118. Brazilian Horror Folklore: Animated Corpses, Old Hags, and Backwoods Creatures

Heart Starts Pounding: Horrors, Hauntings and Mysteries

True Crime, Fiction, Drama, History

4.8 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 8 May 2025

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Let's look at three of the scariest legends from Brazilian Folklore: Corpo Secos that rise from their graves, Pisadeiras that creep into your room at night, and the mighty Mapinguari that stalks the rainforest Subscribe on ⁠Patreon ⁠for bonus content and to become a member of our Rogue Detecting Society. Patrons have access to bonus content as well as other perks. And members of our High Council on Patreon have access to our after-show called Footnotes, where I share my case file with our producer, Matt. Apple subscriptions are now live! Get access to bonus episodes and more when you subscribe on Apple Podcasts. Follow on ⁠Tik Tok ⁠and ⁠Instagram⁠ for a daily dose of horror. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Sitting quietly once you've made the house all shiny.
0:04.0	Down time can be just fine, playing bangers from the 90s.
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0:09.0	Lunch break.
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1:05.9	Kaelan Moore. I'm excited to share some stories with you today. This episode was actually
1:10.5	requested by one of our Brazilian listeners who told me I had to check out the scary legends from the country.
1:16.6	So I did and I haven't been able to sleep since, mostly because I'm terrified of the creatures I read about coming to get me at night.
1:24.6	If you have a specific region in mind of folklore you'd like to hear
1:28.7	from around the world, drop a comment wherever you're listening. If it's Spotify, if it's YouTube,
1:33.3	wherever, let me know and maybe you'll hear an episode on it. Or as always, you can send a messenger
1:38.8	to the rogue detecting society headquarters. I sit here all day by the fire reading scary stories you
1:44.0	guys send me with
1:44.9	Jinks, our friendly ghost. And before we dive in this week, you know I love to shout out listeners.
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