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WEIRD AFTER DARK: Halloween – Two Thousand Years of Heinous History
EPISODE BEING DISCUSSED: https://weirddarkness.com/wdr20251026
The Weird After Dark ghost hosts trace Halloween's dark evolution from ancient Celtic human sacrifice and bog body rituals to today's $12 billion surveillance spectacle. They explore how a terrifying festival meant to appease chaos and death transformed through 2000 years of assimilation, moral panics, and corporate commodification into a holiday where Ring doorbells track every trick-or-treater and people sign 40-page waivers to experience simulated torture—revealing that the veil thinning today isn't between worlds, but between our private lives and the data profiles corporations hold about us.
NOTE: Some of this content was created with assistance from AI tools and voices, but it has been reviewed, edited, narrated, produced, and approved by Darren Marlar, creator and host of Weird Darkness — who, despite popular conspiracy theories, is NOT an AI voice.
The Weird After Dark ghost hosts trace Halloween's dark evolution from ancient Celtic human sacrifice and bog body rituals to today's $12 billion surveillance spectacle. They explore how a terrifying festival meant to appease chaos and death transformed through 2000 years of assimilation, moral panics, and corporate commodification into a holiday where Ring doorbells track every trick-or-treater and people sign 40-page waivers to experience simulated torture—revealing that the veil thinning today isn't between worlds, but between our private lives and the data profiles corporations hold about us.
NOTE: Some of this content was created with assistance from AI tools and voices, but it has been reviewed, edited, narrated, produced, and approved by Darren Marlar, creator and host of Weird Darkness — who, despite popular conspiracy theories, is NOT an AI voice.
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By Darren MarlarEPISODE BEING DISCUSSED: https://weirddarkness.com/wdr20251026
The Weird After Dark ghost hosts trace Halloween's dark evolution from ancient Celtic human sacrifice and bog body rituals to today's $12 billion surveillance spectacle. They explore how a terrifying festival meant to appease chaos and death transformed through 2000 years of assimilation, moral panics, and corporate commodification into a holiday where Ring doorbells track every trick-or-treater and people sign 40-page waivers to experience simulated torture—revealing that the veil thinning today isn't between worlds, but between our private lives and the data profiles corporations hold about us.
NOTE: Some of this content was created with assistance from AI tools and voices, but it has been reviewed, edited, narrated, produced, and approved by Darren Marlar, creator and host of Weird Darkness — who, despite popular conspiracy theories, is NOT an AI voice.
The Weird After Dark ghost hosts trace Halloween's dark evolution from ancient Celtic human sacrifice and bog body rituals to today's $12 billion surveillance spectacle. They explore how a terrifying festival meant to appease chaos and death transformed through 2000 years of assimilation, moral panics, and corporate commodification into a holiday where Ring doorbells track every trick-or-treater and people sign 40-page waivers to experience simulated torture—revealing that the veil thinning today isn't between worlds, but between our private lives and the data profiles corporations hold about us.
NOTE: Some of this content was created with assistance from AI tools and voices, but it has been reviewed, edited, narrated, produced, and approved by Darren Marlar, creator and host of Weird Darkness — who, despite popular conspiracy theories, is NOT an AI voice.