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Monsters in the Sewers

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Brief overview

A radio night testing urban legends, Amazon expeditions and UFO songs against whatever real foundation they have.

  1. Urban legends outlive their explanationsThe Sabadell bug turned out to be bar sludge, but the legend is still on the radio 45 years later.
  2. An authority's verdict can start the panicThe municipal veterinarian's shifting diagnosis — mutant family first, horse intestine after — is what fired fear of an underground world.
  3. The jungle hid real civilisationsLaser-equipped drones, the Pusharo wall and the Acre structures point to structured societies where hostile jungle was thought uninhabited.
Executive Summary AI
  • Lorenzo Fernandez Bueno opens this Invisible Deluxe summer special on Onda Cero, announcing a review of little-known fake news with Josep Guijarro, a literary pick from Michelle Jenner, the myth of Paititi, cursed houses on film and the Jukebox with Juan José Sánchez Oro.0:58
  • Guijarro retells the Sabadell case of 1981: the "Bichu", a gelatinous black mass almost 3 meters long and 50 centimeters wide, was pulled from the pipes of Bar Sanz between Brutau and Bruscheda streets, and the municipal veterinarian first called it a mutated hybrid animal that could live underground, then said it was a horse intestine full of crap.5:09
  • A neighbour, Joaquín Vila, finally solved it on his own — coffee residues, beer foam and various detergents fermented year after year into an inert golem — yet photocopies of the press article sold for 10 pesetas, Cuarto Milenio filmed a recreation in 2012, and 45 years later the bug is still being discussed.12:35
  • Travel writer Josep María Palau, author of "My mother became a bird", says the latest serious studies, using drones with laser systems that comb inaccessible jungle, are finding real cities, and he describes the carved wall of Pusharo and the pyramids of Pantiacoya as evidence that pre-Inca cultures may have left the jungle to conquer what became the Inca empire.48:01
  • Laura Falco grounds Amityville and "Malasaña 32" in real crimes — Ronald DeFeo shooting his family at 112 Ocean Avenue, and eight crimes in 141 years in one Madrid building — before the Jukebox traces UFO music from the Buchanan Brothers in 1947 and Tito Rodríguez's "Los Marcianos" in 1955 to John Lennon's sighting on August 23, 1974 and Howard Menger's channelled album.1:16:59
Key Quote
“It didn't survive under the bushes, but it did in the collective memory of a whole neighborhood.”
— Josep Guijarro14:39
Key Quote
“And he said to me, well, you'll see, my mother went to the river and became a bird.”
— Josep María Palau40:10
Key Quote
“But in reality everyone has the right to evolve, to enter the 21st century on their own feet”
— Josep María Palau42:00