Legends of the Hidden Horde

Legends of the Hidden Horde is a biweekly podcast that dives deep into the shadows of folklore, cryptids, and enigmatic creatures from around the world. Hosted by Lance Martin, each episode delivers a chilling, atmospheric tale grounded in real legends, eyewitness accounts, and cultural lore, brought to life through immersive, creative storytelling.Imagine slipping into the mist-shrouded swamps of the Bridgewater Triangle where Pukwudgie tricksters lurk, or facing the skinless Boo Hag that steals skins to walk among us at night. Or encountering storm-riding Blue Men of the Minch who challenge sailors with deadly rhymes, or river monsters like Borinkus haunting blackwater bends. These aren’t dusty retellings, they’re vivid, cinematic journeys that blend the eerie beauty of myth with the haunting possibility that something truly waits in the unknown.Creative folklore with bite: Episodes weave historical context, eyewitness reports, and imaginative twists into gripping narratives. Expec

Legends of the Hidden Horde is a fiction podcast hosted by Lance Martin, with 47 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Lance Martin hosts Legends of the Hidden Horde, a fiction show with 47 episodes published.

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  Episode #46

  Episode 46: Ciguapa

  Aug 19, 202611 minS1

  In Episode 47 we step into the high folds of the Cordillera Central, where the mountains of El Cibao hold their secrets close and the night does not merely fall. It gathers . Mist rises from the rivers like the breath of something sleeping beneath the stone. Cedars and pines stand in dark ranks. The air carries the scent of wet earth, crushed fern, and something older, something that does not belong to any map drawn after 1492. Travelers who still walk these ridges after dusk speak of a sound that is not wind and not bird: a soft, rising howl, or a chirp like a partridge calling from a place no partridge should be. Some say it is only the mountain answering itself. Others know better. They call her the Ciguapa. Sources https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ciguapa https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ciguapa https://factschology.com/mmm-podcast-articles/origin-ciguapa-dominican-republic https://hoy.com.do/el-pais/origenes-del-mito-de-la-ciguapa_850138.html https://www.artisticord.com/2014/02/la-ciguapa-leyenda-dominicana.html https://www.artisticord.com/2014/12/la-ciguapa-francisco-javier-angulo.html https://mipais.jmarcano.com/socio-cultural/religion-mitos/mitos/ciguapa/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ciguayos https://read.dukeupress.edu/small-axe/article-abstract/20/3%20(51)/100/33456/La-ciguapa-y-el-ciguapeo-Dominican-Myth-Metaphor

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  Episode #45

  Episode 45: Nunasis

  Aug 17, 202613 minS1

  Episode 45 is an original imaginative weaving that stays respectful of the recorded cosmology and the living continuity of Chumash knowledge. Let's dive in. The canyon held its breath after the last light bled from the ridges. In the country that stretches from the Channel Islands to the inland mountains, land of the Chumash people for thousands of years, the middle world thinned at night. The elders had always said so. Below the world of people lay another place, cʔoyinašup and from that lower realm the Nunasis rose once the sun was gone. Sources https://oldfolklore.com/nunasis-spirit-demons-of-the-chumash-world/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chumash_traditional_narratives https://dokumen.pub/decembers-child-a-book-of-chumash-oral-narratives-reprint-2019nbsped-9780520342651.html https://escholarship.org/content/qt5sb5h172/qt5sb5h172.pdf https://www.nps.gov/places/000/chumash-religion.htm https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_art_of_the_chumash_people https://www.britannica.com/topic/Chumash https://nativeamericannetroots.net/diary/1880 These draw primarily from ethnographic records (especially J.P. Harrington’s notes as published and analyzed by Thomas Blackburn in December’s Child) and contemporary summaries that remain grounded in those oral narratives.

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  Episode #44

  Episode 44: The Plat-eye(Plateye)

  Aug 13, 202610 minS1

  In the salt marshes of the Carolina Lowcountry, where the tides pull secrets from the black mud and the Spanish moss hangs like mourning veils, the old people still speak of the Plat-eye. This is Episode 44, Listen close. The Gullah-Geechee people, descendants of West and Central Africans, carried more than language and memory across the Atlantic to the Sea Islands and coastal rice fields of South Carolina and Georgia. They carried knowledge of the spirit world. What happens in the physical world first happens in the spiritual, the elders say. And some spirits do not rest. They call them haints. Among the most feared is the Plat-eye. Sources https://www.monstropedia.org/index.php/Plat-eye https://www.themoonlitroad.com/the-plat-eye/ https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/plat-eye https://genteelandbard.com/southern-history-haunts-folklore-journal/boo-hags-plat-eyes https://urbanlegendsmysteryandmyth.com/2025/12/the-plat-eye-vengeful-shape-shifting.html https://www.blacksouthernbelle.com/www-blacksouthernbelle-com-gullah-geechee-folk-rituals-hoodoo-voodoo-and-conjuring/ https://history.howstuffworks.com/history-vs-myth/haint-blue.htm https://beastofbladenboro.com/the-plat-eye-of-gullah-folklore/ https://gullahtours.com/gullah/gullah-words/

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  Episode #43

  Episode 43: The Wood Devil

  Aug 11, 202611 minS1

  In Episode 43 we travel to the far northern reaches of what the maps now call Coös County, New Hampshire, where the White Mountains give way to the Great North Woods and the land presses against the Canadian border, the forests are older than the roads that try to cut them. The name Coös itself comes from the Abenaki language, rooted in words for the white pines or the place of pines, a recognition that this was never empty wilderness. For the Abenaki peoples and related Wabanaki communities, these woods were part of a living world of relationships, stories, and responsibilities that stretched back through the Ancient Age, when humans and other beings still walked closer to one another. Sources https://www.nhstateparks.org/NHStateParks/media/NHStateParks/PDFs/SCA%20Blog%20docs/mystery-in-the-great-north-woods-what-is-the-woods-devil.pdf https://northamericancryptids.com/wood-devils/ https://www.bfro.net/GDB/show_report.asp?id=1192 https://ournewenglandlegends.com/podcast-433-the-wood-devils-of-coos-county/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kee-wakw https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abenaki_mythology https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Co%C3%B6s_County%2C_New_Hampshire https://usfolktales.com/the-coos-county-wood-devil/ https://hangar1publishing.com/blogs/cryptids/wood-devil https://northeastexplorer.com/

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  Episode #42

  A-Mi-Kuk

  Aug 7, 202610 minS1

  The following is an original dark narrative inspired by documented Yup’ik oral traditions concerning the Amikuk. It draws carefully from ethnographic accounts while remaining a work of creative storytelling. It is not a traditional story claimed as authentic, nor does it speak for Yup’ik communities. Variations exist across tellers and regions; the accounts emphasize respect for the living land and sea rather than simple horror. Edge cases from the recorded lore, sea ambush, earth-swimming, body invasion, human guise, multiplication when harmed, lake migration, and the guarded nest, are woven in as they appear in the sources. This is episode 42: A-Mi-Kuk Sources https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amikuk https://abookofcreatures.com/2015/08/07/a-mi-kuk/ https://portlandartmuseum.us/mwebcgi/mweb.exe?request=record;id=36479;type=101 (Amikuk mask by Phillip Charette / Aarnaquq) https://archive.org/details/boundariespassag0000fien (Ann Fienup-Riordan, Boundaries and Passages: Rule and Ritual in Yup’ik Eskimo Oral Tradition) Nelson, E. W. (1900). The Eskimo about Bering Strait (Bureau of American Ethnology; referenced via secondary ethnographic summaries)

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