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Alaina

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
1270 total appearances

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Morbid
Episode 650: Plagues of Hysteria with Andrew McMahon

Oh my God, they're there too?

Morbid
Episode 650: Plagues of Hysteria with Andrew McMahon

Oh my God, they're there too?

Morbid
Episode 650: Plagues of Hysteria with Andrew McMahon

Just write it on their Yelp page. So were they in the house?

Morbid
Episode 650: Plagues of Hysteria with Andrew McMahon

Just write it on their Yelp page. So were they in the house?

Morbid
Episode 650: Plagues of Hysteria with Andrew McMahon

No. I'd just start crying and never stop. Yeah. That's the thing. I don't cry easily. No, you don't. I would start sobbing uncontrollably if I saw a tarantula.

Morbid
Episode 650: Plagues of Hysteria with Andrew McMahon

No. I'd just start crying and never stop. Yeah. That's the thing. I don't cry easily. No, you don't. I would start sobbing uncontrollably if I saw a tarantula.

Morbid
Episode 650: Plagues of Hysteria with Andrew McMahon

I cry easily. And in my house, I'd never sleep in there again.

Morbid
Episode 650: Plagues of Hysteria with Andrew McMahon

I cry easily. And in my house, I'd never sleep in there again.

Morbid
Episode 650: Plagues of Hysteria with Andrew McMahon

Like, with, like, a magnifying glass.

Morbid
Episode 650: Plagues of Hysteria with Andrew McMahon

Like, with, like, a magnifying glass.

Morbid
Episode 650: Plagues of Hysteria with Andrew McMahon

Yeah. He said, actually, no.

Morbid
Episode 650: Plagues of Hysteria with Andrew McMahon

Yeah. He said, actually, no.

Morbid
Episode 650: Plagues of Hysteria with Andrew McMahon

That's in Australia, the huntsman spiders. My TikTok has figured out that I hate them, but that I will watch a whole video about one. So it just keeps giving me huntsman spider videos. And apparently you can hear huntsmans walking down the hall. They're so big. And I was like, that's all I need to know. I can't ever go to Australia.

Morbid
Episode 650: Plagues of Hysteria with Andrew McMahon

That's in Australia, the huntsman spiders. My TikTok has figured out that I hate them, but that I will watch a whole video about one. So it just keeps giving me huntsman spider videos. And apparently you can hear huntsmans walking down the hall. They're so big. And I was like, that's all I need to know. I can't ever go to Australia.

Morbid
Episode 650: Plagues of Hysteria with Andrew McMahon

Ever. I die. And people have like house huntsmans where they're just like, oh, that's just like Leroy. he just lives here he takes care of the bugs i'm like who takes care of him though like who he's lawless you get like you're like he takes care of like the mosquitoes i'm like i what i'd rather get bit by a mosquito but like i can't you can't look like that no Oh, I can't.

Morbid
Episode 650: Plagues of Hysteria with Andrew McMahon

Ever. I die. And people have like house huntsmans where they're just like, oh, that's just like Leroy. he just lives here he takes care of the bugs i'm like who takes care of him though like who he's lawless you get like you're like he takes care of like the mosquitoes i'm like i what i'd rather get bit by a mosquito but like i can't you can't look like that no Oh, I can't.

Morbid
Episode 650: Plagues of Hysteria with Andrew McMahon

Spooky. So, yeah, if you ever want that, go to Joshua Tree, apparently, during their mating season. Yeah. Now, people obviously blamed all these manias on either the spider or the devil and other supernatural shit for all the dancing plagues. But lots of religious intervention was obviously brought in to treat them. Yeah. You know, exorcisms and the like.

Morbid
Episode 650: Plagues of Hysteria with Andrew McMahon

Spooky. So, yeah, if you ever want that, go to Joshua Tree, apparently, during their mating season. Yeah. Now, people obviously blamed all these manias on either the spider or the devil and other supernatural shit for all the dancing plagues. But lots of religious intervention was obviously brought in to treat them. Yeah. You know, exorcisms and the like.

Morbid
Episode 650: Plagues of Hysteria with Andrew McMahon

And in cases where the dancers... This is interesting. So... Because this is kind of very like regional. So it's like they would do these things where it's like the treatments for it were very regional to what they were thinking or believing in that place. But when the dancers were foreign, like not of that area, the regional cultural differences would uphold the belief in demonic possession.

Morbid
Episode 650: Plagues of Hysteria with Andrew McMahon

And in cases where the dancers... This is interesting. So... Because this is kind of very like regional. So it's like they would do these things where it's like the treatments for it were very regional to what they were thinking or believing in that place. But when the dancers were foreign, like not of that area, the regional cultural differences would uphold the belief in demonic possession.