Arcanum Obscura

Since we had the big Solar Eclipse last week I thought it may be cool to go over some different beliefs about Solar Eclipses from around the world. Some blame the actions of disgruntled gods, others giant celestial animals, and even one with an angry kid. We hope you enjoy.

Some interesting Cryptids this week. First up is the strange flatwoods monster, I personally hate this thing now, but Nate brought it to the table so I'll just add my hate for this thing onto Nate, he could use some more. Then we have the creepy looking Fresno Nightcrawlers, I've seen videos and even a few shows looking into these things. I'm not gonna say for sure but one thing I can say, fake or real, one of the videos just has a weird creepy vibe with how it walks. Last up is the Brownie (aka broonie, brùnaidh, g...

Another true crime week. First, Nate reads a story about Marcus Wesson, I really can't say much about this aside the guy is a monster, disgusting, a murderer, amongst many many other things. I've personally covered some pretty bad stories here and now it's Nates turn. Aside from the few descriptive words of this man, he's a cult leader who had children with his children and his children's children, that should be more then enough to make you loathe this man. After that horrid mans story we move on to the Bloody Benders. The Benders were a family of...

This week we dive back into true crime. First we head to Australia for the horrific murder of two young girls, Marianne Schmidt and Christine Sharrock. This sadly unsolved case took place in 1965 when two girls who went to the beach with family never returned home. There was a few suspects but to this date it remains unsolved. The second case branches off of the first case, as Christopher Wilder was a suspect in the Wanda Beach case, amongst many other cases all leading up to a large murder spree across America. He's known as The Beauty Queen Killer...

Back to true crime this week. This is another unsolved case where everyone gets accused, arrested, and released, except the killer. For a short time in New Orleans and surrounding areas the people were gripped by fear as a man was sneaking into homes and murdering a total of six people. One day he breaks his silence with a message to the media which is, simply put, bizarre. Just remember to get your jazz on!

We wrap up the first ARC of the Ben Drowned story this week. Well, technically Nate wraps it up. This has been an easy few weeks for me since he chose a story he enjoys and its been multi episodes, and for me its just been pretty cool to hear the full story since I had only previously known of it by name and not much about it.

Another week of cursed games. This week we took a break from Ben Drowned but that will be back next week with the final part. This week we have Pokemon Black and also the Lavender Town Syndrome. Neither are in depth or as long as Ben Drowned but I had never heard the Pokemon Black story and thought it was rather interesting. It's a bit different then most of the cursed game stories since it doesn't involve horrific death and curses to people who play. Instead its a bit more moral issues and psychological damage. There's of course our...

We continue with the Ben Drowned cursed Zelda game this week. Making it through pats 2-4. It's pretty interesting, I had heard of it before but never read it so nice to be able to hear it now. Next week we will finish the last part and have the game I found as well, Pokemon Black. I also scheduled the previous weeks episode for thr wrong date so it went up friday instead of wednesday.

We covered a cursed game a while back, the whole Herobrine story in Minecraft. But we decided to go a little deeper now and cover a couple more. First up, and a multi part series since it's a long story is Ben Drowned. A strange Zelda game, sold by a strange man, with a pervious save already on it from someone named Ben.

We get to do the rest of the people we had for last weeks episode this week, we may do a third part to this soon. Not to give any details because these peoples stories are pretty short, so we have Tsutomu Yamaguchi, followed by Aimo Koivunen. Then we take a slight detour to the horse, Staff Sergeant Reckless, and finally we finish with the "unluckiest man in the world", Walter Summerford, though bad luck may not be a super power. Though I hope it is because I'd be unstoppable!