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Creepy, Occult & Otherworldly

Cannibalism, Frostbite, and The Quest for the Northwest Passage

Today we are discussing the bone-chilling fear that comes from knowing that all hope is gone, and your death – from the cold, or from a slow moving disease, or from starvation – is only a matter of time. We’re talking about the quest to explore the Arctic. Listen, download, Read more…

By Sarah Handley-Cousins, 2 years2 years ago
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Haunted Slavery: The Lalaurie Mansion, New Orleans

The Lalaurie Mansion in New Orleans, Louisiana, is said to be one of the most haunted houses in the French Quarter. The extreme and shocking stories that are told about the Lalaurie house are egregiously exaggerated and overwhelmingly gloss over the real issues of race, gender, and violence prevalent with Read more…

By Elizabeth Garner Masarik, 2 years9 months ago
A woodcut of a witchy looking woman holding two tankards of ale
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Witches Brew: How the Patriarchy Ruins Everything for Women, Even Beer

An old woman with a pointy hat, cauldron, broom, cat, and smelly brew? Why, she must be a witch! This tableau has titillated and thrilled and terrified Europeans and Americans for centuries. But this woman is not communing with the devil or cursing her neighbors. She’s not even making herbal Read more…

By Averill Earls, 2 years2 years ago
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Forensic Pathology and the History of Death Investigation

This Halloween, take a minute to notice amputated limbs littering haunted houses, scary stories about reanimated corpses that you tell by the fire while you’re camping, all that rubbernecking on the thruway when there’s a horrific accident, the endless tv shows, podcasts, and books dedicated to grisly murders… or even Read more…

By Marissa Rhodes, 2 years2 years ago
Huron- Wendat Bressani map of 1657 depicts the martyrdom of Jean de Brébeuf and Gabriel Lalemant
Creepy, Occult & Otherworldly

Huron-Wendat Feast of the Dead: Death, Religion, and Euro-Native Encounters

Today we’re going to talk about one very specific encounter around death and death ways that took place in the mid 1600s in what is now Ontario, Canada, and before we even get started, I want to mention our source for this episode. We’re really basing everything here on one Read more…

By Sarah Handley-Cousins, 3 years3 years ago
Cock Lane Ghost, English Credulity or the Invisible Ghost, from The Complete Contemporary History of Cock Lane Ghost
Creepy, Occult & Otherworldly

The Cock Lane Ghost: A Haunting Hoax in 18th Century London

There wasn’t a soul in London, much less the neighborhood of Smithfield market, who hadn’t heard of the Cock Lane ghost. In 1762, the narrow London street was crowded with throngs of onlookers and busy-bodies who wanted to know if the rumors were true. A young girl at 20 Cock Read more…

By Marissa Rhodes, 3 years3 years ago
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Creepy, Occult & Otherworldly

“It’s all just a big joke”: Halloween, Samhain, and Moral Panics in the 1980s

In 1978, John Carpenter created a horror film that would arguably change the genre, certainly led the way in slasher films, and all on a $325,000 budget, with a 21 day shoot and no big star names to speak of. A spray-painted Captain Kirk mask provided the faceless horror of Read more…

By Averill Earls, 3 years2 years ago
Fading Away (1858) Henry Peach Robinson (1830–1901) - George Eastman House. The Good Death. Memento Mori
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Photos of the Dead: Victorian Postmortem Photography and the Case of the Standing Corpse

Photography has been a way for people to remember people, places, and events. We commemorate and document life through photographs, and have been doing so since the 19th century. But photography has also been used to document death. In this episode we are discussing Victorian postmortem photography. This has received Read more…

By Elizabeth Garner Masarik, 3 years3 years ago
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