Happy New Fear!

Today on the show, HAPPY NEW FEAR! Let’s discover fears you didn’t even know you had with some horrifying creatures! Take a one way trip to decapitation station, check out some very creepy babies, and endure the existential crisis after finding out when a butt is NOT a butt. Discover this and more as we answer the age-old question, is 80 worms too many worms to have inside of you? With special guests Tess Lynch, Molly Lambert, and Emily Yoshida of the Night Call Podcast. CONTENT WARNING: the trypophobia section starts at 00:42:55 and ends at 00:55:47 Footnotes:

The ant-head bursting fly, Euryplatea nanaknihali

Another fly that decapitates ants

Ants who decorate their homes with the heads of their enemies

Ant who pretends to be a butt

Study on Antman & Spiderman helping phobias

Margays imitate baby tamarins

Cats mimic the cry of babies

WARNING: CATERPILLAR BODY HORROR. Glyptapanteles wasp larvae bursting from a parasitized caterpillar.

Audubon Society's "When Is a Bird a ‘Birb’? An Extremely Important Guide"

Creature FEET pod twitter

Margay used in episode image

Pied tamarin used in episode image

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