S18 Ep139: The Fright Before Christmas: Surviving Krampus & Other Yuletide Monsters w/Jeff Belanger
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🗓️ 16 November 2023
⏱️ 79 minutes
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Summary
Christmas time is truly the darkest and creepiest time of the year filled with devilish creatures lurking in the shadows waiting to get us. Best known is the Krampus who has been the subject of films and songs. There was a time in the late 1800s when people sent Krampus cards, not holiday greetings. There are other violent and dangerous monsters from all over northern climes who have been hunting naughty children for centuries. From shapeshifters to mountain trolls, to elves, to heavy-handed cohorts of Saint Nicholas, the Christmas holiday has been filled with ghosts and monsters ready to dole out punishment to those who need it.
The Fright Before Christmas delves into the folklore of Krampus and his friends with the elf-like Tomten and the goblinesque Karakoncolas. The Belsnickel is ready to hit us with his switch of sticks and Gryla may drag you back to her mountain lair. And watch out for the Yule Cat ready to pounce! These are just a few of the yuletide beasties coming for us in The Fright Before Christmas in the hope they can save us from ourselves.
Jeff joins Darkness Radio today to tell us about these scary creatures, their history, our efforts to revive them, and why we need them more than ever right now!
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| 0:00.0 | I'm going to be. Oh, Welcome in the best and paranormal programming. This is Darkness Radio. I'm your host Tim Dennis. Boy, I am hyp for today's show you know we talk about the |
| 0:34.7 | holidays and I know a lot of you might you shouldn't have holiday fatigue yet |
| 0:39.6 | come on folks we shouldn't be in holiday fatigue yet. |
| 0:42.6 | We just got out of Halloween. |
| 0:44.8 | I mean, we're all still munching on Halloween candy, |
| 0:47.3 | so that's good. |
| 0:49.3 | We've turned the corner and we're looking at Thanksgiving. |
| 0:51.6 | I know a lot of you are kind of skipping over |
| 0:53.3 | Thanksgiving getting to Christmas. |
| 0:55.8 | We're gonna talk about Christmas |
| 0:57.4 | and a little bit here with our guest Jeff Melanger. |
| 0:59.7 | But first I want to take a quick pit stop at Thanksgiving |
| 1:02.4 | because I did see Eli Roth's |
| 1:05.1 | Thanksgiving. We'll get to Jeff in just a second. He's waiting patiently. |
| 1:09.3 | Let's talk about Eli Roth's Thanksgiving briefly. I did see it last night and let me tell you |
| 1:15.2 | something folks depending on if what trailer you watched you may be |
| 1:20.4 | trepidaciously waiting for this thing or you might be really excited. |
| 1:24.0 | I'll tell you this much. If you're excited for this movie you have a reason to be. |
| 1:29.4 | I thought it was pretty good. |
| 1:33.0 | It's, let me break it down for you just real quick and then we'll get to Jeff here. |
| 1:38.0 | It has a really good premise. |
| 1:41.0 | The premise is this, you know, on know on Thanksgiving we it balances a little bit of |
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