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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 109 – True Experience Spooky Tales

Superduperstitious ·

2020/07/23

(Not to be confused with any other podcast’s IP.) Many thanks to Shawhan, [REDACTED], Casey, and Michelle for submitting these super cool stories! See? We do EVENTUALLY read the stuff people send us!EPISODE LINKSPortland bail fund: https://www.gofundme.com/f/pdx-protest-bail-fundShowing Up for Racial Justice: https://www.showingupforracialjustice.org/Merch Shop: https://www.superduperstitious.com/shopPatreon: https://www.patreon.com/superduperstitiousFour Phantoms email:

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No Justice, No Peace

Superduperstitious ·

2020/07/16

We’ve only just begun. We can’t slow down.Ways to help: https://blacklivesmatters.carrd.co/ www.ally.wiki News: https://unicornriot.ninja/ https://www.patreon.com/UnicornRiot Yemen: https://yemencrisis.carrd.co/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Episode 108 – NOW That's What I Call Spooky Spots! 2020

Superduperstitious ·

2020/05/22

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., if

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Episode 107 – Preventative Measures

Superduperstitious ·

2020/05/16

Sometimes, pseudoscience and conspiracy theories are just some goofy, harmless fun. This is not one of those times.Today’s episode is all about giving due diligence to some big names in fringe medical “science” whose dangerous misinformation has caused lasting harm. Meet Andrew Wakefield, the British former doctor who is the sole reason anyone has ever believed in a link between vaccines and autism. How did he reach that conclusion? By lying. For money. Joining him is Judy Mikovits, retrovirus

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Episode 106 – Grizzly Treats (feat. Real Life Ghost...

Superduperstitious ·

2020/05/07

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

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Episode 105 – We Pick Three Minus One Equals Four:...

Superduperstitious ·

2020/04/30

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

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Episode 104 – The Mines of Morphia

Superduperstitious ·

2020/04/23

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

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Episode 103 – Superstitions Part II: Superduperstitions

Superduperstitious ·

2020/04/16

It’s the second half of this special look at superstitions!What actually IS the deal with our weird ol’ brains, and how do they make so many of us believe the darnedest things? Worries over numbers (hotel-wise and otherwise), pigeon OCD — it’s all part of being alive! Stories of the strange? Yeah, you’ll be hearing the science behind 'em. And questions? Oh you KNOW they’re gettin’ answered! All on this salt-sprinkled conclusion to the most on-brand Superduperstitious Special Report yet!EPISODE

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Episode 102 – Superstitions Part I: Superstitiousness

Superduperstitious ·

2020/04/03

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

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Episode 101 – Classic Instants

Superduperstitious ·

2020/03/28

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

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Episode 100 – New Zero Retrospective

Superduperstitious ·

2020/03/21

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:

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Episode 99 – The Matrixth Episode

Superduperstitious ·

2020/03/15

That’s it! We did it! This is the last episode of Superduperstitious! That is double digits!You heard right: it’s the 99th episode! And what better way to celebrate this milestone than with an episode topic befitting the episode number? ’99 was a big year for a big movie that changed all of our lives forever, probably. So this episode is obviously full of clothing history and stuff like that.Learn kung fu real quick and wear some sick shades while you’re at it, because you’ve got some

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Episode 98 – Abject Objects

Superduperstitious ·

2020/02/27

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 creeps

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Episode 97 – Fool's Gold

Superduperstitious ·

2020/02/23

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

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Episode 96 – Sedimentary, My Dear Watson

Superduperstitious ·

2020/02/09

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

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Episode 95 – Young Santa

Superduperstitious ·

2020/01/25

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

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Episode 94 – Strigoi Boiz

Superduperstitious ·

2020/01/17

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

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Episode 93 – 2020 = 20 + 20

Superduperstitious ·

2020/01/11

It’s a brand new year! And what better way for Superduperstitious to start that year than by biting off more than it (or at least Jake) can chew?That’s right, the boys have lost their entire minds and brought you a full FORTY stories throughout one ludicrously jam-packed TWO-HOUR episode, all in overzealous service to a convoluted “2020” theme. You want ghosts? Crawlers? Sasquatches? Gnomes?! They’re all here, baby. And if this ep doesn’t scare you, it’ll at least astonish you with how quickly it

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Episode 92 – Because of Scared

Superduperstitious ·

2019/12/27

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

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Episode 91 – Rat King Cole

Superduperstitious ·

2019/12/21

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,

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