This Paralyzing Gas Caused Panic in a Small Town | Mad Gasser of Mattoon

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🗓️ 21 November 2022

⏱️ 75 minutes

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In 1944 the small town of Mattoon, Illinois was in a panic for weeks. A number of residents had woken up to a strange odor which caused alarming symptoms like paralysis, and it appeared someone was attacking victims with gas. Today, we discuss the peculiar mystery of the Mad Gasser of Mattoon. Sponsored by Optimum Chairs (go to http://optimumchairs.com and use code redweb10 to get 10% off your Optimum Chair), Raycon (go to http://buyraycon.com/redweb and use code EARLYBF to get 20% off sitewide), Shady Rays (go to http://shadyrays.com to shop their Black Friday selections). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is a Rooster Teeth production.
0:05.0	Over a period of weeks in September of 1944, residents of Matune, Illinois began showing
0:19.0	signs of poison gas exposure.
0:21.5	One experienced all victims having common was the memory of a sweet perfume smell filling
0:25.6	their homes.
0:26.7	The one responsible for these gassings was never found, so let's discuss the puzzling
0:31.1	case of the Mad Gasser of Matune.
0:34.2	This is Redweb.
0:43.4	It is another Mystery Monday.
0:46.3	Welcome to Redweb, everybody.
0:47.4	Task Force, strap in.
0:48.5	We got an interesting one.
0:49.5	The Mad Gasser.
0:50.5	I'm your host Trevor Collins, and joining me as always with the gut instinct, the questions
0:55.7	coming in blind, reacting for the very first time Alfredo Diaz.
0:59.5	Yep, solved it.
1:00.5	It's a scary grow.
1:01.5	From the bad guy.
1:02.5	Easy peasy.
1:03.5	It's the fear toxin.
1:06.5	It is.
1:07.5	That's just really what it reminds me of.
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