The founding of New England by the Puritans is quite a story. Today, we dive into who those people were.

The founding of New England by the Puritans is quite a story. Today, we dive into who those people were.

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The Puritans in America

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No you’re no dreaming – go ahead, pinch yourself – we’ve finally made an episode on dreams! We’ve done episodes on lucid dreaming, night terrors, sleepwalking, sleep paralysis – basically everything but dreams themselves. Well, at long last here it is!

No you&rsquo;re no dreaming &ndash; go ahead, pinch yourself &ndash; we&rsquo;ve finally made an episode on dreams! We&rsquo;ve done episodes on lucid dreaming, night terrors, sleepwalking, sleep paralysis &ndash; basically everything but dreams themselves. Well, at long last here it is!

Our Big Fat Dream Episode

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The advent of nuclear weapons and the Cold War kicked off a craze in the US for building rec rooms with foot-thick reinforced walls and outfitted with survival rations and board games. Would they work? Probably not. Find out (but not really) in this classic episode.

The advent of nuclear weapons and the Cold War kicked off a craze in the US for building rec rooms with foot-thick reinforced walls and outfitted with survival rations and board games. Would they work? Probably not. Find out (but not really) in this classic episode.

Selects: Fallout Shelters: Probably Useless (Let’s Never Find Out)

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Throughout the history of the world, there have been many cases of what is known as collective hysteria - groups of people, usually young women, who all exhibit the same physical symptoms of non-existent conditions. Is it psychosomatic? Is it group think?

Throughout the history of the world, there have been many cases of what is known as collective hysteria - groups of people, usually young women, who all exhibit the same physical symptoms of non-existent conditions. Is it psychosomatic? Is it group think?

SYSK Gets Weird Playlist: What is Collective Hysteria?

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