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https://linktr.ee/scrubmodeThis week we're talking about the fishy friends of DnD. Kua-Toa, Merrow, Mermaids and Sahuagin. We also discuss Lovecraft's Deep Ones, the Tabib al-Bahr from the Jabirean Alchemy Corpus, the Arragouset of Gurnsey folklore, and more weird fishy friends. But why do so many of these myths and stories involving boning fish? The ocean is weird and wonderful, and sure to inspire you! Sourceshttps://abookofcreatures.com/2015/04/01/arragouset/https://www.belloflostsouls.net/2022/02/monster-spotlight.htmlhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guernseyhttps://abookofcreatures.com/2015/09/18/tabib-al-bahr/https://abookofcreatures.com/2015/09/14/zitiron/https://mythicalcreatures.edwardworthlibrary.ie/sea-creatures/sea-monk/https://mythicalcreatures.edwardworthlibrary.ie/sea-creatures/sea-bishop/https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k97268p/f70.image.r=De%20aquatilibusBelon%20Belonhttps://forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/SahuaginAnd the 5.5 Ed Monster Manualhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paleodictyonhttps://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0967064509001799Mermaid Mary Beths Deep Sea Eel Mermaid Cosplay - https://www.tiktok.com/@mermaidmarybeth/video/7480728214113930542

Today we're talking lizardfolk from the Monster Manual

https://linktr.ee/scrubmodeJulio and Jon talk werewolves and werebears and more werecreatures in this one

https://linktr.ee/scrubmodeToday we're talking the Shaver Mysteries! A proto-meme or creepypasta that prefigures everything from DnD's Underdark to PizzaGate.Sources​“Reality –Is it a Horror?”: Richard Shaver's Subterranean World and the Displaced Self, Gabe McKee, Journal of Gods and Monsters​Toronto, Richard, The Shaver Mystery. Fate, March 1998​Keel, John, "The Man Who Invented Flying Saucers" ; Fortean Times, 1983.​Dan Loxton's Junior Skeptic Hollow Earth coverage Part 1 and Part 2 ​Monstertalk Episodes 192 and 193​War over Lemuria: Richard Shaver, Ray Palmer and the Strangest Chapter of 1940s Science Fiction Paperback – Illustrated, April 25, 2013

Today we're talking lizardfolk!

Julio and Ryan sans Jon still.

Jon's on vacation, so it's just Julio and Ryan today.

It's a monster manual episode! We've made it to the homunculus and kenku!

Today Jon tells Julio and Ryan about Indrid Cold.sources -Derenberger, W. W., Derenberger-Bowman, T., Colvin, A., Keel, J., & Barker, G. (n.d.). Visitors from Lanulos: My Contact with Indrid Cold.

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https://linktr.ee/scrubmodeWe're talking Lamias Hydras and MinotaursSourceshttps://www.theoi.com/Pontios/Harpyiai.htmlhttps://www.jstor.org/stable/3296813https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydra_(genus)https://www.theoi.com/Ther/Karkinos.htmlhttps://www.theoi.com/Ther/DrakonHydra.htmlhttps://www.theoi.com/Ther/Lamia.htmlhttps://www.theoi.com/Ther/Akheilos.htmlhttps://www.theoi.com/Phasma/Empousai.htmlhttps://www.theoi.com/Ther/Minotauros.html

https://linktr.ee/scrubmode This episode is for the dogs! We're talking about the dog-shaped monsters of DnD, as well as various black dogs, hellhounds and the like from English folklore. Even bad dogs are good boys. Sources https://abookofcreatures.com/2019/06/07/kludde/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_dog_(folklore) https://www.britannica.com/art/Barghest https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-34369461 https://www.invisibleworks.co.uk/mapping-the-grim/ https://books.google.com/books?id=XLwuAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA216&lpg=PA216&dq=He+takes+the+form+of+a+huge+black+dog,+and+prowls+along+dark+lanes+and+lonesome+field+footpaths,+where,+although+his+howling+makes+the+hearer%27s+blood+run+cold,+his+footfalls+make+no+sound.&source=bl&ots=7dZz6WFOEj&sig=ZP1tSgFr1mAsvfAgh9hrWs3cdyc&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjW27ny_47fAhURDKwKHZM2CfAQ6AEwAXoECAgQAQ#v=onepage&q=He%20takes%20the%20form%20of%20a%20huge%20black%20dog%2C%20and%20prowls%20along%20dark%20lanes%20and%20lonesome%20field%20footpaths%2C%20where%2C%20although%20his%20howling%20makes%20the%20hearer's%20blood%20run%20cold%2C%20his%20footfalls%20make%20no%20sound.&f=false https://www.suffolklive.com/news/history/black-shuck-blythburgh-church-suffolk-5767807 https://www.spookyisles.com/shug-monkey-cambridgeshire/ https://cryptidz.fandom.com/wiki/Shug_Monkey https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.149434 https://urbanlegends.fandom.com/wiki/The_Jinmenken https://tetzoo.com/blog/2022/8/13/legend-of-the-black-dog

https://linktr.ee/scrubmode We're back, with avengance! Today we're talking a couple strange haunted household items. sources- https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/unconscious-ventriloquism-the-unsolved-mystery-of-the-zaragoza-goblin https://slate.com/human-interest/2015/09/the-phenomenon-of-the-zaragoza-stove-goblin-was-blamed-on-unconscious-ventriloquism.html http://strangeco.blogspot.com/2023/07/the-stove-goblin-of-zaragoza.html https://q985online.com/wisconsin-tallman-home-ghost/ https://www.wisconsinfrights.com/unsolved-mysteries-tallman-house/ https://www.cultofweird.com/blog/haunted-tallman-house-horicon/ https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-03975-7

In this episode Julio, Jon and Ryan play some improv for this holiday season, it gets ridiculous.

We go on some crazy tangents with this one, we talk about the history and evolution of media, and go on some nostalgia trips.

Spooky season dies hard as we talk about Hags and Nightmares tonight. From Baba Yaga to Yubaba, have smorgasbord of child-eating monsters on display. Also sleep paralysis, what the deal with that and why is associated with hags? And why the dip is a Nightmare a horse

https://linktr.ee/scrubmode Today we're talking about monster worms such as the Grick, the Purple Worm and the Remorhaz. Then we look at some worm-like cryptids, including a heavy-hitter: The Mongolian. Death. Worm. Plus other worm monsters like the Indus Worm and the Guh. Other talking points include brain worms, the Saw franchise, velvet worms and the Alaskan. Bull. Worm. Sources https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/mongolian-death-worm https://web.archive.org/web/20100526160025/http://www.deathworm2009.com/?p=245 https://skeptoid.com/episodes/4344 https://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Were-worms https://mongolianstore.com/mongolian-death-worm/ https://abookofcreatures.com/2016/10/03/indus-worm/ https://www.theoi.com/Thaumasios/WormsIndos.html Cryptozoology A To Z: The Encyclopedia of Loch Monsters, Sasquatch, Chupacabras, and Other Authentic Mysteries of Nature Paperback by Loren Coleman Jerome Clark https://cryptidarchives.fandom.com/wiki/Guh https://archive.org/details/myoldpeoplesayet0000mccl/page/n3/mode/2up?view=theater

https://linktr.ee/scrubmode Happy Halloween! Tonight, we're going for 100%, unfiltered spook as we tell you the tale of a lesser known spooky ranch: The Rock Mountain Ranch. Folks, this one has it all: Ding-dong-ditching bigfoots, poltergeists that hate cars, and Aliens that hate bigfoots. "Multiple Phenomena on Colorado Ranch: Report on the Investigation of UFO Experiences on a Rocky Mountain Ranch" by John S. Derr and R. Leo Sprinkle, published by Aerial Phenomena Research Organization (APRO) in The A.P.R.O. Bulletin in July 1978 August 1978 (Volume 27, Number 2) September 1978 (Volume 27, Number 3) October 1978 (Volume 27, Number 4) November 1978 (Volume 27, Number 5) December 1978 (Volume 27, Number 6) January 1979 (Volume 27, Number 7)

Today we're doing something a little different, improv, but not just regular improv! Well, ok, maybe it's just improv. Julio's DMing, so anything can happen in this episode of ScrubMode. https://linktr.ee/scrubmode

Julio had so much fun we had to do some more of his improv "dnd" game.

https://linktr.ee/scrubmode This week we're taking a look at some classical, magical mounts, with our good buddy Spencer R. Schulman. We deep dive on griffins and hippogryphs, and along the way learn about where the term "California" comes from, Italian World War Hulk, and how to sea monster check your fiance. Sources https://www.theoi.com/Thaumasios/Grypes.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riphean_Mountains https://www.theoi.com/Phylos/Hyperborea.html https://www.theoi.com/Phylos/Arimaspoi.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Griffin https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/california-etymology-black-queen https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Las_sergas_de_Esplandi%C3%A1n https://skepticalinquirer.org/newsletter/lake-george-monster-hoax/ https://www.travelchannel.com/videos/sea-monster-hoax-0205682 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippogriff And the 5th Ed Monster Manual

https://linktr.ee/scrubmode Today we're talking golems, an symbolically loaded monster. With thematic connections reaching back to ushabti and forward to robots and even Superman. Then we investigate a DnD mystery: why are gorgons scaled bulls instead of the serpentine monster girls of Greek myth? Other talking points include: Jack Kirby, Julio knows his Frankenstein, and the horngus of a dongfish (the nutte sac). Sources https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/the-golem https://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/11/world/europe/11golem.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golem https://quillette.com/2022/05/27/the-alchemist-emperor-of-prague/ https://www.jmberlin.de/en/topic-golem https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/origin-word-robot-rur/ https://abookofcreatures.com/2015/08/03/catoblepas/ https://www.theoi.com/Thaumasios/Katoblepones.html#:~:text=THE%20KATOBLEPS%20(Catoblepas)%20was%20a,account%20of%20the%20African%20gnu https://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebo/A42668.0001.001/1:6.101?rgn=div2;view=fulltext https://rpg.stackexchange.com/questions/111271/why-is-the-dd-gorgon-a-metal-bull https://www.dragonsfoot.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=24626 https://abookofcreatures.com/2019/04/12/skeljaskrimsli/ Jacob Geller's wonderful video essay on the Golem and the Jewish Super Hero The horngus of a dongfish is attached by a scungle to a kind of dill sack And the 5th Ed. Monster Manual

On this episode, we're going GOBLIN MODE. We gush about our love for goblins, trace their weird fantasy history and learn about how Hobgoblins went from fireplace guardians to the meanest goblinoids on the block. Then we talk about gnomes, and that one time they destroyed a town in Switzerland. We also ramble about some of the weirder Germanic folklore characters, and that one time Santa's elves drank blood. You're gonne get GNOMED

https://linktr.ee/scrubmode Today we talk about the founding of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, all the places it cribbed stuff from, and its hilarious and tragic collapse into WIZARD CIVIL WAR. Alchemists, mages, poets, revolutionaries and maybe the fattest drop kick of all time. We got it all. Thank you Jesse Sanders for making our music. Partisan Review 1948 Witches and Witchcraft, by Dean Miller https://www.mentalfloss.com/posts/william-butler-yeats-aleister-crowley-magic-duel https://www.openculture.com/2016/10/aleister-crowley-william-butler-yeats-get-into-an-occult-battle.html https://www.theguardian.com/books/1997/sep/07/biography.wbyeats https://toarumajutsunoindex.fandom.com/wiki/Battle_of_Blythe_Road https://brewminate.com/secretly-metaphysical-the-hermetic-order-of-the-golden-dawn-in-the-19th-and-20th-centuries/ https://www.llewellyn.com/encyclopedia/article_print.php?article=4697 https://www.llewellyn.com/encyclopedia/article/35 https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/36-blythe-road https://mulberryhall.medium.com/odd-this-day-eb0ab552f3b3

https://linktr.ee/scrubmode Today we talk about Gibbering Mouthers, a montrous tool box with a ton of cool abilities. Then we talk about their Lovecraftian inspiration, dunk on HPL, and voice our support for Shoggoth freedom. Plus, the Indie reverse-horror game Carrion. Next we talk about Gnolls, why you shouldn't sell rope to them, the voice stealing Leu/crocutta, tar divers, and real life Dire animals. At the Mountains of Madness, https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/70652 https://www.cnbc.com/2023/06/12/lovecraft-joshi-shoggoth-ai-meme.html https://d-infinity.net/posts/fiction/man-who-sold-rope-gnoles  The Man Who Sold Rope to the Gnoles, by Margaret St. Clair, as found in the following collection: https://mitpress.mit.edu/9781907222740/appendix-n/  https://www.amazon.com/Appendix-Eldritch-Roots-Dungeons-Dragons/dp/190722274X https://www.theoi.com/Thaumasios/Leukrokotai.html http://dnd.etherealspheres.com/eBooks/DnD_3.5/Faerun%20Setting/11832%20-%20Monster%20Compendium%20-%20Monsters%20of%20Faerun.pdf https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crocotta https://abookofcreatures.com/2021/02/22/corocotta/ And the 5th ed Monster Manual. The Views of HP Lovecraft do not reflect the views of the podcast.

https://linktr.ee/scrubmode The gang talks about Giants in this one. The five true giants of DnD, the Giant Cheez-it, and some giants from around the world. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giant_(Dungeons_%26_Dragons) https://rpg.stackexchange.com/questions/201708/what-are-the-creative-origins-of-the-storm-giant Spooky Archaeology by Jeb Card. https://archive.org/details/LovelockCaveLoudAndHarrington1929 http://www.mythencyclopedia.com/Mi-Ni/Monsters.html https://archive.org/stream/senecalegendymyth00curtrich/senecalegendymyth00curtrich_djvu.txt https://sacred-texts.com/nam/ca/dow/dow73.htm https://yokai.com/umibouzu/ https://aunamendi.eusko-ikaskuntza.eus/en/gentiles/ar-62712/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olentzero https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ispolin https://medium.com/five-guys-facts/carnivorous-plants-d347b9706179 And the 5th Ed Monster Manual

https://linktr.ee/scrubmode This episode we're talking the hidden ones, the beings of smokeless fire, genies AKA the Jinn. Fascinating creatures with huge folkloric foot print reach from Morocco to Indonesia, everywhere inbetween and many more places and cultures.. We talk about traditional ways placating or defending against the Jinn, compared to some more 'tactical' Jinn hunting techniques found on YouTube. We also look at specific types of Jinn in DnD and folklore, such as the Efreet, Marid, Hinn and Ghoul. Sources Big thanks to our main source Islam, Arabs, and the Intelligent World of the Jinn Amira El-Zein. https://press.syr.edu/supressbooks/316/islam-arabs-and-intelligent-world-of-the-jinn/ https://www.vice.com/en/article/9k7ekv/what-are-jinn-arab-spirits https://www.islamawareness.net/Jinn/hyjinn.html https://www.birgun.net/haber/ankara-mayor-gokcek-gulen-has-jinns-he-controls-people-with-them-121670 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1181833/ https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaofun0000curr/page/196/mode/2up?view=theater And the 5th Ed Monster Manual Some Modern Jinn Defense Techniques https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jlCBHMWg1bw https://youtu.be/Gb2BKjebQjI?si=tHvF3Mr7ichmPMnV&t=393 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qtq-4iXJaMQ

Jon needs a little more time to research the next episode so we're going to the grab bag for cool monsters and tales that're too short to be their own episodes. We talk about a gurgling tree dolphin, a brain eating bear, friendly vampires, a real-life super villain, and a real-life Scooby Doo case with tragic consequences. For more on the vampires be sure to check out the great CM Kosemen's full lecture on them: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pxs4dgiItwA

https://linktr.ee/scrubmode This week we have some paranormal hot goss for you (at least at time of recording). Then we're talking about gargoyles and their weird path from hyper-local french dragon to DnD monster. We also talk about ghosts. Are these spooks really universal? Also the oldest haunted house story ever recorded, and it's weird connection to Red Lobster. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gargoyle  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gargoyle_(monster) https://ascholarlyskater.com/2013/12/02/la-gargouille-the-evil-dragon-gargoyle-of-rouen/ https://lainhart.medium.com/legend-of-the-gargoyle-5c30e063a37f https://forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/Gargoyle https://www.fadedpage.com/showbook.php?pid=20211253  https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70288/pg70288-images.html https://www.naturalhistorymag.com/picks-from-the-past/12476/shakespeare-in-the-bush https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7560/725072?turn_away=true

The three of us finally talk about the DnD movie, and what we thought about it.

In this special episode we play-test a TTRPG system made by Julio. Thanks to Jesse Sanders for making our music.

We have a jam packed episode ready for you. We talk about the new and unsurprising government report on UFOs before jumping to Flumphs, either the best or worst monster in DnD depending on how cool you are. We pair them with some of the dumbest but most beloved cryptids ever to spookily creep across the screen of a dusty old CRT TV: Rods and Fresno Nightcrawlers. Then we try to talk about Fomorians in DnD and Irish Myth before we pour one out for Dragon Ball Mangaka Akira Toriyama. Plus, Gundam, 2003 condensed down to its purest form, and is your cat's butthole haunted?!

Talking about Julio's interests leads us down some bummer rabbit holes, plus talking about fast food! Thanks to Jesse Sanders for making our music, @jseonthebeat https://linktr.ee/scrubmode

We're joined again by Tim Baksh to talk about something really unhinged: "real life" super soldiers. Thrill as we discuss claims of outer space heroism, alien alliances, Reptoid fighter pilot school, space Infidelity, and several plot points clearly borrowed from popular sci-fi franchises! https://linktr.ee/scrubmode Sources https://www.wired.com/2012/01/obama-mars/ https://evelorgen.com/ https://evelorgen.com/wp/news/whistleblower-randy-cramer-tells-about-secret-military-operations-on-mars/ https://formspal.com/surfingtheapocalypse/ https://spacecapn.com/pendragon/ https://books.google.com/books?id=z7YSAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA3&source=gbs_toc_r&cad=1#v=onepage&q&f=false https://www.vice.com/en/article/n7eky8/pentagon-scientists-discuss-cybernetic-super-soldiers-that-feel-nothing-while-killing-in-dystopian-presentation?utm_source=vicenewstwitter https://sm4csi.home.xs4all.nl/nwo/MindControl/project_superman.htm https://www.dallasnews.com/news/crime/2020/04/09/richardson-police-arrest-man-for-murder-of-college-acquaintance/

Today we talk about dragon turtles, various sea monsters pretending to be islands and elementals. Yes, all elementals. Then we dip into the elemental theory of alchemy, and we promise, it makes just as much sense as anything else in alchemy!  We also discuss Disney movies, pig milk, and plague king Johnny Boss/Ianibeg. https://linktr.ee/scrubmode Sources https://archive.org/details/fourtreatisesoft00para/page/n17/mode/2up https://abookofcreatures.com/2019/08/16/aspidochelone/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspidochelone Pliny the Elder, Historia Naturalis, book 9, ch. 4 (Latin) https://www.loc.gov/item/2021667228/ (the original document!) https://www.getty.edu/education/kids_families/do_at_home/artscoops/sea_creature.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paracelsus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical_element Treatises of Theophrastus von Hohenheim Called Paracelsus. Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. 213–254. ISBN 0-8018-5523-3. Seeber, Edward D. (1944). "Sylphs and Other Elemental Beings in French Literature since Le Comte de Gabalis (1670)". PMLA. 59 (1): 71–83. doi:10.2307/458845. JSTOR 458845. S2CID 163381869. https://www.scribd.com/document/662798793/A-Book-on-Nymphs-Sylphs-Pygmies-and-Salamanders-and-on-the-Other-Spirits-Paracelsus-Henry-E-Sigerist Early Galeb Duhr art, our beloved.

In this special holiday episode we're playing the game! Julio's tabletop system! We are joined by Lardonova! Follow him on twitch! https://www.twitch.tv/lardonova https://linktr.ee/scrubmode

Today the trio is talking Ettins and Empyreans! It's a ride https://linktr.ee/scrubmode Sources https://mauikayakadventures.com/maui/legends-of-maui/ https://teara.govt.nz/en/artwork/27619/maui-and-his-grandfather https://www.tourmaui.com/blog/maui-demigod/ https://sacred-texts.com/pac/maui/maui08.htm https://forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/Ettin https://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Ettenmoors https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Red_Ettin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thunderdell https://library.princeton.edu/visual_materials/maps/websites/pacific/magellan-strait/patgonian-giants.html https://www.wired.com/2014/09/fantastically-wrong-giants-of-patagonia/ https://www.historicmysteries.com/kap-dwa/ And of course, the 5th ed Monster Manual

It's just Julio and Ryan in this one, and they're talking everything video games. https://linktr.ee/scrubmode

This week we talk about drow, dark elves, and the unseelie court, before pivoting to driders, ettercaps and spidery yokai. Why is every evil creature in the underdark a paranoid purple-skinned slaver? Why are there so many goshdarn elf civil wars? and HOW DO I SHOT WEB? Subscribe to Dungeon in a Box's Wondrous One-Shots before November 30th to play the holiday-themed adventure co-written by Jon. https://dungeoninabox.com/products/wondrous-one-shots?selling_plan=948011178&variant=44859857076394 https://britishfairies.wordpress.com/2021/01/24/the-seelie-and-unseelie-courts/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classifications_of_fairies The Prose Edda: Norse Mythology (Penguin Classics) Paperback – Illustrated, January 31, 2006 by Snorri Sturluson (Author), Jesse L. Byock (Editor, Translator, Introduction) Silver, Carole G. (1999) Strange and Secret Peoples: Fairies and Victorian Consciousness https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drow https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C3%B6kk%C3%A1lfar_and_Lj%C3%B3s%C3%A1lfar https://www.pbs.org/video/jorogumo-the-deadly-spider-woman-from-yokai-lore-2g9su3/ Mayer, Mathew. (2015) The Night Parade of One Hundred Demons: A Field Guide to Japanese Yokai And of course the 5th Ed Monster Manual.

More Monster Manual Mayhem! Our sources for this episode https://www.theoi.com/Nymphe/Dryades.html Grimm, Jacob. Teutonic Mythology. (J.S. Stalleybrass edition) George Bell & Sons, London, 1883. Dr. Curran, Bob. Vampires: A Field Guide to the Creatures That Stalk the Night. Weiser, 2005 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simonside_Dwarfs http://faeryfolklorist.blogspot.com/2009/05/duergars-of-simonside.html https://www.icysedgwick.com/simonside-dwarfs/ And of course, the 5th ed Monster Manual

Happy Halloween! As a Halloween special we tell you about one of the creepiest and most recent poltergeist cases of all time. Sources An Unknown Encounter: A True Account of the San Pedro Haunting by Barry Conrad An Unknown Encounter Documentary Tangled Tales From the Crypt? : For 3 Years, Jackie Hernandez Says She Was Followed by a Pair of Puzzling--and Persistent--Ghosts - LA Times San Pedro Poltergeist - The Haunting of Jackie Hernandez California's Creepiest Ghost Story: Barry Conrad On The San Pedro Haunting

Today we're talking conversation starters sourced from parade.com, and go on some tangents. It's a great time! https://linktr.ee/scrubmode thanks to Jesse Sanders for making our music! Follow him on instagram @jseonnabeat https://parade.com/969981/parade/conversation-starters/

Ryan, Julio and Jon talk about dragons in myth and symbol. We look at dragons (and briefly kaiju) as symbol for destruction, climate change, greed, national pride and more. Then we bring the most DnD-ass dragon myth we could find, before introducing you to some dragons you might have heard of from Ghana and New Zealand. linktr.ee/scrubmode Sources PetroDragonic Apocalypse; or, Dawn of Eternal Night: An Annihilation of Planet Earth and the Beginning of Merciless Damnation by King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard on bandcamp A Book a Creatutes - a wonderful resource with amazing art from the author The Myth Of Bida God Of The Kingdom Of Wagadu, Portail Soninké. 2006. Retrieved 2006-09-13. History of the Soninke people La légende du Ouagadou Bida - with beautiful illustrations by Svetlana Amegankpoe Tearra.NZ.Gov PetroDragonic Apocalypse; or, Dawn of Eternal Night: An Annihilation of Planet Earth and the Beginning of Merciless Damnation by King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard on bandcamp A Book a Creatutes - a wonderful resource with amazing art from the author The Myth Of Bida God Of The Kingdom Of Wagadu, Portail Soninké. 2006. Retrieved 2006-09-13. History of the Soninke people La légende du Ouagadou Bida - with beautiful illustrations by Svetlana Amegankpoe Tearra.NZ.Gov

Ryan, Julio and Jon take you through the dragons in the Monster Manual. Some are good, some are evil, but a lot of em are just gaga for bards. Thanks Jesse Sanders for our music! @jseonnabeat Sources The Monster Manual

https://linktr.ee/scrubmode We take a break from the Monster Manual today to dive into the weirdest hairy hominid yet: the Missouri Monster AKA MoMo! Join us for the story of a bigfoot that hates dogs, its UFO and poltergeist friends, and a lot of threatening gurgling sounds. A prequel to our upcoming series on Window Areas and Weird Ranches. Source: Momo: The Strange Case of the Missouri Monster by Lyle Blackburn Thank you Jesse Sanders for our music @jseonnabeat

Jon and Julio talk about Doppelgangers, both the spooky shapeshifters of DnD and the bad-omen phantoms of European folklore. We explore some even weirder doppelganger variants from other cultures, and then go over some of the weirdest Doppelganger sightings in recorded history. Are Doppelgangers the ghosts of living people? Psychic projections? Time echoes? Or something even more sinister? https://linktr.ee/scrubmode Sources "The Psychology of the Doppelganger." Dragon #80. TSR, 1983. Robert Dale Owen (1860). Footfalls on the Boundary of Another World. New York: J.B. Lippincott & Company. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK570557/ The Vardogr, Perhaps Another Indicator of the Non-Locality of Consciousness. https://web.archive.org/web/20100107170553/http://www.scientificexploration.org/journal/jse_16_4_leiter.pdf Night Side of Nature; or Ghosts and Ghost-Seers by Catherine Crowe Haunted England: A survey of English ghost-lore by Christinia Hole The Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 1980.

Today we talk about Displacer Beasts, an OG D&D enemy with a surprising origin story that directly ties it to a beloved Final Fantasy Monster and the Alien Xenomorph. Then we talk about the Alien Big Cats, which are disappointingly not literal aliens but just big cats where there shouldn't be big cats. Is the UK home to an escaped population of black panthers? A relict group of cave lions? Magical Ghost Cats? Or is monkey brain just big afraid of cat? Grab a hot cup of phosphorous and join us to find out here, on ScrubMode! https://linktr.ee/scrubmode?utm_source=linktree_admin_share Thank you Jesse Sanders for our music! @jseonnabeat sources https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_big_cats https://forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/Displacer_beast Voyage of the Space Beagle by A. E. van Vogt. Chasing Shadows by the Biome Project https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news/definitive-proof-huge-black-panthers-29951838 Fortean Times, Issues 78-83 https://archive.org/details/canadiansciencef00davi http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/895643.stm https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2005/mar/23/patrickbarkham http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/london/4370893.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/highlands_and_islands/7802874.stm https://www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornwall-news/man-says-attacked-through-window-2441636 Alien Big Cat Sightings in Britain: A Possible Rumour Legend? by Michael Goss. https://www.jstor.org/stable/1260889 Dunning, B. "Tracking the Wild Big Cats of Britain." Skeptoid Podcast. Skeptoid Media, 21 Sep 2021. Web. 5 Jun 2023. - https://skeptoid.com/episodes/4798 http://darrennaish.blogspot.com/2006/02/british-big-cats-how-good-or-bad-is.html The sad zoo escape and suicide we mentioned briefly at the end of the pod https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Zanesville,_Ohio_animal_escape

Devils Part 2! The Story of Arne Cheyenne Johnson, the Glatzels and the Warrens was too big for just one episode. We dive into the possession of Arne Johnson, the murder of Alan Bono, and the subsequent court case where a young lawyer planned to prove that demons were real. How'd it go? Probably not how you expect! We then discuss some other crazy US court cases involving ghosts, and whether or not they exist, including the ‘Ghostbusters Ruling' and that time Warner Bros tried to prove ghosts are real. It's gonna be a devilishly good time! linktr.ee/scrubmode Sources: The Devil in Connecticut by the Warrens and Gerald Brittle https://www.nytimes.com/1981/03/23/nyregion/defendant-in-a-murder-puts-the-devil-on-trial.html https://people.com/archive/in-a-connecticut-murder-trial-will-demonic-possession-prove-nine-tenths-of-the-law-vol-16-no-17/ https://allthatsinteresting.com/arne-cheyenne-johnson https://people.howstuffworks.com/arne-johnson.htm https://www.courant.com/2021/06/02/was-the-12-year-old-connecticut-boy-featured-in-conjuring-3-really-possessed-his-brother-says-no-and-the-true-horror-story-has-been-his-familys-exploitation/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1981/09/13/by-demons-possessed/3479fa6b-eee3-4233-a2fc-b9defa403504/?utm_term=.05907102cbcf https://apnews.com/article/c758c33ba4756f757e1dfec4f0abd39e https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/647247/the-conjuring-the-devil-made-me-do-it-true-story https://people.howstuffworks.com/arne-johnson.htm https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stambovsky_v._Ackley https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/warner-bros-settles-900m-lawsuit-conjuring-1067445/ https://www.avclub.com/warner-bros-settles-crazy-conjuring-lawsuit-in-very-bo-1821277340

We continue our journey through D&D's Monster Manual with Devils! Malignant entities that prefer to do their evil via shady deals, tyranny and worst of all bureaucracy! We pair it with the so-called ‘The Devil made me do it' haunting and subsequent murder trial of Arne Cheyenne Johnson. What're the best devils for your campaign? Does Satan hate landlords? How many demons can you cram into a boy? The answers to all this and more on Scrubmode! Sources: The Devil in Connecticut by the Warrens and Gerald Brittle https://www.nytimes.com/1981/03/23/nyregion/defendant-in-a-murder-puts-the-devil-on-trial.html https://people.com/archive/in-a-connecticut-murder-trial-will-demonic-possession-prove-nine-tenths-of-the-law-vol-16-no-17/ https://allthatsinteresting.com/arne-cheyenne-johnson https://people.howstuffworks.com/arne-johnson.htm https://www.courant.com/2021/06/02/was-the-12-year-old-connecticut-boy-featured-in-conjuring-3-really-possessed-his-brother-says-no-and-the-true-horror-story-has-been-his-familys-exploitation/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1981/09/13/by-demons-possessed/3479fa6b-eee3-4233-a2fc-b9defa403504/?utm_term=.05907102cbcf https://apnews.com/article/c758c33ba4756f757e1dfec4f0abd39e https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/647247/the-conjuring-the-devil-made-me-do-it-true-story https://people.howstuffworks.com/arne-johnson.htm https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stambovsky_v._Ackley https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/warner-bros-settles-900m-lawsuit-conjuring-1067445/ https://www.avclub.com/warner-bros-settles-crazy-conjuring-lawsuit-in-very-bo-1821277340

We're going down the monster manual some more! The music was provided by Jesse Sanders, check him out on instagram @jseonnabeat. https://linktr.ee/scrubmode

We welcome Tim Baksh, one of the organizers of Memes, Genes & Snakes Con to gush about Hideo Kojima's auteur game series. We then look at Dr. Andrija Puharich, The Roundtable Foundation and The Nine. A spooky story reminiscent of MGS, complete with cold war tensions, hypnosis, child soldiers, psychic spies, and how maybe the closest real world analogue to La-li-lu-le-lo received instructions from an alleged psychic AI construct, teaching them how to achieve peace through constant war. IT'S A STORY WITH EVERYTHING BUT THE NANO-MACHINES, SON. https://www.history.com/mkultra-operation-midnight-climax-cia-lsd-experiments https://www.urigeller.com/ https://unredacted.com/2010/04/23/document-friday-project-artichoke-or-the-cia-attempt-to-create-a-manchurian-candidate/ http://www.bahaistudies.net/asma/The_Council_of_Nine.pdf The Men Who Stare At Goats, by Jon Ronson Phenomena: The Secret History of the U.S. Government's Investigations into ESP and Psychokinesis By Annie Jacobsen An Evaluation of Remote Viewing: Research and Applications by Michael D. Mumford, PhD, Andrew M. Rose, PhD, David A. Goslin, PhD https://www.history.com/mkultra-operation-midnight-climax-cia-lsd-experiments https://www.urigeller.com/ https://unredacted.com/2010/04/23/document-friday-project-artichoke-or-the-cia-attempt-to-create-a-manchurian-candidate/