Hello, my dark darlings. I'm Marquia, and this is the Something Scary podcast. To our veteran listeners and those sheltering in the dark with us for the first time, welcome.

While all of us are sheltering in place right now, I'm sure we're discovering a number of things about ourselves.

Some things would surprise us in a good way, and then other things are part of our shadow

selves, something that we can work on.

Dark discoveries, if one will.

But even in the locations that we're in, our homes, our apartments and so on, locations are filled with unknown energies.

Even familiar places once revisited can unveil a noticed danger.

Look close. Find the paths leading to life-altering discoveries. Follow those dark discoveries and know that you won't come back the same. That is, if you come back at all.

First, an excavation digs up an ancient deity. Next, trespassers enter forbidden paths. After that, a mother's work is never done.

And finally, a nighttime scraping noise at the window. I receive hundreds of creepy story

submissions every single week. As always, the first story you hear is one that we've chosen to animate and post over at YouTube.com slash snarled. Then I read a few more stories for the podcast. If you have a tale you're dying to share, send me an email at something scary at snarl.com. And if you'd like to support the show and receive bonus content, consider joining our Patreon.

Our patrons play a huge role in keeping the show running every single week.

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So, want to hear something scary?

All hail the flayed lord.

Recently, a team of archaeologists found one of the first temples of an Aztec deity

within the lowest recesses of a dig in Puebla, Mexico.

We like to believe that our modern world is different from the world of our

elders and ancestors, their world of supernatural myths, gods, and superstitions. But it's important

to heed their lessons because those that fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.

Nico, Lapida, it is the flayed lord.

Don Ronaldo, Nico's uncle and the leader of the archaeological expedition, exclaimed in wonder.

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