Jackalope Carnival: A Sideshow of Stories
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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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S5 Buried Audio Treasures
Send us a textHi there folks, Jackalope Carnival will be taking a short break until March 4. But before our break take a listen to these odds and ends (mostly odd) including Bekah singing a beautiful…
S5E9 George Rapp: Occult Garden Gnome or Cult Leader?
Send a textThesis: 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 a textWhat 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 of…
S5E7 Hard Candy Christmas: Jackalope Carnival Holiday Special 2025, Part 1
Send a textIt'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 trivia…
S5E6 Koreshan Unity: Just a Florida Man and his Hollow Earth Cult
Send a textWhatever 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 it a…
S5E5 Hollow Earth Controversy: Pita or Arepa?
Send a textWhat 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 where…
S5E4 Phantom Hitchhikers: Not All Who Wander Are Alive!!
Send a textThink 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 legends…
S5E3 The Goatman: Of Goats and Men, and Men Who are Goats
Send a textLegends 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 haunt…
S5E2 Southern Cousins: Wild Men and Bigfoot Kin
Send a text-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, "I…
S5E1 Bell Witch: The Pettiest Poltergeist
Send a textAt 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 a textIn 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 keeps in…
Mermen and more!
Send a textWhere 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 Beach,…
S4E2 Civil War Ghosts and Otherwise
Send a textGhosts 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 a textA 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 a textThe 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 on…
S3E10 Worst Valentine's Day Episode Ever
Send a textIn 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 one's…
S3E9 Ghost Ships: The Carroll A. Deering and the Flying Dutchman
Send a textJackalope 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 leave…
S3E8 Out of Body Experiences, Psychic Spies and Dangerous Artichoke Aliens
Send a textDid 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 in…
S3E7 MORE Jackalope Carnival Holiday Special 2022!!
Send a textOur 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 into…
S3E6 Jackalope Carnival Christmas Holiday Special 2022!!
Send a textAre 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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Jackalope Carnival: A Sideshow of Stories has published 49 episodes since September 2020, covering topics in History, Society & Culture.
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