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
61 episodes
Episode 61 - Personal Paranormal Experiences
This time on Arcane Station, our host Mike Porter shares experiences that he and his family have had over the years. Ghosts, mysterious scratching at the window, and a Bigfoot howl in the dead of night.This episode is personal.
Episode 60 - The Goatman
Seven miles south of Denton, Texas, an 1884 iron bridge carries a name locals have used for generations: Goatman's Bridge. This episode starts there, with the legend of Oscar Washburn and what county historians found when they check...
Episode 59 - Crisis Apparitions
Crisis apparitions are documented reports of people perceiving a distant loved one, through sight, sound, or touch, at the exact moment that person is dying or in acute danger. These aren't ghost stories. They've been systematically...
Episode 58 - Kung Fu Werewolf
In 1849, a child was abandoned in a forest in Fukien Province, China, not because his parents were cruel, but because he looked like a demon. Born with hypertrichosis, a condition so rare that fewer than 50 cases exist in all ...
Episode 57 - Zombies
The CDC published a zombie apocalypse comic book. That is a fact. Tonight on Arcane Station, we examine why and follow that thread through the biology of behavior modification, documented cases of aberrant human behavior, the spread of a prion ...
Episode 56 - Living in a Black Hole - 2
If our universe exists inside a black hole, then every sibling universe spawned alongside ours represents a different set of physical parameters running simultaneously, a controlled experiment with isolated chambers and results encoded on...
Episode 55 - Living in a Black Hole
What if our universe isn't just expanding into space, but exists entirely inside a black hole? This isn't fringe speculation. Physicists Lee Smolin and Nikodem Poplawski have published peer-reviewed work suggesting every black hole spawns a new...
Episode 54 - AI and Evidence
AI-generated video has changed the rules for cryptid research, and not just because fakes are easier to make. When footage can't be trusted, what does meaningful evidence actually look like? This episode examines the growing b...
Episode 53 - The Casket Girls
France sold its most vulnerable women a lie, and shipped them across an ocean in chains when they stopped believing it. In this episode, we trace the full arc of France's colonial women programs, from the carefully vetted Fill...
Episode 52 - The Paris Catacombs
What lies beneath the streets of Paris isn't just history; it's a pitch-black labyrinth packed with six million human skeletons. Join us as we venture sixty feet underground into the Paris Catacombs. From sinkholes swallowing whole blocks to WW...
Episode 51 - North Carolina - Supernatural
North Carolina has always had something beneath the surface, and tonight, we dig into six of its most documented paranormal cases. From a hitchhiker on a rainy road in Jamestown with a real death certificate behind her legend, to a 729-fo...
Episode 50 - North Carolina - Weird Places
North Carolina isn't just strange; it's geographically, historically, and verifiably strange. In this episode we cover the weird locations: two mountains twenty miles apart that independently share the same name for their supernatural pow...
Episode 49 - North Carolina - Cryptids
North Carolina's monster map runs from Cherokee oral tradition to a small town swarmed by 800 armed hunters. In this overview episode, we survey the state's cryptid history region by region: the giant Tsul 'Kalu and the shapeshifting ston...
Episode 48 - Altered States 06
In the finale of the Altered States series, Mike Porter makes the full case for and against the simulation hypothesis. From Nick Bostrom's trilemma to James Gates' error-correcting code buried in string theory, from the pixelation of real...
Episode 47 - Altered States 05
No drugs. No trauma. No dying, just a quiet room and a trained mind reaching toward a location it has never seen. In episode five of the Altered States series, Mike Porter investigates remote viewing and the CIA's Stargate program, ...
Episode 46 - Altered States 04
The brain in crisis floods with endorphins, gamma waves, and possibly its own DMT, but does that explain everything? In episode four of the Altered States series, Mike Porter examines near-death and out-of-body experiences, starting...
Episode 45 - Altered States 03
What if the code people see in altered states isn't a hallucination — but the actual structure of reality? In episode three of the Altered States series, Mike Porter traces a phenomenon that predates computers by centuries: a flowing, sym...
Episode 44 - Altered States 02
Who are they? In this episode, we meet the beings themselves. The entities that people consistently encounter when consciousness is altered. From the playful, mischievous machine elves described by Terence McKenna to the clinical, observi...
Episode 43 - Altered States 01
What if the visions people experience on DMT, psilocybin, and other psychedelics aren't hallucinations created by a malfunctioning brain, but actual windows into something that exists independently of us? Thousands of people across cultur...
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 Congregate
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 ...
