Folklore Forensics
Folklore Forensics is a solo, narrative-driven podcast where myth meets true crime. Each episode reinvestigates mythology and folklore from around the world as unresolved cases—reconstructing timelines, examining motive, and analyzing the evidence hidden within the myth.
From familiar gods to lesser-known folktales, these stories are put under the same scrutiny as modern crimes. What details were exaggerated? What facts were lost to time? And what truths might still be buried beneath centuries of storytelling?
You’ve heard the story. Now hear the case.
Folklore Forensics presents narrative reconstructions inspired by myth, legend, and historical context, examined through an investigative lens.
Episodes
10 episodes
The Delphi Conspiracy (Case File #22)
For over a thousand years, rulers, generals, and empires trusted a single voice: the Oracle of Delphi. Kings crossed borders because of her words. Wars were launched. Dynasties fell. From King Croesus of Lydia to the legend of Oedipus an...
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Season 1
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Episode 9
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50:53
The Changeling Trials (Case File #156)
Ireland’s ‘changeling’ killings: when fairy folklore justified child murder and torture. In 19th-century Ireland, some families believed that illness or disability wasn’t sickness at all. Instead, the fairies had stolen the real child (o...
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Season 1
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Episode 8
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45:12
The Red Hood Predator (Case File #225)
In the Black Forest of medieval Europe, young women begin vanishing on the forest paths between village and cottage—always on errands of care, always near dusk. Their bodies are found days later in the underbrush. Their grandmothers are ...
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Season 1
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Episode 7
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1:05:42
The Minotaur Murders (Case File #13)
For years, Athens was required to send seven young men and seven young women to Crete as tribute—fourteen victims per cycle who were said to vanish inside the labyrinth beneath the palace and be devoured by the Minotaur. Modern analysis ...
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Season 1
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Episode 6
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51:59
The Baba Yaga Cannibal Killings (Case File #117)
Deep in Russian forests, in times of famine and social upheaval, children sent to gather food or seek help from distant relatives frequently vanished without trace. Local accounts attributed these disappearances to a cannibalistic witch ...
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Season 1
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Episode 5
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46:27
The Weeping Woman Drownings (Case File #41)
Across Mexico and the American Southwest, dozens of child drowning cases spanning centuries share disturbing commonalities: bodies found in rivers and irrigation canals, often following reports of a woman in white near the water. While authorit...
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Season 1
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Episode 4
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54:51
The Pied Piper Abductions (Case File #84)
June 1284. Hamelin, Germany. The bells ring for mass and the town answers with panic. One hundred and thirty children vanish in the span of a single day. No bodies. No blood. No ransom. Only empty beds, and parents who spend the rest of ...
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Season 1
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Episode 3
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48:22
The Medea Revenge Murders (Case File #129)
A spring morning in Corinth should have ended in a royal wedding. Instead, it becomes a multi-victim homicide scene: a princess, a king, and two young boys —while the primary suspect disappears without a trace.For our second episo...
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Season 1
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Episode 2
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39:48
The Bluebeard Serial Killings (Case File #247)
A nobleman with a blue-tinted beard. Four wives vanished. A locked chamber at the end of a corridor—and a final bride who opens the door.In this first investigation, Folklore Forensics revisits the story of Bluebeard as a...
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Season 1
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Episode 1
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51:32