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# Forgotten Plague. Secret Romance. Baby Universe.
- URL: https://www.gottabekidding.me/forgotten-plague-secret-romance-baby-universe/
- Published: 2026-08-11T11:51:25.000Z
- Updated: 2026-08-11T11:51:25.000Z
- Description: In this episode of the Gotta Be Kidding Me podcast, host Tammy Coron covers four stories where the conventional explanation completely falls apart: a vanished pandemic, loyally romantic sharks, a mislabeled fossil, and a star that might be seeding a new universe.
- Author: YGBFKM
- Tags: Extras, Podcast

**What do a pandemic that vanished without explanation, bull sharks with decade-long romances, a mislabeled fossil hiding in plain sight, and a dying star that might be giving birth to a whole new universe have in common? All four had been misread, mislabeled, or quietly forgotten . . . until they weren't.** In [this episode](https://rss.com/podcasts/gotta-be-kidding-me/3051833/?ref=gottabekidding.me) of Gotta Be Kidding Me, host Tammy Coron covers four stories where the conventional explanation doesn't hold up.

We cover encephalitis lethargica, the "sleepy sickness" that swept the world alongside the Spanish Flu, left survivors locked inside their own bodies for years, and then simply disappeared, cause still unknown; bull sharks off Fiji who return to the same breeding partners across multiple seasons and sometimes a full decade, in a population small enough to make that loyalty surprising; a hatchling embolomere, an ancient amphibian predator, that spent years misidentified on an Illinois fossil collector's shelf before anyone realized what it actually was; and a dying star whose collapse carries signatures that some physicists think could mark the birth of an entirely new universe on the other side.

Epidemiology, marine biology, paleontology, and cosmology, all in about eight minutes, no jargon required.

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[Episode Webpage](https://rss.com/podcasts/gotta-be-kidding-me/3051833/?ref=gottabekidding.me)