Cursed...ish
Cursed...ish is a podcast about misfortune, mystery, and the stories we tell when bad luck stops feeling random.
Have you ever thought, “I don’t believe in curses… but I feel cursed”?
A project that keeps going wrong. A string of strange coincidences. A disaster that, in retrospect, feels almost inevitable. That’s when people start reaching for a bigger explanation. It’s not just bad luck, but something more sinister.
Hosted by Daniel Stevens and Angela Mattes, Cursed...ish explores stories in which misfortune is framed as more than mere happenstance: as something malevolent, approaching the macabre with curiosity, skepticism, and the occasional dark joke. From King Tut and the Dybbuk Box to the Avada Kedavra, and even your favorite four-letter word, each episode pulls apart the history, folklore, and media hysteria surrounding the human impulse to explain chaos.
Sometimes a curse is a supernatural claim. Sometimes it’s a metaphor. And sometimes it’s just what people tell themselves when the universe keeps kicking them in the teeth.
Welcome to Cursed...ish.
Cursed...ish
Latest Episodes
The Cursed Life of Robert T. Lincoln - Ep. 31
Some people seem to live charmed lives.Robert Todd Lincoln did not.In this episode of Cursed...ish, Angela and Daniel dig into the strangely cursed life of Abraham Lincoln’s eldest son, the only one of the Lincoln children ...
The Demon Core - Ep. 30
Some cursed objects are ancient, mysterious, and covered in centuries of folklore.And some are a softball-sized hunk of plutonium that very smart people kept poking at until it tried to kill everyone in the room.In this...
The Pella Curse Tablet - Ep. 29
What do you do when the person you're convinced is the one for you is about to marry someone else?If you are Degina, a woman living in ancient Macedon, you carve a curse into lead, roll it up, and place it in a grave so the dead can carr...
