Wide Atlantic Weird

Join Cian on a bright cold Autumn morning for a cup of green tea and a deep-dive into the history of America's most mysterious bird. Special Guest: Mr Brent Burton, naturalist & science educator.

-the life of American birding hero John James Audubon

-his 'sighting' of the elusive and massive Washington Sea Eagle

-new evidence on Audubon's personal situation when he made the claim

-did Audubon invent the bird to appeal to financial backers?

-other reported sightings of the bird

SOURCES:

Wide Atlantic Weird STORE!

https://teespring.com/stores/my-store-10108989

Brent on Instagram:

https://www.instagram.com/allthingsnaturalist/

Audubon's Bird Of Washington, Matthew R Halley, Bulletin Of The British Ornithologist's Club, June 2020

https://bioone.org/journals/bulletin-of-the-british-ornithologists-club/volume-140/issue-2/bboc.v140i2.2020.a3/Audubons-Bird-of-Washington--unravelling-the-fraud-that-launched/10.25226/bboc.v140i2.2020.a3.full

Interview with Matthew R Halley, American Birding Podcast

https://podcasts.apple.com/jo/podcast/04-20-j-j-audubon-bird-washington-fraud-matthew-halley/id1186824033?i=1000485170153

Karl Shuker On The Washington Sea Eagle

http://karlshuker.blogspot.com/2012/08/washingtons-eagle-and-other-giant.html

Substantiating Washington's Sea Eagle, Scott Maruna

https://sora.unm.edu/sites/default/files/V29.3.OhioCardinal_Spring2006_p140-150_Substantiating%20Audubons%20Washington%20Eagle.pdf

Join Cian for a coffee on an autumn morning at the cabin in the woods to discuss:

-Thomas Harris' 1981 book Red Dragon

-memories of serial killers from the N64 game Shadowman from 1999

-the literary debut of Hannibal Lecter

-the stereotype of the genius serial killer in fiction

-the stereotype of the super-smart FBI profiler

-serial killer and the occult

-who serial killers target and the society that lets them do it

SOURCES:

Wide Atlantic Weird MERCH! CHECK IT OUT:

https://teespring.com/stores/my-store-10108989

Red Dragon, Thomas Harris, 1981

https://suntup.press/red-dragon

Shadowman, N64, 1999

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadow_Man_(video_game)

Paperbacks From Hell, Grady Hendrix, 2016

https://www.valancourtbooks.com/paperbacksfromhell.html

Criminal Profiling: The Reality Behind The Myth, Lea Winerman, American Psychological Association

https://www.apa.org/monitor/julaug04/criminal.html

Making Murder: The Fiction Of Thomas Harris, Philip Simpson, 2009

https://books.google.ie/books/about/Making_Murder.html?id=uf4ouAAACAAJ&redir_esc=y

A History Of British Serial Killing, David Wilson, 2009

https://www.waterstones.com/book/a-history-of-british-serial-killing/david-wilson/9780751541007#:~:text=In%20this%20fascinating%20and%20informative,leading%20expert%20on%20serial%20killers.

Are American Serial Killers A Dying Breed? The Guardian, David Taylor, 2018

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/sep/15/are-american-serial-killers-a-dying-breed

Quora Thread On Ted Bundy, including quote from Franklin Veaux

https://www.quora.com/Would-it-be-easier-or-harder-for-serial-killers-like-Ted-Bundy-to-kill-someone-nowadays-than-back-in-the-70-80s

In the early 1970s, two men climbed into the Sierra Nevada mountains in California. They came to a remote spot in the woods, miles from civilization. There, they recorded the sounds of a group of creatures whose existence is still debated. The sounds they captured remain to this day the most extensive collected of purported sasquatch evidence on record. At the cabin we enjoy a beer and discuss:

-the ecology of Bigfoot

-Bigfoot populations

-the story of the Sierra Sounds

-forest animal noises

-skeptic vs believer evidence

Sources:

Real Life Ghost Stories

https://www.reallifeghoststoriespodcast.com/

Cabal Minion on Twitter

https://twitter.com/minioncabal

Q Anon Annonymous Podcast

https://soundcloud.com/qanonanonymous

Where Bigfoot Walks, Robert Michael Pyle, 1995

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Where-Bigfoot-Walks-Crossing-Divide/dp/1619029375

The Dark Divide

https://darkdividefilm.com/

Record Searchlight article about Al Berry

https://eu.redding.com/story/opinion/contributors/local-voices/2016/06/19/a-former-rs-colleague-taped-bigfoot/96812140/

Vixen Scream by Gadzooks

https://freesound.org/people/gadzooks/sounds/397655/

Coyote by Scott Hopkins

https://freesound.org/people/scotthopkins/sounds/361306/

Wolf by Betchkal

https://freesound.org/people/betchkal/sounds/500646/

Cougar by SFX Library

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqblPwFbC9k

The Sierra Sounds

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGfIIjN-P7o

Estimates of Pitch and Vocal Tract Length from Recorded Vocalizations of Purported Bigfoot, R. Lynn Kirlin & Lasse Hertel, 1980

http://www.bigfootencounters.com/biology/kirlin.htm

Skeptical Humanities on the Sierra Sounds, Mark Newbrook (Lingualist)

https://skepticalhumanities.com/2013/07/07/linguistics-hall-of-shame-17/

Scientific American on the Sierra Sounds, Karen Stollznow, 2013

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/mind-guest-blog/bigfoot-in-mouth-bigfoot-language/

Hippies With Guns Imitating the Sounds

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHUrkFk7ZDo

If Bigfoot Were Real, Darren Naish

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/tetrapod-zoology/if-bigfoot-were-real/

Not a fun episode, but one that had to happen.

Cian and Dónal (now a Dr of political science) talk about:

-the origins of Qanon and 4chan 'fake insider' culture

-what do Qanon followers believe

-why did Qanon become mainstream during lockdown

-a detailed breakdown of Qanon-proponents now entering the US govenrment

-the so-called 'save the children' and its connections to Qanon

-why Qanon is already spreading to other countries

In 2016, tabloid newspapers were telling tales of a werewolf-like creature sighted in Yorkshire. Variously known as 'Old Stinker' and 'The Beast Of Barmston Drain,' this creature seems to have sprung from the misty centuries of English werewolf lore. Or has it? On this episode, Cian sinks a Black Sheep ale while looking into:

-what is the real history or werewolf lore in England?

-is lycanthropy a curse, or something you do yourself?

-links between werewolfism and early modern witch trials

-21st century tabloid newspaper legends

-Re-enchanting the landscape and 'English Eerie'

-Extinction and rewilding

SOURCES:

Wolf howl by Betchkal

https://freesound.org/people/betchkal/sounds/500646/

The Book Of Were-Wolves, Sabine Baring-Gould, 1865

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/5324

Haunted Ireland, Tarquin Blake, 2014

https://www.ecosia.org/search?q=haunted+ireland+tarquin+blake&addon=chrome&addonversion=3.2.0&method=topbar

MALEFICIUM: Wichcraft and Witch-Hunting In The West, Gordon Blake, 2017

https://www.abebooks.co.uk/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=30240646141&searchurl=kn%3DMaleficium%26sortby%3D3

Three Men Seeking Monsters, Nick Redfern, 2004

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/107189.Three_Men_Seeking_Monsters?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=UZBrhYEoza&rank=1

Hull Daily Mail Article

https://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/news/hull-east-yorkshire-news/beast-barmston-drain-seen-killing-73245

AnomalyInfo.com article by Garth Haslam

http://anomalyinfo.com/Stories/2016-september-1-werewolf-encountered-halsham-england

Wolves In The Wolds: Late Capitalism, the English Eerie and the Wyrd Case Of Old Stinker, Sam M George

https://www.academia.edu/33708017/Wolves_in_the_Wolds_Late_Capitalism_the_English_Eerie_and_the_Wyrd_Case_of_Old_Stinker_the_Hull_Werewolf

In 1899, a group representing the so-called British-Israelite movement descended upon the ancient ceremonial burial site at the Hill Of Tara in County Meath, Ireland. This band of eccentric pseudo-archaeologists believed that the Anglo-Saxon British were the true descendants of the ten Lost Tribes of Israel, and that the fabled Arc Of The Covenant was hidden beneath this ancient Irish site. But they came up against some of the biggest names of the Irish celtic revival movement, then in full swing, to whom the Hill Of Tara was also of extreme symbolic significance.

Join Cian for a beer and a story at the cabin in the woods. By what twisted logic did these kooks connect themselves to the Ten Tribes? What is the appropriate song to use to ward off colonialist tomb raiders? And why did WB Yeats push Aleister Crowley down the stairs of the Golden Dawn temple in London? Find out in BRITISH ISRAELITES AND THE HUNT FOR THE ARK OF THE COVENANT IN IRELAND.

Wide Atlantic Weird on Twitter

https://twitter.com/StrangeIreland

Wide Atlantic Weird on Instagram

https://www.instagram.com/wideatlanticweirdpodcast/

My Kind Of Movie Podcast

https://radiopublic.com/the-my-kind-of-movie-podcast-8Xe2vk

Superduperstitious Podcast

https://www.superduperstitious.com/

The Night Monitor on Bandcamp

https://thenightmonitor.bandcamp.com/

British Israelism by J Wilson, 1968

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1467-954X.1968.tb01291.x

Tara And The Ark Of The Covenant by Maireid Carew & Aisling Flood, 2003

https://www.ria.ie/tara-and-ark-covenant

The History Of The Ten Lost Tribes by David Baron, 1915

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_History_of_the_Ten_%22Lost%22_Tribes

Demolishing The Myths At Tara, Irish Times, 1998

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/demolishing-the-myths-at-tara-1.158532

Voices From The Dawn, Howard Goldbaum

https://voicesfromthedawn.com/tara/#:~:text=The%20Hill%20of%20Tara%20has,constructed%20during%20the%20Neolithic%20era.&text=Tara%20was%20first%20desecrated%2C%20according%20to%20legend%2C%20when%20St.

Cian welcomes Faye Sewell from Youtube's The Ghost Trail to the cabin in the woods to talk about a curious subdivision of ghost stories: Timeslips! There are various famous cases of these from around the UK primarily. Are they ghost sightings? An example of the 'stone tape?' Is it time travel? Is quantum physics involved? Trace the history of this idea with us as we focus on the famous 1901 Versailles timeslip, examine the details of the case, the reaction at the time, the analysis by the Society for Psychical Research (then and now) and the lasting effects of this influential example. Get yourself a beverage, check your watch, and join us at the cabin for this episode: TIME AND AGAIN: VERSAILLES AND OTHER TIMESLIPS.

NOTES:

The Ghost Trail on Youtube

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCyswG_oLkVQV9vQNnpJj1_A

Wide Atlantic Weird on Twitter

https://twitter.com/StrangeIreland

Dead Still

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10413648/

An Klondike

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Klondike

Enchanted Modernity, Anglicanism & The Occult in Early 20th Century Oxford, Laura Schwartz, 2017

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14780038.2017.1314576?tab=permissions&scroll=top

Review Of The Mysterious Paths Of Versailles, Society for Psychical Research

https://www.spr.ac.uk/book-review/mysterious-paths-versailles-investigation-psychical-journey-back-time-mark-lamont

Arthur C Clarke's Chronicles Of The Strange & Mysterious by Fairley & Welfare, 1987

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Chronicles-Strange-Mysterious-Foreword-Fairley/dp/B000NPDV7Q

Are Perceptions Of Time Slips Explainable by Quantom Mechanics by Alberto Miatello, 2018

An unexpected and relatively short BONUS EPISODE about the 'weird western' short story The Monster Of Lake LaMetrie written by Warden Allen Curtis in 1899. Join us for a quick chat about this cryptozoological oddity: there's a prehistoric lake in the wilds of Wyoming, some Victorian mad science, and of course prehistoric reptiles!

Sources:

The eText of the story from Famous And Forgotten Fiction

http://famous-and-forgotten-fiction.com/writings/curtis-the-monster-of-lake-lametrie.html

Analysis Of The Story by John Guy Collick

http://johnguycollick.com/the-monster-of-lake-lametrie/

Hypnogoria Podcast

https://www.hypnogoria.com/