The 27 Club is that inauspicious group of famous pop musicians who all died at the age of 27,

as if there's some mystical significance behind that particular age.

This raises two questions.

The boring one, which is whether there's anything special about 27, and the more interesting one which is what motivated pop culture

to go looking for such a thing and to give the 27 club a name and to pay attention to it. Because that's where the real science here is.

The 27 Club is coming up right now on Skeptoid. I'm Brian Dunning from Skeptoid.com.

The Science of the 27 Club.

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science from pseudoscience, real history from fake history,

and helps us all make better life decisions by knowing what's real and what's not.

Somewhere in the world is a very old, very beat-up white electric guitar, a model called a

Supro Ozark.

It's untraceable, having undoubtedly gone through

a shady pawn shop sale or two,

so nobody knows its original history.

But if it could be proven, it would turn out to be

probably the most valuable guitar in the world.

It is the first electric guitar owned by a 17-year-old Jimmy Hendricks,

and stolen from him backstage at one of his very first gigs.

Why would it be so valuable?

Would it be because Hendricks is at the top of every list of history's greatest

guitarists?

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