Folklore Forensics

About Folklore Forensics

You've heard the story. Now hear the case. Every culture tells stories about violence, betrayal, revenge, disappearance, obsession, grief, and power. Over time, those stories become myths, legends, and folklore, passed from generation to generation long after the original events have been forgotten. Humanity's oldest stories preserve humanity's oldest crimes. Folklore Forensics reopens humanity's oldest cases, investigating myths and legends from around the world as if they were real crimes. We reconstruct timelines, examine evidence, question witnesses, and follow the trail wherever it leads. Along the way, we ask not only what happened, but why cultures chose stories as the way to remember it. Because folklore is more than entertainment. It is a record of the fears, desires, anxieties, and transgressions that societies could not stop talking about. A way of preserving difficult truths. A way of making sense of the unthinkable. What details were exaggerated? What facts were lost to time? Why did certain crimes become monsters, curses, prophecies, and ghost stories? And what do humanity's oldest stories still reveal about us today? New cases every week. Hosted and written by Danielle Christmas.

Publisher

Danielle Christmas

Category

history · society & culture · true crime

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

28 Jan 2026

Latest episode

13 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

30 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   13 Oct 2026

   The Case Against Morgan le Fay: The Woman Blamed for Camelot's Fall

   Morgan le Fay poisoned kings, kidnapped knights, stole Excalibur's scabbard, and plotted the destruction of Camelot. At least, that's what the prosecution says. You've heard the story. Now hear the case. Arthurian legend remembers Morgan as Camelot's great villain—a sorceress who poisoned kings, trapped knights, stole magical weapons, and conspired to destroy her own brother's kingdom. But the earliest traditions remember Morgan very differently: as a healer, an educated woman, and the guardi...

2. 

   6 Oct 2026

   The Bell Witch Murder: Who Killed John Bell?

   A farmer dies beside an unidentified bottle of poison and the ghost haunting his family claims responsibility. Was the Bell Witch America's strangest unsolved murder? You've heard the story. Now hear the case. This week on Folklore Forensics, we reopen one of the most famous supernatural mysteries in American folklore and investigate the Bell Witch as a possible crime. Was the haunting an elaborate hoax? Could fear and psychological stress explain what witnesses experienced? Did decades of st...

3. 

   29 Sept 2026

   The Case Against Lilith: The Child-Killing Demoness of Grief

   For more than two thousand years, grieving families blamed the same woman for the deaths of their children. Her name was Lilith. You've heard the story. Now hear the case. Across ancient Mesopotamia, Jewish folklore, medieval Europe, and generations of household tradition, Lilith became an immortal woman of the night: an enemy of childbirth, a killer of infants, and one of folklore's most enduring female monsters. But there was never a single crime scene. There were only thousands of families...

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