Posts tagged Halloween

233 | Why We Bury Our Dead

Halloween season 2021! Time to lay this Halloween season to rest. Shane and Abraham close out this spooky series with a discussion about the history and rational for why we bury our dead. There are both practical and mythological reasons. A question you might not have thought to ask is: what does “burial” mean? Because, only humans bury our dead… if you define it that way.

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SpookyWWDWWDOctober 27, 2021Abraham, Shane, Shane Spiker, Shanebraham, Halloween, context, Burial, Bury Our Dead, Bury Your Dead, Caves, Intention, Casket, Coffin, Sky Burial, Mausoleum, FormaldehydeComment

232 | What Makes Something "Creepy?"

Halloween season 2021! I can’t define it, but I know it when I see it… We all have felt creeped out in some capacity at some point. But what is this feeling? What makes something creepy? There are a lot of different elements for things that tend to be creepy. But it includes things that are not contextual, unexpected, sexual, or violent, or all of those. Hopefully we weren’t creepy…

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SpookyWWDWWDOctober 20, 2021Abraham, Shane, Shane Spiker, Shanebraham, Halloween, Creepy, Creepiness, Pencil Mustache, Sexual predator, decontextualized, context, Being watched, Odd jobs, Politics, Mitch McConnell, Bugs, Cryptids, Emotions, Feels, FeelingsComment

231 | Vampires

Halloween season 2021! Where do we find vampires in the real world? We dive into the history and lore of vampirism and explore some plausible conditions that may have inspired this myth.

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SpookyWWDWWDOctober 13, 2021Abraham, Shane, Shane Spiker, Shanebraham, Halloween, History, Vlad the Impaler, Vampires, Rabies, porphyria, twilight, cryptids, politicsComment

230 | History of Halloween

Halloween season 2021! Shane and Abraham crack open the history books to learn about where the traditions and history of halloween come from. Amazingly, if you traveled back in time to witness this tradition, you might recognize many contemporary practices that are still around. Despite being hailed as demonic, Christians are largely responsible for bringing Halloween to modern culture, establishing many of the current traditions, and even coming up with the name. Also, we bust some myths and provide recommendations, like we do.

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181 | The Dead Preserved

Tied up deep beneath layers of wraps and chemicals and oils and lotions is a practice the dates back thousands of years—mummification. This practice has mystified historians and found a special place in entertainment in many forms, but how exactly did the process work and for what purposes? This episode will detail the careful procedures performed by embalmers to preserve the body in a unique state that was believed to maximize the dead individual’s chance for a fruitful afterlife.

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Spooky, How To, The BrainScott Abraham MillerOctober 28, 2020Abraham, Shane, Shane Spiker, Shanebraham, Egypt, Mummies, Mummification, Halloween, Under wraps, embalming, historyComment

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