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Possible triggers: mentions of emotional/physical distress, pregnancy, vomit mention, c-cection, birth trauma
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Ryan Bergara
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Anthony Frederick
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Emily Brady
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Lizzie Lockard
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Not so fun fact: Changeling folk stories often originated from sick or disabled babies. Parents couldn't accept they would have such babies and would blame it to the fae changing their healthy babies. They would often leave them in forests to be exchanged back, but we can all imagine what happened.
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They didn't mention it in the episode, but the narrator goes from calling the baby 'it' to, as soon as he hears the real baby's cries, 'she'. Fantastic writing - loved this story!
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The more horrifying version of this story (and what I thought was happening at first) was that the dad was just projecting the trauma of the childbirth onto his completely innocent baby, resenting it for what he perceives it put his wife through, causing him to jump to these wild conclusions and recklessly endanger his child
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The story itself is creepy, but the absolute worst part is poor Mary feeling the C-section as it happened 😬
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As someone with two Irish grandmother's, you have to be a real idiot to listen to traditional Irish folklore and be like 'oh yeah let me paint fairies on my baby's nursery'- this boy was not paying attention!!!
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Shane involuntarily laughing at the word vaginally and then instantly looking embarrassed is one of the funniest things I’ve seen in a while 😂
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This EP gets a lot less scary when you think of it as an AITA reddit story lmao
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I was shocked that as into the supernatural as Ryan is, he's NEVER heard of fairy changelings?!? They were a superstitious explanation for everything from postpartum depression to autism.
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The scariest part of this episode was learning that Shane and Ryan don't know what a changeling is
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I feel like hidden twist of the story is that the father is actually a fae and that's why the grandmother would always look at him quizzically. Also the reason why his mother passed away early because he drained the life from her. The reason he hates the baby is because the baby is human and he actually exchanged his human baby for a fae baby because he is a fae. the grandmother just likes fairies and thats why she exchanged her own baby with a fae baby and thats why the father believes that fairies are good and painted them on his wall in the beginning of the story.
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I had a completely different interpretation of this story. The guy hated his baby, his actual baby, so the fairies took it while he was doing the ritual to teach him a lesson and his instincts took over and when he found her he finally felt love.
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The idea of an Irish grandma telling happy stories about nice fairies is the most unrealistic part of the story
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I read a story on tumblr once about a parent who had their baby swapped with a changeling, so he went to the Fay and they told him that if they wanted their real baby back, they’d have to identify which one was their real child. The parent looked at the two identical kids for a second, shrugged, and took both home.
Parent of the Year right there!
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Ryan’s “do you wanna trade?” is such a god tier dad joke, when he does it that other dad is gonna be gutted he’ll never be as funny
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Fun fact, did you know some people have suspected that old timey folks often cited changelings because nobody knew what autism was yet? Typically this was a thing for toddler aged kids…suddenly the “normal” baby would start screaming or causing trouble or not looking at them. Changelings are also often referred to as having intelligence and insight that made them seem knowledgeable beyond their years.
I hope my normie counterpart is having a fantastic time with the fairies. 🤣🤣🤣
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I think what makes the story scary is that this father is displaying symptoms of paternal postpartum psychosis or depression. Parents that don’t get help for the condition can be a danger to themselves and their children, especially if they reach psychosis. PPP is almost always experienced by the mother, and gets worse because they feel like they’re crazy/callous/worthless and don’t want to risk sharing how they feel with others. Ironically, even if the changelings had zero to do with the story, the grandma saved the husband and baby because it offered him some sort of safe and tangible “fix” even if it was all in his head. And like you said at the end, he can just do the same thing for the next kid if he feels the same way.
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I can't stop imagining Mom at home watching Real Housewives, all cozy & content under a blanket while Dad is tying the daughter up in the woods 😂
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I find this story in particular pretty distressing, not just because of the idea of being unwillingly emotionally detached from something that's supposed to mean a lot to a person, but because the whole changeling myth in real life got a lot of children killed. People in Ireland really used to believe that this kind of thing could happen, and when they were experiencing what was likely post-partum depression or, in some cases, when a child was likely neurodivergent in some way, the child might be labeled a changeling and then all kinds of terrible things could happen to them, up to the kid being outright murdered because their family was convinced they were a monster. Because of this, the idea that the narrator's grandmother would still believe that legend to the point that they'd encourage child endangerment is disturbing.
Also, fun mythological fact; faires in Irish folklore come in a whole host of shapes and sizes, not just the inches-tall little guys that float around on wings. Some are human sized and shaped, some are tiny, some are huge. And a lot of them are mean as hell.
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I feel like Shane is what happens when parents just decide to be chill and keep their weird fey baby. He’s even tree-like.
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@kohtea
1 year ago
shane going from "fear of involuntary heroin injection" to "screaming for drugs at the witching hours" is a character arc i didn't expect bravo
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