1273 INFECTUS: The 5,000-Year Virus of Evil
Richard Syrett's Strange Planet
Richard Syrett & Glassbox Media
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🗓️ 29 October 2025
⏱️ 46 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | The waterfront of New Orleans was so dangerous, such a dangerous place to be that if you had pirates and they did hanging out down at the docks for the city. |
| 0:09.3 | And going back in New Orleans's history, gosh, you see even from the very inception of that city, we're seeing people that are being trafficked, kidnapped right there on the docks. |
| 0:19.7 | And it was a dangerous time. |
| 0:20.8 | And people say, you know, New Orleans is such a dangerous city now. Like, what do you mean |
| 0:24.1 | now? It's always been dangerous. They started for the church's sake and the nunnery, as it were, |
| 0:29.6 | the convent. They wanted pure virgins, young women brought into the city. Now, that was a |
| 0:35.5 | dangerous thing to do, especially by ship in New Orleans |
| 0:38.2 | in the early 1700s. So the rumor was that a lot of these girls were placed in coffins on |
| 0:45.1 | the ship and unloaded from the ship in coffins. And that any pirate or anyone down there that might |
| 0:50.7 | have seen this, we're like, oh, that's the plague. I'm not going to go there. I'm not going to touch that. Richard Sarin's strange planet, following the truth |
| 1:00.9 | wherever it leads, exposing evil and corruption and the secret machinations of powerful elites, |
| 1:09.1 | revealing the high strangeness beneath the surface of our supposed reality, |
| 1:14.2 | coming to you from the Great White North and his studio beneath the stairs. Here's Richard. |
| 1:23.7 | Welcome to another installment of Strange Planet, and as we roll into the Halloween season, we're |
| 1:30.6 | going to open the door to the dark corners of the human soul, the place where civilization |
| 1:35.6 | itself might just be the greatest horror story ever told. Todd C. Eliot returns to the podcast. |
| 1:43.0 | He doesn't write about monsters, he writes about us. |
| 1:46.2 | A Louisiana native and one of America's boldest voices in modern Gothic fiction, Todd has built |
| 1:52.7 | a cult following for his eerie, atmospheric tales that straddle myth, history, and nightmare. |
| 1:58.8 | His book Infectus, Medtime Stories of Horror, isn't your average |
| 2:03.5 | horror anthology? It's a terrifying tapestry that spans 5,000 years from the birth of music on the |
| 2:10.1 | banks of the Ganges to the psychedelic fever dream of 1960s America, across 13 interconnected stories. Todd suggests that evil isn't a ghost or a vampire |
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