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Special Episode – Daddy Splitfoot’s Fireside Tales (Part Two)

Summary:

Come pull up a chair by the fireside with Daddy Splitfoot and listen to some devilish folklore submitted by listeners (and expanded upon by your sinister host). This time we visit the American West, particularly the Mormon cultural region, for our lore and legends.

Play:

Download: Special Episode – Daddy Splitfoot’s Fireside Tales (Part Two)

-Sources-

The source for most of this episode is YOU! Our wonderful listeners, who supplied us with this lore back in the Spring during our contest. The legend of Bigfoot in Mormon country can be found lots of places, but this one makes a good starting point (and links to many of the others): MormonThink – Bigfoot

Promos & Music

“Grifos Muertos” by Jeffery Luck Lucas, from his album What We Whisper, on Magnatune.com

Incidental music by Olssons (“Ambient1”) & Byzons (“L’Horrible Passion”). All tracks are used through Creative Commons license on SoundCloud.

The song between acts is “The Devil Made Texas,” by Hermes Nye, found on Smithsonian Folkways.

Special Episode – Daddy Splitfoot’s Fireside Tales (Part One)

Summary:

Come pull up a chair by the fireside with Daddy Splitfoot and listen to some devilish folklore submitted by listeners (and expanded upon by your sinister host).

Play:

Download: Special Episode – Daddy Splitfoot’s Fireside Tales (Part One)

-Sources-

The source for most of this episode is YOU! Our wonderful listeners, who supplied us with this lore back in the Spring during our contest. I also augment two of the pieces of lore with outside sources: 1) The story of Spring-Heeled Jack, adapted from Daniel Cohen’s Encyclopedia of Monsters, and 2) The Wendigo, told from Alvin Schwartz’s collection Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark.

Promos & Music

“Grifos Muertos” by Jeffery Luck Lucas, from his album What We Whisper, on Magnatune.com

Incidental music by So I’m an Islander (“Quiet Storm Surge”), Canton (“Ambient Gourd”), & Olssons (“Ambient1”). All tracks are used through Creative Commons license on SoundCloud.

The song between acts is “Me & the Devil Blues,” by Robert Johnson, and is available at archive.org.