Episode 77 - Halloween History, Hell Houses, and Scares!
Media Type |
audio
Categories Via RSS |
Science
Society & Culture
Publication Date |
Oct 26, 2018
Episode Duration |
01:15:08

Celestia reports back from her hurried day at CSI con, and Ben recounts a news story about a graveyard dowser. Then we look at Halloween subjects: what are the real roots of this holiday, and what exactly is satanic about it? Ben traces the development of "trick or treating" and we find out it's a bit of religious extortion that used to involve turnip torture. Celestia probes the more recent phenomenon of "Hell Houses" put on by conservative evangelicals as a much, much worse alternative to a haunted house. And then Ben debunks a few typical Halloween societal panics. 

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