GhostStoriesForTheEnd

Festive Q and A, part 2

Some more Q, some more A, all GSFTEOTW

CHRISTMAS Q AND A SPECTACULAR 2024

You bring the Q, I bring the A

Merry Christmas friends

Further reading and gallery

General:

https://www.distractify.com/omg/2017/05/31/Z1bT0sp/men-in-black-real

https://archive.org/details/HighStrangenessGu...

DULCE MIDNIGHT RADIO 6: The Men in Black ft. Robert Skvarla

It's been too long since last we took the Saucer of Insight out for a spin through the feverish Caverns of the Mind, so tonight we're finally getting weird again to talk about those lovable scamps in human skin in black suits: THE MEN IN BLACK. Who they? Where be? What is? And but? All these questions and more will be answered as our good friend...

Christmas Q&A

Submit your inquiries, ask me stuff, let’s really connect. Drop em here or in the DMs via Patreon/discord/X 🎅

ROSEMARY'S BABY (1968) and REC (2007): Consider the apartment...

This one goes off the rails in a major way because I'm out of practice and it's been a very long month. We begin with an overview of where the main show is heading and our plans for the future, then we talk about (in no particular order here): poison eurodwarf Polanski, occultism and control, Aktion T4, Yorkshire Aunties, pandemics, apartments, ...

Next episode next week…

Wedding festivities almost done.

Next week we’re tackling Rosemary’s Baby and Rec, and we’re going to consider occult conspiracy, pandemics and quarantine, motherhood, Catholicism, urban paranoia, the horror of high-rise living, and the apartment complex as a portal to hell.

All fixed

Turns out Patreon has added this new Post Type when you upload audio. You can now choose between either "Audio Post" (which was all they used to have) or "Podcast Episode" (their new thing). I've been clicking Audio Post for 5 years now, and they brought this change in just as I added the Midsommar episode first time around; I didn't notice it a...

THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT (1999)

Ok, they added a "Podcast Episode" option to the "Post Type" thing when you upload, and I'm so used to clicking on "Audio post" from muscle memory that I didn't even notice it. Let's see if this works.

MIDSOMMAR (2019)

Test, 1-2-3, test, testing

Patreon walk thru

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2024-10-31 02:49:06 +0000 UTC View Post

RSS feed now updated

Hopefully it’ll refresh with the new episodes soon.

Issue with RSS feed

A few people have asked why the subscriber episodes aren’t showing up on their podcast players. I’ve raised the issue with Patreon and I’m waiting to hear back. I tried these troubleshooting steps without any luck but they may work for you:

2024-10-27 21:35:14 +0000 UTC View Post

THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT (1999)

"In October of 1994, three student filmmakers disappeared in the woods near Burkittsville, Maryland, while shooting a documentary. A year later, their footage was found."

Dir: Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sánchez

2024-10-27 13:01:22 +0000 UTC View Post

MIDSOMMAR (2019)

"A couple travel to Sweden to visit their friend's rural hometown for its fabled midsummer festival, but what begins as an idyllic retreat quickly devolves into an increasingly violent and bizarre competition at the hands of a pagan cult."

None of the synopses really get the pitch right but what the hell, this'll do.

Di...

96 - The Belgian X-Files 19: 1985 (Epilogue)

"Set against the backdrop of Belgium's most notorious unsolved crime spree, 1985 begins as three friends - Vicky, her brother Franky, and his best friend Marc - begin a new chapter of their lives, when they set off from their hometown to Brussels. But as their adulthood and careers in the big city commence, the trio risks losing their innocence ...

95 - The Belgian X-Files 18 - Dutroux Affair vii: C'est comme ça que ça termine (1997 - now)

Join Nic and I for the final Belgian X-File. This is how it ends.

SOUNDTRACK NOW AVAILABLE HERE

The Belgian X-Files soundtrack now available

FIND IT HERE ON BANDCAMP

Still figuring out how to add it to Spotify.

Final X-Files episode due very soon.

Appreciate you all.

Matt

THE LONG HALLOWEEN

HERE IS YOUR HOMEWORK:

1985 (TV series)

Man Bites Dog

Midsommar

The Vanishing (original)

The Blair Witch Project

Rec (original)

Se7en/Zodiac (one big episode)

Under the Silver Lake

Suspiria (both versions)

Rosemary’s Baby

Nice mix of paranoia and straight u...

WHERE NEXT?

The Belgian X-Files is almost done (…for now…) and October is almost here. I have a list of stuff I want to work through over the next two years, including a couple of long-form series, but there’s a slight hitch:

The Belgian X-Files became so impossibly dark and fucked up towards the end that my circuitry is kinda burned ...

ACCIDENTALLY DELETED A DUTCH PERSON'S COMMENT AND I CAN'T FIND YOU IN THE SUBSCRIBER LIST TO APOLOGISE

Ok, this person commented under the last episode and they said that while Prince Friso was pissed off about having to forfeit his claim to the throne, he can't still be mad "to this day" because he has been dead for 10 years.

This is of course 100% correct and I can only put this lapse down to ...

94 - The Belgian X-Files 17 - Dutroux Affair vi: A World Inside the World (1996 - 1999 or so)

Myself and @IRC_NIC discuss the sheer size of the case and consider what The Sprawl means. We go long on how the cops and the media conspired to kill the network angle, and then we look at the truly global scale of the Dutroux Affair and break down what, exactly, the Network was, its ...

ANTIDOTE 2 BRITPOP PLAYLIST STILL ACTIVE

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6ACIajPRSviG2zXoZqf7v2?si=2SIEkH6URPG5Eq-J6lmeGA&pi=e-Z8__0XisTKSX

You can also ADD YOUR OWN TRACKS 😱 here:

2024-09-02 01:00:47 +0000 UTC View Post

93 - The Belgian X-Files 16: Dutroux Affair v - Witnesses (1996 - 1997 or so)

EXTREME CONTENT WARNING

Regina Louf talks about her experience in the network, the pressure mounts on the investigating team, people continue to die, the families of the victims are pushed to the edge of madness, and Belgium finds itself on the brink of revolution.

**UNLOCKED** The Parapolitics of Britpop: Omnibus

Seemed fitting to unlock these two episodes, solder them together through the miracle of sound editing, and make them free to all, given the news this week of Oasis reforming. Enjoy.

92 - The Belgian X-Files 15 - Dutroux Affair iv - Casework (August - late September 1996)

Dutroux and his accomplices start to talk, the people of Belgium try to process news of the staggering investigative failings, prosecutors Bourlet and Connerotte gaze into the abyss, and a young woman steps forward with astonishing information about corruption and savagery at the heart of the Belgian establishment.

Next episode Thur...

Next X-Files episode…

We’re entering the home stretch of The Belgian X-Files now, and we’re about to get into the network and major players in Belgium and beyond. This is why the episode is late - we can do it fast or we can do it right, and owing to the complexity of what we’re trying to cover, the fact both of us have had a busy couple of weeks personally, an...

91 - The Belgian X-Files 14: Dutroux Affair iii - Summer Came Early That Year (1996)

@irc_nic guides us through 1996.

90 - The Belgian X-Files 13: Dutroux Affair ii - Voices in the Walls (1995 - 1996 or so)

The part about the murders.

@irc_nic joins me once again for this journey into Belgium's heart of darkness.

EXTREME CONTENT WARNING: This episode contains some very harrowing and upsetting material. I don't recommend you listen to it if you're in a...

Blue Belgium playlist

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1k325iL7qgdQXRqaUJug16?si=kpdKjnncRLiZp71t5Vaz5Q&pi=e-Kh8-WLJgTCuj

Posting this again as we added a few tracks since the last time. Stuff we’ve been listeni...