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Superduperstitious
Episode 143 – Baby That's Scary
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 LINKSAll-purpose show links: https://superduperstitious.com/linksFour Phantoms email: fourphantomsbeer@gmail.comFour Phantoms webs...
2021-07-29
1h 00
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Episode 130 – Strange Phenomena (Including but Not Limited to: Lights)
Spook lights, baby! That’s the name of the game this week.After an Oumuamua update from Wyatt, Jake ventures to the Mekong River for some fireballs that are either being puked up by a giant snake, stirred up by the river itself, faked for tourism purposes – OR PERHAPS ALL THREE. Wyatt then follows up on a listener lead for some equally intriguing flying light balls in Missouri. Find out some but most definitely not all of the answers to what the deal is with those!Last one to the new ep is a Rotten...
2021-03-22
1h 00
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Episode 128 – Home State Horrors (Part 1 of 25+)
This week’s episode asks the question on all our minds: Is ideas bread?The boys tell tales from their own home states to kick off a new recurring segment: Home State Horrors! Over the next eighty years or so, Superduperstitious is gonna cover all 50 U.S. states, plus probably some other places, too! In this initial installment, Wyatt and Jake learn some exciting news about their blood.Jake leads the way with accounts of the Wood Devils of Coos County, NH (even though he’s not from New Hampshire), and then Wyatt disc...
2021-02-25
52 min
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Episode 125 – Happy Butterversary!
The start of a new year means some time talk on Superduperstitious!After a bit of rambling that might be more appropriate in a different, more popular genre of podcast (the lucrative road not traveled), the boys dig into some stories that roughly fulfill the prompt of “it is now a different year than it was”. For Wyatt, this means tales from alleged time travelers! And for Jake, an annual Arkansas NYE tradition of having a bunch of dead birds fall from the sky.Could 2021 bring a much-needed fresh start after the horrors of 2...
2021-01-11
50 min
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Episode 124 – A Merry Ghoultide
The boys are back again, with some kooks and spooks for the books! (For the purposes of this description text, pretend that those three words rhyme.)After a truly surprising visit from a Spring Heeled old pal, Jake leads the way with more of what he does best: crawler bullshit. Cut him some slack – it’s Christmas! And this time it’s served with a tasty side of cave ecology.Wyatt then pays a FOURTH visit to a topic first covered three years and 119 episodes ago: sonic attacks. Even more unexpectedly, he finds himsel...
2020-12-25
1h 05
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Episode 118 – Fear Factors Part I: The Quiet Peeing of the Pants
What better way to kick off October than with another Superduperstitious Special Report! This edition seeks to answer the age old question: why come scary stories?Jake and Wyatt start this two-ep deep dive with a variety of sample ghost stories past and present, and a look at the cultural and psychological factors that contribute to humanity’s timeless love of being frightened. Listen along to hear two 30-somethings get creeped out by a children’s book, and to wonder why some guys who are SO EASILY SCARED by damned near anything would choose to host this...
2020-10-01
48 min
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Episode 117 – Readings from the Korndämonenomicon
Autumn: a thing that happens, as far as we know, every single year. North of the Equator, it’s happening RIGHT NOW. This episode is about that!After a classic and arguably needless SDS PSA, Wyatt explains the German tradition of Feldgeister (“field spirits”), also known as Korndämonen. These corn demons are believed to be responsible for the wellbeing of each field’s crops, so you’d best respect them or you might get beaten with some boobs.Next, Jake rattles off a series of ghostly encounters from followers of the blog GaijinPot...
2020-09-27
49 min
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Episode 116 – Please Recargh
What do a scary forest hag legend and a weird stretch of Venezuelan road have in common? Nothing. Except that they’re both featured in this week’s potpourri episode!After some Venusian news, Jake introduces Wyatt to Penelope, a horrific monster woman who roams the Sierra Nevada eating everyone and everything she can. Can radioactive waste really turn a car crash victim into a superwitch? Why the hell not!Wyatt then takes a trip down memory lane to the late ’80s and early ’90s, but use caution as you follow, dear listener: this Car...
2020-09-19
51 min
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Episode 115 – O Captain My Captain
It’s the Randonautica episode! Who CARES if the hosts aren’t in the same physical location as one another?Using the random coordinates suggested by the cryptic app, Wyatt and Jake tried their best to find stories tangentially related to what they found. All right, “best” is a strong word. But they certainly tried! Or, well… there are some stories, anyway? From the nosleep subreddit to famous cookie moguls, this episode runs the gamut of what qualifies as “audio content”. Spooky tales in the woods, a fair amount of honest to goodness history – there’s something for ever...
2020-09-04
48 min
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Episode 114 – Tralien Triad (feat. Derek Sword)
August Around the World concludes with an excursion into Scandinavia, and this time, WE’VE GOT COMPANY.Specifically, that company is DEREK SWORD of the podcast Monster Crush! Jake, Derek, and Wyatt bring bullshit, history, and science, respectively, as they tackle all manner of Scandinavian spookums, including ghost kinks, un-animals, and surprise steamed hams. If you scatter some phantom rose petals and avert another nuclear doomsday, who knows? You might just find cryptozoological love faster than you can say Storsjöodjuret!EPISODE LINKSJacob Blake GoFundMe: https://www.gofundme.com/f/j...
2020-08-27
1h 10
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Episode 113 – Not Your Granddaddy's Narwhal
In this installment of August Around the World, things are getting every bit as spooky and mythology-y (?) as they are Latin American!An extra-interrupty Jake infects Wyatt’s mind with cetacean madness while the latter tries to tell the tale of a shape-shifting monstrosity known for terrorizing dark corners of northern Mexico since pre-Columbian times. Said to be what happens when black magic practitioners turn themselves into hellish pseudo-animals, these naguales sure do have a colorful horoscope.Then, in a segment so connected you’d think it was planned that way even though thes...
2020-08-20
56 min
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Episode 112 – Specific Islands
August Around the World continues, this time in the bigger of the oceans! You know the one.Jake begins with cool rocks, just like you always hoped he would. Why? Because they’re what make up Nan Madol, a series of tiny, real nifty artificial islands in Micronesia built around a millennium ago! How exactly were they constructed, and why? IT’S A MYSTERY. And will white people ever give other cultures credit for their engineering chops? Not if this weather-controlling lost city has anything to say about it!Wyatt then takes one for...
2020-08-14
1h 00
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Episode 110 – Where's the Flux?
Space. The eventual thing we sometimes get around to. These are stories from the podcast Superduperstitious. Their infinite-year mission: to give up on this bit halfway through the paragraph. Just listen to the thing.After a frankly embarrassing 54 episodes (the span, not the episodes), the boys are finally talking about outer space again! Specifically, stuff being built out there. Jake leads the way with the very earnest beliefs of a fella who just can’t take “no, those are visual artifacts because the photos are almost 60 years old” for an answer. Wyatt then journeys to the very c...
2020-07-30
51 min
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Episode 108 – NOW That's What I Call Spooky Spots! 2020
We might all still be stuck inside for a while, but there’s plenty of traveling in this week’s ep!A solid 78 episodes after their first foray into far flung frights, the boys are once again exploring mysterious locations. Jake’s up first, with a notorious lost American town that is… not really a big deal? It seems like? Find out what exactly happened to Dudleytown, CT and how cursed it wasn’t.Wyatt then takes us all on a road trip! Where to? Some roads, of course! The most haunted in the U.S...
2020-05-22
46 min
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Episode 106 – Grizzly Treats (feat. Real Life Ghost Stories)
You are simply NOT ready for this one, friends!Emma and Dan, hosts of Real Life Ghost Stories, join the show to talk about ghost stories! Real life ones! From creepy household occurrences to Black Mirror knockoffs, they’re bringing the goods. And that, of course, can only mean that Jake and Wyatt are bringing the bads. Listen along and see how much the group can withstand before completely losing their minds! And don’t forget to stick around until the very end for an extra treat…Questions? Answered. Attic doors? Open. Weeks? Three...
2020-05-07
58 min
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Episode 105 – We Pick Three Minus One Equals Four: Items Edition
Remember that time in Episode 62 when Wyatt and Jake picked three random creatures apiece to take turns talking about? Yeah, neither do they. So it’s weird artifacts time instead, and not as many of them!This week, Wyatt’s got a mysterious manuscript and a forgotten language, while Jake describes a weird hammer and struggles to pronounce Aztec names. Presenting the Codex Gigas, the coolest giant old book since the Voynich manuscript, but also older! And don’t get us started on the London Hammer. Is it 100-million-year-old proof of human civilization? 400-million-year-old? And does that m...
2020-04-30
53 min
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Episode 104 – The Mines of Morphia
Listen, we’ve been over this before, but it bears repeating: not EVERY episode has to have a theme.Unless of course that theme is random crap! Jake tackles underground spookums, while Wyatt gets a bit more metaphysical on this week’s ep. We’re talking ghosts, we’re talking ghouls, we’re talking rats in Massachusetts making rats in Australia smarter for some reason. A delightful mix of ghost stories, some interesting biology, and a whole pile of steaming hot pseudoscience — we’ve got it all baby!Grab a pickaxe and exactly one hundred mo...
2020-04-23
56 min
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Episode 102 – Superstitions Part I: Superstitiousness
It’s Special Report time, mofos! And also long past time that the podcast looked into its namesake.That’s right: this latest two-parter is all about superstitions! And you’d be amazed how hard it is now to type that word normally, without the “duper”. In Part I, Jake covers good luck, Wyatt covers the bad, and they both hit the ugly. On the good luck side, it’s all about salt and how it can ward off evil! But not meta-demons, whatever the goddamned hell those are. Good times! Also: lucky snack bags in Taiwan.
2020-04-03
54 min
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Episode 101 – Classic Instants
It’s a new beginning for this here podcast, which we assume means literally doing everything over again from the beginning.In this episode, Wyatt and Jake talk about their favorite cryptids, which they DEFINITELY HAVEN’T already talked about before and SURELY not in the first episode of this show. Rest assured: you’re guaranteed to learn new stuff this time around, like the fact that everything in history is somehow connected to Atlantis, and that when you see an unknown creature, you should check not only its genitals (as discussed many times by now), but al...
2020-03-28
55 min
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Episode 100 – New Zero Retrospective
Wait, are we still doing this? Wasn’t last week’s the big finale?? Oh jeez, didn’t really prepare anything for this, uhhh…Join Jake and Wyatt as they look over their first hundred episodes — and the life choices that brought them here — with a small selection of topics to revisit from the first few years of the show’s run! And stick around for the next hundred eps. They’ll probably be good, too!EPISODE LINKSMerch Shop: https://www.superduperstitious.com/shopPatreon: https://www.patreon.com/supe...
2020-03-22
1h 00
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Episode 98 – Abject Objects
We humans sure do make a lotta STUFF, and we like scary stories, so naturally there are plenty of scary stories ABOUT stuff. That’s right, it’s antiquing time on this episode of Superduperstitious!For starters, Jake has the tale of a weird wooden idol found in the Catskill Mountains that seems to be attached to some kind of evil entity. Is The Crone really up to no good and all the time conjuring pond water and shit out of the blue? What, really, is it’s DEAL?Wyatt then slowly cranks up the...
2020-02-27
1h 12
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Episode 97 – Fool's Gold
It’s adventure time once again on Superduperstitious, but that doesn’t mean that those adventures have to have any firm grounding in REALITY.After a quick UK check-in with some genuine archaeological coolness, Wyatt heads to Arizona's Superstition Mountains to examine the Legend of the Lost Dutchman. Sure, all evidence of this particular goldmine is 1000% apocryphal, but why would that stop multiple real people from dying actual deaths in their attempts to find it? This is GOLD we’re talking about!Jake then takes things unintentionally nearby to the Grand Canyon, where, it tur...
2020-02-23
1h 00
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Episode 96 – Sedimentary, My Dear Watson
Mountains: you can be on them, near them, and maybe even under them if things aren’t going great for you. Here’s an ep about that!Jake’s up first, with both a PSA about not believing every viral video you see AND a story about ghostly experiences in the White Mountains of New Hampshire. Is The Presence of Mount Washington real, or are people just freaking themselves out on a windy peak? Nail down a pair of boots and find out!Following an especially visceral round of Shadowlands Roulette, Wyatt describes the Sh...
2020-02-09
1h 07
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Episode 95 – Young Santa
Listener stories are always welcome at Superduperstitious, but not without raising the immortal question: are these stories GOOD?Listener Nick Smith kindly provides a pair of personal accounts of the spooky, so Wyatt and Jake kindly provide feedback on their quality, since that’s what Nick was surely wanting. And they of course achieve this by comparing to some top notch stories from the Website of Only Good Writing, Reddit!Wyatt begins by revisiting sleep paralysis. From ticked off Anubises to cuckolding ghosts, this segment’s got it all. Jake then goes Full Peda...
2020-01-25
44 min
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Episode 94 – Strigoi Boiz
The Boiz are back, just as you’ve always known them and going by that one name you’ve always called them!Thanks to a listener suggestion, this week is one full of not-quite-vampires, and their amazing similarities across cultures! After a positively thrilling update from the show’s official Field Correspondent, Jake starts with the Aswang, one of several billion terrifying mythological creatures to come out of the Philippines. Although both Jake and Wyatt learn that they had totally the wrong idea about what the Aswang is, they are able to at least continue to be cre...
2020-01-17
52 min
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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 ta...
2019-12-27
1h 06
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Episode 91 – Rat King Cole
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 beli...
2019-12-21
1h 07
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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 t...
2019-11-29
55 min
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Episode 89 – Monkey Business
They’re apes. We KNOW. But how often do you hear anyone say “aping around”? I mean REALLY.But yeah! It’s an ape ep for the ages. Wyatt leads off with the story of De Loys’ Ape, and the spooky photo that gave it such staying power. Are there really giant, bipedal humanoid primates lurking in the forests of South America? Just as surely as humans from different continents somehow evolved from different species! (No.)Jake then hops on the hominid fraud train with Piltdown Man, the U.K.’s unfortunate contribution to a Europea...
2019-11-21
52 min
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Episode 88 – Dog Sh!t 2: Even More Dog Sh!t
Canine-adjacent stories keep piling up, so it’s time to release the hounds! Except the “hounds” are those aforementioned stories, and “releasing” them is telling them. It’s good!This week, you’ll hear a series of encounters with mysteries dog-looking things, mostly on the side of the road at night, including Wyatt’s own experience! Then, you’ll tuck into a ghastly tale of douchebags and coal furnaces, complete with audio accompaniment. And rest assured, you’ll get a very important PSA about responsible cat ownership, and learn Jake’s least favorite internet zeitgeist-y way of referring to this o...
2019-11-14
1h 04
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Episode 86 – T.A.P.S.’d In
It’s the final Thursday of October before Halloween itself! And you know what that means: there’s time for one last special guest before pulling out all the spook stops next week.Wyatt and Jake are joined by JESS COLE, who tells tales of her own personal haunting experiences and of her five-year tenure with The Atlantic Paranormal Society. Hear all about how she helped hold down the fort while the others were off shooting Ghost Hunters, and just what it takes to scare a pro (hint: it would likely prompt the rest of us to b...
2019-10-24
1h 05
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Episode 85 – The (Italian) Old Man and the (Adriatic) Sea (Monster)
Another week in October means another exciting guest, but this episode is doing things a bit differently…The boys head to Springfield, MA to join Italian scholar and Wyatt’s old pal THERESA BERARD, who shares a Dino Buzzati sea monster tale right in Wyatt’s haunted childhood home (see Episode 3). He and Jake are used to doing the reading, but now it’s THEIR turn to have a story read to THEM! And by someone far better prepared than they’re used to being.You’ll hear all about a relentless shark thing that f...
2019-10-17
57 min
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Episode 81 – Creature Features Part I: A SciFi Original
Superduperstitious goes to Hollywood in Part I of another Special Report!After a very important and then suddenly completely pointless PSA, Wyatt leads in with a discussion of mutation in movies. So often the crutch of screenwriters who want a monster and want it NOW, mutation tends to follow a few very specific beats in movies, all of them fun and giggle-worthy.Jake then heads in a more behavioral direction, examining the often biologically illogical ways monsters tend to act in order to serve their narrative purpose. And he manages to do this...
2019-09-12
58 min
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Episode 80 – Below Underneath
All good things must come to an end, and also so does August Around the World. For the last leg of this particular journey, it’s time to head to Australia!To be fair, this is hardly the show’s first visit to this particular continent (or even its third), but this IS the first trip to Australia that is exclusively about ghost stories! Jake leads off with another Reddit find, because he truly is the worst at finding ghost story sources. Listen to the actually fairly heartwarming tale of a little girl and her perhaps not...
2019-08-29
54 min
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Episode 79 – Oh. Canada.
August Around the World won’t stop until August does! YOUR MOVE, AUGUST.This installment finds the boys in Canada! But not literally. (Although, depending on how close to the release date you happen to catch this episode, Wyatt actually MIGHT be actively in Ontario, so there you go.) ANYWAY, guess what’s back? The Phantom of the Chicago! And guess what it probably still is? Birds!Once the regional fun begins in earnest, Wyatt kicks things off all the way up in Nunavut, with a Baffin Island Inuit creation tale involving familiar lyca...
2019-08-22
54 min
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Episode 78 – Not the Real Sredni Vashtar
Wyatt and Jake are determined to stick to their month-long prompt of finding stories from all around the world, even if they’re terrible at it. This week, it’s India!Following a quick PANDER session for patrons, Jake continues to use Reddit as a crutch as he just kinda dumps out a series of random stories vaguely connected to the country in question. Haunted objects? Haunted houses? Very tall women? This segment’s got ‘em all, plus a horrible humanoid creature sighting for extra good measure.It’s then time to face the dreade...
2019-08-15
53 min
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Episode 77 – Toto Tales
August Around the World continues, this time in Africa!After a bit of clarification RE: the Fire Killer (namely the fact that Wyatt and Jake are not him), Wyatt takes off into the forests of the Congo River basin in search of an elusive ape. And this time, it’s not even an upright one! This is the story of how sometimes the legends really ARE true. And at the end of the journey, you find a creature that poops just SO big.Jake heads in a different direction, with some botanical buffoonery, na...
2019-08-08
56 min
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Episode 76 – Mos' Scotia
Watch out for rogue waves and try to outrun your shadow, it’s time for some international tales! (Note: If the episode prompt is “the British Isles”, don’t be surprised when both hosts just pick Scotland.)After a noisy revisit to what was once believed to be bugs, Jake mounts an expedition to the Cairngorms, the favored haunt of An Fear Liath Mòr, The Big Grey Man. There are many opinions on what this frightening figure lurking atop Ben Macdui might be, but one thing’s for sure: finding out will involve a lot of embarras...
2019-08-01
56 min
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Episode 75 – Dog Sh!t
If you thought this podcast was above exploiting the cuteness of a baby animal for attention, think again! And while you’re at it, here’s an episode all about dog-related stuff.Exhausted new puppy parent Wyatt begins with a few accounts of the White Things of West Virginia, also known as Sheepsquatch (and also apparently sometimes called Devil Dogs, but you won’t find that out until well after the fact). Is it a bear? Is it a different, older bear? Whatever it is, it’s got some stank.Following a definitely-not-pre-recorded segment...
2019-07-25
57 min
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Episode 73 – In the Weeds on the Meat Man
Superduperstitious is back at it again! And “it”, in this particular instance, means “supernatural/ghosty stories”. Superduperstitious is back at supernatural/ghosty stories again. It works.Wyatt leads in, first with a PSA about being Satan (don’t), then with the SOUL-WRENCHING TERROR that is the Hotel Monte Vista. This Arizona getaway contains very nearly a dozen ghosts, and all of them DO STUFF, which is of course, just, so scary. And all the staff are great with babies.Then, following an extra special update on the Phantom of the Chicago (featuring none other than...
2019-07-11
48 min
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Episode 72 – Have Doughnut
The world is full of weird, and Superduperstitious is determined to visit it all! To that end, here are a couple more stops along that journey through the strange.First, Jake takes us to Siberia, 1989, where Soviet scientists dug a hole ALL THE WAY TO HELL. Did their borehole really reach something infernal? The intense heat they encountered might have something to say about it, as would the screaming OH DEAR GOD THE SCREAMING. But also fact-checking is a thing, though surely that has no relevance here. At any rate, stay tuned for a surprise non-appearance...
2019-06-27
57 min
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Episode 70 – The 411 Part I: How to Disappear Completely
You ever find some people get really lost? David Paulides sure notices, and so came the Missing 411 book series and general conspiracy phenomenon. And so begins this deep dive!In the first installment of this Missing 411 two-parter, Wyatt recounts the tragic case of Dennis Martin, a young boy who seemingly vanished into thin air. That is, unless he was ABDUCTED BY A SASQUATCH. Or by a deranged, non-speaking hill person? Certainly no other, more rational explanations exist.Jake then presents one man’s account of what happened to him on a camping trip so...
2019-06-14
57 min
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Episode 69 – Nice
Things were feeling just TOO SANE around here, so it’s once again conspiracy time on Superduperstitious!Following a few words from some podcast pals, Jake leads in with a story he thought had been put to bed, but which instead proved to be decidedly still up and about and wanting a glass of water and a midnight snack and SOME ANSWERS, DAMN IT. How did the 2008 appearance of a dead raccoon on a beach on Long Island cause over a decade of freaking out? Because it looked weird and it was in Montauk — what more reas...
2019-06-06
55 min
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Episode 68 – Bed & Breakfast Tales
There’s no time like the present for getting back on our shit, and that shit, of course, is monsters.After another rousing edition of The Quaff (AND another audio-based update), Wyatt has some frogs for us. And not just any frogs — it’s the Loveland Frogmen! Or possibly a weirdly upright iguana. But most likely a Sleestak. Just whatever you do, watch out for their wand (???).Jake then takes us into a stranger’s backyard to be stared at for four years. It’s ABSOLUTELY CHILLING. And apparently not something a game camera can...
2019-05-30
1h 00
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Episode 67 – Sadventure Time
We all make mistakes. They don’t always involve depleting all breathable oxygen from a living space or disappearing forever into the jungle, but still. Accordingly, this ep is all about science mistakes!After a buzzy update from Cuba/Wyatt, Jake tells the tale of the ambitious but ill fated Biosphere 2, an early ’90s experiment (read “publicity stunt”) that actually could have been really cool. Sadly, a lack of adequate technical consideration kept the habitat from realizing its full potential, and that’s how you get ants. And cockroaches. And almost suffocate everybody.Wyatt then...
2019-05-23
57 min
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Episode 66 – Timeless Cool
Pyramid power! Greek robots! Other Ancient Aliens bait! It can mean only one thing: tech tales from antiquity on Superduperstitious!Wyatt kicks it off with a perhaps less well known conspiracy surrounding the Great Pyramid of Giza. And it’s not even the Daniel Jackson kind! Instead, it’s the one where the pyramid is actually a giant electrical power plant, one that a future David Bowie character could be proud of. And the weirdest part? There is a downright stupid amount of plausibility to this one.Jake then gives us robots through the...
2019-05-16
1h 02
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Episode 65 – Don't Go There.
Spooky spots! Again! Kind of! This week is all about visits to mysterious locations and the mysterious mysteries that happen there — MYSTERIOUSLY.After some requisite bat shit, Jake leads off with the curious case of Devil’s Kettle Falls in Minnesota, where half of a river apparently falls into oblivion. Where does all that water actually go? Can any natural phenomenon explain its apparent failure to reappear? How many cars do we have to cram into the thing to solve this?!Wyatt then covers something ALMOST as chilling as disappearing water: disappearing people. Trav...
2019-05-09
52 min
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Episode 64 – Arthropoddities
It’s always bugs o’clock here at Superduperstitious, because why the hell not?After some passing yeti news, Wyatt opens with an increasingly uncomfortable tale of giant spiders in Mozambique. Is the j’ba fofi really out there? If so, it may bite your butt and make you die. And if not, you can still learn about all the other unholy arachnid abominations that definitely DO crawl across our world right now AND PROBABLY RIGHT BEHIND YOU OH GOD DID YOU FEEL THAT ON YOUR LEG AHHHHHH.Jake then takes to the air wi...
2019-05-03
58 min
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Episode 63 – Spontaneous Human Combustion: R.I.P. Lorraine Warren
Rainy day doldrums got you down? That’s no reason not to disrespect the dead!This week’s theme is seemingly paranormal medical phenomena, and Jake opens with a description of near-death experiences. What happens if you go toward the light? IS there really a light to go toward? And is Macho Man Randy Savage really waiting for you at the end of it?The boys then pay their respects to the late medium/demonologist/book and movie mogul Lorraine Warren (and the even later Ed Warren) in very, very tasteful fashion. It’s a st...
2019-04-26
49 min
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Episode 61 – The Kangaroo Event
Any strange story is fair game this week, so the boys tackle some slightly more famous freak occurrences.Jake kicks it off with some obligatory updates on the bat problems of the midwest, followed by a decidedly offbeat creature encounter from that same region in the 1970s. Meet the Enfield Horror, a creature of improbable anatomy and ill temper that terrorized a tiny Illinois town for a few weeks before vanishing forever, unless it’s still lurking there to this day (it’s not), because it was totally real the whole time (it wasn’t). You can sh...
2019-04-11
55 min
Superduperstitious
Episode 59 – Crunch... Crunch... Yowie!
Another year of podcasting means Jake and Wyatt are eager to get fully back on their bullshit. And back on their bullshit is exactly where they go this week.Wyatt feeds his Sasquatch addiction with another trip Down Under, this time to look at the yowie of Australian lore. The eyewitnesses seem credible, the phylogeography has Jake more open minded, and you’d best believe everyone’s looking for that penis.Next, Jake gets ghoulish once again, with a pair of related sightings posted to Reddit. While you refrain from calling anyone a copp...
2019-03-28
58 min
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Episode 57 – Mist Opportunities
It’s a weird world out there, full of rocks and clouds that want to eat you. But you’ll be safe with us here on Superduperstitious!Wyatt talks up the Bennington Triangle, a decidedly non-triangular region in Vermont known for some creepy disappearances, with likely ties to the Big Bad Wolf and some lethal hugs. Never leave your children unattended while your pigs are unfed.Jake then reads another overwritten account of a kooky occurrence in Florida, but this time it involves a carnivorous pink mist floating around and eating everything. Nobody know...
2019-03-16
1h 01
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Episode 56 – Spaces, Strange: Space Is Strange
Space! There’s an awful lot of it, and yet we practically never talk about it on this friggin’ show. But this episode aims to remedy that!Did you know that you can get a degree in intergalactic politics? Incidentally, did you also know that you can go on long weekend retreats to one of Jupiter’s moons? And did you know that humans are descended from 12 or more different extraterrestrial races? Jake didn’t know any of that, but if you believe it, he’s got a xendra to sell you!Wyatt then crank...
2019-03-09
1h 01
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Episode 55 – sOfT kItTy, WaRm KiTtY
If you go down to the woods today, you’re in for a big surprise. If you go down to the woods today, you’ll hear from two nerdy guys — it’s another forest-centered episode of Superduperstitous!Wyatt leads the way with some alarming encounters had by various survivalists in the great outdoors, and learns that Jake has terrible survival instincts. What would YOU do if your flashlight revealed the reflection of a pair of eyes in the darkness? Freeze in your tracks? Try to get closer? Poop?Next, Jake recounts some currently ongoing...
2019-03-04
1h 00
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Episode 54 – The Shadow Mans
It’s spooky in the bedroom once again on Superduperstitious! Jake leads off by describing an entity seen around the world by people who mostly just want to get some damned sleep. Who is the mysterious Hat Man? Why is he wearing a hat? What kind of hat is it? Were trench coats really THAT popular in the 1700s?Then, after a quick ethological look at the well known instinctive flight or fuck response, Wyatt asks for Jake’s help in rating a series of answers to the age old question, “Have you ever woken up random...
2019-02-21
47 min
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Episode 53 – The Phantom of the Chicago: Part a Billion
Holy crap, it's another episode! This show truly is still a thing that exists. The boys have a lot of catching up to do together, and it involves revisiting some interesting past stories of the spooky and strange.For starters, Wyatt aims to put the Cuban sonic attack conspiracy to bed once and for all, but the plot insists on continuing to thicken. With so many technologies out there for microwaving heads and looking at babies (but ideally not for microwaving babies), it seems like anything could be possible. Or, again, maybe it's bugs.
2019-02-02
59 min
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Episode 52 – The Man from Another Place
We’re entering parallel universes and hidden worlds galore on this week’s episode of Superduperstitious! But probably not. But maybe!First we hear from Jake, with the story of a bizarre encounter in a Japanese airport in the 1950s. Flying was so much less strict back then: you didn’t have to take your shoes off when you went through security, you could smoke on the plane, and you could have a passport from a country that doesn’t exist (unfortunately, the latter MIGHT cause you to be detained and then to vanish into thin air).
2019-01-05
44 min
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Episode 50 – We Want to Believe Part I: Pseudo
Halfway to a hundred eps, and it’s time for the boys to bite the hand that feeds them with another two-part deep dive! Specifically, it’s a look at the pseudoscience behind everything this show is about. It’ll be fun!Wyatt kicks off Part I with some cryptozoology goodness. Whether it's reputable publications gleefully fanning the flames of belief, or fancy-ass websites touting their fancy-ass research tools, monster hunting has some major methodological mishaps. But at least they sell cool hats.Jake then takes things in a ghostlier direction with a look a...
2018-12-06
47 min
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Episode 49 – [Elk bugling intensifies]
If we know one thing at Superduperstitious, it’s that animals are weird. They act weird, sometimes they look weird, and frequently they sound weird. So imagine how weird CRYPTIDS must sound! Or just listen to this episode, because that’s what it’s about.But first, it’s another update on that pesky Midwestern bat thing, the Phantom of the Chicago! The saga seemingly never ends, to the point where the boys may just have to take matters into their own hands.After that, however, you’d better believe there are some spooky for...
2018-11-22
58 min
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Episode 48 – Unsettlements
You asked for lost cities, so we give you… towns! That’s right: this week on Superduperstitious, it’s all about vanishing villages and missing municipalities.Wyatt leads with a Pennsylvania town that is actively disappearing to this very day. No matter how festive you’re feeling, maybe just don’t set that much stuff on fire, yeah? Also catch Wyatt’s eerie firsthand experience passing through the location that influenced one of the most popular survival horror video game franchises ever! Or at least the dumb movie spinoff thereof.Jake then confuses buttons and...
2018-11-08
48 min
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Episode 46 – The Hostess with the Ghostest
For October’s final guest, Superduperstitious is visited by SARA JONES, host of the podcast Laughing in the Dark! Sara shares some strange experiences had on her own show, plus a pair of eerie stories from her childhood (did you know that she can sense boobs?).Sara and Wyatt also set aside some time to shit on Jake for calling a piece of ghost hunting gear a K2 meter, despite the fact that THAT’S WHAT IT’S ACTUALLY CALLED, GUYS.Finally, Jake and Wyatt each share a couple of incredibly stupid stories from R...
2018-10-25
53 min
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Episode 44 – Seacoast, See Ghost
October continues, and so do the guests! This week, author, historian, folklorist, tour guide, and all-around cool person ROXIE ZWICKER joins the show to recount hauntings around Portsmouth, NH. That, and a story about a cow that will change your life forever.Wyatt then chimes in with his own dark tale of the Seacoast region, the Smuttynose murders (which is definitely not pre-recorded). While not quite supernatural itself, it’s still creepy and true-crime-y, and you people like that stuff, don’t you? Listen along to a story of betrayal and axe hackin’ — or, if you prefer...
2018-10-11
58 min
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Episode 43 – Ghost Guest Good Times
October on Superduperstitious can mean only one thing: desperately trying to create Halloween content that stands out from the rest of the year! The solution? A whole month’s worth of special guests, with their own spooky tales to tell!Up first is dear friend of the show LINDSAY, who has four ghostly encounters to share. Shadow men? Spectral watchers? Cats with bowling balls? You decide!Jake then follows with a short account that will make your skin, shall we say, CRAWL? Because… it’s a thing about… a Crawler? Do… do you get it? No...
2018-10-04
47 min
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Episode 42 – The Goonies for 300 Years
It's another one about urban legends. What more do you need to know? If you want another whole elaborate, silly teaser thing, I'll write it, but like, you could just be listening already, you know? Fine.This week, Wyatt digs into the several-centuries-long mystery of Canada's Nova Scotia's Oak Island's Money Pit, also just called "The Oak Island Money Pit" apparently. What exactly the hell is buried down those hundreds of feet of now constantly flooded tunnel, and will it prove once and for all that Shakespeare's plays were originally written in Wingings? Jake then heads...
2018-09-20
1h 04
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Episode 41 – Tales from the Crypt(ozoology Conference)
The boys have finally gone out and done something interesting! Or at least, kind of interesting. Either way, they're sure gonna share it with you! But not before a long awaited update on those creepy bat monsters in the Chicago area — Jake walks us through Lon's overarching theory, and why that theory is so phantom-shit crazy as to ALMOST make these updates no fun anymore. ALMOST.Wyatt shares a first look at some of the Fearsome Critters with the legend of the Gumberoo, which is, if possible, actually EVEN dumber than its name might suggest. Wyatt an...
2018-09-06
59 min
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Episode 39 – Gullible's Travels Part I: Liar, Liar, Pants on Wire
Here at Superduperstitious, it's our goal to separate fact from stupid ol' poopy dumb stuff, but it's not always so simple. Sometimes phenomena can be all but completely debunked, and folk'll still cling to beliefs no matter how much evidence there is against them. To that end, it's time for another Superduperstitious Special Report!In the first installment of this two-parter, Wyatt talks up the disembodied pants that are the Fresno Nightcrawlers. Behold the 5 or 6 pixels of video evidence and decide for yourself if these legs are ALIEN legs! Jake then tries his hand at describing...
2018-08-09
58 min
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Episode 38 – "Weapon of Choice by Fatboy Slim" by Christopher Walken
It's gross bug week on Superduperstitious, because why the hell not? Both Jake and Wyatt independently and accidentally land on stories involving giant, creepy, wormlike creatures, and by some additional coincidence, these creatures also happen to both be found in the general vicinity of eastern Asia.First up is Jake with a deadly worm in the Gobi Desert, which either murders the crap out of anyone or anything unlucky enough to encounter it, or it's a different thing that doesn't do those things, or it doesn't exist. At least it won't interfere with your spice mining...
2018-07-27
58 min
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Episode 37 – Water: We Talking About
Superduperstitious is splashing into summer with some sea-inspired stories! Or at least, that was the plan.Wyatt starts us off, covering a just kind of vaguely water-adjacent topic: a series of monsters in Australia that may all be one and the same, and not just in the "sticking them all together into one mess of an animal" way that some of the tales might suggest. Plus Jake invents the very worst cocktail and then conflates Irish and Scots Gaelic consonant pronunciations like some kind of IDIOT.As consolation, he offers the account of...
2018-07-13
57 min
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Episode 36 – Howlers, Whistlers, and Cabin Smashers
This week, it's an adventure into the woods for some ridiculous rigatoni! Jake leads Wyatt through the rambling yet flowery tale of "The Beast of the Land Between the Lakes and Specifically the Forest but in Kentucky", or whatever it's called. Never fear: a dozen or so coroners are here!Wyatt then follows up with a much more sober series of accounts dealing with a race of apelike creatures around Mount St. Helens over the range of a century. When in doubt, sing, damn it, sing! Though it won't make your cabin any less flammable.
2018-06-28
1h 01
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Episode 35 – Terrordactyls
It would be a rare day indeed that Superduperstitious would fail to pay lip service to some ancient reptilian friends. Luckily, one such creature made it even easier by paying a visit of its own, in this case to the town of Van Meter, Iowa. Wyatt's got it covered, with a complete account of those strange few nights back at the turn of the century, along with a pretty good idea of what bees probably taste like.Then, another accursed round of Shadowlands Roulette hangs heavy on the boys' souls, but after a narrow escape, Jake...
2018-06-21
57 min
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Episode 34 – Bah! Hum-Buzz
29 more episodes deep since their first sound adventure and Wyatt and Jake are again reminded that podcasts are in fact an audio-based medium. In that case, it's time for some more auditory strangeness!Jake opens with talk of a persistent, mysterious rumbling heard all around the world — though only by 2% or so of the population. What is the source of The Hum? Is there any way to stop it? Does it just not know the lyrics or something? One harrowing game of Shadowlands Roulette later, Wyatt revisits the Cuban sonic attacks, which are still probably not so...
2018-06-14
1h 01
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Episode 33 – There Are No Moose
Without a specific theme to this week's episode, ANYTHING can happen! But really just two things happen.Wyatt hits us with an abduction experience that he initially thought would be a Springheeled Jack encounter (Jack was of course too busy eating Scully Joes with the Devil to bother these specific fishermen in Mississippi). Don't believe the eyewitnesses? Just ask Puddin'! Puddin's dead now, but he was a fine man.Jake then relays three creepy, unique nighttime encounters with some horrifying monsters. Watch as white people jump to conclusions. All that, plus a listener's...
2018-06-08
1h 04
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Episode 32 – The Vegetable Golem of Mouse Mouth
Would it really be an episode of Superduperstitious without some monsters? Perhaps. But it wouldn't be THIS episode. That's because this episode is full of chlorophyllic creepers and a whole dang family of Sasquatches!Out of the gates, Jake recounts a history of sightings involving a mysterious mossy individual in Florida. An ancient elemental being? Pop culture inspired mass hysteria? A sentient farmer's market? You decide! Wyatt then recites Albert Ostman's very sober account of a completely bonkers experience. Then again, maybe nothing phases you when you routinely carry 80 pounds of gear into the Canadian wilderness...
2018-05-31
1h 12
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Episode 31 – Et tu, E.T.?
It's high time Superduperstitious took another look skyward, so this week's episode once again handles those interplanetary interlopers, extraterrestrials!Wyatt's up first, with the truly astonishing account of a visit to a Russian park that 40 or so locals would never forget. From documentaries full of comically overacted accents to some silent miming on an audio-only format, this story really has it all. Certainly it has those two things.Jake then brings us into the present with a somewhat unique abduction event from only a couple of months ago. Have you recently rendered yourself...
2018-05-17
51 min
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Episode 30 – NOW That's What I Call Spooky Spots! 2018
The world sure does seem to have a lot of haunted places in it, huh? Like, at least several. And not all of them are even houses or abandoned prisons!This week, the boys look at two such creepy locales. First, however, Jake dives into an extra-long and extra-horror-movie-ish update on the Phantom of the Chicago, which has made its way to Wisconsin in order to cockblock some college kids. From there, it's off to a stretch of road in Mission, Texas, where bicyclists don't care for vehicular manslaughter and sometimes people nap in strange ways...
2018-05-10
59 min
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Episode 29 – International Mans of Mystery
For us humans, it stands to reason that oodles of spooky stories focus on beings that are MOSTLY human, but not quite enough for comfort. It's certainly the case on this week's episode!Wyatt first tries his hand at a Crawler update, and it's as creepy as should be expected for those pale, lanky bastards. Then in his main story, Wyatt covers encounters around the world with an entity whose heels might be described as decidedly... spring-like? Sleeping under the stars just got a whole lot scratchier.Jake follows up with the curious...
2018-05-03
52 min
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Episode 28 – Things That Go "Bump" in the Lake
Somehow it took 28 episodes to finally get around to covering lake monsters, but here we are! And don't you worry: this one's got more logs and waves and misidentified loons than you can shake a moose at.Jake starts off with a famous serpentine creature from a British Columbia lake, and while he may not be so convinced of its supernatural origins, he ends up a true believer in its power to make videos of its likeness vanish from the internet. Then, on the other side of a thrilling game of Shadowlands Roulette, Wyatt takes us...
2018-04-26
1h 05
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Episode 27 – Mmm. tuberculosis!
It's a health-conscious week as the boys embark on a superstition-fueled journey into New England's past. After an apropos Springheeled Jack update in Cape Cod, Wyatt retells the listener-suggested story of a vampirism scare during the 19th century. However, these vampires just make you cough and die. And are also already dead? And not real.Jake then follows the specific account of a supposedly possessed teenager who was a perfect case study for why proper mental health treatment compels you far more than the power of Christ does. And don't even START on witches. All this...
2018-04-19
54 min
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Episode 26 – Swarovski Skulls
This week, it's all about them artifact facts! The mysterious relics in question have some pretty far out stories behind them, and the boys are determined to dig in deep.First up, Jake tells the tale of a crystal cranium thought to be sacred to the Mayans, or maybe not. Part of a supposed set of thirteen skulls scattered across the globe, could this polished piece of quartz be the key to immense cosmic power? What does 19th century Germany have to say on the matter?Wyatt then details the curious Voynich manuscript...
2018-04-12
58 min
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Episode 25 – Calendar Birthday
Has it really been a whole year? No? Well the boys have an anniversary of sorts to celebrate nonetheless, and they do it with a return to some spooky favorites! Wyatt takes us down Sasquatch Lane with some convincing accounts of Florida's Myakka skunk ape. Now you, too, can learn it's snappy catchphrase!Jake then finally cuts to the chase with all his weeks of ghoul talk by covering the actual ghoul of Arabian folkore. Ultimately, cultures around the world just aren't super into eating people, okay guys? Stay out of the swamp! Stay out of...
2018-04-05
1h 13
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Episode 24 – Cephalopodcast
The legends are true! Specifically the ones about there being a new episode of Superduperstitious. After checking in again on the British Invasion (the Spring Heeled Jack one, that is), the boys examine some longstanding, almost elemental legends from different parts of the world.First, Jake describes the mysterious Dark Watchers who lurk on ridges in Big Sur, being dark, and watching stuff. No clue what they are, but at this point, there's no ruling out even urRu as a possibility. Then Wyatt takes a plunge into the history and biology of a well known but...
2018-03-29
1h 04
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Episode 23 – Dragonfly Sounds 4 Kidz
Well if it isn't another new episode! This week, Wyatt jumps on that opening-update-segment-train with some ghastly tales of Spring Heeled Jack's move to America, where he gets into some very specific routines. Wyatt then segues into a series of sightings involving a weird little monstermajig that is equally at home in the Massachusetts and Ontario suburbs as it is in Native American mythology. Just keep your cats away from the river.Jake's then proves that he hasn't told his dumbest story yet, because he hasn't told THIS story yet. Specifically, he talks about some giant...
2018-03-22
58 min
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Episode 22 – Getting Jack'd
Phantoms abound in this fright-filled episode! After a correction to last week's story that makes it somehow even more upsetting to the boys, Jake discusses a bandage-covered spook that haunts a lonely Oregon road. Whether it's attacking cars while young couples are tryna smash, or crabwalking in and out of your kitchen at night, you're gonna have a bad time.Wyatt then takes us on an enlightening trip to Victorian London to learn all about a plague of encounters with a fiendish high jumper. Who's that devilish, ghostly bear who scratches and takes off into the...
2018-03-15
1h 00
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Episode 21 – Manster Mosh
It's another week, and the boys' fascination with the not-quite-human never ceases! First up, Wyatt describes the legend of a monster terrorizing Maryland, the sounds that a man-goat might make, and the angst inherent in being a human. He also expresses his deep passion for classic science fiction and fantasy.Next, Jake gets back on his shit again, recounting even more encounters with gaunt, pale humanoids stalking the roads of the American northeast, including a child's drawing that REALLY doesn't help make these things less creepy. All this, plus some more Chicago Phantom shenanigans, and a...
2018-03-08
1h 02
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Episode 19 – Super Natural Part I: Ley Lines and Crystals and Energy, Oh My!
As we start another two-part Superduperstitious Special Report, we ask you to open your mind to the oneness of all, to let the natural energy surround you, and also to listen to two punkass scientists try describing New Age beliefs verbatim without losing their damned minds. Jake's up first, with some rock talk — specifically, the curious case of Death Valley's sailing stones in its famed Racetrack Playa. He then segues into crystal energy, and the two subjects almost make sense together when heard in context, seriously.Wyatt follows Jake's energy lead to describe ley lines, and th...
2018-02-22
1h 06
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Episode 18 – Toilet Morpheus
There once was a dorky podcast that discussed paranormal phenomena from a scientific perspective. The two hosts never really nailed that logline, but they always at least half tried. One night, they decided to discuss urban legends again, since there are, like, a billion of those.First, after another bat interruption, Wyatt laid down some short tales from Japan, before launching into the story of the infamous Alice Killings. "Why," he asked, "are you being so serious?" Next, Jake spun a yarn about one of the most famous campfire ghost stories out there. But then it...
2018-02-15
54 min
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Episode 17 – Huckleberry Hellhound
What the folk? It's a new episode! And it's goofy as all get-out. This week, the boys are examining legends and folktales that seemingly are true even today. Off the top, Jake covers the demonic hellhounds seen across the English countryside and beyond, sometimes appearing as an omen of doom, sometimes arriving just to totally MESS. A. CHURCH. UP. As you value your life or your reason, keep away from the moor.From there, Wyatt talks about a whole class of mythical humanoids, including goblins, gremlins, pukwudgies, gnomes, and bodybuilders. He even brings not one, not...
2018-02-08
1h 08
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Episode 16 – Don't Have a Cowman, Dogman
Monsters! Everyone likes those, right? Well there are two of 'em in this week's episode, and no, they're not the hosts (DO YOU SEE WHAT WE DID THERE?!).After Jake finds yet another update tangent story thing to get bogged down by (now it's those ghoulish humanoids from Episode 10), Wyatt recounts the suspenseful and downright creepy story of the Cowman of Copalis Beach. It's utterly chilling, unless you're exactly four years old.Next, Jake walks us through the fake background but possibly real foreground of the Michigan Dogman. Horror pranks are the best...
2018-02-01
1h 16
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Episode 15 – Jhost Stories
Wyatt and Jake crank up the spooks once more with some tales of hauntings! Wait, didn't they get, like, abducted at the end of the last episode? It's probably fine. Jake starts off with the first-person account of a woman whose family was plagued for years by a maybe-demon that was terrifying to behold and enraged by folks borrowing roller skates.Then Wyatt leads an off-the-walls journey through the story that inspired the movie The Conjuring. Those unlucky Perrons chose a house where, just, EVERYBODY went to die. Break in through the back window and watch...
2018-01-25
1h 04
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Episode 13 – U.F.O.s Part I: Unbelievable, Freaky Occurrences
The boys kick off 2018 with the first half of an epic two-part investigation into the weird world of encounters with extraterrestrials! But don't expect either of them to say that word correctly on the first try.After a foreword about the very recently declassified aerial footage released by the U.S. Department of Defense, Wyatt tells the tale of an Italian security guard whose experience was just one fire flower short of being the strangest thing to ever happen to an Italian person. Next, Jake talks of eerie house calls from mysterious men in suits who...
2018-01-11
1h 08
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Episode 12 – Overexcited Europeans
As the temperature keeps dropping, the boys take refuge in stories of more tropical climes, beginning with a herpetological journey through a century of astounding claims from the Amazon. After being repeatedly told that this particular creature "don't want none", Jake is determined to get to the truth.Then, in the absence of any additional Phantom of the Chicago sightings this week, Wyatt decides to try his own hand at giant bat stories. This inevitably leads to a tangent on scary animal sounds to hear in the woods at night. Be sure to bring a huge...
2017-12-28
51 min
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Episode 11 – Scary for Kids
Brrrr! It's the winter solstice up in the Northern Hemisphere, so it's time for some tales of cold weather creepiness to fit the mood. First up, Wyatt presents a real-life psychological phenomenon that may be behind stories of a famously cannibalistic First Nations folk monster, as well as reasons why this is totally fine to tell children.Next, Jake misses an obvious opportunity for a Jabu-Jabu joke and plows straight into a description of a marine behemoth potentially lurking in the waters of the southern seas, where it is decidedly not winter. Could the Japanese government...
2017-12-21
50 min
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Episode 10 – A List of Pine Trees
Wyatt and Jake are back on it again with another foray into cryptozoology — and what a foray it is! After yet another update on that pesky Phantom of the Chicago, Jake gives Wyatt every single heebie and all of the jeebies with multiple tales of some weird, large, fast, pale, creepy four-legged humanoid creatures.Then Wyatt digs into the history of a very famous U.S. monster, and finds out that it's actually all Ben Franklin's fault. All that, plus B.E.K. 2 II: The Childrenening Followup (The Sequel), and a whole bunch of useful information ab...
2017-12-14
1h 20
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Episode 9 – B.E.K. 2: The Childrenening
After a gap week spent finding themselves, the boys are ready to crank up them spooks! First off, Wyatt dives into the background of the creepy doll Annabelle that inspired the 2014 movie by the same name, and the child prodigy who owned her. Never trust a Warren to tell a ghost story.Next, Jake discovers the multiband compressor and his life is forever changed. He also tells a spooky story, but you're all here for the audio engineering stuff, right? Whatever. Some little kids with completely black eyes want to be allowed into your car/house...
2017-12-07
1h 00
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Episode 8 – The Year The Matrix Came Out
Who said you can't make an episode of a paranormal podcast Thanksgiving-themed? After the boys weigh the finer points of shape-shifting goblin logistics (you guessed it: Chicago), Jake takes us to the Isle of Man, if not with his accent then at least with his story. There, a family in the 1930s was terrorized/entertained for years by a mysterious entity in their home calling himself Gef (he is the fifth dimension, in case you were wondering).Next, Wyatt tells a story that starts in 1999, a completely unremarkable year with no major cultural touchstones or noteworthy...
2017-11-23
58 min
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Episode 7 – Sweetums Is "Junior" Is ""Yeti""
Are you prospiracy or conspiracy? This week, Wyatt explores two famous cases of bizarre military experimentation that led to a perhaps popular Netflix series, all while he and Jake overcome some past Muppet trauma. Then, Jake discusses a perplexing tragedy in the mountains of Russia and all the amazing, astounding things that definitely didn't cause it. Put on your aluminum foil hats and gimp suits and approach the radioactive computer crystal — it's time for an all-new episode of Superduperstitious!EPISODE LINKSWyatt's storyThe Philadelphia Experiment: https://goo.gl/XxiB6z...
2017-11-16
1h 08
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Episode 6 – Four Ws for Your Trouble-U
Did you hear about the latest episode of Superduperstitious? I didn't listen to it, but I know this one guy whose cousin totally did and OH MAN. That's right — this episode is about urban legends!This week, Jake wants to make a Decemberists reference only to totally miss the 20-minute opportunity he has to make an entirely different Decemberists reference. Instead, he discusses how one internet scary story found its way into real life. Next, Wyatt explores an elusive yet ubiquitous bird bigger than any muppet, with all the taxonomy lessons you could ever ask for in...
2017-11-09
46 min
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Episode 5 – Hooked on Sonics
Is it a sea monster? Is it bugs? No, it's a new episode of Superduperstitious! Listen to Wyatt and Jake as THEY listen to some weird sounds — so meta! The boys try and get to the bottom of several mysterious auditory phenomena, some of which could be DEADLY.Also featured: Halloween weekend discoveries, an almost exciting update in the saga of The Phantom of the Chicago, and absolutely no Nixon impressions. Headphones? Speakers? Those weird bone conducting earbud things? Grab your audio setup of choice and give a listen to this short, scientific foray into some au...
2017-11-02
43 min
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Episode 2 – The Phantom of the Chicago; Amazonian Krang
This week, Jake walks us through a surprisingly recent and ongoing epidemic of giant bat creature sightings in Chicago. Then, Wyatt discusses an ancient South American terror that may be more rooted in fact than in fiction. And it smells, just, real bad. Grab a beer of indeterminate brand and get ready to RIDE THE SNAKE.EPISODE LINKSJake's storyPhantoms and Monsters: https://goo.gl/Dd3u8ySingular Fortean Society sighting timeline: https://goo.gl/VK15iMOwl eye shine: https://goo.gl/tuV2jR
2017-10-12
1h 08
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Episode 1 – Instant Classics
In the inaugural episode of Superduperstitious, Wyatt Shell and Jake Withee talk about their favorite cryptids. Wyatt recounts the sworn affidavit of a man who saw SOMETHING in the woods on a mountain one fateful day in the 1950s. Jake ruins his own childhood, but, like, in a fun way.EPISODE LINKSWyatt's storySasquatch/Bigfoot "Doodle": https://goo.gl/e2846sJake's storyOriginal Chupacabra sketch: https://goo.gl/F4vvxeSil: https://goo.gl/qqh49k Hosted on Acast...
2017-10-04
54 min