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Coast to Coast - July 11 2017 - Cults & Extreme Feats - Zombie Subculture
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DATE: Tuesday - July 11, 2017
HOST: George Noory
GUESTS: Scott Carney, Jonathan Maberry
Investigative journalist and anthropologist Scott Carney has worked in some of
the most dangerous and unlikely corners of the world. In the the first half, he
talked about his explorations into cult psychology, and human organ trafficking
in India, as well as the science that allows humans to push past their perceived
limitations, achieve incredible feats, and endure extreme conditions. While
directing a seven-day Buddhist meditation retreat in India, that included
contemplating what it means to die, one of Carney's students, Emily O'Connor,
ended up committing suicide on the last night of the program. In her journal,
she wrote "I am a Bodhisattva," and she thought all she had to do was leave her
body to become an enlightened being.
In the aftermath, in which various factions were clamoring for different parts
of Emily's body, Carney was led down a twisted investigative journalism path,
discovering "hundreds of people, buying and selling human body parts in India,
whether it's skeletons, bones or kidneys." Subsequently, he investigated a cult
in Arizona called Diamond Mountain, where the death of Ian Thorson, echoed some
aspects of O'Connor's suicide and brought to light connections between intensive
meditation and possible mental instability. He also detailed his most recent
journalistic foray-- studying with Dutch fitness guru, Wim Hof, and learning to
control his body temperature in extreme cold, culminating in a trek up snowy Mt.
Kilimanjaro clad in nothing but a pair of shorts and sneakers.
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In the latter half, author, comic book writer, playwright, and writing
teacher/lecturer, Jonathan Maberry discussed the movie that started the zombie
craze, zombie subculture, folklore, monsters, Wolfman and more. When George
Romero created his influential 1968 film "Night of the Living Dead" he had
initially wanted to make "I am Legend," Richard Matheson's vampire apocalypse
story, but the rights weren't available. Thus, he riffed on some of Matheson's
ideas and changed the vampires into flesh eating ghouls, Maberry revealed.
Romero recently collaborated with Maberry on a new anthology book, featuring
stories that are set within a 48-hour period of when the original Night of the
Living Dead took place, centered around a zombie outbreak at a farmhouse.
Zombies are a great set-up to a story, Maberry pointed out. Though they present
a dire threat, the plot generally revolves around people in crisis rather than
the zombies, such as in the hugely successful TV series, The Walking Dead. There
are legends of flesh eating monsters in various cultures, he cited, such as the
"draugr" in Scandinavia, a sort of ghost/zombie/vampire mix, as well as a flesh
eating demon from the Middle East. Overall, there's been a great resurgence in
horror writing, as well as horror-themed films, TV shows, and games, and Maberry
attributes some of the rise in popularity to social media and people sharing
their interests and enthusiasms online.
News segment guests: Jerome Corsi, Robert Zimmerman
WEBSITE(S):
scottcarney.com
jonathanmaberry.com
BOOK(S):
A Death on Diamond Mountain
The Red Market
Nights of the Living Dead: An Anthology
Zombie CSU: The Forensics of the Living Dead
The Wolfman
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