Jackalope Carnival: A Sideshow of Stories
Jackalope Carnival
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Mysteries, legendary creatures, historical oddities, strange occurrences and spooky stuff all are fair game in this carnival sideshow of stories. Eric and Bekah are your guides to looking at the unknown through the lens of human belief. Step right up! It's a Jackalope Carnival! Jackalope Carnival has a new episodes coming mid-September 2025! Stay tuned!
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Recent Episodes
S5E10 I'll Be Your Mirror, Bloody Mary
Send us Fan MailEnter a terrifying world of mysterious mirrors, haunted reflections, occult spies and...school kids' slumber parties? C'mon who hasn't levitated a friend, called forth the scourge of…
S5E9 George Rapp: Occult Garden Gnome or Cult Leader?
Send us Fan MailThesis: History in general, and the 19th in specific, was weirder than you told.Evidence: Jackalope Carnival submits for you approval Georg Rapp, a capitalist commune cult leader,…
S5E8 Winter Ragers and The War on Christmas: Jackalope Carnival Holiday Special 2025 Part 2!
Send us Fan MailWhat does Oliver Cromwell, Calvinist Lord Protector of England (and infamous prig), British garage rockers The Kinks and the Insane Clown Posse have in common? Come for Christmas list…
S5E7 Hard Candy Christmas: Jackalope Carnival Holiday Special 2025, Part 1
Send us Fan MailIt's that time again folks, our annual holiday episode. This year Christmas brings fond memories of tube socks and hard candy. Enjoy this candy dish of musically inspired Christmas…
S5E6 Koreshan Unity: Just a Florida Man and his Hollow Earth Cult
Send us Fan MailWhatever you do, don't put your recently deceased cult leader in a bathtub in Florida for a week to see if he'll make good on his promise to come back to life. Is it occult? Sure. Is…
S5E5 Hollow Earth Controversy: Pita or Arepa?
Send us Fan MailWhat is this hollow Earth business? What, is it the 1820s again? Or how about the 1920s?Fire up he blimp, we're heading for the North Pole in the latest episode of Jackalope Carnival…
S5E4 Phantom Hitchhikers: Not All Who Wander Are Alive!!
Send us Fan MailThink you know everything about this well studied trope? Think again. Jackalope Carnival will join folklorists of the past as they try to track down what is one of the oldest urban…
S5E3 The Goatman: Of Goats and Men, and Men Who are Goats
Send us Fan MailLegends tell of a terrifying figure: half-man, half-goat, and fully armed with an axe. But is the Goatman a single creature wandering across America, or do multiple horned horrors…
S5E2 Southern Cousins: Wild Men and Bigfoot Kin
Send us Fan Mail-Is there a connection between sightings of "wild man" in the Southern US, the Civil War and Sasquatch-like creatures? Why would anyone "buy a box of bats"? What made Bekah exclaim,…
S5E1 Bell Witch: The Pettiest Poltergeist
Send us Fan MailAt what point does legend become fact? Is there any evidence that the legend of the Bell Witch was concocted to cover for something more nefarious? We don’t know what strange girls in…
Christmas Episode '23: Santa's Friends Are Not Okay
Send us Fan MailIn our 4th Christmas episode, which may or may not have been done under the influence of holiday cheer, we take a look at some of the dark and devilish company that Saint Nicholas…
Mermen and more!
Send us Fan MailWhere did all the stories of mermen go? When merpeople are so popular in fiction, why are they not talked about so much in cryptozoology circles? Was a merman sighted in Redondo…
S4E2 Civil War Ghosts and Otherwise
Send us Fan MailGhosts a plenty. Ghost-o-rama, Plethora of hauntings here. Boooooy Howdy. Also: Eric talks about his connections to the Civil War. Bekah wonders if her cold is making her manifest…
S4E1 Channeling for Fun and Prophet
Send us Fan MailA new (mini) season of Jackalope Carnival! In this episode there's Ouija boards, automatic writing, earnest but (probably) poorly pronounced Mandarin and voices from the spirit world…
S3E11 Winged Harbingers and Scary Sky Creatures!
Send us Fan MailThe final episode of Season Three speaks of DOOOM! DOOOOOOOOOM! Were Chernobyl and the eruption of Mt Saint Helens prophesied by winged har-binge-rs? Or is it Har-bing-ers? Find out…
S3E10 Worst Valentine's Day Episode Ever
Send us Fan MailIn this pretty inappropriate, and not particularly family friendly episode, we look to Sylvester Graham and John Harvey Kellogg to talk about past diets that were intended to keep…
S3E9 Ghost Ships: The Carroll A. Deering and the Flying Dutchman
Send us Fan MailJackalope Carnival again takes to the high seas in search of abandoned ghost vessels, ghosts on ships and ships that are ghosts. Also: phantom ships, missing crews and ruddy men who…
S3E8 Out of Body Experiences, Psychic Spies and Dangerous Artichoke Aliens
Send us Fan MailDid the government open doors it couldn't close? Do dangerous aliens wear hot pants in the produce aisle? Why do they wave artichokes about? Good thing the Men in Black got there just…
S3E7 MORE Jackalope Carnival Holiday Special 2022!!
Send us Fan MailOur second helping of international Christmas folklore and fun At one point, Bekah tries to convince Eric that if you beat a log with a stick while screaming at it, it will poop candy…
S3E6 Jackalope Carnival Christmas Holiday Special 2022!!
Send us Fan MailAre werewolves and ghosts only for Halloween? What are the "stretchy pants days of December" and why do mischievous little men crawl from underground to sour my milk? A very merry…
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