Tales of the Unexpected: A Grab Bag of Odd Stories

People can be pretty strange. And not just people—as we’ll see in one story of this week’s episode, you can add all our extended family of primates to that. If you have a big brain and opposable thumbs, there’s a good chance you’ll be getting up to shenanigans. But as we’ll see in our other story, human beings still wear the crown for weird, ridiculously confident nonsense.

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Sources, Monkey Invasion case:

Smithsonian Magazine: smithsonianmag.com/history/when-170-wild-monke…

NY Times: nytimes.com/1935/08/23/archives/monkey-runaway…

nytimes.com/1935/08/22/archives/150-monkeys-fl…

Farmingdale Local History Blog: farmingdalelocalhistory.blogspot.com/2018/07/f…

omeka.hofstra.edu/exhibits/show/long-island-bu…

timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1935/08/…

newspapers.com/article/daily-news-174-monkeys-…

loc.gov/resource/sn84026749/1935-08-24/ed-1/?s…

Sources, Alison Gu case:

U.S. Court of Appeals filings: caselaw.findlaw.com/court/us-2nd-circuit/21401…

casemine.com/judgement/us/6943f1bbcfa51735e29c…

Bennington Banner: benningtonbanner.com/local-news/former-winhall…

"Lowering the Bar," Kevin Underhill: loweringthebar.net/2025/07/defendant-recruited…

Manchester Journal: manchesterjournal.com/local-news/former-winhal…

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