Ep. 2 — The Tale of Laughing in the Dark: Fear as Currency & the Clown Who Collects

This week, Graveyard Mike digs into The Tale of Laughing in the Dark — a story about haunted houses, clowns, and what happens when fear becomes social power.We trace Zeebo’s pop-culture DNA, unpack the ritual humiliation baked into the dare, and examine how kids learn to weaponize fear when no one’s watching.Because sometimes the monster isn’t inside the spookhouse.Sometimes it’s the rules kids learn to enforce themselves.