Paranormal Pajama Party

About Paranormal Pajama Party

Isn't it weird how often the horrors in our favourite scary stories tend to look a lot like, uh… ladies? Join me as I dig up the social and cultural contexts behind classic ghost stories and legends to challenge the often one-dimensional portrayal of women in horror.

Publisher

Steph Summar

Category

science · society & culture · society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

Yes

First episode

15 Jan 2024

Latest episode

31 Aug 2025

Latest episodes

42 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   31 Aug 2025

   Mermaids, Part 2: From Killers to Disney Princesses

   Send me a text message! For thousands of years, mermaids were apex predators whose voices could kill. Then somewhere between Homer's bone-littered shores and Disney's underwater utopia, something fundamental changed. How did creatures who used their voices as weapons become princesses who'd sacrifice that voice for a boyfriend? In this second part of our mermaid deep-dive (pardon the pun), we trace the evolution from ancient sirens to modern Disney princesses, exploring how Christianity sexua...

2. 

   17 Aug 2025

   Mermaids, Part 1: The Indifferent Deep

   Send me a text message! A Scottish lord hears a woman drowning in his loch. Every instinct tells him to dive in and save her. But his servant grabs his arm: "My lord, that's no woman." This is the mermaid most of human history has feared – not Disney's lovestruck princess, but something far more alien and dangerous. What's truly wild is how universal these stories are. From Brazil's Iara to Japan's Ningyo, from Scotland's selkies to Africa's Mami Wata, cultures worldwide independently created...

3. 

   15 Jun 2025

   The Women of “Dracula”, Part 2: Patriarchy Bites

   The Paranormal Pajama Party podcast analyzes Bram Stoker's "Dracula," dissecting the novel's portrayal of female power, sexuality, and Victorian anxieties surrounding fragile masculinity.

Reach and audience

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YouTube views

8,558

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

2 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

7 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 56 / 100

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Quality

71

Social presence

0

YouTube

68

Engagement

32

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