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Winter AND a new year? That can only mean one thing: it’s time for some creepy frozen lakes! Fulla dead people, these lakes.

First up is a viral ghost story about Minnesota’s Lake Weller, and the ghostly radio signals that seem to be coming from its depths every winter. Ope! Jake and Wyatt then fumble the best chance anyone will ever get at a “76 Trombones” joke as they head to the Indian Himalayas to Roopkund! Also known as Skeleton Lake, you’ll NEVER GUESS what’s inside. And you’ll certainly never guess what happened there…

EPISODE LINKS

All-purpose show links

Wyatt’s native plant biznass

The show Jake writes

Lake Weller

Nature article about lakes vs. ponds

Ice-penetrating radio waves

Minnesota’s lake definition

Database of every MN lake

Roopkund

Atlas Obscura article

New York Times article

NYT article without the paywall

Haunted India blog post (for photos of Roopkund)

BBC article (which includes even more photos)

History Channel clip with William Shatner

Riddles of the Dead episode from National Geographic

Nature Communications article

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You ever see a perfect circle in nature and think, “Whoaaaa”? If so, this episode is for you! And if not, we’ll let you have this episode on a probationary basis!

Talkin’ ’bout fairy circles – large, evenly spaced and perfectly round bare patches found in the grasses of the Namib Desert – and fairy rings, the eerie patterns of dead grass, extra luscious grass, or mushrooms, all three of which are almost certainly not caused by elf ejaculate. Almost.

Brought to you by Japan: it’s less than half as far away as maps think!

EPISODE LINKS

Gaza GoFundMe

All-purpose show links

Fairy Circles

Aerial view

Closer view 1

Closer view 2

Right next to one

Live Science article

Perspectives in Plant Ecology, Evolution and Systematics review article

Australian fairy circles

Photos of Aussie fairy circles

Fairy Rings

Fairy ring examples 1 and 2

Example 3 (forest fairy ring)

Example 4 (spookier forest fairy ring)

UWM Extension article

Toads and Toadstools, by Adrian Morgan

IMA Fungus article

Danish Undersea Rings

The solution (and the photo)

Up-close photo

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Yeah I’m thinkin’ we’re back.

Use promo code JAKEHALLOWEENGOOF for 15% off any order in our store before the end of November! The episode made us do this!

EPISODE LINKS

All-purpose show links: https://superduperstitious.com/links

MUTUAL AID HUB: https://www.mutualaidhub.org/

Wyatt’s native plant biznass: https://www.myhomepark.com/

The show Jake writes: https://www.youtube.com/@BizarreBeasts

Our shop, wherein you may use the aforementioned promo code: https://www.superduperstitious.com/shop

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Maybe the real Havana syndrome was the friends we made along the way.

EPISODE LINKS

All-purpose show links: https://superduperstitious.com/links

Four Phantoms website: https://www.fourphantoms.net/

Four Phantoms store: https://four-phantoms-brewing-company.square.site/

Wyatt’s story

Episode 5: https://www.superduperstitious.com/episodes/5-hooked-on-sonics

Episode 34: https://www.superduperstitious.com/episodes/34-bah-hum-buzz

Episode 53: https://www.superduperstitious.com/episodes/53-potc-part-a-billion

Episode 76: https://www.superduperstitious.com/episodes/76-mos-scotia

Episode 142: https://www.superduperstitious.com/episodes/142-still-sounds-bad

60 Minutes Russian conspiracy: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/havana-syndrome-russia-evidence-60-minutes/

NIH Study: https://bit.ly/4a1Dyxp

Scientific American article: https://bit.ly/3WnCzEv

Jake’s stories

Phantoms and Monsters 5/19/2023: https://bit.ly/3Urrpw7

Phantoms and Monsters 1/3/2023: https://bit.ly/3ws22Cd

Phantoms and Monsters 1/9/2023: https://bit.ly/3wszhoW

UFO Clearinghouse 1/16/2023: https://bit.ly/3y4dAfx

UFO Clearinghouse 1/17/2023: https://bit.ly/4dADKXJ

UFO Clearinghouse 2/7/2023: https://bit.ly/3UrrkIP

Phantoms and Monsters 11/10/2023: https://bit.ly/3UwafO2

Phantoms and Monsters 1/19/2024: https://bit.ly/4dnHag7

Bald eagle basics: https://avianreport.com/what-is-the-bald-eagle-size/

Bald eagle comeback story: https://bit.ly/4aXDpMF

Chicagoland eagle population growth: https://bit.ly/4aYRIRd

Winter bald eagle migration: https://bit.ly/4dmkpJu

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STOP LOOKING AT THE DATE.

Anyway, what a wild way for you to find out that Wyatt’s leaving the show.

EPISODE LINKS

All-purpose show links: https://superduperstitious.com/links

Four Phantoms website: https://www.fourphantoms.net/

Four Phantoms store: https://four-phantoms-brewing-company.square.site/

Humanoid creature CCTV footage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-xNlnmhjj0

Contact form: https://superduperstitious.com/contact

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IT ALL COMES DOWN TO THIS. WHATEVER THE HELL THIS IS.

EPISODE LINKS

All-purpose show links: https://superduperstitious.com/links

Four Phantoms website: https://www.fourphantoms.net/

Four Phantoms store: https://four-phantoms-brewing-company.square.site/

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The Gaykoslavie experience: https://englishrussia.com/2010/02/17/russian-gadget-hackwrench-religion/

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As the WCCW creeps ever closer to crowning an ultimate victor, what new and exciting ways can we find to totally ruin your bracket? There’s only one way to find out!

EPISODE LINKS

All-purpose show links: https://superduperstitious.com/links

Four Phantoms website: https://www.fourphantoms.net/

Four Phantoms store: https://four-phantoms-brewing-company.square.site/

FOLLOW ALONG WITH THE BRACKET HERE: https://superduperstitious.com/march-madness

JOIN OUR CURSE EXPERIMENT HERE: https://forms.gle/vWJomLttdvXd7tmX7

I AM Come: https://vimeo.com/352872112

St. Germain: https://bit.ly/40B8SPd

Heaven’s Gate logo: https://bit.ly/42GFp8x

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The utter ridiculousness continues as we round out the WCCW regionals with all 16 contestants in the Global and Planetary Divisions of the NCAAA. These words and letters all mean something and make sense! You’re in the right place and everything is fine!

EPISODE LINKS

All-purpose show links: https://superduperstitious.com/links

Four Phantoms website: https://www.fourphantoms.net/

Four Phantoms store: https://four-phantoms-brewing-company.square.site/

FOLLOW ALONG WITH THE BRACKET HERE: https://superduperstitious.com/march-madness

JOIN OUR CURSE EXPERIMENT HERE: https://forms.gle/vWJomLttdvXd7tmX7

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It’s a whole episode about the biology of The Last of Us in an attempt to tap into the zeitgeist! What’s the deal with Cordyceps? Could this happen in real life? Are we doing SEO right??

*Originally scheduled for release BEFORE the start of our whole March Madness series

EPISODE LINKS

All-purpose show links: https://superduperstitious.com/links

Four Phantoms: https://www.fourphantoms.net/

FILL OUT YOUR MARCH MADNESS BRACKET HERE: https://superduperstitious.com/march-madness

Sources

Basic fungal biology: http://bit.ly/3ZRi4ie

Cordyceps controlling a cicada: https://youtu.be/FAVAVHAptyQ

Cordyceps controlling a beetle: https://youtu.be/EBQNpyAdmfc

Entomophthora muscae example: https://www.flickr.com/photos/anxoresua/6867594070

Entomophthora muscae and its released spores: https://bit.ly/3EV6pXJ

Entomophthora muscae range map: https://www.discoverlife.org/mp/20m?kind=Entomophthora+muscae

Snail with nematode parasite (PRETTY GROSS): https://youtu.be/Go_LIz7kTok

Parasitic barnacle: https://youtu.be/sCvTHrzI-Sk

Body temperature vs. fungi: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19827944/

Climate change is selecting for heat-resistant fungi: https://journals.asm.org/doi/full/10.1128/mBio.00061-10

Climate change is increasing fungal infections: https://www.wired.com/story/fungi-climate-change-medicine-health/

Not a lot of medical solutions: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6549129/

We breathe a lot of spores and it’s okay: http://bit.ly/3JusTkR

Most fungi aren’t infectious: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5453709/

No spores for the show: http://polygon.com/entertainment/23562421/last-of-us-cordyceps-spores-tv-show-hbo

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No podcast about the strange and unusual would be complete without a month-long, four-part tournament of 32 different cults competing head to head! NOT ONE SUCH PODCAST. Here’s the first of those four parts!

EPISODE LINKS

All-purpose show links: https://superduperstitious.com/links

Four Phantoms email: fourphantomsbeer@gmail.com

Four Phantoms website: https://www.fourphantoms.net/

Four Phantoms store: https://four-phantoms-brewing-company.square.site/

FILL OUT YOUR MARCH MADNESS BRACKET HERE: https://www.superduperstitious.com/march-madness

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Our ultimate March Madness cult competition, the WCCW, begins March 9th!

Submit your predictions here: https://www.superduperstitious.com/march-madness

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Momo money, Momo problems.

(Also Wyatt talks about Ohio.)

EPISODE LINKS

All-purpose show links: https://superduperstitious.com/links

Four Phantoms email: fourphantomsbeer@gmail.com

Four Phantoms website: https://www.fourphantoms.net/

Four Phantoms store: https://four-phantoms-brewing-company.square.site/

Jake’s story

Missouri Folklore Society on Momo: https://missourifolkloresociety.truman.edu/home/society/notes/momo/

Legends of America: https://www.legendsofamerica.com/momo-monster/

Missouri Department of Conservation: http://bit.ly/3YG2Lc1

Columbia Tribune: http://bit.ly/3lMfift

Old FATE Magazine article: http://bit.ly/3IyiKmR

Momo song: https://missourifolkloresociety.truman.edu/files/2015/06/Momo-the-Monster.mp3

Wyatt’s stories

Helltown: https://www.americanhauntingsink.com/helltown

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Stuff dies all the time, and sometimes those dead things are weird looking! This is two of those times.

Wyatt leads with the Rhodope skull, the mysterious bone specimen that folks were only too excited to immediately label an alien. And don’t get him STARTED on the Adygea skulls! Jake then hops on the alien train with the Kovahsi creature, also known as Kesha. What’s little and desiccated and doesn’t have wings, no matter how many publications say otherwise? Google Translate will save us!

“Horn core” is pretty fun to say. And that’s about all I’ve got left in the tank for this episode description.

EPISODE LINKS

All-purpose show links: https://superduperstitious.com/links

Four Phantoms email: fourphantomsbeer@gmail.com

Four Phantoms website: https://www.fourphantoms.net/

Four Phantoms store: https://four-phantoms-brewing-company.square.site/

Wyatt’s stories

Ancient Code: https://www.ancient-code.com/the-rhodope-skull-the-mysterious-cranium-of-a-real-life-alien/

Rhodope skull explained: http://bit.ly/3YeiCO9

Jake’s story

Russian newscast video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UWUdNXrIX4

Image of Kesha: https://mustorage.blob.core.windows.net/images/2015/09/size-570x520.jpg

Russian chupacabra article: https://www.fern-flower.org/en/news/mythical-chupacabra-boguchany-was-st

Mysterious Universe article: https://mysteriousuniverse.org/2015/09/strange-tiny-being-puzzles-scientists-and-scares-russians/

Daily Mail article: http://bit.ly/3jmnBO3

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Boy howdy, if this were the sort of podcast that had separate seasons, this episode sure would be the start of a new one! But it isn’t, so it’s not. Instead, enjoy two timely takes on some pervasive immunity myths! If you want to eat a lime or something, that’s fine.

EPISODE LINKS

All-purpose show links: https://superduperstitious.com/links

Four Phantoms email: fourphantomsbeer@gmail.com

Four Phantoms website: https://www.fourphantoms.net/

Four Phantoms store: https://four-phantoms-brewing-company.square.site/

Jake’s story

Lymph: https://www.scienceabc.com/pure-sciences/difference-between-blood-and-lymph.html

Lymphatic system: https://theodora.com/anatomy/the_lymphatic_system.html

Immune system overview: https://www.niaid.nih.gov/research/immune-system-overview

Refuting the myth of “immunity debt”: https://bit.ly/3wtMdra

Unraveling the logic: https://bit.ly/3kKt8hS

RSV spikes: https://www.cdc.gov/rsv/research/rsv-net/dashboard.html

Episode 107: https://www.superduperstitious.com/episodes/107-preventative-measures

Transfer of immunity at birth: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12727640/

Recent strep throat deaths: http://bit.ly/3Dif05P

COVID before RSV: https://twitter.com/DFisman/status/1602423960246829058

COVID’s effect on immune systems: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41590-021-01113-x

Wyatt’s story

Linus Pauling’s vitamin C madness: https://www.vox.com/2015/1/15/7547741/vitamin-c-myth-pauling

Some of Pauling’s beliefs: http://www.paulingtherapy.com/

Cancer treatment claims: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC431183/

But actually no: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/384241/

For real, no: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25601965/

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October finally comes to an end, and holy wow another guest?! It must be time to celebrate Halloween the Superduperstitious way: by talking about apples!

Join the boys and special guest Casey Simpson of Artifact Cider Project to hear all about Jake’s regional seasonal frustrations, canals, and flashlights – the perfect Halloween trifecta! Oh and also a whole thing about the haunted house Casey’s grandparents owned for years, if you’re into that kind of thing.

All that, plus a surprise visit from Drew, a continuous dog presence, and all the weird clicking noises you could ever ask for! Stop reading this description and just listen already!!

EPISODE LINKS

All-purpose show links: https://superduperstitious.com/links

Artifact Cider Project: https://www.artifactcider.com/

Bateleur eagle photo #1: https://live.staticflickr.com/8587/28759004652_9edc13dfab_b.jpg

Bateleur eagle photo #2: https://bit.ly/3sHywmL

Four Phantoms email: fourphantomsbeer@gmail.com

Four Phantoms website: https://www.fourphantoms.net/

Four Phantoms store: https://four-phantoms-brewing-company.square.site/

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In spite of others’ efforts to the contrary, October just keeps happening! And so, too, do the guests (which are, yes, still of the special variety).

The final guest before Halloween is none other than the founder of Four Phantoms, the groovy brewery in western Massachusetts that combines— you know what? You probably know all that by now. In that case, grab a beverage of your choosing, don’t get your leg exploded, and learn all about the man responsible for this dumb show having an actual sponsor! (And don't worry, there's ghosts AND science in this one.)

EPISODE LINKS

All-purpose show links: https://superduperstitious.com/links

Four Phantoms email: fourphantomsbeer@gmail.com

Four Phantoms website: https://www.fourphantoms.net/

Four Phantoms store: https://four-phantoms-brewing-company.square.site/

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October continues! And the guests? Oh they’re special all right.

This week, the boys are joined by two thirds of the delightful podcast Monster Movie Happy Hour! Listen to four nerds talk about the spooky media that brings them the most joy, from classics of the silver screen, to camp-tastic sci fi offerings of the more recent past.

And be sure to follow the link below to check out the show! Get to know Scott Chesebrough, Dave Geister, and the unfortunately-dead-to-us Mary Challman as you enjoy a cocktail and learn what it truly means to be a monster kid. Cheers!

EPISODE LINKS

Monster Movie Happy Hour: http://www.monstermoviehappyhour.com/

All-purpose show links: https://superduperstitious.com/links

Four Phantoms email: fourphantomsbeer@gmail.com

Four Phantoms website: https://www.fourphantoms.net/

Four Phantoms store: https://four-phantoms-brewing-company.square.site/

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Episode 168 – Survival of the Storytelling-est (feat. Christa Adams)

October begins, and with it, a whole month of special guests! How else would we make this month stand out?

This first episode features the fantastic Christa, who weaseled her way into a podcast appearance by sheer will! Luckily she makes up for it with a fantastic discussion of the anthropological functions of scary stories and storytelling in general. So don’t pretend like this isn’t still a science show!

Grab some candy corn or whatever and buckle in, because October starts… a few days ago!!

EPISODE LINKS

All-purpose show links: https://superduperstitious.com/links

Four Phantoms email: fourphantomsbeer@gmail.com

Four Phantoms website: https://www.fourphantoms.net/

Four Phantoms store: https://four-phantoms-brewing-company.square.site/

Christa’s sources

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari: https://www.ynharari.com/book/sapiens-2/

The Deepest Well by Dr. Nadine Burke Harris: https://bit.ly/3M6sncw

“The Last Human” (from Kurzgesagt): https://youtu.be/LEENEFaVUzU

“When Time Became History” (from Kurzgesagt): https://youtu.be/CWu29PRCUvQ

“hahahrawrrahaha” (Ian Malcolm remix by FLIPSHOT): https://soundcloud.com/flip-shot/hahahrawrrahaha

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An episode coming out early?! That’ll be the day! And that day is in fact specifically today, as August Around the World reaches its exciting Caribbean conclusion. Put on absolutely all of the sunscreen and listen along!

EPISODE LINKS

All-purpose show links: https://superduperstitious.com/links

Four Phantoms email: fourphantomsbeer@gmail.com

Four Phantoms website: https://www.fourphantoms.net/

Four Phantoms store: https://four-phantoms-brewing-company.square.site/

RPM Fest: https://www.rpmfest.org/

Wyatt’s stories

The douen: https://triniinxisle.com/2018/08/10/trini-folklore-douen/

More douen: https://bit.ly/3cvXyRa

The Gloria Colita: https://mysteriousuniverse.org/2021/07/a-mysterious-vanishing-ship-in-the-caribbean/#

What happened to the ship?: https://jaybusbee.substack.com/p/the-curious-case-of-the-missing-mobile

Waves video: https://youtu.be/yLzgzvVxUV4

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The month marches on, and still no Wyatt?? Luckily additional assistance can be found at this next stop of August Around the World: Ireland!

Emma from Real Life Ghost Stories leads Jake on a tour of her homeland with a tale perfectly tailored to this show: a folkloric mystery with a very satisfying scientific conclusion! And also music and fairies – it’s the total package, really. Jake follows this with a bunch of cats.

Have you encountered our lost cohost out there somewhere? If you see something, say something! But in the meantime, enjoy what is surely this week’s ONLY episode of Superduperstitious.

EPISODE LINKS

Real Life Ghost Stories: https://www.reallifeghoststoriespodcast.com/

All-purpose show links: https://superduperstitious.com/links

Four Phantoms email: fourphantomsbeer@gmail.com

Four Phantoms website: https://www.fourphantoms.net/

Four Phantoms store: https://four-phantoms-brewing-company.square.site/

RPM Fest: https://www.rpmfest.org/

Emma’s story

Great Blasket Island: https://bit.ly/3CuEai1

“Port na bPúcaí” (fiddle version): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4i3QEkc4hTw

“Port na bPúcaí” (vocal version): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8C5QqFapcuw

Giving lyrics to the tune: https://bit.ly/3R6ljxR

Jake’s stories

Article from Joe.ie: https://bit.ly/3pG6N4n

Alien Big Cats (the Irish Post): https://bit.ly/3PQe3VE

The Beast of Oulart Hill: https://bit.ly/3KnjryK

Video of the Beast: https://bit.ly/3R1yHU8

Lynx in Ireland??: https://www.wildireland.org/lynx

Reintroducing lynx: https://bit.ly/3QQlkGj

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August Around the World continues, though not without incident...

Wyatt is MIA after a SNAFU with the NCAAA, so it’s up to friend of the show and Taiwan expert Cece to lead the way through this week’s travels! Ever the professional, she brings a wealth of history and culture to the episode, AND delivers on the spooks with a trio of ghost stories. Jake talks about some gross bugs or whatever.

Take off your coat and grab a bubble tea as you settle in for another exciting episode of Superduperstitious!

EPISODE LINKS

All-purpose show links: https://superduperstitious.com/links

Four Phantoms email: fourphantomsbeer@gmail.com

Four Phantoms website: https://www.fourphantoms.net/

Four Phantoms store: https://four-phantoms-brewing-company.square.site/

Jake’s stories

Hermit crab in a doll head (article): http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2015/06/17/2003620916

Hermit crab in a doll head (photo): https://www.taipeitimes.com/images/2015/06/17/p05-150617-a2.jpg

Lake monster (article): https://www.cna.com.tw/news/ahel/202202150364.aspx

Lake monster (video): https://youtu.be/ryoXlvsh2g0

Horsehair worm (video): https://youtu.be/2yq9KJZf798

Horsehair worm (article): https://bit.ly/3PftiY7

Ribbon worm (video): https://youtu.be/vLB5rnw5CI0

Ribbon worm (article): https://on.natgeo.com/3vUsfpu

Cece’s stories

Quanfu Elementary School: https://bit.ly/3QjDW1a

Water ghosts: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wc5wozmhhU&list=WL&index=2&t=388s

Surveillance screen scare: https://www.dcard.tw/f/marvel/p/234568180

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It’s once again that special time of year when the boys get their traveling shoes on (??) and start telling stories around the world! Everything is probably going to go exactly as planned!

The first stop on this month-long journey is Eastern Europe and More Specifically Hungary. Jake kicks it off with an all-purpose supernatural being called a lidérc, which is equally likely to do you favors while eating your butter and then killing you, or else sexing you so good every single night (and then killing you). It’s a chicken-tastic fun time! Wyatt then humors both hosts’ pet interests with a pale humanoid that is also apelike. Sometimes called the Woodcutter of Mátranovák, sometimes called the Treeskinner, this eerie beastie has one thing all cryptids strive for: BLURRY. PHOTOGRAPHIC. EVIDENCE.

Grab an entirely unspecified plane ticket and join in for the beginning of this year’s August Around the World!

EPISODE LINKS

All-purpose show links: https://superduperstitious.com/links

Four Phantoms email: fourphantomsbeer@gmail.com

Four Phantoms website: https://www.fourphantoms.net/

Four Phantoms store: https://four-phantoms-brewing-company.square.site/

Jake’s story

The lidérc: https://abookofcreatures.com/2021/03/22/liderc/

From Hungary with Love: https://bit.ly/3d4yrEY

SLEEP PARALYSIS CURE: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00028/full

Wyatt’s story

Blikk article: https://www.blikk.hu/aktualis/belfold/matranovak-fanyuvo-legenda-ujra-lattak/sxmqvcz

Treeskinner sightings: https://pinebarrensinstitute.com/guest-articles/2020/3/12/cryptids-of-hungary-guest-article-by

Uncle Gyula: https://www.nool.hu/helyi-kozelet/2021/05/elhunyt-a-magyar-jeti-a-matranovaki-fanyuvo

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The nationwide journey continues with ALMOST the last of the states Wyatt and Jake have specifically lived in (Maryland! Minnesota!) Also the boys come dangerously close to actually reviewing a beer.

EPISODE LINKS

All-purpose show links: https://superduperstitious.com/links

Four Phantoms email: fourphantomsbeer@gmail.com

Four Phantoms website: https://www.fourphantoms.net/

Four Phantoms store: https://four-phantoms-brewing-company.square.site/

Wyatt’s story

Dwayyo: https://www.legendsofamerica.com/dwayyo/

“Growling” deer: https://youtu.be/k6ewlw1TR18

Muntjac sounds: https://youtu.be/kQB0vO4aE6w

What was it?: https://jamesrada.com/where-did-the-dwayyo-away-go/

Additional lore: https://susquehannockwildelife.weebly.com/the-susquehanna-witchs-post/january-22nd-2020

Jake’s story

“The Marvelous Exploits of Paul Bunyan”: https://americanliterature.com/author/wb-laughead/short-story/paul-bunyan

The Peculiar Birth of Paul Bunyan: https://bit.ly/3oiujnb

Was There a Real Paul Bunyan?: https://history.howstuffworks.com/history-vs-myth/real-paul-bunyan.htm

Bemidji statue: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2e/Paul_Bunyan_and_Babe_the_Blue_Ox.jpg

Bangor statue: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Bunyan#/media/File:Paul_Bunyan_statue_in_Bangor,_Maine.jpg

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Hidden among two spooky eyewitness accounts each, Wyatt and Jake have respectively hidden a first-person tale that they themselves have fabricated. Can these intrepid cohosts successfully suss out the other’s diabolical decoy, or will they be fooled by the phony? I HAVE NO MORE ALLITERATIONS FOR YOU – just listen to the episode and find out!!

EPISODE LINKS

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Jake’s stories

Real story A: https://bit.ly/3Rh72z9

Real story B: https://bit.ly/3RhPxPw

Wyatt’s stories

Real story A: https://bit.ly/3yGXjdh

Real story B: https://bit.ly/3P9dS89

Latest research article: https://www.nature.com/articles/s42003-022-03535-1

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EPISODE LINKS

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Four Phantoms email: fourphantomsbeer@gmail.com

Four Phantoms website: https://www.fourphantoms.net/

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Wyatt’s story

Bird superstitions: https://www.birdspot.co.uk/bird-numbers/bird-superstitions

More bird superstitions: https://ca.audubon.org/news/13-bird-superstitions

Magpie superstitions: https://www.birdspot.co.uk/culture/magpies-and-superstition

Jake’s stories

UFO Clearinghouse: https://bit.ly/3xVdTqL

Viral bird video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2D2lrFemFig

Mexican bird flock crash: https://bit.ly/38uoyxU

Washington Post coverage of same: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/02/15/mexico-birds-falling-sky/

Jatinga bird suicides: http://www.mysteryofindia.com/2014/07/mystery-of-bird-suicide-at-jatinga.html

Jatinga bird updates: https://www.thestatesman.com/features/birds-decreasing-in-jatinga-suicide-spot-76791.html

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Don't worry, we're still trying real hard to actually make the damned show! It's happening, we swear!! And if you wanted to, say, HELP us make said show, well, we might just know of a way you could do that...

(Patreon. You could support us on Patreon, is what we're saying. Check it out here: https://www.patreon.com/superduperstitious)

Links to Stories from This Minisode

The Thing in the Basement is Getting Better at Mimicking People (Part 1 of many): https://bit.ly/3vlzWnT

Weird (and very coincidental) mimic encounter: https://bit.ly/3KU29Za

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Everything is exactly as originally planned in this final episode of March! And what exactly IS planned? Bugs.

From expert testimonial on an insect-adjacent and highly ponderable optical phenomenon (not to mention a book that Jake spent two actual dollars on), to a roundup of the creepiest of crawlies, this ep’s got it all! Specifically if those are the only things that there are.

Check your tergites for body horrors and have a listen!

EPISODE LINKS

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Jake’s story

Seeing Orbs in Your Digital Photos?: https://www.healyourlife.com/seeing-orbs-in-your-digital-photos

Orbs 101: https://www.healyourlife.com/orbs-101-what-do-orbs-in-your-pictures-mean

Clean room orb photo: https://bit.ly/3Dq8xog

Wyatt’s story

Weta: https://www.nzgeo.com/stories/the-demon-grasshoppers/

Tree weta video: https://youtu.be/c_n0mbpX4KE

Twisted wing parasites: https://www.wired.com/2015/01/absurd-creature-of-the-week-strepsiptera

Parasite life cycle: https://bit.ly/3NAdvDK

Wasp with parasites: https://bugguide.net/node/view/86409

Solifugae (camel spiders): https://youtu.be/j_tqyyQnFZk

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The boys are back, with another response to a nonsense prompt!

“Calendars” as a topic may have proved more of a challenge to pull off than expected, but don’t think for one instant that you won’t learn everything there is to know about Greek clocks and Corona, CA before this episode is over! Don’t even DARE.

EPISODE LINKS

Support Ukraine: https://www.npr.org/2022/02/25/1082992947/ukraine-support-help

Support trans youth: https://www.transformationsproject.org/

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Four Phantoms email: fourphantomsbeer@gmail.com

Four Phantoms website: https://www.fourphantoms.net/

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Wyatt’s story

The Antikythera mechanism: https://allthatsinteresting.com/antikythera-mechanism

Smithsonian article: https://bit.ly/3MZeRY2

Scientific American article: https://bit.ly/3iw3Y2h

Alexander Jones (not that one) article: https://bit.ly/3CRiIlG

Jake’s stories

Teaser article: https://backpackerverse.com/day-trips-in-california/

Hells Gate: https://bit.ly/3CPsGUj

Photo #1: https://i.ytimg.com/vi/mONtwVM-vUk/maxresdefault.jpg

Photo #2: https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Gtr-LQtPe7U/maxresdefault.jpg

The true story (in the comments, at least): https://www.hauntedplaces.org/item/hells-gate/

Photo #3: https://www.hauntedplaces.org/wp-content/uploads/206245-1.jpg

Photo #4: https://www.hauntedplaces.org/wp-content/uploads/206244-1.jpg

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An unprecedented SECOND consecutive week of very-nearly-SEO-friendly episode titles finds the boys examining… nouns, I guess?

Jake heads to the mountains of Tibet to uncover the mystery of the Dropa stones! Do they contain the secret history of a hitherto unknown people? Or did some white guy see a Liangzhu bi and then decide to get “creative”? Wyatt follows this with news of both outer space and spacing out.

All this – plus an unnecessarily aggressive intro – await you in this week’s Superduperstitious!

EPISODE LINKS

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Four Phantoms email: fourphantomsbeer@gmail.com

Four Phantoms website: https://www.fourphantoms.net/

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Jake’s story

Chris Aubeck’s take: https://www.dailygrail.com/2008/12/tuesday-blogscan-16-12-2008/

Bad Archaeology: https://bit.ly/3GuwryT

Dropa stone photo #1: https://i0.wp.com/www.badarchaeology.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/dropa.jpg

Dropa stone photo #2: https://i0.wp.com/www.badarchaeology.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/stonedisc1.jpg

Wyatt’s stories

Magnetar: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/01/220126122424.htm

The Devil’s rocking chair: https://www.newsweek.com/zak-bagans-closes-devils-rocking-chair-exhibit-1441871

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An impromptu prompt leads to a rare example of an episode whose title actually reflects its content!

Buckle in for tales of fairies and their snacks, perhaps too much history/science/folklore, and also a very important rat. It’s food time on this week’s Superduperstitious!

EPISODE LINKS

All-purpose show links: https://superduperstitious.com/links

Four Phantoms email: fourphantomsbeer@gmail.com

Four Phantoms website: https://www.fourphantoms.net/

Four Phantoms store: https://four-phantoms-brewing-company.square.site/

Wyatt’s story

The Huldufolk: https://fairyroom.com/2012/12/the-huldufolk-of-iceland/

British fairies: https://britishfairies.wordpress.com/2020/02/17/the-perils-of-fairy-food/

Construction issues in Iceland: https://bit.ly/3HsPBXn

Jake’s story

Avantika Bhuyan’s article: https://bit.ly/3HfXQFT

“The Lore of Simple Things”: https://bit.ly/3s4MWwg

Terri Windling blog post: https://www.terriwindling.com/blog/2014/12/the-folklore-of-food.html

Evolution and Human Behavior article: https://bit.ly/3s3fBlj

Darwinian Gastronomy: https://academic.oup.com/bioscience/article/49/6/453/229475

Food taboos: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2711054/

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It’s an episode about darkness! Just, like, the general concept of it. But also stuff IN it!

EPISODE LINKS

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Four Phantoms email: fourphantomsbeer@gmail.com

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Jake’s story

Night shift at the cemetery: https://bit.ly/3qO2PIk

Fear of the dark: https://bit.ly/3rE9dkf

The worst pour: https://www.instagram.com/p/CY9_zrJlvlA/

Wyatt’s story

Deep ocean water pressure: https://go.nasa.gov/3GPtKJh

Vampire squid: https://youtu.be/5J8eTT8xvaQ

Giant isopod: https://www.montereybayaquarium.org/animals/animals-a-to-z/giant-isopod

Giant isopod shark face attack: https://youtu.be/O8sE0tvkpdY

Gulper eel: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/gulper-eel-video-deep-sea-fish-nautilus-news

Barreleye fish: https://youtu.be/RM9o4VnfHJU

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It’s donkey o’clock, motherf***ers.

EPISODE LINKS

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Four Phantoms email: fourphantomsbeer@gmail.com

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Four Phantoms store: https://four-phantoms-brewing-company.square.site/

Wyatt’s story

The Devil’s hooves: https://bit.ly/3pJhALI

Medium article: https://medium.com/the-mystery-box/the-truth-about-the-devils-footprints-465f2dc40642

David Castleton’s analysis: https://bit.ly/3pKCTN7

Squirrel prints: https://bit.ly/3pMX9Og

2007 incident: https://www.british-paranormal.co.uk/devons-devils-footprints/

Jake’s story

The Daily Yonder: https://dailyyonder.com/woodrow-derenberger-and-the-legend-of-indrid-cold/2021/12/03/

Derenberger interview: https://youtu.be/5HxY4suVjSo

The Complete Guide to Mysterious Beings: https://bit.ly/3eDVxQt

The Lillys’ encounter: https://mysteriousuniverse.org/2011/05/the-grinning-man-alien-apparition-or-mib/

Additional supposed Indrid Cold experience: https://bit.ly/3JsT7Cp

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What’s that sound? I mean, other than the whole “podcast” thing? Oh ho, it’s yet another episode ABOUT sounds!

Jake ventures into the Arkansas/Missouri woods in search of the Ozark Howler. Is it a monster? Is it animals? Yes! Wyatt then revisits New York for some Upstate acoustic oddities that are almost certainly better than a pair of cans on a string. ALMOST CERTAINLY.

Grab a whole bottle of wine and whisper something in the vague direction of Boston or Chicago, because it’s Superduperstitious time!

EPISODE LINKS

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Four Phantoms email: fourphantomsbeer@gmail.com

Four Phantoms website: https://www.fourphantoms.net/

Four Phantoms store: https://four-phantoms-brewing-company.square.site/

Jake’s story

Only in Ark: https://onlyinark.com/culture/ozark-howler/

The Ozark Howler (escape room??): https://417escapeartist.com/living-legend-the-ozark-howler/

Animal sounds: http://www.unlocktheozarks.org/stories/folklore-legends-and-myths/ozark-howler/

Coyote yip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FhzN5CUNnM

Hyena laugh: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FhzN5CUNnM

Ozark Howler composite goofitude: https://bit.ly/3DOGDki

Wyatt’s story

New York Upstate: https://bit.ly/3GCUWKE

Video of Lake George Mystery Spot: https://youtu.be/cpKE139qnXU

Whispering galleries: https://archive.org/details/scientificpapers05rayliala/page/n638/mode/1up?view=theater

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The saga continues, as your intrepid hosts continue not to venture outside of the American northeast!

Wyatt begins with the land of his alma mater, New York, to examine the Legend of Sleepy Hollow, and the legends that made that legend so legendary. Jake then heads very slightly north to Vermont for some swine-themed terror. What was (or IS) the Pigman of Northfield, and can it be an urban legend if it is neither urban nor legend? Discuss!

EPISODE LINKS

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Four Phantoms email: fourphantomsbeer@gmail.com

Four Phantoms website: https://www.fourphantoms.net/

Four Phantoms store: https://four-phantoms-brewing-company.square.site/

Wyatt’s story

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/41/41-h/41-h.htm

Headless horseman symbolism: https://symbolsage.com/headless-horseman-symbolism/

Jake's story

Phantom of the Chicago update: https://youtu.be/_BCr8HYorbo

The Pigman of Northfield: https://www.werewoofs.com/monster-stories/pigman-northfield-vermont/

Seven Days article: https://www.sevendaysvt.com/vermont/local-legends/Content?oid=2138659

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Could these animals talk? Or was each one just another dumb ol’ Clever Hans? In any case, rest assured that both Alex the parrot and Koko the gorilla were every bit as cute as you might have thought.

But not Clever Hans. Man, f*** that guy.

EPISODE LINKS

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Four Phantoms email: fourphantomsbeer@gmail.com

Four Phantoms website: https://www.fourphantoms.net/

Four Phantoms store: https://four-phantoms-brewing-company.square.site/

Jake’s story

Alex the parrot (Northern Parrots dot com): https://www.northernparrots.com/alexs-legacy-blog522/

The first animal to ask an existential question: https://mymodernmet.com/alex-the-african-gray-parrot/

Alex’s math skillz: https://bit.ly/3DeKhV9

Alex demo video: https://youtu.be/ldYkFdu5FJk

Video of Alex’s general story: https://www.pbs.org/video/nova-sciencenow-profile-irene-pepperberg-alex/

Wyatt’s story

Koko the gorilla (WaPo): https://wapo.st/3Hjb84L

The Education of Koko pdf: https://bit.ly/3c4j0ZM

Koko selfie: https://i.natgeofe.com/n/54f15004-b163-4018-89f8-5a65b81bde66/kok-gorilla-selfie.jpg

Why tell Koko about Robin Williams’ death? (NYT): https://nyti.ms/3CcEGNN

The Wire article: https://thewire.in/the-sciences/did-the-worlds-most-famous-gorilla-ever-talk-like-humans-did

Robin Williams and Koko: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9I_QvEXDv0&t=26s

The Onion video: https://youtu.be/CJkWS4t4l0k

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First-time listener? Probably don't start with this one 😅

EPISODE LINKS

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Four Phantoms email: fourphantomsbeer@gmail.com

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Four Phantoms on Untappd: https://untappd.com/FourPhantoms/beer

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It’s Hallow-friggin-ween again, the time of year when dear friends and podcast cohosts gather around way too late at night, make several beeswax candles from scratch, try to read by said candles’ light, and generally just get real tired on mic. You know, the universal tradition!

EPISODE LINKS

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Four Phantoms email: fourphantomsbeer@gmail.com

Four Phantoms website: https://www.fourphantoms.net/

Four Phantoms store: https://four-phantoms-brewing-company.square.site/

Four Phantoms on Untappd: https://untappd.com/FourPhantoms/beer

Jake’s story

“They Bite”: https://talesofmytery.blogspot.com/2013/02/anthony-boucher-they-bite.html

Wyatt’s story

“Don’t Look Out the Window…”: https://bit.ly/3nMITCE

Old timey cartoon: https://i.ytimg.com/vi/mGl0qpU8_RY/maxresdefault.jpg

“St. James Infirmary Blues”: https://youtu.be/aDATXtewPrg

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Fantastical exploits of the 19th century lead the boys on a slog through what can be best described as “ultraviolet prose”. And an unintentional amount of bat people!

Wyatt tackles the sluggish flotsam of a fully unabridged article from The Wilson World in 1895 to get to the bottom of a weird skeleton situation. Then Jake forsakes the shackles of his sublunary life for some extremely heavily abridged adventures on the dang ol’ moon!

That’s enough words for now. There were so many – TOO many – in those goddamned articles… Anyway, enjoy the show!

EPISODE LINKS

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Four Phantoms email: fourphantomsbeer@gmail.com

Four Phantoms website: https://www.fourphantoms.net/

Four Phantoms store: https://four-phantoms-brewing-company.square.site/

Four Phantoms on Untappd: https://untappd.com/FourPhantoms/beer

Wyatt’s story

Last of the Vampires: https://bit.ly/3CHFOK1

Jake’s story

The Great Moon Hoax: http://hoaxes.org/text/display/the_great_moon_hoax_of_1835_text/

Bat people of the moon: https://bit.ly/3EM6Vp9

Reverend Dick’s tortilla book: https://bit.ly/3kAX6lS

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Another tasty morsel from *behind the paywall*

Want more? You can find it at https://www.patreon.com/superduperstitious AND YOU WILL LIKE IT

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YOU do all the hard work so that WE can create one of our least accessible episodes for new listeners! Also a beer happens.

Send your own stories to contact@superduperstitous.com!

EPISODE LINKS

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Hurricane Ida relief: https://time.com/6093916/how-to-help-hurricane-ida/

Four Phantoms email: fourphantomsbeer@gmail.com

Four Phantoms website: https://www.fourphantoms.net/

Four Phantoms store: https://four-phantoms-brewing-company.square.site/

Four Phantoms on Untappd: https://untappd.com/FourPhantoms/beer

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All good things must come to an end, but also August Around the World has to as well. In any case, it’s Kenya time!

Their long TREK finally at an end, the boys celebrate by checking out some cool Kenyan creatures and a lake that will kill you. Wyatt leads the way with the Nandi bear. It is neither Nandi, nor is it a bear – discuss. Then after an overdue Phantom update that definitely wasn’t just a clumsy way to pad his segment’s runtime, Jake makes a meandering intro to what is ultimately just a bunch of photos, which are super practical in an audio-based show.

Listen to it right now, you common, hairy ant-bear!

EPISODE LINKS

All-purpose show links: https://superduperstitious.com/links

Help Lebanon: https://helplebanon.carrd.co/

Help Haiti: http://www.haitiemergencyrelief.org/support-our-work/

Help Afghanistan: https://www.npr.org/2021/08/17/1028483700/help-afghanistan-refugees

Four Phantoms email: fourphantomsbeer@gmail.com

Four Phantoms website: https://www.fourphantoms.net/

Four Phantoms store: https://four-phantoms-brewing-company.square.site/

Four Phantoms on Untappd: https://untappd.com/FourPhantoms/beer

Wyatt’s story

Bob Gymlan on the Nandi bear: https://youtu.be/8w98_sall1A

Dinopithecus: http://www.prehistoric-wildlife.com/species/d/dinopithecus.html

Gelada: https://andywildlifesafari.com/uploads/0000/1/2020/03/13/img-20191212-110115-294-1.jpg

Jake’s stories

Simbi Nyaima: https://bit.ly/3zo1UzR

Legend of the village that sank: https://paukwa.or.ke/simbi-nyaima/

Lake Natron: https://www.livescience.com/40135-photographer-rick-brandt-lake-natron.html

Photos: https://bit.ly/38e9mBX

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The back half of August Around the World brings the show to Ecuador, where the animals are plentiful and the term “big boned” has a whole new meaning!

Jake pays a visit to some archeological sites of varying credibility to find lost golden libraries and curious skeletons. You don’t have to be 42 feet tall to laser a cave out of a mountain, but it helps. Then Wyatt walks through the possibilities of an unknown species (or two!) lurking in the rain forest. A predatory cat would probably be more successful in all black, but one does want a hint of color.

EPISODE DESCRIPTION OVER. Listen to the show and sign up for the friggin’ Patreon!

EPISODE LINKS

All-purpose show links: https://superduperstitious.com/links

Help Lebanon: https://helplebanon.carrd.co/

Help Haiti: http://www.haitiemergencyrelief.org/support-our-work/

Help Afghanistan: https://www.npr.org/2021/08/17/1028483700/help-afghanistan-refugees

Four Phantoms email: fourphantomsbeer@gmail.com

Four Phantoms website: https://www.fourphantoms.net/

Four Phantoms store: https://four-phantoms-brewing-company.square.site/

Four Phantoms on Untappd: https://untappd.com/FourPhantoms/beer

Jake’s stories

New Infinity Explorers logo: https://bit.ly/3zb0oB2

Lost metallic library of la Cueva de los Tayos: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/cueva-de-los-tayos

Móricz on his cave discovery: https://sagacreativa.com/en/tayos-cave-the-library-of-metal-books/

GIANT SKELETONS FOUND: https://bit.ly/3y8SGGe

Article on Russell Dement: https://bit.ly/2W5Dflv

But that’s maybe fake, too: https://bit.ly/3gFHD1J

Wyatt’s story

The Macas mammal: https://cryptidarchives.fandom.com/wiki/Macas_mammal

Angel Morant Forés: http://karlshuker.blogspot.com/2009/06/angel-and-his-amazing-technicolor-dream.html

Coastal jaguars of Ecuador: https://www.intechopen.com/chapters/56151

Marc van Roosmalen: https://scienceblogs.com/tetrapodzoology/2007/06/01/multiple-new-species-of-large-3

Feline vision: https://www.livescience.com/40459-what-do-cats-see.html

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August continues to go around the world or whatever, all thanks to a purely arbitrary programming decision two years ago!

It’s Russia o’clock mofos, so you KNOW the boys are bringing their A-game by way of dragons and radio stations. Wyatt pays a visit to Lake Brosno, where a monster the size of a sand mountain (the SI unit for dragon volume) has been swallowing everyone and everything that dares cross its watery domain. It’s real! It is not marmalade! Jake then takes to the airwaves with a look at numbers stations – mysterious radio stations involving numbers – and focuses on one station in particular: MDZhB, also known as UVB-76, also also known as The Buzzer.

There’s no time for additional cute references turned into calls-to-action: listen to the dang old episode!

EPISODE LINKS

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Four Phantoms email: fourphantomsbeer@gmail.com

Four Phantoms website: https://www.fourphantoms.net/

Four Phantoms store: https://four-phantoms-brewing-company.square.site/

Four Phantoms on Untappd: https://untappd.com/FourPhantoms/beer

Wyatt’s story

Almasty video: https://youtu.be/XhYxK2rjHI0

Mysterious Universe: https://mysteriousuniverse.org/2021/03/the-mystery-of-the-lake-brosno-dragon/

Ancient Origins: https://www.ancient-origins.net/myths-legends-europe/brosno-dragon-0011946

Ranker: https://www.ranker.com/list/brosno-dragon-russian-cryptid/erin-mccann

Jake’s story

BBC article: https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20170801-the-ghostly-radio-station-that-no-one-claims-to-run

Sample of The Buzzer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wcv_cGLjxCY

Photos: https://bit.ly/3iGkRYM

Moar recordings of The Buzzer: https://bit.ly/3CLFjj2

Radar test example: https://youtu.be/wgwk_A2DPCk

The Lincolnshire Poacher: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Poacher.ogg

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It’s this year’s first installment of August Around the World, and that means both alien and ghostly Thailand tales!

Jake kicks this globetrotting month off with a pretty lukewarm ghost encounter following a visit to a Buddhist shrine, but he rounds this out with a thankfully more colorful story. And that color? YELLOW. Talkin’ ’bout a weird little yellow thingy floating around and weirding out some farmers before exploding in the sky.

Wyatt then follows that yellow thing’s trajectory right out to the stars, with a not-quite-doomsday-cult but also not NOT a doomsday cult who specializes in receiving crucial telepathic communications from aliens. The world hasn’t ended yet, so maybe they’re onto something…

Infinity explorers assemble! And by that we of course mean listen in for another rousing episode of Superduperstitious.

EPISODE LINKS

All-purpose show links: https://superduperstitious.com/links

Four Phantoms email: fourphantomsbeer@gmail.com

Four Phantoms website: https://www.fourphantoms.net/

Four Phantoms store: https://four-phantoms-brewing-company.square.site/

Four Phantoms on Untappd: https://untappd.com/FourPhantoms/beer

Jake’s stories

Reddit Thailand trip: https://bit.ly/37lyUwv

Infinity Explorers: https://www.infinityexplorers.com/about-us-infinity-explorers

Flying yellow humanoid article: https://bit.ly/3CfuZzz

Photo of sketch of creature: https://bit.ly/3CoqK4z

Illustration of creature: https://bit.ly/3jIXNIn

Additional sketch: https://bit.ly/3xrBMCz

Wyatt’s story

Bangkok Post article: https://bit.ly/37nsrB9

Vice article: https://bit.ly/3AhtUp6

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This week’s episode features luminous ghost children and a bunch of visual content presented in an audio medium. We’re good at this!

Jake explores the night vision horribleness of modern day baby monitors and the many ghosts they capture on camera, but first, Wyatt examines what is so far the phenomenon most likely to get this show cancelled. Take your clothes off, start glowing, and enjoy!

EPISODE LINKS

All-purpose show links: https://superduperstitious.com/links

Four Phantoms email: fourphantomsbeer@gmail.com

Four Phantoms website: https://www.fourphantoms.net/

Four Phantoms store: https://four-phantoms-brewing-company.square.site/

Four Phantoms on Untappd: https://untappd.com/FourPhantoms/beer

Wyatt’s story

Angelyn Schmid post: https://angelynschmid.com/2012/10/27/ghostly-portent-the-radiant-boy/

Radiant boys on Mysterious Universe: https://bit.ly/2UYfgE9

Jake’s story

Time magazine article: https://time.com/5707088/ghost-baby-crib/

Baby monitor ghost baby: https://bit.ly/3ldn5kd

The history of baby monitors: https://mybabynursery.com.au/when-did-baby-monitors-come-out/

Nameless invisible bear friend: https://bit.ly/376CV7L

Less convincing baby monitor ghost #1: https://bit.ly/2US4bVi

Less convincing baby monitor ghost #2: https://bit.ly/3x6xCQd

Baby monitor ghost skull post: https://bit.ly/3rHKafK

Baby monitor ghost skull image: https://i.imgur.com/jNBhKv5.jpg

Baby monitor ghost baby conclusion image: https://i.imgur.com/IXyPvPm.jpg

The creepy video Wyatt found: https://youtu.be/l8oKZ2w0_eU

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What’s that sound? It’s either a signal of the End Times, metal stuff, a weird fish, various hoaxes, a microwave weapon, something completely psychological – or it’s the latest episode of Superduperstitious!

This week, learn all about the 2010s phenomenon of sky trumpets and their probably not-so-apocalyptic origin, and yet again revisit Havana syndrome, which was at first maybe some kind of sonic attack but also maybe just bugs, and then possibly mass hysteria, but now potentially an honest-to-goodness microwave weapon, or else still just mass hysteria. Good times!

Slap on a Magneto helmet and REPENT, it’s podcast time!

EPISODE LINKS

All-purpose show links: https://superduperstitious.com/links

Four Phantoms email: fourphantomsbeer@gmail.com

Four Phantoms website: https://www.fourphantoms.net/

Four Phantoms store: https://four-phantoms-brewing-company.square.site/

Four Phantoms on Untappd: https://untappd.com/FourPhantoms/beer

Jake’s story

BIGFOOT TITTY SLIDE: https://twitter.com/DashKwiatkowski/status/1416776691108749317?s=20

Sky trumpets: https://bit.ly/36W0foz

Lakeland, FL video: https://youtu.be/z9uO4N1poYA

Kiev, Ukraine video: https://youtu.be/vcUDYBIrWio

Midshipman fish mating call: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNB-hoKwa0A

Allen, TX video: https://youtu.be/-dIG3sWhyuc

Queensland, Australia video: https://youtu.be/-Edn9GcfEAk

Wellington, New Zealand video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aaqd4IuEj7Q

Grader blade in British Columbia: https://bit.ly/3zxxWsZ

Slovakia mystery sound video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUG1xIOnqnc

Slovakia explanation video: https://youtu.be/EDeZTohP04k

Train brakes video: https://youtu.be/XvfC2WHV_LE

Wyatt’s story

Havana syndrome (May article): https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/12/us/politics/biden-cia-brain-injury.html

Havana syndrome (July article): https://nyti.ms/3y9QQGg

Super recent article: https://bit.ly/2UObH38

Maybe it’s psychosomatic: https://wb.md/3wXv2MB

Royal Society of Medicine article: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0141076819877553

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YES you heard right: the much beloved recurring segment you all have been hankering for and definitely haven’t totally forgotten about is BACK.

In Part 2 of this lots-o-parts series, the boys head to the states where they were born in search of spooks! For Wyatt, this means an extremely haunted mansion in Pennsylvania that was not known for its still-attached heads. Did it really scare folks for decades and then get cratered, or is there nothing left to believe in anymore?

As for Jake, it’s monster time in the woods of Maine! What was the mysterious creature screaming in the night and mauling local pets? And did it died?

Protect your pog collection and I guess just avoid Pittsburgh as you settle into another edition of Home State Horrors!

EPISODE LINKS

All-purpose show links: https://superduperstitious.com/links

Four Phantoms email: fourphantomsbeer@gmail.com

Four Phantoms website: https://www.fourphantoms.net/

Four Phantoms store: https://four-phantoms-brewing-company.square.site/

Four Phantoms on Untappd: https://untappd.com/FourPhantoms/beer

Wyatt’s story

The House on Ridge Avenue: https://www.americanhauntingsink.com/ridge

The real story: https://blog.historian4hire.net/2019/12/17/ghosts-and-gangsters/

Edison’s spirit phone: https://bit.ly/3wmcs0g

Jake’s story

The Androscoggin Creature: https://www.livescience.com/1018-mystery-monster-dogs-maine.html

Archived news article: https://web.archive.org/web/20061029122457/http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14383883/

Moar Maine monster dog stuff: https://www.sunjournal.com/2006/08/16/mysterious-beast/

2020 sighting: https://bit.ly/3wv9kiy

PHOTOS: https://www.instagram.com/p/CRFQWA_FqGG/

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It’s once again time for the boys to take a break from trying!

This week, Wyatt and Jake take some big swings at explaining YOUR spooky experiences. That’s right: it’s another listener story episode! By simply sending an email to contact@superduperstitious.com, you, too, can finally learn the answers to all of your life’s creepiest mysteries. Whether that answer is clowns, trains, clowns driving trains, or ”other”, you’re sure to learn something and have a great time.

For now, you can have a great time by living vicariously though these listeners who already sent their stories in! Let’s go ahead and do that now…

EPISODE LINKS

Four Phantoms email: fourphantomsbeer@gmail.com

Four Phantoms website: https://www.fourphantoms.net/

Four Phantoms store: https://four-phantoms-brewing-company.square.site/

Four Phantoms on Untappd: https://untappd.com/FourPhantoms/beer

Hawai’i stuff: https://www.halehoolahamakua.org/

More Hawai’i stuff: https://bit.ly/3ygKhBi

Sound and sand: https://youtu.be/wvJAgrUBF4w

Our first mention of sonic attacks: https://www.superduperstitious.com/episodes/5-hooked-on-sonics

Yamabiko Illustration: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/06/Suushi_Yama-biko.jpg

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It’s long past time for another E.T.-centric episode, so this one features a pair of stories covering the whole UFOeuvre!

So it goes.

EPISODE LINKS

Four Phantoms email: fourphantomsbeer@gmail.com

Four Phantoms website: https://www.fourphantoms.net/

Four Phantoms store: https://four-phantoms-brewing-company.square.site/

Four Phantoms on Untappd: https://untappd.com/FourPhantoms/beer

Wyatt’s story

NYT article: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/03/us/politics/ufos-sighting-alien-spacecraft-pentagon.html

Newly declassified stuff: Coming soon!

Jake’s story

APRO Bulletin article: http://www.openminds.tv/wp-content/uploads/APRO26-4.pdf

That other account Wyatt mentioned: https://www.instagram.com/p/BoSBeMqHnJx/

The robots and the Casio: https://bit.ly/3wTQVwT

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