Episode 50 - Adventures in Boogeysitting

23/03/2018 1h 7min Episodio 50
Episode 50 - Adventures in Boogeysitting

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Episode Synopsis

First, Pascual is skeptical of mutating astronaut DNA, and looks closely at the media misinterpretation of a recent NASA press release. Then the gang discusses various ways that folklore is used to control behavior—a trick used on children and sometimes on the general public, too. We look closely at the Hispanic ghost La Llorona, a frightening tale that keeps children away from flood-prone river banks in New Mexico, and then some of her even scarier cousins, the Japanese kappa, who seem to have a fixation on human butts and cucumbers. Then all the way up in Iceland we meet the Yule cat, who eats children that don't wear their new Christmas sweaters—but also teaches a host of other lessons.

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