Lore is a bi-weekly podcast (now also a TV show and book series) about dark historical tales. Each episode explores the mysterious creatures, tragic events, and unusual places that fill the pages of history. Because sometimes the truth is more frightening than fiction.
395 episodes transcribedGo deeper into the subject matter of our most recent episode (269: There Goes My Hero) with these three recommendations from further back in the Lore...
War has given us a lot of artifacts throughout history, but the most frightening relics are the stories it leaves behind. Written and produced by Aaro...
Stone is a powerful tool for recording history. But if the stories are true, the tales it tells can also hide dark and menacing secrets. Narrated and...
Go deeper into the subject matter of our most recent episode (244: Stolen) with these three recommendations from further back in the Lore catalog: Ep...
One of the most ancient folk stories in history has been the subject of debate for thousands of years. And the real world events and ideas that it spa...
Some locations in the world have a reputation for being peaceful sanctuaries. Which makes the legends told about them all the more terrifying. Narrate...
Go deeper into the subject matter of our most recent episode (267: Curveball) with these three recommendations from further back in the Lore catalog:...
Folklore is often grown in the fertile soil of doubt and a lack of control. And within one specific national pastime, those elements have allowed some...
The world around us shapes the stories we tell, even in the harshest conditions. So it’s no wonder these legends from Greenland have the power to give...
Go deeper into the subject matter of our most recent episode (266: What’s in the Box) with these three recommendations from further back in the Lore c...
The end of the world has always been a big fear. And fear, as we all know, is a powerful fuel for driving folklore into the future. Let’s meet one ind...
History has left us with countless stories of ghosts that stay in one place. But every now and then, our spectral neighbors uproot themselves and do a...
Go deeper into the subject matter of our most recent episode (265: Friend or Faux) with these three recommendations from further back in the Lore cata...
Many animals in the world of folklore are inventions designed to fulfill one purpose or another. But if the stories are true, some of those inventions...
We’ve all heard that war often leaves a few ghost stories in its wake. As proof, we offer a key territory in America’s most formative conflict…and all...
Go deeper into the subject matter of our most recent episode (264: Engine Trouble) with these three recommendations from further back in the Lore cata...
Humans have always had a need for speed. But whether we got our fix in the ancient world, or on modern roads, the results have often turned out to be...
Folklore grows. It has roots that run deep and branches that stretch out far and wide. The stories we pluck from it are fruit, in more ways than one—a...
Go deeper into the subject matter of our most recent episode (263: Elementary) with these three recommendations from further back in the Lore catalog:...
When we talk about the intersection of history and folklore, few individuals in history sat themselves so firmly on that target like well-known one ma...
