These days, the michigan dogman is treated just like any other cryptid, however, its origins are more recent than you might think! 

Google's AI would have you believe that "The Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown" was the first halloween special on television, but it actually goes back further than that, back to the very dawn of television!  

Host Brenda is back to share more hair raising stories of haunted theme parks.  From Alfred Hitchcock's offices, to Dogpatch USA, which was a real themepark at one point, ghosts and ghouls are lurking everywhere.  

Welcome to spooky season mystorians!  We're bringing you four spooky themed episodes this month, starting with the nickelodeon horror anthology series, Are you Afraid of the Dark.  

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We've talked about Night Trap.  We've talked about Mortal Kombat.  But what were some of the other games that led up to the creation of the ESRB?

If you wish to skip the segment on custer's revenge, skip from 22:25 to 35:05

Yes, you read the title right.  Host Brenda is doing an episode on the history of a Japanese racehorse.  Is this nerd history?  Surprisingly yes.  Haru Urara was a racehorse at the Kochi track in Japan who lost 113 out of 113 races she ever participated in.  And yet she was beloved by the entire country for her indomitable spirit.   Why are we talking about her today?  You're going to have to tune in to find out. 

For a long time, Ong's Hat, an abandoned ghost town in New Jersey, has been the subject of many urban legends and local folk tales, but it was also the location and subject for the Internet's first ARG (Alternate Reality Game).  However, what happens when Paranormal investigators start treating the very fictional game as real? 

For several decades, the launch coaster Dononpa was Japan's most iconic rollercoaster, drawing people in from all over the world to see.  However, in 2020 something strange started happening.  Dodonpa began breaking people's bones.  

It's the end of summer, which means thousands of nerds are descending upon fairgrounds around the country dressed in their finest medieval garb.  But how did these festivals come to be?  Who founded these events?  And what does it have to do with the Red Scare?