Rawhead Rex – The Ancient Pagan God That Hungers Beneath the Fields

Freaky Folklore

Eeriecast Network

True Crime, History, Society & Culture

4.7 • 991 Ratings

🗓️ 9 March 2026

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Born from Clive Barker's 1984 horror fiction but rooted in genuine British pagan tradition, Rawhead Rex represents modern folklore at its most visceral. This isn't an ancient legend—it's a contemporary monster that tapped into real fears about buried gods, standing stones, and pre-Christian powers lurking beneath Britain's soil. When a farmer breaks the seal imprisoning this nine-foot creature of muscle and teeth, it brings with it an appetite that hasn't been satisfied in over a thousand years—and a reminder that new folklore emerges when fiction resonates deeply enough with our ancient terrors. freakyfolklore.com #RawheadRex #BritishFolklore #FreakyFolklore #PaganGods #RuralHorror #ForgottenDeities #AncientEvil #CliveBarker #EnglishLegends #FieldGods #PreChristianMyths #BritishHorror EXPLORE MORE SPINE-CHILLING CONTENT: Freaky Folklore: https://www.eeriecast.com/podcasts/freaky-folklore Carman's Crypt (Original Horror): https://carmanscrypt.buzzsprout.com Deadly Intent (True Crime): https://carmancarrion.buzzsprout.com Destination Terror: https://www.eeriecast.com/podcasts/destination-terror SUPPORT THE SHOW: Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/c/CarmanCarrion Buy Me a Coffee: https://buymeacoffee.com/carmancarrion CONNECT WITH CARMAN: Website: https://www.carman-carrion.com/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@CarmanCarrion Twitter/X: https://x.com/CarmanCarrion Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/carmancarrion/ SUBSCRIBE & REVIEW: Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0uiX155WEJnN7QVRfo3aQY iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/freaky-folklore/id1550361184 Your support helps bring you more terrifying tales! DISCOVER MORE HORROR: http://eeriecast.com/ https://www.carman-carrion.com/ Crypt Shop: https: //the-crypt-shop-2.myshopify.com/ MUSIC CREDITS: Music and sound effects provided by: CO.AG, Myuu, Jinglepunks, Epidemic Sound, Kevin MacLeod, Dark Music, and Soundstripe. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:30.7	The Standing Stone has been in Reverend Coot's field for as long as anyone can remember. Longer.
0:40.4	It was there before the church, before the village, before Christianity came to this corner of England. Two tons of ancient granite,
0:47.4	weathered and silent, marking something everyone has forgotten. Then lightning strikes it. Not a graze, a direct hit.
0:57.0	The stone explodes, shards flying in every direction, and where it stood there's now a hole.
1:05.0	Perfectly round, impossibly deep.
1:09.0	And from that darkness comes a sound that makes Thomas Geryl's blood
1:13.7	freeze. Breathing. Deep, ragged, hungry breathing from something that's just woken up. That night,
1:24.7	something climbs out, nine feet tall, skin the color of raw meat, a mouth full of
1:32.3	teeth, eyes that burn with ancient intelligence and absolute hunger.
1:38.3	Rawhead Rex has returned, and it remembers what it was, what people used to offer it, what it's owed
1:47.0	after a thousand years of burial.
1:50.0	The Christians thought they'd buried it forever, sealed it with prayers and symbols and hope.
1:56.5	But gods don't stay buried.
1:59.5	They just get hungrier.
2:04.5	Welcome to Freaky Folklore, where ancient legends, forgotten beliefs, and whispered warnings
2:10.0	crawl out of the dark corners of history. These are the stories people once told to survive
2:15.2	the night, to explain the unexplainable, and to warn others about what waits just beyond the firelight.
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