For today’s entries into our Curse-O-Meter, we have the Doppelganger of Percy Shelley, the car molester of Korea, the creatures living in the walls of a little girl’s bedroom, and the face eating man of Las Vegas.
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Hello, probably cursed listeners. For today’s entries into our Curse-O-Meter, we have the doppelganger of Percy Shelley, the car molester of South Korea, the creatures living in the walls of a little girl’s bedroom, and the face eater of Las Vegas. I’m your host, Chris.
And I’m Sheryl. Like we do at the start of every episode, we will load our stories into the Lord Canarvan Curse-O-Meter.
Activating our Curse-O-Meter now. We will keep it going. So, our first news story. Korean man spotted having sex with a pink Tesla. This is from KoreaBoo.com on May 18th in Ilsan, South Korea. A woman witnessed a strange man kissing, fingering, and touching her car for over three hours.
I, wait, how, where is he fingering this car?
I mean, it’s a Tesla.
There’s no, I mean, there’s maybe an exhaust pipe for decoration. I don’t know, but…
You know, that’s maybe a question we don’t want answered. Okay, fair. But if you know… Yeah, you can, you can comment on it. Yeah, okay. I’ll allow it. I won’t flag you.
That’s, you have my promise on that. The man only stopped sexually assaulting her car, a pink Tesla, when she finally approached him. What I like is that this went on for three hours, and she was probably like, oh, maybe I’ll just go away and come back later. And she came back and he’s still at it. And then three hours later, she’s like, I gotta do something.
I need to disagree with the fact that it’s being sexually assaulted. It’s a car. It doesn’t have sex organs.
That was my editorial part. Okay. Because, I mean, he was assaulting it with his sexual organ. Okay. The woman tried to report the bizarre incident to police, but to no avail, as unfortunately, there are no specific charges that would apply. It’s not against the law, at least not yet.
Don’t they have public indecency laws in Korea though? I feel like that would be a thing.
I’m not sure. Oh. I was in Korea, but it never came up.
No, you had no reason to try to get arrested in Korea.
Yep. The cars weren’t that sexy. No. So the woman’s husband later related her story to an online Korean Tesla community and asked if they should remove the pink coloring in case it triggers mechanophiliacs, which is a paraphilia involving sexual attraction to machines like cars. As it turns out, this is not an isolated incident. In late March, someone else recorded a video of an entirely different man laying on the hood of a white Audi rubbing himself against it and later on the front fender. Both incidents have sparked lots of online debate and worries that this may be turning into a new trend.
We’re both? Car stories from Korea? Yep.
Wow. If you go online, you can see clips of it as well. Interesting. And the man on the Audi, I just saw a screenshot of it, but he’s like on his belly spread eagle on the hood of a car with his hand underneath him going to where you think it’s going. Oh yeah. A man who’s ostensibly making love to a car. That’s fair. Yeah. This is when car guys go too far.
I can think of a bunch of charges in North America that that guy could get laid against him. So I don’t know enough about Korean laws to know whether or not, but psychological damages would be a good one. That’s true. Like so many options.
Maybe it’s like, you know, like some countries are, they’re notorious for having tourism trade based on something that’s a crime on where the people are from. Yeah. Like before weed was legalized, people go to Amsterdam to smoke weed. Or yeah, people go into countries just for like where sex is legal.
Yeah, where it’s still kind of legal. Or prostitution is legal. I wonder if there’s going to be tourism trade to South Korea until they pass a law. Oh, maybe. Or people are just going to be making love to cars and parking lots. I mean, the Fantasyland Hotel has a truck room.
Oh yeah. Oh, I don’t want to know what goes on in there.
Okay, well, don’t worry. We’ll never rent that room.
Probably much the same. Yeah. It’s probably that same guy from Korea. Probably.
If you work at the Fantasyland Hotel, reach out to us. Let us know who’s cleaned up some strange messes from the truck room that you did not want to see.
Are there hand prints on the truck where there shouldn’t be?
Yes. Or other prints? All right. I’ve got our second story for the Curse-O-Meter. The article is titled or the story is titled, Monsters in Toddler’s Bedroom, Actually Massive Hive of 50,000 Bees. This is from April 30th, 2024. And a global news article. Again, another shout out to Canada, I guess.
The house is in, I forget, I think it was one of the Carolinas. Okay. But global picked it up and they had the most thorough description.
That’s fair. Good job, global. After hearing many complaints from their daughter about monsters inside the walls of her bedroom, a little girl’s parents discovered a floor-to-ceiling beehive inside the wall of her room. The little girl had been refusing to sleep in her room, preferring to sleep in her parents’ bed. Her parents initially believed that the cause was due to a recent viewing of Monsters Inc. Monsters Inc. isn’t even that scary.
I mean, the movie starts off with showing how the monsters work. Yes. And imagine she just couldn’t make it past that point and she thinks that’s what the rest of the movie was about. Oh, maybe. Otherwise, yeah. That’s the conclusion you get to if you didn’t watch to the end in my mind.
Or if you fell asleep partway through. However, over time, they noticed increasingly amounts of honeybees hanging out in their yard, which convinced them to call a beekeeper to look around. Using a thermal camera, the beekeeper found the hive in the daughter’s wall, which would have likely been accessed by the bees through dime-sized hole in their chimney for the last eight months. Since honeybees are protected species, the family had to undergo a lengthy process of removing the bees and their queen. Which had to be relocated to a nearby sanctuary.
Over 50,000 bees and 100 pounds of honeycomb have since been removed, and now the family faces the task of repairing the damage to their walls, floors, and electrical system due to the bees and their honey.
I guess children’s hearing is better. Was it on the level of the little girl’s hearing, but the parents couldn’t hear it for like the longest time?
So 50,000 bees is a lot of bees, and if it’s in her wall and her bed is up against the wall like my bed was when I was a kid, you’d hear it. And especially when there’s no other noises in the house at night. It would sound pretty loud.
Yeah, like 50,000 bees. The other thing being a lot of parents are quick to dismiss when their kids say weird stuff like that. So I almost wonder if they just kind of passed it off as being like, meh.
Just like, just go to bed.
Like especially if she didn’t describe it as a buzzing. Right? Like you could walk into a room and easily.
I heard something in the wall. That is the second story, and I’ll load in our third story to finish calibration. The title, Man was missing eyeball ear following violent attack authorities say. This is a story from May 2nd from WSAS news channel.
Just wait, was it a cockatiel?
Not a cockatiel. Okay, just checking. It was a man who had the spirit of a cockatiel. Okay. At 5 a.m. on a Sunday, Las Vegas police received a report of a man tackling and punching another man on Las Vegas Boulevard. This was followed by a second report 45 minutes later of a man sitting on another man eating his face.
Hmm. When police arrived, they found the suspect kneeling next to the victim with biological matter in his hair, mouth, and on his clothing. The suspect told the officers the victim had attacked him. The victim was brought to hospital where he was pronounced dead. He was missing an eye and ear and had a large cut on his head. The suspect explained to the police later that he was awake for five days straight because something was possessing him. He claimed he was tweaking and he was fighting a shapeshifter and was hearing voices in his head that told him to kill the man who he didn’t really know.
Wow. Good job, Vegas.
Also, he explained that he was helped by a higher power and used his teeth to hurt the victim and eat his eyeballs and ears. The suspect is now in the Clark County Detention Center.
That’s uh, I hope the guy was dead before the guy started eating him.
Some of the reports that I read online because the news stories, it’s still fresh so everyone still got kind of different accountings. But after the tackle and the punch, there was much slamming of a head into the ground. So I don’t know if he was alive for the, I don’t know if he was being eaten alive or if he was being eaten dead.
Hopefully dead. That would not be fun to experience while you’re still alive.
None of this would be that great. No. Vegas, baby. So we have the three stories loaded into our Curse-O-Meter for calibration now. We will get it to spit out the results. Please stand by. Boom boom boom. For the first news story of the cars being sexually assaulted, those are my words in Korea, it says the real curses people.
I feel like that should be on an episode of my strange addiction. Like he’s just, I don’t know, that’s off the wall.
They did have an episode of a guy who is in love with his car on my strange addiction. Yes they did. He wasn’t a Korean guy. He was some white guy. Yeah from the States. Maybe they all know each other.
I mean there are some dark forums of the internet. I’m sure that have some very interesting topics going on that I may or may I definitely don’t want to hear about.
Although on the topic of that episode of my strange addiction, they interview the father at one point. Yeah. And you can just see in his eyes that he wants to talk about anything other than what his kids into. Yes. So the results for the second news story about 50,000 bees in a child’s bedroom wall.
The results are probably blessed.
You got free honey in the wall.
Not just that but they’re a sensitive species so good job honey bees on spreading your population.
You provided a safe habitat for those bees family. They could have installed a faucet on the wall and had fresh honey whenever they wanted.
I mean I like that idea but I don’t think that’s accurate. No.
Only this is the Looney Tunes universe. Reality rarely measures up to my imagination.
I imagine a lot of people listening to this don’t think it’s a blessing but I’m a biologist and I like bees. What’s the worst that honey can do? Some people don’t like bees. I guess.
And the results for the third story about the face eater in Las Vegas definitely cursed. We don’t know if he was or wasn’t fighting an actual shapeshifter.
Yeah they didn’t mention anything about toxicology reports to say how much he was tweaking or what he was tweaking on so I’m just going to assume it probably was a demon.
Yeah either way the results are kind of the same. Yeah. And how do we know the shapeshifter didn’t just turn into the shape of a dead body and then scrabbled out of the morgue later on.
These are questions we’ll have to contact Las Vegas police about.
All right so that is the calibration phase of the episode. Before we get on to the main topic we’ll head over to the probably cursed museum and gift shop to see what artifact has dropped this month. So the brand new artifact releasing on the probably cursed museum and gift shop today is an antique black and white framed oval photo of a young child sitting on what appears to be a wicker chair.
The child in the photo has a haunted expression on her face as she gazes out at us likely from a hundred years ago. Sheryl and I found this photo at the Wild Rose antique show. I believe it was Sheryl who spotted it on the vendors table.
Yeah I spotted it but it was you that went back and was like we need that photo.
I wasn’t quite sure who’s idea was. I mean we were both in agreement. Yes. But yeah we were both captivated with this photo and had to add it to our collection. Also to note our visit to that antique show was documented on our other podcast I went outside today. Sydney Goes Antiquing.
It’s our last season of that podcast so we can focus more on this one and because Sydney doesn’t want to go outside anymore. Yeah Sydney. She’s not even gonna listen to this podcast let’s be honest.
If you’re listening Sydney you can rebut this in the comments. Uh-huh. We’re not sure who the subject of the photograph is. The frame is unlabeled and Google image search doesn’t bring up much to help either except for the likelihood the photo is from the early 1900s based on the dress the child is wearing. Does the photo have any paranormality attached to it? We can’t say for sure. Our Probably Cursed collection is growing all the time and we’re less able to attribute the strange things that have been happening in our home to a single object.
However many cultures do believe that a person or that a photo can trap the essence of a person or may even yet attach the spirit to it after it is passed. You can view this item on our Probably Cursed store right now at probablycursed.etsy.com. Every item sold helps us grow the podcast and gets us ever closer to our dream of having our very own Probably Cursed museum for all of you to visit.
And in case you missed on the last episode that we did just so you know every item comes with a certificate and it’s signed by us with artifact numbers so that you can brag to your friends that you bought something from our Probably Cursed Etsy shop. Oh yeah. All right now I’m gonna start this one off with a trigger warning. Freddie just squeed in anxiety. He was triggered.
This episode triggers even dogs.
Yes the trigger warning is mentioned. I can’t do I keep saying trigger warning and that makes you upset. Okay.
I like it looks from back to you and you’re gonna do this right now aren’t you?
Hi can you sit? It’s not a sit but this trigger warning is for mentioning of miscarriages and suicide. Today I want to discuss the infamous case of Percy Shelley his doppelganger and the weird circumstances surrounding his death. Percy was a poet with a dark and turbulent past but what he is most famous for are the tragic and strange events leading up to his end. We will delve into some of the beliefs about doppelgangers and talk a little bit about doppelganger cases throughout history while looking into the mystery surrounding Percy’s own encounter. Now to start Chris do you believe in doppelgangers?
I don’t think so. I mean I do know there’s people who look a lot like someone else despite being completely unrelated. Fair. They’re usually not your evil self. No. They’re just some other person living their own life.
Who looks kind of vaguely like you. Yeah. That’s fair. So the term doppelganger is a german word that translates to either double walker or double goer. Technically a doppelganger can’t just be someone who looks like you. They must be an exact double of you.
You got your clothes and everything. Yeah and they’re often seen as like evil or an omen of death. So the ancient Egyptians even had a word to describe such an entity so that’s how long the history of like a doppelganger type an entity has existed. The Egyptians called it Ka. Ka.
Yeah. There’s even a story in which Helen of Troy’s Ka misled the Persian army and helped bring the end to the Trojan war. Many Muslim countries believe in what is called the Karin or the Karin and it’s funny because it’s felt like Karen so. It’s the Karens.
It’s the Karens. It translates to constant companion. So it’s considered a gin like entity and it’s the spiritual double of someone in addition Celtic folklore or Celtic folklore depending on how you say it. There is a fairy creature known as the changeling and they would capture children and then send doubles back to replace the missing children and these doubles would become sick and die leaving the original children to remain enslaved by the fairies.
Wow so they send you use some like lame clone that kicks the bucket and then no one goes looking for the real kid. That’s correct. Now is the through line that it’s a spirit or it’s like a manufactured entity that looks just like you or is it you.
So some of the accounts that I saw of the changeling online they actually said that the double they send back is a fairy child who looks exactly like your child.
That must be that must take some arranging.
Yeah that’s got that’s got to have some magic involved of some sort.
And one more question. Yeah. So I track you more. Of course. Star Trek taught me that if you ever have a doppelganger they have a goatee. Is that the case?
It did not find any reports of that.
No goatees. No goatees. Although I would like to see a painting of Helen of Troy with a goatee.
There have been reports of people seeing their double spirit or doppelganger for centuries. But with the advent of facial recognition software it’s becoming more common than it was before to find your double although again these aren’t really considered your doppelganger it’s just somebody who books a lot like you.
Although it makes it harder to be a doppelganger.
That is true. Several authors have written books or stories about doppelgangers including Edgar Allen Poe and his story William Wilson. Robert Louis Stevenson in his Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. And this one I hadn’t heard of before, but Henry James in the Jolly Corner.
There have also been movies like Us and TV shows like the Netflix series Dark. So I’m gonna start off with some real life, real life in quotation cases. These are totally real. One of them is for sure real.
Everything we talked about in this podcast, 100% real.
100% real. So Queen Elizabeth the first is said to have observed her doppelganger lying in her own bed looking pale and lifeless. The devil looked like it was dead and it was laid out like a corpse.
Only a few days later, Queen Elizabeth the first died of blood poisoning. Wow. So this next case is actually why I chose this subject to begin with.
Because we were looking at our honeymoon photos the last time we were recording an episode. A man from Gisboro, England reported that he came across his doppelganger on a shopping trip in Whitby. It is said that one way you can prevent your doppelganger from leading you to your death is to challenge them or confront them. So the man walked up to his double and shouted, What’s thou doing here?
Thou’s after no good and the doppelganger knowing he had been confronted, sulked away. Do you follow them after that? I don’t know. He just it it like I kind of want to go see if I could find the real article, but it sounds like they give up easy.
Yeah. Gotcha. You got me.
More recently, this is our real story. In August, 2022, a German woman named Charaban K. And her last name is omitted from all the articles. They’re German articles, so they just omit the last names from all the victims and the perpetrators, I guess.
You only need to know so much the gossip anyway.
That’s true. So she sought out and killed her double. Charaban wanted to fake her own death because of a failed marriage. She tracked down her double. K-H-D-J-O on Instagram. K-H-A-D-I-D-G-J-A. Khadija. Khadija. Charaban tracked down her double Khadija on Instagram and stabbed her 56 times, then hit her over the head and abandoned her body in a forest.
A little overreactive. She should have known that you just go up to him and, you know, get on, get out of here. I caught you.
Or, like, why don’t you just swap places? If anything, the, like, prince in the popper story has told me, if you swap places, you got to learn how good your previous life was. There were other cases out there, but I couldn’t really find enough information to write up any sort of details on. So now we’ll get into the story of the most infamous doppelganger case. This is the story of Percy Shelley. I know I asked you earlier, but do you know who Percy Shelley is, Chris?
He is the man married to Mary Shelley, who wrote Frankenstein. And I think in overtime has completely overshadowed him.
Yes. And unless you’re a poetry fan, I think because he was married to Mary Shelley is why the case is better known and also why it’s better documented. So I’ll give you a little bit of background on who Percy was. Some people have noted that Percy Shelley did not have an easy childhood.
I mean, having the name Percy isn’t going to make things easy for your kid.
That is true. As a young man, Percy’s father is rumoured to have tried committing Percy to a madhouse. It is said that Percy had thrown his brother’s baby carriage into a patch of strawberries and there are various accounts of him terrorizing his sisters. Insane. Insane. Don’t worry, it gets worse.
I mean, I’ve terrorized my sisters.
I think that’s the duty of an older brother.
But I think the difference is throwing your sibling in a strawberry patch.
Yeah, that’s just not, especially when they’re a baby. Yeah, that’s just not okay.
It’s too late for me now to be officially insane.
In college, Percy was known as Mad Shelley and it was a nickname he earned after he impaled one of his classmates’ hands with a fork.
And they let him back in school. I didn’t kick him out. I guess he just got detention.
Yeah, it’s a lot of forks stabbing in the eyes in the last two episodes. Or forks stabbing is in the last two episodes.
It’s an underrated weapon, I suppose. Yeah, it’s fair.
Percy also suffered with periods of sleepwalking, often triggered by stress. And he reported experiencing various hallucinations throughout his life. There are even people who believe he shows signs of bipolar disorder, although bipolar disorder did not really exist as like a diagnosis back then.
He was suffering from bouts of mania. Do you think him having like the nickname like kind of had this bad boy thing going on? That’s what drew Mary Shelley to him.
No, and actually I’ll go into a little bit what may have drawn her to him. I don’t know. You’ll have to see for yourself, but she was 16 at the time.
Compared to his age, which is
he would have been five years older than her.
OK, so 21 dating a six year 16 year old.
Yes, there are some stories online that vary and that their his age may have been like three to five years older than her, but even still, he was older and he also wrote romantic poetry. So oh, that’s how we got the ladies.
I guess so. Mary Shelley herself even wrote Percy into one of her books, the book LaDor. And she split his personality into two separate characters. There are accounts that suggest Percy may have attempted suicide at least once during his life, but speculation that it was probably multiple times. Percy was also well aware of his own mental health issues, and he offered refer to his personality as a divided self.
Oh, perhaps bipolar.
Yes, with a fiendish side of personality often lurking in the obscure parts of his own nature. That’s the fork stabbing one. His friends. And if your friends describe you this way, I don’t know. I don’t know what to say, but his friends described him as unstable to a dangerous degree as if haunted by a demon within. Yeah, if your friends describe you that way, I don’t know.
Yeah, unless you’re all in the metal band together.
It seems like a bad idea. You’re doing a press tour. So Percy Shelley was actually married once before. His first wife was named Harriet Westbrook, and she killed herself only five years into their marriage. So Harriet was 16 when they first got married. And three and three years later, when she was 19 years old, which is shortly after Percy abandoned her to be in a relationship with Mary Shelley, she took her own life.
Was it because she wasn’t 16 anymore? And then he saw Mary Shelley?
Who knows? He was known for being a bit of a womanizer. And actually, there’s a bunch of women that I bring up in this story that people theorize he may have been having an affair with. So he got around.
That’s impressive with a name like Percy.
Yeah, he even was apparently entangled in an affair with Mary Shelley’s step sister while he was in a relationship with Mary Shelley herself. Wow. Yeah, love triangle. Mary and Percy eloped when Mary was only 16 and already pregnant with his child. Although ironically, because sex ed was really non-existent in the time, it’s likely that Mary had no idea she was pregnant. She was out on a ship with him and was suffering from what she described as sea sickness. But Percy, who is again, as I said, three to five years older than her and had already been married and already had a child, likely recognized the signs of pregnancy before Mary did. But there’s not really any record to say whether or not Percy let Mary know or she just figured it out on her own.
It’s probably like, yeah, isn’t that weird?
I was kind of hoping for some more information on that. But Percy was the only one keeping journals during this time. So I don’t know if he would have put that stuff in there. Mary didn’t start writing until a little bit later. Also for irony, because Percy was still married at the time that he eloped with Mary, it’s unsure as to if their marriage was actually legitimate.
Yeah, you might have had several marriages going on.
We really have no idea. The Shelleys had four children, only one which survived adulthood. Percy Shelley, the third.
Was that the third in a row?
He lives. Their only child to survive. But I don’t think he was the third child. Their first child was a daughter. Okay.
Yeah. I’m just imagining like a child dies and they try again and they give it the same name.
Yeah. I did wonder that and it is possible because Percy Shelley the first would have been Percy Shelley himself. So it’s possible they had another child between there that they had named Percy. And then he died. Anyway, their only surviving child was born in 1819. The Shelleys continued to attempt to have more children, but none of the other pregnancies survived.
Now the only reason I’m setting that up is because the rest of the details going on from this kind of tie into the story of the doppelganger. So in 1822, Mary Shelley nearly died due to complications from another miscarriage. And it was only Percy’s quick thinking that saved her from bleeding to death. So he basically had her sit on a block of ice overnight. All night? All night. And that saved her life.
Where did he get a giant block of ice that would last an entire night?
In the 1800s, I don’t know. And I promise this is where the doppelganger, this is where the doppelganger story begins. He’s a resourceful man. Yeah, he’s a resourceful man.
I think that’s what drew people to him.
So in a letter, Mary Shelley wrote to her friend, Maria Grisborne. Mary stated that Percy claimed to have seen his doppelganger on June 23rd of 1822, which was just over a month since Mary had almost died. Mary noted that in the middle of the night on June 23rd, their household was awakened by Percy screaming.
She went to console her husband and found him in an agitated state, raving about how he had dreamed of the Williams, which were friends of the Shelleys, covered in blood and the sea was flooding into the house. Percy’s dream suddenly changed and he’d seen a figure with his own face standing over Mary’s bed with his hands at her throat. A few days prior to this, Percy had already claimed to have seen his doppelganger. So it wasn’t the first time he’d seen it.
Hopefully you did the Whitby maneuver where you just show up and tell him to get out of here.
No, actually, the doppelganger confronted him. Percy was out enjoying the sun on his terrace when the doppelganger approached him and asked, how much longer do you mean to be content? Which is a really weird question for someone to ask,
especially someone who looks just like you.
Only 15 days after the June 23rd doppelganger incident and less than a month from his 30th birthday, Percy Shelley drowned in the Bay of Spiza in Italy on July 8th, 1822. The boat he was sailing on capsized and sank and Shelley’s body was to shore and was found later. Now, it wasn’t just Percy who saw his own doppelganger. Also in June of 1822, Jane Williams, which when I was saying one of the people that was speculated to be in a fair with him, was Jane. She’s also the same Williams from Percy’s dream that he saw covered in blood. Oh, she noted that she had seen Percy’s doppelganger and it happened twice. Jane wrote to Mary stating that she had observed the doppelganger passed by her window both times walking in the same direction past the same window.
So he’s walking around the block doing circuits around her house.
However, it would have been nearly impossible. For the real Percy Shelley, because it would have required him to climb over a 20 foot wall to pass the window walking in the same direction without backtracking.
Oh, mad Percy Shelley.
Jane was out on her terrace. Stay away from terraces. That’s where doppelgangers show up, I guess.
It’s true. That’s like doppelganger habitats.
She was out on her terrace with her friend at the time. And when she did not see Percy Shelley’s doppelganger passed by after his second passing. So for the third time, she cried out, Good God, can Shelley have leapt from the wall? Where could he be gone to? To which Jane’s friend pointed out that he had not seen Percy walk past the window and that it could not have been Percy because he was nowhere near the house at the time.
Doppelganger. Now to add a little bit more detail to the strange events surrounding Percy Shelley’s death. So he was sailing in a ship that was purchased with the Jane’s husband, Edward Williams, and a naval officer named Daniel Roberts, which I’ll be honest, this kind of sounds like the type of thing that a guy might do if they’re going through like a midlife crisis. Like he’d buy a boat with a couple of friends and be like, let’s sail around the world before I turn 30.
I got to do it. Yeah. I haven’t done anything with my life.
The boat that they had purchased was named the Don Juan, although they decided to rename it the Ariel. After the mermaid. So I looked that up. Hans Christian Anderson, who wrote Little Mermaid, never named her in the book. So the name Ariel is from the Disney movie. I did not know that. I didn’t know that either. I went and looked it up because I had the same thought as you.
So Disney named her after the boat. Percy Shelley and his friends.
That’s right. Also, to those of you who don’t know a lot about seafaring folklore, it’s considered bad luck to rename a boat. Also, there’s a little bit of irony in the fact that he took a boat. So the Don Juan was a fictional Spanish womanizer character from a book. And especially with Percy being a womanizer himself. And then renamed it to the name of a female character from the Shakespearean play of the Tempest. Okay. So that’s where the name Ariel came from, which again, those of you who are not up on your Shakespeare, the Tempest involves a storm.
She Prospero’s daughter.
Okay. And of course, Percy died in a storm when his boat capsized.
He should have just kept the name of the womanizer.
She just left it where it was.
And it would have just capsized from being filled with babes.
Yeah. Percy Shelley was ironically cremated on the beach on which his body was found. And his ashes were buried in a cemetery in Rome. Crazy. And that’s the story of Percy Shelley and his doppelganger.
I wonder if the doppelganger has something to do with the boat accident.
100%. And there were articles online, again, the one that I read about him and potentially having bipolar disorder where they kind of used it as like proof that he was clearly like insane. Like, oh yeah, he’s got mental health issues because he’s seeing his own double. But then to hear that Jane saw his double too makes me wonder. Yeah.
Then you have to argue for like, I don’t know if he’s going to a few state areas, like a split personality where he becomes the other Percy.
Mm hmm. And I wanted to look a little bit up into like what happened to Barry after that. And she actually left Italy because they had been living in Italy at the time. And so she left Italy and moved back to England and actually started writing a lot of books on feminism. Wow. So good for her.
I never knew she was a feminist author. She is. Yeah. I mean, I knew her from Frankenstein. Just about a man having a child.
It does make me wonder that like if they ever actually legally got married or if yeah, or if it was just illegitimate the whole time.
No, I wonder back then if official records only kind of extended as far as like the land on where it was written. Like now there’s like international laws, but like back then you could probably move like three counties over and you’re technically not married.
Mm hmm. And it’s funny because the Williams, Jane and Edward, it says that they were common law married. They weren’t officially married. So there was enough to know to register them as common law and not actually married.
Well, if you ever see your doppelganger, don’t murder them. Yes, don’t. Just tell them to get out of here.
Yeah. Question why they’re there. Be like, yo, what’s you doing at the house? And then they’ll walk away sadly.
I won’t just imagine what would I do if someone came up to me who looked just like me and told me to get out of here.
Why do you keep being so happy? God damn it.
All right, we will take in the story of Percy Shelley and his doppelganger. Process it through the Curse-O-Meter and we’ll see what the results are. Please stand by. All right. And the results say probably cursed.
Even though there’s speculation that like he had mental health issues. Again, the fact that like more than one person saw his doppelganger says to be there’s something going on there. Yeah.
And doppelgangers in general, they’re not going out and doing good things for you. Redoing your swimming pool lining and walking your dog for you. Doing house chores.
And the other thing is like he did a bunch of like, I mean, renaming your boat. It’s just a bad idea that cursed him right away right there.
Yeah, he’s kind of poking the bear. Yeah. Well, that’s the end of today’s episode. I will say that if you’re on our social medias, make sure you wish me happy birthday. It’s my birthday this month.
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