Zero Percent Scared

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26: Incompetent Floor Ghosts Aug 15, 2019

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Ever found a Jesus on your grilled cheese? Toast with your mom's face on it? Well, these small-town Spaniards have faces popping up on their freaking floor! Just throw a rug on it people. Throw a rug on it.

Very special thanks for today's topic suggestion to Michele W (paranormal investigator specializing in Chupacabras and Things That Go Bump In The Night).

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References:

Calm Meditation App
Co-Star Horoscope app (@zeropercentkelly, @zeropercentsarah)
Faceblindness (aka Prosopagnosia)
Virgin Mary Grilled Cheese!
Belmez Faces, Skeptics takes (boo!)
- Association of Paranormal Study's thoughts
- Skeptoid's take (they're kind of rude about it!)
Belmez Faces, Believer's takes (yay!)
- Paranorms.com's thoughts
- Mysterious Universe article
Dying Concrete
Trip Advisor
Thoughtography
Ted Serios, alleged thoughtographer

25: Tinder for Vampires Aug 08, 2019

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We've talked about pop culture vamps, and old school vamps, but what about modern-day blood drinkers? Well, good old Stephen Kaplan delved into this back in the 1970s in his Vampire Research Center, which really just seemed like a vampire dating service.

Are you a vampire who found love through the VRC? Share your love story! Let's make a rom com!

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Stephen Kaplan
Sandvik and Baerheim. Does garlic protect against vampires? (1994) Tidsskr Nor Laegeforen
Schneider DS what can vampires teach us about immunology. (2016) Trends in immunology.
Vampires Are
Elizabeth, crazy lady or real 400 year old vamp? Read and decide!

24: Rad Listener Stories Aug 02, 2019

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Today we talk about our favorite listener stories! Guys, you're THE best. Keep sending us your scary and paranormal experiences and Kelly will keep ranking the best things to haunt. Dolls, dogs, footballs, doors, lamps.

23: Vampires, corpses, and our freaky AF circulatory system Jul 22, 2019

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Does anyone actually believe in vampires? No, right? Well if you do, don't worry, eBay and goop have you covered with vampire hunting kits and anti-vamp elixir! Thanks Gwyneth!

On this episode we discuss the insane vampire panics in Eastern Europe!

FYI this is the last episode released Monday mornings -- we are moving to Thursday mornings! Keep it in mind and get pumped people.

References: Vampire bats in Brazil

Vampire moths

Gwyneth's dumb anti-vampire elixir

Vampire hunting equipment

Lillith was a weird vampire, or something?

Croatian Vampires!

Cemetery full of vampires!

Porphyria

Catalepsy

German Documentary about vampires (ugh)

Lore TB Episode

22: Buffy vs Twilight (answer: Buffy) Jul 15, 2019

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This went from a conversation about TV to a giant feminist rant so get excited people.

Main question for the listeners: Are straight women actually super into being stalked by pasty emo dudes? Please tell us, we want to understand you!

Reminder: We're going to be changing our release schedule, from Monday mornings to Thursday morning.

Buffy top list: Kelly's Faves:

Tabula Rasa (S6 E8)
Once more with feeling (S6 E7)
Smashed (S6 E9)
I only have eyes for you (S2 E19)
Halloween (S2 E6)
Dopplegangland (S3 E16)
The wish (S3 E9)
Hush (S4 E10)

Sarah's Faves:

Teachers pet (S1 E4)
Puppet show (S1 E9)
School hard (S2 E3)
Innocence (S2 E14)
Hush (S4 E10)
Out of mind, out of sight (S1 E11)
Chosen (S7 E22)

References:

Correction: Drusilla is a Capricorn. (January 19). Fun fact, ALSO Buffy summer's birthday
CIA reading room link:https://www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/home
FBI FOIA vault: https://vault.fbi.gov/
Buffy vs. Edward: Twilight Remixed: https://www.theatlantic.com/video/index/248652/buffy-vs-edward-twilight-remixed/
Buffy vamps: https://buffy.fandom.com/wiki/Vampire
Twilight Vamps: https://twilightsaga.fandom.com/wiki/Vampire
All Souls books: https://deborahharkness.com/all-souls-world-home/the-all-souls-world-books/
Jacob the Llama (alpaca?)

21: Taurus Rising (whatever that means) Jul 08, 2019

Show notes

Who doesn't love a newspaper horoscope? You know you read them. Don't even pretend. We're all bff here.

Once you're done reading your horoscope, make an opposite friend! Also, Evangeline Adams is the podcast's official queer role model, so get on board.

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The People's Choice Podcast Awards - click here (https://www.podcastawards.com) to register and vote for a ton of cool casts.

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References:

Astrology.com

Buzzfeed astrological quizzes - go crazy people!

Birth Season affects your mood in later life, 2014.Gauquelin's Mars effect

Multiple comparison problem

Spurious correlations

Relative Age Effect

Malcom Gladwell: Outliers

Barnum effect

Paranormal Beliefs and the Barnum Effect (Tobacyk et al, 2010):

Adel et al. Favored zodiac for celebrity births.

Genovese JE. A failed demonstration of sun sign astrology. Comprehensive Psychology (2013)

Lili Kolisko

Evangeline Adams

Tree Marriage

20: Tarot, like Carrot Jul 01, 2019

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We all know by now that Dr. Kelly loves a good tarot card reading. And being a "gifted psychic", she can tell you that your future holds a lighthearted overview of tarot cards AND a heated fight about statistics. Oh and also, you're all going to have a super awesome life. Promise. The cards told her.

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Full show notes at www.zeropercentscared.com

References:

p-values and statistics!

Wasserstein RL, Schrim AL, Lazar, NA.Moving to a World Beyond "p 0.05". The American Statistician (2019)

Amrhein V, Greenland S, McShane B. Scientists rise up against statistical significance. Nature (2019)

Precognition Science

Bem D et al.,Feeling the future: A meta-analysis of 90 experiments on the anomalous anticipation of random future eventsF1000 Research (2015)

Engber D.Daryl Bem Proved ESP Is Real. Slate (2017)

Ritchie SJ, Wiseman R and French CC.Failing the Future: Three Unsuccessful Attempts to Replicate Bem's 'Retroactive Facilitation of Recall' Effect. PlosONE (2012)

French C. Precognition studies and the curse of the failed replications. The Guardian (2012)

Rouder JN and Morey RD.A Bayes factor meta-analysis of Bem's ESP claim. Psychon Bull Rev (2011)

Rabeyron, T,Retro-priming, priming, and double testing: psi and replication in a test–retest design

Predicting the unpredictable: critical analysis and practical implications of predictive anticipatory activity

Science Tarot Cards

19: Slenderman Mania! Jun 24, 2019

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Guys. Middle school is the actual worst. Slenderman, a creepy suit-wearing string bean, has apparently figured out how to fill the middle school emotional void causing full on murder-spree inspiring obsessions.

Join us to hear all about the darkness lurking just over...wait what's that behind you????

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References:

Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Gentlemen Episode

Beware the Slenderman HBO Documentary

The Slenderman Murders

Kitchen knife Slenderman mom attempted murder

The Miller murder spree

Smiley

Coast to Coast

Lacy's creepy story from the book "The Slenderman Mysteries" by Nick Redfern. Story here Boyer et al., 2013 The Anatomy of a Monster: The Case of Slender Man.

Folkloresque, and the Implications of Belief

What the heck is a tulpa?

Slender man suicides Guadagno et al., 2013 What makes a video go viral? An analysis of emotional contagion and Internet memes.

Baker et al., 2019 A distinct inferential mechanism for delusions in schizophrenia

Kiran and Chaudhury, 2009 Understanding delusions

Youtube for kids

Marble Hornets

18: Even haunted elevators are very safe Jun 17, 2019

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On this mini-episode, we discuss several haunted elevators across the nation, what the deal is with skipping floor numbers in elevators, and Kelly's secret weirdo love for elevator engineering.

Conclusions: Apparently, elevators are really safe although they are also creepily haunted.

Bonus material: We talk through the Elisa Lam mystery death, and the super creepy elevator footage right before she disappears.

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References:

Eerie Haunted elevators

The Haunted Algonquin Hotel

The Haunted Avalon Theater

The Adolphus Hotel's ghosts

The Haunted Kennesaw House

University of Maryland Denton Hall, the haunted dorm

Elevator Group-think Experiment

Unlucky floor numbers in elevators

The tragic and mysterious death of Elisa Lam

The Elisa Lam elevator footage (warning - this is disturbing and creepy as all hell)

17: Ghosts, mold, and those gd physicists Jun 10, 2019

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Most people believe in ghosts, but is it just wishful thinking? Or are we all just living in moldy, infrasound ridden houses with a creepy neighbor who pops in to freak out children?

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References:

Massapequa Hell House

The super duper haunted Borley Rectory "The most haunted house in England"

Has the Large Hadron Collider Disproved the Existence of Ghosts?

The Ghost in the Machine

Villisca Ax Murder House

EVPs from the Ax Murder House

Fear Frequency - a youtube channel featuring infrasound!

Carbon Monoxide and Haunted Feelings

Shane Rogers, Mold/Ghost hunter

The "Haunt" Project