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BackAlley AlchemistALIENS! Congressional Hearing and the Story of Stefan MichalakRecently, the US congress held a hearing concerning multiple sightings of unidentified flying objects around US territory spanning decades. The discussion was mostly about national defense and whether or not these aircraft pose a threat to national security. However, the witness testimonies presented during the hearing strongly suggest that these aircraft are not... of this world.
I go over the important parts of that hearing, and go on to tell a story about a man who experienced something real weird near a lake in Canada. The event known as the Falcon Lake Incident.
2023-08-111h 06BackAlley AlchemistThe BunnyMan: True Horror Story, or BullS***t?The story of the BunnyMan or BunnyMan Bridge has gained a lot of popularity in recent years. It all started with an article published in 1999. Or is a news story from 1970? Or a terrifying series of events in 1904? Let's figure it out!
Main Source Material:
Conley, B. A. (2023, July 16). FCPL curated content: Fairfax county history: The bunny man unmasked. The Bunny Man Unmasked - Fairfax County History - FCPL Curated Content at Fairfax County Government. https://research.fairfaxcounty.gov/local-history/bunnyman
Blitz, M. (2016, October 21). The scary, weird...
2023-07-271h 02BackAlley AlchemistChaos and Cryptids!Bullshitting and talking about a few interesting cryptids tonight! Let me know if you like the more casual format, or if you miss the more intense episodes. I also need to know how you feel about the butthole mouth.
Sources:
https://www.wlwt.com/article/the-loveland-frogman/37871711
https://www.sj-r.com/story/news/2013/10/06/valerie-lariviere-cryptic-cryptid-tales/41766459007/
https://southernmostghosts.com/monsters-of-the-deep-the-luscas/
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Youtube: @backalleyalchemist6120
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2023-07-0743 minBackAlley AlchemistProphecies!!I'm gonna tell you my favorite story and another story that's real cool, and we're gonna talk about PROPHECIES!!!
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2023-05-1856 minBackAlley AlchemistHaunted Organs!Ever hear of haunted organs? When people undergo drastic changes in their behavior following an organ transplant, is it because of some complicated relationship between the body and the soul, or is it just some crazy biology?
Find me on youtube for the video version, and if you're into it, I'd love some patrons!
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REFERENCES
“10 Unbelievable Organ Transplant Stories That Are Actually True.” Scoo...
2023-03-241h 06BackAlley AlchemistTalkin' shit with Morning Orange TarotSpecial guest! Tonight, I just had a chat with Holly of Morning Orange Tarot. She does divination for a living, and also we grew up together in our weird, spiritual family. Figured it would be fun to get together on Discord and just kinda talk about dreams, spirituality, and whatever came up. She's damn near the opposite of myself while still being basically the same. Follow her on social media and if you'd like, you can book a real inexpensive tarot reading with her!
Website: morningorangetarot.glossgenius.com
TikTok: @morning.orange.tarot
Instagram: Morning.Orange.Tarot
2023-02-171h 14BackAlley AlchemistMcMurder Station: Winter be Wildin'This is my first time recording video along with the podcast, so I apologize to audio only listeners for all of my references to the camera. This episode was supposed to come out in December, but here we are. It's about how the cold, and the darkness, and isolation make our brains and bodies all out of whack.
Look for it on YouTube in the days following the upload here if you're interested. Episode: https://youtu.be/KvC2tGeZ8Kw
Also, here's a website where you can watch a live feed from Antarctica: https://www.u...
2023-01-1958 minBackAlley AlchemistDeviant Burials and the Dearg Due (Re-Upload: Volume Adjusted)I deep dive about weird burials, vampires, some science about decay, and a retelling of the story of the Dearg Due.
This is a re upload because I became aware that the volume on my original file was garbage.
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2022-10-201h 10BackAlley AlchemistDeviant Burials and the Dearg-Due (Reboot)A reboot on my episode about the Dearg-Due. I went real deep into vampires, burial rights, and learned some stuff about forensic anthropology.
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2022-09-251h 12BackAlley AlchemistWhat is a Tulpa and why is it NOT a ghost pony you can bang?It was gonna be simple. But it's never simple. Tulpas, Tibetan Buddhism, Meditation, Spuritual grifters, and Bronies. Hear my brain explode in real time!
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2022-09-0744 minBackAlley AlchemistSleep DemonsA look at sleep related Demons around the world, and an explanation on why it's a universal terror
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2022-03-2037 minBackAlley AlchemistWHICH TRIAL!?I gotta talk about Greg Locke and the Early Modern Witchcraze right now.
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2022-02-1942 minBackAlley AlchemistLoch NessLoch Ness, it's monster, and why people are scared of the dark.
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2022-02-0621 minBackAlley AlchemistWaxing on WanderersAn off-the-cuff episode about wanderers in folklore. I'm mostly waxing philosophical about wandering and traveling and what it means to people.
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2022-01-1527 minBackAlley AlchemistExtra Christmas Episode Featuring Krackstar.com owner/artist Devvan K.More convo about the history of christmas. and some other stuff.
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2021-12-2525 min
BackAlley AlchemistSpooky SolsticeSome history behind the holiday of Christmas and my favorite midwinter deities!
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2021-12-1838 minBackAlley AlchemistMan Made MonstersThe people who make the monsters are the real freaks, bruh
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2021-12-0658 minBackAlley Alchemist(Short) Krampus: Saint Nick's Creepy CounterpartKRAMPUS!
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2021-12-0211 minBackAlley AlchemistSpecial episode: Reanimation SeriesSources are not in proper format, but here they are anyway!
http://faculty.webster.edu/corbetre/haiti/voodoo/terms.htm
ZOMBIES
2. https://www.harvardmagazine.com/2017/10/are-zombies-real
3. Mar Drugs. 2015 Oct; 13(10): 6384–6406.
Published online 2015 Oct 19. doi: 10.3390/md13106384
PMCID: PMC4626696
PMID: 26492253
Tetrodotoxin, an Extremely Potent Marine Neurotoxin: Distribution, Toxicity, Origin and Therapeutical Uses
Jorge Lago, Laura P. Rodríguez, Lucía Blanco, Juan Manuel Vieites, and Ana G. Cabado*
Paul Long, Academic Editor
4. Zombies and Tetrodotoxin
TERENCE HINES
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2021-11-1453 minBackAlley AlchemistMoon CrazySupport here or on Patreon at: Patreon.com/BackAlleyAlchemist
Sources:
www.livescience.com?oldest-rock-art-supernatural-beings.html
www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/weirdos-werewolves-and-full-moon/
Irving-Pease, Evan K.;Ruan, Hannah; Jamieson, Alexandra; Dimopoulos, Evangelos A.; Larson, Greger; Frantz, Laurent A. F. (2018). "Paleogenomics of Animal Domestication". In Lindvqvcist, C.; Rajora, O. (eds.). Paleogenomics. Springer, Cham. pp. 225-272. doi10.1007/13836_2018_55. ISBN 978-3-030-04752-8.
https.//www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/education/resources/early-modern-witch-trials/
www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge/content/view/S0883769400041701
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2021-10-231h 07BackAlley AlchemistLeif Erikson Day Special: Norse Mythology and "Viking" HistoryDecided I would take this opportunity to talk about one of my favorite subjects: Scandinavian history and Norse Mythology.
Happy Leif Erikson Day, nerds!
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/BackAlleyAlchemist
Source Materials:
Gardeła, Leszek. "‘Warrior-women’in Viking Age Scandinavia? A preliminary archaeological study." Analecta Archaeologica Ressoviensia 8 (2013).
Polygyny, Concubinage, and the Social Lives of Women in Viking-Age Scandinavia. Ben Raffield, Neil Price, and Mark Collard. Viking and Medieval Scandinavia 2017 13:, 165-209
The Poetic Edda. The Mythological Poems. Translated by Henry Adams Bellows.
Nors...
2021-10-1050 minBackAlley AlchemistA Series of Witches: Black Annis, Baba Yaga, and Jenny GreenteethThe sound quality on this one is a bit rough.
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Medium: Medium.com/YamunaHrodvitnir
Email: BackAlleyAlchemist.Podcast@gmail.com
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2021-10-0423 minBackAlley AlchemistWendigo: Native American Monster and MetaphorOriginal Paper: https://yamunahrodvitnir.medium.com/wendigo-the-monster-born-of-starvation-and-greed-32a191b846dd
Patreon: Patreon.com/YamunaHrodvitnir
References
Eflin, J. (2014). Incursion Into Wendigo Territory. Digital Literature Review, 9.
Jusiak, K. (2015). “The Embodiment of the Taboo: the Images of Wendigo in Literature and Their Rendition in Modern Media”.
Teicher, M. I. (1960, April). Windigo psychosis: a study of a relationship between belief and behavior among the Indians of Northeastern Canada. Seattle: WA: American Ethnological Society.
Willoughby, C. (1908). Wooden Bowls of the Algonquian Indians. American Anthropologist, 10(3), new series, 423–434. Retrieved from http://www.jstor.org/stable/659862
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2021-09-2619 minBackAlley AlchemistDemon Dogs in FolklorePatreon: Patreon.com/YamunaHrodvitnir (I swear to fuck I changed the name to BackAlley Alchemist, but technology hates me.)
Email: BackAlleyAlchemist.Podcast@gmail.com
Medium: Medium.com/YamunaHrodvitnir
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2021-09-1829 minBackAlley AlchemistKlabautermann: Maritime FolkloreSource article found at : Yamunahrodvitnir.medium.com patreon: patreon.com/yamunahrodvitnir
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2021-09-1115 minBackAlley AlchemistChangelings: Showing us that Humans suckOG article on my Medium. Medium.com/YamunaHrodvitnir
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2021-08-2822 minBackAlley AlchemistSkinwalkers: Not Quite CryptidsPatreon: YamunaHrodvitnir
Medium (where original material was posted): YamunaHrodvitnir
Sources
Lenhardt, C. (2016). Wendigos, Eye Killers, Skinwalkers: The Myth of the American Indian Vampire and American Indian “Vampire” Myths. Text Matters, 6(1), 195–212.
Smith, M. (2013). Legends, Lore & True Tales of the Chattahoochee. Arcadia Publishing.
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2021-08-2122 minBackAlley AlchemistWhy is Friday the 13th?A look into why Friday the 13th became such a pervasive superstition.
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2021-08-1419 minBackAlley AlchemistBloody Mary: the Mystery of Ritual and MythA look into the legend of Bloody Mary, the ritual associated with the legend, and why the two are associated with one another.
Patreon: Yamuna Hrodvitnir
Medium: Yamuna Hrodvitnir
Tiktok: AlleyAlchemy
Sources:
Brunvand, J. (1996). American Folklore: An Encyclopedia. Garland Publishing, Inc.
Craughwell, T. (2005) Urban Legends: 666 Absolutely True Stories That Happened to a Friend… of a Friend… of a Friend. Black Dog and Leventhal Publishers, Inc.
Dundes, A. (1998). Bloody Mary in the mirror: A ritual reflection of pre-pubescent anxiety. Western Folklore, 57(2/3), 119–135.
Ellis, B. (2004). Lucifer Ascending: The Occult in Fol...
2021-07-2818 minBackAlley AlchemistThe Witch of East SomertonSome history about witch trials, the Early Modern Witchcraze, and a story about a certain witch who got her revenge in death.
Medium account: YamunaHrodvitnir
Patreon: YamunaHrodvitnir
Sources:
Amy Alize. "Norfolk Folklore: St. Mary's Church and the Witch's Wooden Leg." October 1, 2015. https://thefairytaletraveler.com/2015/10/01/norfolk-folklore/
George Lincoln Burr. "The witch-persecutions" Translations and reprints from the original sources of European history; v. 3, no. 4, 1907
Dr. Hanna Worthen, University of Hull. "Early Modern Witch Trials: Introduction" The National Archives. Kew, Richmond. https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk...
2021-07-2020 minBackAlley AlchemistDearg-Due: Making a MonsterFirst full episode! This is the story of The Dearg-Due. She is considered the oldest known lady vampire in European folklore, and her story is absolutely tragic. Her story shows how trauma and suffering can forever change even the most innocent soul, and how isolation and suffering can transform anyone into a monster. Heartbreak, revenge, betrayal, and spooky monsters lay within. TW: abuse, violence, food restriction, and self harm.
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2021-07-1418 minBackAlley AlchemistIntroductionA quick introduction. Some information about me, what this podcast will be about, and how to get a hold of me on social media.
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