Spooky Lakes and the Science of Haunted Hydrology

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🗓️ 25 October 2024

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Artist and author Geo Rutherford created Spooky Lake Month to highlight the strange and eerie waters of the world. She first fell in love with the Great Lakes during graduate school in Milwaukee. Rutherford was an early educational video creator, but it was a video about spooky lakes that skyrocketed her to viral fame. She has a new book, Spooky Lakes: 25 Strange and Mysterious Lakes That Dot Our Planet. Rutherford joins host Rachel Feltman to discuss art, natural wonders and the deepest lake in the world. You can get Spooky Lakes: 25 Strange and Mysterious Lakes That Dot Our Planet at www.georutherford.com/book Watch Spooky Lakes videos at www.tiktok.com/@geodesaurus We’re still looking for listener submissions for our upcoming episode on the science of earworms. We’d love to hear a song you just can’t get out of your head. If you’re up for the challenge, sing or hum a few bars in a voice memo and send it over to [email protected] with your name and where you’re from. We value your input! Take our quick survey to share your feedback. Discover something new every day: subscribe to Scientific American and sign up for Today in Science, our daily newsletter. Science Quickly is produced by Rachel Feltman, Fonda Mwangi, Kelso Harper, Madison Goldberg and Jeff DelViscio. This episode was hosted by Rachel Feltman with guest Geo Rutherford. Our show is edited by Fonda Mwangi with fact-checking by Shayna Posses and Aaron Shattuck. The theme music was composed by Dominic Smith. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:31.8	Do you know what time it is? It's spooky lake time. Does that ring a bell? Maybe you've stumbled across this series on your TikTok for you page.
0:40.8	Here's another snippet to jog your memory.
0:43.4	Um, yes, hello.
0:44.7	It's Spooky Lake Month where we're doing 31 days of haunted hydrology.
0:48.9	For scientific American science quickly, I'm Rachel Phelpin.
0:52.6	Today we're diving into the topic of haunted
0:55.0	hydrology, also known as Spooky Lakes. For the last few years, artist and educator Gia Rutherford
1:02.1	has used those enticing descriptors to get millions of TikTok viewers interested in learning
1:07.8	about lakes, rivers, and more. She's here to tell us all about her new book,
1:13.1	Spooky Lakes, 25 strange and mysterious lakes that dot our planet, which Kirkus reviews calls
1:18.9	a, quote, chilling but thrilling primer for budding limnologists. Geo, thanks so much for coming to chat with us today.
1:28.9	Yeah, thank you for having me.
1:30.2	So I feel like a lot of our listeners will probably know you already.
1:34.0	But for those of them who don't, tell us a little bit about Spooky Lake Month.
1:38.8	Spooky Lake Month happens every October from October 1st to October 31st.
1:43.3	It's essentially 31 days of spooky lakes and what we've coined as haunted hydrology,
1:50.5	both of which are kind of misnomer's, as the audience knows, despite how many comments I often get of, like,
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