Curse Psychobiology and the Underground Market in Human Body Parts
Two New Podcast Episodes
If you've been a fan of my audiobooks then there's a good chance that you'll also enjoy my new podcast Scott Carney Investigates (Spotify) (iTunes) (YouTube). This week I have two amazing episodes for you.
The first recounts how a fringe Tibetan Buddhist group was so nervous about my reporting that they resorted to black magic. At first I laughed it off the idea that they could hurt me with spells, but when strange things started happening in my life, I temporarily put my skepticism aside and hired a hundred monks in India to cast a counter-spell. It's not just magic, of course. Anthropologists have known for centuries about the psycho-biology of curses that can instigate deadly outcomes even if you don't believe in magic.
If you've been a fan of my audiobooks then there's a good chance that you'll also enjoy my new podcast Scott Carney Investigates (Spotify) (iTunes) (YouTube).
This week I have two amazing episodes for you.
The first recounts how a fringe Tibetan Buddhist group was so nervous about my reporting that they resorted to black magic. At first I laughed it off the idea that they could hurt me with spells, but when strange things started happening in my life, I temporarily put my skepticism aside and hired a hundred monks in India to cast a counter-spell. It's not just magic, of course. Anthropologists have known for centuries about the psycho-biology of curses that can instigate deadly outcomes even if you don't believe in magic.
The second episode recounts a 2007 investigation where I uncovered a global trade in human skeletons out of the city of Calcutta in India. I found a facility on the banks of a river in West Bengal where recently-dead and stolen human corpses were denuded of their flesh and sold to international markets all around the world. This story eventually started me down the path to writing "The Red Market."
Happy listening!