Superduperstitious - Episode 91 – Rat King Cole

Episode 91 – Rat King Cole

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12/21/19 • 67 min

Superduperstitious

Finally, an episode in December! Is it any surprise that it’s about cryptids?

After a lengthy but important update on the Phantom of the Chicago, Wyatt kicks off with the tale of Zana, a supposed ape woman held captive in the most difficult to pronounce reaches of the 19th-century Western Caucasus. Was she really a bipedal ape creature, or were these people just HOLY SHIT THE MOST RACIST MONSTERS IMAGINABLE? Could the answer possibly be anything BUT the latter?

Jake then gets German with the Rat King, a ball o’ rat phenomenon believed to occur all the damned time. But are rats REALLY as gross as people want to believe? And are they that bad at being alive and not fusing together? FOLLOW THE MONEY.

Don’t let the stats from the time of recording fool you: take it from America’s 225th most popular Natural Sciences podcast, Superduperstitious!

EPISODE LINKS

Merch Shop: https://www.superduperstitious.com/shop

Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/superduperstitious

Wyatt’s story

The story of Zana: http://www.bigfootencounters.com/articles/zana.htm

Kwhit’s skull: https://sites.google.com/site/noxgigasstudy/home/zana-and-the-black-plague

Possible human subspecies: http://bit.ly/2ScdJq7

Calling bullshit 1: http://bit.ly/2Q4Kt1W

Calling bullshit 2: http://bit.ly/2rbrvOG

Royal Society article: https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/pdf/10.1098/rspb.2014.1712

Jake’s story

Medium article: https://medium.com/@Naturalish/rat-kings-what-are-they-really-ef67359ad34e

Squirrel King video: https://youtu.be/vDbs-0b8zAU

Mental Floss article: https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/506504/almost-comprehensive-history-rat-kings

Estonian Rat King: http://www.kirj.ee/public/Ecology/2007/issue_1/bio-2007-1-7.pdf

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Finally, an episode in December! Is it any surprise that it’s about cryptids?

Don’t let the stats from the time of recording fool you: take it from America’s 225th most popular Natural Sciences podcast, Superduperstitious!

EPISODE LINKS

Merch Shop: https://www.superduperstitious.com/shop

Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/superduperstitious

Wyatt’s story

The story of Zana: http://www.bigfootencounters.com/articles/zana.htm

Kwhit’s skull: https://sites.google.com/site/noxgigasstudy/home/zana-and-the-black-plague

Possible human subspecies: http://bit.ly/2ScdJq7

Calling bullshit 1: http://bit.ly/2Q4Kt1W

Calling bullshit 2: http://bit.ly/2rbrvOG

Royal Society article: https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/pdf/10.1098/rspb.2014.1712

Jake’s story

Medium article: https://medium.com/@Naturalish/rat-kings-what-are-they-really-ef67359ad34e

Squirrel King video: https://youtu.be/vDbs-0b8zAU

Mental Floss article: https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/506504/almost-comprehensive-history-rat-kings

Estonian Rat King: http://www.kirj.ee/public/Ecology/2007/issue_1/bio-2007-1-7.pdf

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Previous Episode

Episode 90 – kthx(gvng) bye

It’s Thanks-friggin-giving, and Wyatt and Jake are thankful for one thing above all else — being together again in the same room! The most obvious way to celebrate this is of course by telling some vaguely holiday-appropriate stories, so that happens.

After some much-needed bat updates, Jake hits us with a pair of paranormal accounts that kinda sorta maybe REFERENCE Thanksgiving? Whatever. Just watch out for disappearing, creepy kids in red shirts and horrific, inhuman, staggering grey masses that whisper to you at night.

Wyatt heads in another direction entirely, with the history of the fringe Christian belief in the rapture. Are all the good folks gonna get poofed away? Why come everyone don’t believes that? The answers to some of that and more can all be found in this binder (and these twelve thumb drives).

Keep eating stuffing and NEVER, EVER STOP — it’s Superduperstitious time!

EPISODE LINKS

Merch Shop: https://www.superduperstitious.com/shop

Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/superduperstitious

Katy’s work: https://www.instagram.com/after_artist_/

Jake’s story

First story: https://www.reddit.com/r/Paranormal/comments/bi0cv2/the_red_man/

Second story: https://www.reddit.com/r/Paranormal/comments/dp9yn7/old_gray_thing/

Creepy artwork: https://imgur.com/KwKaOBi

Wyatt’s story

The rapture: https://psmag.com/news/why-are-so-many-christians-obsessed-with-predicting-the-rapture

Marsha Kuhnley’s books: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/19656617.Marsha_Kuhnley

Rapture binders: http://marshakuhnley.com/category/make-a-binder/

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Next Episode

Episode 92 – Because of Scared

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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