2026-10-09
2 小时 17 分钟Oh, hey, it's that bird outside the hardware store that dive-bombed your mom's head 12 years ago, Allie Ward.
And if you're here, you might like horror, or perhaps you've been sent this episode by someone who does,
who just wants you to attend a midnight graveyard screening of poltergeist just this once for them.
Why do they love it?
Why don't you, or vice versa?
Okay, so let's ask neuroscientists who like brains, and particularly one.
By the way, happy Spooktober.
For this episode, we went...
All out, like those neighbors who wait all year to bust out the 12-foot skeleton.
And we made this almost a horror anthology of past creepy episodes to explain what happens
when the brain lets itself be scared on purpose, or you force it to be.
Jury's out on that.
So if you've been listening to ologies for a while, you know that in October,
we like to bring you Explorations of Autumn, some of the more spine-tingly episodes, but they're not all scary, okay?
This one, maybe a little bit, but for example, just sneak peek.
Stay tuned this month for episodes on whales who kill, the history of brooms.
We've got one on the greatest tales of modern folklore, like the man who mothed his way too close to the moon.
So we have quite a science-rich, sweet, gently creepy few weeks ahead.
That's all coming up this month.
But let's kick it off with that intersection of scariness.