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Guide to the Unknown

427: Hansel & Gretel & More GRIMM Tales

Guide to the Unknown

Kristen Anderson and William Rogers

Comedy, Tv & Film, Arts

4.71.1K Ratings

🗓️ 23 January 2026

⏱️ 81 minutes

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There's nothing more GRIM than GRIMM'S FAIRY TALES! The goose girl? Horrifying! Jack the Giant Slayer? Violent! Hansel & Gretel? ...That's just sick! [⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠YouTube Version⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠] [⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Sources & links⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠] [More Grimm's Fairy Tale Episodes] Get this episode AD-FREE on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Patreon⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, along with our exclusive podcast The Netherworld Dispatch! Listen on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Apple Podcasts⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Spotify⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, or wherever you get your podcasts. Watch on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠YouTube⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. Follow us on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Facebook⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, and ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Bluesky⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. For more, cruise through our ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠LINKS⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Goose_Girl https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_the_Giant_Killer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_(hero) https://sacred-texts.com/neu/eng/eft/eft20.htm https://sites.pitt.edu/~dash/grimm015.html https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3FEZsyR0Eg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hansel_and_Gretel_(1987_film) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hansel_and_Gretel_(opera)

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0:00.0

They think they hear the sound of an axe, which would be their parents working, but the dad actually tied a branch to a tree for the wind to knock it around to make a sound.

0:08.9

So it seems like the parents are still doing something while they got the hell out of dodge.

0:12.7

Smart.

0:13.4

Smart.

0:18.8

Hello, welcome to you guys the unknown. I'm Kristen. And I'm her little brother William. And this

0:23.9

week we are back to crack in open those Grimm's fairy tales, that dusty book, sniffing the book.

0:31.8

Yes, which I have right here. Yes. Long time guides the unknown listeners will know that as a quote

0:37.4

from our mom calling us during a live recording because the chat was saying sniff the book because old books smell good.

0:44.9

And we're talking about some messed up fairy tales.

0:47.6

Yes.

0:48.5

I was excited for this.

0:51.3

I love to read these fairy tales that are purportedly for children, but are very,

0:55.0

very frightening or violent or... Grim indeed. Grim and, oh yes. It's not just the name of the authors.

1:03.2

No. It's also the content of the tales. How fortuitous. That is really fortuitous. The brothers

1:09.7

grim wrote stories that are themselves grim.

1:13.1

Yeah.

1:13.7

That's like a publisher's dream. I know. It worked out. Yeah. But so yeah, I've got a couple of

1:19.6

stories that I looked up. One of them is like, oh my God. Yeah. This is a longie. And I researched

1:26.1

that one second. It was like, oh no. The first one I looked up was called Goose Girl-huh. And I researched that one second. Yeah. It was like, oh, no.

1:28.7

The first one I looked up was called Goose Girl.

1:30.6

Yeah, yeah.

1:31.2

And I was like, that sounds silly. I don't know why I chose silly for our show. Splashing around. I leaned into. We didn't over weird things, too. Yeah, that's true. But the second one that I picked, I was just like, holy guacamole.

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