Coming to you live from the middle of the ocean… Bern and Kaitlin are back and ready to chat about life at sea!This episode's hot topics: vandalism, lakes, sunken cities, tattoos, boat animals, Davy Jones, aquatic femme fatales, centaurs, th

40 - Dragons

Jun 17th, 2022 1h 10m

Here be dragons! This week Bern and Kaitlin are back with more big ol' serpents! This episode's hot topics: human fears, dino bones, Tolkien influence, bodily fluids, Pete's Dragon, mockumentaries, taxonomic ranks, bad pronunciations, cryptid

39 - Sentient Trees

Jun 10th, 2022 57m 48s

After many, many, many moons, Stone Houses has risen again! Join Bern and Kaitlin in celebrating a TRIUMPHANT RETURN to the internet radio waves. Let's talk trees!This episode's hot topics: finding faces, screaming plants, bog people, biblical

38 - The Moon

Mar 25th, 2020 1h 1m

Join Kaitlin and LB as they explore ways Earth’s lone satellite has influenced folklore, mythology, and superstition… Let’s learn about the moon!This episode’s hot topics: Borat impressions, moon creation, cycles, childhood anecdotes, films, t

37 - Baba Yaga

Mar 9th, 2020 51m 34s

This week LB and Kaitlin learn about the chaotic neutral Slavic mortar-and-pestle rider who just really wants you to stop asking questions. Let's talk about Baba Yaga!This episode’s hot topics: Baby Yoda, vibe checks, Mother Nature, more baby

36 - King Arthur

Mar 3rd, 2020 1h 11m

This week LB and Kaitlin finally circle around to the once and future king! Let’s take a seat at the round table and learn about the psuedo-history of King Arthur!This episode’s hot topics: time traveling motorcycles, Geoffrey of Monmouth, fa

35 - Rainbow Serpent

Nov 24th, 2019 51m 51s

This week LB and Kaitlin talk a lot of interpretations of Rainbow Serpents in Australian oral tradition!This episode’s hot topics: cultural anthropology, relativism, The Dreaming, snakes, water gods, rainbows, creating the universe, various b

34 - Kappa

Nov 5th, 2019 56m 14s

This week LB and Kaitlin just…. plot kappa murder. That’s it. That’s the episode.This episode’s hot topics: the worst street noise to date, troublemakers, bummers, anime tropes, sumo wrestling, cucumbers, fake science, kappa traps, concrete,

33 - Clowns

Oct 28th, 2019 1h 4m

This week LB and Kaitlin talk about a history of clowns, their evolution in pop culture, and how they might have become associated with horror. Are you down to clown…This episode’s hot topics: masks, romans are still horny for the greeks, clo

32 - The Mothman

Oct 22nd, 2019 43m 24s

Join Kaitlin and LB as they discuss the only thing that could lead to the headline “A Man-Sized Bird… Creature… Something…” and learn more about moths than we ever needed to. Let’s make friends with the Mothman!This episode’s hot topics: moth

31 - La Llorona

Oct 8th, 2019 50m 43s

This week LB and Kaitlin talk sad ladies with questionable morals and the many different ways La Llorona has been interpreted. Let’s cry by a river in the middle of the night and tell some ghost stories!This episode’s hot topics: foam, Aztec

30 - Sewer Alligators

Sep 29th, 2019 1h

Kaitlin and LB make a triumphant return as they immediately traverse the sewers to uncover the urban legend of the Sewer Alligator! Let’s learn about gigantic, possibly albino, mutant gators that possibly live in the sewage works underneath big

Trailer

Stone Houses Announcement

Jun 30th, 2019 11m 29s

We sadly have to announce that Stone Houses will be taking a small hiatus this summer due to travel and work and maybe-possibly bad olives... But! Stone Houses WILL RETURN! Tune in to get the inside scoop. We'll see you again in August!Find

29 - Sappho

Jun 24th, 2019 56m 40s

This week Kaitlin and LB talk about The Poetess, Sappho! The real-life muse, romantic poet, and patron of women who love women. Happy Pride!This episode’s hot topics: denial, women loving women, the Greeks, patron of lesbians, foolish scholar

28 - Loki

Jun 18th, 2019 52m 42s

Join Kaitlin and LB as they learn about the trickster of the Norse pantheon. Snakes and spiders and eight-legged-horses, oh my! Let's talk about Loki! This episode’s hot topics: mischief, the Prose Edda, blood brothers, tricksters, horny hors

27 - Creature Crunch 2

Jun 10th, 2019 1h 19m

This week we revisit our old friends from the past few months and just get all up in that mind theater in CREATURE CRUNCH 2: ELECTRIC BOOGALOO!This episode’s hot topics: microphones, movies, approximations of dating shows, an abundance of li

26 - Basilisks

Jun 3rd, 2019 1h 2m

In today’s episode LB and Kaitlin dunk on historical dudes and learn about some amalgam chicken snakes who have one hell of a stink eye! Let’s talk about basilisks, baby!This episode’s hot topics: Pliny the Elder, baby vibes, chimeras, Leona

25- Wendigo

May 27th, 2019 1h 5m

This week LB and Kaitlin talk about the wendigo, an icy-hearted cannibal from the frigid north!This episode’s hot topics: cannibalism, bad pronunciations, Hollywood bastardization, zombies, rules of the internet and monstrous affairs, histor

24 - Twins

May 21st, 2019 1h 10m

This week LB and Kaitlin talk about twins in fiction and folklore! This episode’s hot topics: historical medicine, phrenology, vague existentialism, siblings, twin selves, demigods, Homestuck, The Duality, Shakespeare, souls, creep factor, a

23 - Kelpies

May 13th, 2019 1h 8m

This week Kaitlin and LB brave the waters again to meet some carnivorous equine friends! Let’s learn about Kelpies!This episode’s hot topics: deep dark fears, batman, lawnmower sounds, hooves, centaur configurations, gigantic sculptures, Loch

22 - Magical Girls

May 6th, 2019 1h 18m

This week Kaitlin and LB push the limits of what technically fits under the umbrella of this podcast’s tagline as they discuss the history and origins of Magical Girls!This episode’s hot topics: swear city results, the Kentucky derby, serpen

21 - Trolls

Apr 24th, 2019 1h 10m

Let’s talk about trolls! This week Kaitlin and Bernadette get real goofy and talk about these funky Scandinavian dudes. This episode’s hot topics: swear city, still relearning how to podcast, internet trolling, Tolkien, troll farming commun

20 - Rusalka

Apr 15th, 2019 1h 8m

UPDATE: Sorry to folks who tried to listen within the first 12 hours of the episode being live, there was a mix up and only half of the audio was uploaded. Thanks for your patience! We’re back! Hang out in your local pond with Kaitlin and LB

19 - Aliens (Part 2)

Apr 1st, 2019 1h 5m

Take Kaitlin and Bernadette to your leaders to show off the thrilling conclusion to the aliens episodes! Aliens need to be catalogued, things get heated, it's a wild UFO joyride!This episode’s hot topics: the X-Files theme song, ufology, type

18 - Aliens (Part 1)

Mar 25th, 2019 56m 28s

Bernadette gets replaced by an alien, Kaitlin marries the moon, it’s a good time. This week we get real science-y as we start out a new accidental two-parter all about Aliens! Come count planets with us!This episode’s hot topics: aliens repl