Psychology of the Strange
Hosted by Tara Perreault · Tara Perreault
5.0from 35 ratings
- 54
- Episodes
- 10
- Transcribed
- 35
- Ratings
- Weekly
- Cadence
- 2023
- First episode
About Psychology of the Strange
Folklore. Fear. Dark Psychology. Psychology of the Strange is a narrative psychology podcast that explores the eerie, the uncanny, and the deeply human. Every episode begins with an original atmospheric story rooted in dark folklore, superstition, or real events and then shifts into a psychological analysis that unpacks why these tales grip the human mind. From winter-born omens and skeletal visitors to fearlessness, moral ambiguity, and the monsters we create to explain uncertainty, this show lives in the spaces where folklore and psychology overlap. If you like stories that linger… and explanations that cut deeper… you’re in the right place. ABOUT THE HOST Hosted by Tara Perreault, a doctoral student in psychology at the University of South Florida. Her research focuses on the darker edges of human nature: fearlessness, Dark Triad traits, moral ambiguity, recreational fear, and the meanings people draw from the strange and the supernatural. Tara blends academic insight with myth, atmosphere, and psychological storytelling. Her approach is part folklore study, part dark psychology, part narrative experiment. She has presented research at multiple conferences, published empirical work, and spent years studying how people make sense of fear — in haunted houses, on screen, and in the stories we pass down through generations. Psychology of the Strange is her creative extension of that work: a place where the uncanny becomes meaningful, and where every monster is really a metaphor for something we haven’t faced yet. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy (https://acast.com/privacy) for more information.
- Publisher
- Tara Perreault
- Category
- history · science · society & culture
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 7 Aug 2023
- Latest episode
- 25 Aug 2026
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Voodoo Death And The Question Of Whether Belief Can Kill You
Published 25 Aug 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] A tradition of root work and conjure with its complete own history. Every published account calls the man who met him at the cemetery a witch doctor. which is the language of the people writing it down. So let's set the anthropology aside and look at the meat and bones of this. Most people know about the placebo effect. Take an inert pill, believe it's medicine, and measurable things happen. Pain drops, symptoms ease, patience... Start feeling better. The effects show up in brain imaging. It recruits the body's own opioid system. And it is reliable enough that every drug trial in the world has to be designed around it. […]
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