Redefining Podcasts.
You should be safe in your own bed. It should be a place that allows you take refuge, recharge, and find peace. But nightmares, bad dreams and old hags can ruin that for anyone. These self-generated specters can make a prison of a bed, a place that gen… Read More …
You should be safe in your own bed. It should be a place that allows you take refuge, recharge, and find peace. But nightmares, bad dreams and old hags can ruin that for anyone. These self-generated specters can make a prison of a bed, a place that generates anxiety and represents anything but peace. Now take the fear one step further, imagine that not only is your bedroom a place that traps you inside with all the things that go bump in the night, but your body rebels and the trap becomes more menacing. You can’t move. You’re wide awake, but you can’t move. Maybe there’s something in the corner of the room, or pressing on your chest. Maybe you’re only aware of the feeling that you are not alone. This is sleep paralysis and it’s been happening at least as long as people have been recording history. But what is it? Join us this week as we explore the mystery of sleep paralysis and ask whether or not bad dreams are really nothing to be afraid of.
Special Guest Story Teller: Dan Foytik of 9th Story Studios, Checkout one of his many great podcasts including 9th Story https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/9th-story-podcast/id707360356?mt=2 Read More …
How do you remember summer camp? What stands out most for you? Is it the memory of mosquito bites? Winning that year’s capture the flag? Promising to write new friends, or your first love (and meaning letters with stamps, and only until school starts a… Read More …
How do you remember summer camp? What stands out most for you? Is it the memory of mosquito bites? Winning that year’s capture the flag? Promising to write new friends, or your first love (and meaning letters with stamps, and only until school starts a… Read More …
Have you heard that the gay mafia is running Hollywood? Well any disenfranchised straight guy in the entertainment industry will tell you about it. Hyperbole aside, the gay mafia is a running joke/ urban legend that keeps popping up in pop culture. Whe… Read More …
Have you heard that the gay mafia is running Hollywood? Well any disenfranchised straight guy in the entertainment industry will tell you about it. Hyperbole aside, the gay mafia is a running joke/ urban legend that keeps popping up in pop culture. Whe… Read More …
SPECIAL 2 PART 25th EPISODE PARTY: PART 2
The website Creepy Pasta has become a nearly ubiquitous cultural phenomenon. This site offers users a chance to share short fiction in a variety of media. The stories are generally scary, but they range… Read More …
SPECIAL 2 PART 25th EPISODE PARTY: PART 2
The website Creepy Pasta has become a nearly ubiquitous cultural phenomenon. This site offers users a chance to share short fiction in a variety of media. The stories are generally scary, but they range in genre from classic horror to speculative fiction to political thriller. It’s safe to say that among a subset of Internet users, a few of these stories have become legendary. Have the lines between written stories and oral tradition been blurred by the online community? Is this folklore? Are these stories urban legends? They’ve certainly left a mark, perhaps most infamously inspiring one attempted murder involving three 12-year-old girls. Join us this week as we celebrate our 25th episode, and explore the Creepy Pasta greatest hits from “The Russian Sleep Experiment” to “Slender Man”, and ask what this new form of story swapping means for modern culture. Read More …
SPECIAL 2 PART 25th EPISODE PARTY: PART 1
The website Creepy Pasta has become a nearly ubiquitous cultural phenomenon. This site offers users a chance to share short fiction in a variety of media. The stories are generally scary, but they range in… Read More …
SPECIAL 2 PART 25th EPISODE PARTY: PART 1
The website Creepy Pasta has become a nearly ubiquitous cultural phenomenon. This site offers users a chance to share short fiction in a variety of media. The stories are generally scary, but they range in genre from classic horror to speculative fiction to political thriller. It’s safe to say that among a subset of Internet users, a few of these stories have become legendary. Have the lines between written stories and oral tradition been blurred by the online community? Is this folklore? Are these stories urban legends? They’ve certainly left a mark, perhaps most infamously inspiring one attempted murder involving three 12-year-old girls. Join us this week as we celebrate our 25th episode, and explore the Creepy Pasta greatest hits from “The Russian Sleep Experiment” to “Slender Man”, and ask what this new form of story swapping means for modern culture.
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Every year anxious freshmen shuffle into lecture halls for intro
to psychology courses, they’ll learn names like Freud, Jung,
Skinner, James and Piaget. Without a doubt, they’ll learn the name
Kitty Genovese along with those. Unlike the others on th… Read More …
Every year anxious freshmen shuffle into lecture halls for intro
to psychology courses, they’ll learn names like Freud, Jung,
Skinner, James and Piaget. Without a doubt, they’ll learn the name
Kitty Genovese along with those. Unlike the others on that list,
Kitty never planned on being incorporated in the textbooks and
PowerPoint presentations (had any of them known what PowerPoint
was). She was murdered in New York City in 1964 by a violent serial
offender. Her story is robbed of its complexity and reduced to a
parable, used to illustrate the perils of urban apathy. The concept
is largely responsible for pioneering the study of the bystander
effect. There were real-word, long lasting, far-reaching
consequences, as well. The idea that 38 of Kitty’s neighbors
watched from their windows as she was attacked without bothering to
phone for help haunted policy makers and scholars of human
behavior, as well as people who read about in it newspapers all
across the country for decades. But is it just a story? This week
we take a look at the legend of urban apathy and get to know the
dynamic, brave woman behind the notes in your psych 101 notebook.
Join us as we explore the urban legend of the murder of Kitty
Genovese.
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Museum: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/audio-dime-museum/id1096211271?mt=2 Read More …
Addiction, Death, Metal and Life: Meet Brandon Stratemier and Mic (Mikey Epic Walk) as they piece together their lives through metal and their up and coming band Devils Anarchy. Listen to some “Broken Creeper” from THE CHEATS and “Extinction Event” f… Read More …