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You're listening to episode 58 of Jimmy Aiken's mysterious world,

where we look at mysteries from the twin perspectives of faith and reason.

In this episode, we're talking about the mad gasser of Matoon.

I'm Dom Bettenelli, and joining me today is Jimmy Aiken. Hi Jimmy. Howdy Dom.

Hey Jimmy, I want to take a moment before we begin to mention another show on the StarQuest

Network that I've talked about before, but I want to recommend again. It's a show that I'm doing

with my wife Melanie called Raising the Bets. My last name is Bettenelli. We have kids,

we're raising the bets. It's a little pun. It's at sqpn.com slash bets. We're a Catholic couple,

we're talking about homeschooling our kids, raising our kids, and the things we encounter.

But also we talk about we're both book nerds, so we love to talk about books, we talk about movies,

we talk about we love to cook, so we talk about food and cooking. So join in.

It's a family podcast. Yeah, it's a family podcast and not just in the sense of everyone in

the family can listen to it, but it's actually about a family. Right. And so if you have a family

or don't do and you'll find out your people talk about families, interesting. Please join in.

We've had several listeners to the mysterious world podcast. Join us on listening to that

podcast and we've we've loved having you all join us. And so it's a lot of fun. So check it out

sqpn.com slash bets. Be TTS. All right. So today 75 years ago, actually tonight, September 6th,

eight people in the small town of Matoon, Illinois reported being attacked by a madman who used gas

to disable his victims. And they were far from the only ones. Many others reported similar attacks

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