…a real bug. We must apologize yet again for the lateness of this episode. If you haven’t been listening through to the end, you may not have heard about RUCKUS NYC, the conference and concert that’s currently eating our lives. Things should return to normal after Sept. 29.

Hopefully this episode is worth the wait. We cover everything from literal computer bugs to serial killers to strange tunnels under New York to a guy with a metal rod through his head.

It may be another Not Actually Happening, but this week we discuss a real thing that did, in fact, actually happen — just not the way a lot of paranoid people thought it did.

This week we have a late one, and a long one. But it’s also awesome, complete with protest rifles, filibusters, and shipwrecks.

This week we discuss a second fake creature that Arthur Conan Doyle got mixed up in. What a weird dude.

Sorry we’re so late on this one. At least it’s finally done! Weird combination of topics this time — everything from a lobster surplus to Nelson Mandela.

In which we debate the tricky subject of when a forgery becomes art in itself… and we hear way too much about a particular piece of graph paper.

We’re back from our summer vacation!

Image credits: Wikimedia Commons and Flickr.

Listen all the way to the end. Trust us. Then go follow @CHRISTHULK.

This Week:

— New summer holidays!

— Dancing plague

— A witch accusation with a crucial flaw

— Hypnotizing Russians

— Penis theft

— The Globe burns down

— Intern baiting

— A boy dressed as a cannon

— The Battle of Greasy Grass

— Corrupt people counting corrupt people

— Don’t mess with research librarians

— Lady gladiators

— Viking orthodoxy

— Barcodes used to be round and a foot wide!

— Using your PIN number to get cash money out of an ATM machine

This week: tales of geography gone wrong, mangled ancient philosophy, and poor choices of mascot.