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1273 INFECTUS: The 5,000-Year Virus of Evil

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EP. #1273 INFECTUS: The 5,000-Year Virus of Evil

Evil isn’t a monster—it’s a virus. In Infectus: Bedtime Stories of Horror, Todd C. Elliott traces one demonic contagion from the first sitar on the Ganges to Beatlemania’s scream. Thirteen linked tales reveal how humanity’s greatest inventions—music, empire, religion, pop culture—mutated the infection, not destroyed it. From colonial vampires to undead children, the parasite wears civilization’s face. On Strange Planet, Elliott exposes the dark thread stitching history’s nightmares: progress is just the curse evolving. Is mass media the final host? And if innocence is Patient Zero, what’s the cure for a pandemic older than time?

GUEST: Louisiana-born gothic maestro Todd C. Elliott crafts nightmares where history bleeds into myth. Author of Infectus: Bedtime Stories of Horror—a 5,000-year anthology of demonic contagion—he’s compared to King, Lovecraft, and Rice, yet his humid, cinematic voice is singularly his. His nonfiction bombshells, A Rose By Many Other Names (JFK’s overlooked witness) and Axes of Evil (the Ax-Man murders), unearth real conspiracies that mirror his fiction’s unseen hand. Elliott doesn’t scare with ghosts; he infects with the truth that civilization itself may be the monster.

LINKS:

https://www.facebook.com/todd.elliott.71/

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Infectus: Bedtime Stories Of Horror

A Rose by Many Other Names: Rose Cherami & the JFK Assassination

Axes of Evil: The True Story of the Ax-Man Murders

The Lowerline

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FOLLOW RICHARD

Website: https://www.strangeplanet.ca

YouTube: @strangeplanetradio

Instagram: @richardsyrettstrangeplanet

TikTok: @therealstrangeplanet

EP. #1273 INFECTUS: The 5,000-Year Virus of Evil

Evil isn’t a monster—it’s a virus. In Infectus: Bedtime Stories of Horror, Todd C. Elliott traces one demonic contagion from the first sitar on the Ganges to Beatlemania’s scream. Thirteen linked tales reveal how humanity’s greatest inventions—music, empire, religion, pop culture—mutated the infection, not destroyed it. From colonial vampires to undead children, the parasite wears civilization’s face. On Strange Planet, Elliott exposes the dark thread stitching history’s nightmares: progress is just the curse evolving. Is mass media the final host? And if innocence is Patient Zero, what’s the cure for a pandemic older than time?

GUEST: Louisiana-born gothic maestro Todd C. Elliott crafts nightmares where history bleeds into myth. Author of Infectus: Bedtime Stories of Horror—a 5,000-year anthology of demonic contagion—he’s compared to King, Lovecraft, and Rice, yet his humid, cinematic voice is singularly his. His nonfiction bombshells, A Rose By Many Other Names (JFK’s overlooked witness) and Axes of Evil (the Ax-Man murders), unearth real conspiracies that mirror his fiction’s unseen hand. Elliott doesn’t scare with ghosts; he infects with the truth that civilization itself may be the monster.

LINKS:

https://www.facebook.com/todd.elliott.71/

BOOKS:

Infectus: Bedtime Stories Of Horror

A Rose by Many Other Names: Rose Cherami & the JFK Assassination

Axes of Evil: The True Story of the Ax-Man Murders

The Lowerline

SUPPORT OUR SPONSORS!!!

FOUND – Smarter banking for your business

Take back control of your business today. Open a Found account for FREE at Found dot com. That’s F-O-U-N-D dot com. Found is a financial technology company, not a bank. Banking services are provided by Lead Bank, Member FDIC. Join the hundreds of thousands who’ve already streamlined their finances with Found.

HIMS - Making Healthy and Happy Easy to Achieve

Sexual Health, Hair Loss, Mental Health, Weight Management

START YOUR FREE ONLINE VISIT TODAY - ⁠HIMS dot com slash STRANGE⁠

⁠https://www.HIMS.com/strange⁠

MINT MOBILE

Premium Wireless - $15 per month. No Stores. No Salespeople. JUST SAVINGS

Ready to say yes to saying no? Make the switch at MINT MOBILE dot com slash STRANGEPLANET. That’s MINT MOBILE dot com slash STRANGEPLANET

⁠BECOME A PREMIUM SUBSCRIBER!!!⁠

⁠https://strangeplanet.supportingcast.fm⁠

Three monthly subscriptions to choose from. Commercial Free Listening, Bonus Episodes and a Subscription to my monthly newsletter, InnerSanctum. Visit ⁠https://strangeplanet.supportingcast.fm⁠ Use the discount code "Planet" to receive $5 OFF off any subscription.

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Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://strangeplanet.supportingcast.fm/

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