S12 E21 F-Bomb - The Head That Spoke From the Fog
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This episode explores the legend of the Talking Head of Sault Ste. Marie, a piece of Great Lakes folklore tied to Michigan's Upper Peninsula.
On this episode of F-Bomb Friday, we travel into one of the oldest and strangest pieces of Great Lakes folklore tied to Michigan’s Upper Peninsula: the Talking Head of Sault Ste. Marie. Along the Saint Marys River, where fog settles low over the water and sound can lose all direction, stories once told of a severed head that continued to speak after death. Some versions connect the legend to French missionaries, fur traders, frontier violence, and the early colonial tensions surrounding one of the most important waterways in North America. Hosted and produced by Tracy Preston, featuring Todd Preston Story researched and written by Todd Preston Original music created exclusively for F-Bomb by Tracy Preston Original artwork by Todd Preston But was there ever truly a talking head along the river? Or did fear, fog, isolation, and history create something that felt just real enough to survive? #FBombFriday #MichiganFolklore #GreatLakesLegends #SaultSteMarie #MaliceInTheMitten Sources: “The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents.” The Jesuit Relations, Creighton University, moses.creighton.edu/kripke/jesuitrelations/. Accessed 30 June 2026. “The French Lead the Way: c. 1500 to 1763.”…
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