Zero Percent Scared

Today we explore the insane, disturbing and occasionally frickin adorable world of mass psychogenic disorders, aka Mass Hysteria.

Meowing nuns, dancing plagues, dogs and cats living together!! MASS HYSTERIA!!!

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References:

• The mysterious dancing mania and mass psychogenic illness
• Tarantism, dancing mania and demonopathy (via pub med)
• 15 cases of mass psychogenic disorder
• Ghost haunts toilet in Bangladesh, sends thousands into mass panic
• Why does mass hysteria affect mostly women?
• Mass hysteria at a New York high school
• Mirror Neurons are frickin awesome
• Women in the middle ages (spoiler: kinda sucked)
• Life as a nun in the middle ages (spoiler: mostly sucked)
• Gender and women's mental health (via the WHO)

Today Sarah gives us a solo look at Ed and Lorraine Warren, the original ghost busters! They're also the most adorable demonologist couple ever, though some say they're nothing but money hungry publicity hound charlatans. What do you think? Let us know!

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References:

• Wiki entry on the Warrens
• The Warrens' website (omg guys it's so bad I feel bad)
• Atlas Obscura article
• Criticisms of the Warrens
• The Strange Afterlife of Ed and Lorraine Warren
• Connecticut Mag profile of the Warrens
• Annabelle (gulp)
• The Perron Family Haunting
• Amityville
• Amityville ghost boy photo (get it away!)
• The Warren Werewolf case
• The Devil made me do it case

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We have SO MANY AWESOME stories for you on our second listener stories episode. Thanks everyone for writing in and please keep the stories coming! Dolls, dog, football, cat, door, floor, lamp.

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References:

• The free sleep paralysis show (The Nightmare, 2005)
• The costs-money sleep paralysis show with an effects budget (The Nightmare, 2015)
• The Mutter, a 'medical oddities' Museum

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People seem to experience time-slips all of the time, but is it really just a troupe of victorian era cosplayers or heaps of concentrated hallucinogenic flora? Or could it be actual wormholes because PHYSICS!

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References:

• Slips in time and space. By Rosemary Ellen Guiley
• Time storms. By Jenny Randles
• The Moberly Jourdain time slip
• An Adventure. By C. A. E Moberly
• Other time slip stories from Mysterious Universe
• Salvia divinorum aka drug bush!What is Space-Time? By Adam Mann
• Scientists dismiss the idea of travel through wormholes. By RUDN University
• Are wormholes real? By Sabrina Stierwalt
• Time Travel Via Wormhole Breaks the Rules of Quantum Mechanics. By Bill Andrews
• 'We can build a real time machine' By Thomas Scheidl
• Stephen Hawking hosted a party for time travelers, but no one came. By Mark Kaufman
• Time Traveller photos
• Swiss ring found in unsealed Ming era tomb

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What's more christmasy than a kid devouring, giant tongued goat demon carrying a hell-bound basket? Pretty much everything! But we're here for all you christmas haters with some Krampus love.

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References:

• The Origin of Krampus, Europe's Evil Twist on Santa.
• Where Did Krampus Come From?
• The Untold Truth of Krampus.
• Krampus: Saint Nicholas' Dark Companion
• SantaCon: https://www.santacon.info/
• Andrewsarchus "Superb Skull of a Gigantic Beast"
• Relationship of Cetacea (Artiodactyla) Among Mammals: Increased Taxon Sampling Alters Interpretations of Key Fossils and Character Evolution

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Santa is a macroscopic quantum particle!

Join us as we discuss the weird world of real Santa sightings!

Also, happy holidays and how you guys doing? We are here for you, email us whatever you want: [email protected]

References:

• How St Nick became Santa
• Claus encounters
• Foo Fighters
• Norad's Santa Tracker
• The Physics of Santa and His Reindeer. David Mikkelson
• Rebuttals to the above (SANTA SCIENCE!!!)
• Proof that Santa Exists by Henry Gee
• Double slit experiment explained! By Jim Al-Khalili
• About.com Santa Sightings stories

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And the "Most Amazing House in the Galaxy" award goes to... the Winchester Mystery House! But from what we can tell, probably not haunted. Ghosts, what are you waiting for? Move into this joint.

Prime. Real. Estate.

• Sarah Winchester
• Getting lost makes the brain go haywire by Will Hunt.
• The hidden ways that architecture affects how you feel by Michael Bond.
• Professor Kate Jeffrey
• Ghost Adventures Winchester mansion episode (warning: so dumb)

Coral Castle is a relatively unknown marvel of the world, in the dangly part of Florida, made by a tiny malnourished tubercular man all by himself. Tons and tons of giant carved stone placed in this creepy love shrine either through some sort of alien magic, antigravity or maybe just magnets?

Also, do book club with us! We're reading "The Hunt for Zero Point: Inside the Classified World of Antigravity" by Nick Cook

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References:

• Coral Castle: Eccentric Immigrant or Pyramid Imitator
• Alex Jefferson. Mathematical Model of Edward Leedskalnin's Perpetual Motion Holder. (2013) Journal of Applied and Computational Mathematics
• Are perpetual motion machines possible?
• Leedskalnin's Perpetual Motion Holder
• Coral Castle Museum
• Mystery of the Coral Castle Explained
• A haunting monument to love. Or aliens. Or limestone.
• How Maglev Trains Work
• NASA tests a plane that is very very quiet https://www.wired.com/story/nasa-cuts-airplane-noise/
• Mysterious Universe anti-gravity episode

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Happy Thanksgiving to all you awesome people! To celebrate, we're covering the Lost Colony of Roanoke and what sounds like a whole bunch of people getting yelled at to hurry the eff up to get into boats.

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References:

• BuzzFeed The Mysterious Disappearance of Roanoke Colony
• What happened to the "Lost Colony" of Roanoke
• National Geographic Have we found the Lost Colony of Roanoke Island?
• La Virginea Pars map
• Science Magazine Archaeologists start a new hunt for the fabled Lost Colony of the New World
• NY Times The Roanoke Island Colony: Lost and Found?
• The Lost Colony of Roanoke: 8 Theories About the Mysterious Island and Its Inhabitants

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Guardian angels are rad, even if they're just hallucinations from the temporoparietal junction. Say yes to ghostly love hugs, no to floating intestines.

This week we're talking about Guardian Angels and the 3rd man effect. Email us with encounters YOU have had with these ghost-bros! [email protected]

References:

• The Third Man Factor by John Geiger
• NPR's take on the book
• Surveys of Angelic belief in AmericaShackleton the amazing explorer guy
• Shackleton and his 'fourth presence'T.S. Elliot's poem, "The Waste Land" (based loosely on Shackleton's experience)
• The Strange World of Felt Presences from the Guardian
• Autoscopic phenomena: case report and review of literature (2011)
• Induction of an illusory shadow person (2006)
• Feeling of presence in Parkinson's disease (2010)
• VIDEO: Turkish shopkeeper saved by 'guardian angel'
• The Rescue of Baby Lily: Is this baby proof angels exist?
• VIDEO: Who called out to baby Lily's Rescuers?
• Felt Presence: the uncanny encounters with the numinous Other (2010)

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