Bewitched Banter

During her time as a teacher, Amy’s seen some sh*t but she’s never seen or heard of other teachers, social workers or administrators using hypnosis as therapy for students. Krista takes you back to Florida for another whack “Florida Man'' story where a high school principal practiced hypnosis on nearly 70 students. Tragically, three of those students died within just three weeks of each other. Was this principal to blame? Then Amy takes us across the globe to Indonesia where you don’t want to get caught sleepin’. A national PSA by the Indonesian government warns you not to talk to strangers at the risk of falling prey to criminal hypnotists.

Love Jordan Peele’s “Get Out?” The Bewithces do too. The good news, hypnosis and hypnotherapy doesn’t work exactly like that. Actually, you’ve gotta be a willing participant for the hypnosis to actually work. But if you are willing, Amy takes you through how hypnotism can be used to support the subject’s mental health, addictions, and even some health goals. Now, can you hypnotize us to make us move our butts to the gym?

As the single divorcee of the Bewitched Bunch, Krista wanted to cover the old dating app market. She takes you through the history of EHarmony, one of the very first online dating sites of its time to use a detailed survey to match for [same-sex] marriages. Spoiler alert: its founding father Neil Clark Warren, may or may not be a bit homophobic although the company’s “Real Love” campaign featuring same-sex couples really upset all the righteous Karens out there. Amy then shares a medley of whackos madly in love. You won’t believe some of the things people do for their soulmate.

Happy almost Valentine's Day. Seeking your perfect soulmate or other half? Well you’ve come to the wrong place. Sorry singles. Turns out the soulmate narrative is one big ‘old Hollywood myth that actually has its roots way back in ancient Grecian times. Besides the romantic arcs and grandiose plots we’re all too familiar with in nearly every book, play, movie or TV script, Krista will take you all the way back to the soulmate myth origins. Learn why nearly one-third of Americans still believe they’re destined to meet their “other half.”

Can you imagine being buried alive? Unfortunately it was a real life nightmare for a Haitian man named Clairvius Narcisse. In this week's story time, he is the central thread of the bewitch's stories. Amy shares the terror that he went through after being zombified (heavily sedated) and waking up in a coffin to then becoming an enslaved person on a sugar plant at the helm of a bokor (Haitian witch doctor). Krista then takes us back down to Haiti via psychologists Dr. Nathan S. Kline and Dr. Lamarque Douyon, and ethnobiologist Wade Davis, who embarked on The Zombie Project. The mission: to find the ingredients of various zombie powders that could aid in psychiatric drug development and more natural uses for anesthesia. All the 2-year project was unfortunately dismissed overall by the medical community, see why Krista likes Dr. Kline and Wade Davis for their work as "good guys.