin to overlap?In this episode of Arcane Station, Mike Porter takes a deep dive into the world surrounding the Ahnenerbe, the SS research organization...
Episode 36 - Flooded Towns
Entire towns and villages have been intentionally submerged beneath reservoirs, lakes, and waterways across North America and beyond. Homes, roads, churches, cemeteries, and entire communities now rest beneath the surface, hidden but not forgot...
Episode 35 - Antarctica
Antarctica is one of the most remote and controlled places on Earth, and one of the most misunderstood.In this episode of Arcane Station, we move from fiction to reality, and then into the theories that live in between. From the isolatio...
Episode 34 - The AI Deception
What happens when you can no longer trust what you see?In this episode of Arcane Station, we explore the rise of AI-generated media and how it’s reshaping the way we understand evidence, not just in politics, but in the world of cryptids...
Episode 33 - The Mimic
What if the voice calling your name isn’t who you think it is?Across TikTok, Reddit, and paranormal forums, thousands of people are reporting a strange experience: hearing the voice of a loved one when that person isn’t there. Some hear ...
Episode 32 - Ice Age Giants and the Glimpse Beyond
The Ice Age wasn’t ancient history. Mammoths, mastodons, giant ground sloths, short-faced bears, American lions, and camels once roamed North and South America, and humans walked alongside them. Most of these giants vanished around 11,000 years...
Episode 31 - The Mothman
In this episode of Arcane Station, we examine the Mothman case from its origin in Point Pleasant, West Virginia through its modern interpretations.We begin with the 1966–1967 sightings near the TNT area and the collapse of the Silver Bri...
Episode 30 - Feral People
What happens when a human grows up without society?Feral children are real. Cannibalism has occurred in history. And across centuries, cultures have told stories of wild men, cave-dwelling clans, and pale figures watching from the treeli...
Episode 29 - Science of the Paranormal Part 2: The Limits of Technology
In Part Two of The Science of the Paranormal, we move beyond the limits of human perception and into harder territory: technology, biology, and the structure of reality itself.If Part One explored how infrasound, frequency, and se...
The Science of the Paranormal - Part 1: The Limits of Human Perception
In this two-part episode of Arcane Station, we begin with a simple but unsettling question: how much of reality are humans actually capable of perceiving?In Part One, we explore the science behind paranormal experiences by examining the...
Episode 27 - Vampires After the Grave: Pop Culture and Romance
In Part 2 of this Arcane Station series, we move beyond history and into culture.After centuries of being feared as revenants and monsters, vampires underwent a dramatic transformation. In literature, film, and television, they be...
Episode 26 - The Returning Dead: Vampires Before Myth and Romance
For centuries, people across the world feared that the dead did not always stay dead.In Part 1 of this Arcane Station series, we examined the historical origins of vampires as revenants, the physically dead believed to rise from the gra...
Episode 25 - The Cecil Hotel
In this episode, we examine the Cecil Hotel in Los Angeles as a documented case of long-term tragedy, recurring deaths, and persistent claims of paranormal activity.Rather than focusing on rumor or dramatization, this episode presents a ...
Episode 24 - Texas Strangeness Part 2
In Part 1, we cataloged the cryptids of Texas, the creatures that leave tracks, bodies, and biological questions behind. But not everything strange in Texas fits that framework.In Texas Strangeness – Part 2, we move int...
Episode 23 - Texas Strangeness Part 1
Texas has a long history of strange creature reports, some familiar, others barely remembered, and many that don’t fit neatly into any category at all.In Texas Strangeness – Part 1, we’re laying the groundwork by cataloging the...
Episode 22 - Count Saint Germain
In this episode of Arcane Station, we investigate the life and legacy of Count Saint Germain, a documented eighteenth-century figure who appeared suddenly within Europe’s most exclusive courts, moved freely among kings and diplo...
Episode 21 - The Supernatural and Occult Origins of Christmas
Christmas is often presented as a season of comfort, generosity, and familiarity. But beneath the modern imagery of nativity scenes, Santa Claus, and holiday traditions lies a much older structure shaped by fear, survival, and interaction with ...
Episode 20 - Haunted and Abandoned Tunnels
Abandoned tunnels have a way of unsettling people long after their original purpose has ended.Across different regions and eras, tunnels built for railroads, roads, and infrastructure have developed reputations for being haunted. Visitor...
Episode 19 - The Not Deer
Something is wrong in the woods of Appalachia.Hikers, hunters, and lifelong locals all describe the same eerie moment: a deer steps onto the trail… then moves in a way no deer should. Its legs bend at impossible angles. Its body is too tall...
Episode 18 - Poveglia Island
Poveglia Island sits quietly in the Venetian Lagoon, but its history is anything but silent. Once a quarantine station during the deadliest plague outbreaks in Europe, and later the site of a psychiatric hospital with harsh experimental treatme...
