S05E45 - Circus Train Wrecks 🎪🚂

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S05E45 - Circus Train Wrecks 🎪🚂

24 de ago. de 2026 · 53m 14s

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⚠️Content Warning: This episode contains sustained discussion of animal injury and death, including the killing of working animals, animals shot after escaping, and graphic period newspaper accounts.⚠️

Blake and Karen discuss Circus Train Wrecks as an explanation for mysterious "real" animal sightings, as well as a source of folklore monsters of high improbability.

🚂 In This Episode

Why circus trains wrecked so often
The economic event that ended the era - and why regulation wasn't the answer
An inversion of survivorship bias, and the data set nobody has built yet
A 1917 newspaper story about lions in a butcher shop that is not what it appears to be
The 1931 wire story about a colony of Bengal tigers in the mountains of Mexico
How armadillos actually got to Florida
Gypsy the elephant, Tifton to Valdosta, November 1902
Wallace the Lion, the Exeter mail coach lioness, and Christian the Lion
Why the Beast of Gévaudan may be the oldest "it escaped from a menagerie" case on record
How Gévaudan subverts myths about the Enlightenment

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