The Echoes of Fear
Fear. A primal emotion. Phobia. A word coined in the late 1700s to describe a “severe and often irrational fear” of a preceding element. Some phobias are common, like nyctophobia – fear of the dark. Others are extremely rare, such as arachibutyrophobia – the fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of one’s mouth. Join your hosts; Jason Hewlett – Canadian Paranormal Society co-founder and Author/Filmmaker, and Kenton J Moore – Author/Publisher; as they follow the ripples of fear and phobia through our society, culture, and entertainment. Explore the prevalence and effects of various phobias, and how they manifest in the entertainment we consume, and the stories we tell. Like a scream in the night woods, these are the Echoes of Fear.
Episodes
Meet your hosts, Jason Hewlett and Kenton J Moore, as they introduce themselves and their podcast in this first of a two-part episode on the most prevalent phobia experienced by Humanity: The Fear of the Dark.
Jason and Kenton continue their discussion on fear of the dark by exploring the impact darkness and lighting have on pop culture, movies, and games.
Jason and Kenton explore the academic side of a prevalent phobia that surprisingly only earned its name in the 1990s in this Part 1 discussion on the Fear of Clowns.
Continuing with the Fear of Clowns, Jason and Kenton explore pop-culture favourites from Krusty the Clown to the Joker as they discuss why the entertainment industry favours demonizing Clowns.
Jason and Kenton dig into the history and academia of Phasmophobia, the Fear of Ghosts, and explore cultures around the world and some of their own personal anecdotes.
Continuing with the Fear of Ghosts, and complete with a botched intro, Kenton and Jason deep dive into personal anecdotes, pop-culture, and their own thoughts on facing the big question: what happens after life?
Jason's suggestion to talk about Cryptids last week sends Kenton down a research rabbit hole where he discovers a passion he never knew he had as they discuss the Fear of Cryptids and Monsters.
Jason and Kenton discuss the pop culture side of Fear of Cryptids and how prevalent our human oral history remains in regional folklore. Plus Bigfoot. LOTS of Bigfoot.
Jason and Kenton explore another of the "Primal Fears" and talk about Thalassophobia and its related phobias such as Bathophobia (fear of depths) which Kenton has. Get ready for a lot of Kenton's Navy stories...
How many pop-culture books, movies, games, and shows can YOU name? Jason and Kenton continue to discuss the Fear of Large Bodies of Water and all the associated phobias.
It all comes down to this: In the penultimate episode of their first season, Jason and Kenton tackle the grandfather of all phobias, the Fear of Death and Dying.
Season 1 Finale. Jason and Kenton discuss the presence of death and dying in almost every story, and propose that death in modern storytelling can be placed into four distinct categories.
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