In this episode, it's time for more Urban Legends. First, we head back to 1876 Kentucky, where chunks of mystery “meat” reportedly fell from the sky in broad daylight. Then we travel to San Antonio, Texas, to explore the chilling legend of the Donkey Lady and why locals still whisper about her after dark. From there, we unpack the bizarre case of the Mad Gasser of Mattoon, an unknown assailant said to stalk a small Illinois town with paralyzing fumes. And finally, we jump to the present day to break down a viral internet claim that Earth will lose gravity for seven seconds—what people are saying, what NASA actually says, and ask the question of how people could believe something so stupid.
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Takeaways:
- Andy and Greg dive into the bizarre tale of the Kentucky Meat Shower, where chunks of meat unexpectedly rained down on Bath County in 1876, leaving locals baffled.
- The podcast explores urban legends, with Andy describing his belief in the strange and unexplained, while Greg takes a skeptical approach to these tales.
- Listeners learn about the Donkey Lady of San Antonio, a haunting legend that combines tragedy with a touch of dark humor, showcasing the quirky nature of urban legends.
- In discussing the Mad Gasser of Mattoon, the duo highlights how people reported mysterious gas attacks that left them feeling ill, stirring both fear and curiosity.
- The episode emphasizes the importance of skepticism when hearing outrageous urban legends, reminding everyone to not believe everything you hear online.
- Throughout the episode, Andy and Greg's witty banter adds a light-hearted touch to the eerie tales, making the discussion entertaining and engaging for listeners.
Welcome to the no Such Thing as Ghost Podcast. My name is Greg. Today we're talking about urban legends part two. We already did one. It was about squonk. It was about 100 steps cemetery…
Speaker BAnd joy and happiness.
Speaker AWe loved Squonk. So I hope, Andy, you can't forget the Bunnyman, the Bunny man, and the terrifying Bunnyman. But I hope Andy has something as endearing as the Squonk ready for us today.
Speaker BWell, I do have four tales for us.
Speaker ABefore we get into it, I'm gonna do some introductions. My name is Greg. I'm a hardline skeptic. Andy, how do you best describe yourself?
Speaker BI believe in belief. I don't know.
Speaker AI like it. Okay, fine. What stories do you have for us today?
Speaker BSo we're going to start out as I like to do in our home state of Kentucky.
Speaker AOkay.
Speaker BWe're going to March 3, 1876, in Bath County, Kentucky.
Speaker AOkay.
Speaker BIt started out like any other day. I know that doesn't sound good, but it started out as any other day for the locals, including Mrs. Crouch, who was making soap on her porch, when suddenly rain started falling.
Speaker AWhat year is this?
Speaker B1876. Okay, so we. We good?
Speaker AYeah. Okay.
Speaker BRain started falling and Mrs. Crouch stepped off her porch and walked out into the rain. She said the rain fell with a snapping like noise when it struck the ground. This was no ordinary rain. It was raining large chunks of meat.
Speaker AOkay, continue.
Speaker BJoe Jordan, a local grocer, said that the smell was offensive to the extreme. The chunks were estimated at 2 by 2 inches, with some slightly larger, even 4 by 4 inches. It appeared to be beef, but two men tasted it and judged it to possibly be lamb or deer.
Speaker AOh, okay, great.
Speaker BSo we've got some good on the ground investigation going, right?
Speaker AJust. Just eating chunks of meat.
Speaker BFalling meat. So one sample was given to the Newark Scientific Association.
Speaker AYeah.
Speaker BAnd it was identified as lung tissue from either a horse or a human infant. Apparently those are very similar.
Speaker AI don't think so.
Speaker BApparently they're almost identical.
Speaker AI don't. Well, great.
Speaker BFurther samples.
Speaker AWhat a weird. It could be a horse or a human infant. Like what a strange sliding scale. We skipped a lot of stuff.
Speaker BThere could have been pig. Could have been lots of things.
Speaker ACould have been anything. It feels like we just picked out.
Speaker BYou can use like a pig heart.
Speaker AIt feels like we picked out a horse or the creepiest thing possible, human infant.
Speaker BI'm just. These are the reports.
Speaker AWhy an infant?
Speaker BBecause that's different than an adult.
Speaker AOkay, cool. Go ahead.
Speaker BSo there Were other samples that were identified also as lung tissue, muscle, and cartilage. So there's all kinds of things. I don't know if the cartilage also came from a human infant. I'm not sure. Most theorized that it was meat vomited up by either black or turkey vultures.
Speaker AOkay.
Speaker BWhich are, you know, in the area, it's common for vultures to vomit when they see another one to do so. It's a chain reaction, just like people.
Speaker AOkay. Yeah.
Speaker BSo one goes. They all go. They ate a bunch of human infant.
Speaker ALungs and stop jumping to the human infant.
Speaker BOr deer. Or deer.
Speaker AOr horse.
Speaker BOr horse.
Speaker AYeah.
Speaker BStarted vomiting all over Bath County. There's a theory from Dr. Lewis that can bind.
Speaker ASomebody put a firecracker up a cow's butt and blew it up.
Speaker BNo, it was in the little medical news, and he said vultures vomit as a defensive method when they're threatened.
Speaker AOkay, cool.
Speaker BThere's a sample that was rediscovered in 2004 at Transylvania University. It was donated to the school. The creepiest of universities in Lexington.
Speaker ANot in Europe, not in Romania.
Speaker BYes, it's a national college in Lexington.
Speaker AI know it is. Yeah. Yeah. It's great. Rediscovered, though.
Speaker BIt's a weird thing. Well, they found it in the archives. It was just laying around. Somebody was looking at it, and then they forgot about it, as you do. And it was just. It was there. The age and condition of the sample made it impossible, even with modern DNA, to determine the exact type of meat.
Speaker AWhen you just put a. What, you just put a hunk of meat in a drawer somewhere?
Speaker BYeah. Go bad. This event has been compared to some instances of animal rain where small animals like fish or frogs fall from the sky. Yeah, it can happen, but an old.
Speaker AInternet reference I just did there.
Speaker BYou did?
Speaker AYeah.
Speaker BAll right, go ahead. It can happen during storms or strong. Just updrafts that will lift small animals into the air. Of course, this was not just whole animals. This was just chunks of meat. So I don't know that that's the same thing.
Speaker ACan I ask a question? When we say raining meat.
Speaker BWell, I would like to give you the name of this event. This is the Kentucky Meat Shower.
Speaker AOkay, cool.
Speaker BSo you go ahead with your question.
Speaker AThe Kentucky Meat shower. Raining meat. Do we mean some pieces of meat dropping or do we mean like a downpour of meat?
Speaker BThere was a lot of meat. It was meat upon meat upon meat. It wasn't piling up like a blizzard, but it was to catch a lot of people's attention. It was throughout Bath County. Not just over.
Speaker AI heard two people talking about.
Speaker BWell, I just gave two reports. It was. It's a widespread shower of meat.
Speaker AI don't know. I don't know what to do with this. What are the. Is there some. There's some wild theory.
Speaker BThe main theory is the vultures.
Speaker AOkay, but what is. The theories. The crazy theories.
Speaker BNobody really knows. It just. Meat falling from the sky. It has happened in other places. In 1998, in Honduras, there were several. Several weeks after a big storm. Fish and frogs fell down out of the sky.
Speaker AOkay. That's actually kind of common.
Speaker BYeah. So, I mean, there's plenty of things that could have been. Okay, there's no. There's no definitive.
Speaker AWhat's the wild theory that you're not telling me?
Speaker BI don't know what you're talking about. There's no. There's. The theory is that wild meat just flew out of the sky and nobody knows where it came from. Like pieces of deer or horse.
Speaker AOr.
Speaker BHuman infant came falling from the sky and nobody knows how it happened.
Speaker AYou're telling me that you.
Speaker BI have no.
Speaker AThere's no other theories.
Speaker BI don't know how to get wilder than just chunks of meat fell from the sky. I don't know.
Speaker AThat's it for the story. There's nobody else going. Here's what happened.
Speaker BNo, there's. There's.
Speaker AIt was part of a lot.
Speaker BI would love to hear you. That aliens dropped it like they messed up a probing and.
Speaker ANo. They were putting people through the grinder to make human burgers and they just pushed all the.
Speaker BWell, like Soylent Green.
Speaker AWell, but that's people eating people. This is aliens eating people.
Speaker BPeople did eat this. They picked it. They said it tasted like lamb or deer.
Speaker AThat's the first thing I do.
Speaker BWhich is weird because most people go, huh, it tastes like chicken.
Speaker AYeah. But when I find strange meat on the ground, you know what I do? I eat it up.
Speaker BI don't. I don't know why you wouldn't.
Speaker AAnd just grab it.
Speaker BTimes were tough in. In the 1800s. It was 1876, but so small.
Speaker ABut that wasn't here. And I don't know what year that happened. And it also wasn't in Kentucky.
Speaker BAnd it didn't have anything to do with meat falling from the sky.
Speaker ANo.
Speaker BBut, you know, hard times.
Speaker ACool. I don't know what to do with any of that. I hope they get better.
Speaker BWell, it's a lot of pressure on. I mean, that was a pretty good. I like that one. All right, next so now we're going to Old Applewhite Bridge in Southern San Antonio.
Speaker AOh, San Antone.
Speaker BYeah. Yeah. And Texas. Texas is a lot. There is all kinds of cryptids. There's all kinds of legends, ghost stories. There's all kinds of mix of cultures.
Speaker AWell, it's a big state and big personalities.
Speaker BYeah. So we haven't covered a lot from here. So I guarantee you're not going to have this on your radar at all. This would be. You drive to Old Applewhite Bridge. Okay. You park your car, Goat man. No, you're on the right track, though.
Speaker AOh, okay.
Speaker BYou park your car, llama man. You. You honk your horn, just attracting attention. You turn your headlights off.
Speaker AOkay.
Speaker BYou might hear the sounds of hooves coming from the darkness.
Speaker AOh, my God.
Speaker BThen you might hear a braying sound like a donkey, but not quite a donkey, like a woman imitating a donkey. Then you might hear those hooves crash down on your trunk, scratching and tearing up your vehicle. You might have just encountered the donkey lady. So you were close. Goat man. Donkey lady.
Speaker ADonkey lady is the. The flip side of the flip side of the coin of the goat man.
Speaker BYeah. They go hand in hand.
Speaker AYeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker BAnd oddly enough, donkey.
Speaker AYeah.
Speaker BTheir. Their backgrounds, their. Their backstory. Pretty similar, no, but also both very widespread. So there's three main theories of how the donkey lady became, to be sure. And they're all a little similar, but, you know, they all have similar traits to them. So one of them, the woman, was married, and her husband, for whatever reason, decided to burn her and her children in the barn.
Speaker AOkay. Makes sense. Yeah. Normal.
Speaker BThis is. You know, these stories go back to either the late 1800s or early 1900s. So.
Speaker AGreat.
Speaker BThey owned a farm down there. They had all kinds of animals. Donkeys in particular, probably. And so in this violent episode, she was burned so badly that her hands melded together her fingers to almost look like a hoof.
Speaker AOkay.
Speaker BAnd her face, the skin was melted and elongated.
Speaker AI was kind of hoping that they.
Speaker BGet a little bit.
Speaker AIt sounds terrible.
Speaker BYeah, they're. None. None of these are good.
Speaker AI was hoping that maybe there was. It was more of a.
Speaker BIn.
Speaker AIn the fire, the donkey and the lady somehow melded.
Speaker BWait for it.
Speaker AOh.
Speaker BThere's three versions to this tale. So in that version, she's just haunting the area. They live near this bridge.
Speaker AGotcha.
Speaker BAnd she just, you know, lives forever. Her soul can't rest, and so she just appears to be a donkey. The second story, husband and wife, they have a family. They have a farm. They raise donkeys here, just south of San Antonio. And this boy comes down to their farm and he starts teasing one of their donkeys, okay. And keeps poking at it. Irritates the donkey. Donkey turns around and bites him. Only defense it has. No, he doesn't become the donkey lady. It's not a spider man thing.
Speaker AI have the powers of a donkey now.
Speaker BSo after he gets bitten, he becomes irritated, so he starts beating the donkey violently. And the family comes out, stops him, gets him away, like, hey, you know, get off our farm.
Speaker AAnd then he curses them.
Speaker BWell, no, it's worse than that. He's the son of a very rich man in San Antonio. And this rich man and his son gather a posse. They come down to the farm, murder the family, burn them. The wife does not escape same circumstance. She's burned beyond recognition. Now she haunts the area in retribution.
Speaker AOr revenge, and somehow takes on the visage of a donkey hybrid woman. Because of the kid picking on the dog. Donkey.
Speaker BBecause she apparently loved the donkey so much.
Speaker ASo much.
Speaker BAnd she. She was burned very badly. Third story.
Speaker AHere we go.
Speaker BIt's a woman living alone, has her own farm.
Speaker AI love how the story changes so much.
Speaker BShe raises donkeys and loves these donkeys very much.
Speaker ALike they're. They're her own kids.
Speaker BYes. She's a loner. She's out on her own. You know, people call her an outcast.
Speaker AInstead of a cat lady. She's a donkey.
Speaker BShe's a donkey lady. And same situation. All the kids from town come out, pick on her. Pick on her Donkeys in particular. Her favorite donkey. They're really giving this donkey a hard time.
Speaker AWhat's this donkey's name?
Speaker BI don't have a name. We'll call it Eeyore. How about that?
Speaker AOh, so sad. Okay.
Speaker BBecause he's being picked on.
Speaker AYeah, but nobody wants to be my friend.
Speaker BYeah, they're picking on him, and she runs them off. She's like, get out of here. I'm just trying to live my simple farm life. Get out. Yeah, well, here come the kids. Parents. She's walking across the old apple white bridge, and they come along and start harassing her. Why? Why is your donkey biting our kid? Oh, the donkey didn't bite the kid. They were harassing the donkey. No, no, our kids are great. Your donkeys are the problem.
Speaker AYou know, the problem here, the people is those people made an assumption.
Speaker BSan Antonio apparently sucks in 1800s or early 1900.
Speaker AThe problem is these people made an assumption about this woman. And you know what? That does it makes an ass out of you and me when you assume.
Speaker BAnd it actually made an ass out of her because they left her alone then, but then they came back and burned down her.
Speaker AYeah, that's what we do.
Speaker BSo we've got to concentrate with all the. But in this one, she doesn't burn into a donkey.
Speaker AShe melds with the donkey's soul and.
Speaker BThe donkey soul, who we're calling Eeyore,.
Speaker APossibly merge into one merge forged in the fire. Those two souls and now combined.
Speaker BIf you go to what some call Old Apple White Bridge and others call Donkey Lady Bridge.
Speaker ADonkey Lady Bridge.
Speaker BI mean, if you just drive through peacefully and don't cause any problems, you're fine.
Speaker AYeah, don't.
Speaker BBut if you start honking your horn and yelling and carrying on and harassing donkeys, making an ass of yourself.
Speaker AYeah. Doing he haul sounds, then your trunk.
Speaker BOr hood or some part of your car could be damaged.
Speaker AWait a second. So this donkey lady just messes up your car? Doesn't really do anything else to you? Well, mostly messes up.
Speaker BI would imagine that most people get scared when they hear hooves on their trunk and, like, drive away.
Speaker AHow many deaths have been attributed to the donkey lady?
Speaker BI have not seen any.
Speaker AJust mostly damaged vehicles.
Speaker BMostly a bunch of meddling kids.
Speaker AThose kids. Those so, you know, meddlesome kids.
Speaker BThis is a lesson.
Speaker AWould have got away with it.
Speaker BYeah. This is a lesson that you all should take away from these urban legends.
Speaker AYeah. Don't.
Speaker BStop meddling.
Speaker AStop meddling.
Speaker BStop.
Speaker AStop meddling. Well, donkey lady sucks. Donkey lady is like bunny man, and it sucks real bad. It seems like it might be there. Seems like there's potential. I think it's also a horrible story because everything involves the killing of this lady for no particular reason.
Speaker BIt's a neat thing if you want to go out and test it. If you would like to go out and go to Donkey Lady Bridge, Old Applewhite Bridge, and honk your horn and turn off your headlights and make hee haw noises. You could tell us about that. That would be great.
Speaker AYeah. If anybody's ever done that. And then you have photographic evidence and an insurance claim associated with the damage to your vehicle.
Speaker BI don't know many insurances that cover.
Speaker AI believe that's an act of God.
Speaker BDoes donkey Lady.
Speaker ADonkey lady fall underneath? Is she an act of God?
Speaker BBecause it seems like she. If you were an act of God.
Speaker ADonkey lady is like a natural disaster. There's a flood, there's a tornado, there's a hailstorm, and then There's a donkey lady.
Speaker BOkay, well, if that's the case, you let us know. You know, get our email and no.
Speaker ASuch thing as show me the proof of the insurance.
Speaker BWe need pictures. You know, let us know on the bridge.
Speaker ANot after you visit the bridge and drove home. While you're still on the bridge, take.
Speaker BA picture of the hooves beating on your trunk.
Speaker AYeah, I want to see a donkey lady.
Speaker BIf you have a hoof mark on your face, let's see it. Okay, for our next urban legend. September 1944, Mattoon, Illinois. So several people began reporting waking in the middle of the night to a sweet smell engulfing their homes, then suddenly feeling nauseous. Some even report becoming paralyzed for a short amount of time. Then a few witnesses come forward claiming to see a dark figure flying, fleeing through their yard after gas appeared in their home. So the mad gasser of Mattoon is born.
Speaker AIs this a Batman villain?
Speaker BHe does kind of sound like a Batman villain.
Speaker AMad gasser.
Speaker BThe mad gasser of Mattoon.
Speaker AOf Mattoon. That's a Batman villain.
Speaker BHe clearly is.
Speaker ASo they were smelling sweet odors in their house?
Speaker BThere was a sweet smell in their house, yes. Inside their homes. Several people reported feeling nauseous. Then some reporting being paralyzed, as if they were purposely gassed by something.
Speaker AI have a question.
Speaker BYes.
Speaker ADid anybody die from this?
Speaker BNo one died.
Speaker AWhat's the point?
Speaker BWe don't know.
Speaker ASo he was just messing with people? He was just effing with people, trying to make him feel weird and he'd run away?
Speaker BWell, according to police, there was no man.
Speaker AMakes sense. It was probably, you know, leaky pipes in their house or something.
Speaker BNo, no, no, no. They blamed it. This is 1944, so we have many factories around producing many things for World War II.
Speaker AAnd there's also a gas scare because you're going into. Where was this at again?
Speaker BThis is Mattoon, Illinois.
Speaker AIllinois. I wonder if gas usage in the First World War was a situation that kind of carried over and was unconscious of people's minds.
Speaker BFunny you should say that.
Speaker AOh, okay.
Speaker BThere were theories by people in the area that it was intentional gas attacks by possible rogue Japanese forces.
Speaker AGet me wrong. Gas was used in World War II or. But it was a little bit different.
Speaker BWho else could it have been? Who else? Who else could have.
Speaker AWe're not saying the word.
Speaker BAgain, could have been problematic.
Speaker AGermany and caused. For not saying the word.
Speaker BYou're not saying it. You're not seeing it.
Speaker AI'm not saying you're not seeing it. I'm not saying it.
Speaker BCould it have been the Nazis?
Speaker ANo, we can't say it.
Speaker BWe said it. Oh my God, they're back again.
Speaker AWelcome back Nazis.
Speaker BBut welcome home local authorities.
Speaker ANo such thing as ghosts. The home of.
Speaker BThe home of Nazis. No, I don't think that's what we want to. No, we don't. We don't have that attack line. I. What I would.
Speaker AWe are against Nazis.
Speaker BThe anti home of Nazis.
Speaker AYeah. Anyway, I mean, gas was used in World War II.
Speaker BYes.
Speaker AIt was more effective World War I because of trench warfare. Trench warfare and. And gas settling into trenches. You know what I mean? Is there a military base in this area?
Speaker BNo. There were factories though that produced.
Speaker AThat may or may not have multiple wartime. Gotcha. It also could have just been a gas leak.
Speaker BYeah. And that's what local authorities blamed it on. They said you had. You left your windows open. This factory, you know, had a bit of a chemical leak, had a containment issue. It leaked out and wind blew it into your home. That's clearly what happened. There was no man.
Speaker AI'm not smart enough to know what. I'm knowledgeable enough to know what things are sweet smelling. But it could have been. I mean, anything could have been carried by the air. But some people got a little bit sick, right?
Speaker BYes.
Speaker ANobody really died from it.
Speaker BAnd there were different. Reports varied. It was over the course of about 12 days. Okay, so on September 12, the Daily Alana, a local paper, reported that 33 people reported similar occurrences over 12 days.
Speaker ACan I ask a question?
Speaker BYes.
Speaker AWhy are we talking about this?
Speaker BBecause it's an urban legend.
Speaker AWhat's the urban legend here?
Speaker BThe mad gasser of Mattoon.
Speaker AA guy running around doing it when we.
Speaker BThere were people that thought there was a man. There were people that spotted a man.
Speaker AIt could have been anybody. Like that doesn't mean those two things correlate. They don't have to go together.
Speaker BThat's what an urban legend is. It's a mystery.
Speaker AHey, can I say something, Andy? Just about in general, about this episode. I'm really let down so far about this urban legend episode.
Speaker BWell, not everything can be the wonderful.
Speaker AI thought was gonna be Squonk. I thought it was gonna be fun.
Speaker BI could tell you the Squonk every time.
Speaker AYou probably should.
Speaker BBut we're trying to get new information.
Speaker AOut just to make me happy. Give me a Squonk.
Speaker BWell, this show is not about making you happy. I don't know if you've listened to any of the episodes anyway.
Speaker AThis is nothing. And it. It feels Very much like nothing. There's not a whole lot going on. You don't have anything else either, do you? It's pretty much over.
Speaker BNo, I have some more.
Speaker AWhat else you got?
Speaker BThere's some theories.
Speaker ASure, we already talked about them.
Speaker BWe talked about some of them.
Speaker AOkay, give me the rest of them.
Speaker BWell, I'm trying to, but you just keep butting in.
Speaker AHurry up. It's. Quit stalling. Quit stalling.
Speaker BI'm not stalling anything. I'm trying to tell you a tale. An urban legend even.
Speaker AYou're stalling for time. I can hear it.
Speaker BI don't understand what the stalling time is.
Speaker ALet's go.
Speaker BSo it was attributed to mass hysteria.
Speaker AOh, those. Those. Hysterectomy having people.
Speaker BYes, that's. That's what they called it. They called it mass hysteria. Some people.
Speaker AAll these people have uteruses. It's hysteria.
Speaker BYeah. Yeah. Some people thought that it might be a local chemist just having fun. He lived by himself in his parents backyard in a trailer. He had a lab in there.
Speaker ANo, a meth lab.
Speaker BWell, today it would be a meth lab. Yeah, it would 100% be a meth lab today. But back then it was just a chemistry lab.
Speaker AI don't buy this.
Speaker BThere was a similar case in Boderoot County, Virginia.
Speaker ACool.
Speaker BIn 1933.
Speaker AGreat.
Speaker BSame reports. A mysterious figure pumping gas in the homes. You don't like the mad gasser?
Speaker ANo, I do not like.
Speaker BDo you not even like the name Mad Gasser?
Speaker ANo. Mad Gasser does seem like he is opening your door, ripping a hot fart and then closing it on you.
Speaker BOkay.
Speaker AIf that's what he's doing, I'm on board.
Speaker BMaybe that's what it was. Maybe he had really intense gas bubble guts.
Speaker ABaby, he was just giving you the maybe Mattoon.
Speaker BI've heard that Mattoon was the bagel capital of the world. Maybe it was known for something else.
Speaker AThe bagel capital of the world.
Speaker BThat's what I read. I don't. I don't think that's right. I can't justify that.
Speaker ANo, you can't. Yeah. You can't fact check that. That's just.
Speaker BI don't. And I don't know that bagels like exclusively cause gas.
Speaker AI don't. I've not had a lot of gas problems with bagels. But if it was.
Speaker BMaybe that's something else.
Speaker AWe need to look into the dairy capital of the world.
Speaker BThen that might be a problem.
Speaker AMaybe we could.
Speaker BIt's. It's southern Illinois.
Speaker AWho knows who knows?
Speaker BThey got all kinds of stuff in Illinois. Maybe it's bad gas.
Speaker AAll right, I hate it. Next.
Speaker BAll right, for our last urban legend, this will be the first time we have discussed a completely born of the Internet legend.
Speaker AOh, I'm going to hate it and you know it.
Speaker BI forewarned you. You did.
Speaker AGo.
Speaker BI don't necessarily like doing this.
Speaker AGo.
Speaker BBut tell me it hasn't happened yet. But there is a rumor.
Speaker AIt hasn't happened yet.
Speaker BNo. That it's an urban legend and the circulating online. That may or may not happen.
Speaker AJesus.
Speaker BOn August 12th of 2026. So there is a rumor circulating that Earth will lose gravity for seven seconds.
Speaker AOkay, why? Well,.
Speaker BThe rumor started. We'll get to the why. The rumor started circulating just a few months ago. The US government supposedly has an $89 billion project anchor in place to prevent catastrophe.
Speaker AMy God. Thank God the government's on our side.
Speaker BThey're already on it. They do.
Speaker AThank God the government is on our side, trying to protect the people.
Speaker BThey do, however, deny that there is anything remotely called Project Anchor.
Speaker AWhere did this information come from about Project Anchor?
Speaker BSo it's a supposed leaked document from November of 2024 that dealt with Project Anchorage. It was revealed in December of 2025 by an Instagram user who disappeared shortly after.
Speaker ASure, sure, he did. Or she did. Well, what's the name?
Speaker BHis name is Mr. Danya of I did, I believe, find him on TikTok. And he's still active there, but not on Instagram. And he does videos, which this video is the same of him just. He said moseying.
Speaker AEvery TikTok is exactly the same thing.
Speaker BYeah. There. He's just walking along and there's text on the video that claims outrageous something.
Speaker AOne person is who started this. And then people believe it.
Speaker BPeople. Just one person. Yep.
Speaker ASounds great.
Speaker BSo you don't think that we will lose gravity?
Speaker AI'm not going to believe one person who makes something up.
Speaker BIt's potentially due to the intersection of two gravitational waves.
Speaker AWhat?
Speaker BFrom black holes?
Speaker AThat doesn't make any sense. Well, that's not. That's how any of that works.
Speaker BNo, it's not. And according to scientists. And you can't.
Speaker ASomething like that, you couldn't. You can't. There's no way to measure these things.
Speaker BAccording to the scientists that have chimed in on this, if you were to lose gravity. Yeah, that's it.
Speaker AYeah, you're dead.
Speaker BIt's over seven seconds. Or not.
Speaker AIt doesn't matter how long it is. Everybody's Dead.
Speaker BFor one thing, you can't really lose gravity.
Speaker ANope.
Speaker BBecause it's just a force that's just going to happen.
Speaker ALiterally. Like spinning a bucket around.
Speaker BYeah.
Speaker ASo if that stops, everything dies.
Speaker BIf gravity were to disappear, the Earth is still going to rotate.
Speaker ACorrect.
Speaker BAnd guess what?
Speaker AYeah.
Speaker BImmediately everything is going to spin off of the Earth. That's not correct. Like really bolted.
Speaker AWill continue to spin, but it will lose its.
Speaker BAnd then because of the rotation, the Earth will start to expand.
Speaker ACorrect.
Speaker BAnd you'll end up with a bunch of rubble hanging out in space because.
Speaker AIt's going to break apart as it spins. The other important thing to remember is magnetic fields impact the Earth all the time.
Speaker BYes.
Speaker AAnd we are protected by our own magnetic field. Right. That's what keeps space debris and everything.
Speaker BElse it out, keeps us.
Speaker AIs this going to be part of the other part of this?
Speaker BNo.
Speaker AI mean, but there is no way to go. A black. A black hole is. Is creating a magnetic field. Number one, black holes, they will have. They're dense, so they probably. They'll more than likely create an orbit, not a magnetic field. Like that's the reason why things get sucked into a black hole is because they are super dense. Right. Like it is the absence of everything, but they are dense. And so you get drawn into the black hole.
Speaker BCorrect.
Speaker ARight. You don't. There's no. I can't speak. I don't know enough about magnetic fields and gravitational waves. Gravitational waves, whatever. That. I don't know enough about it to speak for it or against it. But I know that if. If the most likely scenario, if there was a black hole that was going to form, it would more count. It would counteract the orbit that the Earth has around the sun and influence the orbit for it to spin out of orbit.
Speaker BIt could knock you out of orbit.
Speaker AYeah, that would make more sense. But it feels like that would also. There's no black holes immediately near us. They're all deep space objects.
Speaker BYeah. Yeah.
Speaker ASo this guy, they put some text on a. On a TikTok video. His car walking around, doesn't speak. He walks around, just has text.
Speaker BYep.
Speaker AAnd he probably points at it every now and then, makes a stupid face.
Speaker BYeah.
Speaker AHaven't seen it. Just nailed it.
Speaker BOh, you're 100% on it. That's what every one of his videos.
Speaker ASo this guy, it's telling this to stupid people and those stupid people are buying it.
Speaker BIt caused an uproar. Grow up. It caused a big uproar.
Speaker AGrow up. Get over it. For the love of God. Don't believe everything everybody's telling you. There's all kinds of idiots everywhere. Get over it, guys. And you do deserve to get yelled at. And I will get mad about this.
Speaker BIt's about time.
Speaker AI've been fine all episode. To be completely honest.
Speaker BThis is it. This is the stupid.
Speaker AAnd it wastes everybody's. Get a hobby.
Speaker BI would like to say that you agree. I 100% agree.
Speaker AYou get mad too. And you get mad at them as well.
Speaker BThere is absolutely no way that gravity is disappearing on August 12th.
Speaker ANo, it's make believe nonsense.
Speaker BAnd even if it were to happen, there's no project to stop it. This is one project that does not exist.
Speaker AHere's the other thing is, I understand that some people just do it for the memes, they do it for the lulz, and they do it for whatever. But guys, be responsible with it because there are people that are very, very susceptible to nonsense and they are very, very stupid. And unfortunately, here's the facts of it, right? Some people want to play this edgy, jokey game with it. You have to realize that half the population is just the stupidest people you will ever, ever meet, right? It's, it's, it's, it's unfortunately true. People are dumb. And the, and that half the population are very, very dumb. And when you all try to play your little games and you try to have fun and you try to be jokey, you're influencing those very, very, very stupid, very dumb people to believe in that. That's just the nature of it. Most people that you walk by every day doesn't matter how well their life is together or what kind of important job they have. They are stupid. They are stupid and they believe what they are told to believe. Right? And this is coming from the anti government conspiracy guy, right? People are easily manipulated. People are stupid. And if you believe the fact that there are conspiracies, but then you, but you. Okay, that's fine, there are conspiracies, but there are levels to those conspiracies.
Speaker BSo I believe what Greg is trying to say is don't listen to anything you see on TikTok unless you are following. No such thing as Ghost pod on TikTok.
Speaker AThat's right.
Speaker BOr same thing. No such thing as Ghost podcast on Instagram. These are all valid things that you could follow also on Facebook, if you're still using that no such thing as ghosts. You can believe everything that is there. Because we tell nothing but the truth. Especially me. I'm telling nothing but truthful facts.
Speaker AAt least we have two competing opinions on some stuff, right? We have. There's at least it's not an echo chamber. So all you dumb dumbs that want to live in an echo chamber, right, where everybody's saying the same thing to each other, everybody that's doing that thing, right, you can at least rely on us to not be in an echo chamber. You can live there blissfully and stupid if you want to, but we'll never give you an echo chamber anytime.
Speaker BIf you would like to jump into our echo chamber, you can also go to our website.
Speaker AWe don't have one, but yes, we have. We have a website, but not an echo chamber.
Speaker BWe have a website.
Speaker AOur website is no such thing as.
Speaker BYou can jump into the website website,.
Speaker AWhich is no such thing as ghost show.
Speaker BAnd you can click on the microphone and leave us a message, a voice message. Tell us what you think about crazy Internet theories.
Speaker ATell us what you think about me calling out all of the things that I just called out.
Speaker BTell us what you think about urban legend.
Speaker AI don't care.
Speaker BAnd here's a better urban legend that you would like us to discuss.
Speaker AYou all can say whatever you want to say. You can disagree with me, I don't care. But I'm willing to get that feedback. And I will argue with you and I will tell you wrong.
Speaker BThere is one thing that I trust, and it's a meat shower.
Speaker AThere's nothing like a warm, refreshing meat shower.
Speaker BNo, there's nothing that's going to predict my immediate future like a meat shower, right?
Speaker AI mean, imagine watching the news and going, well, we're going to have meat showers moving in from the east coast. It's going to be high winds and careful with your windshields, you'll be covered in meat.
Speaker BAnd also the possibility of a random mad gasser.
Speaker AAnyway, we're done here.
Speaker BInfiltrating my home.
Speaker AI have no.
Speaker BThese are all things that I trust. I don't really trust a mad gasser.
Speaker AI look forward to angry emails and voicemails. So engage. This is not a rage bait. It's just the way I feel. Enjoy. We'll see you next time.
Speaker BAnd happy August12 to everyone.
Speaker ASam.
