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65: Mummies and their cursed bacteria Oct 31, 2023

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We've resurfaced - just in time for Halloween.

Welcome friends, as Sarah and Dr. Kelly discuss all things mummy -- the hotness in the movies, how mummies were made, why they're so cool, and the curses those hilariously macabre victorians inevitably unleashed upon our earth.

REFERENCES:

Robbing Cleopatra's tomb- the first horror movie?
Eyptomaaaaaania!!!!
How we know about Egyptian mummy embalming.
Eating mummies for fun and healing (WTF)
The Midnight Library podcast - Corpse Medicine episode!
The Pharoh's curse!
The Unlucky Mummy in the British Museum (where else)
Nautilus article on the unlucky mummy psychology.
Metagenomic Analysis of Ancient Egyptian Canopic jars
The mummy's curse: historical cohort study
Lord Carnarvon's Death: the curse of aspergillosis
- (why is it so hard to say tho)
Lady Dai, the best preserved mummy ever. Warning, the photos are very real.

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64: Halloween stories, expertly judged Oct 31, 2022

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Join us for a dope selection of scary and bizarre halloween stories! Dr. Kelly Ruggles, our resident skeptical scientist judges these tales and assigns scores, just to get a little math up in here.

Learn about one Alabama town's very weird child-harassing specter, and hear the terror that inhabits the most haunted road in England! IF YOU DARE!!!!

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REFERENCES:

Ghosts of Blue Bell Road, Kent, England.

Hugging Molly, the weirdest ghost we know. Excellent article, highly recommended!

Halloween Horror nights by Universal!

63: Sasquatch don't play Dec 01, 2021

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The promised third episode of our mega Bigfoot series! In this episode, we go through the strangest stories of Sasquatches attacking, acting creepy as sh!t, or even showing INTERDIMENSIONAL talents!! Join us, and rate the stories right along with Dr. Kelly.

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REFERENCES:

Kristen Stewart Hitting Target Demographic -- gay ghost hunting reality show!! https://www.autostraddle.com/kristen-stewart-developing-ghost-hunting-reality-tv-show/

Queers love cryptids! https://www.autostraddle.com/nessie-is-my-girlfriend-what-is-it-with-queer-people-and-cryptids-420335/

Mysterious Universe - pretty good paranormal blog site https://mysteriousuniverse.org/

BFRO's account of Alberts Ostman's bigfoot adventure http://bfro.net/GDB/show_report.asp?ID=1091

The ape canyon Sasquatch attacks https://bizarreandgrotesque.com/2020/01/15/ape-canyons-bizarre-1924-bigfoot-attack/

Bigfoot attacks! https://mysteriousuniverse.org/2018/01/bizarre-and-frightening-accounts-of-bigfoot-attacks/

WJ Sheehans Terror in the Woods book series -- check these out, they're cheap and really fun https://www.amazon.com/W-J-Sheehan/e/B07H2W3KW7?ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1&qid=1638250291&sr=8-1

62: Bigfoot deserves a parade Nov 03, 2021

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Hey folks! Here is the much anticipated second installment of our Bigfoot series -- and this is all about the evidence that even Dr. Kelly (the Scully in the relationship) will admit is compelling.

In this episode, Sarah goes into the best evidence that Bigfoot is a real creature -- and we need to have a parade for her, we all agree.

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REFERENCES:

The Man Who Killed Hitler and then Bigfoot: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_man_who_killed_hitler_and_then_the_bigfoot

Sasquatch legend meets science: https://www.amazon.com/Sasquatch-Legend-Science-Jeff-Meldrum/dp/0765312174

Gigantopithecus: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gigantopithecus

The Lying Liar Ray Wallace: https://www.bfro.net/news/wallace_faq.asp

Bigfoot track hoax reward: http://www.bigfootencounters.com/articles/reward.htm

Jimmy Chilcutt and bigfoot fingerprints: https://txsasquatch.blogspot.com/2006/01/jimmy-chilcutt.html

Mid-tarsal breaks: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23686391/

The idiocy, Fabrications and lies of ancient aliens: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/the-idiocy-fabrications-and-lies-of-ancient-aliens-86294030/

61: Re-release of SCARY CLOWNS for halloween! Oct 31, 2021

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Hey all! Listen, we know we've been gone a long time, but we ARE BACK!! Tonight for halloween, please enjoy this special re-release of our clowns episode. And join us next week for new content about bigfoot!

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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60: Bigfoot and the Scientists Who Love Her May 14, 2021

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Friends, hear me out -- there are lots of legit actual scientists who believe in Bigfoot! No, seriously.

Welcome the one the only Dr. Kelly back as we do a dive into scientists that believe Bigfoot, Sasquatch, the Yeti, whatever you might call it, is REAL.

I'M BEING SERIOUS HERE!

In this episode Kelly and Sarah discuss the scientists who believe in bigfoot, and the amazing book SASQUATCH: LEGEND MEETS SCIENCE.

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Show Notes:

Bigfoot: Legend Meets Science (Amazon link)
Interview w/ Dr. Meldrum on NPRs talk of the nation about Sasquatch: Legend Meets Science
Transcript of Jane Goodall's sasquatch comments
The Science behind Bigfoot, an interview with Dr. Jeff Meldrum
Entering Dubious Realms: Grover Krantz, Science, and Sasquatch (by Brian Regal)
Bigfoot genetics thingie Kelly rages about -- "Novel North American Hominins, Next Generation Sequencing of Three Whole Genomes and Associated Studies" Ketchum, M. S., Wojtkiewicz, P. W., Watts, A. B., Spence, D. W., Holzenburg, A. K., Toler, D. G., Prychitko, T. M., Zhang, F., Shoulders, R., Smith, R. (2013)
The Man, The Myth, and The Legend of Grover Krantz by Krissy Elliot

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59: Roman Candles Made of People Mar 26, 2021

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Oh my god, you guys, did you know people just burst into flame for no reason? And then burn all the way up in a crazy weird way that makes no logical sense? It's true! And its OUR NEW WORST FEAR!

Today we discuss the insane stories behind some very strange cases of Spontaneous Human Combustion. Sarah tells the crazy stories, and Dr. Mysterface talks about Autobrewery Syndrome, the wick effect, and why being a crossfitter is a recipe for becoming a fireball!

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Show References:

Excellent and fair overview of SHC
Irish Coroner rules death is by Spontaneous Human Combustion
Mary Reeser, the 'cinder lady' (which is kind of rude as far as nicknames go).
Countess Di Bandi, human roman candle!
How to shrink a human head (don't ask me, we like tangents)
Auto-Brewery Syndrome
Ketosis
The Entrancing Flame by John Heymer. Fascinating book!
Borderland Phenomenon by Louis Proud
Text of the case from the Boston Medical and Surgical Journal, 1835

58: MERRY SCARY CHRISTMAS!!! Dec 25, 2020

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Hey folks, we've decided to bring back the tradition of telling ghost stories on Christmas! Join us for some "true" ghost stories that take place during Christmas, and stay for some interesting science about FEAR!

PS -- the Covid vaccine is safe, GET IT GUYS

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57: Decapitation makes ya cranky Dec 09, 2020

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Firstly: If you're struggling with drug or alcohol addiction please seek help -- you are loved and we want you to stay with us, fam.

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This episode we get into the nitty gritty of the TRUE TALES behind the various legends of headless horsemen! Horsepeople? Whatever!

Then we discuss the super gross scientific world of DECAPITATION! We cover animals that wreak headless revenge (and or sex), the nutbag crazy world of head transplants, and we discover how long a head can live after it's been cut off! Its longer than you think!!

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BONUS: Your Halloween Astrological forecast (feat. Kristina Semos) Oct 31, 2020

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Hello! As a thank you to our dedicated listeners, we recorded a Halloween astrological intervention with Zero Percent Scared's resident astrologer, Kristina Semos!

You can find Kristina in all her glory at AstroOils.com!

Join us as Kristina breaks down exactly how craptastic this Halloween will be for us all.

BEWARE, ALL THOSE WHO DON'T LISTEN!!

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