225 – Evil: From Serial Killers to Slenderman
This weekend we did our first live podcast from a convention! Allison from Milwaukee Ghosts , Scott from WhatsYourGhostStory.com , Wendy, and I did a panel on EVIL at Wizard World Madison and it was a fantastic experience. Here’s how they described the panel in the literature:
From urban legends to comic books to true crime, evil permeates our pop culture. Hear about real cases of evil and how they influenced movies and TV with Madison haunted historian Mike Huberty, Milwaukee paranormal researcher Allison Jornlin, Waukesha Ghost tour guide Wendy Lynn Staats, and Chicago ghost story author, Scott Markus. From Ed Gein and Psycho to John Wayne Gacy and evil clowns, the Slenderman to famous demonic possessions, the crew behind Wisconsin paranormal and pop culture podcast, See You On The Other Side, discuss the real life evils hiding under the fiction.
So, we each took a topic that had a Wisconsin connection (since we were in Madison) of evil in real life that had paranormal implications and also had a ton of pop culture connections.
- Occult Rituals / Serial Killer – Jeffrey Dahmer
- Demonic possession / Mental Illness – Father Theophilus Riesinger, Wisconsin’s exorcist!
- Calling Spirits / Death by misadventure – The La Crosse Drownings
- To do the bidding of an evil master / Bullying – The Slenderman Stabbings
It was a great crowd and a lot of fun and if we met you at the convention, then thanks for coming to visit us at See You On The Other Side for the first time!
Evil often hides in the form of good intentions. For the song this week, we go back to this worn-out, but still valuable quote:
He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And when you gaze long into an abyss the abyss also gazes into you.
Nietzche, Beyond Good and Evil
The mantra of revolution is often that once a few “necessary evils” are taken care of, they can stop and that the ends will justify the means. Whether it’s the French Revolution or the Bolsheviks, history hasn’t borne that out. Meet the new boss, same as the old boss. Here is Sunspot with “Evil On Evil”.
You want the power
but they won’t go without a fight
you said you’re gonna drain the swamp
this time you’ll do it right
you said you want justice
no one said it’d be bloodless
it’s time, the heads will roll
ain’t that how it always goes
Fire with fire, you gotta be lethal
it’s just evil on evil
Drag em through the eye of a needle
now you’re evil on evil
Tie up the noose
payback’s a bitch
fail the purity test
we’ll burn the witch.
you said you want justice
no one said it’d be bloodless
it’s time, the heads will roll
ain’t that how it always goes
Fire with fire, you gotta be lethal
it’s just evil on evil
Drag em through the eye of a needle
now you’re evil on evil
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