Do Go On - 146 - The Mad Gasser of Mattoon

Episode Date: August 8, 2018

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Melbourne and Canada, we got exciting news for you. And we should also say this is 2026. Jess, what year is it? 2026. Thank God you're here. Right now, I'm in Melbourne doing my show with Serenji Amarna, 630 each night at the Cooper's Inn Hotel, having so much fun. We'd love to see you there.

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This week's episode of Do Go On is brought to you by Casper. For $50 towards select mattresses, visit casper.com slash do go on. And use the promo code, do go on at checkout. Terms and conditions apply. And stay tuned for a very exciting announcement. What is it? Hello, we have an amazing announcement, if I can call it that. Matt and Jess, what do you say?

I think amazing is probably an okay word. I'm so excited. Or should I say a UK word? What is she talking about, Dave? We're about to announce the new range of candles we're listening. Isn't that what the big exploding? UK candles. Do you go on candles?

One smells like Matt. One smells like jazz. The other one spells like farts. And it's our bestseller. Essence of Dave. It's fart in the can. It's not even a candle. It's just a can.

Stop! No, no, no, we are here to tell you. Probably, honestly, the most exciting thing that I've ever announced. Wow. Sad. And he once announced the death of his friends. Guinea pick. Attention.

A little bit of shush, please. ding ding ding. I'm such an attention seeker. Don't worry, I'll tell the kids. Jerbles is dead. Jerbles. We named our gerbil, gerbil. After the Nazi? That's kerbal's.

Not that I know anything about that. No, we are here to tell you that do go on. Matt, Jess, and myself are coming to the United Kingdom. Yes. In November of this year, 2018, we are coming to do a, a, uh, a, uh, short tour of live do-go-on podcasts across Scotland,

well one show in Scotland and a few across England. Yeah, baby! We are very excited, but also very, very nervous. Yes.

A lot of people have told us they'll come to our shows if we go there. If you were lying, we'll be very sad and very poor. So poor. So poor that this

podcast may have to end. What? It's all on new. I don't realize that much. The only other thing we've got is this candle business. So if you don't buy tickets and come to see us, we're dunzos.

Wow. It is all riding on you, England. And we won't be friends with each other. Oh, God, no. There is so much on the line. Yeah. Did you not realize when we booked the flights? If we don't sell it every show, I'll chop off my left foot. Dave, I don't think they care quite so much about that.

You mean the movie? My left foot. You'll chop it off. You won't let it finish. No. I'm halfway through it. I will not, I don't want to know how this. End.

No, we are coming to the UK for two weeks. We'll be there in total and we are doing six or seven shows. And these are the places that we are coming to. I can't wait to find out if it's six or seven. It's exciting. I couldn't remember. Let's find out together. Let's count now.

We are coming to Edinburgh. That's one. First off. Thursday, November 8th. Then Saturday, November 10, we are in Leeds. That's two. Where Harry Kuhle used to play soccer football as the English. say.

That'll be us soon. We've got to start changing our dialogue. That'll be us soon. Sunday, November of the 11th, Manchester. We will be there. Remember, remember, Manchester on November 11th. I mean, these are all November. So they could do that.

On Wednesday, November 14th, we are in Bristol. This is four so far. I like Bristol, the big hot air balloons and that bridge that looks cool. I haven't been there, but Jess, you and I will experience all that together. Then Friday, November 16th, Birmingham. That's five, baby. Judas Priest country. Wow.

You know a lot. Wow, we're really running out of facts here. Got that praise. And finally, we were wrapping up the tour with one of my favourite cities in the whole world for a big show. Well, not that big, so please do come and pack it out. Sunday, November 18th, we're going to be in London. London.

I don't know any facts about London. I can't think of any landmarks or anything there, unfortunately. Well, we'll discover it all together. So we will be in Edinburgh, Leeds, Manchester, Bristol, Birmingham and London. Now, we haven't booked massive venues because we are, you know, being a bit cautious. I don't know how many people are going to come. So if you do want to make sure you can get a ticket, tickets are on sale now on do go onpod.com. Should you go there?

Fuck, I'm so fucking excited. Seriously, I'm not joking. If you don't pack out these shows, I am leaving. Hey, let's look at their positives. I mean, either way we get to go to England. Matt? And Scotland? Sold out shows.

Do you know where the name Stuart comes from? Oh, God. Tell us again. Scotland. Scotland. Oh, that's so broadened. Scotland. We're going to really have to work on our translations to English and Scottish words, aren't we?

But anyway. Aye. Oh, I. Oh, I. Oh, aye. So anyway, please. I've been watching a lot of Poirot-Roe lately. And the sidekick, Dave, what's his name? Captain Hastings.

Captain Hastings, he goes, this is my, are you ready? My two word Captain Hastings impression, you ready? Yep. Tell me what do you think? I say. Oh, very good. His other one is, good Lord. Amazing phrase.

I say. The episode I watched last night, there was a woman who was wearing a veil, and they're talking about Paro and Hastings are talking about her. And then she takes off her veil, and I guess, and she's like a woman. and we could look very similar to what we could see through the veil. But Hastings like, good lord. Like it was taken aback by her beauty. Oh.

Maybe he didn't say good lord. Whatever, you know, it was memorable. Worth bringing up to. And it obviously wasn't all that memorable. No. Anyway, sold out shows. Please do come along. So it's a mini tour and if it goes really, really well,

then we'll come back another time and do more shows. And if it goes really, really badly, we are done. And that's on England. A couple of English friends have told us that English people and people from the UK in general don't like to travel. So please do travel if we're within an hour of your town, please. Please come along. The podcast is coming home. We're travelling 24 hours.

Exactly. You can go on a road trip. It'll be fun. You're going with a real treat of mean, Kibbem Keen. I'm enjoying it. This is fun for me. I can't wait. We are very, very excited.

I've had a few great fun. trips over there. I cannot wait to get back. I can wait. You must incentivise me. We're also getting super close to our US tour goal. Yeah, now you might be wondering why we're going to the UK first. That's because it's a little bit smaller. It's easy to do. So we thought we'd get this out out of the way under our belts, a bit of traveling touring experience. And that way would probably be easier for us to get a US visa, which are notoriously difficult to get for artists. So. That's so cute. He called us artists. That's very nice. Hey, do you know who did their first big overseas tour to the UK?

Who? Jimmy Hendrix? Huh? That could be us. He was bigger there before he was big in America. I think that's true. It is now. Nailed it.

Anyway, we should do the show. Anyway, on with the show. Please visit do go onpod.com. Click shows. Buy all the tickets, England and Scotland. Bye. Hello and welcome to another episode of Do Go On. My name is Dave Warnerkeke and I'm here with Jess Perkins.

Matt Stewart. Hello David Warnocky. Hello David Warnocky. Oh, wow. And just back in. Oh. You know I love musicals. He has such range.

Well, oh, whoa. How do you do? I'm at the shop and I like to do do do do do. No. Matthew. You hate to do do do, do. I don't know. I don't understand musicals.

Is that how they kind of go? Pretty much. Everything's. You're singing about being at the shops. Yeah, they have about that much depth. That much. Whoa. This episode's weird already.

Hey, can I tell you very quickly, Dave? And, you know, if people in Brisbane over here this, then that's fine. Can I be in on this too? Jess, block your ears. All right. All right, tell me. I'm going to be up for a Brizz Funny Fest in Brisbane, just next week, I believe. I've got three shows only at the Hay-Yar Bar on.

August the 13th, August the 14th and August the 16th all at 9 o'clock. What do the fuck you do on the 15th? Yeah, mate, what the hell? I don't, I didn't book these dates. He's taken a day off. They were like, he couldn't possibly perform three nights in a row. That'd be crazy. There is a, there's a public holiday in there somewhere.

They've got their Eka or, you know, their big show holiday. So I'm doing the night before that. So people got a public holiday the day before. So we can really comedy party. So you're going to have a real rowdy crowd. And I'm also going to be down. in Hobart at the Joker's Comedy Club on August the 22nd. You can find out, there's a ticket link to all this at Matt Stewartcom.com.

Is that right, Jess? Correct. Yes. Nice one. And that's just two days before our Sydney show, which is very close to selling out, August the 24th, Giant Dwarf, Friday night. We'll be there. It's going to be.

Friday night. Fun, comedy, friendship, beers, t-shirts, buy some merch. They sell pies. Yeah, great. They sell a really nice gourmet pause. Hey Jess, I just want to give you a quick rundown on what this show is all about.

In case it's the first time you've listened to it. Yeah, I don't listen. Okay, well, the way the show goes is there's three of us here. We're all people, you know, essentially. We're all people people. Yeah, and we rotate between the three of us, one after the other. You know, classic rotation formation. When it's your turn, it's your turn to go.

You put your head over the ball and you bloody take one for the team or whatever they say, right? And you do a report about a topic. This week it's your topic. Yep. You're going to tell me and Dave that a report about a topic and you will then make everyone happy and knowledgeable. And in the process, we'll all become, even more than people will become really good people.

Wow. The way we get on to the topic that Dave and I don't know what it is, you ask us a question. What is your question this week, Jess, Bob Perkins? Well, in classic Jess Bot Perkins fashion. I have not written one. But I want to ask you a question that is quite, it's not so much about the topic. Okay.

But it will help you get the topic. Okay. But it's about me. So. You're pointing at Matt. So are, I pointed at myself when I said me. No, sorry, but I thought you meant,

is this question for maybe Matt knows? Both of you. So every. You better not answer, Dave. Every time. Seven. Every time we, we do a report on some kind of weird behavior

or like Jeff the Talking Mungoose which was a Patreon episode we had I usually come up with one solution Gas gas leak Boom I was going to say mole people Yeah that's the other one More people dug through a gas pipe But no mole people is who I blame for things

Oh okay Weird things that nobody can really explain I say gas leak Okay. Do you know how that's somehow related to a town called Matoon? Is this that big Indian explosion? No. Is that that little Indian explosion?

No, I don't know what's Mattoon. What is it? Well, you may or may not have heard of the mad gasser of Matoon. No, never heard of it. Fantastic. This was suggested by three people. Victor Gamino de Manuel. Oh my God. Very good name.

Thank you. I just needed to think about that. Wow. Yeah, it's great. Also suggested by Peter C. Kindsler. Oh, that's great too. And Avery Jamison.

Holy shit. All very good names. I swear it's just, we've got one listener just bashing random name generator and then submitting ideas. I'm okay with that because they're all bloody rippers. Wow. So cool. They don't sound real. Yeah.

They were three amazing names. At P to C, I'm like, okay. Yeah, I was a bit dubious. And then you said Quim Quommer, and I'm like, holy shit. That really took off into space. This is why I'm impressed because it's really hard to come up with a fake name. As Matt just demonstrated it. No, what do you mean?

What's P to C's their name? Kinesler. Kinesler, not that far off. Jeremy Quimquammer. I can say Jeremy. No, I was creating a new character. Pleased to meet you. Jeremy, Quimcoma.

Okay. Jeremy, what are you up to? Sorry, Jeremy. How do you spell quim quim quim. Quim and then comma on the end. Oh, you pronounce the comma. Yeah, of course. Of course.

It's Dutch. Oh, sorry, millennials, am I right? I'm 70. Get a job. 70. You're not 70. Dave, we can see you in this scenario. I'm Jeremy Quim, Quammer.

All right. You just going to keep saying that? I'm Jeremy. Oh, okay. We broke him. Tell me about Matoon. So the legendary mad gas. of Matoon.

Matun is a place. It is a town. If you let me finish a sentence, it will make sense. Quim, quamma. Sorry. Was a bizarre figure who wreaked havoc in a small Illinois town called Matoon. Oh, right. So it's in Illinois.

Illinois is so close to Gary. Is it? Yeah. Yeah. Gary's so close to the... We continue to receive tweets saying, don't go to Gary. It's very dangerous.

I told a friend at work that we have a... a fascination with Gary and he was like, he looks like he'd seen a ghost. He went, you can't go there. We're doing a live show on Gary. It's really quite dangerous, apparently. I'm going to go see the railcats play live. I've been in contact with someone at the railcats. I'm going to get some merch sent over.

What? Do you say the podcast? Oh, no, I was just like, because they don't mail it out here, so I have to email them and we're going to figure it out how to get it out here. Love them rail cats Go the cats I reckon you'd have better things to spend your money on Good luck

Anyway This was in 1944 The year was 1944 The last time the Fitzroyd lines won a premiership Fucking hell I can see why you picked it though Jess 1984 1984

Yeah Well this was voted on by the Patriots They chose very wisely What I did this week Was I put up a some of my second chances. So for my last few, six or more votes,

all the ones that came second, which I think you did. You gave me that idea for that. And I got that idea from Matt. Oh, nice. All right, Matt, good job. It's got a full loop. Yeah.

So, and this is what they voted on. Probably because of the name Mad Gasser. I don't think any of them Googled it. It was like, yes, that one. I'm surprised that only came second the first time. It's such a great title. Yeah. I was surprised.

I keep, yeah, I think of an oven. Is it got, is it an oven related? I can't wait to find out if this is cooking related. Well, what makes... Baking. It's about scones. Yum. Scones.

Yeah, but you put cream on first. Yes. I do it the Devon way. I don't like it. Let's not start this again, please. I hate it when we fight. Could we get scones? Yes.

Thank you. No, I actually say no because there'll be a big fight. There won't be a big fight. You can have them however you want to. You do Cornish style, do Devon still. No worries. Is it Cornish? Yeah.

Why do you know that? Who doesn't know that? Yeah, you're right. Sorry. Sorry. Who do you think you're dealing with here? Yeah, sorry. Your Scona Sears.

Fuck it. I'm proud of that. That's good. No, I think it's good. Thank you so much. So, this was occurring in a small town called Matoon, Illinois in 1944. But making matters even more in. interesting was a series of nearly

more interesting than it occurring in a town go fuck yourself was a series of nearly identical attacks that took place in Virginia in 1933 to 1944 so 10 years earlier okay no that interesting so this is an excerpt

from a website I found also I want to put this right now that this particular report is heavily based on two sources because there aren't a lot out there or a lot of like blogs from people now talking about it. Not a lot of like first hand information or. And they all reference back to those two sources. Pretty much.

Yeah, I found that with topics in the past. Yeah. They're the ones where you go, geez, a lot of this may not be true. Yeah. So we'll see. But I just want to put it out there now so I can avoid the tweets. Yes, this is largely Wikipedia. because it was surprisingly the most comprehensive.

Often Wikipedia can be a really good source. It's really great. But this is from another website that I use, which is called prairie ghosts.com. I trust it. I trust it. Forward slash gasser. Little ghosts on the prairie.

Does that mean anything? So this is a quote from that website. Little ghost on the prairie. Sorry, is there a gas leak in here? We're never going to get through this. That's real niche stuff. This is from that website. They realized they were no longer little girls.

They were now little ghosts on the ferry. Sorry, Jess, do go on. So it says social scientists declared that the attacks in Matun had been nothing more than mass hysteria. But now, but how could the Illinois residents have known anything about the events in Virginia, which were bizarrely, which were, fuck, which were barely publicised in order to duplicate them so closely. So people, like they're saying that what happened in Matun was just mass hysteria,

but they're identical to what happened 11 years before. So they're like, how could they have known? It's too coincidental that they're exactly the same. The story of Illinois's Mad Gasser begins not in Mattoon in 1944, but rather in Virginia in 1933. There's no proof to say that the work in the two cases was completed by a single attacker, but the events were so similar

that it would be ridiculous of us, not to admit that the coincidence of it being two attackers is extreme. I will not admit it until I hear more. That is ridiculous. So I wanted to go back firstly to the original attacks in Virginia in 1933. So at around 10pm on the 22nd of December, 1933,

Mrs. Huffman stated that she grew nauseated after smelling a strange gas that had been apparently sprayed into her house. She decided to go to bed, but her husband remained awake and alert to see if the lurker who had sprayed the gas might return. Skunk. Skunk through the letterbox? This is an early theory. I love it.

Skunk people. Skunk people. Yeah, this is something that seems a bit suspicious And I'm worried about it Anyway, off to bed Yeah, weird, right? I sleep it off. I feel rather sick and can smell a gas.

No, not! Husband, you wait and watch. I'm going to get my beauty sleep. Half an hour later, another wave of gas filled the room And her husband went to the home of their landlord Just like, I don't know, get some help. He also telephoned the police there. Officer Lemon of the local police.

Sounds like a real dud. Was dispatched to the scene and he stayed until around midnight. Immediately after he left, another gas attack was launched on the property, filling both floors of the two-story house. So are you imagining like a misty gas or like a smoky gas? What are you thinking? I'm not imagining, Dave. I'm just reporting on facts.

This isn't just a game of make-believe, mate. This isn't your grandmother's fairy tale story, Dave. Now, what are you thinking? What are you picturing there? I'm imagining just when you say filled, because at first I thought it was like, you know, if say someone spread a deodorant can through your front door. Yeah.

But if it's filling the floor to ceiling, it's obviously a lot thicker. But I don't, well, there aren't many. Custed gas? Yeah. There aren't reports. It doesn't get much thicker than that. Is it custard?

Yeah. Sick. Delicious gas. This gas is very liquidy. I don't know if it's all that visible or if it's just that they can smell it or because there isn't really much information where any of them have said like they saw it or maybe they sometimes they can hear it or they're smelling a gassy kind of smell, which I'll go into in more detail.

But I don't know if it's visible. So good point. Why, how do they know it's feeling both falls of the hat? I mean, because they can smell it upstairs too. Like a particularly bad fart. Oh, he who smelled it, dealt it. Yes. So I reckon it's the guy, the dad, husband.

Yep, straight away, dad. Dad's always fart. When he went and got the landlord, you reckon he left his wife upstairs asleep? Yeah, he was like, don't worry about it. Barb, you'll be right. Bob wakes up. What?

He's slamming the door. Night. No, Bob. Barb, you'll be right. Bye, Barb. According to reports, the gas caused the victims to become very nauseated, gave them a headache and caused the mouth and throat muscles to restrict. Alice, the Huffman's 19-year-old daughter, was most affected by the gas.

She had to be given artificial respiration in order to revive her. And she was said to have had experienced convulsions for some time afterwards as well. However, no one could determine what kind of gas was. used. There was a doctor who assisted the police. Doctor who? No, his name was Dr. Breckenridge. Who? I made up doctor.

Okay. Just say you make it up, Jess. That's fine. It's a doctor, uh, Breckenridge, MD. Okay. Oh, medical doctor. Right. They didn't get a doctor philosophy out.

Is that what MD is? No, Dave. It means molecular deconstruction. What is it? I didn't realize I was. dealing with a peanut brain over here. Yeah, PB over here. Yeah, probably PB.

Are you looking for immaculate degeneration? Oh, my God. Dave, you can't get out of this with gibberish, mate. All right. He was, so Dr. Breckenridge. See, I said it the same, so it's obviously written down and real. He was assisting the police with their investigation. Do you Breckon the Ridge?

He ruled out. What was that, mate? Was that Spreckenzie Deutsch? Is that what you were? Well, come, quick time out for me. Yeah. Have a little shush. Dr. Breckenridge, he ruled out ether, chloroform, and tear gas.

He's like, it's none of those. And so they're not sure what type of gases used or who could have sprayed it into the house. So because no one was crying? No one was crying. He's like tear gas, it's out. Can't be tear gas. No one was laughing. It's not an onion.

Wasn't happy gas. No one's dying. It's not dead gas. Death gas. Stuck again. Before we were recording, we were pretending to be like advertising executives came out with the new product. I think death gas would be pretty good. Death gas.

No bad ideas. No bad ideas. Keep them going. All right. The only clue that Officer Lemon found at the scene was a print of a woman's shoe beneath the window. the window that they thought the attack was like a photo of a woman's shoe yes a print wouldn't you want a time out yeah and was it was it inside or outside the house outside oh outside the house um someone's been stepping in the roses again get out of my roses

the next attack um happened not long after um in a town of clover Clarence Hall, his wife and two children, came home from a church service around 9 o'clock on Christmas Eve. Five minutes after they entered the house, they smelled a strange odour. Hall went into one of the back rooms of the house to investigate and came back moments later, staggering and swaying. His wife, who also felt nauseated and weak, had to drag him outside. The effects of the gas did not linger with them, as in like they recovered and were able to sort of move again normally and didn't feel as nauseated. Mrs. Hall experienced eye irritation for the next couple of days, like her eyes were just watering and itchy and irritated.

How irritating? Yeah. Dr. Breckenridge again helped the police and he noted that the gas tasted sweet and that he detected a trace of formaldehyde in it. He still had no idea what the gas was though. An investigators again found only one clue at the scene. Apparently a nail had been pulled from one of the windows, perhaps to make it easier to spray gas inside?

Hmm? Maybe. Yeah, maybe. Probably. Why else would you pull a nail out of a window? Seems like a weird thing to do. Why is there a nail in your window? Shouldn't it be glass?

Nails don't go in glass. What are you doing? Welcome to construction chat with Jess. I was let you go there. Yeah. Hi, I'm Jess Perkins. Welcome to construction chat. This week, we're talking windows.

Nails and windows. Well, there are a no-no. That's my spin-off podcast. It's going to be pretty good. Anyway, thanks for letting me go there. Another attack occurred on December 27 when A.L. Kelly, a welder from Troutville. That is so good.

So good. Can we go there as well? Troutville. Fuck, yeah. Yes. So A.L. Kelly and his mother. in Troutville, were just at home. It says we're sprayed in their home.

That does make it sound like skunk people. Oddly, the police learned that a man and a woman in a 1933 Chevrolet had been seen driving back and forth in front of Kelly's house around the time of the attack. The neighbour managed to get a partial plate number on the car, but the police were unable to locate it. They call them doing Trouties. Trouties, yeah.

People often all just cruise up and down. Still a traplap? Yeah, we're doing trout laps. Trout routes. Trout routes. Yeah, that's like, the locals call trout routes. Yeah, it's sick. But, yeah, I call them trouties.

Yeah, it's just the Australian vernacular. Yeah. We're kooky. Do you guys, do you have any version of that? It was chaplaps. Chapplaps. Have you remember Chapplaps? Is that a thing?

I never did that. Is that thing when you guys grew up? Yes. People joke, it was the butt of many a joke. Yeah. Doing chap lapses. People, if you ever went down chap, they were totally. Totally people go on up and down.

Oh, yeah. So if anyone else, it's people driving up and down, Chapel Street. Yeah. So if you did chaplap with music blaring. Windows down, music blaring. Usually in like a car you thought was impressive, but it really wasn't. Nissan, as Americans call them. God, they're crazy.

Oh, so I drive a Mazda right. And we just had to get one because the other car got rid. Anyway, it doesn't matter. But I had to look up a video on how to get the Bluetooth working. And the guy says Mazda, like, 17 times in the first 30 seconds. But in America, they don't say Mazda. They say Mazda.

Mazda. Mazda. Or something like that. I was crying. Also, he's saying it was much. He was saying monster. Oh, man. It was one of the best things that's happened to me.

Yeah, but did you get the Bluetooth working? Yes. Sick. But what kind of Bluetooth was it? Mazda. Oh, of course. So you've got a car now. with Bluetooth so I can only assume it's a fancier car than the last car.

Now the last car had it. I mean, it's just shitty Bluetooth. My car does not have Bluetooth. It's a, does it have a cable hanging down from the, you know, there's fancy and there's fancy. All right, great point. Anyway, congrats on the new car, the Mazda. Yeah, congrats on the Mazda. I regret bringing that up.

Why? We're all showing up about what we own. Yeah, I earn a Toyota. Dave's not going to say what he owns. All right, I'm going to come out to her. One of the weirdest things that's happened through this podcast is someone can't remember your name. If you're still listening to the show, I assume it was from the podcast, tweeted me about four times saying, can you confirm you drive a Volkswagen?

And then do you drive a Volkswagen? Confirm you drive a Volkswagen. Like they're all threatening me. It was so weird. And I can not confirm nor deny that I'd drive a Volkswagen. That's amazing. And you've joined us with Jess Matt. and Dave on car chat.

Chat and cars. We know so much about them. We know so much about them. I've watched a YouTube video about Bluetooth. I know where to put water for the windscreen wipers. Only for that. I had to put oil in the car and had to watch a YouTube video in the petrol station in the car. But like I was never selling there basically had to come out and be like, are you okay?

Yeah. Just watch the video. Just watch some porn. Yeah. You don't want them to know you don't know anything about cars. It's okay if I think you're a pervert. I need some lubricant. Not for the car.

Give me all the loop you got. Oh, sorry. You sell up by the gallon, right? Do you have any of those puffballs? I need two drums of lubricant. Just to be clear, we're talking sex loop. For my car. Yes, I'm fucking my car.

All right. Okay. Is that what you wanted to hear? Yeah. Happy now. No, sir. No, I'm not. Please leave.

Please get out of my shop thing. This is Target. It was Target all along. In America, they call it Targe. Do they really? No. Anyway, okay, so there's been another attack and they've seen a car, which does tie in nicely to our new podcast Car Chat.

But another time. I've seen a 1933 Chevy. Chevy. Which is actually the car I drive. I can confirm that. A 1933 Chevy. Well looked after. I don't think that's...

I've changed the oil a lot. I've been in the car and it feels a lot like a Volkswagen. A Volkswagen. That was a fun way of saying it. More like Volkswagen, am I right? Over the next month or so, there were numerous attacks made around the town. However, during the following... week after these months there were 20 attacks report. Yeah I know that's it. That's it. It makes

sense. So there's some attacks. But then within a period of of one week, there were 20 attacks reported in nearby Roanoke County and a number of other reports in Lexington about 30 miles away. You're getting sorry about Roanoke. Yeah. So 20 attacks were reported. Yeah. In a, in a in places far away. Wow, this is out of control. And while a few of the later attacks may have been genuine, they lacked the detail of the original incidents and most were likely hysterical reactions to ordinary odors

or the result of hoaxes. There was lots of people then like capitalising on it. I was imagining. I was imagining someone doing a bad fart and then being like, no, we got gas. I feel sick, can't breathe, can't breathe. No, you smelt it first, so it wasn't. Oh, call the best.

Beckendale doctor. Beckendale. What's his name? If you're going to make up a doctor. Spreckin the Deutsche Dochen Doctor. Spreckin the Deutchen. Spreckin the Deutcheon Doctor. His name was Breckenridge.

Breckenridge. Yes. So there was a few instances, like I was saying, of hoaxes or pranks. You got punked. Oh, fart bomb. Classic. We'll never forget the days of high school. Someone runs into the locker bay with a fart bomb, throws it down.

It goes off. Everyone's running and screaming. Yeah. Hilarity ensued. So good. What a prank. Well, in one of these hoaxes, a teenager threw a bottle of insecticide into a woman's window. Okay.

I mean, they've taken the fart bomb prank a little further than we do. Not through the window, though, into it. Into the window. Bounce back, hit him in the head, broke their nose. Very funny. The cops aside. It'd already been punished enough. Yeah, the cops could not stop laughing, to be honest.

Also, that boy. was a big beetle. So he did not appreciate getting hit in the head. By the insecticide. Yeah, beetles and insects. I mean, it would probably still kill them. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, they are.

What is wrong with us today? It's a weird energy. I don't hate it. I don't hate it. Sorry, so why did someone throw an insecticide through a window? It's the prankin. That is a lit prank. No, because everybody's going, oh, there's all these gas attacks.

Then they're like doing fake ones. And some kids like, let me throw some bug stuff through the window. I mean, who can explain them out of a teenager, really? There was, because there was all of these kind of hoax attacks, the police and the newspaper sort of declared that the gas and mystery was over. They're like, none of these have been real attacks. It's just hoaxes now. were all okay.

But the last insecticide case, because there was a few cases of people pranking each other with insecticides because it would obviously smell bad and people would think, oh God, we're being guessed. It must have been a different time, right? Yeah. They're very bored with that TV. It's the 30s.

Oh, we're still on the 30s one. Yeah, this is the 30s one. This is the prequel. Yeah. So there was a, An incident where a guy called J.G. Schaefer believed his house was gas. And this is on the 9th of Feb. This would be 1934. He went outside and he scooped up some snow that contained a sweet-smelling substance.

It was analysed and was determined to contain sulfur, arsenic and mineral oil, which was commonly used in insecticide sprays. This caused the police to dismiss the attack as a hoax. But was it really? This is again from the Prairie Ghost website, which I love. A lot of questions in it. I love it. I love a cliffhanger.

An arsenic is very bad for you. Yeah. Oh, it's on the arsenic. What do you mean? Well, strangely, investigators found footprints leading from the front porch of the house to the barn, but no trail that led away from the barn. So it's almost as if whoever had been on the porch and then walked the barn and vanished. They couldn't find any other trails anywhere.

And also, as with some of the other earlier cases, a woman's tracks led from the yard out to the road. Oh, remember there was the woman's footprint underneath that first window. Exactly. Wow. So you think it's the same person? Same footprint. What are the odds of there being two women in this town?

No, no. That can't be. Or two pairs of women's shoes existing. Wow. I mean, it's 1933. I don't think so. Yeah. Had women been invented?

Do they have that technology? They had one pair of shoes and they took turns. wearing the shoes oh my day for shoes they didn't have birthdays like we do know it's kind of like all about you they had shoe day

right do you get one of the pair or both it's shoe day Dave not shoes day I mean there was only one footprint found wasn't they yeah they were hopping they used to hop back then

they hadn't invented walking yet walking came around in the 1950s and all boy did they nail it oh it took the world by storm yeah I've heard of it People were walking everywhere down the shops, down the beach, up the hill. Down the hill.

Oh, stairs. So much easier now. Sounds like a great time to be alive. Yeah, it really was. Now we just bloody take walking for granted, mate. We do. But, I mean, every year on National Walking Day, International Walking Day, should be. But anyway, that's a story for another day.

We all have different ones, all of us nations. But yeah, that's why we remember Gregie Donaldson. and that day he turned a hop into a walk and we've never looked back as a species. Yep. So there was a few cases that came along after this as well. But the general public sort of began to, they were told and sort of started to believe that,

of this theory that faulty chimney fuels and wild imaginations had caused the whole thing. So people call up, they're like, it's just your wild imagination. All right, I like to say that. Carry on. Just some chimney fumes. I'll go back to bed with these fumes swinging around my head. Nighty night. I can't feel my legs. What are chimney fumes?

Just smoke. Is it like burning coal? Well, I think it was like of factories nearby that did have chemicals. Oh, right. Okay. Even though those factories then had passed all these safety tests and said, well, we've only got this amount of bad chemicals. and they're all contained safely, so no.

Yeah, but anyway, it was enough that people, kind of, the hysteria and the panic calmed down. But the police and the victims, the people who were attacked, they didn't accept that explanation. They're like, no, I don't think that's it. But the attacks did stop. And it was almost as if the strange figure left Virginia and vanished without a trace, never to return again.

And while perhaps the gasser did not return, could he have possibly surfaced in Illinois, 11 years later? I mean, it takes a long time to hop from Virginia to Chicago. That is a big journey, yeah. That's an 11 year hop. You put them into Google Maps, it'll tell you 11 years. Hopping. You can select hopping.

Of course. Even now, it's one of those retro modes of the other. Which I love. It's kits now to hop. Yeah. Grammophones and hopping and bopping. Records and hopping are coming back, baby. Yeah, big time.

The hipster hop. That's what hip hop is all about. The hipster hop. The hipster hop. That's where it started. Just you might have I just interrupt you very quickly to tell you about something great? I do mind. Just kidding. Go on, Dave.

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for $50 towards select mattresses. Thanks, Casper. Now on with the show. Okay, so then we move from Virginia to Matoon, Illinois. We hop on over, baby. I think that's a great name for a town as well, Matoon. Well, it's M-A-D-T as well. So it's Mattoon.

Mattoon. I love this. Is that Scottish for my town? It's Matoon. Mattoon. Edinburgh's Matun Come on down to Mittoon.

So are you saying It's a Scottish name? Oh my God. Scotland. You sure it's not Mato on? Mato on. Matt O'on. So the first of the 1944 gasser incidents

occurred at a house on Grant Avenue, Mattoon, on August 31, 1944. Urban Rafe That's a name So the first name is urban Urban That's not real

Urban Rave The great name Was awakened During the early hours of the morning Have you ever laughed when someone Introduce themselves to you Hi I'm Urban Rife

I'd be like No you're not Hi this is my boyfriend Urban Okay Okay Keith Fuck off Fuck off Keith

Fucking hell I go to Tennessee, you prick. Keith Urban? Yeah, Keith Urban. I did not get it. Actually, you're just giving you my boring name. Okay, mate, let's be honest. Your real name's Keith, and you're trying to be cool.

You're trying to be urban. Urban rife. Isn't my friend Johnny R&B, whatever, man. Urban groove, fuck. Hi, I'm just hip-hop. Yeah, yeah you are. So, hey, it was awakened in the early hours of the morning by a strange odour.

He felt nauseated and weak and suffered from a fit of vomiting, much like I did a few weeks ago on this very show. Yeah, that's not a good way to vomit either. It wasn't great in a fit, no. Suspecting that he was suffering from domestic gas poisoning, which was very astute of his wife, she tried to check the kitchen stove to see if there was a problem with the pilot light, but found that she was partially paralyzed and not able to leave bed as well.

I said that kind of in a happy tone. I didn't mean that. My face was concerned. You said she went to check the stove. No, she was like, she wanted to get up to do that. I like it because in my head. Yeah, she was there looking. And then suddenly she's in bed again.

Ed really blew my mind. Yeah, well. Ed do go animation there would have really tripped me out. Yeah. You would have been a pool back and all of a sudden she's not upright. She's on her back and in bed. And that's not the stove, but the pillow. The bed's in the kitchen.

Yeah. She sleeps next to the stove. That's classic whatever this lady's name is. As in with most of these, they are just Mrs. Something. Wife of Urban. Yeah. She's Mrs. Rafe. Oh, Urban Rafe.

Maybe one of the best. Not good. I like it. Urban Rafe. It's growing on me. It sounds like a cool, yeah, stage name. No, it doesn't. It sounds like a crime.

Urban Rafe. Yeah. Charged with Urban Rafe. I don't know what that is, but it sounds like you should go to jail for life. Yeah, sounds like you're a cell for life. Yeah. Sounds like you're a. Sicker. Ban is a thing that's not allowed.

There's a ban. On urban rafing? Urban. Okay. I'm not sure. I'm going to go on. Trying to figure out what Dave, with Dave's angle. To me it sounds like a real cool dude.

Well, he, apparently, I'm sure he is. Was. Thank you. Later that night or early the next morning, a similar incident was also reported by a young mother living close by. was awakened by the sound of her daughter coughing, but found herself unable to leave her bed. She's going to get up to check on her daughter and couldn't get out of bed. Now when you're that tired, you're like, do I really need to check on her?

She'll be right. Just a couple more hours. Self-soothing. Let her self-soot. Yeah, exactly. She needs to work things out for herself. When will they learn if you're always at their beck and caught? And the kid wasn't crying.

She was just coughing. Coughing out. Coughing out. Which is fine. She's just having a vomiting fit. She's just having a cough. Babies have vomiting fits. Okay.

It's normal. We don't have to shame them for it. Okay, you're a new parent. You're going to be a little bit paranoid that things aren't normal. It's not in all the baby books. It's normal. Yeah. Babies have vomiting fits.

And they cough through the night and sometimes through the baby monitor, it might sound like they're saying, I'm going to kill you, Mom. But it's normal. Your kid's not special. No. Stop thinking they're special. They're not special.

Oh. Oh, they're the son of the dark lord. Yes. They all are. Yeah. If they weren't the son of the dark lord, then they'd be special. Yeah. Yeah.

But they all are the son of the dark lord and we worship the dark lord. Yes, we all worship the dark lord. Bialzab. That's where they shortened to Bob. So just chill. That's what they call Bob. That's good. There's something wrong with us.

It makes sense to me. There's nothing better than a... That's good. No, I laugh first. That's good. That's funny. I reckon when I was at school, I think year 12, there was a girl who was obviously so used to, like, texting and instant messaging that instead of laughing, she'd just say, lull.

Oh, that's no good. And I wanted to just pin her down and strangle her to death. Did you want to make her ruffle? Yeah. I wanted to make her rothed. The days for dead. Roll on the floor dead. Yeah.

Wow. All right, dying. Oh, okay. I'm picky over here. Roll on the floor dying. Your next month. From laughter or strangulation? Oh, my God.

So the next day was September 1. And a third reported incident occurred. Mrs. Kearney of Marshall Avenue, Matoon, reported smelling a strong sweet odor around 11 p.m. What was she doing up at 11 p.m? At first she dismissed It is a bit Squirting gas, I reckon

Squirting was your choice there I don't know Spray Spraying gas Gassing gas Gassing squirt I reckon you squirt it No you squirt a liquid

Probably Yeah Yeah okay It's a gas Shooting gas All right I'm My laptop battery will

run out before you get to what you want. So can I just go on? Yes, please. Thank you so much. At first she dismissed the smell, believing it to be from flowers outside of the window. Okay. Floral gas. But the odour soon became stronger and she began to lose feeling in her legs.

It's still the flowers. Yeah. You know what flowers are like. They're very strong. It's the first day of spring. I've got some numbing chulips. know. And she was panicking a little bit, and she called out to her sister, Mrs. Reddy,

probably Reedy, but it's spelled the same as Reddy, who was also in the house at the time. And she also noticed the odour and determined that it was coming from the direction of the bedroom window, which was open at the time. The police were contacted, but no evidence of a prowler was found. At around 1230, Bert Kearney, we got his first name, Mrs. Kearney's husband, he was a local taxi driver, so he hadn't been there during the time of the attack. Bert Cernie's another great name. Bert Cernie. It sounds like Bert Nernie.

That's why it's good. Just quickly, an Annie man, you guys? Big Bert. Yeah, yeah. So I've heard you be a birder. This guy, what are you? Oscar the Grouch over here. Cookie, cookie.

Love the Cookie Monster. I always like the ones that they're from space and they go, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep. Aha. Uh-huh. I like them. They were like red and blue. I mean, if we're extending out to all the whole universe. But I'm...

I think, uh, Bert. And let's not forget, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve. I almost got out of count. I'll play back the tape. Dut-n-da-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-de-d-d-lead. Line. Anyway, so her husband. The husband's come home about 1230.

Bert Nanny. And he saw a man hiding close to one of the house's windows. Oh. So the guy fled. That sounds suspicious. The guy fled and Bert chased him for a bit but was unable to catch him. So he got away. His description of the prowler was of a tall man dressed in dark clothing wearing a tight fitting cap.

This description was reported in the local media. Like a swimming cap? He's wearing like a bald cap. He had goggles and flippers. I can't believe he outran me. He was very speedy. He jumped into a pond. And boom!

Those flippers, I'll tell you what. Sorry, the local paper. The local paper, all the local media reported on this description, and it became the common description of the gasser throughout the entire incident. There weren't really many other sightings. So most of like the image of the gasser comes from Bert Kearney. After the attack, Mrs. Kearney reported suffering from a burning sensation on her lips and throat. Oh, you don't want it there.

No. When do you want it? Yeah. Top five places go. Okay. Between your toes. Burning? Yeah. Tinia, central.

Okay. Where else? No, good. Oh, sorry. Are we talking about good burning or bad burning? What's good burning? I have no idea. Are you having an asthma attack?

Are you burning? up over then. Back burning, obviously. You know when you're getting tips in your hair, that burning? Because you know fashion burns. Hey, yeah, beauty is pain. Blonde tips. Clusting.

We still doing that? Laser hair removal. Laser hair removal. That burns a little bit, worth it. Yeah. Yeah, I reckon. Why do you think I've got such a smooth nose? Used to be a real furball.

But now, it's so smooth. I didn't even greet Matt normally anymore. I just stroke his nose. Oh, soft nose. Yeah, I don't like that imagery at all, actually. Harry nose. You did that to yourself. Anyway, so they thought this burning sensation she was experiencing

was obviously an effect of the gas. Initially, it was suspected, this is so great, by the way. It was suspected that robbery was the primary motive for the attack. At the time of the incidents, the Kearney had a large sum of money in the house, and it was surmised that the prowler could have seen Mrs. Kearney and her sister, counting it earlier that evening. With the window open.

So they're just sitting there window open lights on counting the cash. $4,012, $4,013. Dollars, that is! Yelling out the window. The exchange rate's quite good, you know. Oh, so much money! 28,000! Once we're done with the cash, we'll do the jewels.

One, diamond. A two. 4,006, diamonds, that is. What is wrong with people? Yeah, don't count your money next to a window. Yeah. And yell out the amounts. That's one of the first rules.

And say, oh, wow, we're very rich. I hope we don't get robbed. I mean, honestly, honestly, it's sad that I have to say that. Thank you. A few people are at home scribbling down notes. They're like, wow. Just telling it like it is. A few people at home are closing.

windows. Yeah. And then going back to counting their cash. But not quiet. Say some numbers to throw them off. 72, 6 to 12. 1.1, 1, 1.1. You know when people are doing that when you're counting.

Robbers won't, they won't steal money unless they know to the dollar how much you have inside. I mean, then I'm not, if I'm a robber, which I'm not. Just why are you winking? No, Matt, I'm not winking. Was that a wink? No. You squelched your face. Squelch.

You just can't get words right today. No, words are tough tonight. No, I squelched. That looked like a squelch to me. I felt squelchy. I'm not squelching. I'm not squelching. But you're not a rubber.

What were you going to say? If you were a rubber. I'm not rubbing for like $12. She's squelching again. Anyway. I'm not getting out of bed unless my kid costs $15. times or I get $15 Yeah

Alright Bealzebub I'm not getting up Unless you give me the secret code Of 16 coughs Oh of 6666 coughs Yeah 665 coughs One more

What's that that Simpsons The fish When he's deep sea diving And Grandpa's got this system What is it the hammerfish Yeah Yeah, Curse of the Flying Hellfish. Hellfish.

That's a very good bit. 61, 62. Oh, no, I killed my only grandson. 63. Yeah, 62 means you're dead? Yeah. And 63 means pull me back up. Those little pause between 62 and 62.

Very funny stuff. In the days following the attack on the Kearnies, there was about half a dozen similar attacks though none of the victims were able to provide a clear description of the prowler and no clues were found at the scene of the attacks that was until the night of September 5 when Carl and Bueller

so we got her name at least and her name's Bueller cords of North 21st Street returned home around 10pm they noticed a piece of white cloth slightly larger than a man's handkerchief, sitting on their porch next to the screen door.

Bueller cords picked up the cloth and smelled it, which is the first thing I would do, obviously. What, mate, what? She just picked it up and given it a sniff. That's the first thing I'd think to do. Give it a smell. Don't smell anything. In this town, block your nose off.

Yeah, that's the other thing. I wouldn't do it now and people aren't being gassed in my street. I'm not picking it up and smelling it. No. You wouldn't do that under any sense. circumstance, but if people have been gassed... Not something left. Like, if, this is the circumstance where I will pick something up and smell it.

If I have worn an item of clothing, and I'm seeing if it can be worn again. Yeah, but it's your item of clothing. That's fine. I know who put it there. Me. Was this Bueller's slightly larger than a man's handkerchief white piece of cloth? No. Wow.

That seems like a weird call. Why is she smelling it? As soon as she inhaled... Maybe she dealt it. She became violently ill. Fuck. She described. the effect as being similar to an electric shock.

Her face began to swell. She experienced a burning sensation in her mouth and throat, and she began vomiting. As with other victims, she also reported feeling weak and experienced partial paralysis of her legs. Bueller later hypothesised that the cloth had been left on the porch in order to knock out the family dog, which usually slept there so that the prowler could gain access to the house unnoticed.

Yet the dog was too clever to sniff it, but she wasn't. She fell for it. So I don't think the dog's looking at it. was the target. I was looking at it like, you're an idiot. Why would you smell that? Come on stiff that shit. A stranger put that there.

The cloth was analysed by the authorities, but they found no chemicals on it that could explain Bueller's reaction. Oh, mystery chemicals. Weird. Public concern over the alleged gassing's quickly rose. The FBI became involved, and the local police issued a statement calling on residents to avoid lingering in residential areas and warning that groups set up to patrol for the gasser

should be disbanded for reasons of public safety. So people were like, we're taking it upon themselves to like patrol and keep the neighbourhood safe, but then the police were like, don't do that. Unreged team drinking without a permit. How many Simpsons references? Also I love like in their press releases like don't sniff any cloths you find.

Yeah, don't smell random objects. I can't believe we have to say this again. Put the pitchforks down and stop sniffing stuff. I'm sniffing. So there's a fair bit of panic by this stage, and by the 12th of September, local police had received so many false alarms, mostly from citizens believing that they'd smelled gas or that they'd seen a prowler, that they reduced the priority afforded to gas at reports

and announced that the entire incident was likely the result of explainable occurrences exacerbated by public fears and a sign of the anxiety felt by women while local men were on war service, because this is 1944. So they're saying it's just you ladies. Wanting some attention. Probably all synced up. I don't know if they believed that back then. Who knows?

Took me a while to figure out what that meant. Yeah. You're all panicking. Just having a little panic. You're all sniffing cloths. Sniffing cloths. You know, the men are gone.

We're always panicking. There's a line from one of Jess's great bits. It's a good bit. It's a real good bit. I'll quote until the day I do. Me too. I'll never write a joke as good. So I'll be doing it until the day I do.

I used to say that about your spoons bit, but, you know, then you started panicking. That's true. You've always been my biggest fan. Well, Dave's right up there. A fan of me. Yeah. I'm a huge fan. Big fan.

I tell people you're great all the time. Do you? He does. Who? Who have you told I'm... Greg Norman? Did you tell Greg Norman I'm great? I...

Can you please tweet it Greg Norman and say... I will tweet him. Hey, Greg Norman. Just wanted to let you know Jess Perkins is great. I'll do it right now. Thank you. You're the Great White Shark. Well, she's the great white shark.

Jess Perkins Nice Can I change my nickname to White Shark? Well she's the Great White Shark Shark! Chart! I want to be the Great White Shark. I don't want to know.

You are. I don't want to be that. Hey, if you want to be, you can be. I regret it. So after the police announcement, Gasser reports did decline. The only incident of arguable note

after that date was the case of a woman called Bertha Burt. who claimed she saw a gasser who was a woman dressed as a man. Hmm. Which kind of fits in with some of those instances. The shoes and the man. And when she says dressed as a man,

I wonder if she was just wearing like pants or if she had a mustache. Oh, when did pants cross over to? I don't remember. Dave, do you know when it was okay for ladies to wear pants? Were pants around before people? Could walk? I always thought that pants and walking went hand in hand. I remember PL Travers was a badass for wearing pants.

Yeah, when was that? I did the report. I should know. Is that the 20s? Yeah, early, first half of the 20th century for sure. Yeah. 1930s maybe, I reckon? They're probably wearing pants by this stage.

So that's sort of what happened in terms of the gas attacks. There are a few theories, which I would like to share with you, and then maybe we'd have some theories of our own. Okay. I love theories. So the first theory is mass hysteria. Boring. It's a boring theory.

It is a boring theory. Almost two weeks after the matoon attacks began, the local commissioner of public health, a guy called Thomas V. Wright, announced that there had undoubtedly been a number of gassing incidences. He's like, I'm not denying that. But that many instances were likely due to hysteria. So residents' hearing of alarming events

and then panicking when confronted by an out-of-place odour. It's kind of like when you're reminded of something and then you see it everywhere or like... Yeah, I love when that happens. Yeah, it's kind of weird, but it's probably that sort of thing too. And you're like, did that word even exist last week? Yeah, and now I've heard it eight times today. Totally. And it's just that you're noticing it.

So it could be something like that where they've heard of people being attacked with gas and then any smell, they're like, it's gas, but it's not. Yeah, it's like, you know that thing where if you'll see someone and someone I think there's a spider on me. And then you can sort of feel a spider on you. You know, when you see a person. I don't know why I had to give that context. I think there's a spider on me.

No, today I was in, I was driving the car. It wasn't my car. I sold a car. Help me. No, I had my boyfriend's car and he had left a can. You stole your boyfriend's car? I stole it. He doesn't know where it is.

Shh. Everyone, shush, shush. He left a can of... Everyone was sound of light, I think he's outside. Stop counting your money. He held a can of sprite in the car, and it still had some sprite in it. But I had driven the car that morning, and it was fine.

I went into... I was in a building for an hour. I came back out. There were ants all over the sprite can. So I took it out of the car, threw it out. And then I was driving along and just, like, felt like there were ants all over. I was like, oh, I know they're gone, but blah. You've just done that to people around the world.

Sorry. Ants. Ants everywhere. Did ants even exist this time last week? So, yeah, this is Thomas V. Right. He's the Commissioner of Public Health. This is what he's saying. He says, there's no doubt that a gas maniac exists and has made a number of attacks.

But many of the reported attacks are nothing more than hysteria. He's trying to calm hysteria. There's no doubt. This maniac exists. But most of you are wrong. You're all crazy, you're all right? Fear of the gas man is entirely out of proportion to the menace of the relatively harmless gas he is spraying. The whole town is sick with hysteria.

So the people who are going numb and losing their legs and stuff, they reckon that that's in their heads. Yeah. Wow, that's powerful. Yeah. You know, thinking there's ants on you is one thing. But going, I can't feel my legs. I can't get out of bed. That's powerful.

That's a bit weird. Then there was a local chief of police called C.E. Cole. And he took Wright's hypothesis a step further, announcing that there were likely no gas attacks at all and that all the reported instances has probably been triggered by chemicals carried on the wind from nearby industrial facilities. So they all breathed in these chemicals,

making them high, and believing that there was some sort of chemical attack. Idiot. So dumb. And most of the symptoms are recorded during both the attacks. So back in Virginia and also in Matun, have all been suggested symptoms of hysteria. So that includes choking, swelling of mucus membranes,

and weakness and temporary paralysis. So one is that it's just all in their heads. That's one theory. I don't like it. No, me either. But some experts believe that the mass hysteria was fueled by the headline in the Matoon Journal Gazette, the headline was Mrs. Kearney and daughter First Victims,

which assumed there'd be more attacks. Yeah. That is pretty presumptuous. That's weird. And some people, a couple of like those blogs that I read were like, hmm, did they know something? First victims. It's like someone being killed by a murder

and then you're just saying, you know, they've struck for the first time. How do you know they can come back? Unless you're doing it! I like that theory. You like that theory. You're blaming the... Yeah, the newspaper people.

Yeah. Newspaper people. Newspaper people did it again. So that's the main theory. The other is that after analyzing events, some researchers have concluded that at least some of the gasser incidences, that's hard to say, gasser incidents, were the work of an actual attacker who carried out a series of gassings as reported by Wittler. So in the instances where people saw someone at their window, that you kind of go, yeah, that's probably not all in my head. Oh. Where do you draw the line?

I don't know. Like, it feels like seeing someone, your head could make that up just as much as your head can make up, I'm paralysed and can't get out of bed. I'd believe the, seeing someone, I'm sure I saw someone out the window. Well, what kind of world are we living in where you can't just lurk at people's windows? and then all of a sudden you're gassing them. Oh, it's a fair point. It's like Nanny State 2.0. Yeah.

Do you know what I mean? Yeah. So you can't go around with like deadly chemicals on handkerchiefs. Sorry, cloths slightly bigger than a handkerchief. Yes. And you can't go, all of a sudden you can't lurk. What lurking is a crime with a dangerous gas on your person? What the fuck is this?

What is going on? And this is the 19-14. Yeah. Is it? I mean, it feels like this is bloody 1920s or, you know, the 18, what is this, the 18 90s? Yeah. I thought we're in the modern world, the 1940s, baby. The roaring 40s, we're up, we're about.

But no, no, no, no. What is this? You know, back when I was a kid in days of yore, this wouldn't have happened. I'm not sure if I'm nostalgic or I'm thinking that we've improved or we've regressed. But bloody hell, I just know that I want change. And things to say the same. I'm really sorry. I'm really sorry that this triggered you.

I'm triggered. I'm in this way. Some writers, this is another suggestion about the event. Some writers on the paranormal have covered the event. A writer by the name of Clark in 1993 described an illustration of the gasser and says the artist depicts him as a not quite. human, possibly extraterrestrial being. Now we're getting somewhere.

Yes, so. It was a mothman. This is, I want to open it up to you. Obviously, you'll have your own theories. Matt, straight away going mothman. Dave, any theories on this strange occurrence? Gas boy. Oh, yeah.

Gas boys. How are he able to sneak? Or how are they able to sneak into such small spaces? Gas boys. A gang of gas boys. Yes, boys. How awesome? I mean, remember that boy that threw something through a window he got caught.

He was just one of the, he was a patsy for all the other gas boys. That's good. They throw him under the bus. Yeah, the alien gas boys can change their form into normal boys with insecticide bottles. Exactly, into any type of boy.

Yeah, with any kind of bottle. Wow. Yeah. Sorry, Jess, did you read any of that on your little website? That was my next paragraph. Oh, okay, sorry. So that's amazing.

Yeah, glad we covered that. You're glad we are. No, it feels like that. I'm great. You, Grad. I said glad. Damn it. Did I?

God, I don't know. Are you gaslighting me? But the good news is, though, boys, I do have the answer. Oh, great. That is good news. I was going to be another unsolved kind of Christmas time mystery because I haven't around Christmas the first few. Yeah. So what actually happened was, it was a mystery all the long I fucking got you.

Oh, the twist was... I'd be disappointed. I thought you'd be excited. I love a mystery episode. The sour taste of gas in my mouth. Yeah. It's sweet if you were listening. Yeah, it is sweet.

Sweet like arsenic. Mmm, yum, yum. Well, no, Jess did say at the start shed. Two sauces, sweet and sour. Yum. So that's my report on the mad gasser of Matoon. Thank you to Victor, Peter and Avery for suggesting that... Thank you very much.

fascinating topic. And we'll give you a golf clap. They're very on topic because I've just tweeted to the Greg of Shark Norman. Hey, at Shark, Greg Norman. I just wanted to let you know that my friend at Jetsun underscore Perkins is a really great comedian and should be called upon for all of your comedy needs. Wow. That man owns a super yacht.

Yes. You'll be on there in no time. First I got retweeted by Russell Crow. Now I'm going to be best friends with Greg. You're going to be booked by Greg the Shark Norman. And that's because I am a big fan of yours. Thank you. That was a great report.

But also, we are recording ahead of time. If people want to see that tweet, they're going to have to go back. I don't tweet that often. And also, they'll see it now and be like, that's a weird thing for Dave to have tweeted. Everyone who's following both Dave and Greg the Shark Norman will see that tweet. No, everyone that follows me, I've put it out. I've got two likes so far. I'll tell you if any of them are Greg Norman.

Neither of them are Greg Norman. Yet. Who's liked? Anyone notable? Maybe Craig Parry or Tiger Woods. Adam Scott Tiger gets in there We're like

Tiger we don't want to be on your super yacht We know the kind of weird shit That happens on your super yacht man That's where all the lube goes Two gallons please Pump bottle gallons I love a pump bottle It just gets shit done you know

Yeah Anyway that's my report That's my short report on pump bottle They get shit done The Madgasser of Mattoon It's certainly It's fun to say Media hype, I imagine, gave him that name, do you think?

I think so, yeah. Mad Gas is pretty cool, though, isn't it? A bit of fun. I reckon if you were doing the attacks and it was, did happen to be one person, you read that and go, that's a pretty cool name. Yeah. Yeah, Mad Gas are pretty happy with that. Yeah.

I, oh yeah, I reckon that's one of the more fascinating ones. Are those ones that's not much, you just wonder how much of it has survived accurately and how much is it grown? over time with blogs. You know what I mean? Yeah. And you didn't see there's no upcoming movies or anything based upon the mad. Because it's a great movie title, I reckon.

I reckon there'll be a movie soon. Normally it's after the podcast comes out. Hollywood, you know, Hollywood's listening. Yeah. Hello, Hollywood. Hello, Hollywood. Hello, Greg the Shark Norman. They're all on board.

Do you mind if I quickly plug my podcast, Primates podcast? Because in the last month, both of you have been, guests on the show. Woo! So if listeners haven't heard, both episodes, so much fun. Dave, you came on and talked about the episode of The Simpsons where Troy McClure

great guy made a comeback with Stop the Planet of the Apes, I want to get off. Featuring the amazing Dr. Sayah song. Yes. And Jess, you came on and you did Georgia the Jungle and we had a real bloody good time. I'd love to do Georgia the Jungle. Leave that there

I just liked Matt's uncomfortable little laugh there It took a while to process Which I was editing this one Because I dropped that in right at the end And the theme song would finish And you'd go I'd love to do George of the Jungle Would you

Would you two be keen to hear this week's Fact quote or question? Yes we're about to enter out The Patreon part of the episode And why you get that up Matt I feel I should tell the good people That have a good Get it up

While Matt gets it up Takes him a while he's very old If you get a Patreon.com slash do go on pod Why would you do that? Well, it's a way of supporting the show And in exchange, you give us a little something

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The Justice Presented was voted for by the Patrons And also you get two bonus episodes every single month Not one, but two. And there's a lot of them still left up there. In fact, all of them at this stage. So if you subscribe, support us, you'll get a lot of bonus material. Possibly won't be the case for the time this comes out. But yeah, we're leaving up at least the last 10.

Yeah, which will end up in about five months worth, something like that. So this week's Sydney, Scheinberg, a fact quote or question. I should say, if you pledged to a certain level, you get to give us a fact quote or question. That's right. There's heaps of different levels. So much fun. And everyone in there's so cool. Whenever we ever get a chat going,

I mean, all our listeners are sick dogs. I love it. Not, not like Dave. It's a sick dog. Sick dog. You get the vet on the line. Put me down. Put it down.

Sick dog in a positive way. Yeah. Bring that dog back to life. Yeah. The ones who are having vomiting fits of joy and love. Anyway, Jackson Bland is this week's fact, quote, questioner. And they also get to give themselves a title.

And Jackson's given himself the title of Junior Vice Intern of Sydney Shineburg. Love it. What a great place to start your career. You'd get a lot of good stories if you wish, Sydney Shineberg. It had anything to do with the work of Sydney Shankberg. Oh, yeah. He's also, he's found some sort of a loophole. I'm calling this a quote.

And this is a quote. It's quoting Jackson himself. Do you want to read it out this week, Jess? Yes. So Jackson says a quote from himself. Not really a question, but I just want to say how much I appreciate the work you guys do. Your podcast has gotten me through some tough times. And I'm really happy that I'm able to return the favor and support you.

It's like too sweet. Jackson, you absolute legend. That is too nice. Like I can't even riff on that. It sounds a bit like we wrote that ourselves. Yeah. To try and big up. Yeah, Jackson.

That's very, very nice. nice. So nice. And yeah, I guess that's, I didn't really foresee that happening, but the quote version of it could be anything you want. You could quote yourself and say,

I mean, you don't have to just say nice things about us. In a lot of ways, that makes for a boring podcast, but it is very nice. It's so, so nice. And every time someone emails in and says that,

you know, they've been loving the show and nice things, it really does make a smile. So thank you to everyone who does that. And to Jackson, you're a great guy. And I don't think you're a great guy. be an intern for long.

I see big things for you, my friend. What does Sydney think of him, though? I think he's a goddamn go-whe. I need a coffee. He can

never get a straight answer out of the man. Well, not without his coffee. I think Jackson's great, but I think you'd be even better with a chimpanzee. Matt's who's bringing it back

to chimps these days? It's all you do is outside of this podcast is what's chimp-based things for your other podcast and it's destroying your mind. That's what Cindy Schoenberg said. He said back to the future would have been better if there was a chimp.

And it should have been called Space Man from Pluto. Remember that's the only reason we talk about that guy. I remember Space Man from Pluto is the best. The best title. Space man from Pluto. All right. Let us thank some more people. Another thing we do on Patreon is, of course, thank some of the good people.

Dig into their coffers and throw their coffer money into our coffers. They have in coffer fits. I'd love to think if I could. And Jess, normally, you could give us a little game to play with the names. Have you got something? Nah. I'll start reading one out. A mad something.

Great. Not a mad castle, but a mad, you know. Okay. Yeah, cool. All right. I'd love to thank. Of something as well. Okay, yeah, yeah.

A mad something of something. From Washington in America. I'd love to thank, if I may, Emily Knudsen from Washington in the United States of America. And she is the mad hunker of Jumangistan. Jamangistan. The mad hunker of Jumangistan. What a title. There was that time in your life when you did.

Improper. They really paid off power. Jamang. I really, I did not enjoy improv. All that much. All right, guys, I'm going to need a place. Jamangistan. You bastard.

Impro wasn't just say a word. Yeah, but he didn't even do it confidently. If he did it confidently, he'd be like, right, oh. But that was Jamangastard. I did not see it coming. You turned that point onto me out of nowhere. Jamaican. I don't know what my brain did then.

It was a real Daesh moment. Daesh. He started with Jamaica and ended in Afghanistan. Yeah. Somagascar. It's like got a fun-sounding place, Jamangistan. So what is she? She's the conco.

Mad honker of Jamangistan. Honka of Jamangistan. I like it. I think it's a good title. Yeah, me too. I wish I could draw. That looks like a comic book cover of the Mad Honker of Jamangathan. would be sick.

Anyway, thank you so much, Emily. You've been, well, obviously, everyone here is long-term supporters, so we thank you so much. Or would also love to thank from here in Australia in north of Volker, Mr. Hugo James. Oh, Hugo James is good. And he is the mad weaver. Hugo weaving.

Oh. Of Edinburgh Castle. Edinburgh Castle. The mad weaver of Edinburgh Castle. Congratulations, Hugo. Sounds like a ghost or something. He's a mad weaver. He's a sick weaver, man.

He's a mad weaver. Man, he's a mad weaver. Mad weaver. Inny. And Edinburgh is his matoon. That doesn't make sense. If you asked him, he'd say, Edinburgh is matoon.

Hey, can I thank some people? Please, Jess. Yes. I would like to thank from Wexford in Ireland. Oh, amazing. Nile Finan. Nile Finan. Who is all.

Obviously the mad... Bouncer. Of Riverdance. Oh, that's good. Bouncy dancer. So Michael Flatley puts him on the door and he doesn't... He decides who comes backstage. He takes no bullshit.

I was picturing someone who's very bouncy. I was imagining a security guard. That makes way more sense. Yeah. To just somebody who's bouncy. He's a bouncy. He's a bouncer. It's a mad bouncer.

Oh yeah. Okay, now I hear it. Yeah. He's like he's got... Trampling Championship. He got that green... Tramp, Champ. What was that Robin Williams movie?

Flubber. Flubber. Flubber. Flubber. And may I also thank, also from Washington, Karen Kostanne. That's not good. I should have just trailed off there, Jess.

How would you pronounce Karen's last? Kostange. Kostange. That's probably wrong, too. Sorry, Karen. Or Kostania. I reckon it's more like Kostania. Kastanya.

Kastanya. So she's the mad monk of Rasputinville. Okay, well at least those were words. And he said it more confidently. Good job, Maddie. Well done. The improv of classes are working.

That is who, that Rasputin was the mad monk, right? Mad monk. I thought of, because monks diner and I said, Kent Stanza. Right. I'm one of, Resputtiville's no good. I want to say of... The mad monk of...

Gary, Indiana. Oh, yes. They definitely have a mad monk. Definitely. Well, yeah, it's Karen. Thank you, Karen. Thanks, Karen. Great to have you on board.

And I'd finally like to wrap this episode by thanking someone from right here in Melbourne. Woo! And it is a classic three word out of this name. Harvey Arnold Wiseman. Wise man. This is Wiseman from Melbourne? From Chelsea. We're on the beach.

Lovely. Harvey Arnold Wiseman. That's a lovely part of the world. And he is the mad fisherman of Qatar. Wow. Oh, wow. Yeah. A desert possibly landlocked country.

Yeah, but they... Love their fishing. Love their fishing. Haven't you seen salmon fishing in the Yemen, Dave? Anything's possible, mate. Everyone knows Yemen's in Qatar. Qatar. Qatar.

Qatar. Qatar. Qatar. Qatar gently weeps. Well, it's good. And finally, I would like to think. It's good. Hey, what I'm saying is a step up from Jamangistan.

Yeah. In comparison, I, you are bagging me, but I love Jamangistan. I reckon that's the best one we've got. The best what we've got? The best of any of the places we've had. Jamangistan is definitely the best. Yeah, that's true. All right.

Got no doubt about that. Oh, guitar's not late. I'm just going to, I'm going to, I'm going to, I'm going to, open. my mind and close it and just free it and empty it and open it and just say, I'm just going to see what happens. Okay. Well, let me set you up. Finally, we'd like to thank from London, from London town, Harriet Layton Porter.

Oh, that's a good one too. And Harriet Layton Porter is the mad stinger. Stinger of Sepulettington. A little recap there. So Harriet Leighton Porter is the mad. I can't remember. Stinger. Stinger of.

Sepul. Yeah, there was a long pause here last time as well. Yeah, sepal. I've forgotten too. There's a middle syllable, but I forget what it was. And then... What's a schtinger? A stinger?

Oh, yes. Oh, that is really adorable. A stinger is, of course, when a human being like the Magist Schenger has a certain, how do you say, how do you say spike coming out their date? And it is both infectious and confectionery. And it?

Can we stop him? It sounds a bit like Sean Connery describing a scorpion attack. That's what it is. Long story short Check out the shinger Okay There you go Inbrough baby

Yeah Dave's a lot better at it Not to pick favourites But Still playing with his hands Like he's like I can bring this home I can do this I can save this

Now this is me Just Just remembering that you guys Are not very good team players That's true We are no people Not yes and people So you do leave me

Improves all about teamwork And you guys leave All this episode You've left me hanging out there You'll notice that was sitting back Pretty brutal work But I try to do my best In the trying circumstances

There's no team and I baby All right Thank you Harriet Leighton And thanks to everyone that supports the show At Patreon And to everyone that downloads the show In the first place We love all of you

Equally But especially you They know who they are. She was looking at me, and I do. Thank you, Jess. We've got to go now. Getting contact anytime, all the links to, hey, can contact us are on do go on pod.com.

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