S05E45 - Circus Train Wrecks 🎪🚂

⚠️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 it appears to beThe 1931 wire story about a colony of Bengal tigers in the mountains of MexicoHow armadillos actually got to FloridaGypsy the elephant, Tifton to Valdosta, November 1902Wallace the Lion, the Exeter mail coach lioness, and Christian the LionWhy the Beast of Gévaudan may be the oldest "it escaped from a menagerie" case on recordHow Gévaudan subverts myths about the EnlightenmentBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/monstertalk--6267523/support.Some product links may be affiliated with Amazon revenue sharing.