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I've got a story to tell you.

It might sound unbelievable, but the person who experienced it once fought the same,

until they saw something that changed them forever.

Here we dive into the paranormal, the strange and the unexplained,

from personal supernatural encounters to some of the most infamous unsolved mysteries and history,

all told in an immersive, atmospheric narrative-led style.

Let's hear these stories and try to figure out together what really happened.

The world is a very strange place.

Someone has to record it.

Because after all, everywhere has a ghost story.

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This week, Weird Studies returns from its annual late summer hiatus.

We're kicking off the new academic year with a film that has just been released,

Rabbit Trap, directed by Bryn Cheney and starring Dev Patel, Rosie McEwen, and Jade Crude.

I should also mention the composer,

Lucretia Dalt, and the sound designer, Graham Resnick, whose contributions to the film are at least as important as anyone else's. One of the more coked-out ideas I contribute to the following

conversation is the suggestion that Rabbit T trap is a kind of weird musical.

Of course, it isn't anything like singing in the rain or Oklahoma, except in one way.

It presents us with a stream of musicalized events in which emotional intensities flock and

wheel like murmurations of birds and register as modulations in sound.

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