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Aswang

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Sep 30, 2026

Aidan MattisHOST
82:01
If it's a Wendigo or a Skinwalker or Dogman, something like that, if you got bit, you're lucky it wasn't worse.
Aidan MattisHOST
82:10
If it's something like a Vampire or a Strigoi or an Ashwang, anything along those lines, you might be in a little bit more trouble.
Aidan MattisHOST
82:20
Yeah.
Aidan MattisHOST
82:21
You don't want to get yourself into that kind of situation.
Steve StocktonGUEST
36:07
The top half flies off and drinks people's blood with its tongue, and then it has to join with its lower half before mourning, or it dies, like in our vampire stories here.
Steve StocktonGUEST
36:20
And instead of driving a stake through its heart to kill it, you have to find the lower part, the lower torso and the legs and pour salt in it to kill the Aswan.
Seriah AzkathHOST
36:29
That's fascinating.
Seriah AzkathHOST
36:31
Huh.
Alonso DuraldeHOST
32:09
Like, the two main characters live in kind of an unnamed beach town in the Philippines.
Alonso DuraldeHOST
32:14
And there's a lot of talk about the Aswang and like all these different sort of demons and vampires and whatnot.
Alonso DuraldeHOST
32:20
I thought it was a little much by the end, like just all of it was a lot of muchness.
Alonso DuraldeHOST
32:24
But I can see where a lot of people are going to really respond to various things in it, whether it's the female friendship, whether it's the cool monsters.
Glaiza ChampionGUEST
42:30
And so I made stat blocks of cryptids, the Filipino cryptids, like the Manananga, the Tikbalang and all that.
Kenneth HiteHOST
42:36
The Aswang.
Kenneth HiteHOST
42:37
The Aswang,
Glaiza ChampionGUEST
42:38
yeah.
Glaiza ChampionGUEST
42:39
But not just that, also the little, little
Swamp DwellerHOST
5:34
The next day, my dad went to speak to the neighborhood elders about what he had seen.
Swamp DwellerHOST
5:38
They told him it was an Aswang.
Swamp DwellerHOST
5:40
So, if you did not know, stories of Aswang are all over the Philippines, especially out in the rural areas.
Swamp DwellerHOST
5:47
Up to 80% of the people here actually believe in this.
Swamp DwellerHOST
5:51
They are basically the Philippines equivalent to vampires of Western folklore in terms of mythology.
Swamp DwellerHOST
5:56
They are said to be shapeshifters who have a taste for human and animal entrails, but their most sought-after delicacy is the flesh of an unborn child.
Swamp DwellerHOST
6:05
The legends have it that the Aswang would crawl around on rooftops at night, searching for pregnant women.
Swamp DwellerHOST
6:12
When it found one, it would settle above the expectant mother as she slept.
speaker_0HOST
4:19
I think 2050, I think.
speaker_0HOST
4:22
And it's about this post-apocalypse with the Aswang, led by the Malmort demon, this time in physical form.
speaker_0HOST
4:30
But this Malmort demon looks devil, excuse me, whatever, demon devil, looks different than the last two in the last two segments.
speaker_0HOST
4:39
It's that now you see him in full form, but for some reason he looks like Voldemort from Harry Potter.
Devin FaraciHOST
43:48
very common.
Devin FaraciHOST
43:49
It's a witch called an Aswang.
Devin FaraciHOST
43:51
I might be pronouncing it wrong.
Devin FaraciHOST
43:54
It's a witch called an Aswang.
Devin FaraciHOST
43:55
And one of the things are that...
Devin FaraciHOST
43:59
So I'm going to make it really...
Devin FaraciHOST
44:20
And the Aswan, which is like a shape-changing witch, ghoul kind of a thing, they swallow a black chick.
Devin FaraciHOST
44:31
This is a very common thing.
Joel CrawfordGUEST
60:44
And then we were like, as we were chatting, we're like, this would be so cool to represent this mythology
Januel MercadoGUEST
60:51
Yeah, because like, to your point, like the mythology that we're, the Aswang mythology in the Philippines, like it's just, it has the archetypes of vampires, werewolves, shapeshifters, demons.
Januel MercadoGUEST
61:08
But, you know, every country has their own kind of point of view and spin on it.
Januel MercadoGUEST
61:12
And to your point, it's like, it's something familiar.
JoeHOST
20:02
It's a vampire.
JoeHOST
20:04
So the story, and I'll tell the story very quickly, but basically there's this, the Aswang is the name of it.
JoeHOST
20:11
It's basically this creature in Filipino folklore.
JoeHOST
20:15
I mean, if you search on Google right now to those listening, it's...
Art BellHOST
13:54
Uh, so humanoid-like, not exactly totally humans.
Art BellHOST
13:59
Um, but humanoid-like or partly humanoi- A- and a good example would be, uh, before the show, I had, uh, Ken look up, um, 'cause I didn't wanna spring it on him, Aswang, A-S-W-A-N-G.
Art BellHOST
14:12
Uh, my wife, as you know, is a Filipina, and she is from, uh, the southern island of the Philippines, where everybody, everybody believes in the Aswang.
Art BellHOST
14:24
And if you guys out there in the audience go to Google, and you, um, uh, put in Aswang, A-S-W-A-N-G, uh, and then click on Images on Google, you, you can kind of scroll down, and you can see all these different photographs, as Ken did prior to the show.
Art BellHOST
14:42
And an awful lot of them, to me, look like what we're talking about tonight.
Art BellHOST
14:48
Now, when I tell you my wife believes in the Aswang, I'm, I'm not kidding.
Art BellHOST
14:53
I mean, she is scared to death of this creature, and when you see it, you'll understand why.
Art BellHOST
14:59
Uh, so Ken, when you see the p- photographs that, you know, depict the Aswang-

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