Urban Legends II- Kentucky Meat Shower, Donkey Lady, Mad Gasser of Mattoon, and 7 Seconds without Gravity

Urban Legends II- Kentucky Meat Shower, Donkey Lady, Mad Gasser of Mattoon, and 7 Seconds without Gravity

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.

Speaker A

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 B

And joy and happiness.

Speaker A

We 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 B

Well, I do have four tales for us.

Speaker A

Before 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 B

I believe in belief. I don't know.

Speaker A

I like it. Okay, fine. What stories do you have for us today?

Speaker B

So we're going to start out as I like to do in our home state of Kentucky.

Speaker A

Okay.

Speaker B

We're going to March 3, 1876, in Bath County, Kentucky.

Speaker A

Okay.

Speaker B

It 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 A

What year is this?

Speaker B

1876. Okay, so we. We good?

Speaker A

Yeah. Okay.

Speaker B

Rain 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 A

Okay, continue.

Speaker B

Joe 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 A

Oh, okay, great.

Speaker B

So we've got some good on the ground investigation going, right?

Speaker A

Just. Just eating chunks of meat.

Speaker B

Falling meat. So one sample was given to the Newark Scientific Association.

Speaker A

Yeah.

Speaker B

And it was identified as lung tissue from either a horse or a human infant. Apparently those are very similar.

Speaker A

I don't think so.

Speaker B

Apparently they're almost identical.

Speaker A

I don't. Well, great.

Speaker B

Further samples.

Speaker A

What a weird. It could be a horse or a human infant. Like what a strange sliding scale. We skipped a lot of stuff.

Speaker B

There could have been pig. Could have been lots of things.

Speaker A

Could have been anything. It feels like we just picked out.

Speaker B

You can use like a pig heart.

Speaker A

It feels like we picked out a horse or the creepiest thing possible, human infant.

Speaker B

I'm just. These are the reports.

Speaker A

Why an infant?

Speaker B

Because that's different than an adult.

Speaker A

Okay, cool. Go ahead.

Speaker B

So 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 A

Okay.

Speaker B

Which 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 A

Okay. Yeah.

Speaker B

So one goes. They all go. They ate a bunch of human infant.

Speaker A

Lungs and stop jumping to the human infant.

Speaker B

Or deer. Or deer.

Speaker A

Or horse.

Speaker B

Or horse.

Speaker A

Yeah.

Speaker B

Started vomiting all over Bath County. There's a theory from Dr. Lewis that can bind.

Speaker A

Somebody put a firecracker up a cow's butt and blew it up.

Speaker B

No, it was in the little medical news, and he said vultures vomit as a defensive method when they're threatened.

Speaker A

Okay, cool.

Speaker B

There's a sample that was rediscovered in 2004 at Transylvania University. It was donated to the school. The creepiest of universities in Lexington.

Speaker A

Not in Europe, not in Romania.

Speaker B

Yes, it's a national college in Lexington.

Speaker A

I know it is. Yeah. Yeah. It's great. Rediscovered, though.

Speaker B

It'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 A

When you just put a. What, you just put a hunk of meat in a drawer somewhere?

Speaker B

Yeah. 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 A

Internet reference I just did there.

Speaker B

You did?

Speaker A

Yeah.

Speaker B

All 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 A

Can I ask a question? When we say raining meat.

Speaker B

Well, I would like to give you the name of this event. This is the Kentucky Meat Shower.

Speaker A

Okay, cool.

Speaker B

So you go ahead with your question.

Speaker A

The Kentucky Meat shower. Raining meat. Do we mean some pieces of meat dropping or do we mean like a downpour of meat?

Speaker B

There 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 A

I heard two people talking about.

Speaker B

Well, I just gave two reports. It was. It's a widespread shower of meat.

Speaker A

I don't know. I don't know what to do with this. What are the. Is there some. There's some wild theory.

Speaker B

The main theory is the vultures.

Speaker A

Okay, but what is. The theories. The crazy theories.

Speaker B

Nobody 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 A

Okay. That's actually kind of common.

Speaker B

Yeah. So, I mean, there's plenty of things that could have been. Okay, there's no. There's no definitive.

Speaker A

What's the wild theory that you're not telling me?

Speaker B

I 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 A

Or.

Speaker B

Human infant came falling from the sky and nobody knows how it happened.

Speaker A

You're telling me that you.

Speaker B

I have no.

Speaker A

There's no other theories.

Speaker B

I don't know how to get wilder than just chunks of meat fell from the sky. I don't know.

Speaker A

That's it for the story. There's nobody else going. Here's what happened.

Speaker B

No, there's. There's.

Speaker A

It was part of a lot.

Speaker B

I would love to hear you. That aliens dropped it like they messed up a probing and.

Speaker A

No. They were putting people through the grinder to make human burgers and they just pushed all the.

Speaker B

Well, like Soylent Green.

Speaker A

Well, but that's people eating people. This is aliens eating people.

Speaker B

People did eat this. They picked it. They said it tasted like lamb or deer.

Speaker A

That's the first thing I do.

Speaker B

Which is weird because most people go, huh, it tastes like chicken.

Speaker A

Yeah. But when I find strange meat on the ground, you know what I do? I eat it up.

Speaker B

I don't. I don't know why you wouldn't.

Speaker A

And just grab it.

Speaker B

Times were tough in. In the 1800s. It was 1876, but so small.

Speaker A

But that wasn't here. And I don't know what year that happened. And it also wasn't in Kentucky.

Speaker B

And it didn't have anything to do with meat falling from the sky.

Speaker A

No.

Speaker B

But, you know, hard times.

Speaker A

Cool. I don't know what to do with any of that. I hope they get better.

Speaker B

Well, 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 A

Oh, San Antone.

Speaker B

Yeah. 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 A

Well, it's a big state and big personalities.

Speaker B

Yeah. 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 A

Oh, okay.

Speaker B

You park your car, llama man. You. You honk your horn, just attracting attention. You turn your headlights off.

Speaker A

Okay.

Speaker B

You might hear the sounds of hooves coming from the darkness.

Speaker A

Oh, my God.

Speaker B

Then 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 A

Donkey lady is the. The flip side of the flip side of the coin of the goat man.

Speaker B

Yeah. They go hand in hand.

Speaker A

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker B

And oddly enough, donkey.

Speaker A

Yeah.

Speaker B

Their. 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 A

Okay. Makes sense. Yeah. Normal.

Speaker B

This is. You know, these stories go back to either the late 1800s or early 1900s. So.

Speaker A

Great.

Speaker B

They 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 A

Okay.

Speaker B

And her face, the skin was melted and elongated.

Speaker A

I was kind of hoping that they.

Speaker B

Get a little bit.

Speaker A

It sounds terrible.

Speaker B

Yeah, they're. None. None of these are good.

Speaker A

I was hoping that maybe there was. It was more of a.

Speaker B

In.

Speaker A

In the fire, the donkey and the lady somehow melded.

Speaker B

Wait for it.

Speaker A

Oh.

Speaker B

There's three versions to this tale. So in that version, she's just haunting the area. They live near this bridge.

Speaker A

Gotcha.

Speaker B

And 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 A

I have the powers of a donkey now.

Speaker B

So 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 A

And then he curses them.

Speaker B

Well, 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 A

Or revenge, and somehow takes on the visage of a donkey hybrid woman. Because of the kid picking on the dog. Donkey.

Speaker B

Because she apparently loved the donkey so much.

Speaker A

So much.

Speaker B

And she. She was burned very badly. Third story.

Speaker A

Here we go.

Speaker B

It's a woman living alone, has her own farm.

Speaker A

I love how the story changes so much.

Speaker B

She raises donkeys and loves these donkeys very much.

Speaker A

Like they're. They're her own kids.

Speaker B

Yes. She's a loner. She's out on her own. You know, people call her an outcast.

Speaker A

Instead of a cat lady. She's a donkey.

Speaker B

She'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 A

What's this donkey's name?

Speaker B

I don't have a name. We'll call it Eeyore. How about that?

Speaker A

Oh, so sad. Okay.

Speaker B

Because he's being picked on.

Speaker A

Yeah, but nobody wants to be my friend.

Speaker B

Yeah, 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 A

You know, the problem here, the people is those people made an assumption.

Speaker B

San Antonio apparently sucks in 1800s or early 1900.

Speaker A

The 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 B

And it actually made an ass out of her because they left her alone then, but then they came back and burned down her.

Speaker A

Yeah, that's what we do.

Speaker B

So we've got to concentrate with all the. But in this one, she doesn't burn into a donkey.

Speaker A

She melds with the donkey's soul and.

Speaker B

The donkey soul, who we're calling Eeyore,.

Speaker A

Possibly merge into one merge forged in the fire. Those two souls and now combined.

Speaker B

If you go to what some call Old Apple White Bridge and others call Donkey Lady Bridge.

Speaker A

Donkey Lady Bridge.

Speaker B

I mean, if you just drive through peacefully and don't cause any problems, you're fine.

Speaker A

Yeah, don't.

Speaker B

But if you start honking your horn and yelling and carrying on and harassing donkeys, making an ass of yourself.

Speaker A

Yeah. Doing he haul sounds, then your trunk.

Speaker B

Or hood or some part of your car could be damaged.

Speaker A

Wait a second. So this donkey lady just messes up your car? Doesn't really do anything else to you? Well, mostly messes up.

Speaker B

I would imagine that most people get scared when they hear hooves on their trunk and, like, drive away.

Speaker A

How many deaths have been attributed to the donkey lady?

Speaker B

I have not seen any.

Speaker A

Just mostly damaged vehicles.

Speaker B

Mostly a bunch of meddling kids.

Speaker A

Those kids. Those so, you know, meddlesome kids.

Speaker B

This is a lesson.

Speaker A

Would have got away with it.

Speaker B

Yeah. This is a lesson that you all should take away from these urban legends.

Speaker A

Yeah. Don't.

Speaker B

Stop meddling.

Speaker A

Stop meddling.

Speaker B

Stop.

Speaker A

Stop 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 B

It'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 A

Yeah. If anybody's ever done that. And then you have photographic evidence and an insurance claim associated with the damage to your vehicle.

Speaker B

I don't know many insurances that cover.

Speaker A

I believe that's an act of God.

Speaker B

Does donkey Lady.

Speaker A

Donkey lady fall underneath? Is she an act of God?

Speaker B

Because it seems like she. If you were an act of God.

Speaker A

Donkey 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 B

Okay, well, if that's the case, you let us know. You know, get our email and no.

Speaker A

Such thing as show me the proof of the insurance.

Speaker B

We need pictures. You know, let us know on the bridge.

Speaker A

Not after you visit the bridge and drove home. While you're still on the bridge, take.

Speaker B

A picture of the hooves beating on your trunk.

Speaker A

Yeah, I want to see a donkey lady.

Speaker B

If 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 A

Is this a Batman villain?

Speaker B

He does kind of sound like a Batman villain.

Speaker A

Mad gasser.

Speaker B

The mad gasser of Mattoon.

Speaker A

Of Mattoon. That's a Batman villain.

Speaker B

He clearly is.

Speaker A

So they were smelling sweet odors in their house?

Speaker B

There 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 A

I have a question.

Speaker B

Yes.

Speaker A

Did anybody die from this?

Speaker B

No one died.

Speaker A

What's the point?

Speaker B

We don't know.

Speaker A

So he was just messing with people? He was just effing with people, trying to make him feel weird and he'd run away?

Speaker B

Well, according to police, there was no man.

Speaker A

Makes sense. It was probably, you know, leaky pipes in their house or something.

Speaker B

No, no, no, no. They blamed it. This is 1944, so we have many factories around producing many things for World War II.

Speaker A

And there's also a gas scare because you're going into. Where was this at again?

Speaker B

This is Mattoon, Illinois.

Speaker A

Illinois. 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 B

Funny you should say that.

Speaker A

Oh, okay.

Speaker B

There were theories by people in the area that it was intentional gas attacks by possible rogue Japanese forces.

Speaker A

Get me wrong. Gas was used in World War II or. But it was a little bit different.

Speaker B

Who else could it have been? Who else? Who else could have.

Speaker A

We're not saying the word.

Speaker B

Again, could have been problematic.

Speaker A

Germany and caused. For not saying the word.

Speaker B

You're not saying it. You're not seeing it.

Speaker A

I'm not saying you're not seeing it. I'm not saying it.

Speaker B

Could it have been the Nazis?

Speaker A

No, we can't say it.

Speaker B

We said it. Oh my God, they're back again.

Speaker A

Welcome back Nazis.

Speaker B

But welcome home local authorities.

Speaker A

No such thing as ghosts. The home of.

Speaker B

The 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 A

We are against Nazis.

Speaker B

The anti home of Nazis.

Speaker A

Yeah. Anyway, I mean, gas was used in World War II.

Speaker B

Yes.

Speaker A

It 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 B

No. There were factories though that produced.

Speaker A

That may or may not have multiple wartime. Gotcha. It also could have just been a gas leak.

Speaker B

Yeah. 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 A

I'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 B

Yes.

Speaker A

Nobody really died from it.

Speaker B

And 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 A

Can I ask a question?

Speaker B

Yes.

Speaker A

Why are we talking about this?

Speaker B

Because it's an urban legend.

Speaker A

What's the urban legend here?

Speaker B

The mad gasser of Mattoon.

Speaker A

A guy running around doing it when we.

Speaker B

There were people that thought there was a man. There were people that spotted a man.

Speaker A

It could have been anybody. Like that doesn't mean those two things correlate. They don't have to go together.

Speaker B

That's what an urban legend is. It's a mystery.

Speaker A

Hey, 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 B

Well, not everything can be the wonderful.

Speaker A

I thought was gonna be Squonk. I thought it was gonna be fun.

Speaker B

I could tell you the Squonk every time.

Speaker A

You probably should.

Speaker B

But we're trying to get new information.

Speaker A

Out just to make me happy. Give me a Squonk.

Speaker B

Well, this show is not about making you happy. I don't know if you've listened to any of the episodes anyway.

Speaker A

This 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 B

No, I have some more.

Speaker A

What else you got?

Speaker B

There's some theories.

Speaker A

Sure, we already talked about them.

Speaker B

We talked about some of them.

Speaker A

Okay, give me the rest of them.

Speaker B

Well, I'm trying to, but you just keep butting in.

Speaker A

Hurry up. It's. Quit stalling. Quit stalling.

Speaker B

I'm not stalling anything. I'm trying to tell you a tale. An urban legend even.

Speaker A

You're stalling for time. I can hear it.

Speaker B

I don't understand what the stalling time is.

Speaker A

Let's go.

Speaker B

So it was attributed to mass hysteria.

Speaker A

Oh, those. Those. Hysterectomy having people.

Speaker B

Yes, that's. That's what they called it. They called it mass hysteria. Some people.

Speaker A

All these people have uteruses. It's hysteria.

Speaker B

Yeah. 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 A

No, a meth lab.

Speaker B

Well, 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 A

I don't buy this.

Speaker B

There was a similar case in Boderoot County, Virginia.

Speaker A

Cool.

Speaker B

In 1933.

Speaker A

Great.

Speaker B

Same reports. A mysterious figure pumping gas in the homes. You don't like the mad gasser?

Speaker A

No, I do not like.

Speaker B

Do you not even like the name Mad Gasser?

Speaker A

No. Mad Gasser does seem like he is opening your door, ripping a hot fart and then closing it on you.

Speaker B

Okay.

Speaker A

If that's what he's doing, I'm on board.

Speaker B

Maybe that's what it was. Maybe he had really intense gas bubble guts.

Speaker A

Baby, he was just giving you the maybe Mattoon.

Speaker B

I've heard that Mattoon was the bagel capital of the world. Maybe it was known for something else.

Speaker A

The bagel capital of the world.

Speaker B

That's what I read. I don't. I don't think that's right. I can't justify that.

Speaker A

No, you can't. Yeah. You can't fact check that. That's just.

Speaker B

I don't. And I don't know that bagels like exclusively cause gas.

Speaker A

I don't. I've not had a lot of gas problems with bagels. But if it was.

Speaker B

Maybe that's something else.

Speaker A

We need to look into the dairy capital of the world.

Speaker B

Then that might be a problem.

Speaker A

Maybe we could.

Speaker B

It's. It's southern Illinois.

Speaker A

Who knows who knows?

Speaker B

They got all kinds of stuff in Illinois. Maybe it's bad gas.

Speaker A

All right, I hate it. Next.

Speaker B

All right, for our last urban legend, this will be the first time we have discussed a completely born of the Internet legend.

Speaker A

Oh, I'm going to hate it and you know it.

Speaker B

I forewarned you. You did.

Speaker A

Go.

Speaker B

I don't necessarily like doing this.

Speaker A

Go.

Speaker B

But tell me it hasn't happened yet. But there is a rumor.

Speaker A

It hasn't happened yet.

Speaker B

No. That it's an urban legend and the circulating online. That may or may not happen.

Speaker A

Jesus.

Speaker B

On August 12th of 2026. So there is a rumor circulating that Earth will lose gravity for seven seconds.

Speaker A

Okay, why? Well,.

Speaker B

The 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 A

My God. Thank God the government's on our side.

Speaker B

They're already on it. They do.

Speaker A

Thank God the government is on our side, trying to protect the people.

Speaker B

They do, however, deny that there is anything remotely called Project Anchor.

Speaker A

Where did this information come from about Project Anchor?

Speaker B

So 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 A

Sure, sure, he did. Or she did. Well, what's the name?

Speaker B

His 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 A

Every TikTok is exactly the same thing.

Speaker B

Yeah. There. He's just walking along and there's text on the video that claims outrageous something.

Speaker A

One person is who started this. And then people believe it.

Speaker B

People. Just one person. Yep.

Speaker A

Sounds great.

Speaker B

So you don't think that we will lose gravity?

Speaker A

I'm not going to believe one person who makes something up.

Speaker B

It's potentially due to the intersection of two gravitational waves.

Speaker A

What?

Speaker B

From black holes?

Speaker A

That doesn't make any sense. Well, that's not. That's how any of that works.

Speaker B

No, it's not. And according to scientists. And you can't.

Speaker A

Something like that, you couldn't. You can't. There's no way to measure these things.

Speaker B

According to the scientists that have chimed in on this, if you were to lose gravity. Yeah, that's it.

Speaker A

Yeah, you're dead.

Speaker B

It's over seven seconds. Or not.

Speaker A

It doesn't matter how long it is. Everybody's Dead.

Speaker B

For one thing, you can't really lose gravity.

Speaker A

Nope.

Speaker B

Because it's just a force that's just going to happen.

Speaker A

Literally. Like spinning a bucket around.

Speaker B

Yeah.

Speaker A

So if that stops, everything dies.

Speaker B

If gravity were to disappear, the Earth is still going to rotate.

Speaker A

Correct.

Speaker B

And guess what?

Speaker A

Yeah.

Speaker B

Immediately everything is going to spin off of the Earth. That's not correct. Like really bolted.

Speaker A

Will continue to spin, but it will lose its.

Speaker B

And then because of the rotation, the Earth will start to expand.

Speaker A

Correct.

Speaker B

And you'll end up with a bunch of rubble hanging out in space because.

Speaker A

It's going to break apart as it spins. The other important thing to remember is magnetic fields impact the Earth all the time.

Speaker B

Yes.

Speaker A

And we are protected by our own magnetic field. Right. That's what keeps space debris and everything.

Speaker B

Else it out, keeps us.

Speaker A

Is this going to be part of the other part of this?

Speaker B

No.

Speaker A

I 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 B

Correct.

Speaker A

Right. 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 B

It could knock you out of orbit.

Speaker A

Yeah, 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 B

Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker A

So 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 B

Yep.

Speaker A

And he probably points at it every now and then, makes a stupid face.

Speaker B

Yeah.

Speaker A

Haven't seen it. Just nailed it.

Speaker B

Oh, you're 100% on it. That's what every one of his videos.

Speaker A

So this guy, it's telling this to stupid people and those stupid people are buying it.

Speaker B

It caused an uproar. Grow up. It caused a big uproar.

Speaker A

Grow 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 B

It's about time.

Speaker A

I've been fine all episode. To be completely honest.

Speaker B

This is it. This is the stupid.

Speaker A

And it wastes everybody's. Get a hobby.

Speaker B

I would like to say that you agree. I 100% agree.

Speaker A

You get mad too. And you get mad at them as well.

Speaker B

There is absolutely no way that gravity is disappearing on August 12th.

Speaker A

No, it's make believe nonsense.

Speaker B

And even if it were to happen, there's no project to stop it. This is one project that does not exist.

Speaker A

Here'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 B

So 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 A

That's right.

Speaker B

Or 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 A

At 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 B

If you would like to jump into our echo chamber, you can also go to our website.

Speaker A

We don't have one, but yes, we have. We have a website, but not an echo chamber.

Speaker B

We have a website.

Speaker A

Our website is no such thing as.

Speaker B

You can jump into the website website,.

Speaker A

Which is no such thing as ghost show.

Speaker B

And you can click on the microphone and leave us a message, a voice message. Tell us what you think about crazy Internet theories.

Speaker A

Tell us what you think about me calling out all of the things that I just called out.

Speaker B

Tell us what you think about urban legend.

Speaker A

I don't care.

Speaker B

And here's a better urban legend that you would like us to discuss.

Speaker A

You 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 B

There is one thing that I trust, and it's a meat shower.

Speaker A

There's nothing like a warm, refreshing meat shower.

Speaker B

No, there's nothing that's going to predict my immediate future like a meat shower, right?

Speaker A

I 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 B

And also the possibility of a random mad gasser.

Speaker A

Anyway, we're done here.

Speaker B

Infiltrating my home.

Speaker A

I have no.

Speaker B

These are all things that I trust. I don't really trust a mad gasser.

Speaker A

I 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 B

And happy August12 to everyone.

Speaker A

Sam.