The Unnatural Selection Podcast

Matthew N Clarke
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A horror podcast where original fiction is paired with real science to explore how curiosity, perception, and the human body can become sources of fear. Available on Spotify, Apple, and Amazon. Bonus episodes available on Patreon.

Episodes

  1. FEB 5 · BONUS

    Bonus 1 - Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

    This week, I narrate the opening one and a half chapters of Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson, setting the stage for Stevenson’s slow-burn descent into duality and dread—no science segment this episode, just the story.

    35 min

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  3. JAN 30

    1. Here Be Monsters

    The first episode features The Zoetrope, an original horror story about curiosity and distorted perception, followed by a discussion of real neurological conditions that show how easily the mind can turn reality into something terrifying. Trigger warnings: this episode contains psychological horror, distorted perception, injury, and harm to a child; listener discretion advised. https://edition.cnn.com/2024/03/22/health/demon-faces-prosopometamorphopsia-wellness Capgras, J.; Reboul-Lachaux, J. (1923). "Illusion des " sosies " dans un délire systématisé chronique". Bulletin de la Société Clinique de Médicine Mentale. 2: 6–16. Dalrymple, Kirsten; Davies-Thompson, Jodie; Oruc, Ipek; Barton, Jason; Duchaine, Brad (2014). "Spontaneous Perceptual Facial Distortions Correlate with Ventral Occipitotemporal Activity". Neuropsychologia. 59: 179–191. doi:10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2014.05.005. PMID 24859691. S2CID 6996193. Ramachandran, V. S. (1998). "Consciousness and body image: Lessons from phantom limbs, Capgras syndrome and pain asymbolia". Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 353 (1377): 1851–1859. doi:10.1098/rstb.1998.0337. PMC 1692421. PMID 9854257. Santhouse, A M; Howard, R J; ffytche, D H (2000). "Visual Hallucinatory Syndromes and the Anatomy of the Visual Brain". Brain. 123 (10): 2055–2064. doi:10.1093/brain/123.10.2055. PMID 11004123. Sound effects from Pixabay.com Theme "Horror" by The_Mountain https://pixabay.com/music/horror-scene-horror-375975/ All music and effects within Creative Commons license 0

    36 min

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A horror podcast where original fiction is paired with real science to explore how curiosity, perception, and the human body can become sources of fear. Available on Spotify, Apple, and Amazon. Bonus episodes available on Patreon.

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