Veiled Beasts is a narrative folklore podcast exploring cryptids, mythological creatures, and eerie legends from around the world.
Each episode immerses you in atmospheric storytelling inspired by Slavic folklore, Celtic mythology, Appalachian legends, Scandinavian spirits, and other global traditions. From forest spirits and water entities to field guardians and shadowed beings, these stories examine the creatures said to exist between this world and the next.
If you love cryptid podcasts, mythological storytelling, supernatural folklore, atmospheric horror, or bedtime eerie stories, Veiled Beasts invites you to move gently through the Veil.
New episodes weekly.
Extended archive episodes available on Patreon.
The Mothman: The Watcher Beneath the Bridge | American Folklore
In the quiet stretches night along the Ohio River, something waits.
In this episode of Veiled Beasts, we descend into one of the most chilling pieces of American folklore, the legend of the Mothman. Sighted near Point Pleasant, West Virginia in the 1960s, this towering, winged figure with glowing red eyes appeared again and again before the tragic collapse of the Silver Bridge, leaving behind a mystery that still lingers.
This is not just a story of a cryptid. This is a story about presence, stillness, and something that seems to exist within moments before they unfold.
23 Apr 2026
Black Shuck: Demon Hellhound Sightings | English Folklore
A quiet road stretches through the English countryside...and something walks it.
In this episode follow a solitary traveler as night falls and the legend of Black Shuck, the demon hellhound of East Anglian folklore, emerges from shadow, storm, and silence. Sightings of this massive spectral dog have haunted roads, marshes, and churchyards for centuries, always appearing without warning.
16 Apr 2026
La Llorona: Weeping Woman of the River | Mexican Folklore
Drift into the quiet current one of the most enduring legends in Mexican folklore, La Llorona, the Weeping Woman.
Along a moonlit river, a mother's grief lingers. Carried through water, memory, and time.
8 Apr 2026
The Skinless Horseman of the Salt Winds | Orcadian Folklore
This quiet, salt-tinged episode of Veiled Beasts drifts along the lonely shores of the Orkney Islands. where the sea mist carries stories older than the tides. Travelers whisper about a figure wo rides the shoreline when the wind holds its breath. Some call the skinless horse and rider fused into one the Nuckelavee...others refuse to name it at all.
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1 Apr 2026
The Bunyip of the Still Water | Australian Folklore
Wander softly into the wetlands, where the reeds lean toward the still water and the billabong keeps its own quiet secrets. In this episode, we drift into Australian folklore to meet the Bunyip. A creature said to dwell just beneath the surface, where the light cannot reach and the mud remembers every step.
Told in a slow, dreamlike cadence, this story invites you to listen the way you would to a fairytale...if bedtime stories lingered in the dark corners of the mind long after the final word.
25 Mar 2026
The Green Man of the Silent Forest | Celtic Folklore
Step into a quiet moor where rain softens stone and moss spreads like memory. In this dark, lyrical folklore tale, we follow a traveler to an abandoned chapel whose carved faces whisper of patience, growth, and enduring mystery. Beneath the floor, roots move in rhythms older than human time, brushing against the line between body and earth.
4 Mar 2026
Poludnitsa: The Noon Witch if the Wheat Fields | Slavic Folklore
At the height of noon, when the wheat stands still and the air grows heavy with heat, something moves through the fields.
In this episode of Veiled Beasts, we step into Slavic folklore and encounter the Poludnitsa, also known as the Noon Witch. A spirit said to walk the harvest fields under the blazing sun. She does not always appear as a figure. Sometimes she is only a presence in the hum of the soil, the bending of wheat, the shimmer of heat across open land.
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