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PODCAST

Superduperstitious

Wyatt Shell and Jake Withee

A podcast about the paranormal, the credibility of the creepy, and the science of the spooky: Superduperstitious is a comedy podcast that looks at the mysterious and scary world of the weird and says, "Wait. What?" Hosts Wyatt Shell and Jake Withee use their science backgrounds to tease apart possible explanations for unexplained, supernatural, and otherwise strange phenomena. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Episode 54 – The Shadow Mans

Superduperstitious ·

2019/02/21

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

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59:30

Episode 53 – The Phantom of the Chicago: Part a Billion

Superduperstitious ·

2019/02/02

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

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Episode 52 – The Man from Another Place

Superduperstitious ·

2019/01/05

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

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Episode 51 – We Want to Believe Part II: Science

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2018/12/22

What better way to end the year than with the conclusion of this Superduperstitious Special Report? There are better options? Never mind, just listen to the damned podcast.Jake and Wyatt recap paranormal investigations and then lay down the sciencey law (not to mention define what a “law” actually is in science). Learn more than you ever wanted to know about the scientific method, and go ahead and continue to consider donating $12,000.The boys are then joined by SHARON A. HILL, spooky geologist and

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47:29

Episode 50 – We Want to Believe Part I: Pseudo

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2018/12/06

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

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Episode 49 – [Elk bugling intensifies]

Superduperstitious ·

2018/11/22

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

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Episode 48 – Unsettlements

Superduperstitious ·

2018/11/08

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

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Episode 47 – The 2nd Annual Superduperstitious...

Superduperstitious ·

2018/10/31

The lights are all out. Your candy is within reach. You’ve got your flashlight, and you’re tucked inside your freshly secreted tent. You’re ready for some spooky stories from the Superduperstitious Halloween special!You want stories about nighttime bedroom visits? We got that! You want cursed casino games? We got that! You want even more creepy Sasquatch stories? No? Well Wyatt’s got that. Halloween means thrills, chills, unlikely head injuries, and all the bossa nova you could ever ask for.All

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53:06

Episode 46 – The Hostess with the Ghostest

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2018/10/25

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

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Episode 45 – Spirited Company

Superduperstitious ·

2018/10/18

The October Interview Spectacular™®© is still going strong on Superduperstitious, and this time, it hits a little closer to home! But also it was an hour drive to do it? But yeah. It’s good.Guest KAYLA GODDU carries the episode today with a chronology of ghostly occurrences in her house growing up, which was also Jake’s house growing up, because she is his sister. THRILL as a series of seemingly innocuous but strange goings-on gradually give way to complete, Wyatt-chilling terror! REJOICE as a Chad

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58:41

Episode 44 – Seacoast, See Ghost

Superduperstitious ·

2018/10/11

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

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Episode 43 – Ghost Guest Good Times

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2018/10/04

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…

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Episode 42 – The Goonies for 300 Years

Superduperstitious ·

2018/09/20

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

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Episode 41 – Tales from the Crypt(ozoology Conference)

Superduperstitious ·

2018/09/06

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,

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Episode 40 – Gullible's Travels Part II: Suggested...

Superduperstitious ·

2018/08/23

We sure do fall for some goofy stuff, don't we? I wonder if there's, like, a reason why or something? Well hottest dog, wouldn't ya know it, the boys have some answers for us!After a recap of last week's spooky pants and conspiracy balloons, Wyatt and Jake dive right into the psychological and neurological explanations for why exactly the h*ck we can be so easily convinced. Take off your magical thinking cap and put on your critical thinking cap — it's time to finish what last episode started, on

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58:06

Episode 39 – Gullible's Travels Part I: Liar, Liar,...

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2018/08/09

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

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Episode 38 – "Weapon of Choice by Fatboy Slim" by...

Superduperstitious ·

2018/07/27

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

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57:06

Episode 37 – Water: We Talking About

Superduperstitious ·

2018/07/13

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

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Episode 36 – Howlers, Whistlers, and Cabin Smashers

Superduperstitious ·

2018/06/28

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

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Episode 35 – Terrordactyls

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2018/06/21

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

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