Where legends come alive... and so do your fears.
Dive into the shadowy world of global folklore with "Folklore Shudders," the podcast that brings you face-to-face with the most chilling myths, legends, and cryptids from around the globe. Each episode unearths terrifying tales and explores the origins of scary stories that have kept humanity awake for centuries.
Remember, in the realm of "Folklore Shudders," every legend has a grain of truth, and every shadow might be hiding something unexplainable. Are you brave enough to listen?
The Black Water Papers, Part Two: The Notebook from Ennerdale
Title: The Black Water Papers, Part Two: The Three Black Stones
Oliver Hargreaves had spent years watching Ennerdale Water. By the end of Part One, he believed that something beneath the surface had started watching him in return.
But Oliver went back.
In the concluding part of the Black Water Papers, his investigation becomes increasingly personal. The three black ridges begin appearing wherever he chooses to stand. Something heavy enters the lake behind him after dark. Then, one morning, the creature moves into the shallows and Oliver finally sees what has been hiding beneath the water.
His notebook ends soon afterwards.
More than a century later, a modern photograph appears to show three familiar shapes in the exact place marked by one of Oliver’s oldest accounts.
This is the conclusion of an original fictional folklore investigation rooted in the real landscape and history of Ennerdale. Listening to Part One first is recommended.
21 Aug 2026
The Black Water Papers, Part One: The Notebook from Ennerdale
The Black Water Papers, Part One: The Notebook from Ennerdale
A battered green notebook arrives from a house clearance in west Cumbria. Inside is the name Oliver Hargreaves, a series of entries dating from eighteen ninety-six to nineteen hundred and four, and years of obsessive research into something supposedly living beneath Ennerdale Water.
When Rowan begins checking the notebook, the geography and historical details fit. The creature does not. There is no established legend matching Oliver’s investigation. No recognised account of the three black ridges he repeatedly drew. Nothing that explains how such a detailed body of work could have disappeared completely.
Then Oliver stops recording where the creature appears and starts recording where he was standing when it found him.
This is Part One of an original fictional folklore investigation rooted in the real landscape and history of Ennerdale.
23 Jul 2026
The Croglin Vampire: The Thing at the Window
On a stifling summer night in a Cumberland valley, a young woman lay awake with her shutters open and watched two small lights move through the churchyard beyond the lawn. She thought they were lanterns. They were not lanterns.
The Croglin Vampire is the closest thing England has to a native bloodsucker — a brown, shrivelled, flame-eyed figure that picked the lead from a window frame with its fingernails and bit a woman’s throat in her own bedroom. Its story reaches us through a single Victorian memoir, a dinner-party anecdote set down decades after the fact.
And when investigators went looking for Croglin Grange, they found no such house. No church. No family in the records. A plot that closely echoes a penny dreadful half of England had read.
Then someone went back, and talked to the people who lived there — and found the story was older than the man who told it, and found the foundation stones of a chapel still lying in the grass.
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