History tells the story of the world and of our lives.

Sometimes, that history goes bump in the night.

Broadcasting from the Central Apodity and the Supernatural in Central Florida, it's the history goes bump podcast.

Hello, you spectacular people. Welcome to this 490th episode of the history goes bump podcast goes tours for the theater of the mine. I'm your host Diane. And this is Kelly in Florida.

She's back in our studio. Our glorious back of the closet. Yes, we're both back at the closet. On this episode, Kelly, we are going over to France.

We were going to talk about a place that is on my bucket list. If I was ever to make it over to Europe, I've always wanted to see the palace of Versailles.

Looking forward to sharing this with the listeners. Yeah, there's some interesting stories connected to it. A lot of great history. Before we get into that, we want to welcome into this spectacular crew.

I hope I'm saying this right. Clotty, who has two eyes at the end of her name. Sonja, Rose, Jackie, with a Q, U, I, E at the end. And Jessica, who has two eyes instead of two S's.

Thank you for joining our Facebook group. And now this moment, not a day.

There are many strange and captivating animals on this planet, one of which I recently discovered is the Great Potu bird.

They are found in the neotropics and look more like a flying black-eyed muppet child than an actual bird.

There are seven species of potu and the majority have eyes that look similar to owl eyes being that they are quite large for the size of their head and tend to have yellow or orange irises.

However, the Great Potu, or Nictibias, Grandis, have very dark brown irises giving them the distinctive appearance of a black-eyed child or a demon possessed bird.

They are fuel for nightmares. All potus are nocturnal insectivores. With a beak so thin, it looks more like a claw coming out of the center of its head.

That is, until they open up their giant maw. Their mouths open from ear to ear, giving them the appearance of being all mouth.

The only thing one can compare to this is perhaps what Barbara, played by Gina Davis, does to her head in beetle juice, thus displaying how she plans to scare off the new homeowners.

If the mental picture I'm painting for you isn't enough, then Google their call and imagine hearing that in the pitch dark.

Shivers. They are also able to camouflage extremely well, so basically you would just be left wondering what monstrous creature is preparing to eat you.

I love all creatures and given the opportunity would certainly interact with this bizarre black-eyed bird, but as you can tell from my descriptions, the Great Potu certainly is odd.

Grab your slippers, hot chocolate, flashlight, and maybe even that baseball bat.

And now this month in history.

In the month of June on the 6th in 1978, California voted in Proposition 13 by an overwhelming margin.

...