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

Sometimes that history goes bump in the night.

Broadcasting from the center of poverty and the supernatural in central Florida, it's the history goes bump podcast.

Hello you spectacular people welcome to this 500 second episode of the history goes bump podcast ghost tours for the theater of the mind I am your host Diane and this is Kelly Kelly on this episode we're going to be featuring the USS Salem which was suggested by Jared rang and he did such a good job suggesting it that we actually went to it.

We sure did we were on this trip last year at this same time so we got to visit this wonderful cruiser we're looking forward to sharing it with you and Jared's going to join us for it as well.

Looking forward to sharing this with everyone before we get into that we want to welcome into this spectacular crew Jennifer Sam and Anne with the knee.

Thank you so much for joining our Facebook group.

And now this moment notity.

Magnets can be a fun thing to play with when you are young the opposite poles on small magnets pushing away from each other or grabbing different metals and comparing the strengths of the pole can be entertaining even sweeping a magnet through sand to see what particles may attach to the magnet can be interesting.

But what if insects could detect the earth's magnetic poles let me introduce you to the magnetic termites of Australia.

Now these insects cannot be picked up and stuck onto your refrigerator like a traditional magnet but what is special about them is that their mounts orientate so that the thinnest points are always formed north to south and they are only found in the northern territory of Australia.

This method of architecture reduces the termite mount's exposure to direct heat from the sun thus keeping the colony more consistently at their optimal temperatures.

There have been scientific studies that revealed that the termites are able to use subtle changes in daylight as well as the earth's magnetic poles to determine their mount's architecture.

Magnets can be fascinating but insects using the magnetic poles of the earth to benefit their survival certainly is odd.

Are you afraid of the dark?

And now this month in history.

In the month of August on the 6th and 1890, Pitcher Sai Young made his major league debut. His birth name was Denton True Young but the nickname of Sai was established due to his fastball pitches which left the fences looking like a cyclone had hit them.

This led the press to give him the moniker of Sai. In 1889 he began his professional baseball career in the minors with the Tri-State League in Canton, Ohio. He was quickly brought up to the majors to sign with the Cleveland spiders which had moved from the American Association to the National League just the year before.

During his debut game, Young Pitched a 3 hit 8-1 win over the Chicago Colts. At the time, Sai was known for the power behind his hard throwing pitches and according to his longtime catcher, Chief Zimmer,

he would often times put a piece of beef steak inside his catcher's glove to give him some extra padding against size fastball. That's one way to tenderize a steak.

Young continued to excel in play for the major leagues until 1911. He passed away on November 4th, 1955 and during his baseball career established many pitching records.

To this day, the Sai Young Award is bestowed annually in both the American and National League.

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