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Outside/In

Nature is a Haunted House

Outside/In

NHPR

Natural Sciences, Science, Society & Culture, Nature, Documentary

4.71.5K Ratings

🗓️ 27 October 2016

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Little Red Riding Hood, Hansel and Gretel, Friday the Thirteenth, Blair Witch. It seems the woods make a great backdrop for scary stories, but why? Are we hardwired to fear the forest? Or, let’s throw it out there, do ghosts just like hanging out in the thickets? Sam goes on the trail with paranormal experts and talks with Lore’s Aaron Mahnke to find out what makes the woods so terrifying, and tests his own beliefs along the way.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

You feel apprehensive about this? I honestly don't have the first idea of what to expect.

0:10.0

What if you're walking to the cemetery and a hand burst out from below and grabs your ankle?

0:18.0

I would be surprised. That would be unexpected.

0:21.0

Yeah.

0:22.0

Any person cotton cemetery between dusk and 7 a.m.

0:25.2

will be arrested. Sam. What about ghosts? Lock the doors, doors,

0:33.0

the doors.

0:35.0

Lock the doors. Lock the doors,

0:42.0

lock the doors, grab a friend, but whatever you do don't go in the basement

0:46.7

because things are going to get pretty scary.

0:49.7

I'm Sam Evans Brown and this is Outside In, a show about the natural world and how we use it.

0:54.8

Today, the shadowy side of the outdoors.

0:58.8

Okay, so if you're new to the show, welcome.

1:01.2

And before we get into this episode, a little bit of a backstory a few weeks ago I went on vacation in Alberta Canada and it was beautiful and while I was out there

1:10.3

Unplugged hiking in the Canadian Rockies. Well okay so executive

1:16.1

producer Maureen McMurray why don't you just explain? Without telling you I

1:19.8

just hosted an episode. I hope that's okay Sam. Which I got in my podcast feed while I was in

1:26.5

Canada. And you're like I didn't know they were putting out an episode. Yeah so I

1:30.8

decided that I was going to play host that week.

1:33.2

I brought in producers Logan, Shannon, and Molly Donahue

1:36.1

into the studio.

1:36.9

And yeah, we kind of just hijacked the show.

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