Hello and welcome to Oh No Ross and Carrie, the show where we don't just report on

fringe science, spirituality and claims of the paranormal, but we take part ourselves.

Yep, when they make the claims, we show up so you don't have to.

I'm your co-host, Carrie Poppy.

And I'm your co-host, Ross Blacher.

And on this episode, we'll learn you all about the alternative medicine practice of ear

canaling.

Which means that our first clue prize goes to listener Jackie Bowerley of Mount Pleasant

South Carolina for correctly guessing the answer to last show's clue.

Congrats, Jackie.

You will receive something cheap and useless in your mailbox.

So what the hell's ear canaling, Ross?

Well, it's an alternative medicine procedure by which blockage in your ear is removed

by a lit candle that is placed in your ear.

So I put a candle in my ear and it takes wax out.

Right.

The idea is that it creates a vacuum inside and sucks up all those impurities and all that

extra wax from your ear.

So then the candle's shaped like it's hollow inside, right?

Yeah.

It's not like a candle like you're used to.

It's inverted.

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