Witch Hunt Podcast: Recent Episodes
Brainy Byrd Media
Witch Hunt explores history's most infamous witch hunts (literal and metaphorical) and the history of scapegoating. Season one examines the Salem Witch Trials and season two covers the Great Satanic Panic of the 1980's and 90's.
How the enormously popular role-playing board game "Dungeons and Dragons" became a target during the satanic panic. Featuring Nathan Lloyd, host of the Historical Blindness podcast.
The Epic, by Boom Audio
https://audiojungle.net/item/the-epic/20940531
Heartfelt, by Royalty Free Music Club
https://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/royalty-free-music-club/547510897
Piano Music, by Royalty Free Music Club
https://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/royalty-free-music-club/547510897
Ripley, by Lucas King
https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/emotional-piano-music-ii-royalty/id1014292638
Hope, by Alex Mason & The Minor Emotion
http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Alex_Mason__The_Minor_Emotion/Soul_Breaker/01_alex_mason___the_minor_emotion_-_hope
We look at memory - real, repressed, and invented and its impact on the Satanic Panic. Featuring expert Elizabeth Loftus.
Episode Music:
The Way the World Ends, by Lucas King
https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/emotional-piano-music-ii-royalty/id1014292638
Amelie, by Royalty Free Music Lab
https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/cinema-tv-and-spot-vol-2/id632397129
Peaceful Piano, by Royalty Free Music Club
https://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/royalty-free-music-club/id547510897
Hope, by Alex Mason & The Minor Emotion
http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Alex_Mason__The_Minor_Emotion/Soul_Breaker/01_alex_mason___the_minor_emotion_-_hope
Melancholy, by Lucas King
https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/emotional-piano-music-ii-royalty/id1014292638
End, by Royalty Free Music Lab
https://itunes.apple.com/jp/album/royalty-free-music-for-cinema/id566281456?l=en
We reveal how medical experts got it wrong. Warning: adult content.
Episode Music:
Melancholy, by Lucas King
https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/emotional-piano-music-ii-royalty/id1014292638
Levantara`n el vuelo (Piano Solo) by Circus Marcus
http://freemusicarchive.org/music/CIRCUSMARCUS/~/Levantarn_el_vuelo_Piano_Solo
Ice Where Your Parents’ Love Should Be by Kyle Preston
http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Kyle_Preston/Geo/Ice_Where_Your_Parents_Love_Should_Be
The Way the World Ends, by Lucas King
https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/emotional-piano-music-ii-royalty/id1014292638
You Promise, by Alex Mason and the Minor Emotion
http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Alex_Mason__The_Minor_Emotion/Soul_Breaker/08_alex_mason___the_minor_emotion_-_you_promise
Retired police detective Duane Gonyon sheds light on how the Satanic Panic got out of control.
Episode Music:
Whisper, by Lucas King
https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/emotional-piano-music-ii-royalty/id1014292638
Seeker, by Kai Engel
http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Kai_Engel/The_Run/Kai_Engel_-_The_Run_-_01_Seeker
Sunset Piano, by Royalty Free Music Club
https://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/royalty-free-music-club/id547510897
Hope, by Alex Mason & The Minor Emotion
http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Alex_Mason__The_Minor_Emotion/Soul_Breaker/01_alex_mason___the_minor_emotion_-_hope
Three Kites Circling by Axletree
http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Axletree/Cormorant_EP/Three_kites_circling
Show Notes:
https://www.brainybyrdmedia.com/season-2-episode-5-show-notes
The story behind the most famous case of satanic ritual child abuse that never happened. Featuring RetroReport Producer Barbara Drury.
Episode Music:
You Promise, by Alex Mason & The Minor Emotion
http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Alex_Mason__The_Minor_Emotion/Soul_Breaker/08_alex_mason___the_minor_emotion_-_you_promise
Hope, by Alex Mason & The Minor Emotion
http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Alex_Mason__The_Minor_Emotion/Soul_Breaker/01_alex_mason___the_minor_emotion_-_hope
The Way the World Ends, by Lucas King
https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/emotional-piano-music-ii-royalty/id1014292638
Three Kites Circling by Axletree
http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Axletree/Cormorant_EP/Three_kites_circling
Whisper, by Lucas King
https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/emotional-piano-music-ii-royalty/id1014292638
End, by Royalty Free Music Lab
https://itunes.apple.com/jp/album/royalty-free-music-for-cinema/id566281456?l=en
Show Notes:
https://www.brainybyrdmedia.com/season-2-episode-4
We unpack, "Michelle Remembers," the harrowing, horrible hoax that started the "satanic panic" of the 1980s/90s.
Episode Music:
Seeker by Kai Engel:
http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Kai_Engel/The_Run/Kai_Engel_-_The_Run_-_01_Seeker
Amelie by Royalty Free Music Lab
https://itunes.apple.com/tm/album/cinema-tv-and-spot-vol.2/id632397129
Melancholy by Lucas King
https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/emotional-piano-music-ii-royalty/id1014292638
Sunset Piano by Royalty Free Music Club
https://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/royalty-free-music-club/id547510897
Ice Where Your Parents’ Love Should Be by Kyle Preston
http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Kyle_Preston/Geo/Ice_Where_Your_Parents_Love_Should_Be
Show Notes:
https://www.brainybyrdmedia.com/season-two-episode-three
Episode two explains Satan's big social comeback in the 1980s. Featuring experts Professor Megan Goodwin and Mary DeYoung.
Episode Music
Levantara`n el vuelo (Piano Solo) by Circus Marcus
http://freemusicarchive.org/music/CIRCUSMARCUS/~/Levantarn_el_vuelo_Piano_Solo
Ice Where Your Parents’ Love Should Be by Kyle Preston
http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Kyle_Preston/Geo/Ice_Where_Your_Parents_Love_Should_Be
Show Notes
https://www.brainybyrdmedia.com/wh-episode-12
The premiere episode of season two explores how what we believe and how we react to allegations of child abuse fueled a moral panic that destroyed thousands of lives. Featuring an interview with The Intercept's Jordan Smith.
Our mini series finale explores the truth behind "Patient Zero" and the AIDS epidemic. Writer Michele Lent Hirsch shares her story of life under quarantine. Episode Music: The Way the World Ends – Lucas King https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/emotional-piano-music-ii-royalty/id1014292638 Ice Where Your Parents’ Love should Be – Kyle Preston http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Kyle_Preston/Geo/Ice_Where_Your_Parents_Love_Should_Be Show Notes https://www.brainybyrdmedia.com/special-episode-three
This episode, we tell the story of the original Typhoid Mary. Featuring author and historian Judith Leavitt. Episode music: Seeker by Kai Engel http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Kai_Engel/The_Run/Kai_Engel_-_The_Run_-_01_Seeker Levantara`n el vuelo (Piano Solo) by Circus Marcus http://freemusicarchive.org/music/CIRCUSMARCUS/~/Levantarn_el_vuelo_Piano_Solo Ice Where Your Parents’ Love Should Be by Kyle Preston http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Kyle_Preston/Geo/Ice_Where_Your_Parents_Love_Should_Be Heartfelt Piano by Royalty Free Music Movies & Videos Backgrounds Show Notes https://www.brainybyrdmedia.com/special-episode-two
Why do we get mad at sick people for getting sick? This podcast special series explores the history of quarantines. Episode Music: Peaceful Piano - Royalty Free Music Club Melancholy - Lucas King Sunset Piano - Royalty Free Music Club Heartfelt Piano - Royalty Free Music Club The Way the World Ends - Lucas King
It's not over. They're still hunting down and killing people accused of witchcraft all over the world. Learn how you can help make it stop.
Interviews with direct descendants of the men and women involved in the Salem witchcraft crisis of 1692. Featuring the descendants of Margaret Scott, Giles Corey, Rebecca Nurse, and Cotton Mather.
This episode unpacks what brought the Salem witchcraft hysteria to its end and what Salem looked like when it was all over. Featuring professor and author Emerson Baker.
Who were the men behind the hangings of 19 innocent people in Salem, 1692? What was the town like on "Execution Day"? Featuring author and capital punishment expert, Richard Clark.
Who were they? The innocent men and women hanged as witches in Salem, 1692. Let's take a look at the usual and the not-so-usual suspects.
We're hosting our first ever Witch Hunt Podcast Google Hangout on Sunday, November 27 from 2-4 p.m. (EST). We'll be streaming live to answer your questions, talk about the show, or just say hi. See you there! - Nancy and Dan
Who were the main accusers in the Salem witchcraft hysteria of 1692 and what was really wrong with them?887cv8p8
Meet Thomas O'Brien Vallor, a practicing witch from Salem, Massachusetts. Learn about the beliefs of modern witches. Happy Halloween!
The legal system in 1692 Massachusetts was anything but impartial. Learn about how the law worked against the accused during the infamous Salem witch trial crisis.
It's January, 1692, and the disturbing and bizarre behaviors of two little girls in Salem Village trigger the first witchcraft accusations and arrests. Featuring historian and author Marilynne K. Roach.
What was it about the villagers of Salem that made them the people most likely to unleash a witchcraft Hysteria? We spoke with Dr. Mary Beth Norton, the country's top historian, for the answer.
Why is Salem the witch hunt people remember? Episode One: The Biggest Little Witch Hunt in History examines the European roots of the Salem witch trials. Featuring renowned author Frances Hill, author of "A Delusion of Satan."
Meet the Witch Hunt Podcast, a biweekly show that explores history's most famous witch hunts - literal and metaphorical. Join us for season one as we unpack the Salem witch trial hysteria of 1692.
Introducing the Witch Hunt Podcast, a biweekly podcast premiering Sunday, September 18. The Witch Hunt Podcast examines history's most infamous witch hunts - literal and metaphorical - starting with the Salem witch trials of 1692. Why were 14 women and six men executed as witches? Join us as we take a closer look at the accusers, the accused, and a world that provided rope for the hangings.