S4 Ep39: Squonkapalooza!
Strange and Unexplained with Daisy Eagan
Strange and Unexplained with Daisy Eagan
4.1 • 10K Ratings
🗓️ 13 February 2025
⏱️ 37 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | You've heard of Bigfoot, the Yeti, Mothman, the Jersey Devil? |
| 0:09.3 | Every region has a mysterious cryptid that marauds and haunts the desolate wastelands, forests, and swamp lands, and Pennsylvania is no exception. |
| 0:18.9 | What is something of an exception is that the storied Pennsylvania |
| 0:22.3 | monster is not the requisite, red-eyed, winged, hulking, hairy haunt of nightmares. No, the squunk |
| 0:29.3 | is something else entirely. Welcome to Strange and Unexplained with me, Daisy Egan. I love a good cry. Crying is something we all do, |
| 0:41.5 | especially when times are hard, or movies are sad, or hormones are high, or elections happen, |
| 0:47.9 | or we're awake. Hell, I've cried myself to sleep a few times in this life, but I've always |
| 0:53.3 | woken up the next day, my body, |
| 0:55.4 | more or less intact, my tears dried on my pillow. The subject of today's story is not so lucky. |
| 1:03.2 | To begin, I must introduce us all to the unsung hero of this tale, the lumberjack. Now you know me, |
| 1:10.0 | stranger. Normally, I would not venerate a profession |
| 1:12.4 | that so hastily aided the deforestation of this land, but since the introduction of lumberjack |
| 1:18.1 | influencers like Thor Bradley and Nicole Conan, I'm inclined to be a little more welcoming to our |
| 1:23.7 | axe-wielding siblings. Those two could split my log any time, if you know what I mean. |
| 1:29.6 | Where was I? Oh, right, lumberjacks. Turns out that aside from being hot and wearing high heels, |
| 1:35.8 | suspenders, and a bra, lumberjacks have historically been an invaluable resource when it comes |
| 1:41.0 | to identifying elusive and mysterious creatures who make the ever-diminishing forests |
| 1:46.1 | their home. Without lumberjacks, |
| 1:48.5 | we might never have heard of the poor, sad, |
| 1:51.2 | weepy squank. |
| 2:19.3 | Music The first mention of the Pennsylvania crypted, the squank, is widely accepted to be in the 1910 collection of folkloric sketches and stories, fearsome creatures of the lumberwoods, with a few desert and mountain beasts. The book was written and illustrated by conservationist William Thomas Cox, |
| 2:25.6 | who wasn't from Pennsylvania at all, but was a forester for the U.S. Forest Service, and was appointed |
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