Superduperstitious

For October’s final guest, Superduperstitious is visited by SARA JONES, host of the podcast Laughing in the Dark! Sara shares some strange experiences had on her own show, plus a pair of eerie stories from her childhood (did you know that she can sense boobs?).

Sara and Wyatt also set aside some time to shit on Jake for calling a piece of ghost hunting gear a K2 meter, despite the fact that THAT’S WHAT IT’S ACTUALLY CALLED, GUYS.

Finally, Jake and Wyatt each share a couple of incredibly stupid stories from Reddit, because for every treat, there is an equal and opposite trick. Get up for school or else get down like a sphere man — Halloween is almost here on Superduperstitious!

EPISODE LINKS

Laughing in the Dark

Libsyn: http://litdarkpodcast.libsyn.com/

Stitcher: https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/sara-jones/laughing-in-the-dark

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/15bgvQpROyURFgZD0DFBVu

Jake’s story

“Our First House”: https://goo.gl/cfzk61

Wyatt’s story

Sphere man story: https://goo.gl/SNTzgB

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The October Interview Spectacular™®© is still going strong on Superduperstitious, and this time, it hits a little closer to home! But also it was an hour drive to do it? But yeah. It’s good.

Guest KAYLA GODDU carries the episode today with a chronology of ghostly occurrences in her house growing up, which was also Jake’s house growing up, because she is his sister. THRILL as a series of seemingly innocuous but strange goings-on gradually give way to complete, Wyatt-chilling terror! REJOICE as a Chad gets his just desserts! WONDER why Jake has never brought any of this up!

Throw out that old bracelet and keep your corduroys quiet — it’s full-on ghost story time on this week’s Superduperstitious!

EPISODE LINKS

Kayla’s website: https://www.icingonthekake.net/

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October continues, and so do the guests! This week, author, historian, folklorist, tour guide, and all-around cool person ROXIE ZWICKER joins the show to recount hauntings around Portsmouth, NH. That, and a story about a cow that will change your life forever.

Wyatt then chimes in with his own dark tale of the Seacoast region, the Smuttynose murders (which is definitely not pre-recorded). While not quite supernatural itself, it’s still creepy and true-crime-y, and you people like that stuff, don’t you? Listen along to a story of betrayal and axe hackin’ — or, if you prefer, a tragedy about a man who was unable to extract money from his former friends’ heads.

Jake then concludes with the famous story of Ocean Born Mary (also not pre-recorded), a pretty fanciful local legend that may or may not be full of holes. At least her ocean-born-ness still seems to hold up. Dig up the whole backyard, and for goodness’ sake, give that lady your fish — it’s time for another episode of Superduperstitious!

EPISODE LINKS

New England Curiosities: https://newenglandcuriosities.com/

Wyatt’s story

Isles of Shoals Murders: https://goo.gl/9p3pJz

The Smuttynose Murders: https://goo.gl/UxyM1f

Jake’s story

Haunted States of America: https://goo.gl/REH63C

Concord Monitor: https://goo.gl/f7iKZX

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October on Superduperstitious can mean only one thing: desperately trying to create Halloween content that stands out from the rest of the year! The solution? A whole month’s worth of special guests, with their own spooky tales to tell!

Up first is dear friend of the show LINDSAY, who has four ghostly encounters to share. Shadow men? Spectral watchers? Cats with bowling balls? You decide!

Jake then follows with a short account that will make your skin, shall we say, CRAWL? Because… it’s a thing about… a Crawler? Do… do you get it? Not to be out-predictable-ed, Wyatt then draws a Sasquatch story completely by chance. Basically everything you should expect when you ask these chumps each to pick a story to share. All that, plus some casual references to Episodes 3, 22, 6, 10, and 33 — all without actually SAYING which episodes were being referenced! A whole year deep, and these guys are almost ready to start getting the hang of this.

Hide under the covers and don’t drop your mail, because Halloween Month on Superduperstitious is just getting started!

EPISODE LINKS

Supernatural collective nouns: http://wondermark.com/566/

Jake’s Reddit Crawler story: https://goo.gl/qVyjZm

Wyatt’s dumb luck Reddit Bigfoot story: https://goo.gl/KRv5Da

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It's another one about urban legends. What more do you need to know? If you want another whole elaborate, silly teaser thing, I'll write it, but like, you could just be listening already, you know? Fine.

This week, Wyatt digs into the several-centuries-long mystery of Canada's Nova Scotia's Oak Island's Money Pit, also just called "The Oak Island Money Pit" apparently. What exactly the hell is buried down those hundreds of feet of now constantly flooded tunnel, and will it prove once and for all that Shakespeare's plays were originally written in Wingings? Jake then heads west to Turnbull Canyon, where either a nightmarish cacophony of constant paranormal horrors has been happening for ages, or nothing at all is or ever was happening other than it being a pleasant place for a hike. Kinda seems to be the way of things on this show, huh?

The pumps have exploded, the children have been tenderized, you've read all the nonsense — now go and listen to the latest episode of Superduperstitious!

EPISODE LINKS

Wyatt's story

Oak Island Money Pit: https://goo.gl/UAfkTW

Jake's story

Backpackverse article: https://goo.gl/ve5hga

Water tower photos: https://goo.gl/QMftQw

CelicaSupra forum post: https://goo.gl/uK2EXw

Drifting forum post: https://goo.gl/gWjqCE

Unexplained-Mysteries: https://goo.gl/4arVbf

Sharon Hill shout-out

Scientifical Americans: https://goo.gl/HQiPBP

15 Credibility Street: https://goo.gl/gZmA2t

Spooky Geology: https://spookygeology.com/ 

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The boys have finally gone out and done something interesting! Or at least, kind of interesting. Either way, they're sure gonna share it with you! But not before a long awaited update on those creepy bat monsters in the Chicago area — Jake walks us through Lon's overarching theory, and why that theory is so phantom-shit crazy as to ALMOST make these updates no fun anymore. ALMOST.

Wyatt shares a first look at some of the Fearsome Critters with the legend of the Gumberoo, which is, if possible, actually EVEN dumber than its name might suggest. Wyatt and Jake are also plagued by not one but TWO rounds of Shadowlands Roulette, and conclude the ep with a recap of their trip to the 3rd Annual International Cryptozoology Conference in Portland, ME (and a plea for $12,000).

It probably says a lot that a "freeform" episode of this show is the most structured, properly segmented episode yet. In any case, you're in for one fun episode of Superduperstitious!

EPISODE LINKS

Phantom of the Chicago sighting: https://goo.gl/krraLN

1981 sighting: https://goo.gl/NZ4t8F

Gumberoo: https://goo.gl/ZorDEt

GoFundMe: https://goo.gl/MrRmWi

The Tomb of Nick Cage: https://goo.gl/UzHCVd

Documentary: https://cryptozoologist.org/

Cryptozoology Informational Blog: http://cryptid-wendigo.tumblr.com/

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We sure do fall for some goofy stuff, don't we? I wonder if there's, like, a reason why or something? Well hottest dog, wouldn't ya know it, the boys have some answers for us!

After a recap of last week's spooky pants and conspiracy balloons, Wyatt and Jake dive right into the psychological and neurological explanations for why exactly the h*ck we can be so easily convinced. Take off your magical thinking cap and put on your critical thinking cap — it's time to finish what last episode started, on this week's Superduperstitious!

EPISODE LINKS

ParaBreakdown video: https://youtu.be/xvIPNYTzGuA

Erik Vance interview: https://goo.gl/7umvsk

Karl K. Korff article: https://goo.gl/R5K9Kt

Ulric Neisser experiment: https://goo.gl/XrEy3P

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Here at Superduperstitious, it's our goal to separate fact from stupid ol' poopy dumb stuff, but it's not always so simple. Sometimes phenomena can be all but completely debunked, and folk'll still cling to beliefs no matter how much evidence there is against them. To that end, it's time for another Superduperstitious Special Report!

In the first installment of this two-parter, Wyatt talks up the disembodied pants that are the Fresno Nightcrawlers. Behold the 5 or 6 pixels of video evidence and decide for yourself if these legs are ALIEN legs! Jake then tries his hand at describing the biggest, famousest, tiredest U.F.O. tale of them all, and why everyone's so hung up on this one town in New Mexico in spite of there being no story and no interest until 30 years after the inciting incident. But maybe this one's aliens, too.

And there's a whole lot more in store next time — aliens are just the beginning on this week's deep dive into bogus beliefs!

EPISODE LINKS

Wyatt's story

Fresno Nightcrawlers: https://youtu.be/fMv85lRAmuk

Yosemite video: https://youtu.be/ziB35K9shuI

Fact or Faked: https://youtu.be/b4XDcJoiXuY

Carmel Area Creature: https://goo.gl/2h3ThJ

Statues: https://goo.gl/zfeGTj

Jake's story

Roswell Daily Record article: https://goo.gl/yXQKjh

Fort Worth Star Telegram article: https://goo.gl/VrqrZq

"A Roswell Requiem": https://goo.gl/rB3qas

Marcel's bullshit: https://goo.gl/D9Hss4

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It's gross bug week on Superduperstitious, because why the hell not? Both Jake and Wyatt independently and accidentally land on stories involving giant, creepy, wormlike creatures, and by some additional coincidence, these creatures also happen to both be found in the general vicinity of eastern Asia.

First up is Jake with a deadly worm in the Gobi Desert, which either murders the crap out of anyone or anything unlucky enough to encounter it, or it's a different thing that doesn't do those things, or it doesn't exist. At least it won't interfere with your spice mining. Wyatt then leads us out into the ocean to hunt for either a terrifying marine arthropod, or else some kind of cursed walrus. At any rate, keep the family jewels away from the seafloor and/or the bottom of your aquarium.

Wow, we really went all-in on gross, squirmy creatures this week, didn't we? Yes. Yes we did. Why? Because damn it, it's Superduperstitious!

EPISODE LINKS

Jake's story

Karl Shuker blog post: https://goo.gl/BufbPi

Goyo photo: https://goo.gl/bMvMYZ

Electric eel: https://goo.gl/MLCJ9v

Electrocytes: https://goo.gl/dVujGz

Worm lizard photos: https://goo.gl/kojz59

Amphisbaena photo: https://goo.gl/SNNjGj

Wyatt's story

Con Rit #1: https://goo.gl/SR2ANU

Con Rit #2: https://goo.gl/ycQL2d

Dunkleosteus: https://goo.gl/PRL1p3

Oarfish: https://goo.gl/DpRFLE

Annelid swimming: https://youtu.be/DhS3TpXnkdc

Bobbit worm swimming: https://youtu.be/refnOdW49rw

Bobbit worm being horrible: https://youtu.be/K_7ByiYbCYM

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Superduperstitious is splashing into summer with some sea-inspired stories! Or at least, that was the plan.

Wyatt starts us off, covering a just kind of vaguely water-adjacent topic: a series of monsters in Australia that may all be one and the same, and not just in the "sticking them all together into one mess of an animal" way that some of the tales might suggest. Plus Jake invents the very worst cocktail and then conflates Irish and Scots Gaelic consonant pronunciations like some kind of IDIOT.

As consolation, he offers the account of the doomed S.S. Ourang Medan, along with possible explanations as to what may have happened to the crew — and aided briefly by musical friend of the show, Tom Waits. As we prepare this episode for takeoff, please keep your elbows inside the vehicle and out of the mouths of any otters, and please make sure your sulfuric acid is safely stowed. It's time for another week of Superduperstitious!

EPISODE LINKS

Wyatt's story

Masterton Monster: https://goo.gl/u2VpRk

Euroa Beast (Bunyip): https://goo.gl/A2YfUZ

Dobhar-chú: https://goo.gl/xWiMAz

Moar Dobhar-chú: https://goo.gl/evNBkQ

Ice age in Australia: https://goo.gl/pqrULQ

Jake's story

Leif Erikson article: https://goo.gl/8R1K3h

Skittish Library article: https://goo.gl/fkRNQa

Old newspaper article: https://goo.gl/jgAm1p

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