Every week, join Jessica on a curious dive into the unexpected corners of history, pop culture, and those niche rabbit holes you never knew you needed. From forgotten scandals that shaped the world, to the bizarre origins of everyday trends, to cult classics and cultural quirks, no two episodes are ever the same.
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This week, we’re going back to the roots of I Promise I Am Not Crazy — history, mythology, monsters, and me asking far too many questions about all of it.
Because yes, female monsters are terrifying...
But what can they tell us about the societies that imagined them?
This Sunday, we’re travelling from the ancient cities of Mesopotamia to the myths of Greece and the snowy landscapes of Japan to meet:
LAMASHTU — an ancient Mesopotamian figure feared as a threat to pregnant women, mothers and infants.
LAMIA — a queen transformed by loss into one of Greek tradition’s most enduring monsters.
YUKI-ONNA — Japan’s mysterious Snow Woman: beautiful, deadly, and far more complicated than a simple villain.
Three cultures. Thousands of years of storytelling. And three very different monsters shaped by fears of loss, grief, nature, death and the unknown.
Because monsters don’t just tell us what people feared.
Sometimes, they tell us something about the people doing the fearing.