S05E45 - Circus Train Wrecks 🎪🚂
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S05E45 - Circus Train Wrecks 🎪🚂
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Blake and Karen discuss Circus Train Wrecks as an explanation for mysterious "real" animal sightings, as well as a source of folklore monsters of high improbability.
🚂 In This Episode
- Why circus trains wrecked so often
- The economic event that ended the era - and why regulation wasn't the answer
- An inversion of survivorship bias, and the data set nobody has built yet
- A 1917 newspaper story about lions in a butcher shop that is not what it appears to be
- The 1931 wire story about a colony of Bengal tigers in the mountains of Mexico
- How armadillos actually got to Florida
- Gypsy the elephant, Tifton to Valdosta, November 1902
- Wallace the Lion, the Exeter mail coach lioness, and Christian the Lion
- Why the Beast of Gévaudan may be the oldest "it escaped from a menagerie" case on record
- How Gévaudan subverts myths about the Enlightenment
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