Southern Demonology

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Southern Demonology is a podcast that explores angelology, demonology, ghosts, spirits, and monsters from antiquity to the modern day through an academic lens. Get bonus content on PatreonSupport this show http://supporter.acast.com/southerndemonology. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Hail Yourself, Pt I

11.27.2023

Get ready to delve into the theological twists and turns that a... children's book has to offer? For the first time, Southern Demonology takes a look at two particular religious organizations through the lens of a simple book published by ...

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11.27.2023 Hail Yourself, Pt I Get ready to delve into the theological twists and turns that a... children's book has to offer? For the first time, Southern Demonology takes a look at two particular religious organizations through the lens of a simple book published by ...
11.13.2023 Demonic Dolls Part II Welcome back to part two of our conversation with Father Michael Birdsong and his son Deacon Josh! Last week's episode centered around the hardest exorcism case Father Birdsong has ever encountered. This week we branch out by exploring how one ...
11.06.2023 Demonic Dolls Part I Father Michael Birdsong and his son Deacon Josh join JJ yet again to provide an update on a very troubling case that he introduced in the season finale of season 3 on Southern Demonology, that involving a person codenamed Paula. ...
10.30.2023 When Evil Lurks Join us for this special Halloween episode where the recently released to streaming platforms film When Evil Lurks is reviewed. (Don't read the subtitle if you want to remain surprised!) JJ was recently the guest on two different podcasts for ...
10.27.2023 Bite! Snippets of Horror Sometimes a horror movie may be middling in overall quality, but it still possesses those breakthrough moments that can continue to live rent free in your head for years or decades after. Today we focus on this snippets of horror ...
10.20.2023 SD Bite! Dark Gathering Welcome back to season 2 episode 2 of Bite, the limited run series that reanimates in October to cover all things horror. In this chapter, JJ delves into a recent horror anime, what makes it special (especially given its surface ...
10.16.2023 The House is Calling Me Part 2 Today is the second and final part of my interview with The Wandering Road hosts Chris and Dean wherein Chris wraps up some more of the horrifying details of the house he lived in, Dean shares his own dose of ...
10.13.2023 SD Bite! Macguffin Horror Movies Horror movies are hard enough to get right. However, when the producers focus on only one aspect and leave the rest horribly underdeveloped, then what's made is a gimmick film. Or perhaps a little more elegantly put, a macguffin movie. ...
10.09.2023 The House is Calling Me Season 4 starts off with a blast with not only part 1 of a haunting interview with the two amazing gentlemen from The Wandering Road Podcast, but Southern Demonology also got a bit of a face lift with brand new ...
08.28.2023 The Winds of Lilith Welcome to the final installment of season 3! There's a few treats awaiting! First is the continuation of the interview with the exorcist duo the Birdsongs. They go over the hardest case Father Birdsong has dealt with in his time ...
08.21.2023 The Oppression of Mary Welcome to the second to last episode of season 3! In this episode, I not only share a listener submitted story that answers the question of what constitutes a positive paranormal experience much better than I ever could, but we ...
08.07.2023 Streams of Horror & Evil Dead Rise Gather around as JJ shares a paranormal question, a listener's experience, why Shudder should NOT raise any prices, and finally a review of Evil Dead Rise. Yeah, the last two go about as well as you might think! JJ will ...
07.17.2023 GG & the Mewling Darkness of Fear Southern Demonology is back after a family emergency in Tennessee, and this time JJ shares not only a at once funny albeit heartbreaking story that really puts the "Southern" in Southern Demonology, but he also goes over what can happen ...
06.05.2023 Sinful Gossamer Threads Looking for a movie to watch that features demons and exorcisms? Southern Demonology has you covered! In this episode, JJ reviews Prey to the Devil, The Pope's Exorcist, and Drag me to Hell. Two of these are very recent films ...
05.08.2023 Reverberations through Time Come on a journey through time as I take a look at the Dead Sea Scrolls, their importance, the effect they had on academia as a whole, and their overall importance. I then embark on an analysis of my favorite ...
04.17.2023 Demonic Oppression & the "Mark" of the Devil Welcome to the first interview of season 3! In this special episode, we welcome back Brandon from Cookeville Ghost Hunters who shares some more paranormal cases he has investigated, a new piece of equipment he uses in the field, and ...
04.10.2023 The Machine in the Shadows In this episode, we begin with a review of the movie Skinamarink from Shudder, trace the decline of the streaming service's originals, and cross-apply that to the current state of generative AI and how all of that is a race ...
04.03.2023 And Now for Something Completely Different As a thank you to Apple Podcast and Patreon subscribers, Southern Demonology will be producing new monthly episodes. The content will be a little different as these bonus episodes will focus on anime and doramas (non-animated). As a preview of ...
03.27.2023 Misfortunes & Demonological Hot Takes I have a hot take on demonology as a field. It may be unpopular, especially with so many books out there that claim to provide ALL the knowledge about the hierarchy of hell and what foods and leisure activities demons ...
03.20.2023 Nephilim, the Prophecy, and Undeath I've explained before how the research behind the movie The Prophecy propelled me into hunting down the origins of the angelic script it depicted. However, did the cheap knock-off sequels to this movie get anything right at all? To answer, ...
03.13.2023 Escapades in Japan As promised in last episode, tune in to listen to the tales and tribulations of a month long excursion to Japan, including but not limited to hot springs, varying interpretations of societal rights, the latest urban legends from the land ...
03.06.2023 Floating Head Apocalypses and Fictional Reasoning Welcome to Season 3 Episode 1 of the Southern Demonology Podcast! Wondering where your elusive host JJ has been? Curious about paranormal anime? Or simply want to know how the new movie Mean Spirited was? Tune in for all of ...
12.05.2022 Paranormal Rundown with Father Birdsong What happens when you throw in JJ (the host of the Southern Demonology podcast), Vic (host of Trailer Trash Terrors podcast), and David (an extremely experienced paranormal researcher) into a virtual space and allow an Excel spreadsheet filled with thousands ...
11.07.2022 Halloween Special Pt II with Christy Welcome back to the final part of our Halloween conversation with the amazing Christy where she shares two final spooky tales, the first involving a cursed object that's been in her family's possession since the 1950s and the second involving ...
10.31.2022 Halloween Special Pt I with Christy The long wait is over, and Halloween is once again upon us! To commemorate, I have invited Christy--the phenomenally awesome academic who taught us all about Aramaic Incantation Bowls in Episodes 38 & 39 and one of my besties from ...
10.28.2022 Southern Demonology Bites! 04 Here we are with the very last Bites! episode for October 2022. This one is all about some of my favorite horror movies and shorts. If you enjoyed this little limited run series, then please let me know! You can ...
10.24.2022 Halloween DON'Ts! Beyond two pieces of huge news, this episode offers another great entry to our listener inbox feature (share your own at https://southerndemonology.com). Yet the main topic for today's episode is a direct contrast to the Bites! limited run series. While ...
10.21.2022 Southern Demonology Bites! 03 In this penultimate episode of Bites! for this lovely October, let's examine Zombie films and why they are near and dear to my heart! We look at One Cut of the Dead, Zombie for Sale, Pontypool, the Girl with All ...
10.17.2022 Paranormal Roundup with Trailer Trash Terrors Welcome to this very special joint episode ran with Trailer Trash Terrors where Victor, David, and I allow an Excel spreadsheet to determine which set of topics we discuss! In this episode, we talk about everything from Ouija Boards, epistemology, ...
10.14.2022 Southern Demonology Bites! Welcome to the second episode of Southern Demonology Bites!, the limited run series that explores horror movies to help you get in the spooky season mood! Today we explore Deadstream, a new horror comedy from Shudder. And while we are ...
10.10.2022 The Kingdom of Hell Part II Today we continue our conversation with Father Michael Birdsong. In this episode, we go over some of the specifics around exorcism along with some of his experiences over the years. We also touch on a pretty controversial topic which is ...
10.07.2022 Southern Demonology Bites! Welcome to the inaugural episode of Southern Demonology Bites!, a limited run series airing in the month of October that takes a look at horror movies that will help you get in the mood for spooky season! In this episode, ...
10.03.2022 The Kingdom of Hell We’re kicking off October with a bang with the first of a two part interview with Father Michael Birdsong, a long time exorcist, on his perspectives on spiritual warfare, the nature of the demonic, and exorcism. Father Birdsong is also ...
09.26.2022 A Conversation with Hospice Nurse Julie If I was ever going to have a fanboy moment, then this episode would be it. None other than Hospice Nurse Julie joins us for an in-depth conversation about her experiences while working as a hospice nurse, how her rise ...
09.19.2022 The Shadows Were Laughing What happens when your family home, a place where laughter and love is meant to reign supreme, is instead darkened by the presence of a malign entity that leaves only darkness and hatred in its wake? Join us this week ...
09.12.2022 I Renounce Thee Part II Join us as we conclude David's incredible and terrifying encounter with a demonic entity. In the last episode he revealed one night in a camping trailer that brought about three separate events. In this conclusion, he goes over the continued ...
09.05.2022 I Renounce Thee What if an act of kindness introduced the demonic into your life? Join us for part I of our interview with David, a paranormal researcher, who shares not only his extensive field experience but also how one frightening night brought ...
08.29.2022 Buddhism & the Paranormal Part II In this episode, JBird delves deep into his experience of falling into the role of performing cleansings of people’s homes. He relates three of these, the last of which was so chilling that he even began exploring Christian Demonology to ...
08.22.2022 Buddhism and the Paranormal Ever wanted to know more about Buddhism? How about its views on ghosts, hell, and the implications that may have on awakening or reincarnation? Then look no further. I was able to get a practicing Indo-Tibetan Buddhist who is also ...
08.15.2022 The Demon Folklorist Part II Join us for last part of our interview with Victoria, aka the Demon Folklorist, as she speaks about demonic pacts, categorization, and her writing process. You can find her on Twitter @demonfolklorist or via her website at https://demonfolklorist.com. Her thesis, ...
08.08.2022 Demon Folklorist Join us for our interview with Victoria, aka the Demon Folklorist, as she speaks about her own personal case of possession and how she used that experience along with her academic background to create a new categorization of the demonic. ...
08.01.2022 Demonic Infestation and So Much More Part II This episode airs the final segment of the interview with accomplished author Anna Maria Manalo. Here she discusses some of her favorite stories she's gleaned from all over the globe, some of the fascinating entities from Filipino folklore, and what's ...
07.25.2022 Demonic Infestation and So Much More Welcome to episode 60, and what an episode it is! Today I get the distinct honor of interviewing accomplished author Anna Maria Manalo who has three published works: Portal, the Way through the Woods, and Haunted Heirlooms. She has a ...
07.18.2022 Ghosts and Necromancy in the Hebrew Bible In previous episodes, there have been several guests who have professed to not believing in ghosts as that is what the Bible states. Yet is that claim true? In today's episode, we take a deep dive into what the Hebrew ...
07.11.2022 I See You Jonathan Dugan, a Christian Seer or Discerner of Spirits, has been witness to the demonic ever since he was three years old. Only later in life did he realize that he had the spiritual gift of discernment of spirits. A ...
07.04.2022 Aokigahara: the Suicide Forest In honor of Japan partially opening its borders to the wider world, today we take a look at one of the scariest places not only in that nation but perhaps the world: Aokigahara (青木ヶ原). Listen in to learn about some ...
06.27.2022 Misfit in Hell Part II Episode 56 concludes our interview with KL McDaniel, aka Kathy, author of the book Misfit in Hell to Heaven Expat. Here she tells us how she transcended from heaven, the path she took to overcome her homesickness for the beauty ...
06.20.2022 Misfit in Hell Curious about Near Death Experiences or NDEs? Ever wondered what hell might be like? In this episode, satisfy both by listening to an interview with MK McDaniel, author of Misfit in Hell to Heaven Expat, as she relates the experience ...
06.13.2022 Jersey Devil & Sprintsteen Welcome back to the second and final part of the interview with Rocky from Macabre World! Did you ever want to learn more about funerary rites? Or the Fayum Mummies? How about human bone jewelry? If so, then this episode ...
06.06.2022 Lovecraft and King In this exciting, skunk-involved episode (trust me, you'll just have to listen to find out about that), Rocky from the Macabre World Podcast and I discuss everything from language to Ed and Loraine Warren. A former member of a rather ...

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