Emma tells the story this week of the Enfield Monster, an Illinois cryptid that turned a town wild for less than a year. Was it really a creature lurking in the woods? Or simply a case of social contagion? Join us to find out and learn more about Muppet-lore than you cared to know.  Yip-yips, swamp slobs, and Shrek; oh, my! 

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Sources: 

The Mother Source on the creature

“A Critical Examination of the Social Contagion Image of Collective Behavior: the Case of the Enfield Monster” by Miller et al in Collective Behavior and Collective Action 

The Abominable Swamp Slobs on Cryptozoonews

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