The Weird Lights of Christmas

Strange Familiars

Philosophy, Society & Culture

4.7 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 19 December 2024

⏱️ 147 minutes

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Summary

Rob and Eamonn from Monster Fuzz stop by to discuss mystery lights and Christmas. An old newspaper article on the history of Christmas candles leads to a story of strange lights in Ireland from 1910, followed by a long discussion of the Egryn lights–a flap of Welsh weirdness from 1904 and 1905. Next, we tackle some Christmastime orbs from Pennsylvania. Finally, we discuss our current weird lights of Christmas–the drone sightings on the East Coast of the U.S.

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from The Daily Mirror, February 17, 1905.

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0:00.0	They claim the far away.
0:03.0	They claim the far, were just to be a slight different than what they are.
0:28.6	We talked to see things about a world. Welcome to Strange Familiaries.
0:40.3	Alison. Welcome to Strange Familiar.
0:57.1	Alison.
0:57.7	Yes.
0:58.1	How are you doing?
0:58.8	I'm doing well.
1:00.4	Got a Christmas episode tonight.
1:02.3	That's timely.
1:03.3	The first of two this week were with Monster Fuzz.
1:06.6	This is the one filled with levity and blasphemy.
1:10.1	I don't think too much blasphemy.
1:12.7	Anyway, on tonight's show, with Monster Fuzz,
1:15.4	we're going to be talking about the weird lights of Christmas.
1:18.3	Some strange light sightings from around the time of Christmas,
1:21.6	including the Egren lights from Wales.
1:25.5	It's a really interesting flap of weird lights that appeared around this Mrs. Jones
1:31.1	and continued for quite some time.
1:33.2	But they started right around Christmas, but then they continued on throughout the year.
1:37.1	I think they started in 1904 and went into 1905.
1:40.2	It's pretty interesting.
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