Stay ConnectedA podcast about the paranormal, the credibility of the creepy, and the science of the spooky: Superduperstitious is a comedy podcast that looks at the mysterious and scary world of the weird and says, “Wait. What?” Hosts Wyatt Shell and Jake Withee use their science backgrounds to tease apart possible explanations for unexplained, supernatural, and otherwise strange phenomena.
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It’s a new beginning for this here podcast, which we assume means literally doing everything over again from the beginning.
In this episode, Wyatt and Jake talk about their favorite cryptids, which they DEFINITELY HAVEN’T already talked about before and SURELY not in the first episode of this show. Rest assured: you’re guaranteed to learn new stuff this time around, like the fact that everything in history is somehow connected to Atlantis, and that when you see an unknown creature, you should check not only its genitals (as discussed many times by now), but also its flaps. That, and you’ll get some pretty straightforward forensic science and predator biology to boot.
Episode 200, here we come!
EPISODE LINKS
Merch Shop: https://www.superduperstitious.com/shop
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/superduperstitious
Wyatt’s story
Bigfoot in Australia: http://www.bigfootencounters.com/stories/aussie_report.htm
Bernardo Giant: http://www.bigfootencounters.com/stories/bernardo.htm
Jake’s story
Russian chicken killings: https://www.rt.com/news/311331-voronezh-chupacabra-chickens-dog/
Recent chupacabra sightings: https://remezcla.com/features/culture/chupacabra-sightings-this-year/
Ben Radford’s website: http://benjaminradford.com/
The chupacabra explained: http://amzn.to/muluYb
Lividity: http://www.exploreforensics.co.uk/rigor-mortis-and-lividity.html
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Wait, are we still doing this? Wasn’t last week’s the big finale?? Oh jeez, didn’t really prepare anything for this, uhhh…
Join Jake and Wyatt as they look over their first hundred episodes — and the life choices that brought them here — with a small selection of topics to revisit from the first few years of the show’s run! And stick around for the next hundred eps. They’ll probably be good, too!
EPISODE LINKS
Merch Shop: https://www.superduperstitious.com/shop
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/superduperstitious
Jake’s stories
Grand Canyon bullshit: https://www.crystalinks.com/grandcanyon.html
“Glowing Eyes?”: https://www.reddit.com/r/Humanoidencounters/comments/e0a7vm/glowing_eyes/
“Crawler” video: https://www.reddit.com/r/CrawlerSightings/comments/dfiotn/possible_source_for_some_crawler_sightings/
Wyatt’s stories
Fast radio bursts: https://futurism.com/the-byte/powerful-radio-signal-from-distant-galaxy-seems-to-have-a-pattern
Sacsayhuamán (bonkers): https://www.ancient-code.com/ancient-technology-ancient-cultures-soften-stone/
Sacsayhuamán (factual): https://www.ancient.eu/Sacsayhuaman/
Jack’s back: https://www.yourlocalguardian.co.uk/news/9546587.terrified-banstead-family-confronted-by-dark-figure-on-bypass/
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That’s it! We did it! This is the last episode of Superduperstitious! That is double digits!
You heard right: it’s the 99th episode! And what better way to celebrate this milestone than with an episode topic befitting the episode number? ’99 was a big year for a big movie that changed all of our lives forever, probably. So this episode is obviously full of clothing history and stuff like that.
Learn kung fu real quick and wear some sick shades while you’re at it, because you’ve got some Superduperstitious to listen to!
EPISODE LINKS
Merch Shop: https://www.superduperstitious.com/shop
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/superduperstitious
Phantom of the Chicago photo: https://www.phantomsandmonsters.com/2020/01/large-dark-winged-being-encountered-on.html
Wyatt’s story
History of the trench coat: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/trench-coat-made-its-mark-world-war-i-180955397/
Mustache law: https://www.thevintagenews.com/2019/03/01/mustache-law/
The Matrix style trench coats: https://mens-fashion.lovetoknow.com/Matrix_Style_Trench_Coats
Medicinal capsule history: https://detroithistorical.org/learn/encyclopedia-of-detroit/scherer-robert-pauli
More capsule history: https://capsuleconnection.com/blog/the-history-of-capsules/
Jake’s story
Nick Bostrom paper: https://www.simulation-argument.com/simulation.pdf
Simulation theory: https://builtin.com/hardware/simulation-theory
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We humans sure do make a lotta STUFF, and we like scary stories, so naturally there are plenty of scary stories ABOUT stuff. That’s right, it’s antiquing time on this episode of Superduperstitious!
For starters, Jake has the tale of a weird wooden idol found in the Catskill Mountains that seems to be attached to some kind of evil entity. Is The Crone really up to no good and all the time conjuring pond water and shit out of the blue? What, really, is it’s DEAL?
Wyatt then slowly cranks up the creeps with a series of cursed paintings, each more unpleasant than the previous. From a flameproof Crying Boy that WAY too many people own, to two successive paintings that have no excuse for existing, the world of household art seems to for sure be a weird place. And maybe the whole justification for eBay’s existence.
Ghost stories abound, unexplained occurrences inconvenience various art owners, and Wyatt and Jake reveal a shameful secret about themselves, all in this brand new ep!
EPISODE LINKS
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Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/superduperstitious
Jake’s story
Original Reddit post: https://www.reddit.com/r/Paranormal/comments/408hde/me_and_a_friend_found_this_creepy_statue_while/
Photos of The Crone: http://imgur.com/a/IiFo9
Reply from u/nuekerk: https://www.reddit.com/r/Paranormal/comments/408hde/me_and_a_friend_found_this_creepy_statue_while/cysy3to/
Followup post: https://www.reddit.com/r/Paranormal/comments/4rkz4x/remember_those_hikers_who_found_the_cursed_statue/
Episode 9: https://www.superduperstitious.com/episodes/9-bek-2-the-childrenening
Curse of the Crone: http://weekinweird.com/2016/07/02/the-crone-of-the-catskills-this-cursed-carving-brings-visits-from-a-terrifying-paranormal-entity/
Video 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQ2PJv5LnLA
Video 2: http://weekinweird.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/13576492_10154662388635730_1958135138_n.gif
Wyatt’s story
The Crying Boy Pinterest page: https://www.pinterest.com/jodisue333/the-crying-boy/
The story of The Crying Boy: https://exemplore.com/paranormal/The-Crying-Boy
Crying Boy fire video: https://youtu.be/AyRL-yIIVH0
The Hands Resist Him: http://latenighthorrorhotel.blogspot.com/2010/06/hands-resist-him-real-or-fiction-we-try.html
The Anguished Man: http://weekinweird.com/2012/11/27/mail-bag-torturous-cries-the-anguished-man/
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It’s adventure time once again on Superduperstitious, but that doesn’t mean that those adventures have to have any firm grounding in REALITY.
After a quick UK check-in with some genuine archaeological coolness, Wyatt heads to Arizona's Superstition Mountains to examine the Legend of the Lost Dutchman. Sure, all evidence of this particular goldmine is 1000% apocryphal, but why would that stop multiple real people from dying actual deaths in their attempts to find it? This is GOLD we’re talking about!
Jake then takes things unintentionally nearby to the Grand Canyon, where, it turns out, all ancient civilizations came from. You want Egyptian mummies? You got ‘em! A generic mishmash of a dozen or more distinct eastern and southern Asian cultures? Coming right up! A whole bunch of scientists in 1909 studying these incredible finds while avoiding a haunted snake pit? Check. It’s all for sure a real thing that happened, and that’s why we all remember it so well!
Start reconciling those geological discrepancies, watch out for snipers, and settle in to yet another fine ep o’ Superduperstitious!
EPISODE LINKS
Merch Shop: https://www.superduperstitious.com/shop
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/superduperstitious
Chicago Pizza Tours: https://www.chicagopizzatours.com/
Chicago Prohibition Tours: https://www.prohibitiontours.com/
Wyatt’s story
Havering Hoard news: https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2020/feb/10/french-bracelet-among-surprises-in-mysterious-havering-hoard
Superstition Mountains: https://www.superstitionmountain.com/History-of-the-Superstition-Mountains-13C19.html
Legend of the Lost Dutchman: https://azstateparks.com/lost-dutchman/explore/the-dutchman
More Lost Dutchman: https://bigthink.com/strange-maps/63-a-map-to-the-lost-dutchman-gold-mine
Jake’s story
Arizona Gazette article: http://www.spiritofmaat.com/archive/nov2/gazette.htm
Incredibly reputable source: https://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/egipto/esp_egipto_grandcanyon01.htm
More of that: https://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/esp_orionzone_8c.htm
Smithsonian myths: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/urban-legends-about-the-smithsonian-135407460/
Grand Canyon caves and karst: https://www.nps.gov/grca/learn/nature/cave.htm
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Mountains: you can be on them, near them, and maybe even under them if things aren’t going great for you. Here’s an ep about that!
Jake’s up first, with both a PSA about not believing every viral video you see AND a story about ghostly experiences in the White Mountains of New Hampshire. Is The Presence of Mount Washington real, or are people just freaking themselves out on a windy peak? Nail down a pair of boots and find out!
Following an especially visceral round of Shadowlands Roulette, Wyatt describes the Sheppton Mine disaster, complete all the popes that were definitely there and the Louises who definitely weren’t. But who among us hasn’t wanted to make at least A FEW burgers out of our friends and coworkers, I mean REALLY.
What even are release dates, anyway? Nobody knows! Here’s a new episode of Superduperstitious.
EPISODE LINKS
Merch Shop: https://www.superduperstitious.com/shop
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/superduperstitious
Ball lightning nonsense: https://youtu.be/IwR14D3NA8c
Jake’s story
Article on The Presence: https://www.outdoors.org/articles/appalachia-journal-blog/slamming-doors-cries-for-help
Jake’s Lakes of the Clouds video: https://youtu.be/XTLtYiELVj8
Episode 76: https://www.superduperstitious.com/episodes/76-mos-scotia
Rime ice: https://www.instagram.com/p/BP7paBwAylX/?utm_source=ig_embed
Final story: https://www.nhmagazine.com/new-hampshires-most-haunted-places-2/
Wyatt’s story
Sheppton Mine disaster: http://www.eastuniontownship.com/thrones-account-of-the-sheppton-mine-disaster
Citizen’s Voice: http://bit.ly/39fkhJU
Skeptical Inquirer: https://skepticalinquirer.org/2019/05/the-trapped-miners-holy-visions-investigating-the-sheppton-miracle/
Interview with Maxim W. Furek: https://nepascene.com/2016/01/new-book-digs-up-dark-secrets-sheppton-mine-disaster-nepa-greatest-urban-legend/
Song: https://youtu.be/OqDu5LBT8_Y
Interview with Henry: https://youtu.be/NLm-AWrbLtc?t=1304
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Listener stories are always welcome at Superduperstitious, but not without raising the immortal question: are these stories GOOD?
Listener Nick Smith kindly provides a pair of personal accounts of the spooky, so Wyatt and Jake kindly provide feedback on their quality, since that’s what Nick was surely wanting. And they of course achieve this by comparing to some top notch stories from the Website of Only Good Writing, Reddit!
Wyatt begins by revisiting sleep paralysis. From ticked off Anubises to cuckolding ghosts, this segment’s got it all. Jake then goes Full Pedantic™ with grammar as he looks into some haunted house happenings. NOTHING is more terrifying than verb/subject agreement.
Strap in for some good listening, and consider sending your own tales to contact@superduperstitious.com!
EPISODE LINKS
Merch Shop: https://www.superduperstitious.com/shop
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/superduperstitious
Contact form: https://www.superduperstitious.com/contact
Nick’s website: https://www.nixmith.com/
Wyatt’s stories
Sleep paralysis AskReddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/1u83wz/victims_of_sleep_paralysis_what_was_your_runin/
Response: http://bit.ly/38FyT5a
More sleep paralysis: https://www.reddit.com/r/Sleepparalysis/comments/ert9xr/sleep_paralysis_sucks_man/
Sleep paralysis question: https://www.reddit.com/r/Sleepparalysis/comments/er0w9y/i_get_sleep_paralysis_where_i_can_barely_move_or/
A very good story: https://www.reddit.com/r/Sleepparalysis/comments/erll6u/my_sleep_paralysis_cucked_me_wtf/
Jake’s stories
Halloween ep of Project Science: https://youtu.be/mQZm2RVNo6c
Dog groomer story: https://www.reddit.com/r/Paranormal/comments/e8b4bq/a_night_alone_in_a_very_haunted_house/
Haunted Scottish house: https://www.reddit.com/r/Paranormal/comments/cfnw0g/my_very_haunted_house/
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The Boiz are back, just as you’ve always known them and going by that one name you’ve always called them!
Thanks to a listener suggestion, this week is one full of not-quite-vampires, and their amazing similarities across cultures! After a positively thrilling update from the show’s official Field Correspondent, Jake starts with the Aswang, one of several billion terrifying mythological creatures to come out of the Philippines. Although both Jake and Wyatt learn that they had totally the wrong idea about what the Aswang is, they are able to at least continue to be creeped out by that damned tongue. So I guess fetuses are safe for now?
Wyatt then turns to Romania, not for your standard Transylvanian fare, but instead for some background on the strigoi, a pre-vampire with far more complicated rules and apparently much more involved methods of disposal. And thankfully, there is hope that these undead creeps may become functioning members of society again (at least once they stop stealing cattle).
Keep away from any lickholes in your domicile and be prepared to pry open your dead loved ones with a pitchfork while you tune in to another fun episode of Superduperstitious!
EPISODE LINKS
Merch Shop: https://www.superduperstitious.com/shop
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/superduperstitious
Firekiller Report: https://www.superduperstitious.com/field-reports/fire-killer-3
Jake’s story
The Aswang Project: https://www.aswangproject.com/what-is-an-aswang/
The Culture Trip: https://theculturetrip.com/asia/philippines/articles/aswang-the-terrifying-vampire-ghouls-of-the-philippines/
Aswang encounter: https://www.reddit.com/r/Paranormal/comments/4bvk5q/my_encounter_with_an_aswang/
Wyatt’s story
Petre Toma account: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2005/jun/19/theobserver
Strigoi: https://science.howstuffworks.com/science-vs-myth/strange-creatures/vampire3.htm
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It’s a brand new year! And what better way for Superduperstitious to start that year than by biting off more than it (or at least Jake) can chew?
That’s right, the boys have lost their entire minds and brought you a full FORTY stories throughout one ludicrously jam-packed TWO-HOUR episode, all in overzealous service to a convoluted “2020” theme. You want ghosts? Crawlers? Sasquatches? Gnomes?! They’re all here, baby. And if this ep doesn’t scare you, it’ll at least astonish you with how quickly it loses its way. We’re talking, five stories deep TOPS.
Crank up the volume and settle in for some well-deserved bonus content (or bone ‘tent) to kick off another year of Superduperstitious!
EPISODE LINKS
Merch Shop: https://www.superduperstitious.com/shop
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/superduperstitious
Wyatt’s stories
Tree-like creature: https://www.reddit.com/r/Humanoidencounters/comments/ehktwy/tree_like_creature/
Yellow smiley balloon: https://www.reddit.com/r/Humanoidencounters/comments/ecl9xn/the_yellow_smiley_balloon_was_more_than_that/
Black-eyed kids: https://www.reddit.com/r/Humanoidencounters/comments/egvbxw/personal_blackeyed_kid_encounter_2009/
Li'l doodle: https://www.reddit.com/r/Humanoidencounters/comments/eeobro/im_the_guy_from_rome_someone_in_the_comment_asked/
Creepy gnome-like creature: https://www.reddit.com/r/Humanoidencounters/comments/dnwqsn/creepy_gnomelike_creature/
Billy Corgan shapeshifter: https://www.reddit.com/r/Humanoidencounters/comments/e8eden/billy_corgan_shapeshifter/
Tree People of Maine: https://www.reddit.com/r/Humanoidencounters/comments/bvrdf4/tree_people_of_maine/
Creature on the roof (VIDEO): https://www.reddit.com/r/veryspookyvideos/comments/e7ab4v/strange_creature_with_glowing_eyes_on_the_roof_of/
The Devil Scratched Me: https://www.reddit.com/r/Paranormal/comments/ehltib/the_devil_scratched_me/
The White Thing: https://www.reddit.com/r/Humanoidencounters/comments/e5zu3p/the_white_thing/
Bigfoot soundz: https://www.bfro.net/GDB/show_report.asp?id=63324
Dream about weird rabbit-like creature: https://www.reddit.com/r/Humanoidencounters/comments/ejq282/dream_about_weird_rabbit_like_creature/
This shit keeps haunting me: https://www.reddit.com/r/Paranormal/comments/9wg3vk/this_shit_keeps_haunting_me/
Who is in the tree? https://www.reddit.com/r/Humanoidencounters/comments/e2c6o5/who_is_in_the_tree/
Child observes "gorilla": https://www.bfro.net/GDB/show_report.asp?id=3075
Survivalist board: https://www.survivalistboards.com/showthread.php?t=57236&highlight=creep&page=151&=1&utm_source=amp
Man or ape?: https://www.phantomsandmonsters.com/2017/01/man-or-beast.html
Jake’s stories
(Links coming... eventually? Maybe? Does anyone REALLY care at this point?)
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What was meant to be a Boxing Day episode is now a day later, but you know what? It’s still all winter stories, friend!
After another installment in the endless tide of Chicago bat goofness, Jake finally yields some ape ground with a few yeti accounts. He may be pretty damned skeptical of it all, but perhaps there is SOME plausibility in them thar hills. However, a bunch of big fish stories from a bunch of overexcited Europeans is ALWAYS something to take with a bunch of grains of salt.
Wyatt then takes a page out of Jake’s book and turns to Reddit for some backyard spooks. What horrible shadow creature has glowing yellow eyes and can glide through snow toward your back porch? Could it be a horny mountain lion?
This ep is full of goose flesh, people on mountains indistinctly seeing other people on mountains, and all the moose howls you could ask for. Check it all out on the last Superduperstitious of the year!
EPISODE LINKS
Merch Shop: https://www.superduperstitious.com/shop
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/superduperstitious
Jake’s story
Mysterious Universe article: https://mysteriousuniverse.org/2015/07/a-monster-on-the-glacier/
Live Science article: https://www.livescience.com/25072-yeti-abominable-snowman.html
Russian video: https://youtu.be/Zz0Ypv6F0aI
Wyatt’s story
Reddit story: http://bit.ly/2t6TFLz
Moose hauling ass through snow: https://youtu.be/jOLF2d09GKE
Bull moose dropping an antler: https://on.natgeo.com/34WtyUI
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