The Conjuring and Haunted Houses | Myth Movie Night
Spirits: Mythology, Legends, & Folklore
Multitude
4.8 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 27 October 2021
⏱️ 55 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
We’re talking demons, haunted houses, and horror tropes as we watch 2013’s The Conjuring. And asking the important question: How long would YOU live in this haunted a house?
Content Warning: This episode contains conversations about or mentions of death, misogyny, mental health/mental illness, violence against women, animal death, possession, suicide, murder, child endangerment, drowning, child death, human sacrifice, home invasions, colonialism, and body horror.
Housekeeping
- Live Show: Join us October 27th at 8:00 EST for a LIVE virtual show! Get your tickets at spiritspodcast.com/live!
- Recommendation: This week, Amanda recommends Australian Survivor. Julia recommends the Paranormal Activity movies.
- Books: Check out our previous book recommendations, guests’ books, and more at spiritspodcast.com/books
- Call to Action: Have you heard about the MultiCrew?! This is our membership program that lets you help us invest in Multitude as we try weird new stuff. Plus, you get a members-only weekly podcast: Head Heart Gut, our weekly friendly debate show. Join for as little as $5 a month at multicrew.club and get access to Head Heart Gut!
Sponsors
- She’s Birdie is a personal safety alarm. Get 15% off your first purchase at shesbirdie.com/spirits
- Calm is the #1 app to help you reduce your anxiety and stress and help you sleep better. Get 40% off a Calm Premium subscription at calm.com/spirits.
- Milk Bar puts unique spins on iconic flavors and is the perfect gift for anyone and everyone in your life. Get $10 off any order of $50 or more by going to milkbarstore.com/SPIRITS.
Find Us Online
If you like Spirits, help us grow by spreading the word! Follow us @SpiritsPodcast on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and Goodreads. You can support us on Patreon (http://patreon.com/spiritspodcast) to unlock bonus Your Urban Legends episodes, director’s commentaries, custom recipe cards, and so much more. We also have lists of our book recommendations and previous guests’ books at http://spiritspodcast.com/books.
Transcripts are available at http://spiritspodcast.com/episodes. To buy merch, hear us on other podcasts, contact us, find our mailing address, or download our press kit, head on over to http://spiritspodcast.com.
About Us
Spirits was created by Julia Schifini, Amanda McLoughlin and Eric Schneider. We are founding members of Multitude, an independent podcast collective and production studio. Our music is "Danger Storm" by Kevin MacLeod (http://incompetech.com), licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0.
See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Spirits Podcast, a boozy dive into mythology, legends, and folklore. |
| 0:04.5 | Every week we pour a drink and learn about a new story from around the world. |
| 0:07.6 | I'm Amanda. |
| 0:08.2 | And I'm Julia. |
| 0:09.0 | And this episode 255, The Conjuring and Haunted Houses for Myth Movie Night. |
| 0:13.3 | Happy Halloween, y'all. |
| 0:14.6 | Happy Halloween. |
| 0:16.3 | It's going to be so much fun to get to talk about this. I really thought this was, one, a great movie choice for us, |
| 0:21.9 | and two, a great conversation that we had about just tropes that we find problematic and also |
| 0:26.3 | the history of haunted houses. And things that are fun, you know, Spirr's podcast. Spears podcast. |
| 0:30.8 | We can love things critically. And of course, if you are listening to the state comes out, |
| 0:35.1 | we are having a live show tonight. I can't believe it. |
| 0:39.1 | I'm so excited. And whether or not you join us live or you join us later, you can get tickets at |
| 0:44.0 | spiritspodcast.com slash live. Even if you're listening to this like a year from now, you can go back |
| 0:49.3 | and watch our Halloween 2021 live show. It's all good. We have both the live ticket and the video on demand. |
| 0:56.0 | So one ticket price gets you live show and rewatching it as many times as you like after the fact. |
| 1:01.0 | And whenever you want. Whenever you want. You're like, hey, it's just some random day in January, |
| 1:05.8 | the most difficult month of the year to get through. I wish it was spooky season once again. |
| 1:09.2 | Hey, let's just rewatch the spirits live show. Let's go back and check it out. We can relive our favorite moments. |
| 1:15.0 | Absolutely. I'm so excited to have it. And in other news, Julia, we have a new patron with us. |
| 1:19.8 | Dirk, thank you very much for becoming a patron. Hey, thanks, Dirk. And thank you to our supporting |
| 1:23.6 | producer-level patrons, whose support sustains us not just now in the spookiest time |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Multitude, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Multitude and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2025.