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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S1E30 Episode 30 - Feral People
What 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, cave-dwelling clans, and…
S1E29 Episode 29 - Science of the Paranormal Part 2: The Limits of Technology
In 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 One explored…
S1E28 The Science of the Paranormal - Part 1: The Limits of Human Perception
In 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 science behind…
S1E31 Episode 31 - The Mothman
In 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 sightings near the TNT…
S1E27 Episode 27 - Vampires After the Grave: Pop Culture and Romance
In 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 transformation. In…
S1E26 Episode 26 - The Returning Dead: Vampires Before Myth and Romance
For 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 revenants, the…
S1E25 Episode 25 - The Cecil Hotel
In this episode, we examine the Cecil Hotel in Los Angeles as a documented case of long-term tragedy, recurring deaths, and persistent claims of paranormal activity.Rather than focusing on rumor or…
S1E24 Episode 24 - Texas Strangeness Part 2
In Part 1, we cataloged the cryptids of Texas, the creatures that leave tracks, bodies, and biological questions behind. But not everything strange in Texas fits that framework.In Texas Strangeness –…
S1E23 Episode 23 - Texas Strangeness Part 1
Texas has a long history of strange creature reports, some familiar, others barely remembered, and many that don’t fit neatly into any category at all.In Texas Strangeness – Part 1, we’re laying the…
S1E22 Episode 22 - Count Saint Germain
In this episode of Arcane Station, we investigate the life and legacy of Count Saint Germain, a documented eighteenth-century figure who appeared suddenly within Europe’s most exclusive courts, moved…
S1E21 Episode 21 - The Supernatural and Occult Origins of Christmas
Christmas is often presented as a season of comfort, generosity, and familiarity. But beneath the modern imagery of nativity scenes, Santa Claus, and holiday traditions lies a much older structure…
S1E20 Episode 20 - Haunted and Abandoned Tunnels
Abandoned tunnels have a way of unsettling people long after their original purpose has ended.Across different regions and eras, tunnels built for railroads, roads, and infrastructure have developed…
S1E19 Episode 19 - The Not Deer
Something is wrong in the woods of Appalachia.Hikers, hunters, and lifelong locals all describe the same eerie moment: a deer steps onto the trail… then moves in a way no deer should. Its legs bend…
S1E18 Episode 18 - Poveglia Island
Poveglia Island sits quietly in the Venetian Lagoon, but its history is anything but silent. Once a quarantine station during the deadliest plague outbreaks in Europe, and later the site of a…
S1E17 Episode 17 - The Supernatural Founding of the USA
What if the United States didn’t emerge through politics alone? What if the Revolutionary era was shaped by divine intervention, unexplained phenomena, and symbolic decisions that reached far beyond…
S1E16 Episode 16 - Spiritualism
During the 18th and 19th centuries, the Western world became obsessed with a single idea: that the living could communicate directly with the dead. In this episode, we explore the rise of…
S1E15 Episode 15 - The Jersey Devil
Arcane Station explores one of America’s oldest and most enduring legends: the Jersey Devil.In this episode, host Mike Porter revisits the classic story of Mother Leeds, the cursed thirteenth child,…
S1E14 Episode 14 - The Bridgewater Triangle
In this episode of Arcane Station, we venture into one of America’s most mysterious regions, the Bridgewater Triangle of southeastern Massachusetts.For decades, witnesses have reported UFOs, ghost…
S1E13 Episode 13 - Timeslips and Out-of-Place People
Have you ever heard a story about someone who seemed to fall out of time, vanishing for moments, hours, or even years, only to return with memories of another era? In this episode of Arcane Station,…
S1E12 Episode 12 - Horror In Video Games
Step into the dark with host Mike Porter as Arcane Station explores the evolution of fear in video games, from the pixelated ghosts of Haunted House and Alone in the Dark to the cinematic realism of…
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Arcane Station has published 30 episodes since August 2025, covering topics in Documentary, Religion & Spirituality.
Arcane Station is currently highly active with new episodes weekly. Average episode length is 33m.
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