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August Around the World continues, though not without incident...

Wyatt is MIA after a SNAFU with the NCAAA, so it’s up to friend of the show and Taiwan expert Cece to lead the way through this week’s travels! Ever the professional, she brings a wealth of history and culture to the episode, AND delivers on the spooks with a trio of ghost stories. Jake talks about some gross bugs or whatever.

Take off your coat and grab a bubble tea as you settle in for another exciting episode of Superduperstitious!

EPISODE LINKS

All-purpose show links: https://superduperstitious.com/links

Four Phantoms email: [email protected]

Four Phantoms website: https://www.fourphantoms.net/

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Jake’s stories

Hermit crab in a doll head (article): http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2015/06/17/2003620916

Hermit crab in a doll head (photo): https://www.taipeitimes.com/images/2015/06/17/p05-150617-a2.jpg

Lake monster (article): https://www.cna.com.tw/news/ahel/202202150364.aspx

Lake monster (video): https://youtu.be/ryoXlvsh2g0

Horsehair worm (video): https://youtu.be/2yq9KJZf798

Horsehair worm (article): https://bit.ly/3PftiY7

Ribbon worm (video): https://youtu.be/vLB5rnw5CI0

Ribbon worm (article): https://on.natgeo.com/3vUsfpu

Cece’s stories

Quanfu Elementary School: https://bit.ly/3QjDW1a

Water ghosts: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wc5wozmhhU&list=WL&index=2&t=388s

Surveillance screen scare: https://www.dcard.tw/f/marvel/p/234568180

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It’s once again that special time of year when the boys get their traveling shoes on (??) and start telling stories around the world! Everything is probably going to go exactly as planned!

The first stop on this month-long journey is Eastern Europe and More Specifically Hungary. Jake kicks it off with an all-purpose supernatural being called a lidérc, which is equally likely to do you favors while eating your butter and then killing you, or else sexing you so good every single night (and then killing you). It’s a chicken-tastic fun time! Wyatt then humors both hosts’ pet interests with a pale humanoid that is also apelike. Sometimes called the Woodcutter of Mátranovák, sometimes called the Treeskinner, this eerie beastie has one thing all cryptids strive for: BLURRY. PHOTOGRAPHIC. EVIDENCE.

Grab an entirely unspecified plane ticket and join in for the beginning of this year’s August Around the World!

EPISODE LINKS

All-purpose show links: https://superduperstitious.com/links

Four Phantoms email: [email protected]

Four Phantoms website: https://www.fourphantoms.net/

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Jake’s story

The lidérc: https://abookofcreatures.com/2021/03/22/liderc/

From Hungary with Love: https://bit.ly/3d4yrEY

SLEEP PARALYSIS CURE: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00028/full

Wyatt’s story

Blikk article: https://www.blikk.hu/aktualis/belfold/matranovak-fanyuvo-legenda-ujra-lattak/sxmqvcz

Treeskinner sightings: https://pinebarrensinstitute.com/guest-articles/2020/3/12/cryptids-of-hungary-guest-article-by

Uncle Gyula: https://www.nool.hu/helyi-kozelet/2021/05/elhunyt-a-magyar-jeti-a-matranovaki-fanyuvo

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The nationwide journey continues with ALMOST the last of the states Wyatt and Jake have specifically lived in (Maryland! Minnesota!) Also the boys come dangerously close to actually reviewing a beer.

EPISODE LINKS

All-purpose show links: https://superduperstitious.com/links

Four Phantoms email: [email protected]

Four Phantoms website: https://www.fourphantoms.net/

Four Phantoms store: https://four-phantoms-brewing-company.square.site/

Wyatt’s story

Dwayyo: https://www.legendsofamerica.com/dwayyo/

“Growling” deer: https://youtu.be/k6ewlw1TR18

Muntjac sounds: https://youtu.be/kQB0vO4aE6w

What was it?: https://jamesrada.com/where-did-the-dwayyo-away-go/

Additional lore: https://susquehannockwildelife.weebly.com/the-susquehanna-witchs-post/january-22nd-2020

Jake’s story

“The Marvelous Exploits of Paul Bunyan”: https://americanliterature.com/author/wb-laughead/short-story/paul-bunyan

The Peculiar Birth of Paul Bunyan: https://bit.ly/3oiujnb

Was There a Real Paul Bunyan?: https://history.howstuffworks.com/history-vs-myth/real-paul-bunyan.htm

Bemidji statue: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2e/Paul_Bunyan_and_Babe_the_Blue_Ox.jpg

Bangor statue: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Bunyan#/media/File:Paul_Bunyan_statue_in_Bangor,_Maine.jpg

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Hidden among two spooky eyewitness accounts each, Wyatt and Jake have respectively hidden a first-person tale that they themselves have fabricated. Can these intrepid cohosts successfully suss out the other’s diabolical decoy, or will they be fooled by the phony? I HAVE NO MORE ALLITERATIONS FOR YOU – just listen to the episode and find out!!

EPISODE LINKS

All-purpose show links: https://superduperstitious.com/links

Four Phantoms email: [email protected]

Four Phantoms website: https://www.fourphantoms.net/

Four Phantoms store: https://four-phantoms-brewing-company.square.site/

Jake’s stories

Real story A: https://bit.ly/3Rh72z9

Real story B: https://bit.ly/3RhPxPw

Wyatt’s stories

Real story A: https://bit.ly/3yGXjdh

Real story B: https://bit.ly/3P9dS89

Latest research article: https://www.nature.com/articles/s42003-022-03535-1

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EPISODE LINKS

All-purpose show links: https://superduperstitious.com/links

Four Phantoms email: [email protected]

Four Phantoms website: https://www.fourphantoms.net/

Four Phantoms store: https://four-phantoms-brewing-company.square.site/

Wyatt’s story

Bird superstitions: https://www.birdspot.co.uk/bird-numbers/bird-superstitions

More bird superstitions: https://ca.audubon.org/news/13-bird-superstitions

Magpie superstitions: https://www.birdspot.co.uk/culture/magpies-and-superstition

Jake’s stories

UFO Clearinghouse: https://bit.ly/3xVdTqL

Viral bird video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2D2lrFemFig

Mexican bird flock crash: https://bit.ly/38uoyxU

Washington Post coverage of same: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/02/15/mexico-birds-falling-sky/

Jatinga bird suicides: http://www.mysteryofindia.com/2014/07/mystery-of-bird-suicide-at-jatinga.html

Jatinga bird updates: https://www.thestatesman.com/features/birds-decreasing-in-jatinga-suicide-spot-76791.html

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Don't worry, we're still trying real hard to actually make the damned show! It's happening, we swear!! And if you wanted to, say, HELP us make said show, well, we might just know of a way you could do that...

(Patreon. You could support us on Patreon, is what we're saying. Check it out here: https://www.patreon.com/superduperstitious)

Links to Stories from This Minisode

The Thing in the Basement is Getting Better at Mimicking People (Part 1 of many): https://bit.ly/3vlzWnT

Weird (and very coincidental) mimic encounter: https://bit.ly/3KU29Za

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Everything is exactly as originally planned in this final episode of March! And what exactly IS planned? Bugs.

From expert testimonial on an insect-adjacent and highly ponderable optical phenomenon (not to mention a book that Jake spent two actual dollars on), to a roundup of the creepiest of crawlies, this ep’s got it all! Specifically if those are the only things that there are.

Check your tergites for body horrors and have a listen!

EPISODE LINKS

All-purpose show links: https://superduperstitious.com/links

Four Phantoms email: [email protected]

Four Phantoms website: https://www.fourphantoms.net/

Four Phantoms store: https://four-phantoms-brewing-company.square.site/

Jake’s story

Seeing Orbs in Your Digital Photos?: https://www.healyourlife.com/seeing-orbs-in-your-digital-photos

Orbs 101: https://www.healyourlife.com/orbs-101-what-do-orbs-in-your-pictures-mean

Clean room orb photo: https://bit.ly/3Dq8xog

Wyatt’s story

Weta: https://www.nzgeo.com/stories/the-demon-grasshoppers/

Tree weta video: https://youtu.be/c_n0mbpX4KE

Twisted wing parasites: https://www.wired.com/2015/01/absurd-creature-of-the-week-strepsiptera

Parasite life cycle: https://bit.ly/3NAdvDK

Wasp with parasites: https://bugguide.net/node/view/86409

Solifugae (camel spiders): https://youtu.be/j_tqyyQnFZk

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The boys are back, with another response to a nonsense prompt!

“Calendars” as a topic may have proved more of a challenge to pull off than expected, but don’t think for one instant that you won’t learn everything there is to know about Greek clocks and Corona, CA before this episode is over! Don’t even DARE.

EPISODE LINKS

Support Ukraine: https://www.npr.org/2022/02/25/1082992947/ukraine-support-help

Support trans youth: https://www.transformationsproject.org/

All-purpose show links: https://superduperstitious.com/links

Four Phantoms email: [email protected]

Four Phantoms website: https://www.fourphantoms.net/

Four Phantoms store: https://four-phantoms-brewing-company.square.site/

Wyatt’s story

The Antikythera mechanism: https://allthatsinteresting.com/antikythera-mechanism

Smithsonian article: https://bit.ly/3MZeRY2

Scientific American article: https://bit.ly/3iw3Y2h

Alexander Jones (not that one) article: https://bit.ly/3CRiIlG

Jake’s stories

Teaser article: https://backpackerverse.com/day-trips-in-california/

Hells Gate: https://bit.ly/3CPsGUj

Photo #1: https://i.ytimg.com/vi/mONtwVM-vUk/maxresdefault.jpg

Photo #2: https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Gtr-LQtPe7U/maxresdefault.jpg

The true story (in the comments, at least): https://www.hauntedplaces.org/item/hells-gate/

Photo #3: https://www.hauntedplaces.org/wp-content/uploads/206245-1.jpg

Photo #4: https://www.hauntedplaces.org/wp-content/uploads/206244-1.jpg

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An unprecedented SECOND consecutive week of very-nearly-SEO-friendly episode titles finds the boys examining… nouns, I guess?

Jake heads to the mountains of Tibet to uncover the mystery of the Dropa stones! Do they contain the secret history of a hitherto unknown people? Or did some white guy see a Liangzhu bi and then decide to get “creative”? Wyatt follows this with news of both outer space and spacing out.

All this – plus an unnecessarily aggressive intro – await you in this week’s Superduperstitious!

EPISODE LINKS

All-purpose show links: https://superduperstitious.com/links

Four Phantoms email: [email protected]

Four Phantoms website: https://www.fourphantoms.net/

Four Phantoms store: https://four-phantoms-brewing-company.square.site/

Jake’s story

Chris Aubeck’s take: https://www.dailygrail.com/2008/12/tuesday-blogscan-16-12-2008/

Bad Archaeology: https://bit.ly/3GuwryT

Dropa stone photo #1: https://i0.wp.com/www.badarchaeology.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/dropa.jpg

Dropa stone photo #2: https://i0.wp.com/www.badarchaeology.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/stonedisc1.jpg

Wyatt’s stories

Magnetar: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/01/220126122424.htm

The Devil’s rocking chair: https://www.newsweek.com/zak-bagans-closes-devils-rocking-chair-exhibit-1441871

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