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Episode 11: The Bus to Hell, a Ghostly Mansion, and a Bloated Corpse
Episode 11: The Bus to Hell, a Ghostly Mansion, and a Bloated Corpse
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21 minutes
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Sep 29, 2023
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Episode 11 Narrated and executive produced by Aaron Mahnke, with Robin Miniter as Senior Producer, research and writing help from the Grim & Mild team, and audio production from Otis Gray. EPISODE SOURCES Recent News “To Hel and back? Not on bus 666 after Polish operator changes number,” reuters.com, June 14, 2023, https://www.reuters.com/lifestyle/hel-back-not-bus-666-after-polish-operator-changes-number-2023-06-14/ “Chinese zoo denies its sun bear is a human in a costume,” upi.com, July 31, 2023, https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2023/07/31/Hangzhou-Zoo-sun-bear-human-costume/9431690814827/ “Duck goes for a ride on Cedar Point roller coaster that reaches 93 mph,” wsaz.com, July 13, 2023, https://www.wsaz.com/2023/07/13/duck-goes-ride-cedar-point-roller-coaster-that-reaches-93-mph/ “Millennium Force,” cedar point.com, Date Unknown, https://www.cedarpoint.com/rides-experiences/millennium-force Old News “Who Was Sarah Winchester? The Story of the Troubled Woman Behind the Winchester Mystery House,” allthatsinteresting.com, March 27, 2022, https://allthatsinteresting.com/sarah-winchester “The Giant Mansion Built for Ghosts: The Winchester Mystery House,” ripleys.com, January 31, 2018, https://www.ripleys.com/weird-news/winchester-mansion/ “The World’s First Computer Bug,” globalapptesting.com, Date Unknown, https://www.globalapptesting.com/blog/the-worlds-first-computer-bug-global-app-testing#:~:text=On%20September%209%2C%201947%2C%20the,by%20computer%20scientist%20Grace%20Hopper “The Bug in the Computer Bug Story,” daily.jstor.org, May 3, 2022, https://daily.jstor.org/the-bug-in-the-computer-bug-story/ “Sep 9, 1947 CE: World’s First Computer Bug,” education.nationalgeographic.org, Date Unknown, https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/worlds-first-computer-bug/ “NASA’s DART asteroid-smashing mission: The complete guide,” space.com, October 14, 2022, https://www.space.com/dart-asteroid-mission “NASA will crash a spacecraft into a 525-foot wide asteroid in September. Here’s how to watch it,” phys.org, August 30, 2022, https://phys.org/news/2022-08-nasa-spacecraft-foot-wide-asteroid-september.html “NASA smashes spaceship into asteroid in mission to save Earth,” mirror.co.uk, September 27, 2022, https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news/breaking-nasa-smashes-spaceship-asteroid-28087649#google_vignette “In The 1870s And ‘80s, Being A Pedestrian Was Anything But,” npr.org, April 3, 2014, https://www.npr.org/2014/04/03/297327865/in-the-1870s-and-80s-being-a-pedestrian-was-anything-but “The strange 19th-Century sport that was cooler than football,” bbc.com, July 28, 2021, https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20210723-the-strange-19th-century-sport-that-was-cooler-than-football Our Big Story “William the Conqueror’s Exploding Corpse,” historic-uk.com, Date Unknown, https://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofEngland/William-The-Conqueror-Exploding-Corpse/#:~:text=William%27s%20corpse%2C%20bloated%20by%20this,crowd%E2%80%9D%2C%20according%20to%20Orderic “Gross! William the Conqueror’s Corpse Exploded on People at His Funeral,” allthatsinteresting.com, December 1, 2017, https://allthatsinteresting.com/william-the-conqueror “William the Conqueror’s Body Exploded in a Grotesque Shower at Funeral,” ancient-origins.net, August 16, 2022, https://www.ancient-origins.net/history-famous-people/william-conqueror-0017143 “William I (the Conqueror),” westminster-abbey.org, Date Unknown, https://www.westminster-abbey.org/abbey-commemorations/royals/william-i-the-conqueror “The Death of William the Conqueror,” uchicago.edu, Date Unknown, https://penelope.uchicago.edu/~grout/encyclopaedia_romana/britannia/anglo-saxon/hastings/williamdeath.html “Kilroy J. Oldster,” goodreads.com, Date Unknown, https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/9704904-death-is-the-great-equalizer-of-human-beings-death-is#:~:text=Sign%20Up%20Now-,Death%20is%20the%20great%20equalizer%20of%20human%20beings.,as%20many%20years%20as%20me “The Stages of the Human
Released:
Sep 29, 2023
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Podcast episode
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Episode 1: Narrated and executive produced by Aaron Mahnke, with Robin Miniter as Senior Producer, research and writing help from the team, and audio production from Otis Gray. ———————— EPISODE SOURCES Recent News “South Korean law... by That’s Just Weird with Aaron Mahnke