Tiny Terrors: The Dark Side of the Little People

About this episode

The episode explores chilling listener stories and the darker side of folklore surrounding little people across various cultures.

On this episode of Expanded Perspectives , Kyle kicks things off by recounting a recent trip he and Luke took to San Antonio for a horror festival—an event packed with eerie atmosphere, strange encounters, and plenty of inspiration for the unexplained. From there the show dives straight into a series of chilling listener stories. One woman shares a disturbing encounter deep in the woods of West Virginia , where she claims to have stumbled upon what appeared to be a clan of feral people living far from civilization. Another strange report comes out of rural Arkansas , where a witness describes a large, Bigfoot-like creature sneaking onto her property and stealing chickens in the dead of night. After the break, Kyle explores a far more unsettling corner of folklore and legend—the terrifying side of the world’s little people . Most people imagine these beings as harmless figures from fairy tales: gnomes beneath toadstools, fairies dancing in moonlit glades, pixies darting through the trees like sparks of light. Across many cultures, these small humanoids are said to dwell in hidden corners of the world, quietly watching from forests, caves, and ancient hillsides. But not all of the…

People in this episode

Host: Kyle

Topics covered

• horror
• folklore
• urban legends
• cryptids
• listener stories
• little people

Keywords

• horror festival
• feral people
• Bigfoot
• Ebu gogo
• Guije
• urban legends
• cryptids
• listener stories

Mentioned in this episode

Places: San Antonio, West Virginia, Arkansas, Indonesia, Cuba, Flores

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