When Animals Attack Podcast

In the fourth episode of When Animals Attack! Jen & Nilo discuss killer bees, hornets from hell, a harrowing firsthand account of surviving a yellowjack swarm, and why wasps are better than WASPs.

Have you or someone you know experienced or witnessed an animal attack? We want the deets! Send your stories to [email protected]. Follow us at instagram.com/whenanimalsattackpodcast and twitter.com/animalattackpod.

Sources:

https://www.wired.com/2015/07/absurd-creature-of-the-week-tarantula-hawk/

https://www.mnn.com/earth-matters/animals/stories/11-animals-more-likely-to-kill-you-than-sharks

https://www.seattletimes.com/life/outdoors/dont-lose-sleep-over-bear-attacks-its-bees-dogs-that-cause-most-animal-deaths/

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/05/health/animal-attacks-deaths.html

http://listverse.com/2018/04/03/10-horrifying-true-stories-of-murderous-wasps-and-bees/

https://www.desertusa.com/insects/africanized-honey-bee-attack-stories.html

https://lifehacker.com/how-to-survive-a-bee-hornet-or-wasp-attack-1787062848

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/the-deadliest-animal-in-the-us-may-surprise-you-2016-06-16

https://www.cnn.com/2016/06/17/health/animal-attacks-statistics/index.html

https://www.newsweek.com/oklahoma-gorilla-trekker-stung-death-killer-wasps-uganda-944220

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/26/hornet-attacks-kill-18-china

https://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/death-by-1-000-stings-bee-swarm-kills-hiker-in-county-park-8329037

https://www.rootsimple.com/2013/10/africanized-bees/

http://www.honeybeeteacher.com/wp/2014/01/27/thoughts-about-africanized-honeybees/

http://arnoldia.arboretum.harvard.edu/pdf/articles/646.pdf

https://ksiazekpawel.weebly.com/africanized-honey-bees.html

In Episode 23, Jen and Nilo swap stories of unfortunate arachnid encounters before discussing the invading spider armies of Arachnophobia (1990) and Kingdom of the Spiders (1977) and the far more disturbing spider sex of Latvian art-horror curiosity Spider (1992).

SOURCES:

BJ Colangelo, “Kingdom of the Spiders (1977),” When Animals Attack: The 70 Best Horror Movies with Killer Animals

Gordon Grice, The Red Hourglass

Gordon Grice, The Book of Deadly Animals

Niklas Salmose, “We Spiders: Spider as the Monster of Modernity in the Big Bug and Nature-on-a-Rampage Film Genres,” Animal Horror Cinema: Genre, History and Criticism

https://www.grunge.com/161796/creepy-real-life-stories-about-giant-spiders/?utm_campaign=clip

https://www.thecut.com/2020/10/sinkhole-opens-in-nyc-sidewalk-plunging-man-into-rat-pit.html

https://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2013/11/potentially-deadly-spiders-found-in-supermarket-banana-bunch/

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/giant-hairy-spider-attacks-spark-panic-in-india/

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2018/jun/15/experience-i-was-nearly-killed-by-a-spider-bite

In Episode 26: Feline Fury, Jen and Nilo are joined by cat/horror experts Morgan Woolsey and Ben Raphael Sher to discuss what happens when good cats go bad! (Spoiler: they don’t. All Cats Are Beautiful.) We share an irl story of a family (supposedly) terrorized by a housecat before spending the majority of the episode digging into a range of cat horror films, including Strays, The Uncanny, Eye of the Cat, and Hausu, with brief references to Kuroneko, Uninvited, Demonia, Devil Story, Let the Right One In, The Black Cat, and more. For more from Ben and Morgan, you can find them on IG - @benraphaelsher and @quellehorror, respectively.

Sources:

https://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/calif-house-cat-sends-3-people-hospital-article-1.1762652

https://meowtel.com/blog/post/how-to-handle-and-prevent-a-cat-attack

Musical snippet from “The Dreadful Story about Harriet and the Matches” by The Tiger Lillies

In episode 11, Jen & Nilo talk tigers! They cover a number of attacks in India, including the story of the notorious Champawat tigress, and then Jen does a deep dive into a mystical tale of feline vengeance against a poacher from Siberia. They finish up by reviewing an array of movies about middle-aged white men using tigers to behave badly – Roar, Burning Bright, and Black Zoo – with a brief detour through the ridiculous Jurassic Park ripoff, Sabretooth.

Sources:

http://mandesasblueplanet.blogspot.com/2015/06/training-stray-dogs-to-protect-villages.html

https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-29987187

Man-Eating Tigers of the Sundarbans (BBC, 2009, https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00hbn62)

The Tiger, John Vaillant

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Champawat_Tiger

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/08/world/asia/india-tiger-hunt.html

Do you have an animal attack story? We want to hear from you! Email us at [email protected], or you can find us at instagram.com/whenanimalsattackpodcast, twitter.com/animalattackpod, and facebook.com/animalattackpod.

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In this Halloween mini-episode, Nilo and Jen stir up a melange of tales of rats attacking humans and discuss the cinematic rodents of Willard, Of Unknown Origin, and Deadly Eyes.

Do you have an animal attack story? We want to hear from you! Email us at [email protected], or you can find us at instagram.com/whenanimalsattackpodcast, twitter.com/animalattackpod, and facebook.com/animalattackpod.

Produced by mature ADULT time entertainment