A surprisingly common delusion, the story of the original Flagpole Sitta, and what they can tell us about the intersection of culture and mental health.

Warning: repeated usage of anatomical terms for uh... certain portions of anatomy... but NOT in any sort of racy or gory fashion.

Further reading

• The Geography of Madness - Frank Bures
• The Atlantic - The Diseases You Only Get if You Believe in Them
• Reuters - Penis theft panic hits city..
• New Advent - St. Simeon Stylites the Elder
• The Letters of Simeon the Stylite by Charles C. Torrey
• Wikipedia - Simeon Stylites 

Music by Kai Engel - Chapter One/Cold - 05 January
Provided under an Attribution non commercial license

General notes:

I’d like to thank my newest five star Itunes reviewer: Mar-y

I'd also like to thank Mike at Pleasing Terrors Podcast for giving me this idea (though I don't think it went anywhere near where either of us expected)

Check out my new instagram @QuidProQuoCast

I am currently participating in a campaign called #2PodsADay.

It aims to introduce podcast listeners to two independent podcasts every day, for 30 days. We hope to give visibility to some of the great indie podcasts that you probably haven’t heard of.

#2PodsADay encourages you to Listen More, Listen Independent.  

Find more shows like mine by following @2PodsADay on Twitter and Facebook. Or just search the hashtag: 2PodsADay.

June’s Murder of the Month book pick is right around the corner, feel free to join us at the Murder of the Month page on Facebook for more information

Have you ever heard the Bauhaus song Terror Couple Kills Colonel? I recently spent the three days earwormed with it after Netflix bingeing a British television series called "Killer Couples".

This got me thinking: True Crime media is pretty obsessed with "Partners in crime" but what factors create these infamous poisonous pairs?

This episode discusses a relevant turning point in social science and a specific flavor of the "Partner in Crime". 

Thank Yous and Announcements

I’d like to thank my most recent Patreon patrons:

• Mike at The Pleasing Terrors Podcast, one of my favorite podcasts, AND one of my favorite Cheerleaders of the Podcast world
• Albert, who chose not to have a link but has ALSO helped me with A LOT of the artwork for the podcast.

I have added a brand spanking new pledge level on Patreon which gets you stickers!

I’d also like to thank my newest five star Itunes reviewer: GoodPony and the lovely people of Podcasts We Listen To on Facebook for helping to get the word out there

New Project!

Starting, well today if you’re listening on May fifteenth 2017, I will be participating in a campaign called #2PodsADay.

It aims to introduce podcast listeners to two independent podcasts every day, for 30 days. We hope to give visibility to some of the great indie podcasts that you probably haven’t heard of.

#2PodsADay encourages you to Listen More, Listen Independent.  

Find more shows like mine by following @2PodsADay on Twitter and Facebook. Or just search the hashtag: 2PodsADay.

May’s Murder of the Month book pick is Dont tell A Soul by M. William Phelps, feel free to join us at the Murder of the Month page on Facebook for more information

Episode Links:

• The Mayo Clinic:  Friendships: Enrich your life and improve your health

• IFLScience: Scientists Just Replicated The Infamous Milgram Experiment
• Social Psychological and Personality Science: Would You Deliver an Electric Shock in 2015? Obedience in the Experimental Paradigm Developed by Stanley Milgram in the 50 Years Following the Original Studies
• Science Daily: Conducting the Milgram experiment in Poland, psychologists show people still obey
• Simply Psychology: The Milgram Experiment (link contains multiple audio and video clips)

• Investigation Discovery Evil Twins: S2E4 4. “Sisters in Silence” (the name of the show is terrible, but the episode was pretty solid)
• The New York Times: Bound Together in Fantasy and Crime
• NPR: The Silent Twins
• People: A British Journalist Unravels the Tale of the Twins Who Wouldn't Talk
• The New Yorker: We Two Made One
• The Yorkshire Post: Silent twins trapped by a destructive bond that was broken only by death

• Casefile Podcast Episode 17: The Eriksson Twins
• Bone Palace Ballet: Episode 11: Folie a Deux Crime and Punishment–Sabina and Ursula Ericksson

• Vanity Fair: The Quaid Conspiracy
• The Telegraph: Why actor Randy Quaid and wife Evi fled the Hollywood 'star whackers' to Canada
• YouTube Channel: Randy Quaid Evi Quaid

Music: Home Runner Single by Vir Nocturnum
Licensed under an Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.