Episode 34: Siren Head

Unspookable

Nate DuFort

Stories For Kids, Kids & Family, Education For Kids

4.6 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 2 November 2021

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Some urban legends are so unique that our brains want them to be true. That is certainly the case with Trevor Henderson's 2018 creation of a cryptid that has captured our imaginations and infiltrated such games as Minecraft and Roblox. What makes this creature so scary, yet so appealing? We're talking all things Siren Head on this episode of Unspookable. Host: Elise Parisian Written by: Ellenor Riley-Condit and Victoria Tomis Created, Produced, Edited by: Nate DuFort Research by: Michael Grathwohl michaelgrathwohl.me. Music Direction and Composition: Jesse Case: https://www.jessecasemusic.com/ Logo by: Natalie Khuen http://nataliek.myportfolio.com Episode artwork by: Heshan Gunasekara Special thanks this week to: Blythe, Bella, and Al. You can hear more of Al on CadaverCast: A Father Son Monster Movie Podcast with his father Jef. Give it a listen to as they talk all things horror and to hear Al speculate on the plots of films he's too young to watch. CadaverCast is available everywhere you get podcasts Siren Head was created by Trevor Henderson. Find Trevor online at www.twitter.com/slimyswampghost . You can find Unspookable on Twitter and Instagram at:https://twitter.com/ImUnspookablehttps://www.instagram.com/unspookablepodcast/ Unspookable is a production of Soundsington Media committed to making quality programing for young audiences and the young at heart. To find out more go to http://www.soundsingtonmedia.com

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0:00.0	For over six years, the past and the curious has been winning fans sharing stories of real people from the past and making people smile.
0:07.5	I'm Mick Sullivan, author of I.C. Lincoln's Underpants, which is a book about, well, famous people's underwear.
0:14.5	You'll find all of those stories and much, much more in the 100-plus episodes of the past and the curious that are currently available, find it in all the usual podcast places.
0:25.5	The past and the curious with Mick Sullivan, that's me.
0:30.5	Sounds like something.
0:33.0	Sounds like tin media!
0:38.0	It is July 16, 1995 in the woods of Northwest Arkansas in a place called Tanyard Creek.
0:46.0	A boy is found wandering, confused and alone.
0:51.0	He's taken to the hospital where luckily he can remember who he is.
0:56.0	My name is Chad, he keeps saying over and over to the nurses and doctors who examine him.
1:03.0	He has only minor injuries, but he also has this dazed, unsettled look about him that makes everyone at the hospital uneasy.
1:13.0	Someone asks him for what must be the hundredth time? What happened out there?
1:20.0	It mimicked our voices and then it took my friends.
1:24.0	What took his friends exactly?
1:28.0	According to this story, the thing that Chad would go on to describe is dozens of feet tall and skeleton-like.
1:37.0	It can blend into the trees and instead of a head, it has two speakers that play odd sounds.
1:45.0	Have you heard of this monster?
1:48.0	I'm Elise Parisian and we'll hear much more about the beast called Siren Head on this episode of Unspookable.
2:14.0	What makes a monster scary to you?
2:17.0	What characteristics do you imagine would be the creepiest to encounter?
2:22.0	Do you think of teeth first, speed, agility, brain power?
2:29.0	Are creatures more scary if they're similar to animals like a werewolf or if they're humanoid like a vampire?
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