Ep 98: All in the Family: Generational Curses and the Winchester Mystery House

 

It’s ‘I Put a Spell on You’ Month all October! Happy Halloween??

When you really think about it, we all live in mystery houses. Secrets and blood are two things that really help shape our notions of ‘family’. Perhaps the most well known mystery… Read More …

Ep 98: All in the Family: Generational Curses and the Winchester Mystery House

 

It’s ‘I Put a Spell on You’ Month all October! Happy Halloween??

When you really think about it, we all live in mystery houses. Secrets and blood are two things that really help shape our notions of ‘family’. Perhaps the most well known mystery… Read More …

Ep 97: Finding Myself: Doppelgängers

Whether it’s a ghostly double staring at you from across the street, or a mirror image whose expression doesn’t quite match your own; finding ‘twins’ in unexpected places is quite unsettling. Having an experience like this can make us confront aspects of ourselves we’d really like to ignore; unmoor relationships with reality; and send even the most self-assured into an identity crisis. Doppelgängers are haunting manifestations of the uncanny, a thing that is, or almost is, and yet cannot be. It is little wonder then that so many 19th century writers explored this territory as they searched for their own voice. Join us this week as we discuss the phenomena of doppelgängers and the ways they have haunted authors from Poe to Wilde; from Maupassant to Anderson. Can this all be explained away by Jung’s theory of the shadow self? Or is there something more sinister, perhaps even supernatural behind these battles?

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Ep 97: Finding Myself: Doppelgängers

Whether it’s a ghostly double staring at you from across the street, or a mirror image whose expression doesn’t quite match your own; finding ‘twins’ in unexpected places is quite unsettling. Having an experience like this can make us confront aspects … Read More …

Ep 97: Finding Myself: Doppelgängers

Whether it’s a ghostly double staring at you from across the street, or a mirror image whose expression doesn’t quite match your own; finding ‘twins’ in unexpected places is quite unsettling. Having an experience like this can make us confront aspects … Read More …

Ep 96: Old Times There Are Not Forgotten: The Lost Cause

How can the adoration of a traitorous act against the US sit side by side with American patriotism? What are the intentions behind the lofty monuments and wistful narratives constructed in the south after the American civil war. Join us this week as we… Read More …

Ep 96: Old Times There Are Not Forgotten: The Lost Cause

How can the adoration of a traitorous act against the US sit side by side with American patriotism? What are the intentions behind the lofty monuments and wistful narratives constructed in the south after the American civil war. Join us this week as we dive into a land where cotton was king, the belles were pure, the bondsmen were happy, the yankees were agitators, and the truth didn’t matter. That’s right. We’re tackling the myth of the Southern Lost Cause. Read More …

Ep 96: Old Times There Are Not Forgotten: The Lost Cause

How can the adoration of a traitorous act against the US sit side by side with American patriotism? What are the intentions behind the lofty monuments and wistful narratives constructed in the south after the American civil war. Join us this week as we… Read More …

Ep 95: The Man Who Never Dies & Knows Everything: Count St. Germain

The secret to eternal life has long eluded all of us mortals. The secret to perpetual youth? Also a tricky thing to pin down. That has not stopped wild speculation about what these secrets might be, and who might know them. No, the gossip about immorta… Read More …

Ep 95: The Man Who Never Dies & Knows Everything: Count St. Germain

The secret to eternal life has long eluded all of us mortals. The secret to perpetual youth? Also a tricky thing to pin down. That has not stopped wild speculation about what these secrets might be, and who might know them. No, the gossip about immorta… Read More …

Ep 95: The Man Who Never Dies & Knows Everything: Count St. Germain

The secret to eternal life has long eluded all of us mortals. The secret to perpetual youth? Also a tricky thing to pin down. That has not stopped wild speculation about what these secrets might be, and who might know them. No, the gossip about immortals is as old as the fear of not being one of them. Lace up your best pair of wandering shoes, and join us as we try to locate the fountain of youth, and gaze at the many guises of the perpetual stranger cursed to roam the earth for eternity. Of course, any story of mysterious immortals that does not mention Count St. Germain is a story half told. We will spend some time unraveling his complicated pasts, and asking the questions no one has dared to ask, and forming some new theories you won’t find anywhere else.

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Ep 94: Monsters Beneath Our Feet, Minds in the Gutter: Alligators in the Sewers

When someone says, ‘what is an urban legend?’ Which story do you reach for to illustrate the concept. If you said, ‘I just text them a link to your show,’ you get a prize; but thats not the point. The point is, you probably, at some point in this hypot… Read More …

Ep 94: Monsters Beneath Our Feet, Minds in the Gutter: Alligators in the Sewers

When someone says, ‘what is an urban legend?’ Which story do you reach for to illustrate the concept. If you said, ‘I just text them a link to your show,’ you get a prize; but thats not the point. The point is, you probably, at some point in this hypot… Read More …