Episode 48: Black Eyed Children & Doppelgangers
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Fact or fiction?
We want your help deciding whether these two myths / legends / ghosts / phenomena / things are real or just a really good story.
Britt will be sharing the og post that brought us the horrifying black eyed children, and Alexa will go back in history, exploring reporting's of doppelgangers.
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Sources for today's ep:
Black Eyed Children
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black-eyed_children
https://www.tbsnews.net/splash/legend-black-eyed-children-55705
http://web.archive.org/web/20050213181819/http:/www.pinn.net/~royaloak/Stories/black_eyed.htm
https://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/black-eyed-children-real-or-just-a-creepy-myth/news-story/f908e522e4a67739e3d5039d639a6e5a
https://cynthiavarady.medium.com/what-are-black-eyed-children-4612e5b27256
https://thoughtcatalog.com/christine-stockton/2013/11/16-peoples-terrifying-encounters-with-the-black-eyed-kids/
Doppelgangers
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/history-doppelganger#:~:text=The%20word%20%E2%80%9Cdoppelg%C3%A4nger%E2%80%9D%20was%20introduced,his%20friend%20and%20lookalike%2C%20Leibgeber.
http://myweb.usf.edu/~liottan/theegyptiansoul.html
https://www.ancient-origins.net/myths-legends/doppelgangers-and-mythology-spirit-doubles-001825
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doppelg%C3%A4nger#Examples_in_film
https://www.bustle.com/p/what-happens-if-you-see-your-own-doppelganger-some-believe-its-a-bad-omen-12610096
https://macabreadore.wordpress.com/2016/02/10/top-5-famous-figures-who-saw-their-doppelgangers/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89milie_Sag%C3%A9e
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/readersblog/james/emilie-sagee-and-the-strange-case-of-the-doppelganger-5362/
https://nerdist.com/article/11-doppelganger-films-jordan-peele-us/
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