Deep Lore

On July 23rd, 2007 in Santa Catarina Brazil, one of the most atrocious crimes imaginable was committed by 16 year old Daniel Petry when he tortured and murdered his friend, 12 year old Gabriel Kuhn after being ripped off in the online MMO Tibia.

In 2016 parts of the United States, Canada, and the UK were under siege from "Creepy Clown Sightings". This Clown Hysteria actually pushed McDonald's to do the unthinkable. They "retired" Ronald McDonald from the Company. Ever since then he's been pushed to the sidelines and largely forgotten about. Let's talk about Ronald McDonald's creator Willard Scott, Coco The Clown, and how the Pop Culture Americana Icon came into existence...before being pushed to the back and never seen again.

In May 2021, the remains of 215 children were found buried on the site of the Kamloops Indian Residential School in Kamloops, British Columbia. The remains were located with the assistance of a ground-penetrating radar specialist and Tk’emlups te Secwepemc Chief Rosanne Casimir indicated that the deaths were believed to be undocumented and that work was underway to determine if related records are held at the Royal British Columbia Museum.

The Yuba County Five were all young men from Yuba City, California, United States, all with mild intellectual disabilities. On February 24th, 1978 the five traveled to California State University in Chico to attend a basketball game. 4 of the men were later found dead miles away from where they should have been, and one has still never been discovered.

The story of last Judicial Fight to the death in 1386 France might be the last Hollywood Blockbuster from Ridley Scott, Ben Affleck, Matt Damon, Jodie Comer, and Adam Driver, but the original story itself is one that is truly for the ages. Knight Jean de Carrouges squared off in a duel against squire Jacques Le Gris. Carrouges had accused Le Gris of raping his wife Marguerite de Carrouges. It is a tale of Ego and Revenge, but the pure truth will never be known even 750 years later.

Today I cover the following stories:  

Following 46 cases of bleach ingestions in the North Texas Poison Center region since the start of August, experts are again warning people that drinking the chemical won’t prevent COVID-19. The organization pointed to “misleading and inaccurate information circulating online about how to prevent the spread of COVID-19,” for an uptick in poisonings.  

Two Asbury Park police officers admitted Tuesday that they vandalized a pair of cars last year belonging to a man who filed an internal affairs complaint against them, authorities said.  

Police in Japan are trying to coax elderly drivers from behind the wheel with offers of cheap meals, as the country confronts a worrying rise in accidents involving older motorists. Under a scheme launched last week in Aichi prefecture in central Japan, elderly drivers will be given discounts on ramen noodles at 176 outlets of the Sugakiya restaurant chain, but only after they surrender their driver’s license.

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A German man is caught speeding with a traffic camera, and while the camera was taking the picture the man flipped it off. The German authorities determined that this was an obscene gesture while driving a car, so they fined him 75x the normal rate and banned him for driving for a month. 

A group of New Jersey teenagers broke into the Abma Farm Petting Zoo over the weekend, rode around on donkeys and even put lipstick on a miniature pony. The owners of the farm are now trying to help the authorities track them down because the teens geotagged themselves on Snapchat when there.

An unidentified man wearing a face mask went into a sex store in Las Vegas and stole The Moby, a 3-footlong 40lb dildo. He did this in broad daylight and no one can identify him because of the mask.

Today on Stranger Days:

I talk about the 20-year-old woman who Paramedics believed was deceased after performing 30 minutes of live-reviving techniques on her was actually discovered to be alive by the mortuary! Teenagers on TikTok are cosplaying as Holocaust Victims to raise "awareness" about the horrors of WWII. And two teenagers in Israel discovered over 400 gold coins that are over 1,100 years old.

Aurore Pariente, who has covered herself in tattoos to avoid confusion between herself and the Megan Fox, the hollywood star, says she turned down a hefty $1 million to play Fox in an adult film. Dr. Lucy Glancey from the Glancey Medical Associates is saying that love-stricken couples are seeking genital matchmaking to beef up sex during covid. And the Strand Drive-In in Maine has cancelled a screening of JAWS after a New Yorker was killed by a shark attack.