When the skies are full of unidentified objects, it’s no wonder that podcasts are obsessing on paranormal themes
When I first started running, last winter, it would be dark in the morning when I’d leave the house, and I took to listening to podcasts where real people would describe a supernatural event from their past. There was the woman who grew up in a very haunted house, and the boy saved from a suicide attempt by an unseen presence, and a student bedroom that its tenant said contained “pure, distilled evil”. I’d be puffing along a muddy trail as the sun clawed its way out of a hole while a sensible adult dripped another mad terror into my ears, and by the time I got home the day would have already chosen its direction.
Although, to be fair, perhaps I chose that direction myself some years ago, when, as a child, I became obsessed with the Usborne Book of Ghosts & Hauntings. Apart from the story about the one-eyed ghost dog, Black Shuck, it didn’t give me nightmares so much as provide a lens with which to view the entire world, a place groaning with mysteries, fear and inexplicable events.
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