Bury me in analog

Can a podcast be haunted? No, that’s very silly and wouldn’t be scary at all. A cassette tape, on the other hand… Elizabeth and Karen dial in to the world of analog horror, what it is, what it could be, and why going low-tech ups the scare factor.

Show Notes

Here are some of the things we mentioned in this episode:

• Black Mirror, a crowning jewel of “phones bad” cinema
• VCR versus VHS, a distinction that was lost on Elizabeth
• Land of the Giants episode on the iPhone
• The TV Tropes page on Analog Horror
• Aidan’s analog horror video
• An analysis of Lovecraft’s Eldritch Horror
  • And some more analysis 
• The SCP foundation 
• Local 58
• Mothman, the best boy
• Remember Professor Kitzel?
• Public/Community access TV
• The Walten Files Episode 1
  • (NOT “The Waltons”, no matter what autocorrect says)
  • The deeply unsettling jumpscare face a la screamers 
• How the original FNAF uses sound to terrify
• Ben Drowned, the story of a haunted game cartridge
• Cassette, an early Welcome to Night Vale episode
• An important message from Omega Mart
• Makeshift Stories
• An episode of Paranormal Paranoids (complete with earwormy theme song)
• The Power of VHS by hbomberguy
• The cinematic potential of cave art
• Control, Anatomy and the Legacy of the Haunted House by Jacob Geller
• Tsukumogami and Mokumokuren
• Do not adjust your podcast feed because next month we’ll be tuning in to another piece of art with opinions about technology, Steven Spielberg and Tobe Hooper’s PG powerhouse, Poltergeist. 

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• Edmonton Community Foundation, presenting sponsor of YEGPodfest 
• Alberta Association of Optometrists

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What is That's a Thing?!?

A sometimes belated, already outdated guide to your teens, tweens and everything under 20. In each episode, Elizabeth, a teenager, explains a thing to Karen, her mother. And Karen tells Elizabeth how that thing relates to something she knows. Maybe.