The Legend of the Kushtaka

Believing the Bizarre: Paranormal Podcast

Believing the Bizarre | Paranormal Podcast

Society & Culture, Science, Comedy, Natural Sciences

4.7 • 781 Ratings

🗓️ 5 January 2021

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

In Southern Alaska, Tlingit lore says the Kushtaka are half man, half otter beasts that terrorize people. We dive into both historical and contemporary encounters.

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0:00.0	What if you heard an eerie voice call out while walking through the woods, or saw a tall,
0:05.2	eight-foot hairy beast cross the road, and what could be lurking in the woods near Thomas
0:11.1	Bay, Alaska?
0:12.7	Today, we test the believability of the Kushikha. Welcome to Believing the Bazaar, where we dive into the unknown and the unusual.
0:45.3	And tell you whether or not we find it believable.
0:47.6	That is right.
0:49.0	I hope everybody had a fantastic, happy New Year's.
0:52.0	It is 2021.
0:53.6	Thank goodness. Yeah, we are, you know, once the clock strikes midnight, new year's it is 2021 thank goodness yeah we are you know once once the clock
0:56.6	strikes midnight new year new you everything's different yeah coronavirus actually dies yeah it's not
1:02.8	it is not a social structure it is literally a new it's it's it's real the year is gone everything's
1:09.1	changed yesterday no longer matters.
1:11.0	Yeah.
1:12.2	It's all good.
1:13.0	All good.
1:15.4	You can walk outside, hug everybody you want now.
1:16.5	Kiss him on the mouth.
1:17.0	Yep.
1:17.9	Even if you don't know them.
1:20.1	So that is something called satire.
1:20.5	Yep.
1:21.6	Don't do that.
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