Ghosts in Mexico, meowing nuns, possessions, giggling plagues, dancing...all exciting and all caused by mass hysteria at some point. We're gonna poke at your brains again this week as we explore how a thought can cause real, physical symptoms.

Mass Hysteria

Hosts Emily and Sara attempt to understand the weirder aspects of science, history, and the paranormal using their best coping mechanism...comedy

Comedy

History

Society & Culture

Improv

It's a mystery! About a woman who wrote mysteries! In December of 1926, novelist Agatha Christie disappeared for ten days. No one knows why and she refused to talk about it...what's up with that? 
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Mini: It Was Agatha All Along!

Once upon a time, there were two brothers who were real people who actually existed. While this might not come as a shock to some of you, it was definitely news to us. This week, we take a look at the lives of the men who collected stories from all across Germany (and France) and put them into a book that has since been the opening shot of about 75% of animated movies.

The Brothers Grimm

What do you get when you take some princesses, some hunters, a hole in the ground, and (eventually) a Gnome? A plot that goes all over the place. Seriously. You're never going to guess where this story will go. 
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Mini: Emily's Fairytale Theater Presents The Gnome

We're back in imperial Russia to visit the other side of a very early Afternoonified topic. This week it's all princesses and poor planning as we dig into what actually happened to the Romanovs, Russia's last imperial family. 
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The Romanovs

In the next installment of our series on things that sound like they're the names of old white men but are not actually old white men, we have the tale of the Edmund Fitzgerald and its untimely demise. There are also some Fun Facts about the Great Lakes! 
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Mass Hysteria

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