Zero Percent Scared

Zero Percent Scared

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  • 36: Black Eyed Rude AF Kids

    Guys, eyes are the CREEPIEST. Do you know what's creepier than just normal eyes? Giant iris black eyes. On children. Like bad willow, but eerie AF.

    Join us today as we cover BLACK EYED KIDS, and just FYI you're totally allowed to slam the door in their creepy little faces.

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    • Brian Bethel's Black Eyed Kids account (on the wayback machine so scroll down)
    • Black Eyed Kids!!! AHHHH!!!!!
    • Axenfeld-Rieger syndrome (pic of the cutest terror child ever)
    • Aniridia
    • Adie Syndrome
    • Pupil Dialation and Fear
    • Black Eyed Children by David Weatherly
    • I let the black eyed kids inside and now I'm dying
    • Hungry Ghosts
    • Another Terrifying BEK encounter

    45 min
  • 35: Bunnyman Bunnyman Bunnyman!

    According to the internet, every single bridge is haunted. But the most haunted of the bridges is definitely bunnyman bridge. Sounds cute right?

    Well jokes on you, because that bunny has an axe and isn't afraid to use it. But let's be honest, still pretty cute.

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    References:

    Article on Bunnyman Bridge!

    Haunted Roads and Bridges

    Man in a bunnysuit sought in fairfax

    Goatman Bridge, super haunted!

    The train tracks where very helpful ghost kids push you out of danger

    Liminal spaces, in general

    Liminal spaces and the paranormal

    High Place Phenomenon: The urge to jump off of bridges, explained!

    Haunted Bridges: 300 of Americas Creepiest Crossroads

    Video: Love locks being removed from Paris Bridge

    A lockpicker's org (Toool) take on love locks

    34 min
  • 34: Let's Do Clowns Tonight

    First of all: HAPPY HALLOWEEN MY PEOPLE!

    Second: It's unanimous, nobody likes clowns. Or Disney World. OK fine that last one is just Kelly, but the clown thing is real. Especially when they're trying to murder you. Let's phase out the clowns, people. Phase them out.

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    References:

    • Big ups to Sparrow Sounds Studios, our fabulous theme music creator
    • Mysterious America: The Ultimate Guide to the Nations Weirdest WOnders, Strangest Spots, and Creepiest Creatures. By Loren Coleman
    • Clown bar fight video
    • Why Clowns Creep Us Out by Frank McAndrew
    • On the Nature of Creepiness. McAndrew and Koehnke
    • A review of empirical evidence on different uncanny valley hypotheses: support for perceptual mismatch of one road to the valley of eeriness. Katsyri et al.
    • Uncanny but not confusing: Multisite study of perceptual category confusion in the Uncanny Valley. Mather et al.
    • Decoder Ring: Clown Panic
    • The disturbing true story of the pied piper of Hamelin
    • Wrinkles the Clown
    • The Wrinkles News Story

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    41 min
  • 33: Shut up, Jodi (Amityville Horror)

    Join us as we discuss the true(ish) Amityville Horror story! Did demonic forces drive the Lutz family from their murder house? Get the facts and Kelly's review of the movie here! Spoiler -- she isn't a fan.

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    References:

    • The Amityville Horror Movie
    • The Amityville Horror, by Jay Anson
    • Jody the pig
    • From the Archives: The 'Amityville Horror' murders 40 years later
    • Slaying of family in spooky Long Island House inspired 'The Amityville Horror'
    • The Real Amityville Horror
    • Amityville Horror house sells for $605K
    • Polygraph tests
      • How credible are lie detector tests?
      • Inconclusive: The truth about lie detector tests
    • The Amityville Ghost Boy Photo (holy crap so creepy)

    37 min
  • 32: The Haunted Monkey Situation

    Have you seen Pet Sematary? No? Cool definitely keep it that way. We have some NUTS animal stories for you. Nature is metal. Ghost dogs are metal.

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    References:

    • Pet Sematary: Old
    • Pet Sematary: New
    • Eastern State Penitentiary's Ghost Dog Pep
    • Eastern State Pen is also haunted
    • So many black ghost dogs, good lord
    • The Black Demon Dog of Bungay
    • Zombie Racoons!!
    • Hairworm and Zombie Crickets!!!
    • Ophiocordyceps unilateralis (Zombie ant fungus)
    • Briarosaccus Callosis (Parasitic Castration and Zombie Crabs)
    • Rats and toxoplasma gondii (aka love struck zombie rats)
    • Mike the Headless Chicken (WHAT THE WHAT!)
    • The Monkey Haunted Candle Shoppe (no lie)
    • The TV Episode (season 1, episode 1)
    • The Investigation of the above...
    38 min
  • 31: Zombies: Definitely Real!

    GUYS. We're back and it's the most paranormal month of the year!

    Tune in to hear about how the Zombie Apocalypse is definitely inevitable and all about crazy drugs that apparently you can only get in Florida.

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    • The Serpent and the Rainbow
    • Tetrodotoxin, the Zombie drug
    • Clairvius Narcisse
    • Three Haitian Zombie Medical Stories
    • Key and Peele - White Zombies
    • CDC Zombie Preparedness
    • Zombie research society
    • Why? The Podcast: Zombie Research Society
    • Smith T., Zombie infections: epidemiology, treatment and prevention. (2015) BMJ
    • What's a prion?
    • Steven Schlozman - The Zombie Autopsies: Secret Notebooks from the Apocalypse
    • Pandemic
    • Plague inc
    • Top places to live in zombie apocalypse
    • Dead Snow: Zombie NAZIS!!!
    • Crazy Florida Drug Zombies
    • Rudy Eugene story
    • Flakka the insane zombie drug
    • Johnson et al., Nodding syndrome may be an autoimmune reaction to the parasitic worm Onchocerca volvulus. (2017) Science Translational Medicine
    • Scopolamine
    • Kuru
    • Zombie pig brains
    50 min
  • 30: Mad (Cool) Scientists

    Nobel laureates totally dig the paranormal!! Ok maybe just a few of them do...but still.

    We talk about Francis Crick's love of panspermia, Charles Richet's devotion to extrasensory perception, and Ray Kurzweil's tech predictions and commitment to immortality. Also we are going on vacation for two weeks, so don't cry (too much).

    As always, keep the emails coming!

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    References: Directed Panspermia

    Missing Molybdenum

    Speigleman's monster

    Venter institute

    Planet Simulator

    Charles Richet, Sarah's psi hero

    Ectoplasm

    Ray Kurzweil on what the future holds next!

    2029: Singularity Year - Neil DeGrasse Tyson & Ray Kurzweil

    Ramez Naam Nexus Trilogy series

    Silicon Valley's quest to live forever

    John Carreyrou, Bad Blood: Secrets of a Silicon Valley startup

    38 min
  • 29: Kristina Semos, Astrologer Extraordinaire

    We have a real astrologer with us today, Kristina Semos! Kristina specializes in astrology and essential oils and schools us on the planets, the truth about daily horoscopes and getting all your energy crap "on sale".

    Note: Episode was recorded in July 2019, astrological comments may no longer apply!

    Check more about her here: www.astrooils.com

    We love hearing from you, so email us, peeps!

    [email protected] And tell your friends, we love friends (but we love you more). References:
    • Astrooils instagram: https://www.astrooils.com/instagram
    • Chocolate and Nobel prizes
    • Lavender and sleep

    29 min
  • 28: Gingers == Atlanteans

    Get ready for more agreement on a topic then you've ever heard. And Mendelian genetics. Also red heads. And aliens. Red headed aliens.

    On this week's episode we discuss the evidence pointing to the truth of Atlantis!!

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    References and links: Plato's Atlantis Madam Blavatsky and Atlantean sex slaves

    The Oxyrhynchus Papyri

    Help Oxford on this one, guys!

    Atlantis rising documentary

    The Minoean civilization, and it's rise and fall

    The discovery of Ancient Troy

    The mysterious Gobekli Tepe

    It's seriously awesome, so here's another link!

    Damascus steel -- solved?

    Those insane Nazis and Atlantis

    SO MANY Underwater ruins!

    Ireland and Atlantis

    The mystery of rh Null

    Red head extinctions

    Australians pass down global warming info

    53 min
  • 27: The Scariest, Deviliest Triangle!
    Whats a vile vortex, you ask? It's a triangle where crazy stuff happens! You thought it was just the Bermuda triangle but there are SO MANY MORE TRIANGLES. But not really, most of them seem pretty normal. Or maybe it's aliens. Probably aliens. Email us! [email protected] And tell your friends, we love friends! Links:

    Vile Vortices!

    Kavanaugh's Devils Triangle

    Columbus in the Bermuda Triangle

    What happened to the Mary Celeste?

    Mohenjo Daro, city of mystery

    General sciencey hypotheses about the Bermuda Triangle:

    What even is it?

    It's not even an actual thing

    Rogue waves and humans are dumb

    National Geographic says this!

    Methane Clathrates

    Microbursts, what the heck are they even

    Honeycomb clouds are controversial?

    Aaaaand the paranormal theories!

    Beware the electronic fog!!!

    Magnetic type weirdnesses

    Haunted by the souls of kidnapped slaves

    Aliens, why not

    An insane space time warp theory website that hurts to read

    44 min

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