Episode 299: Uniquely Weird Horror Stories
Season 6, Episode 299, Dec 11, 09:45 PM
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Uniquely weird things scare us because they sit just outside the boundaries of what our brains consider normal or predictable. When something is almost familiar, but twisted in a way we can’t explain, it disrupts our sense of safety and forces our minds to work overtime trying to understand it.
This gap between recognition and confusion triggers a primal alert system: if we can’t categorize a thing, we can’t judge whether it’s dangerous. That uncertainty, that feeling of something’s wrong but I don’t know what, is exactly what makes the strange and uncanny so deeply unsettling.
Today’s first fantastic offering is the epic ‘Crius’, a wonderful story by Red Hot Owl, kindly shared with me via my sub-reddit and narrated here for you all with the author’s express permission:
https://www.reddit.com/user/RedHotOwl/
Tonight’s next terrifying tale is ''Nika's Shadow'', a contemporary work by the wonderful MLycantrope, kindly shared with me via my sub-reddit and read here with the author’s express permission.
https://www.reddit.com/user/MLycantrope/
Our third horrific tale of the macabre for this evening is ‘The Person on The Other Side of The Mirror Offered to Trade Places with Me’ by the wonderfully talented Corpse Child, kindly shared directly with me for the express purpose of having me narrate it here for you all:
https://www.reddit.com/u/Corpse_Child/
Our penultimate tale of terror is ‘What I discovered in the Jungles of South America’, an original work by Mr. Charms 505, kindly shared directly with me for the express purpose of having me exclusively narrate it here for you all (original title: ‘Thanks to Me the World Is Allowed to be Destroyed by Man’).
https://www.reddit.com/user/Mr_Charms_505/
https://www.reddit.com/user/RedHotOwl/
Tonight’s next terrifying tale is ''Nika's Shadow'', a contemporary work by the wonderful MLycantrope, kindly shared with me via my sub-reddit and read here with the author’s express permission.
https://www.reddit.com/user/MLycantrope/
Our third horrific tale of the macabre for this evening is ‘The Person on The Other Side of The Mirror Offered to Trade Places with Me’ by the wonderfully talented Corpse Child, kindly shared directly with me for the express purpose of having me narrate it here for you all:
https://www.reddit.com/u/Corpse_Child/
Our penultimate tale of terror is ‘What I discovered in the Jungles of South America’, an original work by Mr. Charms 505, kindly shared directly with me for the express purpose of having me exclusively narrate it here for you all (original title: ‘Thanks to Me the World Is Allowed to be Destroyed by Man’).
https://www.reddit.com/user/Mr_Charms_505/