It's the end of the world! Apocalyptic radio broadcasts, computer bugs and an alien invasion!

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• Infographic: https://i.redd.it/cfw4acjeskc91.png
• W: https://www.historylink.org/File/5136
• W: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/infamous-war-worlds-radio-broadcast-was-magnificent-fluke-180955180/
• X: Peebles, Curtis (March 24, 1995). Watch the Skies!: A Chronicle of the Flying Saucer Myth, Ch 2 'The 1947 Flap'. Berkley Books.
• X: https://www.history.com/news/roswell-ufo-aliens-what-happened
• Y: https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/Y2K-bug
• Y: https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A4138-2004Jun24.html
• Y: https://www.911memorial.org/connect/blog/years-911-wtc-security-experts-prepared-y2k
• Z: https://skeptoid.com/episodes/4766

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Part 3 is a real gas! Chock full of spooky clowns, vampires and witches!

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• Infographic: https://i.redd.it/cfw4acjeskc91.png
• P: https://historycollection.com/12-historys-baffling-mass-hysteria-outbreaks/10/
• Q: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-37293494
• R: https://web.archive.org/web/20080306220348/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,917
• S: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/a-brief-history-of-the-salem-witch-trials-175162489/
• T: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2007/nov/21/society.health
• U: https://www.vox.com/culture/2016/10/12/13122196/clown-panic-hoax-history
• V: https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/650659/scotland-gorbals-vampire-hunt

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Was it hyperthyroidism or maybe polyphagia that drove Charles Domery and Tarrare to eat anything they could get their hands on? Or, better yet, were their stories even true? This week, Sarah shares two tales so wild that they're difficult to believe, despite scientific documentation of their unusual eating habits.

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• https://gizmodo.com/what-caused-these-men-to-eat-cats-and-candles-1685293458
• https://horrorobsessive.com/2021/03/02/an-insatiable-hunger-tarrare-and-charles-domery/

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The panic's keep coming this week as we cover Oujia boards, disappearing penises and Lisztomania! History sure has had some great panics. Let's talk about 26 or more of them in this multi-part series!

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• Infographic: https://i.redd.it/cfw4acjeskc91.png
• H: https://web.archive.org/web/20071023075655/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,820350,00.html
• I: https://archive.org/details/1688firstmodernr00stev/page/249/mode/1up
• J: https://www.history.com/news/mysterious-illnesses-mass-hysteria#:~:text=5.,believed%20were%20making%20them%20sick.
• K: https://web.archive.org/web/20150603112434/http://news.asiaone.com/print/News/Latest%2BNews/Health/Story/A1Story20120309-332578.html
• L: https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20160817-franz-liszt-the-worlds-first-musical-superstar
• M: https://skepticalinquirer.org/2002/07/return-of-spring-heeled-jack/
• N: https://skepticalinquirer.org/2000/05/mass-delusions-and-hysterias/
• O: https://www.vox.com/c/the-highlight/21242299/outbreak-girlstown-chalco-world-villages-villa-de-las-ninas

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History sure has had some great panics. Let's talk about 26 or more of them in this multi-part series!

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• Infographic: https://i.redd.it/cfw4acjeskc91.png
• A: http://www.slate.com/blogs/atlas_obscura/2015/05/29/pinball_was_banned_in_new_york_until_a_single_miraculous_shot_convinced.html
• B: https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-fight-to-save-america-from-satans-subliminal-rock-messages
• C: https://skepticalinquirer.org/2000/05/mass-delusions-and-hysterias/
• D: https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-26328105
• D: https://www.britannica.com/event/dancing-plague-of-1518
• E: http://www.strangehistory.net/2011/03/18/christ-and-an-egg-from-leeds/
• F: https://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/news/14117464.flashback-hundreds-blackburn-pupils-hit-fainting-frenzy/
• G: https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/the-great-moon-hoax
• G: https://factordaily.com/edgar-allan-poe-science-fiction/

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It's another double-decker episode! This time, I share two stories of people who disappeared under bizarre circumstances, but reappeared alive. However the details of what happened to them are still unknown.

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• https://www.cbc.ca/radio/docproject/why-this-toronto-firefighter-may-never-know-what-happened-on-his-puzzling-journey-across-the-u-s-1.4998819
• https://www.timesunion.com/news/article/One-year-later-still-questions-on-how-Whiteface-13607502.php
• https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/585515/how-presumed-dead-lawrence-bader-invented-new-life
• https://medium.com/the-crime-scene/the-disappearance-of-lawrence-joseph-bader-74bce923acbb
• https://www.upi.com/Archives/1965/02/10/The-Strange-Case-of-John-Fritz-Johnson/3111570208794/

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Come along with us as Sarah shares some little known but fantastically interesting facts about a handful of America’s early leaders. From wine stains to possum dinners, this episode has it all!

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• https://www.kqed.org/pop/20516/weird-facts-you-never-knew-about-the-u-s-presidents
• https://www.history.com/news/george-washington-little-known-facts
• https://untoldhistory.org/the-swivel-chair-how-thomas-jefferson-invented-the-office-chair
• https://www.history.com/news/10-things-you-may-not-know-about-james-madison
• https://constitutioncenter.org/blog/10-fascinating-facts-about-john-quincy-adams-for-his-248th-birthday
• https://www.history.com/news/the-birth-of-ok-175-years-ago
• https://lngenz.com/this-presidents-day-lets-remember-the-weird/
• https://www.thoughtco.com/things-to-know-about-zachary-taylor-105526
• https://chicagoist.com/2013/02/12/abraham_lincoln_bartender.php#:~:text=But%20Lincoln%20was%20the%20only,en%20route%20to%20New%20Orleans.
• https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/51030/billy-possum-president-tafts-answer-teddy-bear

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In 1945, two atomic bombs were dropped on Japan. But a third bomb was planned and prepared to be dropped as well. After the Japanese surrender and the end of World War 2, the plutonium core of this bomb was used in tests that physicist Richard Feynman described as like “tickling the tail of a sleeping dragon”. The events that followed would earn the item its well known nickname - the demon core.

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• https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/demon-core-the-strange-death-of-louis-slotin
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFlromB6SnU

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It’s been too long since we’ve done an episode about stunts fit for Jackass. In this episode, Sarah gives Clay the rundown on the people who have survived the 187-foot drop over the edge of Niagara Falls.

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• https://www.history.com/news/a-daredevil-history-of-niagara-falls
• https://www.niagarafallsinfo.com/
• https://adventure.howstuffworks.com/survival/wilderness/niagara.htm

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As war abruptly began between Russia and Japan in 1904, Russia found itself unprepared to face the naval might of the Imperial Navy. Tsar Nicholas II summoned the Baltic Fleet to hastily make way to the East to support the Pacific Fleet, but this would be a monumental challenge. The Baltic Fleet would have to traverse 18,000 miles from the Baltic, down across the tip of Africa and across the Indian Ocean for a grueling 7 months. Would they be able to complete their mission and save Russia? By the name of the episode, I suspect you may know the answer already.

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• https://www.warhistoryonline.com/history/bear-steams-east-russian-fleet.html?chrome=1
• https://defensionem.com/last-ride-of-the-2nd-pacific-squadron/
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zinovy_Rozhestvensky#Russo-Japanese_War
• https://britishseafishing.co.uk/the-dogger-bank-incident/
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dogger_Bank_incident
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=deuzVsKMsTA
• https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/the-battle-of-tsushima-strait

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