Last week, we tried to destroy the concept of time. This week, we’re back to destroy reality itself—or at least explain why humans keep making it up. Tragic and Bathroom explore myths from across the globe: Paul Bunyan swinging his giant axe for American expansionism, the Wendigo lurking in frozen forests as a warning against greed, a Ghanaian vampire feeding on both fear and colonial trauma, and Baba Yaga doing... whatever Baba Yaga wants.All just to ask: why do people invent monsters, gods, and talking animals? What were these stories actually doing for the societies that told them?

These stories aren’t just spooky bedtime tales —it’s a survival manual. They’re cultural blueprints, designed to teach, terrify, and explain the unexplainable. Why do humans keep creating monsters? Why are so many of them women with knives? And what do our favorite folk legends say about the fears we can't Google?

We explore how myth shapes morality, builds communities, and makes life slightly less terrifying. Why fear the IRS when you could fear a horned forest demon that steals your name?

Folklore reveals what a culture values—and what it desperately wants to suppress.

This episode gets deep, weird, and just a little spooky. Come for the symbolism, stay for the spider god (next season), and leave with a better understanding of your weird little brain.