Dive in as we discuss strange, primal fears. We'll cover the uncanny valley, the dark, dolls & more!

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Reading Recommendations:

You Cannot Die - Ian Currie

The Fear Project: What Our Most Primal Emotion Taught Me About Survival, Success, Surfing…and Love - Jaimal Yogis

The Expressions of the Emotions in Man and Animals - Charles Darwin

Goosebumps: Night of the Living Dummy - R.L. Stine

On the nature of creepiness

The Biology of Fear - PMC

Scientists identify possible source of the 'Uncanny Valley' in the brain | University of Cambridge

LIMINAL TO LIMINOID, IN PLAY, FLOW, AND RITUAL: AN ESSAY IN COMPARATIVE SYMBOLOGY by Victor Turner

How Liminality Begets Fear in Hideo Kojima's PT | by Carsen Christy | Medium

LSD: Dream Emulator Playthrough: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ol4OSIGGukA

Visual Cliff Experiment:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WvtEFJGp-8

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10. https://lucian.uchicago.edu/blogs/mediatheory/keywords/liminal/

https://psycnet.apa.org/record/1961-00558-001

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Eek! We're diving in as a full team in this week's very special episode which features Amy, Dave and Chad from Unearthing Paranormalcy! We're going Full Stink into the swamps of Florida to dive into and unearth the Skunk Ape! 

Reading Recommendations:

Legend Tripping: The Ultimate Adventure - Robert C. Robinson

Shaawanoki: The Mystery of the Swamp Apes - Peter Byrne (Film)

“The Search for the Skunk Ape: Studying the Impact of an Online Information Literacy Tutorial on Student Writing”: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/234605287_The_Search_for_the_Skunk_Ape_Studying_the_Impact_of_an_Online_Information_Literacy_Tutorial_on_Student_Writing/link/00b7d533039ccc1688000000/download

https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/1264101/skunk-ape-police-report.pdf

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Dive into the spooky waters of Africa as we explore Pinky Pinky, the Mountain That Swallows People and Biloko before dipping into murky waters of American hate crimes.

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Reading Recommendations:

Legacy of Trauma: Context of the African American Existence

*Black Spirits: The Ghostlore of Afro-American Slaves

Mens Daemonica: Guilt, Justice, and the Occult in South Africa | Comparative Studies in Society and History | Cambridge Core

State of California Dept of Justice Study on Occult Justice During Satanic Panic: https://www.ojp.gov/pdffiles1/Digitization/124094NCJRS.pdf

Methodologies for Mapping a Southern African Girlhood in the Age of Aids - Relebohile Moletsane, Ann Smith, Linda Chisholm. 2008. (Ch 3: Pinky Pinky And Toilets: Disrupting the Silences Around Sexual Violence In And Around Schools Through Photo-Voice)

Madagascar: Land of the Man-Eating Tree - Chase Salmon Osborn, 1924

African Mythology: An Encyclopedia of Myth and Legend - Jan Knappert, 1995

Mine Boy - Peter Abrahams

The Dark Thirty: Southern Tales of the Supernatural - Patricia C. McKissack

Haints: American Ghosts, Millennial Passions, and Contemporary Gothic Fictions - Arthur Redding

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Dive in as we discuss crazy and creepy kids and cults! We'll talk The Ant Hill Kids, Beth Thomas, Eleonore Zugun "The Poltergeist Girl" and more! Thanks for your patience and support!

Reading Recommendations:

Request to Perform Exorcism at Home of Latoya Ammons - [PDF Document]

Eleonore Zugun: The re-evaluation of a historic RSPK case

Poltergeist Over England: Three Centuries of Mischievous Ghosts - Harry Price

Ricky Kasso: Long Island's Grisly Tale of Drugs, Devil Worship, Murder - Rolling Stone

THE ANT HILL KIDS | Maclean's | FEBRUARY 8, 1993

(PDF) Doomsday movements in Africa: Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God

The Uganda Cult Tragedy: A Private Investigation - Bernard Atuhaire

Watch:

Child of Rage, A Story of Abuse: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szcsT3pOuBw

The Devil You Know: Season 2

[FULL SOURCE LIST AVAILABLE, WOULDN'T FIT WITH DESC. LIMIT]

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Hello, strange seeds!

We'll dive into the strange true stories of Dyatlov Pass and the Khamar-Daban Incidents, the Yuba County 5, Mothman, Juan Perez, the Ariel School and more! Please excuse the clicks, I was fidgeting nervously. 

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Reading Recommendations:

(Watch) Witness of Another World - Alan Stivelman

Synchronicity - Carl Jung

Coincidence or Destiny?: Stories of Synchronicity That Illuminate Our Lives - Phil Cousineau

Incredible Coincidences: The Baffling World of Synchronicity - Alan Vaughan

The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket - Edgar Allan Poe

Real Encounters, Different Dimensions and Otherworldly Beings - Sherry Hansen & Brad Steiger

The Mothman Prophecies - John Keel

Dead Mountain - Donnie Eichar (Dyatlov Pass Incident)

Episodes of mass hysteria in African schools: A study of literature

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  13. https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/titanic/stories/violet-constance-jessop.htm

Enjoy this mini episode where we'll wade through global locations that are known to be portals or gates to Hell. We'll review Kentucky's Mammoth Cave System, the Cave of the Cumaean Sibyl, Derweze's Door to Hell, Poveglia and more!

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Reading Recommendations:

“Beast in the Cave” - H.P. Lovecraft

The Identification of Vergil's Cave of the Cumaean Sibyl in "Aeneid" 6

The Cumaean Sibyl: Controlling Her Voice at Rome from Tarquin to Constantine

Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Complete Serial Novel - Christopher Golden

Aeneid - Virgil

Artwork:

‘Aeneas and the Sibyl, Lake Avernus’ - Joseph Mallord William Turner, c.1798

'Sibilla Cumana' - Domenichino Zampieri, c.1622

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Just some random spooky bullsh*t with Sam! We reminisce on old family frights, our haunted eyes and discuss the Jinmenju, Shirime (yes, the Butt-Eye Yokai) and the Qallupilluit. 

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Reading Recommendations:

Hiroshima - John Hersey

Lord of the Flies - William Golding

1984 - George Orwell

Spoon River Anthology - Edgar Lee Masters

Ancient Serpent Gods: The Alien Connection to Reptilian Dinosaurs - B.E. Lewis

The World’s Bloodiest History - Joseph Cummins

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Get yourself nice and dirty with us this week as we dive into the gross waters of human experiments. We'll talk torturous bio-warfare stuff, shocking children and irradiated balls --content warning! 

Reading Recommendations:

The Perversion of Knowledge: True Stories of Soviet Science - Dr. Vadim J Birstein

Florida Dengue Fever Outbreak Leads Back to CIA and Army Experiments

United States Responses to Japanese Wartime Inhuman Experimentation after World War II: National Security and Wartime Exigency

Black Savannahians Haunted by Memory of Mosquito Experiment | Georgia News | US News

Craft v. Vanderbilt University

Secret deal between US Fort Detrick, Japanese germ warfare unit revealed - Xinhua | English.news.cn

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IT'S ALIVE! We're back (finally) with the thirteenth episode of the podcast, where we'll swim with and get to know Lilith, Lamashtu, Inanna and Medusa, all goddesses that were in some way shunned or banished but are nonetheless badass. 

Reading Recommendations:

Inanna: Queen of Heaven and Earth - Diane Wolkenstein

The Coming of Lilith: Essays in Feminism, Judaism, and Sexual Ethics, 1972-2003 - Judith Plaskow

The Mythology of All Races, Vol. V: Semitic - Stephen H. Langdon

Lilith’s Cave: Jewish Tales of the Supernatural - Howard Schwartz

The Passion of Lilith - Pamela White Hadas

“Exaltation of Inanna”

“Descent of Inanna” - https://etcsl.orinst.ox.ac.uk/section1/tr141.htm

Faust - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Alphabet of Ben Sirach

Talmud

Yale Near Eastern Researches, 3

Sex and Eroticism in Mesopotamian Literature - Gwendolyn Leick

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