Strange Realm - Ep. 098 - Feb. 9th, 2025

On tonight's show we bring you a super-big superbowl show as we send out a long pass to the weirdest news stories we could find this week, including an update on Sharlie the lake monster, a suggestion new UFO whistleblowers are about to emerge, news about the World's "first" quantum large language model, how archeologists have found they smoked high-power cannabis at funerals in central Asia thousands of years ago, and we look at the 10 most obscure cryptids. 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:
-Sharlie updates
https://northamericancryptids.com/sharlie/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3FPleejIEg
- World's first quantum (simulated) LLM
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/world-s-first-quantum-large-language-model-launched-can-shape-future-of-ai/
- UFO Whistleblowers plan to come forward
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-14367547/Expert-know-Trump-open-floodgates-comes-UFOs.html
- Archaeologists find cannabis use at funerals 2,500 years ago
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/archaeologists-found-that-people-smoked-high-potency-cannabis-at-funerals-2-500-years-ago/
- 10 obscure cryptids
https://listverse.com/2023/10/05/10-obscure-cryptids-and-why-youve-never-heard-of-them/
- 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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