This episode contains a reference to a violent true crime.

Listen or discretion is advised. Some stories were never supposed to be told.

Stories that exist in the twilight between science and the supernatural,

between history and the horror, stories that speak of terrifying things, stories that you speak of terrifying things.

Stories that you want to hear.

Stories that you need to hear.

Stories that will sink their teeth in and never let you go.

My name is Mike Brown, and this is pleasing terrors.

Episode. Episode 18, The Place of the Dragon of the Garden of Eden, who tempted Eve to eat the fruit from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil,

and thus introduced sin into the world.

In the midst of a wondrous forest,

it lured the first man and the first woman to their doom, and

set a precedent that would endure down through the ages.

Its punishment for this act of betrayal was the loss of its legs so that it would have to

crawl on its belly for the rest of its days. But this was only the first dragon and many more would follow in its wake.

Down through history, the dragon has been a part of the mythologies of many cultures around the world.

While most had four legs, a type of dragon known as the Waverne only had two,

and not always the same two.

Some wivrons had four legs and dragged themselves on the ground,

but others walked on their hind legs.

They walked like men. Though we tend to think of them as gigantic

serpentine fire-breathing creatures, dragons have in fact worn many guises.

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