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Ep.7 | The Snallygaster | Sasquatch & Sourdough · Sasquatch & Sourdough

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  SPEAKER_00: Welcome to Sasquatch and Sourdough, the podcast where we embark on a journey into the depths of the unknown, weaving together threads of ancient scripture, tales of high strangeness, and the joys of nature.
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• 0:41
  SPEAKER_02: Welcome to Sasquatch and Sourdough.
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  SPEAKER_02: I am your host, Christina, and I am joined by my beautiful best friend, Crystal.
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  SPEAKER_02: Hi.
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  SPEAKER_02: And we are in an actual, like kind of studio space-ish.
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  SPEAKER_02: For the first time.
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  SPEAKER_02: For the first time, we're not in the kitchen anymore.
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  SPEAKER_02: We're out of the kitchen.
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  SPEAKER_02: We are out of the kitchen.
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  SPEAKER_02: Not far though.
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  SPEAKER_02: We're not far.
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  SPEAKER_02: No.
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  SPEAKER_02: We are in uh we are in our fun office and we have a really, really fun show for you guys today.
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  SPEAKER_02: We are gonna talk about the Snelly Gaster.
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  SPEAKER_02: What is the Snelly Gaster?
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  SPEAKER_02: Uh apparently it's just some crazy bird-like creature that's been seen floating around the skies of Frederick, Maryland.
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  SPEAKER_02: But first, Crystal, I have a weird question.
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  SPEAKER_02: Okay.
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  SPEAKER_02: Okay, so if by chance, like the Snelly Gaster comes down, and it's like that's it, like it's the end of the world.
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  SPEAKER_02: Here they come.
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  SPEAKER_02: Here they come.
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  SPEAKER_02: They're ascending down the mountain.
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  SPEAKER_02: They're coming after us.
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  SPEAKER_02: Like, just it's all it's all happening.
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  SPEAKER_02: It's popping off.
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh-huh.
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  SPEAKER_02: What is your song?
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  SPEAKER_02: Like, what's your like okay, it's go time?
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  SPEAKER_01: Like my war song?
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  SPEAKER_02: Like your, yeah, like this is this is it.
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  SPEAKER_01: This is the battle cry.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's gotta be something from the 80s.
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  SPEAKER_01: Right?
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  SPEAKER_01: Like an 80s montage.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yes.
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  SPEAKER_01: Song.
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  SPEAKER_01: Do you want to know what mine is?
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  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, what is it?
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  SPEAKER_02: Mine is running up that hill by Kay Bush.
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  SPEAKER_01: That's a good one.
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  SPEAKER_01: I'm thinking like Eye of the Tiger.
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  SPEAKER_02: No, you know what?
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  SPEAKER_02: I feel like the I feel like if that if the Snellcasters just start if it's if it hits the fan, like I think Eye of the Tiger.
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  SPEAKER_02: I don't think it's like a trumpet that sounds.
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  SPEAKER_02: I think it's just Eye of the Tiger.
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  SPEAKER_02: Somebody like somebody up in heaven's just like pushing that button, like Eye of the Tiger.
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  SPEAKER_02: It's like the fight.
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  SPEAKER_02: No, that's final countdown.
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  SPEAKER_02: No.
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  SPEAKER_02: No.
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  SPEAKER_02: Nope.
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  SPEAKER_02: Okay.
• 2:40
  SPEAKER_02: Nope.
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  SPEAKER_02: You got that one definitely.
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  SPEAKER_02: It's because you said montage.
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  SPEAKER_02: Oh.
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  SPEAKER_02: So I'm so now I think now I'm thinking like Eye of the Tiger, final countdown montage.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's Eye of the Tiger.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's the thrill of the fight.
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  SPEAKER_01: And I don't remember the rest of that song.
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  SPEAKER_01: Final countdown.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, that's a good one too.
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  SPEAKER_02: It's a mashup.
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  SPEAKER_01: That's a good one too.
• 2:58
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_02: But no, it's so like I was thinking about this when I was in I don't know what I was doing.
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  SPEAKER_02: I was like in the kitchen.
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  SPEAKER_02: I was in the kitchen doing something.
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  SPEAKER_02: Um, and I was I that song came in my head, and I was like, you know what?
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  SPEAKER_02: That you know it that this is it.
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  SPEAKER_02: This is it.
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  SPEAKER_02: If this if it's if it pops off, this is the song that I'm going out.
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  SPEAKER_02: Mm-hmm.
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  SPEAKER_02: I'm going out singing.
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  SPEAKER_02: Because it's perfect, because like, and anybody that's like, I don't know, under 40 is not gonna understand how amazing Kate Bush was in the 80s.
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  SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_02: Like you're not gonna get it.
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  SPEAKER_02: You probably know that song because of Stranger Things.
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  SPEAKER_02: Definitely.
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  SPEAKER_02: It made a comeback.
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  SPEAKER_02: It made a comeback because she was amazing, and she was like, you know what?
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  SPEAKER_02: Uh, no one can take this song and use it for anything.
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  SPEAKER_02: But then I feel I want to know what how that happened in that like production team meeting where like somebody was like, you know what?
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  SPEAKER_02: Let's just pitch this idea to Kate Bush.
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  SPEAKER_02: Like, here's Stranger Things.
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  SPEAKER_02: Like, there's a portal, it's a very strange show.
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  SPEAKER_02: It's an amazing show.
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  SPEAKER_02: And she was like, Yes, that's the song.
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  SPEAKER_02: You guys can have that song.
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  SPEAKER_01: It ended up reaching like number one or something in billboard charts or something.
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  SPEAKER_01: Again, yeah.
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  SPEAKER_01: I don't know if that may be the first time that's ever happened.
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  SPEAKER_02: She's amazing.
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  SPEAKER_02: She wrote a song about Wuthering Heights.
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  SPEAKER_02: Mm-hmm.
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  SPEAKER_02: Like, I don't know.
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  SPEAKER_02: And like interpretive dance.
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  SPEAKER_02: I don't know.
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  SPEAKER_02: Do yourself a favor and go watch that video because it's amazing.
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  SPEAKER_02: Running up that hill.
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  SPEAKER_02: You'll be like, what?
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  SPEAKER_02: What is this?
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  SPEAKER_02: What is happening here?
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  SPEAKER_02: It's like an acid trip.
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  SPEAKER_02: Everybody, their faces change.
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  SPEAKER_02: Uh-huh.
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  SPEAKER_02: Like her.
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  SPEAKER_02: It's just amazing.
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  SPEAKER_02: There's so much interpretive dance.
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  SPEAKER_02: Anyway, yeah.
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  SPEAKER_02: So they made me think because I I knew we were like talking about this crazy creature that ascends from the mountains.
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  SPEAKER_02: So creatures.
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  SPEAKER_02: Alright, so do you want to kick us off and jump into the Snelling Gaster?
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  SPEAKER_02: Sure.
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  SPEAKER_01: So it's another cryptid from our area.
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  SPEAKER_01: And um, we don't know what exactly it is, but it represents a dragon-like creature.
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  SPEAKER_01: And from the depictions that I've seen, it has a metal beak that has um what are they called?
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  SPEAKER_01: Like tentacles coming out of its mouth to like grab its prey when it's like tendrils.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, it's like octopus arms coming out of its beak.
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  SPEAKER_01: And um it has like a reptile bird kind of thing going on.
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  SPEAKER_01: Is it a bird?
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  SPEAKER_01: Is it a reptile?
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  SPEAKER_01: Like thunderbird?
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, yeah.
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  SPEAKER_01: Is it an octopus?
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  SPEAKER_01: Who knows?
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  SPEAKER_01: But it's terrifying, but it flies and it eats um livestock and it likes to carry away small children.
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  SPEAKER_01: Oh, there you go.
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  SPEAKER_02: Scary, scary.
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  SPEAKER_02: Don't please don't take my my baby.
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  SPEAKER_02: Um, okay, so I found uh I don't just uh Weird Maryland, like the whole Weird USA series of books, if you remember those, um, they're great.
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  SPEAKER_02: So I have a copy of Weird Maryland, and in that they say this like sometimes he's part reptile, part bird, and with octopus tentacles.
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  SPEAKER_02: Yes.
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  SPEAKER_02: Sometimes he has a razor sharp he has razor sharp teeth, other times he has a shiny metallic beak.
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  SPEAKER_02: So basically what you said.
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  SPEAKER_02: Um and so uh and lately the term snellygaster seems to be used interchangeably with Maryland sightings of Bigfoot.
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  SPEAKER_02: So that's kind of interesting.
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  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_02: I didn't hear that part.
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  SPEAKER_02: But I don't that doesn't make sense.
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  SPEAKER_02: I don't know.
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  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_02: That doesn't really I don't know.
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  SPEAKER_02: They don't they don't like follow up.
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  SPEAKER_02: Um but it says the creature's name comes from the German term schnellergeist, a fast moving spirit or ghost with rapid movement causes doors to slam and items to scatter.
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  SPEAKER_01: Mm-hmm.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, so we were discussing how it's a German folk tale that came with the German immigrants when they settled in Frederick, Maryland.
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  SPEAKER_01: And um I don't know, I guess they brought a lot of their old folk tales with them, but that one kind of stuck.
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  SPEAKER_02: Because there's a lot of weird reports.
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  SPEAKER_02: Um, and there's a museum.
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  SPEAKER_02: There is.
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  SPEAKER_02: What is that museum called?
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  SPEAKER_02: It's hilarious.
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  SPEAKER_02: So it's um, and if I guess I guess we should probably like put into context, like Frederick, Maryland is just an awesome, like another little mountain town.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's in the Appalachian mountain range.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um, so what the part that I thought was interesting is that there is an actual beer festival held every year in DC.
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  SPEAKER_01: Of course.
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  SPEAKER_01: Named after this thing.
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  SPEAKER_01: The Snally Gaster Beer Festival.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yes.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's kind of cool.
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  SPEAKER_01: So everybody goes there and drinks beer, but they also have a bunch of like crafts and like handmade items.
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  SPEAKER_01: And from what I've seen, there are people that are drawing pictures and paintings of the Snally Gaster, and there's little pillows of him.
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  SPEAKER_01: He's a very well-beloved cryptid from our area.
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  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_01: People love him.
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  SPEAKER_01: He's so sweet.
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  SPEAKER_01: Just like Jesse.
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  SPEAKER_01: Just like Jesse.
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  SPEAKER_01: We really love our cryptids and we're gonna go yeah, go back and watch.
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  SPEAKER_02: If you haven't seen the or listened to the uh the Chessie episode, go back and and listen to that.
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  SPEAKER_02: Um yeah, I don't it's it's interesting because you just I mean, you going to like Frederick and hanging out there, it's so quaint.
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  SPEAKER_02: It's like another one of those, you know, kind of bigger than Sykesville, like kind of a different vibe.
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  SPEAKER_02: But it's um further up in the mountains, too.
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  SPEAKER_02: But like if you go I don't know, you to sitting there, you wouldn't think that there could be like some sort of dragon octopus creature ascending down.
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  SPEAKER_01: Well, another interesting thing about Snalligaster is that he's very famous.
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  SPEAKER_01: He's been featured in two very famous franchises.
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  SPEAKER_01: He was in the Fallout franchise, um, and in the Fallout franchise, he's he's an Appalachian science experiment gone wrong.
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  SPEAKER_01: Oh.
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  SPEAKER_01: And he's also featured in the world of Harry Potter.
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  SPEAKER_01: So he will be in the Fantastic Beast and Where to Find Them book.
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  SPEAKER_01: Oh yeah.
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  SPEAKER_01: Written by Newt Scamander.
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  SPEAKER_01: And um in Newt's book it says that this creature exists in the New World, Frederick County, Maryland.
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  SPEAKER_01: What?
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  SPEAKER_01: To be specific.
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  SPEAKER_02: That's awesome.
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  SPEAKER_02: Really cool little shout-out in Harry Potter.
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  SPEAKER_01: In Harry Potter.
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  SPEAKER_02: Snelling Gaster.
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  SPEAKER_02: Um so if you go, so we found like a really cool, like just a resource, the American Snelling Gaster Museum, which we should definitely go to.
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  SPEAKER_02: Um Frederick, it just it kind of that's one of those trips that's like requires an entire intentional day.
• 9:36
  SPEAKER_02: Like yeah, we can't just yeah, yeah.
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  SPEAKER_02: From us it's about three hours, right?
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  SPEAKER_02: Three hours?
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  SPEAKER_01: Well, round trip.
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  SPEAKER_01: No, I'm thinking deep creek.
• 9:45
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, you're thinking th further, but it takes about an hour and a half to get there.
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  SPEAKER_01: Round trip, it would be three hours.
• 9:50
  SPEAKER_02: That's okay, that's what I'm thinking.
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  SPEAKER_02: Because I um I love Deep Creek, but I hate driving there because the altitude change I get like altitude sickness.
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  SPEAKER_02: And Route 70.
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  SPEAKER_02: Route 70 is awful.
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  SPEAKER_02: It's terrible.
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  SPEAKER_01: Again, we're old ladies, so we don't wanna We don't wanna drive up and down mountains at 70 miles an hour or at least no at the least 70 miles an hour.
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  SPEAKER_02: I want to chug along at a max trucks at a safe 65 and not feel like I'm gonna just fly off a mountain.
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  SPEAKER_02: Fly off the mountain or get smashed.
• 10:22
  SPEAKER_02: I really do by an 18-wheeler.
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  SPEAKER_02: Or go down one of those embankments for like the out-of-control trucks.
• 10:29
  SPEAKER_01: No, those things freak me out.
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  SPEAKER_01: The first time I had ever seen one of them, I was like, is that purposely for a truck that can't stop?
• 10:37
  SPEAKER_01: Yes, it's the most terrifying thing I've ever.
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  SPEAKER_02: And is it gonna happen while I'm on this mountain?
• 10:41
  SPEAKER_01: Exactly.
• 10:41
  SPEAKER_01: Let me get out of here real quick.
• 10:43
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, so my threshold of driving like up yeah, that way is like at Frederick.
• 10:48
  SPEAKER_02: That's what I was thinking.
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  SPEAKER_02: Like once I get to Frederick, I'm like, okay, cool, I'm not going any further.
• 10:52
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 10:52
  SPEAKER_01: Frederick's awesome.
• 10:53
  SPEAKER_01: So we go there every Christmas to see this like lighted boat parade that they have.
• 10:57
  SPEAKER_03: Oh, yeah.
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  SPEAKER_01: So it's um like this canal that goes right through Frederick, and it's it's beautiful, it's very picturesque.
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  SPEAKER_01: And they take all these little boats, like I guess it's like local businesses, and they light them up with Christmas lights, and they just have them like sitting all in the canal, and it's it's just gorgeous.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's so pretty.
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  SPEAKER_01: Such a picture perfect moment.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's it's like it's that like little town.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 11:19
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_01: And all the shopping and the restaurants.
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  SPEAKER_01: There's so much to do.
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  SPEAKER_02: It's definitely like a fun, a fun day trip.
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  SPEAKER_02: Um, but I can't imagine, you know, just sitting there like outside having a coffee, and then here comes this Naligaster.
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  SPEAKER_02: Um to eat your children.
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  SPEAKER_02: To eat your small children.
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  SPEAKER_02: Or small dogs.
• 11:37
  SPEAKER_02: Or cows.
• 11:38
  SPEAKER_02: Or cows.
• 11:39
  SPEAKER_02: And chickens.
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  SPEAKER_02: This thing's just hungry.
• 11:42
  SPEAKER_02: Um so yeah, um, let's see.
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  SPEAKER_02: Um, so I pulled this up from the oh yeah, so the American Naligaster Museum definitely like is worth a check out.
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  SPEAKER_02: Like the website's awesome.
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  SPEAKER_02: They have all kinds of uh like fun facts, merchandise, uh, and like news articles.
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  SPEAKER_02: But first, um, what does it say?
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  SPEAKER_02: It says, what is this Nelly Gaster?
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  SPEAKER_02: Um oh so this is why I wanted to I highlighted this.
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  SPEAKER_02: Um so yeah, believed to be a dragon bird chimera.
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  SPEAKER_02: The Snelling Gaster is said to have one eye, what a beak, a dragon-like body, and strangely, tentacles coming from its mouth.
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  SPEAKER_02: Oh, that's terrifying.
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  SPEAKER_02: I forgot about the one eye.
• 12:22
  SPEAKER_02: Ew, I'm putting that in AI and let's see what it comes up with.
• 12:25
  SPEAKER_01: It's like a giant eyeball, like a cyclops.
• 12:27
  SPEAKER_02: Ew.
• 12:28
  SPEAKER_01: Mm-hmm.
• 12:29
  SPEAKER_01: Weird.
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  SPEAKER_02: Wait, so tentacles coming out of its mouth.
• 12:33
  SPEAKER_02: Like, so now I'm kinda that's like Cthulhu.
• 12:35
  SPEAKER_02: Oh.
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  SPEAKER_02: Right?
• 12:36
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 12:37
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_02: What's happening here?
• 12:39
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 12:39
  SPEAKER_02: Um, so a 1909 report of um Snalogaster claimed that it drained a Middletown man of blood and tossed his body off of a cliff.
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  SPEAKER_02: Some even claim that Teddy Roosevelt, oh yeah, this is my favorite fact that we found that Teddy Roosevelt himself had plans to hunt the beast at the end of his term as president of the United States.
• 12:58
  SPEAKER_02: Yes.
• 12:58
  SPEAKER_02: I think Teddy Roosevelt, hands down, best president.
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  SPEAKER_01: There was even a part that I read where he said um he was plan he was thinking about canceling an African safari.
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  SPEAKER_01: Just to come to Frederick.
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  SPEAKER_01: Just to come down.
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  SPEAKER_01: To hunt this thing.
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  SPEAKER_02: To hunt the Snalogaster.
• 13:15
  SPEAKER_02: America was so much cooler in the 1900s.
• 13:19
  SPEAKER_02: Oh crap, that's right.
• 13:20
  SPEAKER_02: We're from the 1900s.
• 13:24
  SPEAKER_02: Every time I say the 1900s, I'm like, oh.
• 13:27
  SPEAKER_02: The 1900s.
• 13:28
  SPEAKER_02: 1900s and 80.
• 13:31
  SPEAKER_02: And 80.
• 13:31
  SPEAKER_02: Do you gather round, children?
• 13:34
  SPEAKER_02: Nana wants to tell you about the Snelligaster.
• 13:38
  SPEAKER_01: So could I tell you this cool little section that I found about the Snelligaster?
• 13:43
  SPEAKER_02: Let's do it.
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  SPEAKER_01: So, for generations no one saw the Snelligaster, but everyone assumed it was there.
• 13:49
  SPEAKER_01: The monster's reappearance, I'm sorry, reappearance, coincided with Prohibition.
• 13:55
  unknown: Oh.
• 13:55
  SPEAKER_01: This is interesting.
• 13:56
  SPEAKER_01: Very interesting.
• 13:57
  SPEAKER_01: Moonshiners in the Forest Mountains of Northern Maryland co-opted the old story in an effort to scare revenue agents.
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  SPEAKER_01: Nice.
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  SPEAKER_01: And to explain the sounds, like explosions and bending metal that came from their stills at night.
• 14:14
  SPEAKER_02: What are you guys doing?
• 14:16
  SPEAKER_02: What are you guys doing up there?
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  SPEAKER_02: Are you guys making moonshine?
• 14:18
  SPEAKER_02: No, just the snelling.
• 14:20
  SPEAKER_02: Obviously, just the snelling Aster.
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  SPEAKER_01: They just like made up So it says accounts of thunderous explosions and loud screeching sounds began circulating with disturbing regularity.
• 14:36
  SPEAKER_01: As the noises became more common, so did reports of the winged creature.
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  SPEAKER_01: This time with huge tentacles that would swoop down and snatch grown men up and drag them off into the night.
• 14:46
  SPEAKER_01: If bodies were found, they were said to be drained of blood and scorched.
• 14:51
  SPEAKER_01: Now this is from a local newspaper.
• 14:53
  SPEAKER_01: It's the Middletown Valley Register.
• 14:55
  SPEAKER_01: Mm-hmm.
• 14:55
  SPEAKER_01: That's where I pulled that little excerpt from.
• 14:58
  SPEAKER_02: They um so I don't even know what to do with that.
• 15:04
  SPEAKER_02: Like that.
• 15:05
  SPEAKER_01: So it's just hilarious.
• 15:08
  SPEAKER_01: A lot of people claim it's a hoax, you know, because it is a legend, it's folklore that German immigrants brought with them.
• 15:14
  SPEAKER_01: Right.
• 15:14
  SPEAKER_01: But there's been a lot of sightings.
• 15:16
  SPEAKER_01: So um you can let your brain go any which way you want.
• 15:19
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 15:20
  SPEAKER_01: It could be a Thunderbird, it could be I don't know, it could be anything.
• 15:24
  SPEAKER_01: It could be a pterodactyl, for all we know.
• 15:26
  SPEAKER_01: Right.
• 15:28
  SPEAKER_02: Just a terrifying pterodactyl.
• 15:30
  SPEAKER_02: Teary.
• 15:32
  SPEAKER_02: Um but then also, so this is interesting.
• 15:35
  SPEAKER_02: So, like I said, um, but so it's if you go to their website, they have um this the American Snell and Gastro Museum, they have a whole bunch of like all of the like sightings and things in the newspaper.
• 15:46
  SPEAKER_02: So the newspaper definitely had a lot to do with stirring things up.
• 15:50
  SPEAKER_02: Yes.
• 15:51
  SPEAKER_02: Like they would like you said, like for prohibition.
• 15:54
  SPEAKER_02: Kind of like we have this little monster in our pocket that we can just pull out whenever we want to like get rid of people.
• 16:02
  SPEAKER_02: And like ne'er do wells, that one report was, yeah, that they that like kind of would bring it back to like get rid of people that they didn't want in the town.
• 16:10
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 16:11
  SPEAKER_02: But so this is interesting.
• 16:12
  SPEAKER_02: Uh, this article, this is from the museum's website, and it says, uh, as the flying saucer mystery continues, it is reported from Middletown, Maryland that residents there aren't much impressed about the discs as they remembered the snally gasters.
• 16:27
  SPEAKER_02: And compared to Snally Gasters, flying discs and flying saucers sound pretty tame.
• 16:34
  SPEAKER_02: Since we get the scary beasts because we've got our scary monster.
• 16:38
  SPEAKER_01: Well, here's another funny thing I pulled.
• 16:41
  SPEAKER_01: Um, the Baltimore Sun reported that the Snally Gaster had died in November of 1932 to try to advert um a panic.
• 16:50
  SPEAKER_01: Really?
• 16:50
  SPEAKER_01: Because people were freaking out.
• 16:53
  SPEAKER_01: People really thought that you know the Snelly Gaster was coming to take their children.
• 16:58
  SPEAKER_01: Well, I mean, I guess, yeah, when you reported in the newspaper.
• 17:02
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, there's all kinds of stuff.
• 17:03
  SPEAKER_01: It says the Washington Post did articles, the National Geographic was preparing an expedition to capture it on film.
• 17:12
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, yeah.
• 17:12
  SPEAKER_01: Didn't you say that the Smithsonian?
• 17:14
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, the Smithsonian was offering a reward for its hide.
• 17:18
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, they'd like to get their hands on it, wouldn't they?
• 17:20
  SPEAKER_02: Wouldn't they?
• 17:20
  SPEAKER_02: Keep it in the basement.
• 17:21
  SPEAKER_02: Hide it in the vault.
• 17:22
  SPEAKER_02: Where are the bones?
• 17:24
  SPEAKER_02: What bones?
• 17:25
  SPEAKER_02: I don't know what you're talking about.
• 17:27
  SPEAKER_02: Smithsonian, we got our eye on you.
• 17:29
  SPEAKER_02: Um, yeah, here we go.
• 17:30
  SPEAKER_02: Oh, Snelly Gaster captured.
• 17:32
  SPEAKER_02: Wait a second.
• 17:32
  SPEAKER_02: Huge owl is shot down.
• 17:34
  SPEAKER_02: Okay, shut up.
• 17:35
  SPEAKER_02: Now we're talking about owls.
• 17:36
  SPEAKER_02: Oh, back to the owls.
• 17:38
  SPEAKER_02: All right.
• 17:38
  SPEAKER_02: The owls know.
• 17:40
  SPEAKER_02: Made prisoner by Harry Vactel, Myersville, and kept in the cellar of home there.
• 17:45
  SPEAKER_02: Hmm.
• 17:46
  SPEAKER_02: Ow.
• 17:47
  SPEAKER_02: Why?
• 17:47
  SPEAKER_02: What a weirdo.
• 17:48
  SPEAKER_02: I'm gonna keep this owl.
• 17:50
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, wait, what's happening here?
• 17:57
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• 18:23
  SPEAKER_02: Okay, so here's another fun report from the museum's website.
• 18:27
  SPEAKER_02: I love this.
• 18:28
  SPEAKER_02: It says Um In Western Maryland, since nine- oh wait, hold on.
• 18:33
  SPEAKER_02: The Middletown Valley had a snoigaster scare in the hard cider season of 1932.
• 18:41
  SPEAKER_02: They called it a false alarm.
• 18:42
  SPEAKER_02: There are none so blind as those who will not see.
• 18:46
  SPEAKER_02: The Dries said that the 1932 visitation was only an unusual formation of small birds that might have looked like anything to the naked eye.
• 18:57
  SPEAKER_02: Okay.
• 18:57
  SPEAKER_02: Well, I don't know about that.
• 18:58
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 18:59
  SPEAKER_02: Um small birds don't look like octopus.
• 19:07
  SPEAKER_02: Terrorizing creatures.
• 19:10
  SPEAKER_02: Um, oh, so yeah, they uh oh so yeah, then it was it died.
• 19:16
  SPEAKER_02: Um this so this is uh getting back to like the Maryland, uh the weird Maryland book.
• 19:22
  SPEAKER_02: Uh this this is really funny.
• 19:24
  SPEAKER_02: Sightings increased exponentially, and other newspapers, including the Baltimore Sun, began to cover the story.
• 19:29
  SPEAKER_02: In some cases, the tales were intentionally ridiculous, featuring the Snally Gaster swooping down from the clouds on an antique bicycle.
• 19:38
  SPEAKER_01: On an antique bicycle.
• 19:39
  SPEAKER_01: Yes.
• 19:39
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, they drive.
• 19:41
  SPEAKER_02: I'm gonna put that in AI because that needs to be a sticker.
• 19:44
  SPEAKER_02: Yes.
• 19:44
  SPEAKER_02: That would be amazing.
• 19:45
  SPEAKER_02: Yes.
• 19:46
  SPEAKER_02: Okay, well, thanks for the idea.
• 19:48
  SPEAKER_02: Wearing water wings and shouting, balance the budget.
• 19:51
  SPEAKER_02: So they used it like political cartoons.
• 19:54
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, they used it as political cartoons.
• 19:56
  SPEAKER_02: More newspapers were trying to get coverage on it when the Valley Register reported Snallycaster's death by drowning in a vat of whiskey.
• 20:04
  SPEAKER_01: That's the part I was reading, and I was trying to make sense of it.
• 20:06
  SPEAKER_01: I was like, is this real actual news?
• 20:08
  SPEAKER_01: Like, come on.
• 20:09
  SPEAKER_02: You really have to, yeah, you have to look in the context of these old newspapers, just generally, because I think a lot of times I go back and I look and I look at the entire uh like exact like everything that they're reporting on for that actual piece of like that newspaper, and it's like, okay, well, this stuff is true and newsworthy, but then you can tell that they just have like there's like kind of an art to like reading the newspaper from that time.
• 20:35
  SPEAKER_02: There's a certain way that they had everything laid out.
• 20:39
  SPEAKER_01: It's hard to tell if it's fictional, you know.
• 20:41
  SPEAKER_01: Right.
• 20:42
  SPEAKER_01: Who knows?
• 20:43
  SPEAKER_01: So, like it says the lie, the lie was used to speed up the mash production and it ate the flesh of the creature.
• 20:51
  SPEAKER_01: And in the same report, it said that they didn't remove the skeleton from the vat.
• 20:56
  SPEAKER_01: Instead, they blew up the sill with 500 pounds of dynamite.
• 21:00
  SPEAKER_01: What that's going off of your story of what it was.
• 21:06
  SPEAKER_02: And then the Smithsonian took the bones.
• 21:08
  SPEAKER_02: That's why there's no bones.
• 21:09
  SPEAKER_01: With 500 pounds of dynamite.
• 21:11
  SPEAKER_01: That's insane.
• 21:12
  SPEAKER_01: Good lord.
• 21:13
  unknown: What are you doing?
• 21:15
  SPEAKER_01: You would blow up a mountain.
• 21:17
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 21:18
  SPEAKER_01: You would blow up your town.
• 21:19
  SPEAKER_02: Well, we got a big cave here now.
• 21:22
  SPEAKER_02: Well, that and that was I think that was like the original legend.
• 21:25
  SPEAKER_02: Didn't it?
• 21:26
  SPEAKER_02: I I read something that like it was in a cave originally.
• 21:29
  SPEAKER_02: And then it lived in the cave.
• 21:30
  SPEAKER_01: It lived in the cave.
• 21:31
  SPEAKER_01: And came out like a dragon.
• 21:32
  SPEAKER_01: Mm-hmm.
• 21:33
  SPEAKER_01: So it that was its lair in the cave, and it would come out to eat children.
• 21:38
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 21:39
  SPEAKER_01: And cows.
• 21:41
  SPEAKER_01: So here's another thing that says some claim that Snally Gaster laid eggs that hatch every 20 years.
• 21:49
  SPEAKER_01: Oh.
• 21:49
  SPEAKER_01: I wonder where we are with that timeline.
• 21:51
  SPEAKER_01: That would be well, 1932.
• 21:54
  SPEAKER_01: Okay.
• 21:54
  SPEAKER_01: 52.
• 21:55
  SPEAKER_01: Do math quickly.
• 21:56
  SPEAKER_01: 72.
• 21:57
  SPEAKER_02: Mm-hmm.
• 21:57
  SPEAKER_02: 92.
• 21:58
  SPEAKER_02: Mm-hmm.
• 21:59
  SPEAKER_02: 2000.
• 22:06
  SPEAKER_01: So 12 and then 32.
• 22:09
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, okay.
• 22:10
  SPEAKER_02: Oh, well that's 32.
• 22:11
  SPEAKER_02: Alright.
• 22:12
  SPEAKER_02: Okay.
• 22:12
  SPEAKER_02: We've got something to look forward to, guys.
• 22:15
  SPEAKER_01: Snelligaster egg hunting.
• 22:17
  SPEAKER_02: So, like, kind of just to like wrap up what the um the weird Marilyn article says, it says us.
• 22:24
  SPEAKER_02: So apparently sightings of Snaligaster still occur.
• 22:26
  SPEAKER_02: At some point, the Snaligaster appears to have become a generic term for a boogeyman and lost its teeth or beak or tentacles for good.
• 22:36
  SPEAKER_02: Any reports of a bipedal mammal called Snaligaster should instantly be filed under Sasquatch.
• 22:42
  SPEAKER_02: The Snaligaster himself has been killed twice over and should be respectfully laid to rest.
• 22:47
  SPEAKER_02: So apparently, according to the guys that wrote um Matt Lake, you know, who wrote Weird Marilyn, he thinks that we should just be done with this legend, but I don't I don't agree.
• 22:58
  SPEAKER_02: What was that?
• 22:58
  SPEAKER_01: We just had a really strange sound.
• 23:00
  SPEAKER_01: What was that?
• 23:01
  SPEAKER_02: It's an uh just open.
• 23:05
  SPEAKER_02: Get ready.
• 23:06
  SPEAKER_02: Get ready.
• 23:07
  SPEAKER_01: Alright.
• 23:08
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, it's kind of like the face hugger.
• 23:10
  SPEAKER_01: Ew.
• 23:11
  SPEAKER_01: Pentacles.
• 23:12
  SPEAKER_01: Yes.
• 23:14
  SPEAKER_02: I thought of it.
• 23:15
  SPEAKER_02: Oh, face hugger.
• 23:16
  SPEAKER_02: Alien.
• 23:17
  SPEAKER_02: Wait a second.
• 23:18
  SPEAKER_02: Uh-oh.
• 23:18
  SPEAKER_02: Hold on.
• 23:19
  SPEAKER_02: We just did a tie.
• 23:20
  SPEAKER_02: We just did it.
• 23:21
  SPEAKER_02: Alright, you heard it here first, guys.
• 23:23
  SPEAKER_02: Naily gaster's an alien.
• 23:24
  SPEAKER_02: Maybe you guys shouldn't have been like poo-pooing the the UFOs again.
• 23:28
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, the discs.
• 23:29
  SPEAKER_02: Guys.
• 23:30
  SPEAKER_02: You could have totally just they go hand in hand.
• 23:33
  SPEAKER_02: They go hand in hand, always.
• 23:34
  SPEAKER_02: And now we can now we're gonna have to go back and look for all the like missing children reports.
• 23:39
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• 23:41
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• 23:42
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• 23:43
  SPEAKER_02: Alright.
• 23:43
  SPEAKER_02: That's where the babies went.
• 23:44
  SPEAKER_02: That's where the oh the babies.
• 23:49
  SPEAKER_02: Arm it season.
• 23:50
  SPEAKER_02: Oh my goodness gracious.
• 23:51
  SPEAKER_02: Okay, so this isn't the last one because there's so many.
• 23:55
  SPEAKER_02: I just love that this thing, like no one can tell what this thing is.
• 23:59
  SPEAKER_02: Do we have any actual sighting reports?
• 24:01
  SPEAKER_02: Like sighting?
• 24:02
  SPEAKER_02: I I I don't I don't I haven't seen any that's like an actual sighting.
• 24:07
  SPEAKER_02: Well there were there were, but there were none that were like um yeah, what's the word?
• 24:13
  SPEAKER_02: That you can actually verify.
• 24:14
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, verified, researched, you know.
• 24:16
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 24:17
  SPEAKER_02: It's just sensational.
• 24:20
  SPEAKER_02: Um, yeah, so no flying saucers.
• 24:22
  SPEAKER_02: This is funny.
• 24:23
  SPEAKER_02: It says Maryland once was rated high as the habitat or the habitat of strange creatures.
• 24:28
  SPEAKER_02: The most famous of these was the Snally Gaster of Frederick County.
• 24:32
  SPEAKER_02: Oh.
• 24:33
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, what's going on with our cryptid?
• 24:35
  SPEAKER_02: We're in cryptid state.
• 24:36
  SPEAKER_02: It's gotta be the mountains and the bay.
• 24:39
  SPEAKER_01: We live in a weird way a weird place.
• 24:42
  SPEAKER_01: No state is like us at all.
• 24:44
  SPEAKER_01: You can go, you know, what is it, like an hour or two from the mountains straight into the Chesapeake Bay, and then another hour to the to the ocean.
• 24:52
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 24:52
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 24:53
  SPEAKER_01: We have everything.
• 24:54
  SPEAKER_01: Cat Chessy.
• 24:55
  SPEAKER_03: Mm-hmm.
• 24:56
  SPEAKER_01: Smelling caster.
• 24:58
  SPEAKER_01: They call Maryland like the mini United States of America because it has every single thing that you can find.
• 25:04
  SPEAKER_01: Well, besides like the desert, you know.
• 25:06
  SPEAKER_01: We should do some Yeah, we don't have the desert.
• 25:08
  SPEAKER_01: No, we don't have desert.
• 25:09
  SPEAKER_02: We should do some research and see if there's like any like portables or something.
• 25:14
  SPEAKER_01: I'm sure there is.
• 25:15
  SPEAKER_01: And all those crazy parks that we have around here.
• 25:17
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, there's so many.
• 25:18
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 25:18
  SPEAKER_01: Mm-hmm.
• 25:18
  SPEAKER_01: I know.
• 25:19
  SPEAKER_01: Crazy.
• 25:20
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I think we have deep dives into all of the parts.
• 25:24
  SPEAKER_01: Mm-hmm.
• 25:24
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, we have to do that.
• 25:25
  SPEAKER_02: Mm-hmm.
• 25:26
  SPEAKER_01: We have to.
• 25:27
  SPEAKER_01: We've done a lot on the top scale.
• 25:29
  SPEAKER_01: We have a lot of creepy stuff in there.
• 25:31
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 25:33
  SPEAKER_02: Alright, smelling an upset.
• 25:35
  SPEAKER_02: Do you have anything else?
• 25:38
  SPEAKER_02: That's it.
• 25:39
  SPEAKER_02: Alright, well, uh, that's it.
• 25:42
  SPEAKER_02: Smelling upster.
• 25:43
  SPEAKER_02: I guess you can kind of like take him or leave him.
• 25:45
  SPEAKER_02: I just love that there's this whole little culture around it.
• 25:50
  SPEAKER_02: Um, so yeah, if you check out the American Smelling Amster Museum webpage, you can they have a link to uh the Bump Podcast episode, which is our friend Bo um over there at the Bump.
• 26:01
  SPEAKER_02: So check that out.
• 26:02
  SPEAKER_02: And yeah, I guess until next time.
• 26:06
  SPEAKER_02: Bye.
• 26:06
  SPEAKER_02: Bye.
• 26:09
  SPEAKER_00: Together, we'll continue to seek the truth, to unravel the mysteries that lie just beyond our grasp.
• 26:16
  SPEAKER_00: So as you bid farewell to this episode, remember, you are not alone.
• 26:20
  SPEAKER_00: The wilderness is alive with secrets, waiting to be discovered by those brave enough to venture forth.
• 26:26
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• 26:28
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• 26:32
  SPEAKER_00: Until next time, the truth is out there, God is with you, and everyone always ends up in the kitchen.