Strange Realm - Ep. 097 - Feb. 2nd, 2024

We bring you a powerful and pine-filled episode tonight as we examine all the weirdest things we could find this week, including a look at what appears to be square-shaped ruins photographed on Mars, news of a new world record for the Chinese artificial sun, a creepy discovery of Zombie-spiders mind-controlled by a nasty fungus, and then we head on over to the Ponderosa State Park and Lake Payette, home to Sharlie the lake monster! All of this and then after the break, we continue our reading series as Frobisher reads more from "Our Haunted Planet," by John A. Keel.

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Notes:
- Mysterious "structure" seen on Mars
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/mysterious-discovery-on-mars-inspires-elon-musk-to-investigate/
- World Record in fusion reached!
https://www.techno-science.net/en/news/world-record-for-the-chinese-artificial-sun-is-nuclear-fusion-within-reach-N26432.html
- "Zombie" spiders infected by fungus
https://www.livescience.com/animals/spiders/zombie-spiders-infected-by-never-before-seen-fungus-discovered-on-grounds-of-destroyed-irish-castle
- Sharlie the Idaho lake monster
https://mythicalencyclopedia.com/sharlie/
https://www.worldatlas.com/r/w960-q80/upload/d4/45/8e/shutterstock-1850899204.jpg
- Our Haunted Planet
https://www.amazon.com/Our-Haunted-Planet-John-Keel/dp/1517343119
https://archive.org/details/Our_Haunted_Planet

Intro music: "night drive" by bbrainz (slowed + reverb)
Outro music: "Curious Constellations" by SURGE
Background art: "The Time Machine" by Interesni Kazki (AEC)
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