Terror Talk: True Crime, Serial Killers and Horror

On Fridays we do a show just for horror fans. Updates and news on Ezra Miller, The Daily: Inside the Adolescent Mind, and Mr. Harrigan's Phone. This week: Prey, The Bye Bye Man, Orphan: First Kill, H.H. Holmes the American Ripper, and The Wailing, plus our very own trivia game Horror Facts with Cath.

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How does a boy raised in Klan country grow up to build a movement preaching racial equality using the Klan's own playbook?

⚠️ Trigger warning: This episode discusses the Ku Klux Klan, racism, mental illness, and the origins of the Jonestown cult. Listener discretion is advised.

Part three of a five-part series on Jim Jones. He's three years old, and the family has just moved from Crete, Indiana — population 28 — to Lynn, Indiana, population 950, where his father's family finally steps in to help.

This is the episode about the world outside the house, and it holds the most striking argument in the series.

In a single year, from 1922 to 1923, registered Ku Klux Klan membership in Indiana went from 445 people to almost 118,000 — the largest organisation of any kind in the state. But the Indiana Klan barely bothered with racial hatred, because the state was under 3% Black. Instead it ran on better public schools and prohibition, and it got into small towns by sponsoring community picnics and parades, paying for everything, and leaving the impression that these were decent people with familiar Christian values.

Therapists Shannon and Cathy lay that agenda out — then point at what Jim Jones did with it decades later. He built a community by infiltrating one, offering what people already wanted, and running a political programme under a moral cover. Same method, pointed instead at racial equality, integration and socialism. Whether he knew he was doing it is an open question.

In this episode:

• The Ku Klux Klan in Indiana — 445 members to 118,000 in one year, and how they actually recruited
• Why the Indiana Klan pushed schools and prohibition instead of racial hatred
• Jim Jones's inversion of that playbook into integration and socialism
• The lie Jones preached from the pulpit — that he was biracial, his father part Cherokee. There wasn't an ounce of it.
• The abuse story that doesn't add up: his father could barely breathe
• Prohibition in a town of 900 — proudly dry, where locals still apologise for liquor stores nearby
• Lynetta Jones alienating a whole community, leaving Jimmy as her only audience — and a town that decided he was a victim
• The first two lessons his mother taught him: reality is whatever you make it, and someone is always out to get you

Clinical concepts: the narcissistic mother and the child as sole audience · mirroring as a condition of love · early environmental shaping · how ideology is absorbed before it can be evaluated · victim identity as a learned strategy

Sources: Jeff Guinn, The Road to Jonestown · Lynetta Jones's own writings · the FBI's confiscated Jim Jones recordings, archived at San Diego State University

The Jim Jones series — all five parts:

• ⁠Part 1 ⁠— Jonestown's cult leader and his parents
• Part 2 — birth, breakdown, and the move to Lynn, Indiana (this episode)
• Part 3 — the cultural influences that shaped him
• ⁠Part 4⁠ — narcissism, deeply ingrained
• ⁠Part 5⁠ — the making of a cult leader and mass murderer

Also on cults: our Season 9 premiere, CULTS: Heaven's Gate, the Zizians & Jonestown Part 1.

Two licensed therapists — one forensic psychologist, one clinical LMFT.

Until then... sleep safe. 😴

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On Fridays we do a show just for horror fans. News items on Halloween Ends, Black Mirror Season 6, and Shudder originals for Sept. This week: Bullet Train, They/Them, The Innocents, The Watcher, The Dead Zone, What Josiah Saw plus our very own trivia game Horror Facts with Cath.

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What was happening in the house on the day the man who would orchestrate Jonestown was born?

⚠️ Trigger warning: This episode discusses mental illness and the origins of the Jonestown cult, including references to mass death. Listener discretion is advised.

Part two of a five-part series on Jim Jones. This one covers his birth, why Lynetta Jones became pregnant in the first place, James Jones's mental breakdown, and the family's move to Lynn, Indiana — the small town where Jim Jones actually grew up.

Therapists Shannon and Cathy keep building the psychological picture from reported behavior and historical record: what a father's collapse does to a household, what a mother's reasons for having a child can set in motion, and how a move to a town of a few hundred people shapes a boy who would later need thousands of them to follow him.

Still hypothetical analysis, and still explicit about where the evidence ends.

In this episode:

• Why Lynetta Jones became pregnant — and what she wanted from it
• The birth of Jim Jones
• James Jones's mental breakdown and what it cost the family
• The move to Lynn, Indiana
• How early instability shows up decades later

Clinical concepts discussed: parental mental illness and its effect on children · family systems under collapse · maternal expectation and the assigned role · small-town isolation · the limits of retrospective analysis

The Jim Jones series — all five parts:

• Part 1 — Jonestown's cult leader and his parents
• Part 2 — birth, breakdown, and the move to Lynn, Indiana (this episode)
• Part 3 — the cultural influences that shaped him
• Part 4 — narcissism, deeply ingrained
• Part 5 — the making of a cult leader and mass murderer

Also on cults: our Season 9 premiere, CULTS: Heaven's Gate, the Zizians & Jonestown Part 1, on how a group turns ordinary people into killers.

Two licensed therapists — one forensic psychologist, one clinical LMFT.

Until then... sleep safe. 😴

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On Fridays we do a show just for horror fans. This week: 

Discussion of the movies and series: So Vam, Allegoria, Glorious, Little Demon, The Patient. Discussion of the event Valley Fright Night, the creative bloody bath mat merchandise, and the Hellraiser Series News plus our very own trivia game Horror Facts with Cath.

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What has to happen to a child for him to grow into the man who orchestrated Jonestown?

⚠️ Trigger warning: This episode discusses the origins of the Jonestown cult, including references to mass death and the deaths of children. Listener discretion is advised.

Part one of a five-part series on Jim Jones, and it isn't about Jonestown yet. It's about Lynetta and James Jones — his mother and father — in Crete, Indiana, years before the Peoples Temple existed.

Therapists Shannon and Cathy build a psychological portrait of two people from reported behavior and historical accounts: Lynetta's bold, unconventional beliefs and her social position in a small Indiana town, James's struggles and what they cost the household, and how the dynamic between them may have shaped the son who became one of the most destructive cult leaders in American history.

This is deliberately hypothetical analysis. Neither parent was ever assessed clinically, and we're clear about where the evidence ends and the inference begins.

In this episode:

• Lynetta Jones — personality traits, beliefs, and her standing in the community
• James Jones — his struggles, and their impact on the family
• Hypothetical psychological analysis built from reported behavior
• Crete, Indiana — the setting for Jim Jones's earliest years
• What a childhood like this does and doesn't explain

Clinical concepts discussed: family systems · parental narcissism · the limits of retrospective psychological analysis · early attachment and its later expression · how charisma is learned

The Jim Jones series — all five parts:

• Part 1 — Jonestown's cult leader and his parents (this episode)
• Part 2 — Lynetta's pregnancy, Jim's birth, James's breakdown, and the move to Lynn, Indiana
• Part 3 — the cultural influences that shaped him
• Part 4 — narcissism, deeply ingrained
• Part 5 — the making of a cult leader and mass murderer

Also on cults: our Season 9 premiere, CULTS: Heaven's Gate, the Zizians & Jonestown Part 1, on how a group turns ordinary people into killers.

Two licensed therapists — one forensic psychologist, one clinical LMFT.

Until then... sleep safe. 😴

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John Wayne Gacy, although known for his clown outfit, was a prolific rapist and murderer who ultimately received the death penalty for many of his offenses.

Plus our horror movie watches including Watcher, Bloody Hell, Possum, Moloch, On the Third Day, The Reef: Stalked, This is Gwar and Good Madam,  and the Horror Facts with Cath Trivia Game.

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John Wayne Gacy, although most notable for his sadistic looking clown outfit and being a rapist and murderer, we discuss his origin story which is filled with humiliation and abuse.

Plus our horror movie watches including Nope, Umma, Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City, Girl on the Third Floor, Incantation, and the Horror Facts with Cath Trivia Game.

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Who doesn't love a final girl in horror? Black Christmas, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Us, Scream, Halloween, Evil Dead (2013), I spit on your Grave, Revenge, The New Nightmare, A Nightmare on Elm Street, You're Next, Hellraiser, Kill Bill, Sweetheart, The Girl with All the Gifts, Little Monsters, Inside, Martyrs, Final Girl Support Girl, and some boardgames these day. 

They abound our slashers, our horror literature and even our games. Our feminine archetypes are everywhere!

Plus our horror movie watches including Good Madam, The Black Phone, We have always lived in the Castle, Men, Dashcam, plus a true crime documentaries entitled Girl in the Picture and House of Secrets: The Burari Deaths, and the Horror Facts with Cath Trivia Game.

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Shark horror is a fun sub genre of horror that we dive into and discuss the original inspiration for the movie Jaws as well as some favorite shark horror movies including The Shallows, 47 Meters Down, 47 Meters Down: Uncaged, The Reef, Deep Blue Sea, The Meg, and Ouija Shark.

Plus our horror movie watches that included more shark horror: The Requin, From the Depths, Avalanche Sharks, House Shark, Shark Bait, Shark Zone, Shark Encounters of the Third Kind, and Sharknado.

 Plus the Horror Facts with Cath Trivia Game.

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