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We are digging into the coffers this week for a classic Mad Blurry Hysteria with the crazy doc himself, Chris Cogswell! It's Mad Blurry Hysteria time once again as we dive head first into the pool with Guinness Book of World Records for the longest time to hold your breath (It Is Crazy!). Then it’s DNA time – from the air… (nothing to worry about there). And finally, George Knapp brings out more UAP photos for us to tackle. News Stories Mentioned: Guinness Book of WTF!Air DNA Shenanigans Alien Baby’s Black Balloon Follow the Shows: Mad Scientist - https://www.themadscientistpodcast.com/ Blurry Photos - http://www.blurryphotos.org/ Hysteria 51 - http://hysteria51.com/   Email us your favorite WEIRD news stories: [email protected] Leave Us A Voicemail: 773-669-7277 Support the Show Get exclusive content & perks as well as an ad and sponsor free experience at https://www.patreon.com/Hysteria51 from just $1 Shop Be the Best Dressed at your Cult Meeting! https://www.teepublic.com/stores/hysteria51?ref_id=9022 See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Brent is out this week, which means Kevin Crispin of Behind Beautiful Things has been handed the keys to Hysteria 51. This was a terrible administrative decision. First up: a Virginia driver gets caught allegedly doing nearly 50 mph over the speed limit and reaches deep into the Big Book of Excuses to blame the one force powerful enough to override traffic laws: McDonald’s breakfast. Was the Egg McMuffin getting cold? Were the hash browns entering their dangerously soggy phase? Somewhere, Ronald McDonald is being advised not to comment. Then we head to Beijing, where HYROX learned that sometimes “leaving it all on the course” is not supposed to be taken literally. Australian competitor Joanna Wietrzyk suffered an extremely unfortunate mid-race bathroom incident, kept competing, used shared equipment, and crossed the finish line first. The fallout went viral, HYROX apologized and changed its rules, and humanity received another regulation nobody realized needed to be written down. So buckle up, clench accordingly, and join David Flora and guest host Kevin Crispin for an episode featuring reckless driving, fast food, extreme fitness, questionable decision-making, and two very different stories about people who desperately needed to slow down. Because this week on Hysteria 51, whether you’re racing toward a McDonald’s breakfast or racing while becoming a public-health incident, the important thing is apparently to never, ever stop. Links & Resources 📌McBlunder 📌Racing Stinks Email us your favorite WEIRD news stories: [email protected] Leave Us A Voicemail: 773-669-7277 Support the Show Get exclusive content & perks as well as an ad and sponsor free experience at https://www.patreon.com/Hysteria51 from just $1 Shop Be the Best Dressed at your Cult Meeting! https://www.teepublic.com/stores/hysteria51?ref_id=9022 See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

This week on Hysteria 51, we’ve got vampires, missing people, Minecraft, and a nine-year-old with the advertising budget of a midsize corporation. First, we sink our teeth into the bizarre disappearance of George Phillip Gall, an Ohio man whose case became tangled in claims involving a Dayton vampire coven, occult rituals, and alleged human sacrifice. Netflix even produced a documentary about the story, Vampires of Gem City, only for the project itself to seemingly vanish into the darkness. Then, we meet a nine-year-old aspiring YouTube mogul who allegedly spent $118,000 on his dad’s company credit card buying ads for his Minecraft and Roblox videos. His strategy was brutally simple: more money equals more views. Somewhere, an MBA program just spontaneously combusted. From alleged bloodsucking cults to a kid speedrunning his father’s unemployment, it’s another week where the weirdest part of the news is that everyone involved apparently lives on the same planet we do. Grab your garlic, change your Google password, and join us for another wonderfully questionable episode of Hysteria 51. Links & Resources 📌Dayton Suckers 📌Minecraft Oopsie Email us your favorite WEIRD news stories: [email protected] Leave Us A Voicemail: 773-669-7277 Support the Show Get exclusive content & perks as well as an ad and sponsor free experience at https://www.patreon.com/Hysteria51 from just $1 Shop Be the Best Dressed at your Cult Meeting! https://www.teepublic.com/stores/hysteria51?ref_id=9022 See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

This week on Hysteria 51, we hand the show over to the most dangerous force in paranormal podcasting: you people. It’s our listener voicemail episode, which means we’re cracking open the inbox and playing your questions, comments, theories, insults, corrections, questionable life choices, and whatever else you decided was important enough to leave on our voicemail. Will we learn something? Possibly. Will we regret giving everyone our number? Almost certainly. But there’s actual business to handle too. We’re finally announcing the winners of our Choose a Topic and Host the Show With Us Contest! We’ll reveal which listener-submitted ideas survived the gauntlet, who earned a seat at the Hysteria 51 table, and what wonderfully bizarre subjects we’ll be diving into together. So grab your headphones and join us for listener chaos, contest winners, paranormal nonsense, and the uncomfortable realization that somehow you may be even weirder than we are. It’s voicemails, winners, weirdness, and absolutely no guarantee that anyone involved should be trusted with a microphone. Email us your favorite WEIRD news stories: [email protected] Leave Us A Voicemail: 773-669-7277 Support the Show Get exclusive content & perks as well as an ad and sponsor free experience at https://www.patreon.com/Hysteria51 from just $1 Shop Be the Best Dressed at your Cult Meeting! https://www.teepublic.com/stores/hysteria51?ref_id=9022 See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

This week on Hysteria 51, medical enhancement and poolside romance collide in ways absolutely nobody requested except for Kevin Crispin who joins us for some Beautiful Blurry Hysteria! First, we head to Thailand, where authorities are investigating a Bangkok cosmetic clinic after influencer Igho “Tiny” Ubiribo died following a penis enlargement procedure involving hyaluronic acid filler injections. It’s a tragic story involving cosmetic enhancement, questionable decisions, and yet another reminder that sometimes “bigger” should probably remain a marketing slogan. Then we travel to Georgia, where police are searching for a mysterious trespasser who allegedly broke into a private pool area, enjoyed the hot tub, spent more than 10 intensely intimate minutes with a rubber duck, stole around $1,200 worth of towels, and escaped on a bicycle. Yes. That is the entire sentence. From penis injections and cosmetic surgery gone wrong to hot tub trespassing, stolen towels, and forbidden rubber-duck passion, this week proves that humanity remains the weirdest cryptid we’ve ever investigated. Grab your floaties. Maybe leave the duck at home. Links & Resources 📌Poke and Pray 📌Forbidden Love Email us your favorite WEIRD news stories: [email protected] Support the Show Get exclusive content & perks as well as an ad and sponsor free experience at https://www.patreon.com/Hysteria51 from just $1 Shop Be the Best Dressed at your Cult Meeting! https://www.teepublic.com/stores/hysteria51?ref_id=9022 See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Last week, Hysteria 51 went knocking on one of the most infamous locked doors in UFO history. This week, somebody finally opens the darn thing. We’re heading back to Wright-Patterson Air Force Base and picking up the alleged story of a technical specialist who claimed he was secretly transported to a restricted facility filled with technology nobody could identify, machinery scientists were supposedly ordered to reverse-engineer, and a second room containing something considerably harder to explain. Bodies. Small ones. Floating in tanks. From there, things somehow get weirder. We dig into allegations of an alien morgue, crashed UFO wreckage, underground storage facilities, complete flying saucers, the claim that recovered extraterrestrial technology helped create everything from transistors to fiber optics, and the theory that once everybody figured out Wright-Patterson was supposedly America's alien warehouse... the government simply moved the good shit somewhere else. But there’s another possibility. Maybe the Blue Room was completely real. Maybe strange technology really was being studied there. Maybe Barry Goldwater really did stumble onto something Curtis LeMay desperately wanted kept secret. And maybe none of it had anything to do with aliens… Maybe… We’re putting the Wright-Patterson Blue Room, Hangar 18, UFO crash retrievals, alien bodies, reverse-engineering programs, government secrecy and eighty years of extraterrestrial rumors on trial. Last week we reached the door. This week we go inside on Hysteria 51. Sources: National Archives – Project BLUE BOOK: Unidentified Flying Objectshttps://www.archives.gov/research/military/air-force/ufosU.S. Air Force – The Roswell Report: Fact versus Fiction in the New Mexico Deserthttps://www.af.mil/The-Roswell-Report/All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) – Historical Record Report, Volume Ihttps://www.aaro.mil/Portals/136/PDFs/AARO_Historical_Record_Report_Vol_1_2024.pdfAARO – Congressional and Press Productshttps://www.aaro.mil/Congressional-Press-Products/U.S. Department of Defense – DOD Report Discounts Sightings of Extraterrestrial Technologyhttps://www.defense.gov/News/News-Stories/Article/Article/3701297/dod-report-discounts-sightings-of-extraterrestrial-technology/U.S. Department of Defense – Unidentified Anomalous Phenomenahttps://www.defense.gov/Spotlights/Unidentified-Anomalous-Phenomena/HISTORY – Hangar 18, UFOs and Wright-Patterson Air Force Basehttps://www.history.com/articles/hangar-18-ufos-aliens-wright-pattersonAir & Space Forces Magazine – USAF and the UFOshttps://www.airandspaceforces.com/article/0611ufo/NICAP – Barry Goldwater UFO Correspondence / Wright-Patterson and Curtis LeMayhttps://www.nicap.org/people/goldwater.htmBarry Goldwater – 1975 Wright-Patterson/UFO Correspondencehttps://rense.com/general35/ufodat.htmBarry Goldwater – Larry King Radio Interview, 1988https://www.ufocasebook.com/blueroom.htmlLeonard H. Stringfield – Retrievals of the Third Kindhttps://www.earthfiles.com/2005/09/30/part-3-retrievals-of-the-third-kind-a-case-study-of-alleged-ufos-and-occupants-in-military-custody/James Clarkson – June Crain Interview Transcripthttps://www.majesticdocuments.com/pdf/crain_clarksoninterview.pdfThomas J. Carey & Donald R. Schmitt – UFO Secrets Inside Wright-Patterson: Eyewitness Accounts from the Real Area 51https://www.loc.gov/item/2020715969/Thomas J. Carey & Donald R. Schmitt – UFO Secrets Inside Wright-Patterson – Google Bookshttps://books.google.com/books/about/UFO_Secrets_Inside_Wright_Patterson.html?id=eZpyDwAAQBAJNational Archives – UAP Records: Textual and Microfilm Recordshttps://www.archives.gov/research/topics/uaps/textual-and-microfilmNational Archives – UAP Records Bulk Downloadshttps://www.archives.gov/research/catalog/catalog-bulk-downloads/uap-bulk-downloadFBI Vault – UFO Fileshttps://vault.fbi.gov/UFOWikipedia – Wright-Patterson Air Force Basehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wright-Patterson_Air_Force_BaseWikipedia – Hangar 18https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hangar_18_(conspiracy_theory) Email us your favorite WEIRD news stories: [email protected] Support the Show: Get exclusive content & perks as well as an ad and sponsor free experience at https://www.patreon.com/Hysteria51 from just $1 Shop: Be the Best Dressed at your Cult Meeting! https://www.teepublic.com/stores/hysteria51?ref_id=9022 See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Science has finally answered the question nobody was brave enough to ask: what if the cockroach crawling toward you was actually a paramedic? Researchers are developing remote-controlled cyborg roaches capable of crawling through disaster rubble, locating survivors, and even delivering lifesaving injections. It’s innovative. It’s brilliant. And it guarantees you’ll never confidently swat another bug again. Then we move from cutting-edge medicine to medicine that should absolutely never have been attempted. A man suffering from incontinence decided to solve the problem himself by putting superglue into his urethra. Repeatedly. Shockingly, the story does not end with him winning a Nobel Prize. This week on Hysteria 51: cyborg cockroaches, robotic rescue insects, horrifying DIY medical treatments, superglue in places God never intended, and another reminder that humanity is simultaneously capable of astonishing scientific achievement and decisions that make emergency-room doctors reconsider their career choices. Links & Resources 📌Creepy Crawley Tech 📌Hose Plug Email us your favorite WEIRD news stories: [email protected] Support the Show Get exclusive content & perks as well as an ad and sponsor free experience at https://www.patreon.com/Hysteria51 from just $1 Shop Be the Best Dressed at your Cult Meeting! https://www.teepublic.com/stores/hysteria51?ref_id=9022 See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

This week on Hysteria 51, Mother Nature is acting strange... and one guy is acting much, much stranger. First, a massive floating island covered in trees suddenly appears in British Columbia’s Williston Reservoir, drifts around like it forgot where it parked, disappears, and then turns up miles away. Scientists have explanations involving debris, rising water, and vegetation, but we prefer to believe Canada has finally developed migratory land. Then we head to England, where a peaceful dog walk through a nature reserve takes a horrifying turn when a man decides to demonstrate a use for a carrot that definitely isn’t in the recipe book. Police get involved, court dates are scheduled, and somewhere a rabbit loses its appetite forever. From mysterious floating islands and disappearing landmasses to bizarre crime, public indecency, and produce abuse, this episode has everything you expect from weird news... plus at least one thing you absolutely did not. Links & Resources 📌Island Hide & Seek 📌Carrot Misfortune Email us your Contest Topics: [email protected] Email us your favorite WEIRD news stories: [email protected] Support the Show Get exclusive content & perks as well as an ad and sponsor free experience at https://www.patreon.com/Hysteria51 from just $1 Shop Be the Best Dressed at your Cult Meeting! https://www.teepublic.com/stores/hysteria51?ref_id=9022 See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Forget Area 51. It’s time to head to Ohio, where the UFO lore is colder, the security clearances are higher, and allegedly somebody forgot to clean the aliens out of the fridge. This week, we’re investigating the mysterious Blue Room at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, the legendary top-secret facility supposedly used to store and study crashed UFO wreckage, Roswell debris, exotic technology, strange “memory metal,” and possibly even extraterrestrial bodies. Was Wright-Patterson actually America’s original alien warehouse? Before we can answer that, we have to figure out whether the damn room even existed. And that's considerably harder than it sounds. Because Wright-Patterson really did house some of America's earliest official UFO investigations. It really was one of the country's most important centers for analyzing captured and unidentified foreign aerospace technology. And some surprisingly credible people later claimed something extraordinary was hidden there. We’re digging into the origins of Hangar 18, Robert Spencer Carr, Barry Goldwater’s infamous attempt to gain access, General Curtis LeMay’s less-than-welcoming response, the alleged connection between Roswell and Wright Field, former Wright-Patterson commander Arthur Exon, Oliver “Pappy” Henderson, Marion “Black Mac” Magruder, June Crain and her alleged piece of impossible memory metal, and finally Leonard Stringfield, the UFO researcher who found someone claiming he actually made it through the door. Grab your clearance badge. Leave your camera in the car. And if Curtis LeMay asks what we're doing here, tell him we're looking for the bathroom this week on Hysteria 51. Sources: National Archives – Project BLUE BOOK: Unidentified Flying Objectshttps://www.archives.gov/research/military/air-force/ufosU.S. Air Force – The Roswell Report: Fact versus Fiction in the New Mexico Deserthttps://www.af.mil/The-Roswell-Report/All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) – Historical Record Report, Volume Ihttps://www.aaro.mil/Portals/136/PDFs/AARO_Historical_Record_Report_Vol_1_2024.pdfAARO – Congressional and Press Productshttps://www.aaro.mil/Congressional-Press-Products/U.S. Department of Defense – DOD Report Discounts Sightings of Extraterrestrial Technologyhttps://www.defense.gov/News/News-Stories/Article/Article/3701297/dod-report-discounts-sightings-of-extraterrestrial-technology/U.S. Department of Defense – Unidentified Anomalous Phenomenahttps://www.defense.gov/Spotlights/Unidentified-Anomalous-Phenomena/HISTORY – Hangar 18, UFOs and Wright-Patterson Air Force Basehttps://www.history.com/articles/hangar-18-ufos-aliens-wright-pattersonAir & Space Forces Magazine – USAF and the UFOshttps://www.airandspaceforces.com/article/0611ufo/NICAP – Barry Goldwater UFO Correspondence / Wright-Patterson and Curtis LeMayhttps://www.nicap.org/people/goldwater.htmBarry Goldwater – 1975 Wright-Patterson/UFO Correspondencehttps://rense.com/general35/ufodat.htmBarry Goldwater – Larry King Radio Interview, 1988https://www.ufocasebook.com/blueroom.htmlLeonard H. Stringfield – Retrievals of the Third Kindhttps://www.earthfiles.com/2005/09/30/part-3-retrievals-of-the-third-kind-a-case-study-of-alleged-ufos-and-occupants-in-military-custody/James Clarkson – June Crain Interview Transcripthttps://www.majesticdocuments.com/pdf/crain_clarksoninterview.pdfThomas J. Carey & Donald R. Schmitt – UFO Secrets Inside Wright-Patterson: Eyewitness Accounts from the Real Area 51https://www.loc.gov/item/2020715969/Thomas J. Carey & Donald R. Schmitt – UFO Secrets Inside Wright-Patterson – Google Bookshttps://books.google.com/books/about/UFO_Secrets_Inside_Wright_Patterson.html?id=eZpyDwAAQBAJNational Archives – UAP Records: Textual and Microfilm Recordshttps://www.archives.gov/research/topics/uaps/textual-and-microfilmNational Archives – UAP Records Bulk Downloadshttps://www.archives.gov/research/catalog/catalog-bulk-downloads/uap-bulk-downloadFBI Vault – UFO Fileshttps://vault.fbi.gov/UFOWikipedia – Wright-Patterson Air Force Basehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wright-Patterson_Air_Force_BaseWikipedia – Hangar 18https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hangar_18_(conspiracy_theory) Email your Contest Entries to: [email protected] Email us your favorite WEIRD news stories: [email protected] Support the Show: Get exclusive content & perks as well as an ad and sponsor free experience at https://www.patreon.com/Hysteria51 from just $1 Shop: Be the Best Dressed at your Cult Meeting! https://www.teepublic.com/stores/hysteria51?ref_id=9022 See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

This week on Hysteria 51, we’re asking the important questions: What exactly can’t you donate to Goodwill, and how convincing does your fake horse semen laboratory need to be before the government stops asking questions? First, a human skull mysteriously turns up at a Michigan Goodwill. And no, it wasn’t an old medical specimen gathering dust in somebody’s attic. The FBI is now involved, DNA testing is underway, and somewhere a thrift-store employee has officially won “Worst Donation to Unpack.” Then we gallop across the pond to England, where a couple received permission to build a stallion semen laboratory and instead built themselves a lovely two-story house. Because apparently “equine reproductive science facility” is the British planning-permission version of wearing a fake mustache. Human remains, FBI investigators, zoning shenanigans, demolished dream homes, and more horse semen than anyone expected to discuss this week. Saddle up. Things are about to get weird. Links & Resources 📌Badwill 📌Horsing Around Email us your Contest Topics: [email protected] Email us your favorite WEIRD news stories: [email protected] Support the Show Get exclusive content & perks as well as an ad and sponsor free experience at https://www.patreon.com/Hysteria51 from just $1 Shop Be the Best Dressed at your Cult Meeting! https://www.teepublic.com/stores/hysteria51?ref_id=9022 See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

A landed flying saucer. A mysterious humanoid pilot. A frozen Italian glacier. Multiple photographs. And a 1952 UFO encounter that still gets passed around social media today as some of the clearest evidence of extraterrestrial visitation ever captured. Sounds pretty darn convincing, right? Head to the Bernina Alps with us as we investigate the bizarre case of Giampiero Monguzzi, the Italian photographer who claimed he and his wife witnessed a metallic UFO land near the Scerscen Glacier, watched a strange suited figure inspect the craft, and snapped a series of incredible photos before the saucer lifted off and disappeared toward Switzerland. It has everything you could want from a classic UFO encounter: eerie silence, a landed spacecraft, an apparent alien occupant, multiple photographs, and a mystery that continues bouncing around Facebook, TikTok, and the darker corners of the internet more than 70 years later. But there’s a reason you probably aren’t seeing the whole story in those viral posts. And once you start digging beyond the photographs, things take a very interesting turn. So did Monguzzi capture one of the greatest pieces of UFO evidence in history? Or is there something hiding just outside the frame? We dig into the encounter, the famous photographs, the strange little visitor, the worldwide press frenzy, and the part of the story social media conveniently tends to leave out. All that and more this week on Hysteria 51. Sources Corriere della Sera – Mistero bUFO: “Ufo, falsi o veri? La storia del caso Monguzzi”https://misterobufo.corriere.it/2013/10/06/ufo-falsi-o-veri-la-storia-del-caso-monguzzi/Ufopedia – “1952/07/31 9:15, Ghiacciaio Scerscen, Lanzada, Lombardia, Italia”https://ufopedia.it/1952/07/31_9%3A15%2C_Ghiacciaio_Scerscen%2C_Lanzada%2C_Lombardia%2C_Italia%2C_UE.htmlUniversity of Warwick – Fantascienza e ufologia nell’opera di Inisero Cremaschi, Gilda Musa e Giuseppe Pederialihttps://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/id/eprint/167606/1/WRAP-Fantascienza-e-ufologia-nell-opera-di-Inisero-Cremaschi-Gilda-Musa-e-Giuseppe-Pederiali-1967-1978-Camilletti-22.pdfAlfredo Panicucci – “Ha fotografato il marziano per diventare giornalista,” Epoca, Vol. III, No. 109, November 8, 1952Saturday Night Uforia – “In the News 1952, Part Fifty-One”https://www.saturdaynightuforia.com/html/articles/articlehtml/itn52part51.htmlINTCAT – 1952 Humanoid Encounter Cataloguehttps://intcat.blogspot.com/2012/08/intcat-1952.htmlFlying Saucer Review – Lou Zinsstag, “Monguzzi Takes Saucer Photos of the Century,” Vol. 4, No. 5, September–October 1958Podcast UFO – “A UFO Photographed in the Italian Alps”https://podcastufo.com/a-ufo-photographed-in-the-italian-alps/Italiador – “UFO: Lo straordinario caso Monguzzi”https://www.italiador.com/ufo-lo-straordinario-caso-monguzzi/Think AboutIt UFO/UAP Archive – “1952 Bernina ‘Saucer Photos’: The Monguzzi Hoax Exposed”https://thinkaboutitdocs.com/1952-bernina-mountains-italy/ Email your Contest Entries to: [email protected] Email us your favorite WEIRD news stories: [email protected] Support the Show Get exclusive content & perks as well as an ad and sponsor free experience at https://www.patreon.com/Hysteria51 from just $1 Shop Be the Best Dressed at your Cult Meeting! https://www.teepublic.com/stores/hysteria51?ref_id=9022 See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

This week on Hysteria 51, we’re cracking open the weirdest six-pack history ever forgot and then running for our lives from nature’s angriest lumberjacks. First, divers recover a 162-year-old bottle of Guinness from an 1864 shipwreck, and scientists hope its remarkably preserved contents could help recreate the stout as it tasted in the 19th century. Because apparently archaeology has finally stopped wasting time on pottery fragments and started focusing on what matters: ancient beer. Then we head to Cunningham Falls State Park in Maryland, where two teenagers were attacked in separate incidents by rabid beavers, one severe enough to require an airlift to the hospital. The animals later tested positive for rabies, portions of the park were closed, and humanity was reminded that the adorable little dam engineers have teeth capable of choosing violence. So grab a pint, avoid suspiciously aggressive woodland rodents, and join us for shipwrecked Guinness, historic beer recipes, rabid beaver attacks, weird news, and enough poor decision-making by man and nature to fill a podcast. Links & Resources 📌Crack an Old One 📌Beaver Munch Email us your Contest Topics: [email protected] Email us your favorite WEIRD news stories: [email protected] Support the Show Get exclusive content & perks as well as an ad and sponsor free experience at https://www.patreon.com/Hysteria51 from just $1 Shop Be the Best Dressed at your Cult Meeting! https://www.teepublic.com/stores/hysteria51?ref_id=9022 See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

What if you died, got pronounced dead by doctors, buried by your family, and then showed up 18 years later with one hell of an excuse for missing Thanksgiving? Enter the bizarre true story of Clairvius Narcisse, the Haitian man who allegedly became a real-life zombie after being poisoned, buried alive, dug back up, drugged, and forced into labor. We explore the terrifying history of Haitian zombies and Vodou, Wade Davis and his controversial search for zombie powder, and the surprisingly real science behind pufferfish toxin, tetrodotoxin, Datura, paralysis, and premature burial. Could ancient knowledge of neurotoxins actually turn someone into a living zombie, or did science take a fascinating Haitian tradition and run a little too far with it? Plus, we examine the skeptics and competing explanations that make the answer considerably messier than "dead people don't walk." Poison fish, stolen souls, questionable pharmacology, family land disputes, zombie plantations, and perhaps the worst return-to-work story in human history... All that and more this week on Hysteria 51. Sources Wade Davis – The Serpent and the Rainbowhttps://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Serpent-and-the-Rainbow/Wade-Davis/9780684839295Wade Davis – Passage of Darkness: The Ethnobiology of the Haitian Zombiehttps://books.google.com/books?id=tVxZAAAAMAAJWade Davis – “The Ethnobiology of the Haitian Zombi” – Journal of Ethnopharmacologyhttps://doi.org/10.1016/0378-8741(83)90029-6William Booth – “Voodoo Science” – Sciencehttps://doi.org/10.1126/science.3353722Wade Davis – “Zombification” – Sciencehttps://doi.org/10.1126/science.3381089Roland Littlewood & Chavannes Douyon – “Clinical Findings in Three Cases of Zombification” – The Lancethttps://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(97)04449-8Harvard Magazine – “The Secrets of Haiti’s Living Dead”https://www.harvardmagazine.com/sites/default/files/zombie_1986_small.pdfTIME – “Zombies: Do They Exist?”https://time.com/archive/6697896/medicine-zombies-do-they-exist/PBS American Experience – “What Happened When Zora Neale Hurston Studied Voodoo in Haiti?”https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/claiming-space-when-happened-when-zora-neale-hurston-studied-voodoo-haiti/Zora Neale Hurston – Tell My Horse: Voodoo and Life in Haiti and Jamaicahttps://www.harpercollins.com/products/tell-my-horse-zora-neale-hurstonLibrary of Congress – “Does the Haitian Criminal Code Outlaw Making Zombies?”https://blogs.loc.gov/law/2014/10/does-the-haitian-criminal-code-outlaw-making-zombies/Chen-Yuan Kao & Takeshi Yasumoto – “Tetrodotoxin Intoxication: A Worldwide Problem” – Toxiconhttps://doi.org/10.1016/0041-0101(86)90067-8Jean Price-Mars – “The Story of Zombi in Haiti”https://sites.duke.edu/haitilab/files/2014/11/Mars-1945-The-story-of-zombie-in-haiti.pdf Email your Contest Entries to: [email protected] Email us your favorite WEIRD news stories: [email protected] Support the Show Get exclusive content & perks as well as an ad and sponsor free experience at https://www.patreon.com/Hysteria51 from just $1 Shop Be the Best Dressed at your Cult Meeting! https://www.teepublic.com/stores/hysteria51?ref_id=9022 See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

We had some life stuff get in the way this week so we are going back to where the Blurry Hysteria / Weird Wednesday episodes started. Back to regular episodes next week! Original Description It's Mad Blurry Hysteria Time on H51! This week Brent tries to sell us the Lizzie Borden house, David swears Nibiru is gone for good, and Chris flirts with Tom DeLonge on twitter. All that and more on this week’s Mad Blurry Hysteria! News Stories Mentioned: Axe Slasher BnB for sale “Real Picture” – Tom DeLonge Bye Bye Nibiru Follow the Shows: Mad Scientist - https://www.themadscientistpodcast.com/ Blurry Photos - http://www.blurryphotos.org/ Hysteria 51 - http://hysteria51.com/  Email your Contest Entries to: [email protected] Email us your favorite WEIRD news stories: [email protected] Support the Show Get exclusive content & perks as well as an ad and sponsor free experience at https://www.patreon.com/Hysteria51 from just $1 Shop Be the Best Dressed at your Cult Meeting! https://www.teepublic.com/stores/hysteria51?ref_id=9022 See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Shut the windows and change your mask filters, the Mad Gasser of Mattoon is prowling the podcast! A WWII-era midwestern mystery, the Mad Gasser of Mattoon held a small town in a gaseous grip of fear for 2 weeks with no explanation and few suspects. Panic took hold as locals tried to figure out what was happening in their small Illinois community. To this day, no one knows exactly who perpetrated a series of alleged gas attacks, nor has anyone found out why. Join David as he relates not only the timeline of the ‘phantom anesthetist,’ but also similar attacks in different parts of the country throughout the years. Were they connected somehow or just coincidence? He also looks at what police and scientists have found, and whether or not anything has actually been explained over the years. Don’t let the fumes get to you in this episode of Blurry Photos! Music Ghostpocalypse – 8 Epilog, Ghostpocalypse – 6 Crossing the Threshold, Some Amount of Evil, Malicious, Villainous Treachery – Distressed, Danse Macabre, Myst on the Moor – Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 Sources Gas Attacks in America: http://mysteriousuniverse.org/2011/06/mad-gassers-of-america/An Overview: http://io9.gizmodo.com/did-mattoon-have-a-mad-scientist-or-a-mad-population-1510479349Vitelli, R. “The Mad Gasser of Mattoon.” JREF Swift Blog. James Randi Educational Foundation, 23 Apr. 2011. Web. 12 Dec. 2016. http://archive.randi.org/site/index.php/swift-blog/1279-the-mad-gasser-of-mattoon.htmlMaruna, S. The Mad Gasser of Mattoon: Dispelling the Hysteria. Jacksonville: Swamp Gas Books, 2003.Johnson, D. “The Phantom Anesthetist of Mattoon: A field study of mass hysteria.” Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology. 1 Jan. 1945, Volume 40, Number 1: 175-186. http://ergotism.info/en/hysteria/mass_hysteria_mad_gasser_jasp_1945_40.pdf See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.