Something very special for you in today's Skeptoid episode, we've got some listener feedback,

which is always the cream of the crop of new information, updates, and fleshed out clarifications

that make the old episodes even better.

So if you've enjoyed some of our past shows, today's will help you enjoy them even more.

listener feedback is coming right up on Skeptoid.

You're listening to Skeptoid. I'm Brian Dunning from Skeptoid.com.

listener feedback provisos adinda and quid pro quoes.

Feedback comes into the show every day, but it's not every day that I get something that

truly adds a new dimension to an existing episode, or that raises a new question that needs to be

addressed. When I get these, they go into a document, and when that document gets long enough,

I release a listener feedback episode just like this one. Not only does this improve past episodes,

it also points new listeners to all that awesomeness found in the back catalog.

Today we've got feedback on the episodes about the Stendek mystery,

the Civil War Terrasaur photograph, Paul M. Oil, the Benjawarn bang mystery,

the claim that the first slaves in the Americas were white, and the not-so-strange

disappearance of flight 19 inside the Bermuda Triangle.

An interesting new solution to the Stendek mystery has been proposed, as advised by listener

Anders. This was the case in 1947 when an airliner crashed in the Andes, killing everyone aboard.

There is no mystery about the crash itself. It was a controlled flight into terrain during

minimal visibility conditions, which remains even today the most common cause of a crash.

The mystery is the Morse code transmissions sent by the plane shortly before it crashed,

spelling out the nonsense word Stendek STEN-DEC. Lots of people have proposed explanations

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