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And he had a paper called 44 Juvenile Thieves, Their Character and Home Life.

There is a great article on this. It's the longest long form ever. It's called Demon Underneath. It's by Alex Papademos. It's on the outline.

I think it was that guy that wrote the article, Papademos, said he starts showing up to manage a division of the most conservative corporation in America like he manages the Partridge family.

And she started collecting all these different reports and published the reports along with sketches from the people who'd had, who's made these reports into a book called More Than a Legend in 1957.

So, Chuck, Nostradamus is settling down in Ceylon. Ceylon. Selectives. And he is deciding to put his awesome thoughts down into quatrains.

That's right. Into a book called The Centuries.

But at the time, he just called it The Prophecies.

Yeah, The Prophecies of Michel Nostradamus.

And it became a huge sensation due to a few things. One, simply enough, was that the printing press was a recent invention and books were a big deal now.

There's a book called The Feud by Dean King. Din-king? Dean King. Din-king. I said it so weird. Dean King. And he said where was their next meal going to come from and how could they feed the children in the winter?

They were lucky enough to have one pig or razorback for sell or trade. The proceeds were used to acquire flour, sugar, coffee, sometimes shoes or boots for their families.

And a lot of this is informed by writers and not even like biblical scholars, like people like Plato. And a lot of these stories, again, are really, really similar. There's a story from Plato's Republic where a man named Er, E-R, goes into a coma, journeys through the underworld, and then wakes up and then tells everyone what happened down there.

And this has a lot of reward and punishment included in a really organized system.

And there are a lot of stories really similar to that throughout time that, you know, I don't know if they were based on Plato or the Republic or just like we've been talking about, sort of overlap and incestuous.

He directly influenced St. Augustine.

And Augustine definitely influenced some of these later guys like Drithelm and Tundale. And their idea of hell, but Augustine was influenced by Plato.

One of the greatest, one of the other great conceptions of the afterlife, not necessarily hell, but hellish, is found in this, I think I've mentioned it before, Joyce Carol Oates short story called Nightside, where there's this seance and like the spirits that are contacted are like all freaked out because there's no, it's all just chaos.

Nobody, I think they keep saying like no one's in charge and like everything's just out of order.

And it's a really like unsettling read, like Joyce Carol Oates is so good with horror, but that particular one is super disturbing. I highly recommend everybody reading it.

Oh, really? Not Noah Webster, who wrote Webster's Dictionary.

I believe this is where the first sort of big book around this came out.

He and his colleagues put out a book called The Space Around Us, where they basically gathered up a couple of decades worth of research and said, here's what we've got so far.

Some guy sent us a book on it.

From ankle to thigh, the translucent flesh radiated a vibrant, sensual, luminous orange-yellow pinkish nimbus of pagan fire.

This is a great story called the true story of kudzu comma, the vine that never truly ate the South by Bill Finch.

She published her memoir, like you said, which we read in our fifth grade reading class, Every Secret Thing.

But the German poet and philosopher Goethe, one of the reasons I like this anecdote is because I love saying Goethe's name. He was riding one time from Alsace to, I want to say Dusseldorf, but I think that's wrong.

And that was a Time-Life books thing? Yeah, I remember it very well. Yeah, that sounds about right.

The actual movie itself, the plot is about a sideshow operator, a hypnotist who has a patient that he takes around to these sideshows with sleep disorders. So he's been asleep his entire life and he uses this patient to commit murder.

I think the actual book within The Babadook was hugely inspired by this.

It's called On Being Sane in Insane Places and it's a really great read.

You can still find it and read it. It's a really good read because it doesn't take the form of a regular scientific academic journal.

If you want to know more about Rosenhan, Rosenhan, whoever, you can look up this article on being sane and insane places all over the Internet.