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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Hurricane Ida relief: https://time.com/6093916/how-to-help-hurricane-ida/
Four Phantoms email: fourphantomsbeer@gmail.com
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All good things must come to an end, but also August Around the World has to as well. In any case, it’s Kenya time!
Their long TREK finally at an end, the boys celebrate by checking out some cool Kenyan creatures and a lake that will kill you. Wyatt leads the way with the Nandi bear. It is neither Nandi, nor is it a bear – discuss. Then after an overdue Phantom update that definitely wasn’t just a clumsy way to pad his segment’s runtime, Jake makes a meandering intro to what is ultimately just a bunch of photos, which are super practical in an audio-based show.
Listen to it right now, you common, hairy ant-bear!
EPISODE LINKS
All-purpose show links: https://superduperstitious.com/links
Help Lebanon: https://helplebanon.carrd.co/
Help Haiti: http://www.haitiemergencyrelief.org/support-our-work/
Help Afghanistan: https://www.npr.org/2021/08/17/1028483700/help-afghanistan-refugees
Four Phantoms email: fourphantomsbeer@gmail.com
Four Phantoms website: https://www.fourphantoms.net/
Four Phantoms store: https://four-phantoms-brewing-company.square.site/
Four Phantoms on Untappd: https://untappd.com/FourPhantoms/beer
Wyatt’s story
Bob Gymlan on the Nandi bear: https://youtu.be/8w98_sall1A
Dinopithecus: http://www.prehistoric-wildlife.com/species/d/dinopithecus.html
Gelada: https://andywildlifesafari.com/uploads/0000/1/2020/03/13/img-20191212-110115-294-1.jpg
Jake’s stories
Simbi Nyaima: https://bit.ly/3zo1UzR
Legend of the village that sank: https://paukwa.or.ke/simbi-nyaima/
Lake Natron: https://www.livescience.com/40135-photographer-rick-brandt-lake-natron.html
Photos: https://bit.ly/38e9mBX
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The back half of August Around the World brings the show to Ecuador, where the animals are plentiful and the term “big boned” has a whole new meaning!
Jake pays a visit to some archeological sites of varying credibility to find lost golden libraries and curious skeletons. You don’t have to be 42 feet tall to laser a cave out of a mountain, but it helps. Then Wyatt walks through the possibilities of an unknown species (or two!) lurking in the rain forest. A predatory cat would probably be more successful in all black, but one does want a hint of color.
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EPISODE LINKS
All-purpose show links: https://superduperstitious.com/links
Help Lebanon: https://helplebanon.carrd.co/
Help Haiti: http://www.haitiemergencyrelief.org/support-our-work/
Help Afghanistan: https://www.npr.org/2021/08/17/1028483700/help-afghanistan-refugees
Four Phantoms email: fourphantomsbeer@gmail.com
Four Phantoms website: https://www.fourphantoms.net/
Four Phantoms store: https://four-phantoms-brewing-company.square.site/
Four Phantoms on Untappd: https://untappd.com/FourPhantoms/beer
Jake’s stories
New Infinity Explorers logo: https://bit.ly/3zb0oB2
Lost metallic library of la Cueva de los Tayos: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/cueva-de-los-tayos
Móricz on his cave discovery: https://sagacreativa.com/en/tayos-cave-the-library-of-metal-books/
GIANT SKELETONS FOUND: https://bit.ly/3y8SGGe
Article on Russell Dement: https://bit.ly/2W5Dflv
But that’s maybe fake, too: https://bit.ly/3gFHD1J
Wyatt’s story
The Macas mammal: https://cryptidarchives.fandom.com/wiki/Macas_mammal
Angel Morant Forés: http://karlshuker.blogspot.com/2009/06/angel-and-his-amazing-technicolor-dream.html
Coastal jaguars of Ecuador: https://www.intechopen.com/chapters/56151
Marc van Roosmalen: https://scienceblogs.com/tetrapodzoology/2007/06/01/multiple-new-species-of-large-3
Feline vision: https://www.livescience.com/40459-what-do-cats-see.html
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August continues to go around the world or whatever, all thanks to a purely arbitrary programming decision two years ago!
It’s Russia o’clock mofos, so you KNOW the boys are bringing their A-game by way of dragons and radio stations. Wyatt pays a visit to Lake Brosno, where a monster the size of a sand mountain (the SI unit for dragon volume) has been swallowing everyone and everything that dares cross its watery domain. It’s real! It is not marmalade! Jake then takes to the airwaves with a look at numbers stations – mysterious radio stations involving numbers – and focuses on one station in particular: MDZhB, also known as UVB-76, also also known as The Buzzer.
There’s no time for additional cute references turned into calls-to-action: listen to the dang old episode!
EPISODE LINKS
All-purpose show links: https://superduperstitious.com/links
Four Phantoms email: fourphantomsbeer@gmail.com
Four Phantoms website: https://www.fourphantoms.net/
Four Phantoms store: https://four-phantoms-brewing-company.square.site/
Four Phantoms on Untappd: https://untappd.com/FourPhantoms/beer
Wyatt’s story
Almasty video: https://youtu.be/XhYxK2rjHI0
Mysterious Universe: https://mysteriousuniverse.org/2021/03/the-mystery-of-the-lake-brosno-dragon/
Ancient Origins: https://www.ancient-origins.net/myths-legends-europe/brosno-dragon-0011946
Ranker: https://www.ranker.com/list/brosno-dragon-russian-cryptid/erin-mccann
Jake’s story
BBC article: https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20170801-the-ghostly-radio-station-that-no-one-claims-to-run
Sample of The Buzzer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wcv_cGLjxCY
Photos: https://bit.ly/3iGkRYM
Moar recordings of The Buzzer: https://bit.ly/3CLFjj2
Radar test example: https://youtu.be/wgwk_A2DPCk
The Lincolnshire Poacher: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Poacher.ogg
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It’s this year’s first installment of August Around the World, and that means both alien and ghostly Thailand tales!
Jake kicks this globetrotting month off with a pretty lukewarm ghost encounter following a visit to a Buddhist shrine, but he rounds this out with a thankfully more colorful story. And that color? YELLOW. Talkin’ ’bout a weird little yellow thingy floating around and weirding out some farmers before exploding in the sky.
Wyatt then follows that yellow thing’s trajectory right out to the stars, with a not-quite-doomsday-cult but also not NOT a doomsday cult who specializes in receiving crucial telepathic communications from aliens. The world hasn’t ended yet, so maybe they’re onto something…
Infinity explorers assemble! And by that we of course mean listen in for another rousing episode of Superduperstitious.
EPISODE LINKS
All-purpose show links: https://superduperstitious.com/links
Four Phantoms email: fourphantomsbeer@gmail.com
Four Phantoms website: https://www.fourphantoms.net/
Four Phantoms store: https://four-phantoms-brewing-company.square.site/
Four Phantoms on Untappd: https://untappd.com/FourPhantoms/beer
Jake’s stories
Reddit Thailand trip: https://bit.ly/37lyUwv
Infinity Explorers: https://www.infinityexplorers.com/about-us-infinity-explorers
Flying yellow humanoid article: https://bit.ly/3CfuZzz
Photo of sketch of creature: https://bit.ly/3CoqK4z
Illustration of creature: https://bit.ly/3jIXNIn
Additional sketch: https://bit.ly/3xrBMCz
Wyatt’s story
Bangkok Post article: https://bit.ly/37nsrB9
Vice article: https://bit.ly/3AhtUp6
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This week’s episode features luminous ghost children and a bunch of visual content presented in an audio medium. We’re good at this!
Jake explores the night vision horribleness of modern day baby monitors and the many ghosts they capture on camera, but first, Wyatt examines what is so far the phenomenon most likely to get this show cancelled. Take your clothes off, start glowing, and enjoy!
EPISODE LINKS
All-purpose show links: https://superduperstitious.com/links
Four Phantoms email: fourphantomsbeer@gmail.com
Four Phantoms website: https://www.fourphantoms.net/
Four Phantoms store: https://four-phantoms-brewing-company.square.site/
Four Phantoms on Untappd: https://untappd.com/FourPhantoms/beer
Wyatt’s story
Angelyn Schmid post: https://angelynschmid.com/2012/10/27/ghostly-portent-the-radiant-boy/
Radiant boys on Mysterious Universe: https://bit.ly/2UYfgE9
Jake’s story
Time magazine article: https://time.com/5707088/ghost-baby-crib/
Baby monitor ghost baby: https://bit.ly/3ldn5kd
The history of baby monitors: https://mybabynursery.com.au/when-did-baby-monitors-come-out/
Nameless invisible bear friend: https://bit.ly/376CV7L
Less convincing baby monitor ghost #1: https://bit.ly/2US4bVi
Less convincing baby monitor ghost #2: https://bit.ly/3x6xCQd
Baby monitor ghost skull post: https://bit.ly/3rHKafK
Baby monitor ghost skull image: https://i.imgur.com/jNBhKv5.jpg
Baby monitor ghost baby conclusion image: https://i.imgur.com/IXyPvPm.jpg
The creepy video Wyatt found: https://youtu.be/l8oKZ2w0_eU
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What’s that sound? It’s either a signal of the End Times, metal stuff, a weird fish, various hoaxes, a microwave weapon, something completely psychological – or it’s the latest episode of Superduperstitious!
This week, learn all about the 2010s phenomenon of sky trumpets and their probably not-so-apocalyptic origin, and yet again revisit Havana syndrome, which was at first maybe some kind of sonic attack but also maybe just bugs, and then possibly mass hysteria, but now potentially an honest-to-goodness microwave weapon, or else still just mass hysteria. Good times!
Slap on a Magneto helmet and REPENT, it’s podcast time!
EPISODE LINKS
All-purpose show links: https://superduperstitious.com/links
Four Phantoms email: fourphantomsbeer@gmail.com
Four Phantoms website: https://www.fourphantoms.net/
Four Phantoms store: https://four-phantoms-brewing-company.square.site/
Four Phantoms on Untappd: https://untappd.com/FourPhantoms/beer
Jake’s story
BIGFOOT TITTY SLIDE: https://twitter.com/DashKwiatkowski/status/1416776691108749317?s=20
Sky trumpets: https://bit.ly/36W0foz
Lakeland, FL video: https://youtu.be/z9uO4N1poYA
Kiev, Ukraine video: https://youtu.be/vcUDYBIrWio
Midshipman fish mating call: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNB-hoKwa0A
Allen, TX video: https://youtu.be/-dIG3sWhyuc
Queensland, Australia video: https://youtu.be/-Edn9GcfEAk
Wellington, New Zealand video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aaqd4IuEj7Q
Grader blade in British Columbia: https://bit.ly/3zxxWsZ
Slovakia mystery sound video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUG1xIOnqnc
Slovakia explanation video: https://youtu.be/EDeZTohP04k
Train brakes video: https://youtu.be/XvfC2WHV_LE
Wyatt’s story
Havana syndrome (May article): https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/12/us/politics/biden-cia-brain-injury.html
Havana syndrome (July article): https://nyti.ms/3y9QQGg
Super recent article: https://bit.ly/2UObH38
Maybe it’s psychosomatic: https://wb.md/3wXv2MB
Royal Society of Medicine article: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0141076819877553
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YES you heard right: the much beloved recurring segment you all have been hankering for and definitely haven’t totally forgotten about is BACK.
In Part 2 of this lots-o-parts series, the boys head to the states where they were born in search of spooks! For Wyatt, this means an extremely haunted mansion in Pennsylvania that was not known for its still-attached heads. Did it really scare folks for decades and then get cratered, or is there nothing left to believe in anymore?
As for Jake, it’s monster time in the woods of Maine! What was the mysterious creature screaming in the night and mauling local pets? And did it died?
Protect your pog collection and I guess just avoid Pittsburgh as you settle into another edition of Home State Horrors!
EPISODE LINKS
All-purpose show links: https://superduperstitious.com/links
Four Phantoms email: fourphantomsbeer@gmail.com
Four Phantoms website: https://www.fourphantoms.net/
Four Phantoms store: https://four-phantoms-brewing-company.square.site/
Four Phantoms on Untappd: https://untappd.com/FourPhantoms/beer
Wyatt’s story
The House on Ridge Avenue: https://www.americanhauntingsink.com/ridge
The real story: https://blog.historian4hire.net/2019/12/17/ghosts-and-gangsters/
Edison’s spirit phone: https://bit.ly/3wmcs0g
Jake’s story
The Androscoggin Creature: https://www.livescience.com/1018-mystery-monster-dogs-maine.html
Archived news article: https://web.archive.org/web/20061029122457/http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14383883/
Moar Maine monster dog stuff: https://www.sunjournal.com/2006/08/16/mysterious-beast/
2020 sighting: https://bit.ly/3wv9kiy
PHOTOS: https://www.instagram.com/p/CRFQWA_FqGG/
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It’s once again time for the boys to take a break from trying!
This week, Wyatt and Jake take some big swings at explaining YOUR spooky experiences. That’s right: it’s another listener story episode! By simply sending an email to contact@superduperstitious.com, you, too, can finally learn the answers to all of your life’s creepiest mysteries. Whether that answer is clowns, trains, clowns driving trains, or ”other”, you’re sure to learn something and have a great time.
For now, you can have a great time by living vicariously though these listeners who already sent their stories in! Let’s go ahead and do that now…
EPISODE LINKS
Four Phantoms email: fourphantomsbeer@gmail.com
Four Phantoms website: https://www.fourphantoms.net/
Four Phantoms store: https://four-phantoms-brewing-company.square.site/
Four Phantoms on Untappd: https://untappd.com/FourPhantoms/beer
Hawai’i stuff: https://www.halehoolahamakua.org/
More Hawai’i stuff: https://bit.ly/3ygKhBi
Sound and sand: https://youtu.be/wvJAgrUBF4w
Our first mention of sonic attacks: https://www.superduperstitious.com/episodes/5-hooked-on-sonics
Yamabiko Illustration: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/06/Suushi_Yama-biko.jpg
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It’s long past time for another E.T.-centric episode, so this one features a pair of stories covering the whole UFOeuvre!
So it goes.
EPISODE LINKS
Four Phantoms email: fourphantomsbeer@gmail.com
Four Phantoms website: https://www.fourphantoms.net/
Four Phantoms store: https://four-phantoms-brewing-company.square.site/
Four Phantoms on Untappd: https://untappd.com/FourPhantoms/beer
Wyatt’s story
NYT article: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/03/us/politics/ufos-sighting-alien-spacecraft-pentagon.html
Newly declassified stuff: Coming soon!
Jake’s story
APRO Bulletin article: http://www.openminds.tv/wp-content/uploads/APRO26-4.pdf
That other account Wyatt mentioned: https://www.instagram.com/p/BoSBeMqHnJx/
The robots and the Casio: https://bit.ly/3wTQVwT
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