Arcane Station
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Arcane Station is a storytelling and research-driven podcast exploring cryptids, paranormal encounters, folklore, conspiracies, and high strangeness, blending historical accounts, modern sightings, and speculative theories into immersive narratives. Each episode invites listeners to journey into the mysterious and unexplained, where fact and legend often blur.
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S1E45 Episode 45 - Altered States 03
Send us Fan Mail What if the code people see in altered states isn't a hallucination — but the actual structure of reality? In episode three of the Altered States series, Mike Porter traces a…
S1E44 Episode 44 - Altered States 02
Send us Fan Mail Who are they? In this episode, we meet the beings themselves. The entities that people consistently encounter when consciousness is altered. From the playful, mischievous machine…
S1E43 Episode 43 - Altered States 01
Send us Fan Mail What if the visions people experience on DMT, psilocybin, and other psychedelics aren't hallucinations created by a malfunctioning brain, but actual windows into something that…
S1E42 Episode 42 - Lake Monsters
Send us Fan Mail From the depths of Loch Ness to the remote lakes of Oklahoma, creatures lurk in the dark waters of our world. For centuries, eyewitnesses across continents have reported encounters…
S1E41 Episode 41: Mountains: Where gods and God Congregate
Send us Fan MailWhy do mountains appear again and again in ancient mythology, religious texts, paranormal encounters, and stories of supernatural beings? Across cultures and throughout history,…
S1E40 Episode 40 - The Klickitat Ape Cat
Send us Fan MailIn the forests of southern Washington, there are reports of a creature that looks like a black cougar, but with a face that doesn’t belong to any known animal. It’s been called the…
S1E39 Episode 39 - Jack the Ripper
Send us Fan MailIn 1888, the streets of Whitechapel were more than just dangerous, they were disorienting, oppressive, and on edge. Thick industrial fog choked the air, gaslights distorted what…
S1E38 Episode 38 - The Little People
Send us Fan MailAcross continents and across centuries, cultures around the world have told stories of small humanlike beings who live in forests, mountains, caves, mounds, and hidden places beneath…
S1E37 Episode 37 - The Ahnenerbe
Send us Fan MailWhat happens when history, mythology, sacred sites, and wartime legend begin to overlap?In this episode of Arcane Station, Mike Porter takes a deep dive into the world surrounding the…
S1E36 Episode 36 - Flooded Towns
Send us Fan MailEntire towns and villages have been intentionally submerged beneath reservoirs, lakes, and waterways across North America and beyond. Homes, roads, churches, cemeteries, and entire…
S1E35 Episode 35 - Antarctica
Send us Fan MailAntarctica is one of the most remote and controlled places on Earth, and one of the most misunderstood.In this episode of Arcane Station, we move from fiction to reality, and then…
S1E34 Episode 34 - The AI Deception
Send us Fan MailWhat happens when you can no longer trust what you see?In this episode of Arcane Station, we explore the rise of AI-generated media and how it’s reshaping the way we understand…
S1E33 Episode 33 - The Mimic
Send us Fan MailWhat if the voice calling your name isn’t who you think it is?Across TikTok, Reddit, and paranormal forums, thousands of people are reporting a strange experience: hearing the voice…
S1E32 Episode 32 - Ice Age Giants and the Glimpse Beyond
Send us Fan MailThe Ice Age wasn’t ancient history. Mammoths, mastodons, giant ground sloths, short-faced bears, American lions, and camels once roamed North and South America, and humans walked…
S1E31 Episode 31 - The Mothman
Send us Fan MailIn this episode of Arcane Station, we examine the Mothman case from its origin in Point Pleasant, West Virginia through its modern interpretations.We begin with the 1966–1967…
S1E30 Episode 30 - Feral People
Send us Fan MailWhat happens when a human grows up without society?Feral children are real. Cannibalism has occurred in history. And across centuries, cultures have told stories of wild men,…
S1E29 Episode 29 - Science of the Paranormal Part 2: The Limits of Technology
Send us Fan MailIn Part Two of The Science of the Paranormal, we move beyond the limits of human perception and into harder territory: technology, biology, and the structure of reality itself.If Part…
S1E28 The Science of the Paranormal - Part 1: The Limits of Human Perception
Send us Fan MailIn this two-part episode of Arcane Station, we begin with a simple but unsettling question: how much of reality are humans actually capable of perceiving?In Part One, we explore the…
S1E27 Episode 27 - Vampires After the Grave: Pop Culture and Romance
Send us Fan MailIn Part 2 of this Arcane Station series, we move beyond history and into culture.After centuries of being feared as revenants and monsters, vampires underwent a dramatic…
S1E26 Episode 26 - The Returning Dead: Vampires Before Myth and Romance
Send us Fan MailFor centuries, people across the world feared that the dead did not always stay dead.In Part 1 of this Arcane Station series, we examined the historical origins of vampires as…
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Arcane Station has published 45 episodes since August 2025, covering topics in Documentary, Religion & Spirituality.
Arcane Station is currently highly active with new episodes weekly. Average episode length is 34m.
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