Superduperstitious
199 episodes - English - Latest episode: 3 months ago - ★★★★★ - 103 ratingsA podcast about the paranormal, the credibility of the creepy, and the science of the spooky, Superduperstitious is a podcast that looks at the mysterious world of the paranormal and says, "Wait. What?" Hosts Wyatt Shell and Jake Withee use their science backgrounds to tease apart possible explanations for bizarre, supernatural, and otherwise strange phenomena.
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Episodes
Episode 92 – Because of Scared
December 27, 2019 16:35 - 1 hour - 122 MBWhat 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. Wy...
Episode 91 – Rat King Cole
December 21, 2019 18:28 - 1 hour - 123 MBFinally, 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 t...
Episode 90 – kthx(gvng) bye
November 29, 2019 02:03 - 55 minutes - 102 MBIt’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 mass...
Episode 89 – Monkey Business
November 21, 2019 21:34 - 52 minutes - 95.7 MBThey’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 un...
Episode 88 – Dog Sh!t 2: Even More Dog Sh!t
November 14, 2019 07:01 - 1 hour - 118 MBCanine-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 abou...
UNLOCKED: Ep. 84-88 Bonus Outtakes (plus some other stuff)
November 07, 2019 06:00 - 13 minutes - 24.8 MBNo new ep?! Never fear! There’s still plenty of Superduperstitious content to go around, and what better way to debrief on a chock-a-block full October than with a full set of outtakes from that very month? BONUS PATREON outtakes, no less? It’s another preview of what could be yours if you decide to help support the show on Patreon! Hear some of the inner workings of how recurring segments come to be, laugh at how truly helpless Jake and Wyatt are at every turn, catch some fun behind-the-sc...
Patreon Preview: Even More Bonus Outtakes (plus some other stuff)
November 07, 2019 06:00 - 13 minutes - 24.8 MBNo new ep?! Never fear! There’s still plenty of Superduperstitious content to go around, and what better way to debrief on a chock-a-block full October than with a full set of outtakes from that very month? BONUS PATREON outtakes, no less? It’s another preview of what could be yours if you decide to help support the show on Patreon! Hear some of the inner workings of how recurring segments come to be, laugh at how truly helpless Jake and Wyatt are at every turn, catch some fun behind-the-sc...
Episode 87 – The 3rd Annual Superduperstitious Halloween Spookstravaganza
October 31, 2019 05:00 - 1 hour - 141 MBIt’s Halloween! And it’s a Thursday! The show’s Halloween special finally gets to come out ON the holiday itself! Holy damn! In their specially provided haunted digs courtesy of PPMTV, Jake sets the table with a giant candle and some crawler creeps. Next up, it’s listener tales, XKCD encounters, and assorted spooks before Wyatt serves the main course: an excellent short story from earlier this year that will send shivers down your spine (right before it’s wrung out like a towel). Devil mir...
Episode 86 – T.A.P.S.’d In
October 24, 2019 05:37 - 1 hour - 120 MBIt’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...
Episode 85 – The (Italian) Old Man and the (Adriatic) Sea (Monster)
October 17, 2019 05:00 - 57 minutes - 105 MBAnother 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 ...
Episode 84 – Beers for Fears
October 10, 2019 04:00 - 1 hour - 115 MBThe October interviews continue, as does the unintentional “alcohol and spooky stuff” theme of the month so far! For this ep, Wyatt and Jake pay a visit to their favorite brewery (Earth Eagle of Portsmouth, NH) to talk to ALEX and SHERIDAN about their own personal paranormal experiences. And about beer, because duh. Was this whole thing just a thinly-veiled excuse to hang out and drink beer with the people who make it? Or will you be CHILLED TO THE BONE by tales of jingling bells and planki...
Episode 83 – Windy City Spirits
October 03, 2019 05:03 - 59 minutes - 109 MBIt’s officially the Spooky Times™, and that means the beginning of a full month of awesome guests with tasty tales! First up is JONATHAN KNOTEK, co-founder of Chicago Prohibition Tours and Chicago history guru. You’ll learn all about the city’s mobster-filled past, some of the ghosts that have resulted, and Jonathan’s own potential run-ins with the supernatural. From a banging bust of Harry Caray, to phantom forest lights, to a possible final solution to what actually goes into an Irish Cro...
Episode 82 – Creature Features Part II: Suffice It to Say...
September 30, 2019 04:09 - 56 minutes - 104 MBAfter much ado, it’s time for the science-packed conclusion of this movie-monster-centric Superduperstitious Special Report! We got genetics, we got behavioral ecology, we got functional responses — everything you never thought you wanted to know about how animals work, and now you can apply it all to movies like a weirdo. All that, plus a very important beer, Cthulhu surprises, and A FREAKING WEB SHOP, all in the conclusion to another two-parter! EPISODE LINKS MERCH SHOP: https://www.su...
UNLOCKED: SDS Minisode #5
September 19, 2019 14:47 - 30 minutes - 56.4 MBOur Special Report on movie monsters concludes next week! In the meantime, here's another preview from BEYOND THE PAYWALL. Supporters of our Patreon at the $10 level or higher receive an entry into our PANDER raffle, access to monthly curated outtakes (see the preview from two weeks ago), exclusive quarterly stickers available nowhere else (here's the most recent one: https://www.instagram.com/p/B2CbX7Dn-kP/), and this: a couple mini episodes every month! We have plenty more stories to tel...
Patreon Preview: Minisode
September 19, 2019 14:47 - 30 minutes - 56.4 MBOur Special Report on movie monsters concludes next week! In the meantime, here's another preview from BEYOND THE PAYWALL. Supporters of our Patreon at the $10 level or higher receive an entry into our PANDER raffle, access to monthly curated outtakes (see the preview from two weeks ago), exclusive quarterly stickers available nowhere else (here's the most recent one: https://www.instagram.com/p/B2CbX7Dn-kP/), and this: a couple mini episodes every month! We have plenty more stories to tel...
Episode 81 – Creature Features Part I: A SciFi Original
September 12, 2019 14:15 - 58 minutes - 108 MBSuperduperstitious 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 t...
UNLOCKED: Ep. 69-72 Bonus Outtakes
September 05, 2019 04:00 - 5 minutes - 10.7 MBThere will be a full, new episode out next week, but in the meantime, here's some bonus content from beyond the paywall! We offer a variety of fun rewards on our Patreon, including curated outtakes like these clips from Episodes 69 through 72. As you'll find, they're not just random mistakes that didn't make the cut: these are deliberately selected and carefully edited together clips presented for the amusement of any patron at the $5 level or higher. That's right, for just $5 a month, you...
Patreon Preview: Bonus Outtakes
September 05, 2019 04:00 - 5 minutes - 10.7 MBThere will be a full, new episode out next week, but in the meantime, here's some bonus content from beyond the paywall! We offer a variety of fun rewards on our Patreon, including curated outtakes like these clips from Episodes 69 through 72. As you'll find, they're not just random mistakes that didn't make the cut: these are deliberately selected and carefully edited together clips presented for the amusement of any patron at the $5 level or higher. That's right, for just $5 a month, you...
Episode 80 – Below Underneath
August 29, 2019 04:00 - 54 minutes - 99.5 MBAll 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 li...
Episode 79 – Oh. Canada.
August 22, 2019 04:00 - 54 minutes - 99.1 MBAugust 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 Isla...
Episode 78 – Not the Real Sredni Vashtar
August 15, 2019 04:00 - 53 minutes - 98 MBWyatt 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 measu...
Episode 77 – Toto Tales
August 08, 2019 18:36 - 56 minutes - 103 MBAugust 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...
Episode 76 – Mos' Scotia
August 01, 2019 04:00 - 56 minutes - 104 MBWatch 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 ou...
Episode 75 – Dog Sh!t
July 25, 2019 04:00 - 57 minutes - 106 MBIf 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. Fol...
Episode 75 – Dog Sh*t
July 25, 2019 04:00 - 57 minutes - 106 MBIf 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. Fol...
Episode 74 – Ho, Dag!
July 18, 2019 04:00 - 55 minutes - 101 MBIt was only a matter of time before Superduperstitious submitted to the siren song of frontier folktales, so at long last, it’s a full episode of fearsome critters! Hold on tight for this breathless thrill ride through the utter lunacy that is American lumberjack mythology (and also learn way more science than this topic could possibly warrant). You’ll hear all about the boob-loving German ancestor of a western staple, you’ll witness an abomination so pathetic that it just kinda melts when ...
Episode 73 – In the Weeds on the Meat Man
July 11, 2019 04:00 - 48 minutes - 89.1 MBSuperduperstitious 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...
Episode 72 – Have Doughnut
June 27, 2019 04:28 - 57 minutes - 105 MBThe 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 r...
Episode 71 – The 411 Part II: The 4-1-1
June 20, 2019 04:00 - 1 hour - 112 MBPart II of this Superduperstitious Special Report seeks to finally answer the age-old question: Why come all these peoples be missing? Last week, we heard about the disappearance of a small child and the watertight case for his having been abducted by a Sasquatch, instead of something real happening to him. We also heard the account of one teen’s near miss when he almost got 411’d SO HARD by a phantom woman in the woods. Luckily, a former police detective is on the case, gathering just the ...
Episode 70 – The 411 Part I: How to Disappear Completely
June 14, 2019 19:06 - 57 minutes - 105 MBYou 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 prese...
Episode 69 – Nice
June 06, 2019 04:00 - 55 minutes - 102 MBThings 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 M...
Episode 68 – Bed & Breakfast Tales
May 30, 2019 15:57 - 1 hour - 111 MBThere’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 appare...
Episode 67 – Sadventure Time
May 23, 2019 04:00 - 57 minutes - 106 MBWe 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 poten...
Episode 66 – Timeless Cool
May 16, 2019 04:03 - 1 hour - 114 MBPyramid 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...
Episode 65 – Don't Go There.
May 09, 2019 04:00 - 52 minutes - 96.2 MBSpooky 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 cove...
Episode 64 – Arthropoddities
May 03, 2019 16:50 - 58 minutes - 107 MBIt’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 ...
Episode 63 – Spontaneous Human Combustion: R.I.P. Lorraine Warren
April 26, 2019 11:04 - 49 minutes - 90.5 MBRainy 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, ve...
Episode 62 – We Pick Three for Six Betwixt
April 20, 2019 16:08 - 56 minutes - 104 MBIt’s inexplicably deli time at Superdupersitious! Wyatt and Jake take turns telling a bunch of random-ass cryptid tales, each one more chilling than the last. Did we say “chilling”? We meant “bonkers banana sandwich kookytown”. Learn all about a killer pancake; the completely logical thing you get when you combine an ape, dog, bear, lion, and rhinoceros; more bat stuff; and of course, the Grunch. Also bugs and a moat monster. And Shadowlands Roulette. Get the best combo meal value you’ll e...
Episode 61 – The Kangaroo Event
April 11, 2019 04:35 - 55 minutes - 101 MBAny 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 ...
Episode 60 – At the Mountains of (March) Madness
April 06, 2019 04:06 - 1 hour - 138 MBA two-year record-iversary, a 60th episode, AND the launch of a Patreon? That’s cause for celebration! Ideally in the form of a single elimination bracket championship tournament between cults (obviously). That’s right, this ep is devoted entirely to the NCAAA championship showdown between the World and Global Divisions’ top cults, each vying to reign supreme. Join Wyatt and Jake as they explore the backgrounds of these bizarre and fascinating religious movements and determine whether each ...
Episode 59 – Crunch... Crunch... Yowie!
March 28, 2019 04:22 - 58 minutes - 108 MBAnother 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 Red...
Episode 58 – Beer-zebub, or How We Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Satan
March 22, 2019 03:40 - 1 hour - 131 MBWhat’s the point believing in spirits and such if it doesn’t involve those spirits being super scary and wanting to mess with us? Thankfully, that’s what demons are for — and what this ep is all about! Jake attempts to break the mold a bit with a non-Christian take on these dark forces, paying a visit to an Algonquin reservation and its spooky run-in with a malevolent entity a few years ago. Call it a kokogi, call it a window-tapping jerk — just don’t expect it to wipe that smug grin off it...
Episode 57 – Mist Opportunities
March 16, 2019 19:17 - 1 hour - 113 MBIt’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 carnivorou...
Episode 56 – Spaces, Strange: Space Is Strange
March 09, 2019 03:41 - 1 hour - 113 MBSpace! 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 c...
Episode 55 – sOfT kItTy, WaRm KiTtY
March 03, 2019 23:43 - 1 hour - 112 MBIf 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? Ne...
Episode 54 – The Shadow Mans
February 21, 2019 05:00 - 47 minutes - 86.9 MBIt’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 ...
Episode 53 – The Phantom of the Chicago: Part a Billion
February 02, 2019 00:54 - 59 minutes - 109 MBHoly 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 anythin...
Episode 52 – The Man from Another Place
January 05, 2019 01:47 - 44 minutes - 81.3 MBWe’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 detain...
Episode 51 – We Want to Believe Part II: Science
December 22, 2018 05:14 - 1 hour - 113 MBWhat 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 ge...
Episode 50 – We Want to Believe Part I: Pseudo
December 06, 2018 05:00 - 47 minutes - 87 MBHalfway 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...