Virginia may be for lovers, but Ohio is for the Loveland Frogmen. Journey to the midwest on this episode's latest installment of our state cryptid series, the land of the Frogman, the Mothman, the Ohio Grassman, and so much more. 

Sources:

• Cryptid Ohio
• Top 10 Cryptids Still Creeping Around Ohio- Exemplore
• The 11 Most Bizarre Mythical… Columbus Navigator
• The Werewolf of Defiance- Fox19
• The Mothman Museum- citybeat.com
• Cryptid Profile: The Crosswick Monster- Pine Barren Institute
• Meet the Monsters: The Crosswick Monster- monstersofohio.com
• The Peninsula Python: An Absolutely True Story- the Atlantic
• Monsters, Cryptids, and Mysterious Wild Beasts: West Virginia, Ohio, Maryland, and Beyond, Jannette Quackenbush (2019)
• The Loveland Frogmen-WLWT
• Loveland Frogman Race
• The Gadsden Times, Oct. 18, 1985 (article on the Loveland frog)
• Binkowski, Brooke. “ ‘Loveland Frogman’ Spotted Again?” Aug. 5, 2016. Snopes. 
• Leggate, James. “Officer who shot ‘Loveland Frogman’ says story is a hoax” Aug. 5, 2016. 
• Mulvey, Ricky. “The Loveland Frog: Still a Legend; Now a Loveland Movie,” January 28, 2010. 
• Long, Changquan et al. “Neural signs of flexible categorization: Evidence fromt eh flexibility of inclusion of humans in animal/non-animal categorization,” Elsevier, April 2020.
• Bessie, the Lake Erie Monster
• Ohio Grassman, Green-Clawed Beast, Big Muddy Monster, episode of Monsters and Mysteries

Just popping in your feed to say we are moving from releasing our podcast weekly to biweekly. Life, uhhhh, gets in the way (and women inherit the earth; watch Jurassic Park). Stay tuned for our next full episode on Thursday, Sept. 29!

What's grey and feathered and bipedal and a starfish but also an alligator? The Australian bunyip, of course!

Holly and Chelsea reminisce about Chelsea's year as an exchange student in Australia as they unearth historical and contemporary cultural nuggets about the bunyip, a creature from multiple southern Aboriginal cultures' creation traditions. 

Sources:

• The Gloomy Bunyip
• Red Billabong- wiki
• Bunyip wiki
• Meet the Bunyip- all that’s interesting
• Bunyip cryptid wiki
• Steve Irwin Stamps
• Dot and the Kangaroo wiki
• Bunyip, The Oxford Companion to Australian Literature, 2nd ed. Wilde, William H., Joy Hooton, and Barry Andrews. Oxford UP, 1994. 
• Holden, Robert; Nicholas Holden. (2001). Bunyips: Australia’s folklore of fear. 
• South Australian Institutes Journal, Jan. 18, 1901. 
• Geelong Advertiser, Wed. July 2, 1845.
• “Water spirit beings,” Clarke, Philip A. Aboriginal Biocultural Knowledge in South-eastern Australia: Perspectives of Early Colonists, 2018. 
• Clarke, Philip A. “Indigenous Spirit and Ghost Folklore of “Settled” Australia.” Folklore 118.2 (2007), 141-161. 

Music:

• Intro and outro: ​Underneath the Christmas Tree (Instrumental) by myuu http://www.thedarkpiano.com/ Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/q8fX3In7Qng

We're doing something different this week to accommodate Chelsea's croaky cold voice (blame her toddler, the walking germ farm): recommendations! We discuss fae-adjacent books, tv shows, and movies we've enjoyed recently. Mostly books, because, well, we were both English majors. 

Chelsea's book recommendations:

• The Chosen and the Beautiful, Nghi Vo
• A Spindle Splintered, A Mirror Mended, and all things Alix E. Harrow
• Small Favors, Erin A. Craig
• For the Wolf and For the Throne, Hannah Whitten

Holly's book recommendations:

• Cassandra Speaks: When Women Are the Storytellers, the Human Story Changes, Elizabeth Lesser
• Women and Other Monsters: Building a New Mythology, Jess Zimmerman
• Pandora's Jar: Women in the Green Myths, Natalie Haynes
• A Thousand Ships, Natalie Haynes

Music:

• Intro and outro: ​Underneath the Christmas Tree (Instrumental) by myuu http://www.thedarkpiano.com/ Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/q8fX3In7Qng

Meet the original Dr. Burk, our dad, on this canine-centered episode! Dr. Craig Burk, veterinarian for over 40 years, helps us understand the differences between Cardiganshire Welsh Corgis and Pembroke Welsh Corgis, discusses Kennel Clubs, and reminds us to always bring water for our pups on hot days. 

Also, Chelsea solves a corgi-as-fairy-steed mystery and Holly teaches us about best practices when introducing your corgi to its fairy saddle.

Sources:

• Can Dogs See Fairies? Wag
• Faerie Guardian Dogs- The Faerie Dog… YouTube
• What is a Fairy Saddle on a Corgi? corgicare
• https://folklorethursday.com/folklife/5370/
• Pembroke Welsh Corgi Listed As Vulnerable Breed
• “Dog,” The Encyclopedia of Celtic Myth and Folklore, Patricia Monaghan
• The American Kennel Club “Cardigan vs. Pembroke: An Interesting Heritage”
• "Corgi Fantasy," Anne G. Biddlecome
• John Rhys’s Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx

Music:

• Intro and outro: ​Underneath the Christmas Tree (Instrumental) by myuu http://www.thedarkpiano.com/ Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/q8fX3In7Qng

Chelsea learns that she's been confusing I Dream of Jeannie with Bewitched for her entire life while Holly chooses which jinn origin story is the best (hint: witches always win). Hear all about jinn and their evolution from Muslim spirits with the same moral obligations as humans into the Will Smith genie that horrifies us today!

Sources:

• El-Zein, Amira. Islam, Arabs, and the Intelligent World of the Jinn. Syracuse University Press; 2009.
• Duggan, Anne E. “From Genie to Efreet: Fantastic Apparitions in the Tales of The Arabian Nights.”  Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts, 26.1, 2015.
• Lebling, Robert. Legends of the Fire Spirits: Jinn and Genies from Arabia to Zanzibar. Berkely, 2010. 
• O’Meara, Simon. “From Space to Place: The Quaranic Infernalization of the Jinn. “Locating Hell in Islamic Traditions, ed. Christian Lange, Brill, 2016. 
• Jinn in popular culture- WikiLists
• A History of Genies in Folklore- IGN
• I Dream of Jeannie- wikipedia
• Does the name Shazam! sound familiar to you? Here’s why- DirectTV.com
• Jambi- Pee-Wee’s Playhouse wiki
• Genie- Disney Wiki

Music:

• Intro and outro: ​Underneath the Christmas Tree (Instrumental) by myuu http://www.thedarkpiano.com/ Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/q8fX3In7Qng

Picture yourself: it's the dark. 

Cuddle under your blankets and keep your head on a swivel for the first episode of our state cryptids series! Who knew Missouri had so many weird critters lurking about? We talk MoMo, the Missouri Monster, the Ozark Howler, Batsquatch, and so much more. 

Sources:

• Momo the Monster- wikipedia
• Missouri's mysterious monsters live on through generations of storytelling- VOX magazine
• Devil’s Promenade and the Hornet Spook Lights- Legends of America
• The Ozark Howler- Explore Southern History
• Creature feature: Missouri and Illinois beasts and why we love their stories- St. Louis Post-Dispatch
• The Missouri Monster Momo is the Cryptid that Time Forgot- Vice
• Halloween Special: Batsquatch is Missouri’s latest monster mystery- The Salem News Online
• Missouri Men Encountered a Flying Humanoid in the Ozarks- Ultimate Unexplained
• MO town embraces Mo Mo the Monster 50 years after… St. Louis Post-Dispatch
• Mountain Lion- MDC website
• Paul the Nixa Hellhound Facebook page
• Christan, Sara Brooke. “The Cryptid Tourist Gaze: Cryptid Tourism and Monster Hunting.” Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College. Proquest Dissertations, 2021.
• Missouri Urban Legends- Only In Your State
• Engel, Brent. “50 years later: ‘Mo Mo’ is a go-go,” Courier-Post, July 8, 2022.
• Hahn, Valerie Schremp. “Creature Feature: Missouri and Illinois Beasts and Why We love Their Stories,” Saint Louis Today, Oct 29, 2017.
• Weiser-Alexander, Kathy. “Momo—The Missouri Monster,” Legends of America, 2020. 

Music:

• ​Intro and outro: ​Underneath the Christmas Tree (Instrumental) by myuu http://www.thedarkpiano.com/ Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/q8fX3In7Qng

Thunderbirds and lightening, very very frightening ME! (Galileo, Galileo, Figaro). 

Holly and Chelsea learn about thunderbirds, creatures that hold importance for indigenous peoples across North America. Chelsea pontificates on why she hates nineteenth-century ethnographies while Holly refuses to purchase a full text on Google Books. 

Sources:

• Thunderbird (mythology) wikipedia
• Harry Potter Wiki- Thunderbird 
• Thunderbird- American Gods wiki
• American Gods- Grace’s Literature Blog
• The Legend of the Thunderbirds- Pennsylvania Wilds
• Thunderbird Cryptid Wiki
• Book- The Exploits of Chief Aj: As Told to Chuck Vaughn- Google Books
• The Giant Thunderbird Returns- liveabout.com
• Did Giant Birds Roam the American Plains? HistoryDaily
• A flying creature has spooked the South Texas area for decades. Do you think they’re real? My San Antonio 
• Monsterquest- Birdzilla IMDB
• Kettle Creek State Park- DCNR.PA.GOV
• Carrol, Al and William A. Starna. “Thunderbird Warriors, Injuneers, and the USNS Red Cloud: Native and Pseudo-Indian Images and Names in the Military,” Medicine Bags and Dog Tags: American Indian Veterans from Colonial Times to the Second Iraq War. UN Press, 20008.
• Peyote, Encyclopedia of World Religions, Encyclopedia Britannica, 2006.
• Cry of the Thunderbird: The American Indian’s Own Story, 1950.
• Senter, Philip J. “Pterosaur Thunderbird: The Origin of a Fake Native American Legend with an Anti-Evolution Agenda.” Skeptic Magazine, 24.2, 2019.
• Lenik, Edward J. “The Thunderbird Motif in Northeastern Indian Art.” 
• Alex, Bridget. “Rulers of the Upper Realm, Thunderbirds are Powerful Native Spirits,” Audubon Magazine, Nov. 30, 2020.
• Milliner, Matthew J. “Christ and the Thunderbird: The creative resistance of Native American Christian art.” Christian Century, Dec. 15, 2021.

Music:

• ​Intro and outro: ​Underneath the Christmas Tree (Instrumental) by myuu http://www.thedarkpiano.com/ Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/q8fX3In7Qng