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Recently, the US congress held a hearing concerning multiple sightings of unidentified flying objects around US territory spanning decades. The discussion was mostly about national defense and whether or not these aircraft pose a threat to national security. However, the witness testimonies presented during the hearing strongly suggest that these aircraft are not... of this world.
I go over the important parts of that hearing, and go on to tell a story about a man who experienced something real weird near a lake in Canada. The event known as the Falcon Lake Incident.
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Sources:
Here are the 5 most memorable moments from Congress’ UFO hearing
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/are-5-memorable-moments-congress-ufo-hearing-rcna96476
video of the hearing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYS5SAYM2CE
https://library-archives.canada.ca/eng
Memorial Article for Stefan Michalak
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/86572549/stefan-michalak
Statement by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, June 26, 1967
https://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/unusual/ufo/Documents/1967-06-26.pdf
Pamphlet on the encounter:
https://biblio.uottawa.ca/atom/index.php/my-encounter-with-the-u-f-o-michalak-stephen-pamphlet
https://library-archives.canada.ca/eng/collection/engage-learn/podcast/Pages/ufo-falcon-lake-incident.aspx
https://www.snopes.com/articles/464156/falcon-lake-extraterrestrial-encounter/
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The story of the BunnyMan or BunnyMan Bridge has gained a lot of popularity in recent years. It all started with an article published in 1999. Or is a news story from 1970? Or a terrifying series of events in 1904? Let's figure it out!
Main Source Material:
Conley, B. A. (2023, July 16). FCPL curated content: Fairfax county history: The bunny man unmasked. The Bunny Man Unmasked - Fairfax County History - FCPL Curated Content at Fairfax County Government. https://research.fairfaxcounty.gov/local-history/bunnyman
Blitz, M. (2016, October 21). The scary, weird, somewhat true story of the fairfax “Bunny man.” Washingtonian. https://www.washingtonian.com/2015/10/23/the-scary-weird-somewhat-true-story-of-the-fairfax-bunny-man/
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Bullshitting and talking about a few interesting cryptids tonight! Let me know if you like the more casual format, or if you miss the more intense episodes. I also need to know how you feel about the butthole mouth.
Sources:
https://www.wlwt.com/article/the-loveland-frogman/37871711
https://www.sj-r.com/story/news/2013/10/06/valerie-lariviere-cryptic-cryptid-tales/41766459007/
https://southernmostghosts.com/monsters-of-the-deep-the-luscas/
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I'm gonna tell you my favorite story and another story that's real cool, and we're gonna talk about PROPHECIES!!!
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Ever hear of haunted organs? When people undergo drastic changes in their behavior following an organ transplant, is it because of some complicated relationship between the body and the soul, or is it just some crazy biology?
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REFERENCES
“10 Unbelievable Organ Transplant Stories That Are Actually True.” ScoopWhoop, 13 June 2016, www.scoopwhoop.com/news/unbelievable-organ-transplant-stories-that-are-true/.
De Pasquale C, Veroux M, Indelicato L, Sinagra N, Giaquinta A, Fornaro M, Veroux P, Pistorio ML. Psychopathological aspects of kidney transplantation: Efficacy of a multidisciplinary team. World J Transplant. 2014 Dec 24;4(4):267-75. doi: 10.5500/wjt.v4.i4.267. PMID: 25540735; PMCID: PMC4274596.
DiMartini, A. F., Dew, M. A., & Trzepacz, P. T. (2005). Organ transplantation. Focus, 3(2), 280-303. https://focus.psychiatryonline.org/doi/full/10.1176/foc.3.2.280
Egyptian civilization - religion - mummification. (n.d.). Retrieved March 5, 2023, from https://www.historymuseum.ca/cmc/exhibitions/civil/egypt/ejiereijrjrrgrgrgrg
Kemp, Charlene lowe. “Organ Transplant and the Unexplained.” Paranormal Hauntings, 22 Jan. 2022, paranormalhauntings.blog/2022/01/22/organ-transplant-and-the-unexplained/.
Kessler M. Aspects psychologiques de la transplantation rénale avec donneur vivant [Psychological aspects of living-donor renal transplantation]. Nephrol Ther. 2008 Feb;4(1):52-4. French. doi: 10.1016/j.nephro.2007.07.010. Epub 2007 Dec 3. PMID: 18061550.
“Memory Transference in Organ Transplant Recipients - Namah Journal.” Namahjournal.com, 2011, www.namahjournal.com/doc/Actual/Memory-transference-in-organ-transplant-recipients-vol-19-iss-1.html.
Pearsall, Paul, et al. “Organ transplants and cellular memories ” Nexus Magazine April/May 2005;12:3 http://www.paulpearsall.com/info/press/3.html.
“Religious Attitudes about Donation.” Www.utsouthwestern.edu, 2022, www.utsouthwestern.edu/education/medical-school/departments/transplant-services-center/faqs/religious-attitudes.html#:~:text=Jehovah.
Sylvia, Claire, and William Novak. A Change of Heart : A Memoir. Little, Brown, 1997.
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Special guest! Tonight, I just had a chat with Holly of Morning Orange Tarot. She does divination for a living, and also we grew up together in our weird, spiritual family. Figured it would be fun to get together on Discord and just kinda talk about dreams, spirituality, and whatever came up. She's damn near the opposite of myself while still being basically the same. Follow her on social media and if you'd like, you can book a real inexpensive tarot reading with her!
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This is my first time recording video along with the podcast, so I apologize to audio only listeners for all of my references to the camera. This episode was supposed to come out in December, but here we are. It's about how the cold, and the darkness, and isolation make our brains and bodies all out of whack.
Look for it on YouTube in the days following the upload here if you're interested. Episode: https://youtu.be/KvC2tGeZ8Kw
Also, here's a website where you can watch a live feed from Antarctica: https://www.usap.gov/videoclipsandmaps/mcmwebcam.cfm
Sources: (In no particular order. Screw your format, I already graduated!)
Joyner, Christopher Clayton; Chopra, Sudhir K. (28 July 1988). The Antarctic Legal Regime. Martinus Nijhoff Publishers. p. 67. ISBN 90-247-3618-8.
Zimmer, M., Cabral, J. C. C. R., Borges, F. C., Coco, K. G., & Hameister, B. D. R. (2013). Psychological changes arising from an Antarctic stay: Systematic Overview. Estudos de Psicologia (Campinas), 30, 415-423.
Impact of isolation on nueroanatomy and neurobiology of the brain. Richard Smeyne. 2019. Brainfacts.org.
https://www.gq.com/story/insaine-in-antarctica-excerpt
Pysiological and psychological responses and adaptation to cold. By the Physiological Society. Published March 2016. The Society For Neuroscience.
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I deep dive about weird burials, vampires, some science about decay, and a retelling of the story of the Dearg Due.
This is a re upload because I became aware that the volume on my original file was garbage.
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A reboot on my episode about the Dearg-Due. I went real deep into vampires, burial rights, and learned some stuff about forensic anthropology.
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It was gonna be simple. But it's never simple. Tulpas, Tibetan Buddhism, Meditation, Spuritual grifters, and Bronies. Hear my brain explode in real time!
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A look at sleep related Demons around the world, and an explanation on why it's a universal terror
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I gotta talk about Greg Locke and the Early Modern Witchcraze right now.
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Loch Ness, it's monster, and why people are scared of the dark.
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An off-the-cuff episode about wanderers in folklore. I'm mostly waxing philosophical about wandering and traveling and what it means to people.
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More convo about the history of christmas. and some other stuff.
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Some history behind the holiday of Christmas and my favorite midwinter deities!
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The people who make the monsters are the real freaks, bruh
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KRAMPUS!
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Sources are not in proper format, but here they are anyway!
http://faculty.webster.edu/corbetre/haiti/voodoo/terms.htm
ZOMBIES
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https://www.harvardmagazine.com/2017/10/are-zombies-real
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Mar Drugs. 2015 Oct; 13(10): 6384–6406.
Published online 2015 Oct 19. doi: 10.3390/md13106384
PMCID: PMC4626696
PMID: 26492253
Tetrodotoxin, an Extremely Potent Marine Neurotoxin: Distribution, Toxicity, Origin and Therapeutical Uses
Jorge Lago, Laura P. Rodríguez, Lucía Blanco, Juan Manuel Vieites, and Ana G. Cabado*
Paul Long, Academic Editor
- Zombies and Tetrodotoxin
TERENCE HINES
Volume 32, Issue 3 SKEPTICAL INQUIRER
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Sources:
www.livescience.com?oldest-rock-art-supernatural-beings.html
www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/weirdos-werewolves-and-full-moon/
Irving-Pease, Evan K.;Ruan, Hannah; Jamieson, Alexandra; Dimopoulos, Evangelos A.; Larson, Greger; Frantz, Laurent A. F. (2018). "Paleogenomics of Animal Domestication". In Lindvqvcist, C.; Rajora, O. (eds.). Paleogenomics. Springer, Cham. pp. 225-272. doi10.1007/13836_2018_55. ISBN 978-3-030-04752-8.
https.//www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/education/resources/early-modern-witch-trials/
www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge/content/view/S0883769400041701
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Decided I would take this opportunity to talk about one of my favorite subjects: Scandinavian history and Norse Mythology.
Happy Leif Erikson Day, nerds!
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Source Materials:
Gardeła, Leszek. "‘Warrior-women’in Viking Age Scandinavia? A preliminary archaeological study." Analecta Archaeologica Ressoviensia 8 (2013).
Polygyny, Concubinage, and the Social Lives of Women in Viking-Age Scandinavia. Ben Raffield, Neil Price, and Mark Collard. Viking and Medieval Scandinavia 2017 13:, 165-209
The Poetic Edda. The Mythological Poems. Translated by Henry Adams Bellows.
Norse Mythology, by Neil Gaiman
History.com
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The sound quality on this one is a bit rough.
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Original Paper: https://yamunahrodvitnir.medium.com/wendigo-the-monster-born-of-starvation-and-greed-32a191b846dd Patreon: Patreon.com/YamunaHrodvitnir References Eflin, J. (2014). Incursion Into Wendigo Territory. Digital Literature Review, 9.
Jusiak, K. (2015). “The Embodiment of the Taboo: the Images of Wendigo in Literature and Their Rendition in Modern Media”.
Teicher, M. I. (1960, April). Windigo psychosis: a study of a relationship between belief and behavior among the Indians of Northeastern Canada. Seattle: WA: American Ethnological Society.
Willoughby, C. (1908). Wooden Bowls of the Algonquian Indians. American Anthropologist, 10(3), new series, 423–434. Retrieved from http://www.jstor.org/stable/659862
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OG article on my Medium. Medium.com/YamunaHrodvitnir
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Sources
Lenhardt, C. (2016). Wendigos, Eye Killers, Skinwalkers: The Myth of the American Indian Vampire and American Indian “Vampire” Myths. Text Matters, 6(1), 195–212.
Smith, M. (2013). Legends, Lore & True Tales of the Chattahoochee. Arcadia Publishing.
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A look into why Friday the 13th became such a pervasive superstition.
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A look into the legend of Bloody Mary, the ritual associated with the legend, and why the two are associated with one another.
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Sources:
Brunvand, J. (1996). American Folklore: An Encyclopedia. Garland Publishing, Inc.
Craughwell, T. (2005) Urban Legends: 666 Absolutely True Stories That Happened to a Friend… of a Friend… of a Friend. Black Dog and Leventhal Publishers, Inc.
Dundes, A. (1998). Bloody Mary in the mirror: A ritual reflection of pre-pubescent anxiety. Western Folklore, 57(2/3), 119–135.
Ellis, B. (2004). Lucifer Ascending: The Occult in Folklore and Popular Culture. University of Kentucky Press. ISBN 978–0–8131–2289–2.
Hutton, R. (2001). Stations of the Sun: A History of the Ritual Year in Britain. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978–0–19–285448–3.
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Some history about witch trials, the Early Modern Witchcraze, and a story about a certain witch who got her revenge in death.
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Sources:
Amy Alize. "Norfolk Folklore: St. Mary's Church and the Witch's Wooden Leg." October 1, 2015. https://thefairytaletraveler.com/2015/10/01/norfolk-folklore/
George Lincoln Burr. "The witch-persecutions" Translations and reprints from the original sources of European history; v. 3, no. 4, 1907
Dr. Hanna Worthen, University of Hull. "Early Modern Witch Trials: Introduction" The National Archives. Kew, Richmond. https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/education/resources/early-modern-witch-trials/
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First full episode! This is the story of The Dearg-Due. She is considered the oldest known lady vampire in European folklore, and her story is absolutely tragic. Her story shows how trauma and suffering can forever change even the most innocent soul, and how isolation and suffering can transform anyone into a monster. Heartbreak, revenge, betrayal, and spooky monsters lay within. TW: abuse, violence, food restriction, and self harm.
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A quick introduction. Some information about me, what this podcast will be about, and how to get a hold of me on social media.
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