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Episode 142 – Still Sounds Bad

Ep. 142

What’s that sound? It’s either a signal of the End Times, metal stuff, a weird fish, various hoaxes, a microwave weapon, something completely psychological – or it’s the latest episode of Superduperstitious!


This week, learn all about the 2010s phenomenon of sky trumpets and their probably not-so-apocalyptic origin, and yet again revisit Havana syndrome, which was at first maybe some kind of sonic attack but also maybe just bugs, and then possibly mass hysteria, but now potentially an honest-to-goodness microwave weapon, or else still just mass hysteria. Good times!


Slap on a Magneto helmet and REPENT, it’s podcast time!


EPISODE LINKS


All-purpose show links: https://superduperstitious.com/links


Four Phantoms email: fourphantomsbeer@gmail.com

Four Phantoms website: https://www.fourphantoms.net/

Four Phantoms store: https://four-phantoms-brewing-company.square.site/

Four Phantoms on Untappd: https://untappd.com/FourPhantoms/beer


Jake’s story


BIGFOOT TITTY SLIDE: https://twitter.com/DashKwiatkowski/status/1416776691108749317?s=20

Sky trumpets: https://bit.ly/36W0foz

Lakeland, FL video: https://youtu.be/z9uO4N1poYA

Kiev, Ukraine video: https://youtu.be/vcUDYBIrWio

Midshipman fish mating call: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNB-hoKwa0A

Allen, TX video: https://youtu.be/-dIG3sWhyuc

Queensland, Australia video: https://youtu.be/-Edn9GcfEAk

Wellington, New Zealand video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aaqd4IuEj7Q

Grader blade in British Columbia: https://bit.ly/3zxxWsZ

Slovakia mystery sound video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUG1xIOnqnc

Slovakia explanation video: https://youtu.be/EDeZTohP04k

Train brakes video: https://youtu.be/XvfC2WHV_LE


Wyatt’s story


Havana syndrome (May article): https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/12/us/politics/biden-cia-brain-injury.html

Havana syndrome (July article): https://nyti.ms/3y9QQGg

Super recent article: https://bit.ly/2UObH38

Maybe it’s psychosomatic: https://wb.md/3wXv2MB

Royal Society of Medicine article: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0141076819877553

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