Stranger Still

Ever wonder what inspired the likes of Dracula, Jason Voorhees, or the Phantom of the Opera? Well too bad! Because we're talking about other horror monsters.

Every week on Stranger Still, we take the questions you've never questioned to ask and try to answer them. We want to make you laugh and teach you something interesting at the same time. So join us every Wednesday for another fun filled learn!

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Sources:

https://www.librarypoint.org/blogs/post/history-of-mummies/

https://www.cinelinx.com/movie-news/movie-stuff/classic-horror-origins-the-mummy/

https://www.denofgeek.com/movies/a-brief-history-of-the-creature-from-the-black-lagoon-franchise/

https://screenrant.com/creature-black-lagoon-gill-man-inspiration-explained/

https://medium.com/@andriolli/brazilian-folklore-notes-on-the-shape-of-water-c65a067b4b05

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/king-kong-unbelievable-true-story-hollywoods-favorite-giant-ape-984785

https://www.cbr.com/movie-legends-king-kong-inspiration/

https://www.thevintagenews.com/2018/08/17/king-kong-origin/

https://inkstickmedia.com/will-the-real-godzilla-please-stand-up/

https://www.sideshow.com/geek/a-complete-film-history-of-godzilla

https://screenrant.com/nightmare-elm-street-true-story-freddy-krueger-inspiration/

https://screenrant.com/halloween-movie-true-story-killer-michael-myers/

Want to never sleep again? Imagine an ant. Now imagine all the muscles, nerves, and organs inside that tiny thing. Now imagine an even tinier spore colony propagating inside that tiny little ant. That's Ophiocordyceps unilateralis, and that's what we're here to talk about today.

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Sources:

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/11/how-the-zombie-fungus-takes-over-ants-bodies-to-control-their-minds/545864/

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/2019/04/cordyceps-zombie-fungus-takes-over-ants/#close

https://www.livescience.com/47751-zombie-fungus-picky-about-ant-brains.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/24/science/ant-zombies-fungus.html?auth=login-email&login=email

https://blogs.unimelb.edu.au/sciencecommunication/2014/09/17/zombifying-fungi/

https://www.uksafari.com/curse_of_the_zombie_spiders.htm#:~:text=It's%20an%20entomopathogenic%20fungus%2C%20which,rapidly%20infect%20other%20spiders%20nearby

https://whatifshow.com/what-if-you-were-infected-by-the-cordyceps-fungus/

The winds are beginning to rattle your bones. The howling of a wolf can be heard, carried on on a soft, fall breeze. And behind you an 8-foot monsters groans, "RRRRRRRR!" That's right, it's Octobermonth. Time to get spooky!

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Sources:

https://time.com/3648440/mary-shelley-frankenstein-history/

https://www.frankensteindiaries.com/2019/08/johann-konrad-dippel-frankenstein-castle-and-dippels-oil/

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Alessandro-Volta

https://www.insidescience.org/news/science-made-frankenstein

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15595271/

https://spartacus-educational.com/IRure.htm

https://allthatsinteresting.com/real-frankenstein-experiments

https://www.cnet.com/news/halloween-treat-brief-history-of-real-life-frankensteins/

https://theconversation.com/frankenstein-the-real-experiments-that-inspired-the-fictional-science-105076

That's right. We couldn't let this thing sit. We avoided talking about people drinking bleach and 5G for long enough. So here we go, debunking once again.

Every week on Stranger Still, we take the questions you've never questioned to ask and try to answer them. We want to make you laugh and teach you something interesting at the same time. So join us every Wednesday for another fun filled learn!

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Sources:

https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2019/advice-for-public/myth-busters

https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/conditions-and-diseases/coronavirus/2019-novel-coronavirus-myth-versus-fact

https://hartfordhealthcare.org/about-us/news-press/news-detail?articleId=26748&publicid=395

https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/coronavirus/in-depth/coronavirus-myths/art-20485720

https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/coronavirus-myths-explored

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/nine-covid-19-myths-that-just-wont-go-away/

https://hms.harvard.edu/news/covid-19-blood-type#:~:text=The%20study%20did%20find%2C%20however,less%20likely%20to%20test%20positive

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/51887978_Electromagnetic_Signals_from_Bacterial_DNA

https://tallahasseereports.com/2020/09/26/cdc-releases-updated-covid-19-fatality-rate-data/

https://www.snopes.com/ap/2020/09/08/infrared-thermometers-used-for-covid-19-testing-do-not-pose-risk-to-pineal-gland/

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/more-testing-more-cases-covid-19/

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/farting-negate-covid19-masks/

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/taller-people-covid-risk/

With the recent passing of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, we figured it was a good time to talk about where the Supreme Court came from, how it works, it's importance today.

Every week on Stranger Still, we take the questions you've never questioned to ask and try to answer them. We want to make you laugh and teach you something interesting at the same time. So join us every Wednesday for another fun filled learn!

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Sources:

https://www.aclu.org/blog/speakeasy/role-chief-justice

https://supremecourthistory.org/history-of-the-court/home-of-the-court/

https://www.uscourts.gov/about-federal-courts/educational-resources/about-educational-outreach/activity-resources/about

https://www.history.com/topics/us-government/supreme-court-facts

https://www.thoughtco.com/how-do-cases-reach-supreme-court-4113827

http://adacourse.org/courtconcepts/scotus.html

Nick isn't feeling good, but he's feeling good he might have found the cure to his ailment! It's orgone!!

Every week on Stranger Still, we take the questions you've never questioned to ask and try to answer them. We want to make you laugh and teach you something interesting at the same time. So join us every Wednesday for another fun filled learn!

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Sources:

https://www.wired.com/2014/11/fantastically-wrong-wilhelm-reich/

https://downeast.com/history/orgone-but-not-forgotten/

https://herbsetc.org/blog/what-is-orgone-how-does-it-affect-your-body/

https://violetflameorgone.com/pages/what-is-orgonite

https://www.crystalhealingforwomen.com/orgone-energy/

http://www.orgoneenergyfields.com/what-is-orgonite

https://journals.sfu.ca/seemj/index.php/seemj/article/viewFile/452/413

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/261251568_A_Preliminary_Study_of_the_Effects_of_Reich%27s_Orgone_Accumulator_on_Oats_Seed_Sprouting_and_the_Structure_of_Water

Sometimes "facts" become so ingrained in our culture, it's a part of life. But sometimes, as it happens, those facts aren't really facts at all! So today, we're fixing the past.

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Sources:

https://www.usnews.com/science/articles/2010/01/12/egypt-new-find-shows-slaves-didnt-build-pyramids

https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/31056/why-did-people-wear-powdered-wigs

https://www.battlefields.org/learn/head-tilting-history/rise-and-fall-powdered-wig

https://thebestschools.org/magazine/25-popular-history-myths-debunked/

https://www.mountvernon.org/library/digitalhistory/digital-encyclopedia/article/cherry-tree-myth/

https://time.com/3517011/thomas-edison/

https://www.livescience.com/43424-who-invented-the-light-bulb.html

http://www.ninjaencyclopedia.com/reality/ninja-costume.html

https://people.howstuffworks.com/ninja6.htm

We're back after a few weeks off! Well, you may be asking yourself, where they heck have we been? As it happens, we've been reeling from the aftermath of the recent derecho that came through Iowa. After being without power for 11 days, you really start to understand what the apocalypse might feel like.

Every week on Stranger Still, we take the questions you've never questioned to ask and try to answer them. We want to make you laugh and teach you something interesting at the same time. So join us every Wednesday for another fun filled learn!

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Sources:

https://www.weather.gov/dmx/2020derecho

https://www.agriculture.com/video/aerial-footage-of-iowas-derecho-damage

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/natural-disasters/what-is-a-derecho-and-why-is-it-so-destructive/

Note: I'm pretty sure in this episode I said Maxine Ghiswell when I meant Ghislaine Maxwell. Sorry my brain took a big doo-doo but also she doesn't deserve any of our time on the air as it is.

I can hear you saying it already... surely not yet another conspiracy theory rooted in Antisemitism. As shocking as it may be, sure enough here we are. Talking about adrenochrome harvesting.

Every week on Stranger Still, we take the questions you've never questioned to ask and try to answer them. We want to make you laugh and teach you something interesting at the same time. So join us every Wednesday for another fun filled learn!

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Sources:

https://www.erowid.org/chemicals/adrenochrome/adrenochrome_info1.shtml

https://www.wired.com/story/opinion-the-dark-virality-of-a-hollywood-blood-harvesting-conspiracy/

https://www.thejournal.ie/adrenochrome-mark-zuckerberg-5160653-Jul2020/

https://thespinoff.co.nz/society/07-04-2020/explainer-adrenochrome-the-drug-that-doesnt-exist/

https://patents.google.com/patent/US3445478A/en

http://orthomolecular.org/library/jom/1990/pdf/1990-v05n01-p032.pdf

It's 2020... which means nothing is outside the realm of possibilities now. So why not aliens? Well, as luck would have it, the government is supposedly going to reveal some info about UFOs by November. But what is the US Government's history with UFOs?

Every week on Stranger Still, we take the questions you've never questioned to ask and try to answer them. We want to make you laugh and teach you something interesting at the same time. So join us every Wednesday for another fun filled learn!

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Sources:

https://www.livescience.com/ufos-videos-declassified-navy-release.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/23/us/politics/pentagon-ufo-harry-reid-navy.html

https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CRPT-116srpt233/pdf/CRPT-116srpt233.pdf

https://www.livescience.com/ufos-videos-declassified-navy-release.html

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/pentagon-declassifies-navy-videos-purportedly-show-ufos/story?id=70364183

https://www.archives.gov/news/articles/do-records-show-proof-of-ufos

https://www.archives.gov/research/military/air-force/ufos#usafac

https://www.secretsdeclassified.af.mil/Home/Top-Flight-Documents/Unidentified-Flying-Objects/

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/carter-files-report-on-ufo-sighting

https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/571380/project-blue-book-facts-government-ufo-program

https://science.howstuffworks.com/space/aliens-ufos/ufo-government2.htm

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/06/the-man-who-introduced-the-world-to-flying-saucers/372732/

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/16/us/politics/pentagon-program-ufo-harry-reid.html

https://fas.org/secrecy/2019/01/aatip-list/

https://fas.org/irp/dia/aatip-list.pdf

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/16/us/politics/pentagon-program-ufo-harry-reid.html

https://www.warner.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/2020/6/senate-intelligence-committee-passes-intelligence-authorization-act