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Shattered Souls

Thinking Sideways: Polybius

Shattered Souls

iHeartPodcasts and CrimeOnline

True Crime, Society & Culture, Personal Journals, Education

4.34.8K Ratings

🗓️ 2 January 2014

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

A new arcade game arrived in Portland in 1981 but was pulled from arcades just weeks after it arrived. It's never been seen again. Was it having strange effects on the kids who play it? Was it a government test? Is it just an urban legend?

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0:00.0

Hey guys, Steve here. You are listening to one of our original 26 episodes. If you've

0:05.9

listened to any of our new episodes, you're going to notice that we're sounding a little

0:09.6

different in these ones. Yeah. There's a reason for that. There is. They've been remastered.

0:13.8

They have been remastered. Because they had a really annoying hum. Yeah, I mean, a huge

0:18.6

thanks to listener James for doing almost all of the legwork on this thing. Yes. You'll

0:23.2

also notice if you had listened to what we're calling the last 26 episodes before, and

0:28.2

you're re-listening now, the music and sound effects are gone. Yes. We've gone back to

0:33.4

straight audio. So, be warned. We sound a little different today than we do in what you're

0:37.7

about to listen to. Yeah. Bye. Bye.

0:41.0

Thinking Sideways. I don't know what you're seeing. That does not go cute. You never know.

0:55.0

Stories of things we simply don't know the answer to.

1:01.0

Well, hey there, and thanks for joining us again. This is Thinking Sideways, the podcast,

1:05.4

and I am Steve as always joined by Joe and Devon. And this week we're going to take on yet

1:12.6

another thing that I don't quite understand. Yeah. Well, this one I don't quite understand,

1:19.0

because well, ladies and gentlemen, we haven't quite gone in this territory before, but we're

1:24.2

going to do it anyway is what a lot of people believe to be an urban myth. Yeah. And it's

1:31.4

most of what we talk about. Well, this one, and we'll get into the details of it in the name,

1:37.7

but when you get into a lot of things on the net, it seems like you find a pretty solid opinion,

1:42.8

one way or the other. It's, oh, let's reel or, oh, no, total urban myth. Even snopes on this one

1:49.4

is said, oh, no, this is a total urban myth. Except my problem is, is as I read it, I thought that,

1:55.2

and then I came across some details. It started making me think that maybe there's some gems of

2:00.5

truth in it. So what the heck? We're going to run down that road. I'm really excited. This is

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