Superduperstitious

It’s the second half of this special look at superstitions!

What actually IS the deal with our weird ol’ brains, and how do they make so many of us believe the darnedest things? Worries over numbers (hotel-wise and otherwise), pigeon OCD — it’s all part of being alive! Stories of the strange? Yeah, you’ll be hearing the science behind 'em. And questions? Oh you KNOW they’re gettin’ answered! All on this salt-sprinkled conclusion to the most on-brand Superduperstitious Special Report yet!

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Four Phantoms email: [email protected]

Four Phantoms pickup location: https://burgybrews.hrpos.heartland.us/

Four Phantoms on Untappd: https://untappd.com/FourPhantoms/beer

Magical thinking: https://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/psychpedia/magical-thinking

Placebo effect: https://www.healthline.com/health/placebo-effect#real-examples

Moar placebo effect: https://www.health.harvard.edu/mental-health/the-power-of-the-placebo-effect

Unlucky 13: https://www.history.com/news/whats-so-unlucky-about-the-number-13

Folklore Thursday: https://folklorethursday.com/folklife/spilled-salt-bad-luck-protection-dark-side/

Morton Salt: https://www.mortonsalt.com/article/salt-history/

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It’s Special Report time, mofos! And also long past time that the podcast looked into its namesake.

That’s right: this latest two-parter is all about superstitions! And you’d be amazed how hard it is now to type that word normally, without the “duper”. In Part I, Jake covers good luck, Wyatt covers the bad, and they both hit the ugly. On the good luck side, it’s all about salt and how it can ward off evil! But not meta-demons, whatever the goddamned hell those are. Good times! Also: lucky snack bags in Taiwan.

On the bad luck side, CURSES. Mummy ones, puberty ones, and all the signs to determine if an evil wizard has given you one. Sorry, not a wizard, a practicer of black majique. Is there any reason NOT to assume that every small inconvenience in your life is connected? We may never truly know.

It’s time to start exploring the beliefs we all believe and why we believe them, in Part I of this Superduperstitious Special Report!

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Four Phantoms on Untappd: https://untappd.com/FourPhantoms/beer

Jake’s story

Ghostly Activities article (salt): https://www.ghostlyactivities.com/salt-a-ghostly-protection-go-to/

Kuai Kuai culture: https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/3762991

Less helpful translation: http://www.netadmin.com.tw/netadmin/zh-tw/viewpoint/5C5F7FE8ACFE402897093FB8F5631F9C

Wyatt’s story

Mummy’s curse: https://www.livescience.com/38670-famous-historical-curses.html

12 Classic Signs You’ve Been Cursed: https://www.becomealivinggod.com/newsletter/12-classic-signs-youve-been-cursed.php

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It’s a new beginning for this here podcast, which we assume means literally doing everything over again from the beginning.

In this episode, Wyatt and Jake talk about their favorite cryptids, which they DEFINITELY HAVEN’T already talked about before and SURELY not in the first episode of this show. Rest assured: you’re guaranteed to learn new stuff this time around, like the fact that everything in history is somehow connected to Atlantis, and that when you see an unknown creature, you should check not only its genitals (as discussed many times by now), but also its flaps. That, and you’ll get some pretty straightforward forensic science and predator biology to boot.

Episode 200, here we come!

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Wyatt’s story

Bigfoot in Australia: http://www.bigfootencounters.com/stories/aussie_report.htm

Bernardo Giant: http://www.bigfootencounters.com/stories/bernardo.htm

Jake’s story

Russian chicken killings: https://www.rt.com/news/311331-voronezh-chupacabra-chickens-dog/

Recent chupacabra sightings: https://remezcla.com/features/culture/chupacabra-sightings-this-year/

Ben Radford’s website: http://benjaminradford.com/

The chupacabra explained: http://amzn.to/muluYb

Lividity: http://www.exploreforensics.co.uk/rigor-mortis-and-lividity.html

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Wait, are we still doing this? Wasn’t last week’s the big finale?? Oh jeez, didn’t really prepare anything for this, uhhh…

Join Jake and Wyatt as they look over their first hundred episodes — and the life choices that brought them here — with a small selection of topics to revisit from the first few years of the show’s run! And stick around for the next hundred eps. They’ll probably be good, too!

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Jake’s stories

Grand Canyon bullshit: https://www.crystalinks.com/grandcanyon.html

“Glowing Eyes?”: https://www.reddit.com/r/Humanoidencounters/comments/e0a7vm/glowing_eyes/

“Crawler” video: https://www.reddit.com/r/CrawlerSightings/comments/dfiotn/possible_source_for_some_crawler_sightings/

Wyatt’s stories

Fast radio bursts: https://futurism.com/the-byte/powerful-radio-signal-from-distant-galaxy-seems-to-have-a-pattern

Sacsayhuamán (bonkers): https://www.ancient-code.com/ancient-technology-ancient-cultures-soften-stone/

Sacsayhuamán (factual): https://www.ancient.eu/Sacsayhuaman/

Jack’s back: https://www.yourlocalguardian.co.uk/news/9546587.terrified-banstead-family-confronted-by-dark-figure-on-bypass/

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That’s it! We did it! This is the last episode of Superduperstitious! That is double digits!

You heard right: it’s the 99th episode! And what better way to celebrate this milestone than with an episode topic befitting the episode number? ’99 was a big year for a big movie that changed all of our lives forever, probably. So this episode is obviously full of clothing history and stuff like that.

Learn kung fu real quick and wear some sick shades while you’re at it, because you’ve got some Superduperstitious to listen to!

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Phantom of the Chicago photo: https://www.phantomsandmonsters.com/2020/01/large-dark-winged-being-encountered-on.html

Wyatt’s story

History of the trench coat: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/trench-coat-made-its-mark-world-war-i-180955397/

Mustache law: https://www.thevintagenews.com/2019/03/01/mustache-law/

The Matrix style trench coats: https://mens-fashion.lovetoknow.com/Matrix_Style_Trench_Coats

Medicinal capsule history: https://detroithistorical.org/learn/encyclopedia-of-detroit/scherer-robert-pauli

More capsule history: https://capsuleconnection.com/blog/the-history-of-capsules/

Jake’s story

Nick Bostrom paper: https://www.simulation-argument.com/simulation.pdf

Simulation theory: https://builtin.com/hardware/simulation-theory

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We humans sure do make a lotta STUFF, and we like scary stories, so naturally there are plenty of scary stories ABOUT stuff. That’s right, it’s antiquing time on this episode of Superduperstitious!

For starters, Jake has the tale of a weird wooden idol found in the Catskill Mountains that seems to be attached to some kind of evil entity. Is The Crone really up to no good and all the time conjuring pond water and shit out of the blue? What, really, is it’s DEAL?

Wyatt then slowly cranks up the creeps with a series of cursed paintings, each more unpleasant than the previous. From a flameproof Crying Boy that WAY too many people own, to two successive paintings that have no excuse for existing, the world of household art seems to for sure be a weird place. And maybe the whole justification for eBay’s existence.

Ghost stories abound, unexplained occurrences inconvenience various art owners, and Wyatt and Jake reveal a shameful secret about themselves, all in this brand new ep!

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Jake’s story

Original Reddit post: https://www.reddit.com/r/Paranormal/comments/408hde/me_and_a_friend_found_this_creepy_statue_while/

Photos of The Crone: http://imgur.com/a/IiFo9

Reply from u/nuekerk: https://www.reddit.com/r/Paranormal/comments/408hde/me_and_a_friend_found_this_creepy_statue_while/cysy3to/

Followup post: https://www.reddit.com/r/Paranormal/comments/4rkz4x/remember_those_hikers_who_found_the_cursed_statue/

Episode 9: https://www.superduperstitious.com/episodes/9-bek-2-the-childrenening

Curse of the Crone: http://weekinweird.com/2016/07/02/the-crone-of-the-catskills-this-cursed-carving-brings-visits-from-a-terrifying-paranormal-entity/

Video 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQ2PJv5LnLA

Video 2: http://weekinweird.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/13576492_10154662388635730_1958135138_n.gif

Wyatt’s story

The Crying Boy Pinterest page: https://www.pinterest.com/jodisue333/the-crying-boy/

The story of The Crying Boy: https://exemplore.com/paranormal/The-Crying-Boy

Crying Boy fire video: https://youtu.be/AyRL-yIIVH0

The Hands Resist Him: http://latenighthorrorhotel.blogspot.com/2010/06/hands-resist-him-real-or-fiction-we-try.html

The Anguished Man: http://weekinweird.com/2012/11/27/mail-bag-torturous-cries-the-anguished-man/

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It’s adventure time once again on Superduperstitious, but that doesn’t mean that those adventures have to have any firm grounding in REALITY.

After a quick UK check-in with some genuine archaeological coolness, Wyatt heads to Arizona's Superstition Mountains to examine the Legend of the Lost Dutchman. Sure, all evidence of this particular goldmine is 1000% apocryphal, but why would that stop multiple real people from dying actual deaths in their attempts to find it? This is GOLD we’re talking about!

Jake then takes things unintentionally nearby to the Grand Canyon, where, it turns out, all ancient civilizations came from. You want Egyptian mummies? You got ‘em! A generic mishmash of a dozen or more distinct eastern and southern Asian cultures? Coming right up! A whole bunch of scientists in 1909 studying these incredible finds while avoiding a haunted snake pit? Check. It’s all for sure a real thing that happened, and that’s why we all remember it so well!

Start reconciling those geological discrepancies, watch out for snipers, and settle in to yet another fine ep o’ Superduperstitious!

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Chicago Pizza Tours: https://www.chicagopizzatours.com/

Chicago Prohibition Tours: https://www.prohibitiontours.com/

Wyatt’s story

Havering Hoard news: https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2020/feb/10/french-bracelet-among-surprises-in-mysterious-havering-hoard

Superstition Mountains: https://www.superstitionmountain.com/History-of-the-Superstition-Mountains-13C19.html

Legend of the Lost Dutchman: https://azstateparks.com/lost-dutchman/explore/the-dutchman

More Lost Dutchman: https://bigthink.com/strange-maps/63-a-map-to-the-lost-dutchman-gold-mine

Jake’s story

Arizona Gazette article: http://www.spiritofmaat.com/archive/nov2/gazette.htm

Incredibly reputable source: https://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/egipto/esp_egipto_grandcanyon01.htm

More of that: https://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/esp_orionzone_8c.htm

Smithsonian myths: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/urban-legends-about-the-smithsonian-135407460/

Grand Canyon caves and karst: https://www.nps.gov/grca/learn/nature/cave.htm

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Mountains: you can be on them, near them, and maybe even under them if things aren’t going great for you. Here’s an ep about that!

Jake’s up first, with both a PSA about not believing every viral video you see AND a story about ghostly experiences in the White Mountains of New Hampshire. Is The Presence of Mount Washington real, or are people just freaking themselves out on a windy peak? Nail down a pair of boots and find out!

Following an especially visceral round of Shadowlands Roulette, Wyatt describes the Sheppton Mine disaster, complete all the popes that were definitely there and the Louises who definitely weren’t. But who among us hasn’t wanted to make at least A FEW burgers out of our friends and coworkers, I mean REALLY.

What even are release dates, anyway? Nobody knows! Here’s a new episode of Superduperstitious.

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Ball lightning nonsense: https://youtu.be/IwR14D3NA8c

Jake’s story

Article on The Presence: https://www.outdoors.org/articles/appalachia-journal-blog/slamming-doors-cries-for-help

Jake’s Lakes of the Clouds video: https://youtu.be/XTLtYiELVj8

Episode 76: https://www.superduperstitious.com/episodes/76-mos-scotia

Rime ice: https://www.instagram.com/p/BP7paBwAylX/?utm_source=ig_embed

Final story: https://www.nhmagazine.com/new-hampshires-most-haunted-places-2/

Wyatt’s story

Sheppton Mine disaster: http://www.eastuniontownship.com/thrones-account-of-the-sheppton-mine-disaster

Citizen’s Voice: http://bit.ly/39fkhJU

Skeptical Inquirer: https://skepticalinquirer.org/2019/05/the-trapped-miners-holy-visions-investigating-the-sheppton-miracle/

Interview with Maxim W. Furek: https://nepascene.com/2016/01/new-book-digs-up-dark-secrets-sheppton-mine-disaster-nepa-greatest-urban-legend/

Song: https://youtu.be/OqDu5LBT8_Y

Interview with Henry: https://youtu.be/NLm-AWrbLtc?t=1304

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Listener stories are always welcome at Superduperstitious, but not without raising the immortal question: are these stories GOOD?

Listener Nick Smith kindly provides a pair of personal accounts of the spooky, so Wyatt and Jake kindly provide feedback on their quality, since that’s what Nick was surely wanting. And they of course achieve this by comparing to some top notch stories from the Website of Only Good Writing, Reddit!

Wyatt begins by revisiting sleep paralysis. From ticked off Anubises to cuckolding ghosts, this segment’s got it all. Jake then goes Full Pedantic™ with grammar as he looks into some haunted house happenings. NOTHING is more terrifying than verb/subject agreement.

Strap in for some good listening, and consider sending your own tales to [email protected]!

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Nick’s website: https://www.nixmith.com/

Wyatt’s stories

Sleep paralysis AskReddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/1u83wz/victims_of_sleep_paralysis_what_was_your_runin/

Response: http://bit.ly/38FyT5a

More sleep paralysis: https://www.reddit.com/r/Sleepparalysis/comments/ert9xr/sleep_paralysis_sucks_man/

Advice?: https://www.reddit.com/r/Sleepparalysis/comments/ernp99/my_brother_may_have_sleep_paralysis_and_i_need/

Sleep paralysis question: https://www.reddit.com/r/Sleepparalysis/comments/er0w9y/i_get_sleep_paralysis_where_i_can_barely_move_or/

A very good story: https://www.reddit.com/r/Sleepparalysis/comments/erll6u/my_sleep_paralysis_cucked_me_wtf/

Jake’s stories

Halloween ep of Project Science: https://youtu.be/mQZm2RVNo6c

Dog groomer story: https://www.reddit.com/r/Paranormal/comments/e8b4bq/a_night_alone_in_a_very_haunted_house/

Haunted Scottish house: https://www.reddit.com/r/Paranormal/comments/cfnw0g/my_very_haunted_house/

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The Boiz are back, just as you’ve always known them and going by that one name you’ve always called them!

Thanks to a listener suggestion, this week is one full of not-quite-vampires, and their amazing similarities across cultures! After a positively thrilling update from the show’s official Field Correspondent, Jake starts with the Aswang, one of several billion terrifying mythological creatures to come out of the Philippines. Although both Jake and Wyatt learn that they had totally the wrong idea about what the Aswang is, they are able to at least continue to be creeped out by that damned tongue. So I guess fetuses are safe for now?

Wyatt then turns to Romania, not for your standard Transylvanian fare, but instead for some background on the strigoi, a pre-vampire with far more complicated rules and apparently much more involved methods of disposal. And thankfully, there is hope that these undead creeps may become functioning members of society again (at least once they stop stealing cattle).

Keep away from any lickholes in your domicile and be prepared to pry open your dead loved ones with a pitchfork while you tune in to another fun episode of Superduperstitious!

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Firekiller Report: https://www.superduperstitious.com/field-reports/fire-killer-3

Jake’s story

The Aswang Project: https://www.aswangproject.com/what-is-an-aswang/

The Culture Trip: https://theculturetrip.com/asia/philippines/articles/aswang-the-terrifying-vampire-ghouls-of-the-philippines/

Aswang encounter: https://www.reddit.com/r/Paranormal/comments/4bvk5q/my_encounter_with_an_aswang/

Wyatt’s story

Petre Toma account: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2005/jun/19/theobserver

Strigoi: https://science.howstuffworks.com/science-vs-myth/strange-creatures/vampire3.htm

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