Episode 196: Stellar’s Squonkman

On this episode of Life, the Universe & Everything Else, it’s another cryptid spectacular! Gem relates the story of the Mothman of West Virginia, Ashlyn tells the tale of a naturalist lost at sea, Lauren explains why driving while exhausted isn’t such a good idea, and Laura introduces everyone to the most pitiful cryptid of all.

Life, the Universe & Everything Else is a podcast that explores the intersection of science and society.

Mothman: Point Pleasant Register, 1966-11-16 (Web Archive) | Mothman Clippings (West Virginia Archives & History) | TNT Area, Point Pleasant, West Virginia (Atlas Obscura) | Welcome To The ‘TNT Area,’ Home of the Mothman (NPR) | Man photographs creature that resembles legendary “Mothman” of Point Pleasant (WCHS8 Eyewitness News)

Steller’s Sea Ape: The Secret History Behind Steller’s Sea Ape (The Portalist) | Steller’s Sea Ape: Identifying an Eighteenth-Century Cryptid (Skeptical Inquirer) | Georg Wilhelm Steller (Wikipedia) | Steller’s sea ape (Wikipedia) | Northern fur seal (Wikipedia) | Steller’s sea cow (Wikipedia)

Squonk!: What Is a Squonk, Anyway? (Tedium) | Fearsome critters, by Henry H. Tryon (HathiTrust Digital Library) | Squonkapalooza | Fearsome Creatures of the Lumberwoods, by William Thomas Cox (Internet Archive) | What is a squonk? Pa.’s ‘quaint’ beast cries over how ugly it is (PennLive) | Chemical Squonks (Chemical Innovation) | Genesis – Squonk (YouTube)

Black Dogs: How old is that story, bro?: Trucking tales, legends, ghosts (Overdrive) | Black dog (Wikipedia) | The Legend of the Black Dog (Shorebread) | Black Dogs and Englishmen: Black Shuck in English Folklore (Icy Sedgwick) | Black Dog (The Folklore Podcast) | Black Shuck (Wikipedia) | The Hound of the Baskervilles (Wikipedia) | 20 Urban Legends That Truckers Wish Would Go Away (Highway Driver Leasing) | Legend of the Black Dog (Tetrapod Zoology) | Hypnagogic Hallucinations: Why You Might Have Them (WebMD)

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