Weird Tales and the Unexplainable.: September 2016

Tuesday, 27 September 2016

#53 - The Ocean: Creatures of the Deep

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ASSAP

For more info on ASSAP and their events check out their official website -

http://www.assap.ac.uk/

The Kraken

'The Kraken' poem by Alfred Tennyson, was read from the Kraken Wikipedia page -

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kraken

and here is the image from Google Earth that we discuss -

Colossal Squid

image of one that was caught near New Zealand -

short video clip we watched on show of the autopsy news report -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvG0geE-nIA&index=5&list=PLJ7-CbLn6EiTjGpuFZ4yk1KpxXgdVQWTQ

and the full highlights of the autopsy video mentioned on the show -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=drwwoJ8TAJc&index=4&list=PLJ7-CbLn6EiTjGpuFZ4yk1KpxXgdVQWTQ

plus plenty of info on the Wikipedia page -

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossal_squid

Giant Squid

Squid In Toyoma Bay, Japan at the end of 2015 -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCZXJHuvL6s&index=6&list=PLJ7-CbLn6EiTjGpuFZ4yk1KpxXgdVQWTQ

The underwater footage that we watched of the giant squid can be viewed here -

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-35192154

Deep Sea Gigantism

Again, most of the information I got for this was from Wikipedia -

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep-sea_gigantism

Milky Sea

Again, Wiki is was my friend this week -

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milky_seas_effect

Mermaids

The art piece 'Nerina', by Juan Cabana, thought by many for a while to be evidence of Mermaids -

The 3 fake videos we watched originally from the Animal Planet specials,

'Mermaids: The Body Found', and 'Mermaids: The New Evidence'.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shKt4FPjCeo&index=8&list=PLJ7-CbLn6EiTjGpuFZ4yk1KpxXgdVQWTQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0r9spHIe--E&index=9&list=PLJ7-CbLn6EiTjGpuFZ4yk1KpxXgdVQWTQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5ZqPKZIlKA&index=10&list=PLJ7-CbLn6EiTjGpuFZ4yk1KpxXgdVQWTQ

The mermaid Skeleton video with Professor Dimitrov, another fake -

more info here of the skeleton fakes -

http://www.snopes.com/photos/supernatural/mermaidskeleton.asp

Cave Paintings

The 3 pictures of cave paintings found in Africa that we look at on the show -

Also here is a short video that explains more about the Aquatic Ape Theory -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRR2Wsit1lw

Part of your world...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXKlJuO07eM&index=7&list=PLJ7-CbLn6EiTjGpuFZ4yk1KpxXgdVQWTQ

The Bloop / Julia

All of the sounds played in The Bloop section are from here,

The Bloop, Julia, Slow Down, The Train -

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unexplained_sounds

Weird Fishes

Macropinna Microstoma

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHCGFnvjPkQ&index=11&list=PLJ7-CbLn6EiTjGpuFZ4yk1KpxXgdVQWTQ

Bigfin Squid

https://www.buzzfeed.com/kellyoakes/this-rare-sighting-of-a-bigfin-squid-will-haunt-your-nightma?utm_term=.fu8oZ6jgPn#.laKzB3pM4r

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8xXnVkOGsA&index=12&list=PLJ7-CbLn6EiTjGpuFZ4yk1KpxXgdVQWTQ

Giant Oarfish

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yK2g4Nwdxco&index=13&list=PLJ7-CbLn6EiTjGpuFZ4yk1KpxXgdVQWTQ

Blobfish

Goblin Shark

Recommendations

books -

The Wake, Scott Snyder & Sean Gordon Murphy
20,000 Leagues Under The Sea, Jules Verne
Moby Dick, Herman Melville

films -
...not sure if we would recommend all of them, but we mentioned the following, (plus Splash).
Jaws
Deep Blue Sea
Open Water
The Abyss
The Little Mermaid
Splash

Tuesday, 20 September 2016

#52 - Weird News: Old Stinker & Others

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Old Stinker

Thanks to Neil for sending us this story.

We read from this account of it -

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/8ft-tall-werewolf-old-stinker-prowling-in-hull-industrial-estate_uk_573999d2e4b01359f6872265

but he also sent the following links as well -
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3591219/Hull-residents-spot-fanged-beast-human-like-features-nicknamed-Old-Stinker.html
http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/670358/Hull-South-Yorkshire-werewolf-Old-Stinker-full-moon-Barmston-Drain
http://metro.co.uk/2016/08/31/woman-met-eight-foot-werewolf-with-human-face-and-extremely-bad-breath-6100986/

Robot Guards

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2104287-the-threat-of-robot-guards-is-not-enough-to-stop-people-stealing/

The Tromp Family

Thanks to Aisling for bringing this story to my attention!

I read the account from the BBC News page, it also includes the map of their routes, and the video clips I played -

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-37293494

and here is the link the Aisling sent me originally, which delves further into 'Folie a Deux' -

http://www.news.com.au/national/is-the-tromp-family-suffering-from-a-rare-shared-psychotic-disorder-known-as-folie--deux/news-story/7b349973f3af4588002f9b21bce007d6

Asteroid

http://mysteriousuniverse.org/2016/09/doomsday-asteroid-goes-undetected-narrowly-misses-earth/

Films

as usual we mention a few films this week.

An American Werewolf in London

(featuring the first CGI human)

(this is the pic that Tiss shows us on the ep) -

Deep Impact

Only Fools And Horses - To Hull And Back...

Tuesday, 13 September 2016

#51 - Area 51 & Roswell

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Bob Lazar

This is a great documentary that we played a few clips from about Bob Lazar and Area 51 -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q27InJVoD0E

We played this short clip on the show of Bob Lazar's first interview from 1989 -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1i4Fu_L7cHM

Roswell

Here is the full BBC Roswell documentary that we played a section from on the show,

really good doc -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0WugJoLib5k

Recommendations

A couple of things mentioned on the ep.

Louis Theroux
The episode 'UFOs', from the series 'Louis Theroux's Weird Weekends'
Can be seen here -
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x27ipjk_louis-theroux-s-weird-weekends-ufos_lifestyle