Happy New Fear!

Today on the show, HAPPY NEW FEAR! Let’s discover fears you didn’t even know you had with some horrifying creatures! Take a one way trip to decapitation station, check out some very creepy babies, and endure the existential crisis after finding out when a butt is NOT a butt. Discover this and more as we answer the age-old question, is 80 worms too many worms to have inside of you? With special guests Tess Lynch, Molly Lambert, and Emily Yoshida of the Night Call Podcast.

CONTENT WARNING: the trypophobia section starts at 00:42:55 and ends at 00:55:47

Footnotes:

1. The ant-head bursting fly, Euryplatea nanaknihali
2. Another fly that decapitates ants
3. Ants who decorate their homes with the heads of their enemies
4. Ant who pretends to be a butt
5. Study on Antman & Spiderman helping phobias
6. Margays imitate baby tamarins
7. Cats mimic the cry of babies
8. WARNING: CATERPILLAR BODY HORROR. Glyptapanteles wasp larvae bursting from a parasitized caterpillar.
9. Audubon Society's "When Is a Bird a ‘Birb’? An Extremely Important Guide"
10. Creature FEET pod twitter
11. Margay used in episode image
12. Pied tamarin used in episode image

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