A meditation on folk tales and their cultural impact as seen through the lens of the legendary creature that inhabits The Great Swamp of New Jersey.

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Built and opened as the New Jersey State Lunatic Asylum, the current Trenton Psychiatric Hospital has a long and dark history of cruel and inhumane treatments slowly giving way to a more modern and merciful approach to mental health... but the ghosts remain.

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Rutgers University, a storied institution that predates the American Revolution, holds a vibrant past that is alive in the numerous ghost stories that have fascinated students and faculty alike for generations.

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What do the drones sightings above New Jersey have to do with a decades old murder and an industrialist from the 1800's? Maybe nothing... but maybe NOT nbothing.

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Stories of the Abominable Snowman have long held a place in the lexicon of mystical beasts... but how did these stories start and is there any truth to them?

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New Year's Eve, 1974. The campus of Stanford University is shocked to discover that a ritualistic murder that was committed in the sprawling and beautiful university church had ties to Satanism. In this stunning precursor to the Satanic Panic, the case would go cold for almost forty years...

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A listener was kind enough to wrote in and inform me of a tradition from the Pennsylvania Dutch community that I had never heard of before... The Belsnickel. Enjoy!

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What does a Christmas tree have to do with the birth of christ? Was the Nativity really on December 25th? And what about this guy in a red suit bringing presents to little kids? Didi Christianity steal Christmas from the pagans? You decide...

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The Headless Horseman has been haunting the village of Sleepy Hollow for centuries... find out the origin of this spectral warrior and why he's so angry... only today on The Devil Within.

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A desperate act by a student of mysticism led to the creation of a terrible beast... originally meant to protect, it soon became clear that creation is not something to be trifled with.

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Ireland and England have deep and often violent histories... and their superstitions surrounding Christmas are a terrifying reflection of that fact.

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