• 32:49 - 34:52
Tim Swartz | The Inner Earth, Antarctica, & Conspiracy Goodness
Santa Claus, Krampus and the Shaver Mystery
The hosts discuss the origins of the Santa Claus legend as a possible folk memory of a "helper" figure coming from the North Pole. Swartz connects this to the darker figure of Krampus and the "Shaver Mystery" involving malevolent underground beings known as Deros. They suggest these modern fairy tales may be sanitized versions of more complex subterranean realities.