The Full STory

The Unabridged, Definitely Chaotic Version

A Multimedia Storytelling Studio Built on Equal Parts Obsession and chaos

Tabitha Bear Studios started in 2016 as a travel blog held together with caffeine, curiosity, and absolutely no business plan. What began as a scrappy attempt to document the world eventually became something far more interesting. The more the world revealed itself, the more its stories demanded to be told properly. Ancient ones. Weird ones. Ones that had survived thousands of years for a very good reason.

So the travel blog evolved. The mythology obsession deepened. The folklore research got out of hand in the best possible way. And Tabitha Bear Studios grew into a full multimedia storytelling studio dedicated to the kind of stories that textbooks have been getting wrong — or ignoring entirely — for centuries.

Today, the studio operates across multiple platforms and projects:

World Herstory – uncovering the lives and legacies of lesser known women in history, because the historical record has a lot of explaining to do.

A Hot Mess Builds An Empire – for Day 1 Entrepreneurs navigating the gloriously chaotic early days of building something from scratch.

The Blog – world mythology, cryptids, trickster gods, and global folklore from every corner of the globe.

Unverified: Tales Of A Crazed Storyteller – the free weekly newsletter delivering half-true myths, questionable footnotes, and raw dispatches from a studio still very much building its own empire.

This is Tabitha Bear Studios. Unabridged. Definitely chaotic. Absolutely on purpose.

The Human Behind The Studio

Chaotic, Overdramatic, and Extremely Well Informed

Hi, I’m Tabitha. Lënape and Shawnee, born and still living on my ancestral lands of Lenapehokink, what most people call the Northeast United States. As an Indigenous woman, I grew up with storytelling woven into everything. Oral histories, wild mythology, centuries-old narratives passed down because they were too important to lose. It turns out that’s less of a hobby and more of a calling.

My formal education is in performing arts and history, which should tell you everything you need to know about me. I am that person: chaotic, overdramatic, and dangerously well stocked with weird and wonderful facts about the universe. I appreciate sarcasm, transparency, and the occasional Dr. Pepper. I share my home with three cats named Torpedo, Skull Crusher, and Lolli, a very rulesy German Shepherd named Astrid, and a one brain cell Golden Retriever named Kevin who requires constant supervision. We let my husband live with us. He is kind of okay and should be happy and grateful to be mentioned in my biography.

The travel chapter started in 2016 with a last minute trip to Iceland before my passport expired. What was supposed to be a casual vacation turned into something else entirely. Grand landscapes, ancient mythology, and my first ever glimpse of the northern lights, all crammed onto a set of SD cards that came home completely full and changed everything. I have been chasing that palatial high of discovering global mythos and stumbling upon jaw-dropping views ever since. That first (of many!) trip to Iceland didn’t just start a travel blog. It started Tabitha Bear Studios.