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Julian Feeld, Travis View & Jake Rockatansky

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🗓️ 10 January 2026

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

A new strain of cryptozoology is howling across the internet. It’s less about stuff like “undiscovered birds” and more like “Bigfoot is interdimensional.” This week, we are joined by guest writer Jack LaRoche follow that trail straight into Louisiana’s swampy heartland to meet the Rougarou: a Cajun loup-garou legend shaped by Catholic ideas about sin and control, then transformed through centuries of cultural mixing into something that’s been feared, joked about, and even embraced as a local mascot. Along the way, we rewind to medieval France to untangle where “werewolves” actually come from, detour through the shaky math and moral panic of the werewolf trials, and trace how the Acadian diaspora and Indigenous storytelling traditions helped remake the monster on American soil. It’s sometimes a trickster, sometimes a warning, sometimes protection. We end by asking what these stories do: how folklore polices behavior, manufactures outsiders, and rhymes with modern conspiracist fearcraft. Jack LaRouche https://x.com/coyotejacques Subscribe for $5 a month to get all the premium episodes: www.patreon.com/qaa All Episodes of Annie Kelly’s new 6-part podcast miniseries “Truly Tradly Deeply” are available to Cursed Media subscribers. www.cursedmedia.net/ Cursed Media subscribers also get access to every episode of every QAA miniseries we produced, including Manclan by Julian Feeld and Annie Kelly, Trickle Down by Travis View, The Spectral Voyager by Jake Rockatansky and Brad Abrahams, and Perverts by Julian Feeld and Liv Agar. Plus, Cursed Media subscribers will get access to at least three new exclusive podcast miniseries every year. www.cursedmedia.net/ Editing by Corey Klotz. Theme by Nick Sena. Additional music by Pontus Berghe. Theme Vocals by THEY/LIVE (instagram.com/theyylivve / sptfy.com/QrDm). Cover Art by Pedro Correa: (pedrocorrea.com) qaapodcast.com QAA was known as the QAnon Anonymous podcast.

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0:08.0	Oh, If you're hearing this, well done, you found a way to connect to the internet.
0:36.7	Welcome to the QAA podcast Premium
0:38.8	Episode 318, Werewolves of the Bayou with Jack LaRoche. As always, we are your host, Jake
0:45.7	Rockatansky, Liv Aker, Julian Field, Travis View, Jack LaRoche. Hello, everybody. I know that
0:53.0	the main was a lot this week, and there was a lot to take in.
0:56.8	And maybe we're at a pivotal time in history, and maybe there's things to think about there.
1:02.2	But we are also interested, always, in folklore, in culture, and in depthening our understanding of how cryptozoology and other forms of what some consider conspiracy theories are a form of storytelling.
1:16.4	And so this week we have something very, very interesting for you.
1:20.7	We have Jack LaRoche as a guest writer, and they are members of the Blackfeet and Cherokee tribe.
1:28.9	They've spent two years with the Urban Coyote Research Project in Montana where they worked with coyotes and wolves. They've
1:33.3	been working with wildlife for 20 years and they've been with the folklore podcast for five years.
1:38.7	They've been working on animal human transformation specific folklore for a long time collecting stories and what you're
1:45.5	about to hear. The story of the Rougaroo is original research. Thank you so much for joining us,
1:52.0	Jack. Thank you for having me. It's a pleasure to be here. Yeah. It's exciting to hear a story that
1:56.8	just sounds, I don't know, nocturn. I can hear the howls.
2:01.4	I can kind of smell the bathtub alcohol.
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