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 turns out, all ancient civilizations came from. You want Egyptian mummies? You got ‘em! A generic mishmash of a dozen or more distinct eastern and southern Asian cultures? Coming right up! A whole bunch of scientists in 1909 studying these incredible finds while avoiding a haunted snake pit? Check. It’s all for sure a real thing that happened, and that’s why we all remember it so well!
Start reconciling those geological discrepancies, watch out for snipers, and settle in to yet another fine ep o’ Superduperstitious!
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Chicago Pizza Tours: https://www.chicagopizzatours.com/
Chicago Prohibition Tours: https://www.prohibitiontours.com/
Wyatt’s story
Havering Hoard news: https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2020/feb/10/french-bracelet-among-surprises-in-mysterious-havering-hoard
Superstition Mountains: https://www.superstitionmountain.com/History-of-the-Superstition-Mountains-13C19.html
Legend of the Lost Dutchman: https://azstateparks.com/lost-dutchman/explore/the-dutchman
More Lost Dutchman: https://bigthink.com/strange-maps/63-a-map-to-the-lost-dutchman-gold-mine
Jake’s story
Arizona Gazette article: http://www.spiritofmaat.com/archive/nov2/gazette.htm
Incredibly reputable source: https://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/egipto/esp_egipto_grandcanyon01.htm
More of that: https://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/esp_orionzone_8c.htm
Smithsonian myths: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/urban-legends-about-the-smithsonian-135407460/
Grand Canyon caves and karst: https://www.nps.gov/grca/learn/nature/cave.htm
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Episode 51 – We Want to Believe Part II: Science
Episode 50 – We Want to Believe Part I: Pseudo
Episode 49 – [Elk bugling intensifies]
Episode 48 – Unsettlements
Episode 47 – The 2nd Annual Superduperstitious Halloween Spookstravaganza
Episode 46 – The Hostess with the Ghostest
Episode 45 – Spirited Company
Episode 44 – Seacoast, See Ghost
Episode 43 – Ghost Guest Good Times
Episode 42 – The Goonies for 300 Years
Episode 41 – Tales from the Crypt(ozoology Conference)
Episode 40 – Gullible's Travels Part II: Suggested Memories
Episode 39 – Gullible's Travels Part I: Liar, Liar, Pants on Wire
Episode 38 – "Weapon of Choice by Fatboy Slim" by Christopher Walken
Episode 37 – Water: We Talking About
Episode 36 – Howlers, Whistlers, and Cabin Smashers
Episode 35 – Terrordactyls
Episode 34 – Bah! Hum-Buzz
Episode 33 – There Are No Moose
Episode 32 – The Vegetable Golem of Mouse Mouth
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