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4 months, 1 week ago
On Trust
We're breaking up our late-summer pause with an audio extra originally recorded for our Patreon supporters. This episode also includes an essay JF wr…
4 months, 1 week ago
Lost and Never Found: On 'The Blair Witch Project'
Of all the flavors of horror, few are as dreadful as that of being lost in the wilderness. In this episode, JF and Phil revisit The Blair Witch Proje…
5 months ago
On John Keel: Live at the Lily Dale Symposium, with Erik Davis
This marks the third year that Weird Studies is honoured to open the Lily Dale Symposium, organized each summer by photographer Shannon Taggart in th…
5 months, 1 week ago
Animal Songs, with Meredith Michael
In this episode, Phil and JF are joined by Meredith Michael—musicologist, podcaster, and Weird Studies production assistant—for a conversation about …
5 months, 3 weeks ago
On Conversion, or Arousing the Bodhi-Mind
How do you become religious? What is a conversion experience? Does it happen all at once or gradually? What's the point of religion, anyway? These ar…
6 months ago
A Dream of Landscape: On Walking
Phil and JF first explored the mysteries of walking back in episode 59. That episode felt like a mere introduction—a tentative first step on a long a…
6 months, 2 weeks ago
Theory, Philosophy, and Uranus
This conversation was originally recorded in August 2024 and released for our Patreon supporters. Weird Studies will be back with a new episode on Ju…
6 months, 3 weeks ago
Myth, History, and Form
This special release is a Patreon extra we’re making available to all listeners, in lieu of the official episode originally scheduled for today. As e…
7 months, 1 week ago
The Acid Queen, with Susannah Cahalan
Best known as the wife and partner of Timothy Leary, Rosemary Woodruff was in fact a central figure in the psychedelic movement in her own right—a po…
7 months, 3 weeks ago