YARA-MA-YHA-WHO – Australia's Vampiric Shapeshifter

Freaky Folklore

Eeriecast Network

True Crime, Society & Culture, History

4.6 • 840 Ratings

🗓️ 24 February 2025

⏱️ 40 minutes

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The YARA-MA-YHA-WHO is a small, red, blood-drinking creature from Aboriginal Australian mythology that ambushes people from fig trees and gradually transforms its victims into copies of itself through repeated swallowing and regurgitation. Discover more TERRIFYING podcasts at http://eeriecast.com/ Follow Carman Carrion! https://www.instagram.com/carmancarrion/?hl=en https://twitter.com/CarmanCarrion Subscribe to Spotify! https://open.spotify.com/show/0uiX155WEJnN7QVRfo3aQY Please Review Us on iTunes! https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/freaky-folklore/id1550361184 Music and sound effects used in the Freaky Folklore Podcast have or may have been provided/created by: CO.AG: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcavSftXHgxLBWwLDm_bNvA Myuu: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCiSKnkKCKAQVxMUWpZQobuQ Jinglepunks: https://jinglepunks.com/ Epidemic Sound: https://www.epidemicsound.com/ Kevin MacLeod: http://incompetech.com/ Dark Music: https://soundcloud.com/darknessprevailspodcast Soundstripe: https:// Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:05.6	Mysterious red creature spotted in Australian fig trees. Good evening, I'm Savannah McConnell. Multiple sightings of
1:14.3	a small red humanoid creature have been reported across New South Wales fig trees. Three hikers have
1:20.3	been admitted to Western Sydney Hospital with unusual symptoms, including extreme fatigue and
1:26.2	unexplained changes in height and skin tone.
1:29.3	Aboriginal elder uncle Robert Walters explains the creature is well known in traditional stories.
1:35.3	It drops from fig trees onto travellers, using suction cup fingers to drain their blood.
1:41.3	Police are advising residents to avoid traveling alone near fig trees
1:45.6	until further notice. Wildlife experts are currently examining unusual circular footprints found
1:52.5	at reported sighting locations. This is Savannah McConnell, Channel 7 News, Sydney. Back to you in the
2:00.4	studio. Welcome to you in the studio.
2:09.6	Welcome to Freaky Folklore, the podcast where we discover horrifying legends across the world, and tell terrifying tales of monsters both ancient and modern.
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