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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.

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

We continue our journey through D&D’s Monster Manual with Devils! Malignant entities that prefer to do their evil via shady deals, tyranny and worst of all bureaucracy! We pair it with the so-called ‘The Devil made me do it’ haunting and subsequent murder trial of Arne Cheyenne Johnson. What’re the best devils for your campaign? Does Satan hate landlords? How many demons can you cram into a boy? The answers to all this and more on Scrubmode!

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

We welcome Tim Baksh, one of the organizers of Memes, Genes & Snakes Con to gush about Hideo Kojima’s auteur game series. We then look at Dr. Andrija Puharich, The Roundtable Foundation and The Nine. A spooky story reminiscent of MGS, complete with cold war tensions, hypnosis, child soldiers, psychic spies, and how maybe the closest real world analogue to La-li-lu-le-lo received instructions from an alleged psychic AI construct, teaching them how to achieve peace through constant war. IT'S A STORY WITH EVERYTHING BUT THE NANO-MACHINES, SON.

https://www.history.com/mkultra-operation-midnight-climax-cia-lsd-experiments

https://www.urigeller.com/

https://unredacted.com/2010/04/23/document-friday-project-artichoke-or-the-cia-attempt-to-create-a-manchurian-candidate/

http://www.bahaistudies.net/asma/The_Council_of_Nine.pdf

The Men Who Stare At Goats, by Jon Ronson

Phenomena: The Secret History of the U.S. Government's Investigations into ESP and Psychokinesis By Annie Jacobsen

An Evaluation of Remote Viewing: Research and Applications by Michael D. Mumford, PhD, Andrew M. Rose, PhD, David A. Goslin, PhD

https://www.history.com/mkultra-operation-midnight-climax-cia-lsd-experiments

https://www.urigeller.com/

https://unredacted.com/2010/04/23/document-friday-project-artichoke-or-the-cia-attempt-to-create-a-manchurian-candidate/

We go down the monster manual some more, completing the Cs and starting the Ds. The music was provided by Jesse Sanders, check him out on instagram @jseonnabeat.

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Today Julio and Ryan learn about the Warrens from Jon, and talk about some demons in the monster manual.

Jon tells Julio about the ancient snake cult of Glycon.

Today we have a quick one with our special guest Jesse Sanders (the man behind our music). Join us as we go down another rabbit hole and analyze the Rap Conspiracy Iceberg.

The music was provided by Jesse Sanders, also known as JSE MY, you can find him on Instagram @jseonnabeat.

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