012: The Serpent's Curse
Pleasing Terrors
Mike Brown
4.9 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 13 January 2017
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
Throughout history, disasters of astronomical proportions have taken place on one auspicious day -- Friday the Thirteenth. Shipwrecks, tsunamis, raging forest fires, brutal murderers, and horrifying accidents have all claimed victims on a day that many believe has been cursed since the fall of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. The same serpent who tested the pair has become the dark figurehead of Friday the Thirteenth, feared by ancient cultures for centuries.
The fear of 13 seems like old suspicions that were born and died in ancient times, but as an asteroid headed straight for the Earth threatens to destroy civilization as we know it, the due date of Friday the Thirteenth might be more relevant than ever.
Episode Highlights:
- Shipwrecks, gruesome murders, natural disasters, and cannibalism: A trail of death through history
- The fear of Friday the 13th
- Numerology and mysticism
- Adam, Eve, the Serpent, and 13
- Symbolism in the works of Edgar Allan Poe
- Sinister snakes and dark evil in Ancient Egypt
- Flying asteroids to strike the Earth
Resources:
Friday the Thirteenth by Thomas William Lawson
"The Cask of Amontillado" by Edgar Allan Poe
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| 0:00.0 | Some stories were never supposed to be told. |
| 0:09.0 | Stories that exist in the twilight |
| 0:15.0 | between science and the supernatural, |
| 0:18.0 | between history and horror. |
| 0:21.0 | Stories that speak of terrifying things. |
| 0:25.0 | Stories that you want to hear. |
| 0:28.0 | Stories that you need to hear. |
| 0:31.0 | Stories that will sink their teeth in and never let you go. |
| 0:37.0 | My name is Mike Brown, and this is pleasing terrors. |
| 1:14.0 | Episode 12, the Serpent's Curse. The The Serpent dwells in the void, slithering its way through the darkness between the stars. |
| 1:18.0 | Its skin reflects the golden light of the sun, with which it is locked in a seemingly eternal struggle. |
| 1:22.0 | It bears a face of stone. seemingly eternal struggle. |
| 1:22.8 | It bears a face of stone, a face that shows no remorse |
| 1:28.0 | and promises no mercy. |
| 1:30.9 | For the Serpent, time has no meaning. |
| 1:34.8 | It is patient. |
| 1:36.7 | It is traveled through space for millennia, occasionally looking down on us from the night sky, assured that its day would come. |
| 1:45.0 | In fact, its day is almost here. |
| 1:49.0 | The Serpent dwells in the shadowy depths of space, but it also winds its way through time. |
| 2:00.0 | It coils around our lives slowly constricting, catching us in its grasp. |
| 2:06.6 | It is placed a curse on us, and its curse is as old as time. |
| 2:11.7 | We can run, we can hide, but in the end it will come for us all. From where we stand, |
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