Many history, folklore, and mythology channels dazzle you with well written scripts, beautiful imagery, and flashy British accents. Here, we do things a little differently. Stop in, grab a hot drink, and listen to your host, Aidan Mattis, tell you stories from both history and legend in an approachable, casual format. It's like you sat down at the bar and asked about Wendigos. Welcome to the Lore Lodge...

Background:
Host Aidan Mattis is a Penn State educated historian and folklorist, having earned his B.A. in Medieval Studies in 2020. Mattis is a writer and researcher with a particular interest in the Celtic world.

Technical Producer Aidan Thornbury has a background in Film, having earned his B.F.A. in Film and Journalism at New York University. Aidan has written, directed, edited, and at times acted in dozens of short films and media content over the past decade.

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So the newest episode of the show is doing unexpectedly poorly, and I’m not entirely sure why so I wanted to ask you guys. Obviously we want to put out content that you enjoy, so when something we thought you’d like misses the mark we want to understand why.

If you didn’t watch it, was it because…

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Today's episode is now live!

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Hey guys, just a couple of announcements! First off, today's video goes live at 4pm and is about the first missing persons case in National Parks history back in 1870 and includes claims of spiritual apparitions, so I figure that should make literally all of you happy.

Second, we're going to begin uploading ad free versions of our videos to Patreon starting in October. We need to get a few things in order first due to the time crunch since getting back from Yellowstone, but once the ducks have been properly assembled into a row that should be a consistent perk for Patreon subscribers! Access starts at $1 a month and that gets you two to four hours of ad free content every month on top of access to our scripts, the occasional Liquored Lore episode, and a few other fun things.

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We finally fixed that one wonky Weird Bible episode so that’s up now!

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Hey everyone! The live show has been on hiatus since we’ve been traveling, so I wanted to let everyone know that it’ll be back a week from today. We had planned to come back tonight, but there’s been some illnesses going around at the lodge and we decided to rest today so we can come back at full strength next Monday. See you all then!

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This is officially our longest video ever.

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Since the alligator rhythm isn’t pushing it, we’d like to politely remind you of yesterday’s episode. It’s good. It’s full of adventure and bad decisions.

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Today's video was so much fun to research and I'm really excited to share it with you all. This piece of forgotten American history has everything from mystery to politics, conflict with the natives to mutinous intentions, and a good dose of dunking on one of Britain's greatest failures - a man by the name of Raleigh Gilbert.

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So we’re out in Yellowstone, and while I’d hoped to be making a video on a specific couple of missing persons cases while we’re out here, they didn’t pan out to be as mysterious as expected.

I called an audible and picked up a few books from a local store, entitled “Death in Yellowstone,” “Yellowstone Ghost Stories,” “Strange Yellowstone,” and “Spooky Yellowstone.” I’m reading through them right now and putting together a list of potential stories to cover, and I’ll likely be covering three to six of them for the next episode we shoot.

My question to you guys is this: which kind of weird do you want?

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You may have heard the story of Dyatlov Pass before. You may have even heard it from us; but even if you have, you’ve never heard it quite like this. Recut and compiled into one episode, this is the definitive look at one of the world’s most bizarre unsolved mysteries - and we do mean unsolved.

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