This Place Scares Us - A Podcast
Join Laramie Dean, PhD, and Katya Mickelson, NPhD (non-PhD), for each nonsequitur-filled episode of THIS PLACE SCARES US! Come find out why serial killers, movies, literature and pop culture scares you, me and everyone.
Episodes
Hello Dear Listeners,
We have missed you! To steal a term from one of our favorite authors (Christopher Moore) our day slave lives have been getting us down and keeping us from editing this podcast! But fear not, we are back with a Spooktober appropriate episode.
This episode is a throw back to one of our collective favorite movies: 2015's The Witch (or The VVitch) by Robert Eggers. This period piece set in 1600s Puritan America ...
Hello Dear Listeners,
We have been enjoying the wonderful summer weather and doing our best to keep cool! Hopefully you are enjoying the summer sun and staying safe from the things that go bump in the night. And, what makes summer better than a nice song or two?
Well this week you are in for a musical treat! Katya and Laramie discuss the one and only Jerry Lee Lewis, AKA The Killer (really this is his nickname), and the many horr...
Hello Dear Listeners,
Summer is in full swing and we are releasing an episode that wasn't recorded this past winter! We hope this episode will keep you creeped out as you travel for your summer fun. Maybe you can bring us with as you visit a ghost town or check out a haunted house.
This week Katya and Laramie discuss Stephen King's Salem's Lot, (specifically the 1979 TV miniseries directed by Tobe Hooper). Laramie discusses the ...
Hello Dear Listeners,
We hope you are having a wonderful start to summer and enjoying the warmth and sun. Cookouts are a wonderful summer tradition and this week we decided to bring you an epicurean focused episode.
Gilberto Valle, dubbed the "Cannibal Cop" is a former NYPD officer who was found guilty of conspiracy to commit kidnapping in 2013, and later had his conviction overturned in 2014. Gilberto's charges stemmed from his ...
Hello Dear Listeners,
If you haven't heard, we're back! The winter/grad school/moving blues got us down for a bit, but we are all sorted out and ready to go. We are bringing you some Christmas in June fun and festivities with this week's topic!
Gremlins, released on June 8 1984 and directed by Joe Dante, is this week's topic. To say that this episode is near and dear to Laramie's heart is an understatement. Join us to find out w...
We're back bitches!
Sorry for our long hiatus. If you are curious about what's been happening in our lives give this bumper a quick listen. We've got a new episode for you tonight too!
**Clinkies**
Katya and Laramie
Hello Dear Listeners,
Happy New Year, and sorry for the long delay. As many of you know, a lot has been going on in "Scares Us Land". But fear not because we are back and back on track! We missed you all dearly and are sincerely sorry for our absence
This week we are bringing and episode back from the dead! Our lost episode on Magdalena Solis, The High Priestess of Blood has new life. Katya and Laramie discuss the terror that ...
Hello Dear Listeners,
The week of feasts is upon us and we hope you enjoy this episode as you travel to see family, hunker down in your bunker, or enjoy basking in the glow of your retail therapy. If you need a good read for your holiday time, This Place Scares Us suggests reading The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson.
This week's episode is in fact about The Haunting of Hill House which has seen several screen adaptations...
Hello Dear Listeners,
We hope you had a spectacular Spooktober, a haunting Halloween, and an amazing All Souls Day! We have been hard at work getting back on our recording schedule after our big life changes. Coming at you this week is the scariest movie we have seen in a good long while.
This week's topic is the terrifying 2018 film Hereditary by Ari Aster. Go watch this movie before listening to this week's episode, but find a...
Hello Dear Listeners,
Like a phoenix we have risen from the ashes of moving, learning new technology, and having a generally chaotic two months! But, WE ARE BACK!! This is our first remotely recorded episode and it sounds a bit rough, but we've worked the bugs out and will have another episode out soon.
Its Spooktober and you know what that means!? Horror movies!! In this episode Katya and Laramie discuss the 1985 classic Fright N...
Hello Dear Listeners,
Hi Dear Listeners,
Did you enjoy your Labor Day weekend or were you stuck in a Horror Hotel? Perhaps you visited a City of the Dead (these are all related to the episode I promise)? Whatever you did with your holiday we hope it was a restful and spooky one!
This week's episode is the movie Horror Hotel (also known as The City of the Dead). Horror Hotel was released in America in 1963 and chronicles the foggy witchy nightmare tha...
Hi Dear Listeners,
We are getting so close to the spooky season and fall time, and today in Montana really feels like the end of summer. Do you believe in aliens dear listeners? Have you had an otherworldly experience?
Katya and Laramie discuss the spooky abduction of Travis Walton this week. Much discussion is had on if aliens exist or not, and if aliens actually abduct people. Also, alien fashion and alien measurements are a ...
Hi Dear listeners,
Sorry for the delay, but we ran into a technical problem with our microphone during the recording of the actual episode 22. Sadly, episode 22's recording was unusable and will be forever lost. However; we will be re-recording this episode's topic at a later date. For now join us for episode 23 henceforth known as episode 22.
And boy if episode 22 isn't a good one! This episode is all about Stephen King's "The ...
Hello Dear Listeners,
Are you enjoying your summer fun? Have you seen any summer ghosts, or perhaps a warm weather bigfoot cooling off in a stream? We haven't but we're still looking. In between our adventures we're releasing another listener suggested episode (thanks Lindsey C.!!!) that is near and dear to Laramie's cold cold heart.
Welcome to our episode on Night of Dark Shadows (NODS)!! Does NODS make sense? Not really! Does...
Hello Dear Listeners,
Sorry for our brief break but we had to go have some summer fun! Fear not! We are back this week with episode 20 and what better way to celebrate this milestone than with a listener suggested topic? Our wonderful listener Joanna suggested this weeks topic, and we LOVE IT!!
This week Katya and Laramie discuss the story of the 5 boys who never came back. Much like our Dyatlov Pass episode this story has mount...
Hello Dear Listeners,
We've received so many wonderful messages from some of you and want to extend our sincere thanks. You are all what make this podcast great! Please continue to write to us and let us know what you think or tell us your spooky stories. We have truly enjoyed our past two episodes sharing scary stories with friends, and discussing a horror classic with The Birds. This weeks episode is much less fun and so very ...
Hello Dear Listeners,
Sorry for the delay this week! We had many things happening and had some technical challenges. Fear not! We have returned to give you a reason to be afraid, even as we move through spring and into the sunny summer season. Don't you all remember that horror in the daylight is real!?
Join Katya and Laramie as they discuss (and sing about) Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds. There is plenty to be afraid of in this ...
Clinkies Dear Listeners!!
Welcome to the house party episode of This Place Scares Us! We don't know how your life has been, but spring time has been a bit too busy for all of us at TPSU. So we decided to let our amazing hair down and have a house party!!
We brought our wonderful friends and family in to the This Place Scares Us Studio to hear their creepy stories. Taylor (yes, the actually famous Taylor), Ryan (our amazing socia...
Hello Dear Listeners,
Are you enjoying the increasing daylight and all of the new life brought by spring? Do you wish things were still dark and spooky? Well fear not because we have a real scare fest for you this episode! We are discussing a truly tragic case of demon possession (!!Warning!! we do play a clip from an actual exorcism in this episode).
The case of Anneliese Michel came about at the height of all things possession...
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