Wide Atlantic Weird

Cian
  • 4.8 (22)
  • SOCIAL SCIENCES
Wide Atlantic Weird

Wide Atlantic Weird: an Irish podcast about why people believe weird things. Now defunct, enjoy these episodes of investigating the world of the strange, remaining critical, not cynical. And enjoy the final episodes under the guise of the Lost Valley podcast too!

  1. 20/12/2024

    Everything Ends In Mystery (a signoff of sorts)

    OMNIA EXEUNT IN MYSTERIUM

    11 min
  2. Apocalypse Kong: Kong Skull Island (with Dr Justin Mullis)

    02/06/2024

    Apocalypse Kong: Kong Skull Island (with Dr Justin Mullis)

    Dr Justin Mullis drops into the Explorers Club to discuss the 2017 film Kong: Skull Island. Topics include: -Japanese cryptozoology -The depiction of apes in popular culture -Kong as a colonial Lost World story? -the ecology of Skull Island -The significance of the 70s Vietnam setting -John Goodman and the Monarch organisation -Kong’s reinvention as a Kaiju -Some of the best CGI in a recent creature film? -The Skullcrawlers’ link to the original 1933 King Kong -Cryptozoology in the Monsterverse -The mystical gateway that often guards the Lost Worlds Links: -Justin’s academia edu -Justin's Notes for the episode (availability pending) -Justin at Adventures In Poor Taste -From Cryptids to Kaiju -Colonialism and the Emergence of Science Fiction, John Rieder -Kaiju Transmissions episode -G-Fest 2024 -King Kong Cometh, Paul A. Woods -Kong Unmade, John Lemay -Encyclopedia of Weird War Stories, Paul Green -The Great War and Prehistoric Memory, Ross J Wilson

    1h 38m
  3. Just Like His Old Man: Son Of Kong (with Eddie Guimont)

    19/04/2024

    Just Like His Old Man: Son Of Kong (with Eddie Guimont)

    Return to Skull Island back in 1933 with Eddie Guimont to see whether there's more to the overlooked SON OF KONG than you've heard. Topics include: -UPDATE ON PERCY FAWCETT’s LOST CITY! -Occult beliefs in Bolsonaro’s government -Was Kong intended to be sympathetic? -The origins & making of Son of Kong -The real-life colonial adventures of Kong’s creators -The social and economic world of Kong’s 1933 -The trope of the ancient lost monument-builders -The ethnicity of the Skull Islanders -Willis O’Brien’s special effects -Lovecraft and Mysterious Islands Links: Jason Colavito on Percy Fawcett https://www.jasoncolavito.com/blog/a-plausible-explanation-for-the-lost-city-of-manuscript-512 Kong: The History Of A Movie Icon, Ray Morton, 2005 https://www.raymorton.com/books/king-kong-the-history-of-a-movie-icon-from-fay-wray-to-peter-jackson/ When The Stars Are Right, Edward Guimont and Horace A Smith https://www.hippocampuspress.com/other-authors/nonfiction/when-the-stars-are-right-h.-p.-lovecraft-and-astronomy From Crypto's to Kaiju, Justin Mullen (currently restricted access) https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/03080188241234141

    1h 17m
  4. The Lost White Tribe (with Michael Robinson)

    27/03/2024

    The Lost White Tribe (with Michael Robinson)

    Cian chats with Michael Robinson, author of The Lost White Tribe. Topics include: -the story of Henry Morton Stanley and his 'white' Ruwenzori tribe, a story that was famous at the time but is almost never mentioned today even in biographies of Stanley -the birth of adventure fiction, the obsession with plots about lost cities and lost races -connections to the life and work of HR Haggard, his place as a founder of lost world literature, his fictional lost white tribes in King Solomons Mines and She -Richard Ogelsby Marsh's white tribe in Panama -Ernst Schafer and the 1938 Nazi Tibet expedition LINKS: The Lost White Tribe book Time To Eat The Dogs podcast Buy Me A Coffee

    55 min
  5. Through the Crater's Rim by A. Hyatt Verrill

    17/03/2024

    Through the Crater's Rim by A. Hyatt Verrill

    A lost race in Panama and some man-eating trees show up in this Amazing Stories tale from 1926, written by traveller and finder of Lost Worlds in fact and fiction, A. Hyatt Verrill! Buy Me A Coffee Read the story here

    38 min
  6. Frank Frazetta's Thun'da

    05/03/2024

    Frank Frazetta's Thun'da

    A lost world comic book from the 50s drawn by the great Frank Frazetta!

    37 min
  7. Lost Valley Podcast - Episode Zero

    23/02/2024

    Lost Valley Podcast - Episode Zero

    Cian explains changes coming, a new show, a slight change of theme, and some behind-the-scenes info!

    28 min
  8. The Limits of Flesh-And-Blood Cryptozoology (with Cameron McCormick

    16/02/2024

    The Limits of Flesh-And-Blood Cryptozoology (with Cameron McCormick

    Cameron McCormick returns to discuss cryptozoological bestiaries that stretch the boundaries of belief with huge numbers of undiscovered critters running around. *NOTE: I made an error in referring to The Bigfoot Filmography. The book I actually had in mind was Cryptid Cinema by Stephen Bisette. I’m away from home for a few days but I’ll fix that when I’m back! LINKS: WoW on BuyMeACoffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/wideatlantic Cameron on Mastadon: https://mastodon.social/@LordGeekington@sauropods.win Cameron’s blog: https://thelordgeekington.wordpress.com/ Trey The Explainer: The Native Bigfoot: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zJhJsdoTYQ The Screaming Skulls by Elliot O’Donnell: https://archive.org/stream/CreepyStories/OdonnellTheScreamingSkullsAndOtherGhosts_djvu.txt ‘True Giant’ source article, the Straits Times, 196: https://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/digitised/article/straitstimes19610212-1.2.77 Commendable Commotion Podcast https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/matthew-tannam-elgie Blake Smith’s article on the Kentucky Goblins: https://www.skeptic.org.uk/2024/01/guns-and-goblins-what-really-happened-during-the-kentucky-alien-invasion/

    1h 10m
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Wide Atlantic Weird: an Irish podcast about why people believe weird things. Now defunct, enjoy these episodes of investigating the world of the strange, remaining critical, not cynical. And enjoy the final episodes under the guise of the Lost Valley podcast too!

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  • Creator
    Cian
  • Years Active
    2019 - 2024
  • Episodes
    150
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © Cian
  • Show Website
    Wide Atlantic Weird

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