{"podcast":{"title":"The Strange and Unusual Podcast","slug":"the-strange-and-unusual-podcast-879598","podcast_index_feed_id":879598,"rss_url":"https://feeds.simplecast.com/9ABWT3pm","website_url":"https://the-strange-and-unusual-podcast.simplecast.com","image_url":"https://image.simplecastcdn.com/images/3c9c3c2a-a53f-40bd-9d24-bdb387b03fb1/df2245c4-7799-4186-bb52-3922c095ccde/3000x3000/sxm-cover-morbid-strange-and-unusual-3000x3000-final.jpg?aid=rss_feed","author":"Alyson Horrocks | Morbid Network","episode_count":125,"summary":"The unknown. It lies at the root of all fear, and has inspired legends, superstition, folklore, customs, hysteria, and even murder throughout history. Still today we feel the shadowy presence of our ancestors' struggles to explain the mysterious in almost every facet of our lives. Whether it be in the form of religion, urban legends, pop culture, ghost stories, superstitious rituals, and so much more we are still just fighting to keep our monsters in the dark. Welcome to The Strange and Unusual Podcast.","last_synced_at":null,"page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-strange-and-unusual-podcast-879598"},"episode":{"title":"Shadows of Immortality: Vampires from Folklore to Pop Culture","slug":"shadows-of-immortality-vampires-from-folklore-to-pop-culture","published_at":"2025-09-22T07:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-strange-and-unusual-podcast-879598/shadows-of-immortality-vampires-from-folklore-to-pop-culture","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-strange-and-unusual-podcast-879598","url":"https://the-strange-and-unusual-podcast.simplecast.com/episodes/shadows-of-immortality-vampires-from-folklore-to-pop-culture-nyHzMHDR","audio_url":"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/stitcher.simplecastaudio.com/633f5501-1981-4880-943c-f8e8e4168569/episodes/32e3e16c-a216-41f5-aa8a-76a399e681c4/audio/128/default.mp3?aid=rss_feed&awCollectionId=633f5501-1981-4880-943c-f8e8e4168569&awEpisodeId=32e3e16c-a216-41f5-aa8a-76a399e681c4&feed=9ABWT3pm","summary":"On this episode we trace the vampire’s long, shadowy journey, from 18th-century graveyard panics and Slavic strigoi to the seductive aristocrats of Gothic fiction and the conflicted immortals of modern pop culture. We also will go into how the myth evolves on screen, from Nosferatu and Bela Lugosi to Anne Rice, Buffy, and beyond. We explore why the vampire keeps returning to embody everything we fear (and secretly crave): mortality, contagion, seduction, power, and immortality.","meta_description":"On this episode we trace the vampire’s long, shadowy journey, from 18th-century graveyard panics and Slavic strigoi to the seductive aristocrats of Gothic…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3976,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-strange-and-unusual-podcast-879598/episodes/shadows-of-immortality-vampires-from-folklore-to-pop-culture/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-strange-and-unusual-podcast-879598/shadows-of-immortality-vampires-from-folklore-to-pop-culture.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}