Super Scary Haunted Homeschool

The party's over! The decline and fall of haunted houses has arrived.  After the First Great Ghost Boom ended, scams, hoaxes, and ouija boards telling people to kill made it all a bit seedy, and people stopped believing in the supernatural. However, a few self-proclaimed "ghost hunters" turned haunted houses into mainstream entertainment, and few did it better than Harry Price. Join...

In episode 4 of the world's spookiest spooky podcast the time has come to discuss your tables, chairs, knick knacks, jewels and why they're haunted. Because everything is haunted and if you don't believe that then you're lying. Includes real talk about ghosts unionizing, Terence Conran, yellow wallpaper, screaming skulls, morbid architects and their terrible sons. This episode...

The world's spookiest spooky history podcast reaches episode 3 and that means it's time to tackle that most haunted time of the year: Christmas! Ever since Shakespeare, Christmas has been all about ghost stories, but why? We'll tell you! Let's dive into the middle of the 19th century and learn about seasonal spirits and the first Great Ghost Boom.(Featuring far fewer mentions o...

The world's spookiest spooky history podcast is still talking about haunted houses! When did houses get so scary? And why is everything so totally gothic, all the time? Let's go on a haunted hayride and learn about 18th century architecture, giant helmets, Irish manor houses, and hermaphroditic horses in the second episode of Super Scary Haunted Homeschool, Season 2! This episode was cre...

Season 2 of the world's spookiest spooky history podcast begins! This time we're talking about Haunted Houses! But before we can bust ghosts we all have to agree on what ghosts are in the first place: solid air? Hallucinations? Transparent dead people? Catholics? Who Ghost? Why Ghost? How Ghost? When Ghost? Such question! But we have answers! So let's finally learn: What Ghost? This...

Season 1 ends as we reach...The TWILIGHT of the Vampires! Join us at this terminal moment as vampires achieve their sexiest, most sparkly form and consciously uncouple from disease forever. Who is hottest: vampire or werewolf? And why was everyone wrong about Twilight? Prepare to declare your allegiance: Team Edward or Team Jacob? This episode was created and recorded by bestselling author, Grady...

Vampire evolution ground to a standstill in the '80s, then a woman appeared who completely changed everything we thought about vampires. With the power of her pen, she made vampires less about disease, and more about sex. Today, every vampire lives in the shadow of our Queen of the Damned, Anne Rice. This episode was created and recorded by bestselling author, Grady Hendrix , Chris LaMartina...

Three of the most important vampires of the '70s were Black, and here they are in all their glory. Black vampires have been an important part of the canon all the way back to the beginning, and this is just a part of their stories. Also, a lot of the music in this episode is by the inimitable Sam Waymon . Used with his permission. You can find more of his music here . This episode was created...

As the '70s began, motion picture vampires were d-e-a-d dead. How would they survive the disco decade? By moving to the small screen, starring on Broadway, and trying to be funny. In the process, they fulfilled their true destiny and finally became romantic heroes. This episode was created and recorded by bestselling author, Grady Hendrix , Chris LaMartina of The WNUF Halloween Special , and...

We're back! Welcome to the House of Hammer! This tiny British film studio resurrected Dracula in 1958 and gave movies the most iconic image of the vampire since Bela Lugosi in 1931! There's also a lots of talk about the menace of dope and the illegal international vampire trafficking business.  This episode marks the podcast's RETURN after a two-year break. It now has professional t...

We're going to the movies! Three vampire movies planted the seeds for the 20th century's gallery of glampires and we'll tackle them all in this episode. It's time for some nookie with Nosferatu , drama with Dracula , and cold vampin' with Vampyr . Bestselling author, Grady Hendrix , continues his history of vampirism and to make his argument he throws in plain talk about s...

Dear Mr. Vernon, we accept the fact that we had to sacrifice a whole Saturday in detention for whatever it is we did wrong, but we think you're crazy for making us write an essay  debunking the legends of notorious real-life vampires, Vlad the Impaler and Elizabeth Bathory. Who turn out to have nothing to do with vampires after all. Saturday Schools are special, shorter episodes of SSHH that...

It's a monster-sized marathon of mayhem as Super Scary Haunted Homeschool finally tackles Dracula ! Also, emotional vampires, feminism, Baby Mozart, sapphic bloodsuckers, the prom king and queen of Vampire High School, and why tall people are degenerates. Except for George Washington. Award-winning author, Grady Hendrix , takes you on an educational and emotional (edumotional?) journey to the...

Dear Mr. Vernon, we accept the fact that we had to sacrifice a whole Saturday in detention for whatever it is we did wrong, but we think you're crazy for making us write an essay telling you about the world's two first, most ancient vampires.  Saturday Schools are special, shorter episodes of SSHH that focus in excruciating detail on one particular facet of vampire lore.

In episode two of Super Scary Haunted Homeschool we continue our coursework on VAMPIRES!!!! Will the suffering never stop? In this episode, we discuss almost 200 years of Vampire History, from the very first vampire on record (1725) to the last filthy bloodsucker dug up and crushed like a tick (1893), we're there every horrible step of the way with brief stops to visit Karl Marx, Vlad the Imp...

Dear Mr. Vernon, we accept the fact that we had to sacrifice a whole Saturday in detention for whatever it is we did wrong, but we think you're crazy for making us write an essay telling you about China's hopping vampires. Fortunately, we listened to the very first Saturday School episode of Super Scary Haunted Homeschool so we knew all the answers.  Saturday Schools are special, shorter...

It's the very first episode of Super Scary Haunted Homeschool and Season One is all about VAMPIRES!!!! In this first lesson, we sit down and discuss Vampire Geography. What horrible vampires come from which terrible countries? Geographic information comes courtesy of Mrs. Favell Lee Mortimer, the 19th century's worst and yet most popular travel book writer, and all the ridiculous yet tru...