Stone Houses

Here be dragons! This week Bern and Kaitlin are back with more big ol' serpents!  

This episode's hot topics: human fears, dino bones, Tolkien influence, bodily fluids, Pete's Dragon, mockumentaries, taxonomic ranks, bad pronunciations, cryptids, and much more!

After many, many, many moons, Stone Houses has risen again! Join Bern and Kaitlin in celebrating a TRIUMPHANT RETURN to the internet radio waves. Let's talk trees!

This episode's hot topics: finding faces, screaming plants, bog people, biblical foliage, Alexander the Great, womanly elms, Tolkien Trees, lawyer-friendly creatures, green men, transformations, tree-sonas, and much more!

Join Kaitlin and LB as they explore ways Earth’s lone satellite has influenced folklore, mythology, and superstition… Let’s learn about the moon!

This episode’s hot topics: Borat impressions, moon creation, cycles, childhood anecdotes, films, the man in the moon, moon rabbit, Big Bird, conspiracy theories, LOONA, Animal Crossing, and much more!

This week LB and Kaitlin learn about the chaotic neutral Slavic mortar-and-pestle rider who just really wants you to stop asking questions. Let's talk about Baba Yaga!

This episode’s hot topics: Baby Yoda, vibe checks, Mother Nature, more baby eating, chicken-footed houses, crybaby Ivan, Koschei the Deathless, Luboks, iron dentures, and much more!

This week LB and Kaitlin finally circle around to the once and future king! Let’s take a seat at the round table and learn about the psuedo-history of King Arthur!

This episode’s hot topics: time traveling motorcycles, Geoffrey of Monmouth, fanfiction, historical propaganda, the many Arthurs, knights of the round table OCs, Merlin, weapon names, the Arthurian Cinematic Universe, bad and good foley work, and much more!

This week LB and Kaitlin talk a lot of interpretations of Rainbow Serpents in Australian oral tradition!

This episode’s hot topics: cultural anthropology, relativism, The Dreaming, snakes, water gods, rainbows, creating the universe, various bleeding, the Lightning Snake, moon dogs, tickling frogs, Wikipedia rabbit holes, and much more!

This week LB and Kaitlin just…. plot kappa murder. That’s it. That’s the episode.

This episode’s hot topics: the worst street noise to date, troublemakers, bummers, anime tropes, sumo wrestling, cucumbers, fake science, kappa traps, concrete, horses, Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, fake science, Santa, and much more!

This week LB and Kaitlin talk about a history of clowns, their evolution in pop culture, and how they might have become associated with horror. Are you down to clown…

This episode’s hot topics: masks, romans are still horny for the greeks, clowning, traveling circuses, slapstick comedy, uncanny valley, mascots, Tom Hanks, clown college, and much more!

This week LB and Kaitlin talk sad ladies with questionable morals and the many different ways La Llorona has been interpreted. Let’s cry by a river in the middle of the night and tell some ghost stories!

This episode’s hot topics: foam, Aztec mythos, bird magic, historical women who didn’t actually kill their kids, Cihuacōātl, La Malinche, bad interpretations, murder, river spirits, and much more!

Kaitlin and LB make a triumphant return as they immediately traverse the sewers to uncover the urban legend of the Sewer Alligator! Let’s learn about gigantic, possibly albino, mutant gators that possibly live in the sewage works underneath big cities!

This episode’s hot topics: new setups, gator facts, souvenirs, swamp residents, giant Kermit, lizard wizards, alligator pets, bad science, clown property, feral hogs, parrot populations, gator forums, and much more!

We sadly have to announce that Stone Houses will be taking a small hiatus this summer due to travel and work and maybe-possibly bad olives... But! Stone Houses WILL RETURN! Tune in to get the inside scoop. We'll see you again in August!

Join Kaitlin and LB as they learn about the trickster of the Norse pantheon. Snakes and spiders and eight-legged-horses, oh my! Let's talk about Loki! 

This episode’s hot topics: mischief, the Prose Edda, blood brothers, tricksters, horny horses, weird uncles, invincibility parties, deadly mistletoe, bad dads, comment sections, Alan Cumming, and much more!

 This week we revisit our old friends from the past few months and just get all up in that mind theater in CREATURE CRUNCH 2: ELECTRIC BOOGALOO!

This episode’s hot topics: microphones, movies, approximations of dating shows, an abundance of limousines, buddy cops, Elijah Wood, the phantom, laser tag, gettin’ it, just your everyday guts out gal, and much more!

 In today’s episode LB and Kaitlin dunk on historical dudes and learn about some amalgam chicken snakes who have one hell of a stink eye! Let’s talk about basilisks, baby!

This episode’s hot topics: Pliny the Elder, baby vibes, chimeras, Leonardo Da Vinci, taxidermy, bad science, bad pronunciations, turtle eggs, chicken bits, the cockatrice, Pokemon, and much more!

 This week LB and Kaitlin talk about the wendigo, an icy-hearted cannibal from the frigid north!

This episode’s hot topics: cannibalism, bad pronunciations, Hollywood bastardization, zombies, rules of the internet and monstrous affairs, historical figures we think are wendigos, capitalism, Wendigo Psychosis, paywalls, capitalism, SCP corner, outro speedruns, and much more!

 This week LB and Kaitlin talk about twins in fiction and folklore! 

This episode’s hot topics: historical medicine, phrenology, vague existentialism, siblings, twin selves, demigods, Homestuck, The Duality, Shakespeare, souls, creep factor, and much more!

This week Kaitlin and LB brave the waters again to meet some carnivorous equine friends! Let’s learn about Kelpies!

This episode’s hot topics: deep dark fears, batman, lawnmower sounds, hooves, centaur configurations, gigantic sculptures, Loch Ness monster, horse cons, dog teeth, poetry, OP kelpie artifacts, and much more!

 This week Kaitlin and LB push the limits of what technically fits under the umbrella of this podcast’s tagline as they discuss the history and origins of Magical Girls!

This episode’s hot topics: swear city results, the Kentucky derby, serpent ladies, TOEI, American sitcoms, Miyazaki, Tezuka, anime Seinfeld, getting hit by cars, deconstructions, princess games, lullabies, and much more!

UPDATE: Sorry to folks who tried to listen within the first 12 hours of the episode being live, there was a mix up and only half of the audio was uploaded. Thanks for your patience! 

 We’re back! Hang out in your local pond with Kaitlin and LB to learn about the many variations of these Slavic water maidens!

This episode’s hot topics: relearning how to podcast, internet fights, watery graves, the opera, the word Wagnerian, dunking on Disney, short stories, authors roasting authors, and much more!

 Bernadette gets replaced by an alien, Kaitlin marries the moon, it’s a good time. This week we get real science-y as we start out a new accidental two-parter all about Aliens! Come count planets with us!

This episode’s hot topics: aliens replacing podcast hosts, cosmic pluralism, earth-like planetoids, MATH, telescopes and rovers, M-Class Planets, existentialism, people on Jupiter, water commentary, and much more!

This week we’re learning about Kitsune! Join Kaitlin and LB as they chat about the incredibly diverse lore behind these funky little foxes.

This episode’s hot topics: terrible jokes, manga, trickery, omniscience, Inari, fried tofu and other favorite foods, divine tails, Yōkai, foxy foxes, illusions, fake money, possessions, sun showers, and much more!

 This week Kaitlin and LB are talking about the Manananggal! A malevolent creature from the Philippines with bat wings and an a taste for human liver. Let’s hear it for our guts-out gals!

This episode’s hot topics: poor pronunciations, muppets, women loving women, man eaters, guts-out gals, lobster pets, large crustaceans, manananggal transformations, and much more!

This week LB and Kaitlin make a new friend, the ocean-dwelling Ningen!

This episode’s hot topics: oceans, blobfish, the corporeal consistency of cryptids, volcanic vents, cryptozoology, men in black, government cover-ups, decaying underwater, dinosaurs, the evolution of whales, aliens, and much more!

This week LB and Kaitlin are talking about animated armor and are extremely good at staying focused. Hi welcome to our Bedknobs and Broomsticks fancast!

This episode's hot topics: automatons, suits of armor, ancient robots, our good friend Leonardo, art historians, chess playing machines, golems, relevant parts of armor, Orson Welles, Ironman, fake latin, Substitutiary Locomotion, and much more!

This week we conclude our two-part series on werewolves!

WARNING: Some of the topics we discuss in this episode are a little gruesome and a few parts may be unsettling to some listeners.

This episode's hot topics:  Teen wolves, blue eyes, the crimes of Peter Stumpp, wolf hunts, more cannibalism, European wolves, medical werewolvery discourse, becoming the wolf, slapping hounds of god, Kidz Bop, and much more!