SUP KOOOOOOOOOOOKS! Welcome to the Kooks, Cranks, and Iconoclasts 222nd Episode Extravaganza! WITH EXTRA VAGANZA! AAAAAANNNNNNND! A SPECIAL GUEST! It's my little brother, Matt a.k.a. Jonas a.k.a. "MR. NASTY!" And this episode is potentially the first in a possible intermittent new side series covering WEIRD WORLD WAR 2! This one covers the mystery of Hitler's missing testicle (and a whole host of other Nazi related weird sex stuff...shudder inducing stuff!) That and Foo Fighters, "Wunderwaffen", and all kinds of other historically accurate stuff! PRODUCTION NOTE! We only have one mic and had to share it so some of the audio is a bit shite. I tried to clean it up as best I could and had to cut quite a bit of material, but there's still some dips and dives and a lotta hard P's a' poppin'! A thousand pardons and apologies! PLEASE TO ENJOY!

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SUP YOU BEAUTIFUL KOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOKS! WOOOO! This episode puts a nice little bow on top of the Occult History of Money episodes. It's all about old timey occult treasure hunting, the rituals, the spooky spirit guardians, the corpses of saints, and the goddamn GOLD! GOOOOLD GODDAMNIT! GOSHDARN GOLD GODDAMNIT! HOOOO! I'm having fun! Also, we take a quick side step in order to cover the concept of "treasure weapons", ya know, magic swords from legend & real life, it's pretty berzerkowitz y'all! PLEASE TO ENJOY!

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SOURCES:

Johannes Dillinger, Magical Treasure Hunting in Europe and North America (2012)

Beowulf, esp. the Hrunting, Nægling and giant-sword episodes and the Last Survivor's speech, ll. 2231–70

The Song of Roland, laisses 173–74 (Durendal, Joyeuse, the reliquary hilts, Roland's attempt to break the sword)

Cantar de Mio Cid (Tizona, Colada)

Völsunga saga, chs. 3–8, 21 (the sword in the oak; Gram; the reforging; Fafnir; Gram on the pyre)

Hervarar saga ok Heiðreks (Tyrfing; Hervör at the mound)

Hrólfs saga kraka (Skofnung; Ganga-Hrólf in Hrólf's mound); Kormáks saga (Skofnung's terms and the pommel stone)

Grettis saga, ch. 18 (Kárr's mound, Kársnautr)

Geoffrey of Monmouth, Historia Regum Britanniae (Caliburn); Robert de Boron, Merlin (sword in the anvil); Queste del Saint Graal (the Sword with the Strange Belt); Malory, Le Morte d'Arthur

Cath Maige Tuired (the Sword of Nuada; the Four Treasures); Culhwch and Olwen and the Triad Tri Thlws ar Ddeg Ynys Prydain, in R. Bromwich (ed.), Trioedd Ynys Prydein (3rd edn, 2006)

Gerald of Wales and the Welsh/Latin Vita Galgani for the Montesiepi sword; Bromwich for Dyrnwyn

Herodotus, Histories 4.5–7 and 4.62 (the Scythian sacred gold; the sword set up as Ares)

Jordanes, Getica 35, citing Priscus (the Sword of Mars found by a herdsman)

Kojiki and Nihon Shoki (Kusanagi from the serpent's tail; the regalia; the sword at Dan-no-ura)

The Will of Æthelstan Ætheling (1015), in D. Whitelock (ed.), English Historical Documents c. 500–1042

Joan of Arc's trial record on the Fierbois sword — trans. in R. Pernoud, Joan of Arc: By Herself and Her Witnesses

Kevin Leahy & Roger Bland, The Staffordshire Hoard (2014); Chris Fern et al., The Staffordshire Hoard: An Anglo-Saxon Treasure (2019)

Rupert Bruce-Mitford, The Sutton Hoo Ship-Burial, vol. 2 (1978)

Hilda Ellis Davidson, The Sword in Anglo-Saxon England (1962)

Jan Petersen, De Norske Vikingesverd (1919)

Alan Williams, "A Metallurgical Study of Some Viking Swords," Gladius 29 (2009)

Richard Bradley, The Passage of Arms (1990)

"Haugbrot," Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde, vol. 14

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SUP KOOOOOOOOOOOOKS! MY BRAIN IS OFFICIALLY DEEP... FEKKIN'...FRIED! This one's heavy on the history of gold, heavy on history in general! Then, at the end, we examine money as an egregore, goetic demon "dark loops", algorithmic occult economics, and the quack new age feel goodery of watered down chaos magick paperback "get rich quick!" schemery meets the blasphemous scourge that is called..."prosperity gospel"! Blab it & grab it! PLEASE TO ENJOY! (Also...NOW GIMME SOME CANDYYYY!...I mean MONEYYYY!)

P.S. You can't really tell because it's in B&W, but the corpse in the thumbnail is covered in gold. YOU WIN MOTHERFUCKER!

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SOURCES:

- Heiliges Geld ("Sacred Money") by Bernhard Laum (1924)

- Financial Vipers of Venice (2010) and Babylon's Banksters (2009) by Joseph P. Farrell

- Solomon's Treasure (2011) and Money Grows on The Tree of Knowledge (2010) by Tracy Twyman

- Sacred Economics by Charles Eisenstein (2011)

- The Lost Science of Money by Stephen Zarlenga (2002)

- The Power of Gold: The History of an Obsession by Peter L. Bernstein (2000)

- The Gift by Marcel Mauss (1925)

- The Black Monday Murders by Jonathan Hickman & Tomm Coker (2016–2018)

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SUP KOOOOOOOOKS! WOOOOOO! SO MUCH IN THIS ONE! JUST LISTEN, YOU'LL BE GLAD/WEIRDLY UNCOMFORTABLE YOU DID! PLEASE TO ENJOY!

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SOURCES:

- Heiliges Geld ("Sacred Money") by Bernhard Laum (1924)

- Financial Vipers of Venice (2010) and Babylon's Banksters (2009) by Joseph P. Farrell

- Solomon's Treasure (2011) and Money Grows on The Tree of Knowledge (2010) by Tracy Twyman

- Sacred Economics by Charles Eisenstein (2011)

- The Lost Science of Money by Stephen Zarlenga (2002)

- The Power of Gold: The History of an Obsession by Peter L. Bernstein (2000)

- The Gift by Marcel Mauss (1925)

- The Black Monday Murders by Jonathan Hickman & Tomm Coker (2016–2018)

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SUP KOOOOOOOOOOKS! This episode is all about dat FIRE! We take a look at arsonists and pyromaniacs, pyrokinesis, SHC, fiery humanoid entities and elementals, mysterious rains of fire from the sky, plus strange "suicide clusters" of self immolation! PLEASE TO ENJOY!

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SOURCES:

- Gaddis, Vincent H. "Mysterious Fires and Lights" (1967)

- Coleman, Loren. "Incendiary Poltergeists, Spontaneous Human Combustion and Fire Suicide Clusters" (The Anomalist, Vol. 1)

- "The Rough Guide to Unexplained Phenomena" (sections on fire-walking, fire-immunity, human radiance, fiery persecutions, and spontaneous human combustion)

- Arnold, Larry E. "Ablaze!" (1995)

- Heymer, John. "The Entrancing Flame" (1996)

- Various newspaper archives and case reports from the 19th and 20th centuries

- FBI reports on spontaneous human combustion

- Fire investigation records from Glendale Fire Department (John Leonard Orr case)

- Nunnelly, Barton. "The Inhumanoids" (Part Four: Fiery Phantoms, Grinning Men, Mad Gassers and Killer Clowns)

- Deutsche Sagen, Vol. 1, page 229 (A.D. 1125 German fiery man account)

- Abbot Ralph of Essex. "Chronicles" (York footprint cases, 1189-1205)

- Various 19th century Kentucky newspaper archives (Bracken County beast-man reports, 1866 & 1868)

- Putnam, Frederick and Neely, Thomas. Personal diaries and local journal entries (Old Town Hill Entity, Indiana, July 1867)

- Rosales, Albert S. "Humanoid Encounters" (Brazilian road cases/Type-E entity classifications)

- Brazilian Air Force (FAB). "Operação Prato" (Operation Plate) documentation (Colares wave, September-October 1977)

- Ipswich Evening Star (Felixstowe Fire Demon case, September 20, 1965)

- Regional folklore collections: Harz Mountain "Der Glühende Mann" traditions/Paracelsian elemental theory/Brazilian "Curupira"/"Mulinha sem Cabeça" folklore

SUP KOOOOOOOOOOKS! This here's another installment in the semi-regular series called THE OCCULT CRIME ATLAS! This one takes us to India, where there's a lot of human sacrifice, like a LOT! Holy shit! PLEASE TO ENJOY!

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SOURCES:

- All India Police Gazette Archives (colonial and post-independence)

- Bombay Presidency Police Records (1900–1947)

- Bengal Presidency Criminal Investigation Files

- Madras Presidency Police Special Branch Reports

- Uttar Pradesh State Police Occult Crime Dossiers

- Bihar/Jharkhand Witchcraft-Related Homicide Case Files

- Kerala State Police Elanthoor Investigation Records (2022)

- Delhi Police Burari Deaths Forensic Reports (2018)

- Maharashtra State Anti-Superstition Unit Case Files

- The Times of India — colonial-era crime reporting (1900–1947)

- Amrita Bazar Patrika — Bengal witchcraft trial coverage

- The Hindu — Madras Presidency occult crime reports

- Hindustan Times — post-independence ritual crime documentation

- Indian Express — Stoneman murder investigation coverage (1980s)

- Malayala Manorama — Kerala esoteric crime reporting

- Regional-language dailies (Hindi, Bengali, Tamil, Marathi, Odia)

- Crime beat reporting: Delhi Monkey-Man panic (2001)

- Investigative journalism archives: Noida Nithari coverage (2006)

- Documentary journalism: Burari deaths forensic analysis (2018)

- Field reporting: Chhattisgarh witchcraft violence (2020–2025)

- Indian Journal of Psychiatry — mass hysteria and psychogenic illness studies

- Journal of Forensic Medicine & Toxicology — ritual homicide case studies

- Anthropological Survey of India — tribal shamanism and witchcraft accusation patterns

- Legal history reviews — colonial-era anti-superstition legislation

- Religious studies scholarship — Tantra, Vamachara, and folk esotericism in South Asia

- Census of India — special reports on witchcraft-related mortality

- Ministry of Home Affairs — internal security reports on mass panic incidents

- State Crime Records Bureaus — occult-linked homicide statistics

- Law Commission of India — reports on anti-superstition legislation

- Society for Psychical Research archives — early 20th-century poltergeist investigations

- Indian Army border observation post logs — high-altitude aerial phenomena

- Maritime records — Arabian Sea anomalous sightings (1909)

- Railway Police Archives — Stoneman murder investigation files

- Sajal Nag (ed.), Black Magic, Witchcraft and Occultism: Secret Cultural Practices in India (Manohar/Routledge, 2023) — including chapters on the Kecaikhati cult, U Thlen, human sacrifice in Assam, Mayong, Naga lycanthropy, and Khasi-Pnar witchcraft

- Edward Gait, A History of Assam (1905); E. Gait, "Human Sacrifices in Ancient Assam" (1898)

- J. H. Hutton, "Leopard-Men in the Naga Hills" (1920); "Some Astronomical Beliefs in the North-East" (1925)

- P. R. T. Gurdon, The Khasis (1906)

- W. B. Brown, An Outline Grammar of the Deori Chutiya Language (1895)

SUP KOOOOOOOOOOOOOOKS! This here's my "Halloween-ish" episode! It's all about the history of ritual murder! More specifically, it's about for the purposes of diving the future. But what if it's something so deeply ingrained in the human psyche, that in unconsciously drives modern day ritualistic murders? ALSO! Learn the origins of the phrase, "I gotta see a man about a horse!" HINT: IT'S ABOUT HORSE FUCKING! And the bogeyman is lurking in the background of the whole bloody affair, so watch yer back! PLEASE TO ENJOY!

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SOURCES:

• Mesopotamia: Cuneiform omen texts and liver divination compendia (such as the Barûtu series), alongside archaeological finds of clay model sheep livers (such as those recovered from ancient Babylon and Mari).

• Etruria & Rome:

  • Disciplina Etrusca (attributed mythically to Tages).

  • The Bronze Liver of Piacenza (discovered in 1877).

  • Writings of Julius Caesar (Commentarii de Bello Gallico, Book VI, regarding Gallic customs and wicker figures).

  • Writings of Lucan (Pharsalia, describing sacred groves and extispicy).

  • Writings of Tacitus (Germania, regarding Germanic lot-casting and sacred horses).

  • Accounts from Herodotus (The Histories, Book IV, detailing Scythian burial practices, divination with linden/willow sticks, and skull cups).

• Greece: Homeric accounts of heroic sacrifice (e.g., Achilles at Patroclus's pyre in the Iliad); descriptions of the pharmakos and Greek sacrificial terminology (sphagia, splanchna, bothros).

• The Hebrews: The sacrificial codes outlined in the biblical book of Leviticus (chapters 1 through 7); Leviticus 17:11 ("for the life of the flesh is in the blood"); accounts of Yom Kippur and the eglah arufah (Deuteronomy 21).

• India: The Rig Veda (specifically the Puruṣa-sūkta) and the Śatapatha Brāhmaṇa detailing Vedic sacrificial architecture and ritual logic.

• West Africa: Accounts of the Dahomey Annual Customs, notably recorded and counted by Victorian explorer Richard Burton (A Mission to Gelele, King of Dahome, 1864).

• Mesoamerica: Primary and secondary source frameworks regarding Mexica cosmology, the Veintena calendar cycle, Tlacaxipehualiztli (the Flaying of Men), and ixiptla (god-impersonation rituals).

• The Andes: Archaeological findings regarding the capacocha ritual and high-altitude mummification, including the discoveries on Mount Ampato (1995) and Llullaillaco (1999).

• General Anthropology / Sociology:

  • The conceptual study of sacrifice, ritual structures, and substitution.

  • Research on global folk traditions, bog bodies of Northern Europe (e.g., Tollund Man), and head-hunting/trophy traditions (e.g., Dayak ngayau).

    • Joseph Vacher ("The French Ripper"): The 1890s French vagabond and serial killer studied by forensic pioneer Alexandre Lacassagne.

    • Eusebius Pieydagnelle: The 1870s French killer whose case was famously analyzed and popularized in Richard von Krafft-Ebing’s foundational psychiatric text Psychopathia Sexualis (1886).

    • Juan Díaz de Garayo ("El Sacamantecas"): The 19th-century Spanish serial killer active in Álava.

    • Edward Leonski: The US Army soldier executed in Melbourne, Australia, in 1942 for serial strangulations.

    • John George Haigh ("The Acid Bath Murderer"): The English serial killer executed in 1949, whose crimes were investigated by Home Office pathologist Keith Simpson.

    • Vaughn Greenwood ("The Skid Row Slasher"): The Southern California serial killer active between 1964 and 1975.

    • Nikolai Dzhumagaliev ("Metal Fang"): The Soviet-Kazakh serial killer active in the late 1970s and 1980s.

    • Tomás Maldonado Cera ("El Satánico"): Convicted for murders committed in Barranquilla, Colombia.

    • The Lokesh Case (Alwar, Rajasthan): The July 2025 ritual murder case from Sarai Kalan village, investigated by Rajasthan police.

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SUP YOU BEAUTIFUL KOOOOOOOOOOOOKS! This episode is an exploration...of trepanation...and that's my declaration. IT'S A CELEBRATION! PLEASE TO ENJOY!

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SOURCES:

- Alt KW, et al. Lancet 1997; Ensisheim burial.

- Verano JW. Trepanation in Pre-Columbian Peru (2003).

- Andrushko VA, Verano JW. World Neurosurgery 2008; Inca survival rates.

- Li H, et al. Archaeological & Anthropological Sciences 2021; China trepanation.

- Hippocrates. On Injuries of the Head (c. 400 BCE).

- Galen. De Methodo Medendi; On Anatomical Procedures (c. 150 CE).

- Breasted JH. Edwin Smith Papyrus (1930).

- Huges B. Homo Sapiens Correctus scroll (1965).

- Mellen J. Bore Hole (1975).

- Feilding A. Heartbeat in the Brain film (1970).

- Turner C. "Like a Hole in the Head." Cabinet 28 (2008).

- Arnott R, Finger S, Smith CUM. Trepanation: History, Discovery, Theory (2003).

- Missios S. "Hippocrates, Galen, and trepanation." Neurosurgery (2007).

- Wikipedia entries: Trepanning; Trepanation in Mesoamerica; Amanda Feilding.

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