Serial S2E2: The Golden Chicken

In my previous blog entry, we discussed the tale of Bowe Bergdahl, the American Soldier that, in an apparent death wish, left his post and wandered into Taliban controlled Afghanistan. While we do know now…

The Black Tapes part 2

After listening to more episodes from ‘The Black Tapes’ podcast, I heard about many more interesting ghost stories, and noticed some continued patterns from the first episodes. I’ve been interested in the different stories and…

Cults of Our Lives: Part 2

In the next few episodes of The Cults of Our Lives, Halle and Stasie continue to take a deeper look at the world’s most bizarre cults. I listened to four more episodes: Heaven’s Gate, Symbionese Liberation Army,…

Ear Hustle: Part 2

Welcome back to another Ear Hustle blog post installment. To recap, the term “ear hustle” is named after a prison slang for eavesdropping, and the entirety of the podcast takes place inside the San Quentin…

“Anne Hamilton” -Cults-

This episode tells the story of one of the only cults led by a woman. This cult first started as a typical yoga class led by a spiritually motivated woman named Anne Hamilton. This class,…

Are You Afraid of the Dark?

Fear is something that all people feel at points in their lives. We can’t live without it, but that doesn’t make it any easier to handle when something frightening is presented to us. A lot…

The Habitat (2)

In the next two episodes of Gimlet Media’s podcast The Habitat, Lynn, the host, explores the first few months into the lives of the six crew members of the HI-SEAS experiment. Like expected, it is…

The Black Tapes – Second Post

One particular element of this podcast series that was prevalent throughout all the episodes that helped linked them together was their consistent structure. Each episode started out with the same introduction music and with the…