The Strange and Unusual Podcast

Alyson Horrocks | Morbid Network

The unknown. It lies at the root of all fear, and has inspired legends, superstition, folklore, customs, hysteria, and even murder throughout history. Still today we feel the shadowy presence of our ancestors' struggles to explain the mysterious in almost every facet of our lives. Whether it be in the form of religion, urban legends, pop culture, ghost stories, superstitious rituals, and so much more we are still just fighting to keep our monsters in the dark. Welcome to The Strange and Unusual Podcast.

  1. 4d ago

    Games You Shouldn’t Play After Dark: Nine Invitations to the Unknown

    From Bloody Mary to the Midnight Game, we explore the eerie histories, unsettling rules, and reported experiences behind games best left unplayed after dark. Turn down the lights, just don’t invite anything in. Sources    Light as a Feather, Stiff as a Board: Samuel Pepys’s diary entry for July 31, 1665⁠, recording Mr. Brisband’s account of a similar lifting demonstration.Bloody Mary: Alan Dundes, “Bloody Mary in the Mirror: A Ritual Reflection of Pre-Pubescent Anxiety”⁠, Western Folklore (1998). Mirror illusions: Giovanni B. Caputo, “Strange-face-in-the-mirror illusion”⁠, Perception (2010). One Hundred Ghost Stories: Zack Davisson’s translation of “On Cutting a Spider’s Leg During a Game of Hyakumonogatari Kaidankai,”⁠ from Tonoigusa. Ouija and The Exorcist: Saint Louis University, “SLU Legends and Lore: The 1949 St. Louis Exorcism.”⁠ Ouija and unconscious movement: Hélène Gauchou, Ronald Rensink, and Sidney Fels, “Expression of nonconscious knowledge via ideomotor actions”⁠, Consciousness and Cognition (2012). Charlie Charlie: Lucia Peters, “The Most Dangerous Games: Charlie Charlie,”⁠ The Ghost in My Machine. The Elevator Game: Lucia Peters, “On the Elevator Game: The History of a Modern Urban Legend and Its Real-Life Connections & Consequences.”⁠ Hide-and-Seek Alone: Lucia Peters, “One-Man Hide and Seek (Hitori Kakurenbo).”⁠ Three Kings: FableForge’s original Reddit post, “Please don’t actually try this.”⁠ The Midnight Game: Lucia Peters, “The Most Dangerous Games: The Midnight Game,”⁠ including discussion of its traceable online history.   Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

  2. Sep 30

    The Corpse Roads: Forgotten Paths of the Dead

    For centuries, Britain's dead traveled ancient paths to reach their final resting places. In this episode, we follow the forgotten corpse roads and the eerie folklore they left behind.   Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

  3. Aug 31

    The Cannibal In The Apothecary: 300 Years of Corpse Medicine

    For 300 years, Europeans ate human beings as medicine, with mummy powder, skull, the fat of the executed, and bought it over the counter from licensed apothecaries. During those same centuries, they were building an empire on the argument that the people they conquered were savages, because savages eat other people Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

  4. Aug 1

    10 Things in the Pacific Northwest Woods That Shouldn’t Be There

    This summer's woods tradition continues, in this episode we're heading  into the Pacific Northwest. You'll learn about a mountain that grew a monster after it erupted, a lake that gave up its dead, a giant with a basket on her back, and the same rule they have three thousand miles away in Appalachia: if the woods call your name, don’t answer. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

  5. Jun 29

    10 Things in the New England Woods That Shouldn’t Be There

    A companion to the Appalachian woods episode: ten strange, eerie, and true things lurking in the forests of New England. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

  6. May 31

    10 Things in the Appalachian Woods That Shouldn’t Be There

    There’s an old rule in the Appalachian Mountains, if you hear your name called from the woods, don’t answer. This week, we’re delving into the hills to find out why. We cover folklore  from a 200-year-old Tennessee haunting that killed a man, to a 10-foot creature that emerged in West Virginia in 1952, to the thing in the trees that learns your voice. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

  7. Apr 21

    Bloom and Rot - A Rural Village Spring Folk-Horror

    Join Alyson for a work of folk horror fiction she wrote in honor of the new spring season. In this episode, we follow Fiona, who has gone to the village of Eldergrove after the death of her aunt, to claim her inheritance of Aunt Erin's cottage. However, this inheritance came with an obligation that Fiona never saw coming. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

  8. Feb 12

    Away with the Fairies: The Changeling Murder of Bridget Cleary

    In 1895 Ireland, Bridget Cleary was killed by those who believed she had been replaced by a fairy changeling. In this episode we explore the eerie folklore of the Aos Sí, the fear that fueled her murder, and how superstition turned deadly in modern Ireland. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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The unknown. It lies at the root of all fear, and has inspired legends, superstition, folklore, customs, hysteria, and even murder throughout history. Still today we feel the shadowy presence of our ancestors' struggles to explain the mysterious in almost every facet of our lives. Whether it be in the form of religion, urban legends, pop culture, ghost stories, superstitious rituals, and so much more we are still just fighting to keep our monsters in the dark. Welcome to The Strange and Unusual Podcast.

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