ScrubMode

By Julio Adan Villanueva

We're ScrubMode, a podcast about gaming, monsters and the intersection there of. Join us bi-weekly as we talk about monsters "real" and imagined, and poke fun at the goofier aspects of the paranormal ... more

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November 17, 2023 Drow and Driders
This week we talk about drow, dark elves, and the unseelie court, before pivoting to driders, ettercaps and spidery yokai. Why is every evil creature in the underdark a paranoid purple-skinned slaver? Why are there so many goshdarn elf civil wars? and HOW DO I SHOT WEB?
Subscribe to Dungeon in a Box's Wondrous One-Shots before November 30th to play the holiday-themed adventure co-written by Jon. https://dungeoninabox.com/products/wondrous-one-shots?selling_plan=948011178&variant=44859857076394
https://britishfairies.wordpress.com/2021/01/24/the-seelie-and-unseelie-courts/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classifications_of_fairies
The Prose Edda: Norse Mythology (Penguin Classics) Paperback – Illustrated, January 31, 2006 by Snorri Sturluson (Author), Jesse L. Byock (Editor, Translator, Introduction)
Silver, Carole G. (1999) Strange and Secret Peoples: Fairies and Victorian Consciousness
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drow
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C3%B6kk%C3%A1lfar_and_Lj%C3%B3s%C3%A1lfar
https://www.pbs.org/video/jorogumo-the-deadly-spider-woman-from-yokai-lore-2g9su3/
Mayer, Mathew. (2015) The Night Parade of One Hundred Demons: A Field Guide to Japanese Yokai
And of course the 5th Ed Monster Manual.
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1h 4min
November 03, 2023Dryads and Duergar
More Monster Manual Mayhem!

Our sources for this episode
https://www.theoi.com/Nymphe/Dryades.html

Grimm, Jacob. Teutonic Mythology. (J.S. Stalleybrass edition) George Bell & Sons, London, 1883.

Dr. Curran, Bob. Vampires: A Field Guide to the Creatures That Stalk the Night. Weiser, 2005

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simonside_Dwarfs

http://faeryfolklorist.blogspot.com/2009/05/duergars-of-simonside.html

https://www.icysedgwick.com/simonside-dwarfs/

And of course, the 5th ed Monster Manual
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1h 7min
October 30, 2023Halloween Spooktacular '23!
Happy Halloween! As a Halloween special we tell you about one of the creepiest and most recent poltergeist cases of all time.

Sources
An Unknown Encounter: A True Account of the San Pedro Haunting by Barry Conrad

An Unknown Encounter Documentary

Tangled Tales From the Crypt? : For 3 Years, Jackie Hernandez Says She Was Followed by a Pair of Puzzling--and Persistent--Ghosts - LA Times

San Pedro Poltergeist - The Haunting of Jackie Hernandez

California’s Creepiest Ghost Story: Barry Conrad On The San Pedro Haunting
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1h 9min
October 20, 2023 Conversation Starters with Rachel, Ryan, and Julio
Today we're talking conversation starters sourced from parade.com, and go on some tangents. It's a great time!

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thanks to Jesse Sanders for making our music! Follow him on instagram @jseonnabeat

https://parade.com/969981/parade/conversation-starters/

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59min
October 06, 2023 Dragons part 2 - Dragon Tales
Ryan, Julio and Jon talk about dragons in myth and symbol. We look at dragons (and briefly kaiju) as symbol for destruction, climate change, greed, national pride and more. Then we bring the most DnD-ass dragon myth we could find, before introducing you to some dragons you might have heard of from Ghana and New Zealand.
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Sources
PetroDragonic Apocalypse; or, Dawn of Eternal Night: An Annihilation of Planet Earth and the Beginning of Merciless Damnation by King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard on bandcamp
A Book a Creatutes - a wonderful resource with amazing art from the author
The Myth Of Bida God Of The Kingdom Of Wagadu, Portail Soninké. 2006. Retrieved 2006-09-13.
History of the Soninke people
La légende du Ouagadou Bida - with beautiful illustrations by Svetlana Amegankpoe
Tearra.NZ.Gov
PetroDragonic Apocalypse; or, Dawn of Eternal Night: An Annihilation of Planet Earth and the Beginning of Merciless Damnation by King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard on bandcamp
A Book a Creatutes - a wonderful resource with amazing art from the author
The Myth Of Bida God Of The Kingdom Of Wagadu, Portail Soninké. 2006. Retrieved 2006-09-13.
History of the Soninke people
La légende du Ouagadou Bida - with beautiful illustrations by Svetlana Amegankpoe
Tearra.NZ.Gov

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1h 11min
September 22, 2023 Dragons Part 1: Collectible Bards
Ryan, Julio and Jon take you through the dragons in the Monster Manual. Some are good, some are evil, but a lot of em are just gaga for bards.

Thanks Jesse Sanders for our music! @jseonnabeat

Sources
The Monster Manual

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1h 13min
August 31, 2023 Momo: The Dog-hating Bigfoot
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We take a break from the Monster Manual today to dive into the weirdest hairy hominid yet: the Missouri Monster AKA MoMo! Join us for the story of a bigfoot that hates dogs, its UFO and poltergeist friends, and a lot of threatening gurgling sounds. A prequel to our upcoming series on Window Areas and Weird Ranches.

Source:
Momo: The Strange Case of the Missouri Monster by Lyle Blackburn

Thank you Jesse Sanders for our music @jseonnabeat
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57min
August 02, 2023 Dopplgängers and other Spooky Doubles
Jon and Julio talk about Doppelgangers, both the spooky shapeshifters of DnD and the bad-omen phantoms of European folklore. We explore some even weirder doppelganger variants from other cultures, and then go over some of the weirdest Doppelganger sightings in recorded history. Are Doppelgangers the ghosts of living people? Psychic projections? Time echoes? Or something even more sinister?
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Sources
"The Psychology of the Doppelganger." Dragon #80. TSR, 1983.
Robert Dale Owen (1860). Footfalls on the Boundary of Another World. New York: J.B. Lippincott & Company.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK570557/
The Vardogr, Perhaps Another Indicator of the Non-Locality of Consciousness. https://web.archive.org/web/20100107170553/http://www.scientificexploration.org/journal/jse_16_4_leiter.pdf
Night Side of Nature; or Ghosts and Ghost-Seers by Catherine Crowe
Haunted England: A survey of English ghost-lore by Christinia Hole
The Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 1980.
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50min
July 03, 2023 Displacer Beast and other Big Cats
Today we talk about Displacer Beasts, an OG D&D enemy with a surprising origin story that directly ties it to a beloved Final Fantasy Monster and the Alien Xenomorph. Then we talk about the Alien Big Cats, which are disappointingly not literal aliens but just big cats where there shouldn't be big cats. Is the UK home to an escaped population of black panthers? A relict group of cave lions? Magical Ghost Cats? Or is monkey brain just big afraid of cat? Grab a hot cup of phosphorous and join us to find out here, on ScrubMode!
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Thank you Jesse Sanders for our music! @jseonnabeat
sources
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_big_cats
https://forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/Displacer_beast
Voyage of the Space Beagle by A. E. van Vogt.
Chasing Shadows by the Biome Project
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news/definitive-proof-huge-black-panthers-29951838
Fortean Times, Issues 78-83
https://archive.org/details/canadiansciencef00davi
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/895643.stm
https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2005/mar/23/patrickbarkham
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/london/4370893.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/highlands_and_islands/7802874.stm
https://www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornwall-news/man-says-attacked-through-window-2441636
Alien Big Cat Sightings in Britain: A Possible Rumour Legend? by Michael Goss. https://www.jstor.org/stable/1260889
Dunning, B. "Tracking the Wild Big Cats of Britain." Skeptoid Podcast. Skeptoid Media, 21 Sep 2021. Web. 5 Jun 2023. - https://skeptoid.com/episodes/4798
http://darrennaish.blogspot.com/2006/02/british-big-cats-how-good-or-bad-is.html
The sad zoo escape and suicide we mentioned briefly at the end of the pod https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Zanesville,_Ohio_animal_escape
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1h 1min
June 16, 2023 Devils p2
Devils Part 2! The Story of Arne Cheyenne Johnson, the Glatzels and the Warrens was too big for just one episode. We dive into the possession of Arne Johnson, the murder of Alan Bono, and the subsequent court case where a young lawyer planned to prove that demons were real. How’d it go? Probably not how you expect! We then discuss some other crazy US court cases involving ghosts, and whether or not they exist, including the ‘Ghostbusters Ruling’ and that time Warner Bros tried to prove ghosts are real. It’s gonna be a devilishly good time!
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Sources:
The Devil in Connecticut by the Warrens and Gerald Brittle
https://www.nytimes.com/1981/03/23/nyregion/defendant-in-a-murder-puts-the-devil-on-trial.html
https://people.com/archive/in-a-connecticut-murder-trial-will-demonic-possession-prove-nine-tenths-of-the-law-vol-16-no-17/
https://allthatsinteresting.com/arne-cheyenne-johnson
https://people.howstuffworks.com/arne-johnson.htm
https://www.courant.com/2021/06/02/was-the-12-year-old-connecticut-boy-featured-in-conjuring-3-really-possessed-his-brother-says-no-and-the-true-horror-story-has-been-his-familys-exploitation/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1981/09/13/by-demons-possessed/3479fa6b-eee3-4233-a2fc-b9defa403504/?utm_term=.05907102cbcf
https://apnews.com/article/c758c33ba4756f757e1dfec4f0abd39e
https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/647247/the-conjuring-the-devil-made-me-do-it-true-story
https://people.howstuffworks.com/arne-johnson.htm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stambovsky_v._Ackley
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/warner-bros-settles-900m-lawsuit-conjuring-1067445/
https://www.avclub.com/warner-bros-settles-crazy-conjuring-lawsuit-in-very-bo-1821277340

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1h 1min

FAQs about ScrubMode:

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The podcast currently has 101 episodes available.