RE-RELEASE: The Haunting of Crater Lake

Ancient History Fangirl

History, Society & Culture

4.5 • 518 Ratings

🗓️ 23 October 2025

⏱️ 63 minutes

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⁠Help keep our podcast going by contributing to our Patreon! Crater Lake is a caldera lake in the Cascade Mountains in Oregon—the remnants of an ancient volcanic eruption. It’s the deepest lake in the country and one of the deepest in the world. And this place is steeped in lore: unexplained events, murders and suicides, disappearances and hauntings, and a strange 200-year-old floating log that probably controls the weather. But the history of this lake goes back even farther: to the volcanic eruption that created it 7,700 years ago. People were there to witness that event—and its memory is preserved, both in archaeology and an ancient mythological tradition that describes the eruption with scientific precision. Join us as we plumb the depths of Crater Lake. Sponsors and Advertising This podcast is a member of Airwave Media podcast network. Want to advertise on our show? Please direct advertising inquiries to advertising@airwavemedia.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:02.8	All the gods and goddesses of volcanoes, to me, are kind of sexy, right?
1:07.1	Yeah. right?
1:21.5	I'm Jen McMenemy.
1:23.5	And I'm Jenny Williamson.
1:26.4	And this is ancient history fan girl.
1:28.9	All volcanoes all the time.
1:34.3	Wal-to-all volcanoes, kids. That's what we're doing. Is that what we are now? A volcano podcast?
1:38.1	That's what we're doing. That's what we're here to do. That's who we are.
1:44.5	So we are back with another episode in our ancient natural disasters series.
1:46.5	Shocker, a volcanoes involved.
1:51.4	This is actually not a natural disaster or volcanic eruption that I'd heard of before.
1:53.3	Jenny brought it to my attention.
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