It's almost Halloween, so Motherboard is exploring the very nature of fear. Why do we still get scared by things that no longer represent any threat to us? How has technology changed how we feel fear? And what happens in a culture that reveres death?
This week, Kaleigh Rogers and Jason Koebler talk with Naomi Bishop, a freelance writer who recently spent time with the Tana Toraja people in Indonesia. In Tana Toraja culture, it's common for families to dress up and take care of the dead corpses of their loved ones, sometimes for many years at a time until a proper funeral can be held.Bishop's full story will be on Motherboard early next week, as will a handful of other stories all about the creepy, spooky, and unexplained phenomena we deal with every day. You can subscribe to Radio Motherboard on iTunes and on Stitcher.