From hearing your own blood and battling endless earworms to noseless societies, double-faced men, and the deadly myths of virgin cures, tonight we dive deep into the eerie, bizarre, and tragic extremes of the human body.
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https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/yckmjxrbFEATURED STORIES IN THIS EPISODE: A woman in Scotland has never heard silence. Not because of the noise around her – but because of the noise in her! (Never a Moment of Silence) *** We’ve all had a song stuck in our heads – but one woman has had the same song playing on a loop in her brain for the past four years, non-stop. (The Ear Worm) *** From too much noise – to none at all. We’ll meet Ezekiel Eads, a man who had no ears and learned to hear the outside world through his mouth! (The Man With No Ears) *** Syphilis is a nasty disease, especially when it eats your nose. But that doesn’t mean you can’t have a social life, as many noseless have learned from personal experience. (The No Noses Club) *** Is it possible that it’s better to have no nose at all than to have an extremely long one? We’ll look at a real-life Pinocchio named Thomas Wedders with a giant proboscis! (A Short Story About a Long Nose) *** Imagine living through life with two and a half faces. No, not like a politician – that’s simply two-faced. I mean living with two noses and three eyes. You’re either an extraterrestrial, or you are William Durks. (Two-And-A-Half Faces) *** What exactly is so alluring about those who cherish virginity? Is it about virtue or is it about something else? (Virginity Tests and Cures)
CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = The Foreboding
00:02:27.670 = Never a Moment of Silence
00:07:01.991 = The Ear Worm
00:11:51.821 = The Man Without Ears
00:14:08.540 = The No Nose Club
00:18:05.818 = A Short Story About a Long Nose
00:22:08.493 = Two And a Half Faces ***
00:27:17.987 = Virginity Tests and Cures
00:41:39.048 = Show Close
00:43:07.302 = Bloopers
*** = Begins immediately after inserted ad break
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SOURCES and RESOURCES:
BOOK: “American Sideshow: An Encyclopedia of History's Most Wondrous and Curiously Strange Performers” by Marc Harzman:
https://amzn.to/3QGMCC5BOOK: “The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine” by Lindsey Fitzharris:
https://amzn.to/441Devz“Never a Moment of Silence” by Marco Margaritoff for All That’s Interesting:
https://tinyurl.com/y4khaqea“The Ear Worm” by Facts Verse:
http://www.factsverse.com“The Man With No Ears” by Marc Hartzman for Weird Historian:
https://tinyurl.com/ssoc693“The No Noses Club” by Marc Hartzman for Weird Historian:
https://tinyurl.com/u24bd5d“A Short Story About a Long Nose” by Marc Hartzman for Weird Historian:
https://tinyurl.com/wkqnc3q“Two and a Half Faces” by Marc Hartzman for Weird Historian:
https://tinyurl.com/sflhcqn,
https://tinyurl.com/umb3fo5“Virginity Tests and Cures” by B.B. Wagner for Ancient Origins:
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Originally aired: August 2020
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