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George Kenney was a school principal who thought he could help troubled kids through hypnosis. If that sounds like a bad idea you're wrong. It was a horrific idea.

In 1968, the Fausto and its crew disappeared on a routine run between two Canary Islands. Their rescue four days later was a miracle. But that was just the beginning of the inexplicable saga of the boat that was found, lost, found, and finally lost again.

It's been a while, but we have some good ones. Flying snakes, the shocking number of gay animals (personal trigger warning for Ron DeSantis), getting high on snake venom, AI turned on its masters, brain worms, the music police of Chechnya, the coming insect invasion, and the dangers of minor earthquakes in New Jersey coinciding with total eclipses of the sun.

You might feel tiny, you might feel like a giant. You might think your head has ballooned and floats to the ceiling where you can look down on those around you. You might be high. You might have Alice in Wonderland Syndrome. It might also be called DVPBR, I've heard it both ways.

Don Decker was under a lot of stress when he was staying with friends after his grandfather's funeral. He hallucinated, he collapsed, he could barely hold it together. Then it started to rain - inside the house. Then again at a nearby pizza place. Then again in a prison cell. Don Decker was not your usual rainmaker.

Stay tuned to the end to hear about Carey’s recently experienced unexplained phenomena. And, let’s hear from our audience, did every family have a point and shoot camera at the ready in 1983?

You may not think there are any octopuses in Oklahoma. Heck, you may not think there are any freshwater octopuses anywhere. But you might be wrong. There might be a reddish, horse-sized tentacled creature in several Oklahoma lakes that will drag you down to your death. Sorry, Oklahoma Tourist Board.