THE MONSTER MARKETPLACE - HOW ANCIENT TERRORS BECOME MODERN TRENDS

Freaky Folklore

Eeriecast Network

True Crime, Society & Culture, History

4.6 • 840 Ratings

🗓️ 18 July 2025

⏱️ 15 minutes

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In this bone-chilling bonus episode of Freaky Folklore, we explore the sinister psychology behind our shifting monster obsessions—from the domestication of vampires into romantic heroes to our current hunger for creatures like the Wendigo that resist all attempts at sanitization—revealing how our entertainment choices serve as an early warning system for the horrors our collective unconscious believes are coming. Discover more TERRIFYING podcasts at http://eeriecast.com/ Follow Carman Carrion! https://www.instagram.com/carmancarrion/?hl=en https://twitter.com/CarmanCarrion Subscribe to Spotify! https://open.spotify.com/show/0uiX155WEJnN7QVRfo3aQY Please Review Us on iTunes! https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/freaky-folklore/id1550361184 Music and sound effects used in the Freaky Folklore Podcast have or may have been provided/created by: CO.AG: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcavSftXHgxLBWwLDm_bNvA Myuu: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCiSKnkKCKAQVxMUWpZQobuQ Jinglepunks: https://jinglepunks.com/ Epidemic Sound: https://www.epidemicsound.com/ Kevin MacLeod: http://incompetech.com/ Dark Music: https://soundcloud.com/darknessprevailspodcast Soundstripe: https:// Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:29.6	Welcome to another spine-tingling bonus episode of Freaky Folklore, where we excavate the darkness lurking beneath popular cultures
0:38.1	broadest facades.
0:39.7	I'm your host, Carmen Carion.
0:42.0	And today we're venturing into territory that might make you question your own entertainment
0:46.7	choices.
0:47.8	What does it say about our world that we're no longer satisfied with monsters we can fall in
0:52.4	love with?
0:53.4	Why are audiences abandoning the seductive
0:55.8	vampires and tortured werewolves that dominated screens for decades, gravitating instead
1:01.9	toward creatures so fundamentally wrong that they resist every attempt at romanticization?
1:08.4	The shift isn't random. It's a warning signal from our collective unconscious,
1:13.3	a psychological early detection system, alerting us to horrors we're not yet ready to consciously
1:19.2	acknowledge. Our monster preferences don't just reflect our fears. They predict them. And right now,
1:27.0	humanity is preparing for something that makes sparkly
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