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This week Abby and Alan present time travel-inspired horror stories.

Blessed was written by Caio Major; check out his blog here and Twitter here. And read by Phil Eslick.

HG Wells wrote the Time Machine, Read by Jon C Cook of the Fado podcast.

Once Upon a Time was written by Nadira Jamerson, Read by Sam Owens. Check our Nadira's website here, and follow her on IG @nadiraxrene.

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This week Abby and Alan explore the history of Time Travel in mythology, film and literature, focusing on horror and science fiction.

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Sources for today's episode:

• Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy entry on Time Travel 
• Oxplore.com article on Ancient Time Traveling Myths
• The Paradoxes of Time Travel by David Lewis (1975) Princeton University
• Guardian article by Stuart Heritage The 20 Best Time Travel Movies 
• CrimeReads article by Dan Frey called The Four Types of Time Travel and what they say about ourselves and the world around us
• Screen Rant article by Craig Elvy - Back To The Future's Time Travel Explained: How It Works & Is It Accurate?
• Wondrium article by David K Johnson, PHD Time Travel in ‘Interstellar’: Time Dilation and Causal Loops
• Space.com article by Alisa Harvey and Vicky Stein - Is Time Travel Possible?
• Wikipedia & IMDB

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Abby and Alan present real unexplained stories submitted by our listeners.

Follow Marcus Hawke here. And Marc Sirinsky here. Final story by Erinn Bryant. 

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This week Abby and Alan present doppelgänger inspired horror stories.

Mirrored Images by Madz Smith-Ledford, read by Ashley Tam. Be sure to follow Madz on IG @MadzSmiLed.

Drowning in Sorrow by Sheldon Higdon, read by Jon C. Cook. Check out Seldon's website here, and follow him on Twitter @HigdonSheldon. And listen to the Fado podcast here.

The Illusion of Doppelganger by Duncan Overton, read by Michael Crosa. Check out Michael's newest podcast here.

And a surprise story written by Alan Kudan and read by Risa Puno.

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This week Abby and Alan explore the history of Doppelgängers in film and literature, focusing on horror and science fiction. 

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Sources for today's episode:

• Self As Other; The Doppelganger by Gry Faurholt of Aahus University, the article can be found here.
• IMDB for general information on the films we are going to discuss today
• Edgar Allan Poe’s The Story of William Wilson
• An article by Terry Thompson (1998) James's the Jolly Corner, The Explicator
• A fandom.com entry on The Therered from Us (2019)
• Vox.com article by Emily St. James Jordan Peele’s Us — and its ending — explained. Sort of.
• Article by Katherine Bowers, Gothic Doubling and The Double, Gothically

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In this episode, Abby and Alan talk about the history of Doppelgängers, including real-life accounts and mythology.

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Sources for today's episode:

• The Night Side of Nature by Catherine Crowe (1850)
• The Doppelganger Wikipedia Entry
• Research paper called The Vardøgr, Perhaps Another Indicator of the Non-Locality of Consciousness by L. DAVID LEITER.
• Betty T. Bennett. The Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 1980. Volume 1, page 245.
• A listverse.com article by Pauli Poisuo: 10 Disturbing Tales of Doppelgangers
• Ward Hill Lamon’s Book The Recollections of Abraham Lincoln 
• Vice Article by Natasha Wynarczyk - The Time When You’re Most Likely to See Your Doppelganger
• A book called Footfalls on The Boundry of Another World by Robert Dale Owen

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This week Abby and Alan present two found footage inspired horror stories. The first is an excerpt from one of the most famous epistolary horror novels, Bram Stoker's Dracula as read by Jon C. Cook. The second story: You Can Never Return: A Hillcrest Asylum Story: Chapters 1-4 Written by Duncan Overton, Read by Tessa McKnight.

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This week on the Lunatics Radio Hour podcast, Abby and Alan discuss the history of found footage horror. Starting with early epistolary novels all the way through modern horror classics.

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On this week's episode, Abby is joined by Miranda Warzel to discuss The History of Black Masses. Make sure to follow Miranda on Twitch at BedtimeStoriesASMR and on IG @alien.meat.

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This week Abby and Alan present two Phantom of The Opera themed stories! Staring with Opera Ghost written by Derek Hutchins, read by Tessa McKnight. Check out Derek's book here. Ending with an excerpt from The Phantom of The Opera by Gaston Leroux, read by Jon C Cook.

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