Amanda Montell

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1,990 appearances 11 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 15 Sep

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Sounds Like A Cult · The Cult of Dark Tourism · 18 Aug 2026 podcast

And it just felt like this dehumanizing violation of autonomy and dignity for this girl.

And I remember going to the natural history museum on shrooms not long ago and looking at the skeleton and being like, this was a person.

And I know that these bones are on display for educational purposes, but like this feels wrong.

Like it just felt wrong to me.

So I think anything that dehumanizes people, I don't like that.

That's where I like.

put my foot down on the dark tourism thing.

And like watching these anthropologists go like bug-eyed talking about their investigations, I was like, this is cool, but this is fucked.

Yeah.

Ooh.

Okay, that's another dimension of this that gives me the ick is like who's profiting and how much are they profiting?

You know, it costs like three euros to go to the operating theater and ultimately supports like a university museum.

But when, for example, I learned about this suicide forest as it's sort of glibly and colloquially called, it's actually called the Elk Ig.

Yahara Forest.

I originally heard about this place from the controversy that occurred after YouTuber Logan Paul, curse his name, filmed the body of an apparent suicide victim in 2018 in this forest.

He liked joked on camera about it, all seemed very dehumanizing and disrespectful, and then uploaded the footage to his massive YouTube channel for millions of people to.

Watch there was obviously

international outrage and backlash.

This was Swift and critics accused him of turning real human tragedy into content.

But I do think that that is happening more and more as people's dopamine systems become just like fucking shot and overrun in the digital age.

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