Episode 293: Bizarre Horror Stories

Bizarre things frighten us because they defy the rules we rely on to feel safe. When something is strange in a way we can’t explain: an object that moves on its own, a sound with no source, a face that looks almost human but not quite… our brains scramble to make sense of it and fail. That failure sparks a primal alarm: if we can’t categorize a thing, we can’t predict it… and if we can’t predict it, we can’t protect ourselves. The bizarre lives in that unnerving gap between the familiar and the impossible, reminding us that reality might be far less stable, and far less comforting, than we pretend.