Episode 137: Elusive (ad-free) (Patreon)

Our passion for solving incomplete puzzles is something that unites us as a culture. We will chase any mystery and dig into every single question we encounter. But that attraction might also put us in grave danger, if history is any indication.

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Further Reading

1. “The Eerie Story Behind the Small Town Everyone Is Flocking to for the Eclipse This Summer,” Country Living, Jul 21, 2017, https://www.countryliving.com/life/a44064/eclipseville-hopkinsville-ky-history.
2. “History Lesson: Goblins of Hopkinsville,” Courier & Press, Aug 22, 2017, https://www.courierpress.com/story/life/columnists/2017/08/21/history-lesson-goblins-hopkinsville/104796526.
3. “Hauntings, homeopathy, and the Hopkinsville Goblins: using pseudoscience to teach scientific thinking,” NCBI, Apr 17, 2014, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4028994.
4. “The Great Horned Owl: A Magnificent Avian Apex Predator,” Owlcation, April 30, 2019, https://owlcation.com/stem/The-Great-Horned-Owl.
5. Geraldine Sith, Alien Legacy (AuthorHouse, 2007), pp. 1, 22, 27, 34.
6. “Spooky! Top 10 Unexplained Phenomena,” Live Science, Mar 24, 2016, https://www.livescience.com/11345-top-ten-unexplained-phenomena.html.
7. “L.A. ‘Battle’ Launched a Golden Age of UFOs,” LA Times, Dec. 17, 2000, https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2000-dec-17-me-1259-story.html.
8. “Story of Space-ship, 12 little men probed today,” The Kentucky New Era, Aug. 22, 1955. https://www.kentuckynewera.com/eclipse/article_fecf69ce-8611-11e7-beaf-0ffce93df895.html.
9. “WWI submarine which was 'attacked by strange beast' found,” ITV, 19 October 2016, https://www.itv.com/news/border/2016-10-19/ww1-submarine-wreckage-found-off-stranraer-coast.
10. “Terrifying Tales of Actual Monster Attacks,” Grunge, https://www.grunge.com/28562/terrifying-tales-actual-monster-attacks.
11. “Experts move a step closer to uncovering the mystery of the German submarine ‘attacked by a sea monster’ in WWI,” Telegraph, https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/10/18/experts-move-a-step-closer-to-uncovering-the-mystery-of-the-germ.
12. “Birds with spooky eyes mistaken for aliens in India,” Daily Mail, https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5100143/Birds-spooky-eyes-mistaken-ALIENS-builders.html.
13. “Sea Monster Vs. Submarine,” Mysterious Universe, February 10, 2015, https://mysteriousuniverse.org/2015/02/sea-monster-versus-submarine.
14. “Life aboard WWII submarines was brutal,” We Are The Mighty, https://www.wearethemighty.com/articles/life-aboard-wwii-submarines-was-brutal.