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After a year podcasting on ORIGINS, we introduce Season 2: Chapter 1 featuring an interview with Director Ryan Bellgardt to discuss his new film The Jurassic Games where death row inmates fight for their lives in a televised game. Plus, a look into gaming urban legends and other freaky supernatural stuff on the internet. Support: www.patreon.com/thewriteengle | Show Notes: www.podcastorigins.com | Music by www.freemusicarchive.org | Purchase the story from The Toilet Papers | Watch the Trailer

People joke about religious advocates or salespeople knocking on their door and how it isn’t safe to open yourself up to them. What if the door-knocker was a lost child? What if the lost child had soulless black eyes? Chapter 26 of ORIGINS dives into the urban legend of the Black-Eyed Children. Support: www.patreon.com/thewriteengle | Show Notes: www.podcastorigins.com | Music by www.extrememusic.com | Purchase the story from The Toilet Papers

Is there a world within this world? Do multiple dimensions really exist? Chapter 25 of ORIGINS explores the multiverse concept and the upside-down as made famous by Stranger Things. Support: www.patreon.com/thewriteengle | Show Notes: www.podcastorigins.com | Music by www.bensound.com | Purchase the story from The Toilet Papers

What happens when the villain becomes the hero? In chapter 24 of ORIGINS we explore the ORIGINS of a Death Saint of criminals, drug lords, and the Day of the Dead, abolished by the Vatican, known as Santa Muerte. Support: www.patreon.com/thewriteengle | Show Notes: www.podcastorigins.com | Music by www.bensound.com | Purchase the story from The Toilet Papers

What happens when you put good people in evil situations? Is it possible that humanity will trump evil or will evil ultimately win? In 1971, an experiment took place beneath a university to answer those questions. Chapter 23 of ORIGINS explores the Stanford Prison Experiment. Support: www.patreon.com/thewriteengle | Show Notes: www.podcastorigins.com | Music by www.bensound.com | Purchase The Dredge

What would you think if a group of people suddenly began to dance in droves all around you? Today, the world would call that a flash mob and think nothing of it. In the Middle Ages, it would’ve most likely been considered the result of witchcraft, though in some cases it was attributed to plague. On chapter 22 of ORIGINS, we look into St. Vitus’s Dance and other weird plagues. Support: www.patreon.com/thewriteengle | Show Notes: www.podcastorigins.com | Music by www.bensound.com | Purchase the story from The Toilet Papers

"Et tu, Brute," is one of those phrases we know, even if we don't know why. Another one is "Beware the Ides of March." What is the Ides of March and why should we beware it? In Chapter 21 of ORIGINS, we take a look at the what, why, and how behind this famous March phrase. Support: www.patreon.com/thewriteengle | Show Notes: www.podcastorigins.com | Music by www.freestockmusic.com | Purchase the story from The Toilet Papers

We all have one, that crazy uncle that is always teetering on the edge of remaining a part of the family. What if he left, or worse, what if he were to shapeshift into a monstrous creature that couldn't fit around the Sunday dinner table? In this chapter of ORIGINS, meet everyone's crazy uncle, Uncle Monday. Support: www.patreon.com/thewriteengle | Show Notes: www.podcastorigins.com | Music by www.freemusicarchive.org | Purchase the story from The Toilet Papers

Puppet shows are generally created for an audience of children. One classic form of puppetry made famous during the Renaissance would definitely receive an R rating in today’s world. In this chapter of ORIGINS, I look into the history, comedy, and popularity of a puppet show that glorifies infidelity, murder, and insanity. Support: www.patreon.com/thewriteengle | Show Notes: www.podcastorigins.com | Music by www.freemusicarchive.org | Purchase the story from The Toilet Papers

What would you think if Christmas wasn’t really about Jesus’ birth or Santa Claus? You’d probably be curious enough to learn more. In this chapter of ORIGINS, we take a look at the true history of Christmas, Santa Claus, and the birth of our Savior, Jesus Christ. Support: www.patreon.com/thewriteengle | Show Notes: www.podcastorigins.com | Music by www.freemusicarchive.org | Purchase the story from The Toilet Papers

What happens when coal isn't bad enough for a naughty boy or girl? In this chapter of ORIGINS, we look at Krampus the Christmas Devil and other dark figures from Germanic European lore.  Support: www.patreon.com/thewriteengle | Show Notes: www.podcastorigins.com | Music by www.freemusicarchive.org | Purchase the story from The Toilet Papers

Thanksgiving is just a few days away. This chapter of ORIGINS looks into superstitions surrounding the holiday, such as breaking the wishbone, and dives deeper into some "fowl" play involving mystic chickens and an uprising of Walking Dead Turkeys. Butter your biscuits for Chapter 16! Support: www.patreon.com/thewriteengle | Show Notes: www.podcastorigins.com | Music by www.freemusicarchive.org | Purchase the story from The Toilet Papers

Netflix's Stranger Things has brought back the look and feel of the classic 1980s style storytelling. From ET to Goonies, and everything in between, this chapter of ORIGINS looks deeper into those iconic 80s monsters, the Gremlins. Support: www.patreon.com/thewriteengle Show Notes: www.podcastorigins.com Music by www.freemusicarchive.org Purchase the story from The Toilet Papers HERE.

Want revenge? Why not make a doll in the image of the one you're after? In this chapter of ORIGINS, we poke around with the roots of Voudon and Voodoo Dolls. With a special reading of Kate Wars's short story at the end. Support: patreon.com/thewriteengle Show Notes: podcastorigins.com Music: bensoundcom

Pots of gold and four-leaf clovers, rainbows and little men in green. In this chapter of ORIGINS, learn the story behind the guard at the rainbow's end: the Leprechaun. Support: patreon.com/thewriteengle Show Notes: www.podcastorigins.com Music by: Ben Sound at www.bensound.com & Music from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston www.musopen.org

Even candy-coated, chocolate dipped bunnies and marshmallow chicks have ORIGINS that are not as sweet as they would like you to believe. In this podcast, discover the lore and history behind Easter and Child Sacrifice. It's dark like chocolate, but bittersweet. Support: patreon.com/thewriteengle Show Notes: www.podcastorigins.com Music by: Ben Sound at www.bensound.com

Magic words once harnessed power. Today, they are used by magicians to set the mood. In this chapter of ORIGINS, discover the roots of Abracadabra, Hocus Pocus and more. Support: patreon.com/thewriteengle Show Notes: www.podcastorigins.com Music by: Johann Jacob Froberger at www.musopen.org

Whether fact or fiction, there are a few men that we have grown to love. In this chapter of ORIGINS, we look at some favorites: Slender Man, Mothman, and the ever present Boogey Man. Show Notes: www.podcastORIGINS.com Music by: Nicolaus Bruhns at www.musopen.org

We love monsters. The classics, the new favorites, even those still locked in our closets or hiding beneath our beds. Why this infatuation? What is it about monsters that makes us seek them out to prove they exist? In this chapter of ORIGINS we scrape the tip of the iceberg about the monsters we fan over and why. Show Notes: www.podcastORIGINS.com Music by: Baldassaro Galuppi at www.musopen.org

In this chapter of ORIGINS, look into the theories of time travel, parallel universe, and space-time fabrics through the eyes of science and individuals who claim to have experienced alternate time lines. Is time travel possible or are we at Time's mercy? Show Notes: www.podcastORIGINS.com Music by Ferruccio Busoni at www.musopen.org