Podcast about the Mad Gasser and mass hysteria

We've posted before about the Mad Gasser of Mattoon: In 1944, the small town of Mattoon, Illinois was terrorized by a creepy black-clad prowler who sprayed anesthetic gas in his victims' faces. Or maybe it was all a case of mass hysteria based mostly on myth. The new episode of the excellent Memory Palace podcast features the delightfully weird tale of the Mad Gasser. The Memory Palace: "A Gas Gas Gas"

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Anonymous

Wait, so DC Comics Golden Age Sandman (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandman_(Wesley_Dodds)) is based on a ‘real’ event? Holy crap!
rrh

I thought the golden-age Sandman was a super-cool super hero.

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Anonymous

I remember hearing about this from my grandfather. I guess the wicked exploits of the Mad Gasser of Matton were only matched in his day by the Feared Farter of Fayatteville.