Superduperstitious

Well wouldn’t you know it, there IS one more guest appearance in store this month, just in time for Halloween itself!

The boys welcome back to the show friend, bartender, tour guide, and expert on all things Chicago, JONATHAN KNOTEK. Together, the three enjoy a drunken ramble through some scary stories, some haunted history, and some very breaking news RE: a certain city’s bat monsters. Just how many people has Oprah killed? And did Jake prep two other stories only to read neither of them? Grab your costume, a very specific autumnal cocktail, and a spot on the couch as you listen along to The 4th Annual Superduperstitious Halloween Spookstravaganza! 

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Catch us on Instagram live: https://www.instagram.com/p/CG_UfgzFE1k/

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

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

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October has one last meandering interview up its sleeve, and this one is all Halloween all the time!

Comics writer and artist CHRIS HASTINGS generously wastes his entire evening talking with Wyatt and Jake about the spookiest of holidays. Does sugary cereal turn children into maniacs? How haunted can a family-made bathtub get? And what type of architecture is required to achieve a successful Krang costume? Find out some of this and also more, all on this week’s episode of Superduperstitious!

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Chris’ work: https://www.drhastings.biz

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

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As Halloween draws ever closer, it’s time for Wyatt and Jake to once again show their directionless interviewing chops!

This week, writer/podcaster/designer/chef JORDAN SHIVELEY stops by to talk about his current projects in weird fiction, as well as a series of Halloween-adjacent topics that come up. Learn the joys of watching entire horror franchises in release order, how to get officially labelled a heretic, plus some Creative Cloud inside baseball – all on this week’s episode of Superduperstitious!

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Jordan’s work: https://www.jordanshiveley.com

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

Four Phantoms email: [email protected]

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

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Another Superduperstitious Special Report concludes, this time with a whole buncha psychology, neurology, and cultural history FACTZ. So what, in the end, is the ultimate reason folks like scary stories? In short, it’s because they’re GOOD FOR YOU.

And in case you’re worried that this episode will be TOO informational, rest assured that it’s crammed full of the most possible nonsensical recurring segments and corresponding bossa nova you could ever ask for.

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Indigenous land: https://native-land.ca/

Land reparations: https://abcn.ws/36IBCwH

Merch Shop: https://www.superduperstitious.com/shop

Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/superduperstitious

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

Life lessons in ghost stories: https://bit.ly/2GCJTb5

Australian Aboriginal folk tales: https://www.sbs.com.au/nitv/article/2016/10/12/telling-ghost-stories-just-part-our-dna

The psychology of scary media: https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2018-58515-001

What monsters mean: https://bit.ly/3jDFX8k

Voluntary arousing negative experiences: https://doi.apa.org/doiLanding?doi=10.1037%2Femo0000470

(Summary of that, but without a paywall): https://bit.ly/34CTzdu

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What better way to kick off October than with another Superduperstitious Special Report! This edition seeks to answer the age old question: why come scary stories?

Jake and Wyatt start this two-ep deep dive with a variety of sample ghost stories past and present, and a look at the cultural and psychological factors that contribute to humanity’s timeless love of being frightened. Listen along to hear two 30-somethings get creeped out by a children’s book, and to wonder why some guys who are SO EASILY SCARED by damned near anything would choose to host this genre of podcast. It’s all here in Part I of this salute to spookiness itself!

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

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

Jake’s stories

The Weekly Irish Times, 1888: https://bit.ly/2HKSlVY

Letter from Pliny the Younger: https://bit.ly/3leLliH

Wyatt’s story

Harold: https://scary-stories.fandom.com/wiki/Harold

The psychology of being scared: https://bit.ly/3ipFRji

A few more points from the Scandinavians: https://bit.ly/3il02Pb

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Autumn: a thing that happens, as far as we know, every single year. North of the Equator, it’s happening RIGHT NOW. This episode is about that!

After a classic and arguably needless SDS PSA, Wyatt explains the German tradition of Feldgeister (“field spirits”), also known as Korndämonen. These corn demons are believed to be responsible for the wellbeing of each field’s crops, so you’d best respect them or you might get beaten with some boobs.

Next, Jake rattles off a series of ghostly encounters from followers of the blog GaijinPot. Which of these readers can prove themselves to be THE MOST INTO JAPAN? And how relevant to the week’s theme even is this entire segment?

Embrace the fall spirit, make it into a doll, and summon forth this episode from the thickest air available (the internet) to join in for another week of Superduperstitious!

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Support Mi'kmaq fishing communities: https://bit.ly/3kRM7Sl

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Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/superduperstitious

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

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Wyatt’s story

The Feldgeister: http://www.heathenhof.com/feldgeister-harvest-spirit-land/

The historical basis of Lycanthropism: https://www.scribd.com/document/192578736/Wettstein-Werewolf

Jake’s story

GaijinPot stories: https://blog.gaijinpot.com/true-japan-ghost-stories-from-gaijinpot-readers/

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What do a scary forest hag legend and a weird stretch of Venezuelan road have in common? Nothing. Except that they’re both featured in this week’s potpourri episode!

After some Venusian news, Jake introduces Wyatt to Penelope, a horrific monster woman who roams the Sierra Nevada eating everyone and everything she can. Can radioactive waste really turn a car crash victim into a superwitch? Why the hell not!

Wyatt then takes a trip down memory lane to the late ’80s and early ’90s, but use caution as you follow, dear listener: this Caracas route, plagued by something called La Mancha Negra, is known for killing, just, EVERYBODY (on account of the blob).

This ep’s got everything you could ever want in a podcast: cracker chewing sounds, meatstriders, asphalt – the total package. So why not drive off the road and straight into another episode of Superduperstitious!

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Super Patron: https://www.superpatron.org/

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Jake’s story

RV sighting: https://www.phantomsandmonsters.com/2012/08/penelope-sierra-nevada-mountains.html

Spooky face picture: https://bit.ly/2ZN8qQU

Monster Spotter's Guide to North America: https://bit.ly/33EUDNI

Second sighting: https://www.phantomsandmonsters.com/2016/01/has-penelope-been-seen-again.html

Repeat account: https://www.reddit.com/r/skinwalkers/comments/3z8khf/crawling_cryptid_sighting/

Video of forest screams: https://bit.ly/2HaFxaZ

Wyatt’s story

Phosphine on Venus: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-020-1174-4

La Mancha Negra: https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/bs-xpm-1992-08-30-1992243008-story.html

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It’s the Randonautica episode! Who CARES if the hosts aren’t in the same physical location as one another?

Using the random coordinates suggested by the cryptic app, Wyatt and Jake tried their best to find stories tangentially related to what they found. All right, “best” is a strong word. But they certainly tried! Or, well… there are some stories, anyway? From the nosleep subreddit to famous cookie moguls, this episode runs the gamut of what qualifies as “audio content”. Spooky tales in the woods, a fair amount of honest to goodness history – there’s something for everyone! Or for someone, probably!

You, the listeners, chose the topic this week. And so, you, the listeners, are also to blame for this episode. Enjoy!

EPISODE LINKS

Hurricane Laura relief: https://www.cnbc.com/2020/08/28/how-to-help-those-affected-by-hurricane-laura.html

Merch Shop: https://www.superduperstitious.com/shop

Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/superduperstitious

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

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

Wyatt’s story

Forest Search and Rescue stories: https://bit.ly/3lUy006

Blueberries for Sal: https://bookshop.org/books/blueberries-for-sal/9780140501698

Jake’s story

Randonautica corpse story: https://bit.ly/3bz3LXB

Juliette Gordon Low House: https://bit.ly/334bCJ4

Smithsonian Magazine article: https://bit.ly/3h0m9tm

The Radical Monarchs: https://radicalmonarchs.org/

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August Around the World concludes with an excursion into Scandinavia, and this time, WE’VE GOT COMPANY.

Specifically, that company is DEREK SWORD of the podcast Monster Crush! Jake, Derek, and Wyatt bring bullshit, history, and science, respectively, as they tackle all manner of Scandinavian spookums, including ghost kinks, un-animals, and surprise steamed hams. If you scatter some phantom rose petals and avert another nuclear doomsday, who knows? You might just find cryptozoological love faster than you can say Storsjöodjuret!

EPISODE LINKS

Jacob Blake GoFundMe: https://www.gofundme.com/f/justiceforjacobblake

Monster Crush podcast: https://anchor.fm/monstercrush

Merch Shop: https://www.superduperstitious.com/shop

Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/superduperstitious

Four Phantoms email: [email protected]

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

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

Jake’s story

The Bloody Monk of Nidaros Cathedral: https://bit.ly/3aYK1MR

Derek’s stories

Storsjöodjuret: https://adventuresweden.com/storsjoodjuret-the-great-lake-monster/

Moar Storsie: https://new-cryptozoology.fandom.com/wiki/Storsj%C3%B6odjuret

Seljordsormen (Selma): https://cryptidz.fandom.com/wiki/Seljordsormen

Wyatt’s story

Original spiral video: https://youtu.be/YIDIZRE1jEk

Norwegian spiral anomaly: https://bit.ly/3b15iW4

Russian missile tests: http://www.nbcnews.com/id/34362960#.X0dIMdNKjUI

Good job, Doug: https://youtu.be/Zx8i5EfmYU4

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In this installment of August Around the World, things are getting every bit as spooky and mythology-y (?) as they are Latin American!

An extra-interrupty Jake infects Wyatt’s mind with cetacean madness while the latter tries to tell the tale of a shape-shifting monstrosity known for terrorizing dark corners of northern Mexico since pre-Columbian times. Said to be what happens when black magic practitioners turn themselves into hellish pseudo-animals, these naguales sure do have a colorful horoscope.

Then, in a segment so connected you’d think it was planned that way even though these hosts most definitely don’t have the wherewithal, Jake introduces the cadejo. If this Mesoamerican monster dog sounds familiar in a British kind of way (or indeed British in a familiar kind of way), then isn’t that something! Spooky tales AND cross-cultural folkloric common themes? What a podcast!

Let’s just put a moratorium on all non-indigenous usage of the term “spirit animal” from here on out, shall we? Great. And while we’re at it, let’s gesture religiously into the air, protect the monkey, and check out this ep of Superduperstitious!

EPISODE LINKS

Iowa derecho relief: https://www.iowapublicradio.org/2020-08-14/how-can-i-help-iowans-who-need-it-right-now

Merch Shop: https://www.superduperstitious.com/shop

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

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Wyatt’s story

The Nagual: https://mexicounexplained.com/the-nagual/

Cultura Colectiva article: https://bit.ly/329zdre

Mayan zodiac: https://mymayansign.com/

Video #1 (many flashlights): https://youtu.be/vTaVjX3DGbM?t=120

Video #2 (creepy scuttling): https://youtu.be/MuOUQ58yOFs?t=61

Video #3 (VERY creepy): https://youtu.be/MuOUQ58yOFs?t=88

Video #4 (issa dawg): https://youtu.be/L9zgbHIusfY

Jake’s story

Phantom Black Dogs in Latin America: https://www.hoap.co.uk/pbdla.pdf

Cadejo Brewery: http://www.cervezacadejo.com/

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