Our Numinous Nature

About Our Numinous Nature

Our Numinous Nature is a traveling podcast in search of profound stories focused on regional flora & fauna, folklore & history with a penchant for the mysterious and the hunt. We’ll be hearing from folks with a deep connection to the land, from herbalists to hunters, folk artists, paranormal investigators, & living historians. The hope is to reach the soul of these people & places through tales of profundity & awe. Find a comfy log and join us at the sonic campfire.

Publisher

Philippe G. Willis

Category

history

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

25 Jun 2020

Latest episode

18 Jun 2026

Latest episodes

36 of 113 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   18 Jun 2026

   CHEROKEE MYTHOLOGY, SPIRIT BIRDS & EARLY TRANSATLANTIC TRAVEL | Storyteller | Larry Jent

   Larry Jent is a Cherokee storyteller, Methodist pastor and musician living outside Elkins, West Virginia. After readings about the stars and owls in Cherokee mythology we hear of the role of the The Creator, demi-god like figures such as Selu [Corn] and her husband Kana'ti [The Lucky Hunter], and animals in general. From religion and mythology to fascinating mysteries of archaeology and history we get into Native American copper mining both in North Carolina & The Great Lakes; the C...

2. 

   14 May 2026

   SPIRITS IN STONE: HUDSON VALLEY MEGALITHS, CAIRNS & SERPENT WALLS | Researcher | Glenn Kreisberg

   Glenn Kreisberg is a researcher, engineer, author of Spirits in Stone: The Secrets of Megalithic America and co-founder of The Overlook Mountain Center in Woodstock, New York. For this in-the-field episode, we visit a mysterious archaeological site, a mountainside covered in signs of ancient indigenous habitation, enigmatic cairns and serpentine walls. After a reading of early 19th-century accounts from the likes of Lewis & Clark about stone heaps and large stone worship in Native America...

3. 

   2 Apr 2026TRANSCRIPT

   ARTIFACT HUNTING + FORGOTTEN HISTORY OF EARLY VIRGINIA | Amateur Archaeologist | Dominique Kostelac

   Amateur archaeologist Dominique Kostelac shares his discoveries of a Monacan village and forgotten early European arrivals in Virginia during this interview.

Inside a recent episode

ARTIFACT HUNTING + FORGOTTEN HISTORY OF EARLY VIRGINIA | Amateur Archaeologist | Dominique Kostelac

Published 2 Apr 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] And so it's constantly collapsing because the sea level has been rising for 20 ,000 years. And as it continues to rise, it's chipping away at these land things by wave erosion. And as those walls collapse down, we would just come right up to him with the jet ski. We could see miles of it a day and about three feet down. There's a black score line. It's black. And so why is that there? Why is there a black score continuously along the Chesapeake? And so we start digging in there. And that black score line has been dated to a common strike in Nova Scotia. That was pretty much what wiped out the megafauna around 12 ,000 years ago. […]

Who has been a guest on Our Numinous Nature

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Russ Williams
• Oliver Lavery
• Dom Flemons
• Laura Stotts
• Donna La Pré

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

Apple Podcasts (US)

4.9 / 5

131 ratings

Spotify

4.9 / 5

180 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 49 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

61

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

93

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