Tripping on Legends Live: The Pukwudgie’s Big Night Out

Or watch the feed from HipCast:

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Episode 16…How Pukwudgies got Wikied

Today is the anniversary of the event that changed a local legend into a paranormal superstar. Tonight Christopher Balzano and Natalie Crist explore what the legend might be and how it has moved through the paranormal the last twenty years.

You can listen to our other Pukwudgie-centric episodes at:
Episode 16…How Pukwudgies got Wikied

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Episode 16…How Pukwudgies got Wikied

Episode 22…Meeting the Pukwudgies in Indiana

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Episode 22…Meeting the Pukwudgies in Indiana

…and watch the interview with the park ranger at Mounds State Park
about his experiences at:

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..and a potential encounter in the Astor Library

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You can contact us with questions, comments, and your favorite legend or tidbit of folklore at spookytripping@gmail.com.

We’re still knee deep in the #hauntedlove project, so we’re especially looking for ghost stories with a love twist.

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13 responses to “Tripping on Legends Live: The Pukwudgie’s Big Night Out”

  1. Reblogged this on TerrainWalker and commented:
    Great article on Pukwudgies. I enjoyed the videos and pods that I hadn’t seen or heard before. The legend and stories are quite interesting.

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  2. […] our experiences at Mounds State Park in Indiana we had become more aware of the trees in the places we tripped, always looking for fairy trees or […]

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  3. […] both have which have been analyzed and debated.  The park is filled with animal life, including deer, bobcats, and dozens of species of birds.  None can be mistaken for the […]

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  4. […] Crist hit Astor, Florida, to talk haunted folklore with the locals and follow up on two of the stranger tales being told […]

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  5. […] has seen a Pukwudgie (Given the trickster nature of what we had experienced our first time there, a Pukwudgie makes more sense than Skunk Ape).  As we approached the fallen tree, our equipment all powered […]

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  6. […] Christopher and Ella Balzano look at everything from the place of kids as legend trippers, the curse of DeSoto, the anti-allure of St. Augustine, and recent attacks on the show about Pukwudgies. […]

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  7. […] tail, although our experiences later that night back at her grandmother’s house with a suspected Pukwudgie really had nothing to do with what experienced in the […]

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  8. […] two feet high, and if the history of the area represents the history of our America society, these Pukwudgies are the gatekeepers of our darker […]

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  9. […] legend takes place on September 1, 1675 during King Phillip’s War. Most of the town of Hadley, at the time a little more than an outpost in the wilderness, was at […]

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  10. […] In Rehoboth there is Anawan Rock, the site of a surrender to the settlers that occurred during King Phillip’s War, considered by historians to be the most vicious war in American history. The settlers broke the […]

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  11. […] never met each other but who suffered from the same experience.  It continued as I looked into the Pukwudgies, a mythical creature people were still sighting and one who was often accompanied by these dark […]

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  12. […] the opposition rose Oleeta, a woman known as a great warrior. She shot Tomkie in the heart with a poison arrow, killing him before she was overtaken by his followers and killed herself. The two sides continued […]

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