Actual Trolls: Not the Ones Online

Stuff They Don't Want You To Know

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Society & Culture

4.3 • 10.7K Ratings

🗓️ 31 May 2024

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Trolls! These mythical creatures are -- nowadays -- beloved. Most folks think of trolls as creatures of myth, up there with the minotaur, the kraken, the selkie. And yet. In tonight's episode, Ben, Matt and Noel dive into the history of troll folklore, ultimately separating fact from fiction and posing a fascinating question: What if troll legends are an oral remnant of early encounters with a previous thing almost-yet-not-quite-human?

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0:00.0	From UFOs to psychic powers and government conspiracies history is riddled with unexplained events.
0:07.0	You can turn back now or learn the stuff they don't want you to know.
0:12.0	A production of I-Heart Radio. Hello, welcome back to the show. My name is Matt. My name is Noel. They call me
0:29.0	Bed. We're joined with our guest super producer Ben Producer, Ben the Hatchet, Hackett.
0:36.2	Most importantly, you are you, you are here.
0:38.8	That makes this the stuff they don't want you to know.
0:42.3	We'd like to begin this evening's show with a bit of a
0:46.8	reenactment and historical documentation of a run-in with a troll once upon a time a guy tries to cross a bridge.
0:58.0	Hold it right there, says a voice beneath the stones.
1:03.0	Before you pass me bridge, you have to answer a riddle.
1:07.0	Or what?
1:09.0	Says the guy.
1:10.0	Or, Aichi! The guy pauses at the threshold of the bridge.
1:17.0	Fair enough. What's the riddle? How do you count to six?
1:25.0	Well, that's easy.
1:26.7	One, two.
1:28.4	The creature under the stones interrupts.
1:30.6	Mm-hmm.
1:32.1	A fee, a four, five.
1:37.0	The thing beneath the bridge pauses, confused.
1:41.0	Six, says the human. Six is after five, you jerk.
1:47.0	The human knew already this was going to be a weird day.
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