dark History
Strange Lore
One Tale at a time
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Welcome to the Time and tales Podcast
Each week we bring you the spookiest tidbits from history and folklore. If macabre facts, eerie fables, and 4am rabbit holes are your natural habitat, you’re in the right place. New episodes every week, wherever you listen.
Prepared and presented by LaNae and CJ. One an author of dark fairy tales, fantasy, and folk horror; the other a skeptical engineer who keeps the evidence front and center. Expect the occasional. lighthearted clash!
If you’re ready for your next late-night obsession, this belongs in your queue.
As always, sources and links can be found in the show notes.
PODCAST THEME by RANDY LEE RIVIERE (randyleeriviere.com)
#history #folklore #darkhistory #fables
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MEET YOUR HOSTS
CJ is an IT Pro and Engineer and LaNae is a published author, editor, and photographer who runs her own media company.
You can find links to LaNae’s books and projects HERE.
You won’t find CJ, because he hates to be found;)
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Gilles de Rais, medieval noble and alleged serial killer, was once a war hero who fought beside Joan of Arc. In 1440, a missing boy in Nantes led investigators to the baron’s estates, where rumors of vanished children surrounded one of the richest men in France. This dark history podcast episode follows his rise from hero of Orléans to infamous killer, walks through the trials and testimony, and asks how his story helped shape the later Bluebeard legend.
02
In 2015, LiDAR scans of the Honduran Mosquitia revealed plazas, earthworks, and ruins long linked to the “White City” or Ciudad Blanca. A joint team of scientists, archaeologists, and filmmakers went in—and came back with a parasitic disease that tabloids called a curse. This episode traces Indigenous origins of the legend, the expeditions and tech that finally pierced the canopy, and how archaeology, ecology, and sensational headlines now collide in one fragile corner of the Honduran jungle.
03
Between 1764 and 1767, the remote French province of Gévaudan was terrorized by a mysterious predator that parish records called La Bête—“The Beast.” More than 100 people were killed in daylight attacks that witnesses insisted were “like a wolf, yet not a wolf.” Royal hunters claimed victory, yet the killings continued until a local farmer brought down a creature whose proportions defied easy explanation.
This episode explores the attacks, the hunt, and the leading theories—from wolves to hybrids to possible human involvement—and why the legend endures as one of Europe’s strangest historical mysteries.
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