Monsters Myths and Manias

Monsters, Myths and Manias explores strange and forgotten corners of history. Join Professor Weird (Paul Weatherhead) as he explores bizarre but true stories of mass hysteria, ghost panics, scary folklore and strange creatures...

Monsters Myths and Manias is a history podcast hosted by weirdcalderdale, with 21 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

weirdcalderdale hosts Monsters Myths and Manias, a history show with 21 episodes published.

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  Episode #21

  Music to Go Mad By: Satie's Vexations

  Apr 25, 202612 minS0

  <p>In 1893 composer Erik Satie wrote Vexations, a dissonant, repetitive and unnerving piano piece that takes up to 24 hours to play. Demonic music that warps the minds of those who played it, a topless cellist, a bra made of televisions and a phial of amphetamine... This is the weird musical history of this piece and the disturbing and uncanny effect it had on its performers...</p> <p>More weird stuff on my website: https://paulweatherhead.com/weird-calderdale-strange-and-horrible-local-history/</p> <p>Sources</p> <p >Gavin Bryars (1983) ‘Vexations and its performers’, Contact: Journal for Contemporary Music, 26, pp.12-20 (p.13)</p> <p >Robert Orledge (1988) ‘Understa...

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  Episode #20

  Yorkshire Zombies - The Medieval Dead

  Oct 26, 20259 minS0

  <p>Yorkshire in the 1300s was a strange and frightening place. The living dead crawled from their graves, wandered round the lanes and accosted the villagers, at least according to accounts written by an anonymous monk. But these zombies were very different from the gut munchers of modern popular culture, and it wasn’t your brain they were after. So why were the dead shuffling round Yorkshire six centuries ago? What did they want? And how could they be stopped?</p> <p>In this episode of Monsters, Myths and Manias Paul Weatherhead (aka Professor Weird) looks at some of the st...

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  Episode #19

  Top 5 Cannibal Zombie Movies from the Golden Age of Gut Munching!

  Oct 19, 202512 minS0

  <p>In recent decades there have been some fine zombie films, but these mainstream offerings tend to suffer from one fatal flaw: respectability. The zombie films from the golden age (which I’ve taken as being from the late 60s to the early 90s) are different. They are gloriously disreputable, so much so that many were banned in Britain or were only available in editions butchered by the censors. </p> <p>In this Halloween special, Professor Weird aka Paul Weatherhead guides you through his Top 5 cannibal zombie gut munchers from the golden age of the video nasty! </p> <p>Further reading...

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  Episode #18

  Scared to Death!

  Oct 12, 20259 minS0

  <p>In this episode, bizarre and spooky urban legends about ghost hoaxes going wrong and scarring the hapless victim to death!</p>

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  Episode #17

  What did the atheist philosopher see when he died and was brought back to life?

  Oct 5, 202511 minS0

  <p>Atheist philosopher A.J. Ayer choked to death on a piece of smoked salmon and had a bizarre vision of the afterlife before being revived... What did he see and did it change his mind?</p>

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