The Mother of Science Fiction: Inventing Frankenstein

National Park After Dark

Danielle LaRock & Cassandra Yahnian

True Crime, Places & Travel, History, Society & Culture

4.6 • 5.8K Ratings

🗓️ 21 July 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

This week NPAD is on vacation, but as a special treat, we wanted to share an episode of our other podcast, Watch Her Cook, with you. This episode has a few surprising NPAD tie ins, and we are so excited to share it with you all. We will be back to our regularly scheduled National Parks programing next week! - Cassie and Danielle What began as a vivid dream on a stormy night during the “Year Without a Summer,” after a round of German ghost stories by the fire, would go on to spark the birth of science fiction. In this episode, we will explore Mary Shelley’s journey from her childhood to becoming the author of Frankenstein, and how her imagination–and pain–brought a creature to life that still resonates with us so deeply today. Listen to Watch Her Cook on Apple and Spotify! Follow us on InstagramFor the latest NPAD updates, group travel details, merch and more, follow us on npadpodcast.com and our socials at: Instagram: @nationalparkafterdarkTikTok: @nationalparkafterdark Support the show by becoming an Outsider and receive ad free listening, bonus content and more on Patreon or Apple Podcasts. Want to see our faces? Catch full episodes on our YouTube Page! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello, everyone.
0:04.0	Hello, everyone. Surprise. It's our week off, but we're still here.
0:25.1	Surprise, surprise. No sleep for the wicked. Is that the saying?
0:30.1	Or no, rest. No rest. Ain't no rest for the wicked. We took the week off. I think we announced it on the last podcast, but we're here.
0:38.4	Just to remind you that we took the week off, but also because if you're missing us, we have a lot of,
0:44.8	we have a lot of options for you. Yeah. So I was just kind of scrolling through. So I don't know if we
0:50.9	announced it on the last episode or not, but we are just getting back from a
0:56.7	massive trip. I mean, Cassie's been gone for a month. I've been gone for three weeks. We have
1:02.1	been all over the place internationally for you. Both of us have been, we just went to glacier.
1:08.3	We did a bunch of Colorado parks with a national park after a dark group trip. We've been here, there, and everywhere. So we're trying to glacier. We did a bunch of Colorado parks with a National Park after a dark
1:11.9	group trip. We've been here, there, and everywhere. So we're trying to recoup. But if you're
1:17.1	missing an episode this week and you're like, God, I just really wish I had Cassie and Danielle in my
1:23.0	life. We have options for you. And I was just kind of going through some suggestions of episodes,
1:29.9	because we get so many emails all the time of like, have you covered this? You should cover this.
1:34.5	And there are great suggestions, but a lot of the times we've already done them. So I was just
1:40.0	scrolling back in our catalog, being like, okay, what are some maybe summer themed ones or ones
1:45.3	that are our favorites? And of course, at first, we were just in Glacier. So I was like, what have we
1:52.7	done in Glacier for an episode for National Park After Dark? And of course, Night of the Grizzlies,
1:57.2	the two-parter that you did, massively popular. Those are episode 17 and 18.
2:01.9	So if you haven't been scarred yet, you can go over there and listen. Go get traumatized.
2:06.7	And then the other one, you've done all our Glacier episodes. The only other one we have,
2:11.8	at least in our main feed, is episode 276. And it's a true crime themed episode.
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