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🗓️ 30 July 2024
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In Malay folklore, the Orang Minyak is an supernaturally agile, humanoid creature coated in an oily, slippery substance. It is primarily known for abducting young women at night. There are other, similar creatures in folkloric beliefs across the planet -- boogeymen meant to warn children against disobeying their parents or social mores. But something about the Orang Minyak is different: Since the 1950s, it's been a prime suspect in numerous assaults and attempted crimes, with authorities and bystanders both claiming there was something supernatural about these crimes.
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0:00.0 | So fellow conspiracy realist back in 2019, we got super into this thing called the |
0:08.8 | Arang Maniac. |
0:10.5 | Nola, you remember this one when we were talking about this. |
0:13.2 | Yeah, well it came up recently in our Monkey Man episode or in some of our cryptids of India talking |
0:18.1 | about some mysterious folkloric creatures from that part of the world. |
0:24.5 | And Malay Folklore speaks of a creature |
0:27.4 | called the Orang Minniac, which is a supernaturally, |
0:31.7 | very, I don't know,-footed humanoid furry oily slippery boy who apparently is |
0:39.2 | really into ducting and doing not nice things to young women. |
0:43.7 | Yeah, and in our investigation |
0:46.4 | in tonight's classic episode, |
0:48.6 | we look at not just similar folkloric beliefs and how folklore can be weaponized or used as a tool |
0:56.8 | to encounter the surrounding environment. We also look at the specific case of, I love that he said slippery boy, of the slippery boy |
1:07.3 | around Minyak, who has since the 1950s been a prime suspect in numerous allegations of assault and |
1:18.0 | other attempted crimes and the weird thing is Malay law enforcement has often agreed there was something |
1:26.4 | supernatural afoot. |
1:28.0 | Yeah, to definitely check out our recent series on the cryptids of India. |
1:32.4 | And if you want to check this one out first as kind of a |
1:34.3 | primer before you jump into that series. Let's roll it. |
1:39.2 | Back in 96 Atlanta was booming with excitement around hosting the Centennial Olympic Games. |
1:46.4 | And then, a deranged zealot willing to kill for a cause, lit a fuse that would change my life and so many others forever. |
1:55.0 | Rippling out for generations. |
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