Oh, he's cute. Mr. I can never sleep when I'm traveling. He's hugging his pillow like a sloth on a branch.

He couldn't sleep before. Now listen to him. Sounds like an elephant with a chest infection.

Well, they call him a dreamer. And now they're right.

All aboard, Mr. I can never sleep when I'm traveling. Find all the comfort you need in the quiet lounge.

Pieno Ferries, there is another way.

Hello, campers. Grab your marshmallows and gather around the true crime campfire.

We're your camp counselors. I'm Katie and I'm Whitney.

And we're here to tell you a true story that is way stranger than fiction.

We're roasting murderers and marshmallows

around the true crime campfire.

It's kind of hard to pin down what the first slasher movie was.

Do you start with psycho in 1960, go even further back?

But there's no real doubt when the genre blossomed, the 1970s. And that makes sense because the 70s was

also when the shocking crimes of serial killers really permeated the national consciousness.

You ask someone to name a serial killer, there's a good chance they'll name someone who was mostly or exclusively active in the 70s.

Bundy, Gacy, BTK, son of Sam.

The slasher movies tapped into a growing awareness that there were really terrifyingly

dangerous people out there, killers who didn't even have to know you to want you dead. This is Lost Highway, the murders to kind to set the scene by talking about a couple of things which to us say the 70s just as loudly as lava lamps, shag carpets or sideburnburns, hitchhiking and murder. In the US, hitchhiking really

exploded in the 60s and 70s, mostly with younger people, part of the rising counterculture's

new spirit of freedom and adventure.

And it was most common out on the west coast, where those counterculture influences were

strong and the roads were long and lonely.

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