The Lore Lodge

The Lore Lodge is an American YouTube channel run by Aidan Mattis and Aidan Thornbury. The channel focuses primarily on American paranormal and supernatural stories and folklore, with side projects addressing religion, history, and true crime. The channel came to prominence after a slew of viral TikTok videos about the National Parks Conspiracy drove traffic to the platform.
==About ==
The Lore Lodge is both the channel name and the flagship series for the channel. It covers the two most active shows: The Lore Lodge (a weekly video series covering topics of folklore and urban legends) and The Lore Lodge Official Podcast (a weekly live show that covers similar topics, but in long from discussion format).
Topics have included everything from The Missing 411 Phenomenon, to the Norse Eschatology of Ragnarok, and topics such as The Bell Witch. The channel seeks to provide useful, well researched information, but in a format that does not feel overly academic. From The Lore Lodge YouTube Channel:
Many history, folklore, and mythology channels dazzle you with well written scripts, beautiful imagery, and flashy British accents. Here, we do things a little differently. Stop in, grab a hot drink, and listen to your host, Aidan Mattis, tell you stories from both history and legend in an approachable, casual format. It's like you sat down at the bar and asked about Wendigos. Welcome to the Lore Lodge...
In April 2022, The Lore Lodge announced a new project, which was officially entitled Into Thin Air in June of the same year. The new series will be a documentary format which covers Missing 411 cases in depth, using on location shooting, interviews, and dramatizations. The series is planned for a July 2022 launch.
== "Momllennial_" Controversy ==
In November 2021, a user on TikTok under the moniker "Momllennial_" (real name Donna, a former Buzzfeed editor), began propagating a conspiracy based upon Anatoly Fomenko's New Chronology, which argued that the Roman Empire was a fabrication of the Spanish Inquisition under the authority of the Catholic Church. Mattis, the main researcher of The Lore Lodge, engaged in an extensive effort to debunk her claims, both on YouTube and on TikTok. As of April 2022, the @Momllennial_ account was banned from the platform, but returned sometime in May. The account returned to its usual activity of slandering creators and making unbacked claims about history, prompting Mattis to make a comment about her being part of the "nightmare blunt rotation", which reignited the feud and led to Donna releasing a slew of defamatory videos about Mattis. 
==The History Hut==
Host Aidan Mattis has a background in Medieval Studies, History, Classics, and Religion, and brings this expertise to a history-focused side program on The Lore Lodge channel, titled The History Hut. The program is comprised of biweekly videos which cover topics in European and Near East history, such as Rome, Phoenicia, the Vikings, and others.
==Members==
===Aidan Mattis===
Host Aidan Mattis is a Penn State educated historian and folklorist, having earned his B.A. in Medieval Studies in 2020. Mattis is a writer and researcher with a particular interest in the Celtic world. In early July of 2022, Mattis was featured in a Wendigoon video about the Missing 411 phenomenon.
===Aidan Thornbury===
Technical Producer Aidan Thornbury has a background in Film, having earned his B.F.A. in Film and Journalism at New York University. Aidan has written, directed, edited, and at times acted in dozens of short films and media content over the past decade.
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