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TALKING TO THE DEAD
Season 2 Episode 1
For the season two premiere, we are exploring the rich American history of Spiritualism, a massive 80-year trend of popular culture lasting from the …
6 years, 9 months ago
Presenting American Hysteria: Season Two
Season 2
Join us next week, Monday, June 3rd, for the premiere of season two where we cover the creepy, sexy, gross, and surprisingly political American movem…
6 years, 9 months ago
BELIEVING IN THE BLAIR WITCH (mini episode)
Season 1 Episode 21
This is the 20 year anniversary of one of my favorite movies of all time, The Blair Witch Project, a movie that masqueraded as real found footage of …
6 years, 10 months ago
THE MANDELA EFFECT (mini episode)
Season 1 Episode 20
Our culture, our society, our very sense of self, relies heavily on a faith in our memories as perfectly accurate. But what if our memories aren’t as…
6 years, 11 months ago
THE MOMO SUICIDE CHALLENGE (mini episode)
Season 1 Episode 19
The newest viral internet urban legend focuses on an entity named Momo, a creepy humanoid figure with giant eyes, a strange too-wide smile, and grote…
6 years, 11 months ago
THE END OF THE WORLD
Season 1 Episode 18
It has been said that the apocalypse is as American as apple pie, and for our season finale we are exploring different versions of the end of the wor…
6 years, 11 months ago
The Morality of Drugs and the Opioid Crisis with Sarah Deutsch
Season 1 Episode 17
This week we will be discussing the history of drug panic in the United States and its effects in the present day. My guest is Sarah Deutsch, a frien…
7 years ago
DRUGS
Season 1 Episode 16
When a security camera caught footage of a 31-year-old Florida resident eating the face of a homeless man, the news and social media dubbed him the M…
7 years ago
Murdered on Lovers' Lane with Feminist Folklore podcast
Season 1 Episode 15
For this week's episode of the Calm Down, my guests are the women of Feminist Folklore. Each week Carela Holl-Jensen and Rachael Marr consider what f…
7 years ago
TEENAGE SEX
Season 1 Episode 14
In 1996, Scream taught American teenagers the first rule to surviving a horror movie. Never, ever have sex. Classic slasher movies have their roots i…
7 years, 1 month ago