science

EPISODE 49: Blue Eyed Death Rays (aka the Evil Eye)

February 21, 2020 zeropercentscared_1ahbdx Bats are awesome, Cursed, Myths and folklore, science 00:36:20 0 Comments

Guess what, Dr. Kelly is back! This week join us as we discuss The EVIL EYE, how it’s having a moment, it’s history, and the weird science Kelly dug up about it.

Notice: if you’re particularly clever, check out the link below and build an evil eye sensing pair of ski goggles!

We also go on several tangents, including one about the amazing bat immune system.  Get excited people!

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EPISODE 48: La Llorona and her fireball fang baby

February 15, 2020 zeropercentscared_1ahbdx Cursed, Demons, Dr. Mysteryface, Ghosts, Myths and folklore, science 00:48:14 0 Comments

Join us today for a terrifying, depressing and somehow funny voyage into all things La Llorona — aka ‘the weeping woman’, a child stalking madwoman who OBVI has postpartum psychosis like a mofo.

We have so many insane stories in this episode, so get in here! 

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EPISODE 47: Bizarro News Roundup

January 31, 2020 zeropercentscared_1ahbdx Ghosts, Mummies, News Roundup, science 00:20:54 0 Comments

In another solo episode, Sarah reads the strangest shiz sometimes, and lucky you, she shares it this week. Join us and hear about endangered sea fairies, talking mummies and how dark matter might be information which means GHOSTS DEFINITELY EXIST. 

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EPISODE 46: Mass Hysteria!!!

January 24, 2020 zeropercentscared_1ahbdx Dr. Mysteryface, Guest, Mass Hysteria, Medical info, science 00:41:08 0 Comments

Today we explore the insane, disturbing and occasionally frickin adorable world of mass psychogenic disorders, aka Mass Hysteria.

Meowing nuns, dancing plagues, dogs and cats living together!! MASS HYSTERIA!!!

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EPISODE 43: Drug Bushes and Wormholes

January 2, 2020 zeropercentscared_1ahbdx Physics, science, Time Slips 00:42:37 0 Comments

People seem to experience time-slips all of the time, but is it really just a troupe of victorian era cosplayers or heaps of concentrated hallucinogenic flora? Or could it be actual wormholes because PHYSICS!

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EPISODE 42: Krampus, the Christmas hell-demon

December 26, 2019 zeropercentscared_1ahbdx Christmas, Myths and folklore, science 00:19:39 0 Comments

What’s more christmasy than a kid devouring, giant tongued goat demon carrying a hell-bound basket?  Pretty much everything! But we’re here for all you christmas haters with some Krampus love.

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EPISODE 41: Sonic boom Santa and his flaming reindeer

December 19, 2019 zeropercentscared_1ahbdx Magic, Myths and folklore, science 00:43:17 0 Comments

Santa is a macroscopic quantum particle, biznitches!

Join as as we talk about the very odd world or REAL LIFE SANTA SIGHTINGS. No I’m not kidding, people!

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EPISODE 40: Winchester Mansion

December 12, 2019 zeropercentscared_1ahbdx Cursed, elevators, Ghosts, Haunted Houses, insane houses, science 00:36:42 0 Comments

And the “Most Amazing House in the Galaxy” award goes to… the Winchester Mystery House! But from what we can tell, probably not haunted. Ghosts, what are you waiting for? Move into this joint.

Prime. Real. Estate.

EPISODE 38: Get in the canoe, Steve! (The lost colony of Roanoke)

November 28, 2019 zeropercentscared_1ahbdx Mysterious vanishings, Roanoke, science 00:38:45 0 Comments

Happy Thanksgiving to all you awesome people! To celebrate, we’re covering the Lost Colony of Roanoke and what sounds like a whole bunch of people getting yelled at to hurry the eff up to get into boats.

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EPISODE 37: Ghostly Love Hugs

November 22, 2019 zeropercentscared_1ahbdx 3rd Man Effect, Angels, science 00:51:54 0 Comments

Guardian angels are rad, even if they’re just hallucinations from the temporoparietal junction. Say yes to ghostly love hugs, no to floating intestines.

This week we’re talking about Guardian Angels and the 3rd man effect. Email us with encounters YOU have had with these ghost-bros! stories@zeropercentscared.com

References:

The Third Man Factor by John Geiger
NPR’s take on the book
Surveys of Angelic belief in AmericaShackleton the amazing explorer guy
Shackleton and his ‘fourth presence’T.S. Elliot’s poem, “The Waste Land” (based loosely on Shackleton’s experience)
The Strange World of Felt Presences from the Guardian
Autoscopic phenomena: case report and review of literature (2011)
Induction of an illusory shadow person (2006)
Feeling of presence in Parkinson’s disease (2010)
VIDEO: Turkish shopkeeper saved by ‘guardian angel’
The Rescue of Baby Lily: Is this baby proof angels exist?
VIDEO: Who called out to baby Lily’s Rescuers?
Felt Presence: the uncanny encounters with the numinous Other (2010)