Episode 172: Extremely Weird Horror

Season 4, Episode 172,   Jun 12, 08:45 PM

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‘Weird things often scare us because they challenge our understanding of the world. When faced with something strange or inexplicable, our minds struggle to make sense of it, leading to feelings of uncertainty and vulnerability. The unfamiliarity of the situation triggers our primal instincts, activating the fight-or-flight response as we perceive the unknown as a potential threat. Additionally, weirdness can evoke a sense of dread by tapping into deep-seated fears and anxieties, playing on our subconscious fears of the unknown and the uncontrollable. Ultimately, it is this combination of uncertainty, vulnerability, and primal fear that makes weird things so unsettling and frightening to us...’

Today’s first terrifying tale of the macabre is the ‘The Blue Bomber’, an original work by the wonderfully talented The Gigconomist, kindly shared with me via my Dr. Creepen’s Vault sub-reddit so that I could narrate it here for you all, with the author’s express permission.

https://www.reddit.com/user/TheGigconomist/

Tonight’s second tale of horror is ‘Laser Tag’, a wonderful story By Digigekko, kindly shared with me via the Creepypasta Wiki and narrated here for you all with the author’s express permission under the conditions of the CC-BY-SA license: 

https://creepypasta.fandom.com/wiki/User:Digigekko
https://creepypasta.fandom.com/wiki/Laser_Tag

we round things off with a tale of terrifying genetic mutation, originally titled ‘The Porcine Horror’, is a wonderful story By Bear Lair 64, kindly shared with me via Dr. Creepen’s Vault and narrated here for you all with the author’s express permission:

https://www.reddit.com/user/BearLair64/