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Welcome to The Phenomena Podcast with Augusta Chapman! Each episode, Augusta (comedian, writer) and Eva (paranormalist, digital culture enthusiast) talk about ghosts and their role in American culture, media, and sociality -- well, we used to. Now we kind of just talk about any phenomenon, haunted or otherwise, that is fascinating us at the moment. Augusta and Eva (used to) use their background in anthropology to research and discern the meaning and patterns of apparitions, hauntings, and legends; now we use it to analyze all sorts of phenomena.
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Friday Nov 26, 2021
Friday Nov 26, 2021
In another fun character-focused freeform bonus episode, Augusta and Eva discuss the children of Anton LaVey (the so-called 'Father of Satanism'), and the ways in which they carried on and challenged his legacy. Do the Black Pope's children still practice Satanism? Did any of them change their name to Ethan? Is one of them the clone-mother of Taylor Swift? We answer two of these questions, and more!
music: "Girl on the Moon"; written and performed by Nihilore; CC BY 3.0
Friday Nov 26, 2021
Friday Nov 26, 2021
This week, Eva & Augusta conclude our recent witchcraft series with a discussion of the Satanic panic of the 1980s. In this episode, we discuss Michelle Remembers, Anton LaVey, and how the moral outrage and social distrust of the Satanic panic was a preview for the behavior of contemporary QAnon conspiracy theorists.
content warning: sexual assault, child sexual abuse & violence
music: "Girl on the Moon"; written and performed by Nihilore; CC BY 3.0
Friday Nov 12, 2021
Friday Nov 12, 2021
Hello again. Welcome back to our series on witchcraft in America. In this, the second installment, we discuss the contributions & controversies of Z Budapest, a prominent figure in feminism, witchcraft, and feminist witchcraft. We talk Susan B. Anthony, hexing rapists, and the utter hoax that is fire safety.
content warning: sexual assault & violence
music: "Girl on the Moon"; written and performed by Nihilore; CC BY 3.0
Friday Oct 08, 2021
Friday Oct 08, 2021
Hello again! Thanks for having us! I had coronavirus. But we're back now, babyyyy. In the first episode of our new series about witchcraft in America, Augusta and Eva tell the story of the so-called Salem Witch Trials (which really happened in Salem Village, now called Danvers). We talk Puritan names, PTSD, and eating moldy grain.
content warning: listeners may find discussion of war & the genocide of indigenous peoples disturbing
music: "Girl on the Moon"; written and performed by Nihilore; CC BY 3.0
Saturday Sep 04, 2021
Saturday Sep 04, 2021
And we're back! This week, Gus & Eva talk all about their visit to the International Cryptozoology Museum in Portland, Maine. We talk kitsch, museum accreditation, and female behavior.
music: "Girl on the Moon"; written and performed by Nihilore; CC BY 3.0
Friday Jul 30, 2021
Friday Jul 30, 2021
Thank you all so much for your support this year! We're taking a wee break, but in the meantime, enjoy this delightful short story by Edgar Allan Poe, The Facts in the Case of M Valdemar (1845).
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Friday Jul 09, 2021
Friday Jul 09, 2021
In the conclusion of our necromancy series, Gus & Eva talk about how the Haitian Revolution and a handful of films shaped the idea of the risen dead, and buried previous definitions of 'necromancer' forever.
music: "Girl on the Moon"; written and performed by Nihilore; CC BY 3.0