The Some Weird Podcast Crissy and Barry

This is our last episode for Season 6. We welcome back our guest host Ted and we talk about more stories from Newfoundland and Labrador. We talk about the origins of the Screech In Ceremony where you can become an honorary Newfoundlander in just a few easy steps. Then we visit a forgotten monument that was meant to commemorate the completion of the Trans-Canada Highway. Finally, we reminisce about food and beverage that are native to or common in our province.

 

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This episode was inspired by the super popular and super awesome video game and HBO adaptation “The Last of Us”. In the series, cordyceps evolve to spawn a zombie pandemic but is this more than science fiction? While nothing of this magnitude is likely to happen, the fungus ergot has been cited as the possible cause of an event in 1951 where many people in a small town had some pretty intense hallucinations after eating bread made from questionable flour. Ergot is also a possible explanation for the 1518 Dancing Plague in Strasbourg where it is said hundreds of people were compelled to dance even though they were exhausted and in pain. Some people even lost their lives. The potential cures for the Dancing Plague were almost as weird as the affliction itself!

 

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No brand new episode this week. Instead, please enjoy this remastered episode from our first season. Get ready for the creeps as we get personal with our experiences with sleep paralysis or, as it is called in Newfoundland, The Old Hag. In this nightmare fuel episode, we look at its origins across multiple
cultures, what the heck is going on when we sleep and dream, and how can we prevent this terrifying encounter from happening.

 

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In this episode we look into the namesake of Munchausen’s Syndrome. This is a condition where people fake being sick in order to gain sympathy from others. Then we look at the very strange case of Gypsy Rose Blanchard who suffered her whole life at the hands of her own mother who had the related Munchausen’s By Proxy Syndrome where a caregiver fakes or induces illness in their dependent to get sympathy from others. Spoiler alert: It did not end well for Gypsy Rose’s mother.

 



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Newfoundland and Labrador, joined Canada in 1949 with its own fully formed society. Many aspects of our cultural heritage persist today including our language and folklore. In part 1 of this bonus re-release episode we share listener stories including death tokens, a ghostly chicken, the Old Hag and more. In part 2, we’ll share stories of heroes and legends from the Newfoundland Rangers to the rescue of almost 200 Americans from their
shipwrecked Truxtun and Pollux by civilians in a small outport community to the possibly supernatural origins of Father Duffy’s Well. Then, we are so proud to bring you folklore and tradition specifically from Labrador. Ever hear of the evil polar bear the Nanurluk? What about the tradition of Nalujuk Night? You better watch out, you better not cry or you’ll face the Nalujuk on Old
Christmas Day.

 

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Human bodies are generally made up of the same stuff but some peoples’ chemistry does some pretty freaky reactions. In this episode we talk about Gut Fermentation Syndrome where your body turns your gut into its very own microbrewery when you eat carbohydrates. We also delve into the mysterious case of Gloria Ramirez whose trip to the ER resulted in several people around her getting sick.

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