001: Red Riding Hood & the Wolf

Pleasing Terrors

Mike Brown

Arts, Performing Arts, Personal Journals, Society & Culture

4.9 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 3 August 2016

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Everyone knows the story of Little Red Riding Hood. The young child in her bright red cloak who gets lost in the forest, only to be preyed upon and devoured by the big bad wolf. Red Riding Hood is freed from her fate by a passing Huntsman, who slaughters the In the time when fairy tales served more to caution than to entertain, Little Red Riding Hood was a warning to always follow the marked path, listen to your elders, and never talk to strangers.

The sad, strange story of Elisa Lam mirrors the familiar fairy tale -- except in this version, the lost little girl has no Huntsman to come to her rescue and perishes in the belly of the beast of Los Angeles. But who, exactly, is the beast? Is it the ill-fated hotel? A murderous stranger?

Elisa herself?

Episode Highlights:

The story of Red Riding Hood
The deadly history of the Cecil Hotel
Elisa Lam's peculiar behavior and death
Conspiracies & suspicions
Supernatural experiences in the Cecil Hotel

Transcript

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0:00.0	Some stories were never supposed to be told.
0:15.0	Stories that exist in the twilight between science and the supernatural,
0:21.0	between history and horror.
0:25.0	Stories that speak of terrifying things.
0:29.0	Stories that you want to hear.
0:31.0	Stories that you need to hear, stories that you need to hear, stories that will sink their teeth in and
0:38.0	never let you go.
0:40.4	My name is Mike Brown, and this is pleasing terrors.
0:49.0	Episode 1, Red Riding Hood and the Wolf.
0:55.0	For most of us, scary stories are a form of entertainment.
1:03.0	Whether we enjoy them through a book, a movie, or a ghost tour,
1:08.0	they provide a momentary thrill,
1:10.0	a distraction from our daily lives. We don't take them seriously. But the earliest
1:17.0	horror stories, the ones that go back thousands of years were different. They were not intended to merely amuse the audience. They were meant to warn them.
1:28.6	They were often told at night around the safety of a fire and they warned of the monsters that lurked in the
1:35.8	darkness just beyond the edge of the light.
1:39.6	When one group of people met another stories were exchanged. Some of them traveled across the world, and
1:46.7	as they passed from person to person, generation to generation, the details of the stories shifted and changed.
1:55.5	The monsters wore many faces.
1:58.4	Even when they were finally written down, authors continued to tweak the details to suit the era and the audience.
2:05.0	So many changes in time, geography and culture that the threats those stories were intended to warn against were no longer recognizable.
2:16.0	This story is one of the oldest.
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