Dark Wanderings

Laura Exner & Rebecca Robinson
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A podcast about Travel, History, Feminism, The Misunderstood & the Macabre 💀 Laura and Becca are friends. They met working in the travel industry and quickly realized they shared a weird love of some of the more macabre activities one can see and experience in the world. Over the years they have spent many hours talking over history, feminism, and weird shit, and decided someone else might enjoy the conversation too! Combining one MFA in International Journalism and one MA in History the two welcome you to explore the dark, weird, and misunderstood on this podcast!

  1. 09/26/2023

    Burke & Hare - Part 2 - S2.E5.

    We finish up our story of Burke & Hare and find a silver lining.

    56 min

  2. 09/12/2023

    Burke & Hare

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    46 min

  3. 05/24/2023

    Yellowstone - The Death Trap

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    59 min

  4. 05/16/2023

    Blucifer

    Denver International Airport, also known as DIA or DEN by your local travel agent, it home to some of the strangest art in the country. Not only that, none of it is cohesive, and it's main claim to fame killed its maker. If this isn't the setting for a Greek Tragedy, we don't know what is. Laura and Rebecca discuss the myths and legends that surround the Airport, inside and out, and how you too can have fun with conspiracy theories! Music by AudioNauti // Beginning Sound clip from Denver7News - 2018 // Livelihood Coop Productions

    37 min

  5. 04/27/2023

    Frozen Dead Guy Days

    Colorado has not one, but two coffin races every year, and this one is surprisingly based on more truth than fiction! Rebecca visits the newly relocated Frozen Dead Guy Days in Estes Park to learn just what makes people want to race coffins, and Laura tells Rebecca the story of what started it all in Nederland, Colorado. Transcript: https://darkwanderings.com/2023/04/26/frozen-dead-guy-days/https://darkwanderings.com/2023/04/26/frozen-dead-guy-days/.

    59 min

  6. 12/21/2022

    Merry Krampus - S1.E9

    Krampus is quickly becoming a beloved Christmas monster in the United States and the cultural zeitgeist. Laura explains to Rebecca what the legend is in the past and how romance novels are influencing the present. While an oddball Germanic tradition reaching into our Pagan past of Europe. He resembles other legends, including that of Iceland; but his modern interpretation has taken some unique turns.

    46 min

  7. 12/21/2022

    Icelandic Christmas - S1.E8

    Becca does something different this week and interviews a friend about growing up in Iceland in the 1960s and 1970s and what that meant around Christmas time. Iceland is home to notoriously unique and peculiar legends around lads, witches, and a mischievous cat.

    35 min

  8. 11/24/2022

    The Thanksgiving Myth - S1.E7

    We're all told one story - pilgrims (a group of puritans) running from religious persecution landed on our shores to a new land. The Native Americans (Indians) aided these pilgrims in their conquering of what is modern day New England. We're given cute cartoons, plays, horrifically racist paper outfits and headdresses, and told it's all okay under the guise of history and American exceptionalism. The fairy tale, is just that, a made up fantasy of how 17th century Europeans blended with Native Peoples. The reality is much more complicated and malicious, and is a small part of the greater genocide of the Americas.

    1h 27m
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A podcast about Travel, History, Feminism, The Misunderstood & the Macabre 💀 Laura and Becca are friends. They met working in the travel industry and quickly realized they shared a weird love of some of the more macabre activities one can see and experience in the world. Over the years they have spent many hours talking over history, feminism, and weird shit, and decided someone else might enjoy the conversation too! Combining one MFA in International Journalism and one MA in History the two welcome you to explore the dark, weird, and misunderstood on this podcast!

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  • Creator
    Laura Exner & Rebecca Robinson
  • Years Active
    2022 - 2023
  • Episodes
    14
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Show Website
    Dark Wanderings