Real Life Yellowjackets Part 2: Wilderness Mysteries

“Opinion is the wilderness between knowledge and ignorance,” Plato said that, and in season 1 of Yellowjackets, Misty Quigley the team manager andsort of social outcast says it as well, to a mean girl who is prank calling her… but what happens when the mean girl on the phone isn’t a person anymore, but a place?From mystical vortexes, Picnic at Hanging Rock, The Korovina Hiking Incident, The Bermuda Triangle, Dyatlov Pass, Roanoke and the occasional bout of wilderness hysteria, In this episode we’re going back into the wild but we’re not really talking about survival this time we’re talking about when that survival is disrupted by something even stronger: imagination, mystery, longing.Sources:Benson, Eugene, ed. (2005). Encyclopedia of Post-Colonial Literatures in EnglishPicnic at Hanging Rock, (novel) Joan LindsayPicnic at Hanging Rock, filmVogue Magazine, VortexesHistory Channel, Search for RoanokeThe Mysteries of Skinwalker RanchNature’s Conspiracy: Picnic at Hanging Rock, Cindy ZeiherBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/broads-next-door--5803223/support.