{"id":985,"date":"2022-08-16T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-08-16T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/whatsyerweirdstory.com\/?p=985"},"modified":"2022-08-16T01:27:28","modified_gmt":"2022-08-16T01:27:28","slug":"ep-209-the-most-evil-game-in-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whatsyerweirdstory.com\/index.php\/2022\/08\/16\/ep-209-the-most-evil-game-in-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Ep 209 &#8211; &#8220;The Most Evil Game in the World!&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_411\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-985-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/whatsyerweirdstory.com\/episodes\/ep209MostEvilGameintheWorld.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/whatsyerweirdstory.com\/episodes\/ep209MostEvilGameintheWorld.mp3\">https:\/\/whatsyerweirdstory.com\/episodes\/ep209MostEvilGameintheWorld.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"https:\/\/whatsyerweirdstory.com\/episodes\/ep209MostEvilGameintheWorld.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/whatsyerweirdstory.com\/?powerpress_pinw=985-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/whatsyerweirdstory.com\/episodes\/ep209MostEvilGameintheWorld.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"ep209MostEvilGameintheWorld.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/whatsyerweirdstory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/XRecorder_15082022_205324-990x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-986\" width=\"440\" height=\"454\" srcset=\"https:\/\/whatsyerweirdstory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/XRecorder_15082022_205324-990x1024.jpg 990w, https:\/\/whatsyerweirdstory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/XRecorder_15082022_205324-290x300.jpg 290w, https:\/\/whatsyerweirdstory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/XRecorder_15082022_205324-768x795.jpg 768w, https:\/\/whatsyerweirdstory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/XRecorder_15082022_205324-1484x1536.jpg 1484w, https:\/\/whatsyerweirdstory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/XRecorder_15082022_205324-1200x1242.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/whatsyerweirdstory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/XRecorder_15082022_205324.jpg 1642w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 440px) 85vw, 440px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Ep 209 &#8211; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>  <em> (Trigger warning: child abuse, self harm, murder) <\/em>This week, hosts <strong>Barry<\/strong> and <strong>Adam<\/strong> travel back in time to the heady days of the 1970s and 80s. It was a time of innocence and wonder. It was also a time of ignorance and fear! it was the time of <strong><em>the SATANIC PANIC!<\/em><\/strong> We throw our gaze to focus on just one of the many targets of rumor, blame and outrage during this moral crisis; the most evil game in the world&#8230;. <strong><em>Dungeons and Dragons<\/em><\/strong><em>! (insert spooky echo effect)<\/em> <strong>Adam <\/strong>provides a brief history of the hysteria not unlike those seen in the most recent series of<strong><em> Netflix&#8217;s Stranger Things<\/em><\/strong>. It&#8217;s another ramble down memory lane on this week&#8217;s twenty-sided episode of the <strong>WHAT&#8217;S YER WEIRD STORY? Podcast!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ep 209 &#8211; (Trigger warning: child abuse, self harm, murder) This week, hosts Barry and Adam travel back in time to the heady days of the 1970s and 80s. It was a time of innocence and wonder. It was also a time of ignorance and fear! it was the time of the SATANIC PANIC! We &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/whatsyerweirdstory.com\/index.php\/2022\/08\/16\/ep-209-the-most-evil-game-in-the-world\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Ep 209 &#8211; &#8220;The Most Evil Game in the World!&#8221;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,7,45,35,40,53,38,408,189,338,5,23,256,505,506,1,198,2,3],"tags":[535,536,548,353,540,152,538,379,532,544,80,203,104,155,541,542,77,547,186,249,19,534,546,204,539,93,242,545,543,533,537,217,315,375,199,18,72],"class_list":["post-985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adam-beeby","category-barry-johnston","category-demons","category-devil","category-high-strangeness","category-local-legends","category-magic","category-movie","category-paranormal","category-paranormal-podcast","category-podcast","category-special","category-supernatural","category-true-stories","category-true-story","category-uncategorized","category-urban-legends","category-whats-yer-weird-story-podcast","category-whats-yer-weird-story","tag-1970s","tag-1980s","tag-adnd","tag-black-magic","tag-demonic","tag-demons","tag-devil-cults","tag-dnd","tag-dungeons-and-dragons","tag-heavy-metal","tag-high-strangeness","tag-legends","tag-magic","tag-magick","tag-mazes-and-monsters","tag-movies","tag-mystery","tag-netflix","tag-paranormal","tag-paranormal-podcast","tag-podcast","tag-rpg","tag-sandman","tag-satanic-panic","tag-satanic-worship-satanist","tag-special","tag-special-episode","tag-stranger-things","tag-supernatural-podcast","tag-table-top-gaming","tag-the-devil","tag-true-stories","tag-true-story","tag-unknown","tag-urban-legends","tag-whats-yer-weird-story","tag-whats-yer-weird-story-podcast"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsyerweirdstory.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsyerweirdstory.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsyerweirdstory.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsyerweirdstory.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsyerweirdstory.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=985"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/whatsyerweirdstory.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/985\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":988,"href":"https:\/\/whatsyerweirdstory.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/985\/revisions\/988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsyerweirdstory.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsyerweirdstory.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsyerweirdstory.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}