Hello Dear Listeners, We have missed you! To steal a term from one of our favorite authors (Christopher Moore) our day slave lives have been getting us down and keeping us from editing this podcast! But fear not, we are back with a Spooktober appropriate episode. This episode is a throw back to one of our collective favorite movies: 2015's The Witch (or The VVitch) by Robert Eggers. This period piece set in 1600s Puritan America has a little something for everyone. For the devoutly religious, Pu...
Oct 08, 2019•1 hr 20 min•Ep. 34
Hello Dear Listeners, We have been enjoying the wonderful summer weather and doing our best to keep cool! Hopefully you are enjoying the summer sun and staying safe from the things that go bump in the night. And, what makes summer better than a nice song or two? Well this week you are in for a musical treat! Katya and Laramie discuss the one and only Jerry Lee Lewis, AKA The Killer (really this is his nickname), and the many horrible things he has been accused of doing. If you haven't had a chan...
Jul 23, 2019•1 hr 40 min•Ep. 33
Hello Dear Listeners, Summer is in full swing and we are releasing an episode that wasn't recorded this past winter! We hope this episode will keep you creeped out as you travel for your summer fun. Maybe you can bring us with as you visit a ghost town or check out a haunted house. This week Katya and Laramie discuss Stephen King's Salem's Lot, (specifically the 1979 TV miniseries directed by Tobe Hooper). Laramie discusses the horror of vampirism and why Salem's Lot shows us that the sexual app...
Jun 30, 2019•1 hr 23 min•Ep. 32
Hello Dear Listeners, We hope you are having a wonderful start to summer and enjoying the warmth and sun. Cookouts are a wonderful summer tradition and this week we decided to bring you an epicurean focused episode. Gilberto Valle, dubbed the "Cannibal Cop" is a former NYPD officer who was found guilty of conspiracy to commit kidnapping in 2013, and later had his conviction overturned in 2014. Gilberto's charges stemmed from his behavior in online chat rooms regarding fantasy writing involving t...
Jun 17, 2019•1 hr 32 min•Ep. 31
Hello Dear Listeners, If you haven't heard, we're back! The winter/grad school/moving blues got us down for a bit, but we are all sorted out and ready to go. We are bringing you some Christmas in June fun and festivities with this week's topic! Gremlins, released on June 8 1984 and directed by Joe Dante, is this week's topic. To say that this episode is near and dear to Laramie's heart is an understatement. Join us to find out why camp, creep, and consumerism make this the perfect holiday movie ...
Jun 03, 2019•1 hr 16 min•Ep. 30
We're back bitches! Sorry for our long hiatus. If you are curious about what's been happening in our lives give this bumper a quick listen. We've got a new episode for you tonight too! **Clinkies** Katya and Laramie
Jun 03, 2019•2 min
Hello Dear Listeners, Happy New Year, and sorry for the long delay. As many of you know, a lot has been going on in "Scares Us Land". But fear not because we are back and back on track! We missed you all dearly and are sincerely sorry for our absence This week we are bringing and episode back from the dead! Our lost episode on Magdalena Solis, The High Priestess of Blood has new life. Katya and Laramie discuss the terror that is a cult, and the cult of personality that emerged in Yerba Buena in ...
Jan 21, 2019•1 hr 26 min•Ep. 29
Hello Dear Listeners, The week of feasts is upon us and we hope you enjoy this episode as you travel to see family, hunker down in your bunker, or enjoy basking in the glow of your retail therapy. If you need a good read for your holiday time, This Place Scares Us suggests reading The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson. This week's episode is in fact about The Haunting of Hill House which has seen several screen adaptations both in movie form and now as a popular Netflix series. Laramie s...
Nov 20, 2018•1 hr 32 min•Ep. 28
Hello Dear Listeners, We hope you had a spectacular Spooktober, a haunting Halloween, and an amazing All Souls Day! We have been hard at work getting back on our recording schedule after our big life changes. Coming at you this week is the scariest movie we have seen in a good long while. This week's topic is the terrifying 2018 film Hereditary by Ari Aster. Go watch this movie before listening to this week's episode, but find a friend because this is one crazy, scary, disturbing film! Katya and...
Nov 05, 2018•1 hr 30 min•Ep. 27
Hello Dear Listeners, Like a phoenix we have risen from the ashes of moving, learning new technology, and having a generally chaotic two months! But, WE ARE BACK!! This is our first remotely recorded episode and it sounds a bit rough, but we've worked the bugs out and will have another episode out soon. Its Spooktober and you know what that means!? Horror movies!! In this episode Katya and Laramie discuss the 1985 classic Fright Night directed by Tom Holland (not Spiderman Tom Holland). This mov...
Oct 22, 2018•1 hr 41 min•Ep. 26
Hello Dear Listeners, Like all new relationships we are shamelessly celebrating an anniversary this episode. This was our 1 year anniversary episode and is officially episode 25 of This Place Scares Us! We love all our listeners and once life is a bit more settled for us we want to find something other than a sticker to give out to all of you! Now, on to the episode! We are discussing John List who was a horrible murderer. The term family annihilator was developed to describe this monster and we...
Sep 23, 2018•1 hr 20 min•Ep. 25
Hi Dear Listeners, Did you enjoy your Labor Day weekend or were you stuck in a Horror Hotel? Perhaps you visited a City of the Dead (these are all related to the episode I promise)? Whatever you did with your holiday we hope it was a restful and spooky one! This week's episode is the movie Horror Hotel (also known as The City of the Dead). Horror Hotel was released in America in 1963 and chronicles the foggy witchy nightmare that befalls a plucky college student visiting Whitewood Massachusetts....
Sep 09, 2018•1 hr 21 min•Ep. 24
Hi Dear Listeners, We are getting so close to the spooky season and fall time, and today in Montana really feels like the end of summer. Do you believe in aliens dear listeners? Have you had an otherworldly experience? Katya and Laramie discuss the spooky abduction of Travis Walton this week. Much discussion is had on if aliens exist or not, and if aliens actually abduct people. Also, alien fashion and alien measurements are a major topic of interest this episode. Do you believe in Alien Coveral...
Aug 27, 2018•1 hr 31 min•Ep. 23
Hi Dear listeners, Sorry for the delay, but we ran into a technical problem with our microphone during the recording of the actual episode 22. Sadly, episode 22's recording was unusable and will be forever lost. However; we will be re-recording this episode's topic at a later date. For now join us for episode 23 henceforth known as episode 22. And boy if episode 22 isn't a good one! This episode is all about Stephen King's "The Shining", and if you have never read the book take a beat go read it...
Aug 06, 2018•1 hr 35 min•Ep. 22
Hello Dear Listeners, Are you enjoying your summer fun? Have you seen any summer ghosts, or perhaps a warm weather bigfoot cooling off in a stream? We haven't but we're still looking. In between our adventures we're releasing another listener suggested episode (thanks Lindsey C.!!!) that is near and dear to Laramie's cold cold heart. Welcome to our episode on Night of Dark Shadows (NODS)!! Does NODS make sense? Not really! Does it relate to the TV series? Kind of?! We watched House of Dark Shado...
Jul 09, 2018•1 hr 26 min•Ep. 21
Hello Dear Listeners, Sorry for our brief break but we had to go have some summer fun! Fear not! We are back this week with episode 20 and what better way to celebrate this milestone than with a listener suggested topic? Our wonderful listener Joanna suggested this weeks topic, and we LOVE IT!! This week Katya and Laramie discuss the story of the 5 boys who never came back. Much like our Dyatlov Pass episode this story has mountains, tragic deaths, and more theories with no answers than you can ...
Jun 25, 2018•1 hr 23 min•Ep. 20
Hello Dear Listeners, We've received so many wonderful messages from some of you and want to extend our sincere thanks. You are all what make this podcast great! Please continue to write to us and let us know what you think or tell us your spooky stories. We have truly enjoyed our past two episodes sharing scary stories with friends, and discussing a horror classic with The Birds. This weeks episode is much less fun and so very tragic in the way that only true events can be. Join us this week as...
Jun 04, 2018•1 hr 20 min•Ep. 19
Hello Dear Listeners, Sorry for the delay this week! We had many things happening and had some technical challenges. Fear not! We have returned to give you a reason to be afraid, even as we move through spring and into the sunny summer season. Don't you all remember that horror in the daylight is real!? Join Katya and Laramie as they discuss (and sing about) Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds. There is plenty to be afraid of in this one. Creepy movie directors, condescending lawyers, women breaking in...
May 23, 2018•1 hr 23 min•Ep. 17
Clinkies Dear Listeners!! Welcome to the house party episode of This Place Scares Us! We don't know how your life has been, but spring time has been a bit too busy for all of us at TPSU. So we decided to let our amazing hair down and have a house party!! We brought our wonderful friends and family in to the This Place Scares Us Studio to hear their creepy stories. Taylor (yes, the actually famous Taylor), Ryan (our amazing social media manager), Tori (of Silver Bullet Scares Us fame), and Amy an...
May 08, 2018•1 hr 16 min•Ep. 18
Hello Dear Listeners, Are you enjoying the increasing daylight and all of the new life brought by spring? Do you wish things were still dark and spooky? Well fear not because we have a real scare fest for you this episode! We are discussing a truly tragic case of demon possession (!!Warning!! we do play a clip from an actual exorcism in this episode). The case of Anneliese Michel came about at the height of all things possession, The Exorcist, Rosemary's Baby, and The Omen were all released arou...
Apr 23, 2018•1 hr 29 min•Ep. 16
Hi Dear Listeners, We are enjoying the slow transition to spring and are excited to be releasing a new episode to all of you. There have been many changes in our lives and we are excited to share them with you! In this episode Katya and Laramie talk about why werewolves, manitous, and any shape-shifter should scare you. Hybrids are a common theme in horror and there is likely a larger context behind that. Katya and Laramie talk about all of the ways that hybrids show up in the history of horror....
Apr 09, 2018•1 hr 8 min•Ep. 15
Hi Dear Listeners, We hope that things have been going well for you as we leave the doldrums of winter and emerge into spring. We have had a busy couple of weeks here at This Place Scares Us, and honestly our schedules have been scaring us more than anything. But we digress. In this episode Katya and Laramie discuss the sad history of Marcus Wesson and his horrible abuse of everyone in his family. Katya and Laramie bring a lot of humor to an otherwise disturbing topic talking about all of their ...
Mar 26, 2018•1 hr 15 min•Ep. 14
Hi Dear Listeners, We have had a few technical difficulties, and the end of winter was rather crazy for us! Sorry for the delay in getting you such an exciting episode! We will be getting back on our regular schedule and dropping another episode in two weeks! In this episode we discuss all things Frankenstein! Laramie published a play called Frankenstein Among the Dead (available for purchase at www.theaterfolk.com ), and we watched The Bride of Frankenstein to have all the Frankenstein goodness...
Mar 12, 2018•1 hr 20 min•Ep. 13
Hi Dear Listeners, Has the first month of the new year been all you wanted it to be? Valentine's day is just around the corner and we decided to a share a tale of sisterly love tainted by the horrors of the world for this week's episode! Join Katya and Laramie as they discuss the sadness that was the relationship of the Gibbons twins. A truly Gothic tale tainted by the prejudice of people and the sadness that is poorly treated mental illness. Also, learn about Laramie's new play (more on this co...
Feb 12, 2018•1 hr 18 min•Ep. 12
Hello Dear Listeners, We hope you enjoyed our two part episode for episode 10! This week we are discussing the movie Suspiria. Released in 1977, Suspiria was directed by Dario Argento, and is the scariest movie that (maybe) shouldn't be scary. Katya and Laramie talk all about how the inexplicable story of witches, ballerinas, and a ballet academy in the Black Forest of Germany create a story that will make your skin crawl. The use of sound, color, and fairy tale like story all play a part in thi...
Jan 29, 2018•1 hr 13 min•Ep. 11
Hi Dear Listeners, Welcome to part 2 of episode 10! If you didn't have a chance, go check out episode 10 part 1. So, enjoy episode 10 part 2 where we discuss all our thoughts, theories, and ideas about what happened at the Dyatlov Pass. Katya had so many answers and so much answer face for this part of the episode its pretty unreal. Aliens, avalanches, yetis, government conspiracies!? Plus, Davey talks about radioactivity and isotopes (science). We change our minds all the time about what happen...
Jan 15, 2018•41 min•Ep. 10
Hi Dear Listeners, Happy New Year, and thank you for joining us again! We are releasing our 10th episode and couldn't be more excited. This is by far the scariest episode we have ever done, and because it is so scary it is in two parts! Fear not, though because we will be releasing part two in a week. The Dyatlov Pass Incident is this week's topic and is it ever weird. We run you through all of the things you need to know about one of the strangest happenings in modern history. Missing tongues, ...
Jan 08, 2018•1 hr 6 min•Ep. 10
Hi Dear Listeners, We hope you had a wonderful and festive holiday! We spent our holiday fighting technical difficulties, but creepy Krampus brought us a sack full of tech support gore and our episode is finally released. This week we discuss The Tales From The Crypt Series and all of its glory. Be warned this is a bit of non-scary episode, but the story of the rise and fall of this beloved franchise should scare us all! In this episode we talk about possible poorly constructed murder plots, mem...
Dec 28, 2017•1 hr 12 min•Ep. 9
Hello Dear listeners, Welcome to a truly terrifying episode of This Place Scares Us! This week we are discussing the horrible phenomenon that was "Strip Search Phone Scams". Were you alive for the eras of phone cards, star 6-9, and calling collect? If you weren't you get to learn lots, if you were then enjoy a trip into nostalgia. So come learn why picking up the phone may be a scary thing to do! Also, we shout out some of our wonderful listeners! CommaSplice, Tori, and a wonderful reviewer on i...
Dec 11, 2017•1 hr 23 min•Ep. 8
Hello dear listeners, We hope you survived the Thanksgiving holiday and we are so glad you can join us for episode seven of This Place Scares Us! Tonight we discuss why The House of Dark Shadows scares us. We really jump out of the frying pan and into the FRYER in this episode! House of Dark Shadows is near and dear to Laramie’s heart and now you can learn why you should love it too! Werewolves, vampires, and a human pheonix (?!) really add to the drama of Dark Shadows. So take a trip back in ti...
Nov 27, 2017•1 hr 13 min•Ep. 7
