S5E45 - S05E45 - Circus Train Wrecks 🎪🚂
Published: August 24, 2026
Duration: 53:15
⚠️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 oftenThe economic event that ended the era - and why regulation wasn't the answerAn inversion of survivorship bias, and the data set nobody has built yetA 1917 newspaper story about lions in a butcher shop that is not what i...
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 oftenThe economic event that ended the era - and why regulation wasn't the answerAn inversion of survivorship bias, and the data set nobody has built yetA 1917 newspaper story about lions in a butcher shop that is not what i...