Lore 272: Tick Talk (ad-free)

We live our lives by the clock and never think twice about it. But history is filled with stories that should make us very, very afraid of time.

Narrated and produced by Aaron Mahnke, with writing by GennaRose Nethercott, research by Cassandra de Alba, and music by Chad Lawson.

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Sources:

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• Boroditsky, Lera. “How Language Shapes Thought.” Scientific American 304(2), February 2011: pp. 62-65.

• Bradbury, Ray. Something Wicked This Way Comes (Simon & Schuster, 2017).

• Cann, Candi K. “La Mala Hora.” In American Myths, Legends, and Tall Tales: An Encyclopedia of American Folklore, vol 2., ed. Christopher R. Fee & Jeffrey B. Webb (ABC-CLIO, 2016).

• “Chronovisor: The Vatican's Secret Device to See Through Time.” The Why Files. July 28, 2022. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdXF3kmKCPY 

• Cliffe, Stephen. “Following a ghostly trail.” Huddersfield Daily Examiner. November 5, 1975. https://www.newspapers.com/image/943936933/  

• Dash, Mike. “A Scottish spinster at the Battle of Nechtanesmere, 685AD.” A Blast from the Past. June 28, 2010. https://mikedashhistory.com/2010/06/28/a-scottish-spinster-at-the-battle-of-nechtanesmere-685ad/ 

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• Faulkner, Alex. “York at its Viking Best.” The Sunday Telegraph [London]. July 4, 1982. https://www.newspapers.com/image/750914794/ 

• Flanagan, Emily. “Modest man at centre of York's most famous ghost story passes away.” The Northern Echo. October 26, 2014. https://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/11560152.modest-man-centre-yorks-famous-ghost-story-passes-away/ 

• Frankel, Miriam, and Matt Warren. “The weird way language affects our sense of time and space.” BBC. November 3, 2022. https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20221103-how-language-warps-the-way-you-perceive-time-and-space

• Frost, Carol. “North-East provides plenty to delight home-grown tourists.” Ashbourne News Telegraph. October 14, 1998. https://www.newspapers.com/image/846931471/ 

• Gater, Paul. Ghosts at War (Lulu.com, 2015).

• “The Ghost Legion of Rome and the Wall of Hadrian.” The Classical Difference. May 10, 2022. https://classicaldifference.com/ninth/ 

• “The ghost stories of Treasurer’s House.” National Trust. [n.d.] https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/visit/yorkshire/treasurers-house-york/ghosts-of-treasurers-house 

• “Hunting the ghosts that put Harry in the hospital.” Evening Standard [London]. September 30, 1975. https://www.newspapers.com/image/721859134/ 

• Kosloski, Philip. “Why is 3 a.m. known as ‘the devil’s hour’?” Aleteia. September 5, 2023. https://aleteia.org/2017/10/20/why-is-3-am-known-as-the-devils-hour 

• Kuhn, Robert Lawrence. “The Illusion of Time: What's Real?.” Space. August 26, 2022. https://www.space.com/29859-the-illusion-of-time.html 

• “Legends of the Legionnaires.” Ghosthunters. Season 1, Episode 1. Aired April 14, 1996.

• Lynch, CJ. “Legend Has It: La Mala Hora.” The Morbid Library. July 25, 2021. https://themorbidlibrary.com/2021/07/25/legend-has-it-la-mala-hora/ 

• MacKenzie, Andrew. Adventures in Time: Encounters with the Past (The Athlone Press, 1997).

• MacKenzie, Andrew. Hauntings and Apparitions (Heinemann, 1982).

• Margaritoff, Marco. “The Story Of The Chronovisor, The Rumored Vatican Invention That Allows You To See The Past.” All That’s Interesting. August 15, 2023. https://allthatsinteresting.com/chronovisor

• Mark, Joshua J. “The Battle of Dun Nectain.” World History Encyclopedia. December 18, 2014. https://www.worldhistory.org/Battle_of_Dun_Nectain/ 

• Merryweather, Cheish. “10 Fascinating Facts About the Devil’s Hour: 3 AM.” Listverse. December 15, 2019. https://listverse.com/2019/12/15/10-fascinating-facts-about-the-devils-hour-3am/ 

• Mistry, Pritti. “Flixborough chemical plant disaster 'not forgotten' 50 years on.” BBC. June 1, 2024. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0wwepe5g10o

• “New Discoveries in Roman York.” The Manchester Guardian. April 27, 1955. https://www.newspapers.com/image/259422519/ 

• “The news flash that came five hours too soon…” Grimsby Evening Telegraph. April 3, 1985. https://www.newspapers.com/image/927355431/ 

• Nuñez, Rafael, Kensy Cooperrider, D Doan, and Jürg Wassmann. “Contours of time: Topographic construals of past, present, and future in the Yupno valley of Papua New Guinea.” Cognition 124(1), July 2012: pp. 25-35. 

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• Rao, Devika. “Is time real?” The Week. December 19, 2022. https://theweek.com/space/1019411/is-time-real 

• Rogers, Byron. “Floored by ghosts in the cellar.” The Sunday Telegraph [London]. May 7, 1995. https://www.newspapers.com/image/751823106/ 

• “The Roman Army in York.” History of York. [n.d.] http://www.historyofyork.org.uk/themes/the-roman-army-in-york 

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• “Roman Ghosts: Shades in Eburacum.” Eagles and Dragons Publishing. March 3, 2018. http://eaglesanddragonspublishing.com/tag/harry-martindale/ 

• “Roman Invasion.” Coventry Evening Telegraph. July 16, 1994. https://www.newspapers.com/image/909499832/ 

• “The Roman Ninth Legion's mysterious loss.” BBC. March 16, 2011. https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-12752497 

• Schlosser, S.E. “La Mala Hora.” American Folklore. August 28, 2022. https://americanfolklore.net/folklore/2010/07/la_mala_hora.html 

• “Treasurer's House.” History of York. [n.d.] http://www.historyofyork.org.uk/themes/the-liberty-of-st-peter/treasurer-s-house 

• “TV tales of paranormal.” Grimsby Evening Telegraph. October 7, 1994. https://www.newspapers.com/image/822071554/ 

• Underwood, Peter. This Haunted Isle: The Ghosts and Legends of Britain's Historic Buildings (Barnes & Noble, 1993).

• “Vision of disaster…” Grimsby Evening Telegraph. June 1, 1981. https://www.newspapers.com/image/923061262

• Warren, Karen. “Exploring Roman York: What To See And Where To Go.” WorldWideWriter. April 9, 2024. https://www.worldwidewriter.co.uk/exploring-roman-york.html 

• Wathen, Christopher M. “The Chronovisor: A controversial instrument of time travel?” The Lintonian. April 14, 2023. https://thelintonian.com/2023/04/14/the-chronovisor-a-controversial-instrument-of-time-travel/

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• “Why Is 3 AM Called The Witching Hour?” FrightFind. August 28, 2018. https://frightfind.com/why-is-3-am-called-the-witching-hour/ 

• Woolf, Alex. “Dún Nechtain, Fortriu and the Geography of the Picts.” The Scottish Historical Review 220(2), October 2006: pp. 182-201.

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