Skeptoid #550: The Mad Gasser of Mattoon
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Brian Dunning
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🗓️ 20 December 2016
⏱️ 16 minutes
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In 1944, a strange night prowler is believed to have made poison gas attacks in Illinois. Here's what we know.
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| 0:00.0 | A shadowy figure was said to go running from house to house in Mattoon, Illinois in 1944, |
| 0:10.7 | shooting a cloud of some poisonous gas into each residence. |
| 0:14.8 | He became known as the Mad Gasser. |
| 0:18.0 | But it's a really interesting story because nobody's really sure if it ever happened |
| 0:22.2 | at all. |
| 0:23.2 | However, historians have been able to put enough pieces of the puzzle together, but there |
| 0:27.6 | might be enough for us to solve it today. |
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