This Strange World

For our third episode in our Cryptids season, we’re going to talk about poisonous and venomous cryptids! A poisonous and/or venomous cryptid is a cryptid (such as snakes, scorpions, spiders, plants, etc…) that produces any toxin for predatory or defensive purposes. The poison can be found in the blood, muscles, liver, be processed by specialized glands, or be found in the sap of plants. Not all cryptids are equally toxic for life and in some cases the production of toxins varies depending on the time of year. (Hint: Stay a safe six feet from these cryptids.)

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https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cryptid

For our second episode in our Cryptids season, we’re going to talk about alien cryptids! Aliens are creatures from space, or any living creatures that are not originally from Earth. They could be anything from simple bacteria to intelligent life.

For a cryptid to fall under this category, they typically have to fit at least one of the following descriptions: the ability to speak, and confirms through its dialogue that it is of extraterrestrial origin; is generally thought of as an alien, or has an appearance or traits similar to that of known Alien Cryptids; visit earth in spaceships or flying discs; the witness(es) that saw the cryptid claim it was or refer to it as an alien. (Hint: Something that without a doubt exists in one of those galaxies from the new NASA pics.)

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https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cryptid

This Strange World is back with our fourth season! Last season we had the running theme of Bizarre Experiences, but this season we’ve found a new theme…Cryptids! You know, Bigfoot, The Loch Ness Monster, things like that!

Every episode this season we are going to be doing a deep dive into a different type of cryptid. Our season premiere starts the season with humanoids, cryptids similar to humans in their anatomy. Some are also thought to be intelligent on a human level since they seem to have evolved in a similar path. Humanoid cryptids typically have the ability to walk upright (biomechanic bipedalism), two eyes (binocular vision), and are typically not quite human (like human mixed with another animal-anthropomorphic). (Hint: It’s like you, but different.)

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https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cryptid

For our second bonus (and truly final) episode in our Bizarre Experiences season, we’re talking about Anatoli Bugorski, a retired Russian particle physicist who is known for surviving a radiation accident in 1978, when a high-energy proton beam from a particle accelerator passed through his brain.

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https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/the-man-who-put-his-head-inside-a-particle-accelerator-while-it-was-switched-on/

Surprise! Who would we be if we didn’t do a bonus episode at the end of the season! For our first bonus episode in our Bizarre Experiences season, we’re talking about Mary Reeser, a woman whose death was purported to be a case of spontaneous human combustion.

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https://www.tampabay.com/news/florida/2019/10/17/spontaneous-combustion-in-st-petersburg-the-curious-case-of-mary-reeser/

For our ninth and final episode in our Bizarre Experiences season, we’re talking about Stefan Mandel, a mathematician who was able to legally win the lottery 11 times.

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For our eighth episode in our Bizarre Experiences season, we’re talking about Violet Jessop, an Argentinian ocean liner stewardess and nurse, who is known for surviving the sinkings of the RMS Titanic in 1912 and her sister ship, the HMHS Britannic, in 1916.

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For our seventh episode in our Bizarre Experiences season, we’re talking about Phineas Gage, an American railroad construction foreman remembered for his improbable survival of an accident in which a large iron rod was driven completely through his head, destroying much of his brain’s left frontal lobe.

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For our sixth episode in our Bizarre Experiences season, we’re talking about Steven Callahan, a naval architect who, in 1981, survived for 76 days adrift on the Atlantic Ocean in a liferaft.

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For our fifth episode in our Bizarre Experiences season, we’re talking about Ricky Megee, an Australian who is most notable for having been stranded in the Outback and surviving for 71 days in 2006.

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