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Podcast: QAA Podcast
Episode: Werewolves of the Bayou feat. Jack LaRoche (Premium E318) Sample
Description: A new strain of cryptozoology is howling across the internet. Itâs less about stuff like âundiscovered birdsâ and more like âBigfoot is interdimensional.â This week, we are joined by guest writer Jack LaRoche follow that trail straight into Louisianaâs swampy heartland to meet the Rougarou: a Cajun loup-garou legend shaped by Catholic ideas about sin and control, then transformed through centuries of cultural mixing into something thatâs been feared, joked about, and even embraced as a local mascot.
Along the way, we rewind to medieval France to untangle where âwerewolvesâ actually come from, detour through the shaky math and moral pan...