# uncanny (audio feeds) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 2 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover uncanny. Page: Feed: --- ## 100 Ghost Stories in the Dark: Why Summer Is Ghost Season in Japan (Ep. 197) _2026-08-17 · Uncanny Japan_ In Japan, ghosts don’t wait for October. Summer—especially the hot, humid weeks around Obon—has long been the season for ghost stories, strange encounters, and deliberately scaring yourself silly. In this episode of Uncanny Japan, we’ll sit down for hyakumonogatari, the old practice of telling one hundred frightening stories while extinguishing candles one by one. We’ll look at summer ghost plays… [Listen](https://pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.megaphone.fm/PHTE1362994044.mp3) ## [Slate Waste: Extraction and Reimagining in Northern Wales](https://petersontoscanostudios.podbean.com/e/slate-waste-extraction-and-reimagining-in-northern-wales/) _2026-08-07 · Bubble and Squeak_ What do the anthracite coal towns of Central Pennsylvania have in common with the historic slate quarry towns of North Wales? Both are places where the earth was cut open, wealth traveled elsewhere, and the people who stayed were left to explain why their home still matters. In this long-form episode of Bubble and Squeak, host Peterson Toscano travels across the Atlantic to Gwynedd, North Wales,… [Listen](https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/4txs8j2k9w6i9pys/BSS4E8_Slate_Wastebi3f5.mp3) ## How to Welcome the Dead Home: Obon in Japan (Ep. 196) _2026-08-03 · Uncanny Japan_ Every Obon, Japan’s ancestral spirits return home—guided by tiny fires and carried on cucumber horses. This year, for the first time, I’m responsible for preparing my father-in-law’s family altar. Join me for cauldron lids, lost ghosts, strange noises in an old house, eggplant cows, and the rituals used to welcome the dead home and send them safely away again. Learn more about your ad choices.… [Listen](https://pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.megaphone.fm/PHTE4352197975.mp3) ## Creepy Story Time: "By the Japanese Sea" -- Lafcadio Hearn _2026-07-20 · Uncanny Japan_ On the final days of Obon, fishermen along Japan’s western coast once believed the sea belonged to the dead. In this episode, I read Lafcadio Hearn’s eerie and beautiful essay “By the Japanese Sea.” Along the journey, we encounter drowned spirits rising from the waves, cats carried aboard fishing boats to ward off ghosts, delicate straw vessels made for lost souls, and a haunted futon whispering… [Listen](https://pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.megaphone.fm/PHTE1576316820.mp3) ## [Wooden Leg](https://petersontoscanostudios.podbean.com/e/wooden-leg/) _2026-07-10 · Bubble and Squeak_ This episode of Bubble & Squeak comes in three parts: a joke Peterson almost told at an open mic in Sunbury, PA, a true story from Santiago, Chile, and a sound slice from the past. Peterson begins with one of his father’s best jokes—or at least the story of why he nearly told it in public and then thought better of it. His mother, Anita Toscano, had a crisp, dry wit. His father, Pete Toscano, told… [Listen](https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/w3xvi2phc3j97ctk/BS_S5E7_Wooden_Legbcpm5.mp3) ## Tanabata: Star-Crossed Lovers (Ep.55) -- From the Vault _2026-07-07 · Uncanny Japan_ A short Tanabata tale from the Uncanny Vault: Orihime the weaving princess, Hikoboshi the cowherd, and the river of stars that keeps them apart. On the seventh night of the seventh month, wishes are written on colorful strips of paper, tied to bamboo, and sent into the summer sky. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices [Listen](https://pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.megaphone.fm/PHTE1821453837.mp3) ## Childhood Incantations: Engacho, Pain Magic, & Severed Pinkies! (Ep. 194) _2026-07-07 · Uncanny Japan_ Two little boys find a dead bird on a mountain path. One accidentally touches it with his shoe, and suddenly the invisible contagion begins. Fingers cross. A circle is made. A hand chops through it. “Engacho!” In this episode of Uncanny Japan, we explore the everyday magic words and protective spells of childhood in Japan. There’s engacho, used to cut away contamination, bad luck, and all things… [Listen](https://pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.megaphone.fm/PHTE3460052238.mp3) ## Utsuro-Bune: The Hollow Ship Revisited (Ep. 193) _2026-06-17 · Uncanny Japan_ In 1803, fishermen on Japan’s Hitachi coast spotted something round and unfamiliar drifting offshore. They hauled the hollow vessel onto the beach—and discovered a mysterious young woman inside. Step into the story as one of those fishermen. Examine the vessel’s clouded windows and iron-plated hull, hear the woman speak in a language no one understands, and watch as she fiercely protects a box she… [Listen](https://pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.megaphone.fm/PHTE6573078036.mp3) ## The Big Three UFO/UAP Incidents in Japan + One! (Ep. 192) _2026-06-14 · Uncanny Japan_ Japan’s 1970s UFO boom gave us some wonderfully strange cases: children capturing a tiny hat-shaped UFO in Kōchi, two boys encountering wrinkled aliens in a Yamanashi vineyard, and a Hokkaidō farmer who claimed repeated abductions, spoon-bending powers, and telepathic contact with beings from the Samon Call Galactic Planetary Federation. In this episode, we look at Japan’s “Big Three” UFO… [Listen](https://pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.megaphone.fm/PHTE5571049016.mp3) ## The Ghost-Playing Actor Who Became a REAL Vengeful Ghost: Kohada Koheiji (Ep. 191) _2026-06-01 · Uncanny Japan_ Not all Japanese revenge ghosts are wronged women. Meet Kohada Koheiji: a failed Edo-period actor who became famous for playing ghosts, only to be murdered, drowned, and returned as the very thing he once performed. In this episode, we explore the tangled history of the “real” Koheiji, Santō Kyōden’s gruesome tale, Nanboku’s kabuki adaptation, strange actor superstitions, severed fingers, rotten… [Listen](https://pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.megaphone.fm/PHTE5618259625.mp3) ## [Stream Torrents & IPTV Instantly (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/MhTTKpp5kbZb) _2026-06-01 · **Sponsored**_ Search magnet links and stream movies, music, books, and live TV in-browser ## All That Flows: Benzaiten, White Snakes, and Human-Headed Serpents _2026-05-18 · Uncanny Japan_ In this episode of Uncanny Japan, we follow Benzaiten — also known as Benten — from her origins as Saraswati to her place among Japan’s Seven Lucky Gods. Along the way: Enoshima’s five-headed dragon, white snakes as divine messengers, snake-skin wallets, house snakes, and Ugajin, the wonderfully strange human-headed snake deity linked to rice, water, fertility, fortune, and wealth. Learn more… [Listen](https://pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.megaphone.fm/PHTE8112307078.mp3) ## Everyone Has a Throat Buddha / What is it and Why? -- Nodohotoke & Story Time: "The Buddha Bone" (Ep. 189) _2026-05-04 · Uncanny Japan_ Have you ever heard of the nodo-hotoke, or “throat Buddha”? In everyday Japanese, it usually refers to the Adam’s apple. But after death, especially in the context of cremation, the nodo-hotoke becomes something else entirely, the actual seat of your soul. In this episode of Uncanny Japan, I talk about the fascinating and beautiful funeral custom of gathering bones after cremation, using long… [Listen](https://pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.megaphone.fm/PHTE3182716633.mp3?updated=1777933677) ## [Sparks Joy: Live Recording at Imagine Belfast](https://petersontoscanostudios.podbean.com/e/sparks-joy-live-recording-at-imagine-belfast/) _2026-03-28 · Bubble and Squeak_ Recorded live at the Accidental Theatre for the Imagine Belfast Festival, this special episode of Bubble & Squeak. Peterson Toscano guides the audience through a four-part journey that is playful but deeply serious beneath the surface, exploring faith, politics, identity, and the power of storytelling. In This Episode Part One: A Performance to Relax Peterson opens the show with a scene from his… [Listen](https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/8p7p2evkw929362z/BS_live_from_Belfastr7de4s.mp3) ## [Something Cnidarian](https://petersontoscanostudios.podbean.com/e/something-cnidarian/) _2026-02-08 · Bubble and Squeak_ Part One: Queer author Ryan La Sala and the queer horror story, The Dead of Summer Part Two: A message from the evil spirit that lives inside Donald Trump Part Three: A Sound Slice from a political rally in Richmond, Virginia. You can see a video version of this podcast over at https://www.youtube.com/@p2son Ryan LaSala is a bestselling and award-winning queer author. He writes about surreal… [Listen](https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/nrfpiqdimeez43pt/S4E5_Something_Cnidarian881sd.mp3) ## [Gravitational Pull: From Period Products to Our New North Star](https://petersontoscanostudios.podbean.com/e/gravitational-pull-from-period-products-to-our-new-north-star/) _2025-12-03 · Bubble and Squeak_ S4E3 — Personal Connections: Period Products, Climate Poetry, and a Ritual for the Next North Star In this episode, the threads of community, justice, climate imagination, and art weave through three distinct yet deeply connected stories. Today’s show comes in three parts: Part One: The Secret World of Diapers and Period Products Part Two: Anthropocene Pastoral — climate-change poetry by Catherine… [Listen](https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/7mxwhzqjwn6emg3e/BS_ep_MenstralCup7vbjs.mp3) ## [Creation Groaning](https://petersontoscanostudios.podbean.com/e/creation-groaning/) _2025-08-29 · Bubble and Squeak_ What do pasta, polar bears, and the Pope have in common? They all show up in this episode about climate change. Peterson Toscano refuses to preach doom or guilt—instead, you’ll hear Jewish wisdom on acting fast in a crisis, Christian takes on food justice, and a Bronx guy who’s had it with polar bears. Also: coffee is under threat, so now you’re paying attention. And we end on a diesel-fumed bus… [Listen](https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/q2q0nj3n7jv8ucz1/stream_2159597889-peterson-thomas-toscano-creation-groaning.mp3) ## [Sissy Gagged: Sex, Gender, and Jesus](https://petersontoscanostudios.podbean.com/e/sissy-gagged-sex-gender-and-jesus/) _2025-07-09 · Bubble and Squeak_ This episode is about sex, gender, and Jesus—and what happens when our bodies get wrapped in shame, pleasure, politics, and power. It comes in four parts: 🧕 Part One – Tina Beardsley Revd Dr. Tina Beardsley is a priest, a theologian, and a trans woman who’s been quietly transforming the Church of England from the inside out. Co-author of Trans Affirming Churches and Transfaith, Tina sees… [Listen](https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/szdbyoix48byicq1/stream_2127275856-peterson-thomas-toscano-sissy-gagged.mp3) ## [Grave Robbers: Father James Martin, Lucas Wilson, and Coming Out Lazarus](https://petersontoscanostudios.podbean.com/e/grave-robbers-father-james-martin-lucas-wilson-and-coming-out-lazarus/) _2025-04-20 · Bubble and Squeak_ We kick off Season 4 with a deep, layered look at resurrection, queer liberation, and spiritual unbinding. Host Peterson Toscano brings together three unique stories—tied together by one enduring biblical moment: Jesus calling Lazarus out of the tomb. 🕊️ Part One: Peterson talks with Fr. James Martin, SJ, about his new book Come Forth: The Promise of Jesus’s Greatest Miracle. They explore how the… [Listen](https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/7n8rchmoeeep9xh5/stream_2082146823-peterson-thomas-toscano-grave-robbers-father-james-martin-lucas-wilson-and-coming-out-lazarus.mp3)