Paranormal Pajama Party
Steph Summar
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Isn't it weird how often the horrors in our favourite scary stories tend to look a lot like, uh… ladies? Join me as I dig up the social and cultural contexts behind classic ghost stories and legends to challenge the often one-dimensional portrayal of women in horror.
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S3E37 Mermaids, Part 2: From Killers to Disney Princesses
Send me a text message!For thousands of years, mermaids were apex predators whose voices could kill. Then somewhere between Homer's bone-littered shores and Disney's underwater utopia, something…
S3E36 Mermaids, Part 1: The Indifferent Deep
Send me a text message!A Scottish lord hears a woman drowning in his loch. Every instinct tells him to dive in and save her. But his servant grabs his arm: "My lord, that's no woman."This is the…
S3E35 The Women of “Dracula”, Part 2: Patriarchy Bites
Send me a text message!This isn't just a vampire story; it's a chilling exposé of Victorian anxieties. In part two of our series on the women of “Dracula”, the Paranormal Pajama Party podcast plunges…
S3E34 The Women of “Dracula”, Part 1: Lucy Westenra and Victorian fear of female desire
Send me a text message!Think you know “Dracula”? Think again. In this first part of our two-part deep dive into the world's most famous vampire novel, we're sinking our teeth into the real monsters…
S3E33 Hagsploitation: “What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?” | 33
Send me a text message!In this spine-tingling episode, we watch the 1962 psychological thriller "What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?" and dive deep into the hagsploitation film subgenre it spawned. When…
S3E32 The White Witch of Rose Hall: Annie Palmer and Madame LaLaurie
Send me a text message!What do the White Witch of Jamaica’s Rose Hall and New Orleans tour staple Madame LaLaurie have in common? They're both infamous female figures in ghost lore, accused of…
S3E31 Botan Dōrō: Love, Death, and Samurai
Send me a text message!Join me to examine one of Japan's most influential ghost stories – Botan Dōrō (The Peony Lantern). This tale of love beyond death helped establish the archetype of the…
S3E30 Wise Wives and Witch Hunts: The Women Scotland Burned
Send me a text message!This episode of "Paranormal Pajama Party" is spine-chilling – but not because of the paranormal parts.We're headed back to Scotland to discuss the North Berwick Witch Trials –…
S3E29 Monsters and Morals: Vengeance, Virtue, and Emotional Labour
Send me a text message!What do a trickster forest goblin, a horse-faced seductress, a desert phantom, and a deer-footed avenger have in common? They’re not just the stuff of nightmares – they’re…
S3E28 Historical Horror: Chloe, Cleo, and the Myrtles Plantation
Send me a text message!Welcome to America's Most Haunted House... or is it? Tonight, we’re partying at the Myrtles Plantation, where the famous ghost of an enslaved girl named Chloe is said to roam…
S3E27 Hillary Clinton and the Lizard People
Send me a text message!Hillary Clinton and the Lizard People | 27 Put on your tinfoil hat and grab your favourite pantsuit – “Paranormal Pajama Party” is back! In the Season 3 premiere, Steph…
S3 Ladies, Listen to This Before You Build Your Crow Army
Send me a text message!I get it. It’s hard to be a woman. Almost as hard as it is to be a monster.Get ready for a spine-tingling third season of Paranormal Pajama Party!This fortnightly podcast…
S2E26 “Aliens”: Game Over, Men – Game Over
Send me a text message!In this thrilling conclusion to our two-part series on the “Alien” franchise, Paranormal Pajama Party dissects the 1986 classic sequel, "Aliens."We’re talking about Ellen…
S2E25 “Alien”: In Space, No One Can Hear Dudes Scream
Send me a text message!*MASSIVE CONTENT WARNING FOR THIS ONE:* This episode contains well as explicit descriptions of fictional sexual violence that is 100% a metaphor for real-world sexual violence,…
S2E24 Green Ladies and Glaistigs: Skeletons in the Walls
Send me a text message!This week on Paranormal Pajama Party, we're heading to Scotland to meet its green ladies and glaistigs.Discover the tragic tale of Dame Lilias Drummond, whose ghostly presence…
S2E23 Rangda: Queen of the Demons
Send me a text message!This episode explores the complex figure of Rangda, a fearsome demon queen in Balinese mythology.Tourists may be familiar with Rangda’s frightening face, as a version of a…
S2E22 The Cult of True Womanhood: “The Fall of the House of Usher”, Part 2
Send me a text message!This episode is the long-promised part two of our exploration of “The Fall of the House of Usher” by Edgar Allan Poe. Poe was doing his thing In 19th-century America, at a time…
S2 "What Happens Next?": Are Reproductive Rights Human Rights?
Send me a text message!Paranormal Pajama Party is pro-self-care. I mean, come on. Pajamas are right there in the name.To be kind to myself this week, I'm not releasing a new episode. Instead, I'm…
S2E21 Beautiful Dead Women: “The Fall of the House of Usher”, Part 1
Send me a text message!When you think horror, you think of Edgar Allan Poe. His stories go hard on the eerie atmosphere, intricate plots, and unhinged characters.But it’s important to note that most…
S2E20 Malleus Maleficarum: Incels and Modern Witch Hunts
Send me a text message!The dark history of witch hunts has some unsettling parallels with modern misogynistic violence. Tonight’s episode continues our discussion on Heinrich Kramer’s witch-hunting…
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Paranormal Pajama Party has published 41 episodes since January 2024, covering topics in Philosophy, Science.
Paranormal Pajama Party is currently dormant with new episodes every 2 weeks. Average episode length is 30m.
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