Back Away Slowly

Welcome back to a 3rd year of Back Away Slowly! No prizes for guessing what this season’s about. Today’s episode is a crash course on urban legends in general, before we get into the meat & potatoes …

And we're back for the final part of the Jersey Devil saga! We turn a critical eye to the numerous hoaxes and supposed 'Jersey Devils' that have sprung up all over New Jersey for centuries. We then l…

Merry Christmas!
As a special Christmas bonus, we take a practical look at ghost hunting culture at large with parapsychologist Dylan Jones.
Note: I'm aware that this audio isn't the best in the world…

Let's take a look at a curated selection of Jersey Devil sightings throughout the years (don't worry, there's PLENTY). This will include a fascinating series of incidents, where the Jersey Devil kept…

A horse? A donkey? A crane? A kangaroo? A dog? How about all of the above? The Pine Barrens are incredibly old, with an enormous variety of wildlife (I just didn't expect all of that variety to manif…

Take a seat to listen in on my discussion with Professor Brady DeSanti about the windigo, Indigenous history, his own research and more. Needless to say, a huge thanks goes out to Professor DeSanti f…

It's time to dig into what you're all familiar with, so we'll start exploring recent creations that involve the windigo. What media was the most accurate? Where did others fall short? What are the im…

It's week 2, and we're diving right back into the windigo. We'll be looking a little closer at how the indigenous communities interacted with settlers about windigo belief, both positively and negati…

The windigo has had a death-grip on pop culture for the past decade or so, but what is it really? For the first part of this deep dive, we'll find out what this creature is, the many appearances it h…

SURPRISE! Happy Holidays, everybody! I've got some extra stories, updates, and discoveries for you about the locations of Season 1.

Thank you to story contributors (who wished to remain anonymous),  …

What does the mob have to do with Bobby Mackey's? How did the supernatural forces begin to manifest in the building? What are people experiencing in the present day? And finally, let's have a chat wi…

Before we dig into Bobby Mackey’s, we have to cover the haunting history of the Newport area itself. Then we explore the biggest true crime case in Newport-Covington history, argued to be the incitin…

Was Floyd Collins rescued from Sand Cave? This week, we learn why simple rumors and gossip put a national rescue in danger. What happened to all of those involved with the event? And what insane roll…

Who is Floyd Collins? What happened to him? Why was this significant for Mammoth Cave National Park? This week will be spent in the backcountry of 1925 Kentucky. We'll review an explorer's route, dow…

It's episode 2 and we're already at our first national park! Mammoth Cave has had centuries of haunting history, though it seems to have gone fairly undiscussed in recent years. The cave served many …