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Curse or Coincidence?
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Jinxes, hexes, conspiracies and bad ju-ju. Each week Nathan (the skeptic) and Aimee (the believer) dive into famous curses from sports, movies and history to seperate fact from fiction, mystery from history and ask is it a curse? Or is it just a coincidence?
Episodes
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Season 2 Episode 2: The Glee Curse
This week, Aimee and Nathan unleash their inner-theatre kid energy and talk about the Glee Curse. Over its six-year run and in the eight years since the last episode aired, the wholesome family show has been a mashup of drug abuse, disappearance and death, leading fans to speculate that the show…
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Season 2 Episode 1: The Curse of Tippecanoe
We kick off season 2 by diving into a Shamanistic curse placed on the highest office of the home of the braved the land of the free, and the birthplace of the humble cheeseburger. It’s been known by many names, Tecumseh’s Curse, the Curse of Tippecanoe, the Zero-Year Curse, the Twenty-Year Curse....
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A cursey update!
Where we’ve been, where we’re going, a retrospective on Season 1 and we announce season 2 coming soon!
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"Kinda Cursey" - Madame LaLaurie
Well it sure has been a while Cursed Crew! For our first episode back, we’re setting fire to the whole formula. Forget what you knew about ‘Curse or Coincidence?’, we’re off script this week and WE’RE NEVER COMING BACK! (Until next week) This week, Aimee tells Nathan about a sorta, kinda, cursey...
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Episode 14: The Curse of Timur's Tomb
This week, Aimee and Nathan talk about a warlord and nobleman who controlled a vast swath of Asia during the 14th century. Timur (aka Tamerlane) was renowned as a military tactician whose warfare killed some 17 million people. Fast forward 400 years, when Joseph Stalin commissioned a team to…
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Episode 13: The Lee Family Curse
WE'RE BACK! This week we close the book on our last episode about The Crow, and discuss the Lee Family Curse while also making some time to theorise who or what may be responsible for our own recent wave of bad luck (not naming names, Robert the doll). The Lee Family Curse is the legend of an...
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Episode 12: The Crow
This week, Aimee & Nathan battle a sweltering heatwave & violent storms to bring you one of the most cursed film franchises of all time. In 1993, Paramount Pictures began production on adapting a little known graphic novel to the big screen. Although The Crow would go on to become a box office…
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Episode 11: Little Bastard
After an impromptu hiatus, Nathan and Aimee are back again to bring your regularly scheduled curse-cast! James Dean's career as an actor and racing driver was cut tragically short on September 30, 1955, when his “Little Bastard” Porsche 550 Spyder was involved in a catastrophic collision on the…
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Episode 10: Robert the Doll
Dolls… friend, foe, or both? Join us this week as Nathan tells us about the curse of ‘Robert the Doll’, a 3ft, 2kg, human-haired, sailor outfit wearing, power-wielding terror, ripped straight from your darkest nightmares to wreak havoc on those who dare cross him. Join us for Aimee’s anxiety...
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Episode 9: The Superman Curse
This week, Aimee & Nathan don their red capes & fly into a curse that has proven to be Hollywood kryptonite for a number of actors, comic book creators and producers of film and television. The Superman Curse is a Hollywood urban legend that refers to a series of supposedly related misfortunes…
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Episode 8: Ötzi the Iceman
In 1991, an unsuspecting German couple hiking through the Öztel Alps accidentally made one of the most important archeological discoveries of all time when they stumbled upon a man who had been encased in ice for 5000 years, affectionately nicknamed "Ötzi" Since his disturbance from the mother of...
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Episode 7: The Curse of the Love Sweater & The Madden Cover Curse
With the silly season in full swing, this week Nathan & Aimee get into the giving spirit and give you a double helping of curses! We start our “Cursed Holiday Gift Guide” by talking about the phenomenon of ungrateful partners breaking up with their craft-loving paramour after being gifted a...
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Episode 6: The Playboy Centrefold Curse
They say that beauty is a curse, but for a Playboy centrefold model its 4 times the curse! Murder, plane crashes, exploitation films and exploited women, this week Aimee & Nathan put on their bunny ears and learn about the Playboy centrefold curse. Of the 700 women that have graced Playboy’s…
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BONUS EPISODE: Interview with John Safran
In this special bonus episode, we interview the man at the very centre of the Socceroos Curse, Australian media personality, John Safran. The SBS series John Safran vs. God saw him travel the world, diving into extreme religious experiences. During the filming of the series, John participated in…
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Episode 5: The Curse of the Socceroos
We’ve got World Cup fever (well, Nathan does) and this week we’re talking about a curse that was in place for 36 years on the Australian Soccer team, cast by a Witch Doctor in Mozambique. We discuss the origins of the curse, the effects on Australian football and the man who stepped in to reverse...
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Episode 4: The Wizard of Oz
Follow the Yellow Brick Road.... paved with ill-fortune, tragedy, and asbestos! This week, we discuss the dark history of one of the most popular motion pictures of all time, The Wizard of Oz. Mischievous munchkins, retro substances and lots of makeup related mishaps... join us as we ponder if...
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Episode 3: The Hope Diamond
The Hope Diamond is one of the most valuable diamonds in the world, a 45-carat blue diamond, with one heck of a curse attached! Undeniably beautiful and intriguing, this big blue stone is said to curse any person brave enough to own or merely touch it, bringing misfortune and grisly death on its...
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Episode 2: #drakecurse
The ‘Drake curse’ has become one of the Internet’s biggest memes due to the downfall of sporting stars and teams after they have interacted with Canada's favourite son. Internet legend claims that if Drake wears a team’s shirt, poses for a photo alongside an athlete, or merely publicly voices his...
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Episode 1: The Scottish Play
According to a theatrical superstition called "the Scottish curse", speaking the name Macbeth inside a theatre other than as called for in the script while rehearsing or performing, will cause disaster. This week, Aimee and Nathan talk about the curse of Macbeth, the origins of the curse, and…
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Jinxes, hexes, conspiracies and bad ju-ju. Each week Nathan (the skeptic) and Aimee (the believer) dive into famous curses from sports, movies and history to seperate fact from fiction, mystery from history and ask is it a curse? Or is it just a coincidence?
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Jinxes, hexes, conspiracies and bad ju-ju. Each week Nathan (the skeptic) and Aimee (the believer) dive into famous curses from sports, movies and history to seperate fact from fiction, mystery from history and ask is it a curse? Or is it just a coincidence?
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