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
Cursed Creatures: Werewolves Part I - Ep. 23
In Part 1 of our Cursed Creatures deep dive, Cursed...ish heads into the woods under a full moon to ask a deceptively simple question: where did werewolf legends actually come from?Before silver bullets, full moons, and shirtless men cha...
Cursed Literature: The Curse of the Defense Against the Dark Arts Professor - Ep. 22
Why can no Hogwarts professor survive more than one year teaching Defense Against the Dark Arts?In this very unofficial Harry Potter episode of Cursed...ish, Daniel and Angela return to Hogwarts to investigate one of the wizarding world’...
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The Curse of the Flying Dutchman - Ep. 21
What happens when a cursed ghost ship becomes both victim and warning?In this episode of Cursed...ish, Daniel and Angela set sail into the foggy, storm-tossed legend of the Flying Dutchman, the doomed ship said to be cursed to sail the o...
