The Human Exception

In this two-part episode we bring in a very special guest, Courtney Dossett, marine biologist and spunky fish wizard! Courtney tells us all about animals everyone thinks are super cute but are actually horrifying and then all the weird gooey creatures that oft get overlooked

Pt. 2

Oddballs of the Ocean

Sources and more can be found here: https://www.thehumanexception.com/l/file-0033-0034-courtney-the-spunky-fish-wizard/

In this two-part episode we bring in a very special guest, Courtney Dossett, marine biologist and spunky fish wizard! Courtney tells us all about animals everyone thinks are super cute but are actually horrifying and then all the weird gooey creatures that oft get overlooked

Pt. 1

Adorable Monsters of the Sea

Sources and more can be found here: https://www.thehumanexception.com/l/file-0033-0034-courtney-the-spunky-fish-wizard/

In this three-part episode our hosts, Cayla, Nathan and Halli take a look a three cases of intrigue:

• My Immortal: The year is 2006, emo rock is so very in and the Harry Potter fandom is at an all-time high. Enter Ebony Dark'ness Dementia Raven Way, the core protagonist of what would go down as the most notorious fanfiction of all time and one whose legitimacy still is debated today
• Ted the Caver: March 2001, a caving blog appears on Angelfire mostly unnoticed. What starts as a wholesome chronicle of sheer determination, man vs his environment, turns into one of the internet's first Creepy Pastas. Who is Ted? What happened? And is any of it even real? (part 2: Ted the Caver Revealed)
• Ong's Hat: The town that's not actually a town, and not just because it's an unincorporated community with a population of zero. The Hat may have only ever comprised one single building: Ong's Hut. But for a place that barely exists it somehow is the subject of one of the internet's most bizarre tales

Pt. 3

• Ted the Caver pt. 2
• Ong's Hat

Sources and more can be found here: https://www.thehumanexception.com/l/file-0030-0033-ted-the-immortal-from-ongs-hat/

In this three-part episode our hosts, Cayla, Nathan and Halli take a look a three cases of intrigue:

• My Immortal: The year is 2006, emo rock is so very in and the Harry Potter fandom is at an all-time high. Enter Ebony Dark'ness Dementia Raven Way, the core protagonist of what would go down as the most notorious fanfiction of all time and one whose legitimacy still is debated today
• Ted the Caver: March 2001, a caving blog appears on Angelfire mostly unnoticed. What starts as a wholesome chronicle of sheer determination, man vs his environment, turns into one of the internet's first Creepy Pastas. Who is Ted? What happened? And is any of it even real?
• Ong's Hat: The town that's not actually a town, and not just because it's an unincorporated community with a population of zero. The Hat may have only ever comprised one single building: Ong's Hut. But for a place that barely exists it somehow is the subject of one of the internet's most bizarre tales

Pt. 2

• Ted the Caver pt. 1

Sources and more can be found here: https://www.thehumanexception.com/l/file-0030-0033-ted-the-immortal-from-ongs-hat/

In this three-part episode our hosts, Cayla, Nathan and Halli take a look a three cases of intrigue:

• My Immortal: The year is 2006, emo rock is so very in and the Harry Potter fandom is at an all-time high. Enter Ebony Dark'ness Dementia Raven Way, the core protagonist of what would go down as the most notorious fanfiction of the era and one whose legitimacy still is debated today
• Ted the Caver: March 2001, a caving blog appears on Angelfire mostly unnoticed. What starts as a wholesome chronicle of sheer determination, man vs his environment, turns into one of the internet's first Creepy Pastas. Who is Ted? What happened? And is any of it even real?
• Ong's Hat: The town that's not actually a town, and not just because it's an unincorporated community with a population of zero. The Hat may have only ever comprised one single building: Ong's Hut. But for a place that barely exists it somehow is the subject of one of the internet's most bizarre tales

Pt. 1

• My Immortal

Sources and more can be found here: https://www.thehumanexception.com/l/file-0030-0033-ted-the-immortal-from-ongs-hat/

In this two-part episode our hosts, Cayla, Nathan and Halli take a look a three cases of intrigue:

• Weird Weather:  Some days it's too hot, others it's too cold and sometimes meat falls from the sky. Halli talks about some of the strangest weather phenomenon and the superstition surrounding them!
• The Seven Gates of Hell: Outside of the bustling cities and towns, in a sleepy corner of Pennsylvania you will find the community of Hellam Township and with it one hell of an Urban Legend. The story goes, that in the woods there are seven gates and that if you pass through them in just the right order, they will lead you right to hell
• A Plague of Locusts: Did you ever wonder why North America doesn't get locust swarms anymore? It used to happen quite consistently, but around the 1900s the locusts just disappeared. And this was before the invention of pesticides. This makes North America and Antarctica the only two continents that don't experience the occasional locust swarm, what's up with that?!

Pt. 2

• A Plague of Locusts

Sources and more can be found here: https://www.thehumanexception.com/l/file-0028-0029-hell-locusts-with-a-chance-of-meat-showers/

In this two-part episode our hosts, Cayla, Nathan and Halli take a look a three cases of intrigue:

• Weird Weather:  Some days it's too hot, others it's too cold and sometimes meat falls from the sky. Halli talks about some of the strangest weather phenomenon and the superstition surrounding them!
• The Seven Gates of Hell: Outside of the bustling cities and towns, in a sleepy corner of Pennsylvania you will find the community of Hellam Township and with it one hell of an Urban Legend. The story goes, that in the woods there are seven gates and that if you pass through them in just the right order, they will lead you right to hell
• A Plague of Locusts: Did you ever wonder why North America doesn't get locust swarms anymore? It used to happen quite consistently, but around the 1900s the locusts just disappeared. And this was before the invention of pesticides. This makes North America and Antarctica the only two continents that don't experience the occasional locust swarm, what's up with that?!

Pt. 1

• Weird Weather
• The Seven Gates of Hell

Sources and more can be found here: https://www.thehumanexception.com/l/file-0028-0029-hell-locusts-with-a-chance-of-meat-showers/

Shortly after recording these episodes, Cayla discovered a book that had been published in December 2020 that was packed with new information and interviews with friends and family of the five and others involved. The book is called: Out of Bounds: What Happened to the Yuba County Five? by Drew Beeson

Because of this we ended up recording a whole new episode: File 0027: Gone But Not Forgotten pt. 3

• The Yuba County 5: On February 24 1978, five young men from Yuba City, California attended a basketball game at California State University They were there to cheer on the UC Davis Basketball team in an away game against Chico State. Their plan, to see the match and then return home that night to prepare for their own game the following day. But they never made it home

https://www.thehumanexception.com/l/0025-0026-gone-but-not-forgotten/

In this two-part episode our hosts, Cayla, Nathan and Halli take a look a three cases of intrigue:

• The Yuba County 5: On February 24 1978, five young men from Yuba City, California attended a basketball game at California State University They were there to cheer on the UC Davis Basketball team in an away game against Chico State. Their plan, to see the match and then return home that night to prepare for their own game the following day. But they never made it home
• Ryan Shtuka: Ryan did what many kids his age did to earn some cash during the winter season. He went west, to Sun Peak Resort and a got job at the ski hill as a lift operator. On the night of Feb 17 2008 at about 2 am, Ryan left a house party with his roommates to make the 5 minute walk home. But he would never make it
• Jacob Gray: Jacob had left Port Townsend alone on his bicycle on April 5, 2017, towing a trailer full of camping gear. He was experienced in this kind of travel and surviving in the wilderness, it's what he had done his whole life. But the next day his trailer and gear were found 6.5 miles up Sol Duc Hot Springs Road. Strangely, Jacob's bow was on the ground, and arrows were sticking in the ground and out of the back of the trailer. But the owner of the bike and gear was nowhere to be seen.

Pt. 2

• Ryan Shtuka
• Jacob Gray

https://www.thehumanexception.com/l/0025-0026-gone-but-not-forgotten/

In this two-part episode our hosts, Cayla, Nathan and Halli take a look a three cases of intrigue:

• The Yuba County 5: On February 24 1978, five young men from Yuba City, California attended a basketball game at California State University They were there to cheer on the UC Davis Basketball team in an away game against Chico State. Their plan, to see the match and then return home that night to prepare for their own game the following day. But they never made it home
• Ryan Shtuka: Ryan did what many kids his age did to earn some cash during the winter season. He went west, to Sun Peak Resort and a got job at the ski hill as a lift operator. On the night of Feb 17 2008 at about 2 am, Ryan left a house party with his roommates to make the 5 minute walk home. But he would never make it
• Jacob Gray: Jacob had left Port Townsend alone on his bicycle on April 5, 2017, towing a trailer full of camping gear. He was experienced in this kind of travel and surviving in the wilderness, it's what he had done his whole life. But the next day his trailer and gear were found 6.5 miles up Sol Duc Hot Springs Road. Strangely, Jacob's bow was on the ground, and arrows were sticking in the ground and out of the back of the trailer. But the owner of the bike and gear was nowhere to be seen.

Pt. 1

• The Yuba County 5

https://www.thehumanexception.com/l/0025-0026-gone-but-not-forgotten/