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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

FromThat’s Just Weird with Aaron Mahnke


Episode 11: The Bus to Hell, a Ghostly Mansion, and a Bloated Corpse

FromThat’s Just Weird with Aaron Mahnke

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Length:
21 minutes
Released:
Sep 29, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode

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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
Format:
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Your weekly guide to all the weird things that have happened in our world—both yesterday and today. Each week, we take a short tour of the strangest news from around the world, dip into wild historical events from the past, and explore one larger tale that’s sure to leave you shaking your head. Hosted by Aaron Mahnke.