The First Telepathic Brainstorm, Ghost-Creating Toxic Mold, and Cropsey: the Real Boogeyman
Curiosity Weekly
Warner Bros. Discovery
4.6 • 963 Ratings
🗓️ 31 October 2018
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
In this Halloween episode, learn how scientists were able to get three people to communicate with each other using only the power of their brains, and why toxic mold might make you see ghosts. Plus, hear the story of “Cropsey,” a terrifying boogeyman who turned out to be real.
In this Halloween 2018 podcast, Cody Gough and Ashley Hamer discuss the following stories from Curiosity.com to help you get smarter and learn something new in just a few minutes:
- Scientists Linked Three Brains to Form the First Telepathic Brainstorm Session — https://curiosity.im/2D6LlyZ
- Seeing Ghosts May Just Be a Result of Breathing a Toxic Mold — https://curiosity.im/2D7GkpM
- "Cropsey" Was the Terrifying Boogeyman Who Turned Out to Be Real — https://curiosity.im/2D6hdE0
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| 0:00.0 | Happy Halloween! We've got three spooky stories from Curiosity.com to help you get smarter in just a few minutes. |
| 0:07.7 | I'm Cody Gock. And I'm Ashley Hamer! |
| 0:11.2 | Today you learn how scientists were able to get three people to communicate with each other using only the power of their brains and why toxic mold might make you see ghosts. |
| 0:21.0 | We'll wrap up today's episode with the story of |
| 0:23.8 | Crofti, a terrifying boogie man who turned out to be real. No, but really |
| 0:29.4 | he did turn out to be real. He really did and it really is terrifying. |
| 0:32.0 | Let's satisfy some curiosity. |
| 0:33.4 | Scientists have linked three brains to form the first telepathic brainstorm |
| 0:38.8 | session. As in they got three people to communicate with each other using nothing but the power of their own brains. |
| 0:44.4 | And this is the first time researchers have successfully done this. |
| 0:47.2 | It is. |
| 0:48.7 | This is the thing that happened. |
| 0:50.2 | I feel like we're being a little misleading by saying nothing but the power of their own brains because they did have like EEGs and like |
| 0:57.1 | Transcranial magnetic stimulation and stuff like that, but it was powered by their brains |
| 1:02.4 | Stop ruining my |
| 1:03.5 | Halloween Ashley but was a groundbreaking new project and it came from |
| 1:08.0 | researchers out of Carnegie Mellon University and the University of |
| 1:11.0 | Washington they developed a three-player collaboration-based game |
| 1:15.0 | or the participants used only their brain waves to communicate. |
| 1:18.0 | The game was a lot like Tetris, but with a couple of changes. |
| 1:22.0 | They put three players in separate rooms with two players called |
| 1:25.0 | the Cenders hooked into EEG devices. Those kept track of their brains electrical activity |
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