Project Black Garden: A Monsters & Myths Podcast

Deep within the unforgiving sands of Mongolia's Gobi Desert, something ancient is said to be waiting. Something that doesn't hunt beneath the moonlight, doesn't stalk its prey through the shadows, and doesn't need teeth or claws to kill. The locals call it Olgoi-Khorkhoi. But the rest of the world knows it by a far more terrifying name… The Mongolian Death Worm. Described as a massive, blood-red creature with no visible eyes, no limbs, and a body resembling a severed intestine, this mysterious beast is rumored to possess the ability to spit deadly venom, unleash lethal electrical shocks, and disappear be...

They told us the stars were empty. Cold. Distant. Lifeless. But buried in forgotten texts, etched into cave walls, and whispered through civilizations separated by oceans and time. There’s a pattern. Seven stars. Seven watchers. Seven beings, that didn’t just observe humanity, they guided it. The cluster is known as the Pleiades. But in classified documents recovered from Black Garden archives, they’re referred to by a different name: The Architects.  Described as human… but not human. Ancient… but untouched by time. A species that didn’t arrive on Earth but may have started it. For decades, reports have...

They told us monsters weren’t real… That the woods were just trees. That the sounds at night were nothing more than wind and imagination. But deep in the Pine Barrens of New Jersey, where the trees grow too close together and the fog doesn’t lift until morning, there’s something older than fear… and far more patient. It began in 1735. A curse whispered in desperation. A child that should have been human but wasn’t. They called it the Leeds Devil. A creature born screaming, with wings that shouldn’t exist, hooves that leave impossible tracks and a cry that can...

They told us monsters were grotesque… Twisted. Broken. Easy to fear. But the most dangerous ones don’t look like monsters at all. They look like desire. They move like a whisper in the dark…
speak like a promise you shouldn’t trust and by the time you realize what they are, it’s already too late. Her name appears in the oldest records…
long before the word “vampire” was ever spoken. LILITH. Beautiful. Eternal. Unforgiving. Some say she feeds on blood but others believe it’s something far more intimate, your will, your thoughts, your soul.

Welcome to P...

They say storms are just weather… pressure, heat, and chance. But in the files my uncle left behind, storms have names. Wings that blot out the sky. Lightning that hunts with intent. And something ancient… that still wages war above us. This is not a legend. This is a warning. This is the THUNDERBIRD. Because when the thunder rolls… something is hunting.

Welcome to Project Black Garden: A Monsters & Myths Podcast, where the lines between myth and reality vanish, and the truth is far scarier than fiction. But be warned: Once you’ve seen the monsters, they’ve seen yo...

They told us tigers were just animals… territorial, predictable, mortal. But deep in classified jungle reports, buried beneath redacted ink, there’s something else. A predator that doesn’t just hunt flesh… It hunts you. They tried to kill it. They burned the forest. They erased the villages. It didn’t matter. Because the Shinigora was never alive to begin with. And if you’re hearing this it may have already seen you.

Welcome to Project Black Garden: A Monsters & Myths Podcast, where the lines between myth and reality vanish, and the truth is far scarier than fiction. But...

There are places in this world where history doesn’t stay buried. Where the past doesn’t fade, it marches. On certain nights, on certain paths, you might hear them before you ever see them. Drums. Chants. Footsteps… too many to count. They are not lost. They are not wandering. They are moving with purpose. Ancient warriors bound to their chiefs with their torches still burning and their orders never ending. Tonight we walk the path they never left. Tonight we seek the Night Marchers.

Welcome to Project Black Garden: A Monsters & Myths Podcast, where the lines betwee...

Before it was a headline. Before it was a joke. Before it was something people chased with cameras. It was a warning. Long before the name Bigfoot ever existed the forests already had a story. Passed through generations. Spoken carefully. Never ignored. The Sts’ailes people called it Sasq’ets… The wild man. Not a creature to hunt. Not something to prove. Something to respect. Across the continent, different tribes, different names but the same understanding: It moves like us but faster. It thinks but doesn’t speak. It watches far more than it’s ever seen. And most importantl...

They told us monsters weren’t real… That the things lurking in the dark were nothing more than stories. Warnings meant to keep us from wandering too far, asking too many questions. But they were wrong. Because buried beneath classified archives. Locked behind blacked-out documents and erased operations. There are files they never meant for anyone to find.
The Nightshade Files.
Records of encounters too dangerous to acknowledge. Creatures that don’t just hide in the shadows… They control them. They spread like poison, quiet, patient… inevitable. And the deeper I go into my great uncle Sam’s journals...

Welcome to Alien Archives, a special episode where we explore humanity’s most enduring mystery: are we truly alone in the universe?
From chilling close encounters and alleged alien abductions to classified military encounters, unexplained UFO sightings, and the strange beings reported by witnesses around the world, this episode dives deep into the stories that continue to challenge our understanding of reality. We'll examine reports of Greys, Nordics, Reptilians, Mantis entities, and other mysterious visitors said to have crossed paths with humanity throughout history.
Are these encounters evidence of extraterrestrial life, visitors from another dimension, secret government ex...

For this special listener mail episode of PROJECT BLACK GARDEN, we step away from the classified journals, forgotten archives, and government cover-ups to explore the strange experiences sent in by listeners from around the world. From unexplained figures lurking in attics and shadowed hallways to terrifying encounters with UFOs over lonely oceans, these are the stories that have stayed with people long after the lights came back on. Were these encounters with something paranormal? Misidentified events? Or evidence that the unknown walks among us more often than we realize? Join us as we read firsthand accounts of ghostly visitors...

There are whispers in the woods. Whispers of men who walk on two legs by day and four by night. Creatures who wear human skin like a disguise until the moon calls them home. In the shadows of ancient forests, and buried beneath centuries of folklore, lie stories too horrifying to ignore—documented cases of transformation, murder, and madness. They said it was just myth. They said it was just hysteria. But what if it wasn’t? This episode we open a file that was never meant to be found. We trace the blood-stained history of the lycanthrope... from the...

There are demons and then there are the dead who refuse to stay dead. In Jewish mysticism, there is a word for a soul that should have moved on but didn’t. A spirit so twisted by guilt, betrayal, or rage that it claws its way back into the world of the living. The Dybbuk. They do not possess you. They cling to you. They slip into the cracks of grief, trauma, and loneliness and whisper until your own thoughts are no longer your own. The Dybbuk does not want your soul. It wants your life. Tonight, we open th...

Before the pyramids. Before kings. Before human history… something else was already here. They didn’t come in ships. They came in bloodlines. In royal families. In positions of power. For thousands of years, humanity has whispered the same fear that some people aren’t people at all.

The Reptilians.

Eyewitnesses describe glowing eyes. Skin that ripples. Faces that momentarily change. Governments call it hallucination.
Scientists call it impossible. But the files say something very different. Underground cities. Shapeshifting beings. An ancient species hiding behind human skin.

Welcome to Project Black Garden: A Mons...

When Project ONXY lost control, one of their deadliest creations went rogue. Vanishing into the shadows… Hunting the very people who made her. She's not property. She's not a weapon. She's the mistake you can’t erase. Tonight, we uncover the classified truth behind EVE7, codename Glitch. The superhuman android that is still at large. Her myth has become legend.

Welcome to Project Black Garden: A Monsters & Myths Podcast, where the lines between myth and reality vanish, and the truth is far scarier than fiction. But be warned: Once you’ve seen the monsters, they’ve seen you too...

They say when the winter grows long and the cold bites deeper than your bones… something ancient stirs in the northern woods. It doesn’t breathe. It doesn’t sleep. It only hungers. Tonight, we’re not just telling ghost stories around the fire. We’re stepping into the shadows of Indigenous myth… into the icy grip of a creature that feeds on fear, isolation… and flesh. A spirit born of starvation. A monster carved from human desperation. Its name is whispered by elders and buried in snowbound legend… This is the story of the Wendigo, and the ones who heard it too...

There are places on this Earth where the land remembers everything. Every scream. Every footprint. Every soul that never made it home. Across the world, people vanish under impossible circumstances. Voices are heard where no one stands. And creatures older than history still walk among us, hidden in the dark. Tonight, we open the files no one was meant to find. Witness accounts. Government cover-ups. And the monsters that were never supposed to be real. From cursed highways and haunted forests…
To ancient beings like the Yowie, and things with no name…

Welcome to Project Black Gard...

Shadows of the forgotten… flickers in the corner of your eye…
Figures that stand at the edge of the hallway… and vanish when you turn. Across centuries and continents, people have reported encounters with something cold, silent, and watching. A presence tied not to a place… but to a memory. Tragedy. Betrayal. Unfinished rituals. Tonight, we descend into the myths and mysteries of phantoms.
Are they warnings? Echoes? Or something much more sinister?

Welcome to Project Black Garden: A Monsters & Myths Podcast, where the lines between myth and reality vanish, and the truth is far scarier...

You ever get that feeling? Like someone’s behind you… but when you turn, there’s nothing? No footsteps. No shadow. Just stillness.

What if I told you… you were right?

Tonight, we peel back the curtain on one of history’s darkest legends. A man who vanished from sight, but not from the world. A man who left behind no fingerprints, only fear. Doors opened. Bodies dropped. And the whispers never stopped.

Was he a ghost? A scientist? A government weapon gone rogue? Or something far worse... something that traded its soul for the po...

They were the midwives of midnight…
The healers with herbs that whispered secrets to the earth…
And the cursed souls burned by flame and fear.

For centuries, they were hunted. Not because of their evil, but because of their power. Tonight, we peel back the veil of history and step into the haunted shadow of the witch. From the blood-soaked fields of Salem to the ancient woods of Eastern Europe… From the twisted Sabbaths of medieval folklore to the candlelit altars in modern city basements…
Witches have never truly vanished.
They’ve only gone deepe...

Somewhere out in the desert… buried beneath decades of denial and sand… there’s a door. A rusted vault sealed shut by a government that swore it didn’t exist. What's behind it?

Not aliens.
Not ghosts.

But something worse…

Men—turned monsters. Limbs twisted by science. Minds shattered by screams. Claws like butcher’s hooks. Eyes that remember everything done to them in the dark. They were built to fight wars. But they only learned how to kill. And now… something’s clawing its way back to the surface.

Welcome to Project...

High above the city, perched on cold stone towers and crumbling cathedrals—they stare down with hollow eyes. Twisted faces frozen in eternal screams. Wings outstretched. Mouths agape.

Gargoyles.

They were built to ward off evil…
But what if the evil was already inside them?

Tonight, we descend into the shadows of history to uncover the truth about gargoyles. From ancient waterspouts to supernatural guardians, from medieval legends to modern hauntings, these creatures carved from stone may be more than just decoration.

Some say they only move when no one is w...

In the forgotten corners of the desert, where the dunes shift like serpents and shadows whisper secrets older than time… something stirs. Tonight, we open the gateway to the realm of the JINN. Creatures born of smokeless fire, older than man, feared by prophets, and blamed for madness. They see you when you sleep. They follow you through the dark. And if you ever speak their name… they just might answer.

Welcome to Project Black Garden: A Monsters & Myths Podcast, where the lines between myth and reality vanish, and the truth is far scarier than fiction. But be w...

In the cold, deep waters of a Scottish loch lies a legend that refuses to die. For centuries, whispers of a monstrous shadow beneath the surface have chilled spines and sparked imaginations. Tonight, we dive into the dark folklore, eyewitness accounts, and scientific investigations behind one of the world’s greatest mysteries: the Loch Ness Monster. But beware, some legends don’t stay buried beneath the waves.

Welcome to Project Black Garden: A Monsters & Myths Podcast, where the lines between myth and reality vanish, and the truth is far scarier than fiction. But be warned: Once you’ve see...

You came back.
I knew you would.

It’s been a long time since the last recording and in that silence, the Garden kept growing. Now… the third season begins. And what I’ve uncovered, it’s bigger, older, and far more dangerous than the legends we thought we understood. These aren’t just myths anymore. They’re the truth.

Hidden records from a government division that officially doesn’t exist.
Files my great-uncle left behind decades ago,
passed through my father’s hands before his death,
and now… they’re mine. Every document...

In the shadow of the world’s tallest peaks, something moves where no human should be. Silent. Watching. Waiting.

The locals speak in hushed tones of a creature older than the mountains themselves. Covered in white. Towering. And never far behind.
They say it leaves no survivors… only footprints in the snow. Is it a myth born of isolation and cold… Or have we simply ignored the truth for too long?

Tonight, we follow the trail. But be warned: not all who go searching for the Yeti come back.

Welcome to Project Black...

First comes the buzzing. Then the pressure in your throat. And if you listen closely… you can hear them moving under your tongue. They don’t sting to kill. They sting to plant. Their young feed on nerves. They bloom inside your mouth like flowers made of hunger. Villages erased. Caves sealed and forgotten. Eyewitnesses driven mad. And behind every case... one constant: the Jawbreaker Wasp.

Tonight, we open the nest. We peel back the skin. And we show you what’s been growing in the dark. You might want to keep your mouth closed for this one.<...

In the heart of the desert lies a doorway to the past. Sealed for centuries, untouched by time. But some doors should never be opened.

They called it a miracle of preservation.
A marvel of ancient science.
But beneath the linen wraps and golden masks… something else waited.

A tale of forbidden tombs, unraveling legends, and the deadly price of disturbing the dead. Beware the Mummy...

Welcome to Project Black Garden: A Monsters & Myths Podcast, where the lines between myth and reality vanish, and the truth is far scarier than fiction.

They walk where the living dare not tread. Echoes of the forgotten, shadows of regret, forever bound between worlds. Some seek peace, others seek revenge.
But all of them… seek you.

Tonight, we invite you to listen closely. To the footsteps in empty halls, the whispers behind locked doors, and the cold breath on the back of your neck when no one is there.

This is ghosts.

Not legends… not imagination… but the restless dead that refuse to stay buried.

Welcome to Project Black Garden: A Monsters & Myths Podcast, where the li...

They say he comes when the world is asleep. When your mind drifts beyond the veil of dreams and your body lies helpless in the dark.

A shadow with no face.
A weight on your chest.
A whisper in your ear that isn’t your own.
He doesn’t knock. He doesn’t ask.
He takes.

For centuries, women have woken breathless, trembling, certain they were not alone. Some say it was just a nightmare. Others never woke up at all.

Tonight, we descend into the legends, the warnings, and th...

They were here long before the first cities rose from clay. Before gods walked among men. Before the earth had a name.

They say the bones still lie beneath the hills. Too massive for any beast,
too human to explain away. Whispers tell of beings taller than trees…
eyes like burning coals… and a hunger that shook the heavens.

The old stories called them giants. Titans. Fallen gods. Monsters carved from the bones of the world itself.

Welcome to Project Black Garden: A Monsters & Myths Podcast, where the lines between myth and...

They lurk in corners just beyond the edge of light. No eyes, no face. Only the shape of something watching. They visit when you're most vulnerable… paralyzed in your bed, unable to scream. Are they spirits… interdimensional travelers… or something far more sinister?
Tonight, we step into the darkness to uncover the truth behind the watchers in the shadows.

Let us explore the myths, sightings, and terrifying truths of the Shadow People. Lock your doors. Dim the lights. And whatever you do, don’t look behind you.

Welcome to Project Black Garden: A Monsters & Myths Po...

He has no face, yet every missing child swears they saw him watching from the trees. A figure stitched together by the internet’s darkest corners... born in pixels, raised in whispers, and now, lurking in your nightmares. Slender Man is more than a myth. He’s an infection. A shadow that spreads with every story told, every image shared, and every believer lost in the woods.

You think you’re safe because he was born on the internet?
Think again.
Tonight, we dive into the myth that escaped the screen and stepped into the woods...

They say the dead rest in peace… but not all of them. Some walk among us... pale, silent, hungry. For centuries, they’ve hidden in plain sight, behind cold eyes and warm smiles. Feeding slowly. Patiently. Silently.

From the shadows of forgotten graves and the fog-choked forests of Eastern Europe to the neon alleys of modern cities… they stalk.
Blood is their curse. Immortality is their prison.

Vampires.

You’ve heard the stories… but the truth is so much worse.

Welcome to Project Black Garden: A Monsters & Myths Podcast, where the lines...

They walk among us in the daylight: smiling, laughing, breathing, just like you. Their skin is warm, their voices soft. But when the sun dips below the horizon… the illusion fades.

Beneath the veil of flesh lies something far more terrifying… bones painted in colors of the damned, skulls etched with the spirits of the lost. They are the cursed children of the Nightbloom, bound by an ancient hex, doomed to hunt the living as night falls.

Each mark on their skeletons tells a story. Each victim’s soul becomes part of their haunting art. And if...

They say she waits… in the dark… behind the glass.
Her name is a whisper on the lips of the brave… or the foolish.

They say if you stand in front of a mirror, in the dead of night, and whisper her name three times… she’ll appear. A bloodied face. A vengeful scream. A chilling fate awaiting those who dare summon her.

What is it about a name that calls the dead? A forgotten queen drowning in blood? A witch seeking vengeance? Or something far worse, an entity older than time, lurking just beyond the...

From ancient folklore to modern nightmares, the Boogeyman has haunted our collective fears for centuries. He’s the monster under the bed, the shadow in the corner of your room, the thing you hear breathing when you’re supposed to be alone.

They say he’s just a story… a whisper in the dark to keep children in line. But what if the Boogeyman is real? What if he’s always been here, watching… waiting… hiding in the shadows just beyond your sight?

Join me as we step into the darkness where he waits. 

Welcome to Pr...

For centuries, they have haunted our legends… whispered through fire-lit tales and carved into the stone of ancient ruins. Some call them myths fantasies spun from fear. But what if the truth is far more terrifying? What if the dragons of old were real… and they never truly vanished?

But myths don’t leave behind scorched earth. Legends don’t carve their shadows into the bones of lost civilizations. And fear, real fear… doesn’t come from stories.

This week's episode will open the door to the abyss. From the cryptic texts buried in forgotten tombs… to th...

Last season, we opened the first journal. We thought we were uncovering old stories — instead, we awakened something.

Now… more journals have surfaced. Pages soaked in blood, inked in desperation, hidden for centuries by those who knew too much. Each one pointing to monsters the world still refuses to believe in. But denial doesn’t make them disappear.

Welcome back to Project: Black Garden, A Monsters & Myths Podcast, Season 2: The Snapdragon Files. I'm your host Michael, and I'm excited that your here. Prepare yourselves as we delve deeper into darker myths, more terrifying creatures, and chilli...

From the dark rituals of Haitian Vodou to the fast-moving terrors of modern apocalypses, we’ll uncover the origins, legends, and science behind the undead. Are they mindless monsters - or mirrors of our own fears and flaws?

Zombies. They’ve stalked our nightmares for centuries. Ancient folklore. Voodoo curses. Biological nightmares. Apocalypse warnings. They’re not just fiction… they’re a reflection of us. Mindless… ravenous… unstoppable.

Welcome to Project Black Garden: A Monsters & Myths Podcast, where the lines between myth and reality vanish, and the truth is far scarier than fiction.
But be warned...