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🗓️ 23 December 2008
⏱️ 14 minutes
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The Australian outback's mysterious jack o' lantern has sparked some good stories, but some even better science.
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0:00.0 | One neat thing about famous ghost lights around the world is that the stories around them |
0:07.8 | often claim to go back centuries. |
0:10.4 | For example, people have been reporting this ghost light since the 1700s. |
0:15.6 | One famous example from a remote part of the Australian Outback is the Men Men Light. |
0:21.6 | It has those old stories, but is the light real and moreover? |
0:27.2 | Are those old stories claimed as evidence? |
0:30.3 | Also real. |
0:31.9 | Chasing the Men Men Light is today Unskeptoid. |
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1:24.0 | For listening to Skeptoid, I'm Brian Dunning from Skeptoid.com. |
1:28.7 | Chasing the Men Men Light. |
1:31.7 | It's a hot night out here in the Australian Outback. |
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