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.
Folklore Forensics
The Weeping Woman Drownings (Case File #41)
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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 authorities have dismissed these as accidents or isolated incidents of maternal filicide, pattern analysis suggests either a serial perpetrator operating across generations, or a network of copycat crimes inspired by the original case of a woman who allegedly murdered her own children in a crime of passion and revenge.
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Folklore Forensics is written and hosted by Danielle Christmas and produced by Audio Ellis.
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