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 87 – The 3rd Annual Superduperstitious Halloween Spookstravaganza
Episode 86 – T.A.P.S.’d In
Episode 85 – The (Italian) Old Man and the (Adriatic) Sea (Monster)
Episode 84 – Beers for Fears
Episode 83 – Windy City Spirits
Episode 82 – Creature Features Part II: Suffice It to Say...
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Episode 81 – Creature Features Part I: A SciFi Original
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Episode 80 – Below Underneath
Episode 79 – Oh. Canada.
Episode 78 – Not the Real Sredni Vashtar
Episode 77 – Toto Tales
Episode 76 – Mos' Scotia
Episode 75 – Dog Sh!t
Episode 74 – Ho, Dag!
Episode 73 – In the Weeds on the Meat Man
Episode 72 – Have Doughnut
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