Stonegrave Media

Makeup. Skincare. Hair dye. The beauty industry is ubiquitous in today's world. But it has a very ugly history - one we may still be living without even knowing it. This podcast explores the dark side of the industry that promises youth in a bottle. You might be able to achieve the look you're craving...but the price might be unthinkable. 

He kicked the bucket. She went the whole nine yards. That man is a dead ringer for my brother. We use idioms so much we hardly notice them, let alone wonder where they came from. But, as it turns out, when you start asking questions about how we got the phrases that are ubiquitous today, you get some pretty surprising answers. This is Ubiquitous: The History of Idioms, an etymology podcast that tends to wander into dark, macabre, and strange territory. I do hope you enjoy. 

Once upon a time, we buried our dead by hand. Families washed the body. Neighbors dug the grave. Coffins were built in kitchens by lantern light. Death was intimate. Ordinary. Sacred. It belonged to the living. Today, dying is one of the most expensive events a family will ever face — and the person at the center of it isn’t even there to sign the bill. This is the story of how we stopped burying our dead… and started buying them. Welcome to Dark Memoriam.

The podcast home of the YouTube channel Raven's Reading Room: https://www.youtube.com/@RavensReadingRoom  This is a compilation channel mostly. While I do new stories here and there, it's basically a running music-free trip through the archives of Raven Reads and my other associated channels that publish new content.  Go to www.stonegravemedia.com to find out more about what I'm publishing and creating; while you're there click on "Get on the List" up top to sign up for the free email newsletter. 

Every episode we'll travel into the deep woods and see what lurks there. 

From aliens and UFOS to lights in the skies and strange visions, if it’s cosmic and alien-adjacent we’ll cover the stories here.

Let’s tell some scary stories together.

The world is full of strange stories. Let’s get into some of them.

This is the official podcast of the Raven Reads YouTube channel. Enjoy stories from the main channel almost every night.

In recent years, we’ve all become intimately familiar with pandemics and biological contagions. But, what happens when it’s the mind that’s infected? When communities under stress let fear overcome reason, and hysteria is the virus that spreads, what horrors await? This is Hysterical, a show about some of the most horrifying, bizarre, and strange episodes of mass hysteria in human history.