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Skeptoid

Brian Dunning

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The true science behind our most popular urban legends. Historical mysteries, paranormal claims, popular science myths, aliens and UFO reports, conspiracy theories, and worthless alternative medicine schemes... Skeptoid has you covered. From the sublime to the startling, no topic is sacred. Weekly since 2006.
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Every week, Ken Jennings and John Roderick add a new entry to the OMNIBUS, an encyclopedic reference work of strange-but-true stories that they are compiling as a time capsule for future generations.
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The tides of American history lead through the streets of New York City — from the huddled masses on Ellis Island to the sleazy theaters of 1970s Times Square. The elevated railroad to the Underground Railroad. Hamilton to Hammerstein! Greg and Tom explore more than 400 years of action-packed stories, featuring both classic and forgotten figures who have shaped the world.
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Where History Comes Alive! A fast-paced, well-researched weekly podcast covering a wide range of historical events, persons, places, legends, and mysteries, Hosted by Jon Hagadorn, the selection of stories and interviews includes lost treasure, unsolved mysteries, unexplained phenomenon, WWII stories, biographies, disasters, legends of the Old West, American Revolutionary history, urban legends, movie backstories, and much more. Available wherever podcasts are found, including Apple Podcasts ...
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A podcast by the creator of the popular YouTube channel Not Just Bikes, The Urbanist Agenda is an exploration of the latest topics in urban planning and urban mobility from your favourite urbanist YouTubers. Each month we'll put another important topic on the agenda and pull back the curtain to discover how online urbanists plot and scheme to make cities work better for everyone.
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Volcanoes. Trees. Drunk butterflies. Mars missions. Slug sex. Death. Beauty standards. Anxiety busters. Beer science. Bee drama. Take away a pocket full of science knowledge and charming, bizarre stories about what fuels these professional -ologists' obsessions. Humorist and science correspondent Alie Ward asks smart people stupid questions and the answers might change your life.
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American Hysteria

chelsey weber-smith

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American Hysteria explores how fantastical thinking has shaped our culture – moral panics, urban legends, hoaxes, crazes, fringe beliefs, and national misunderstandings. Poet-turned-podcaster Chelsey Weber-Smith tells the strangest stories from American history and examines the forces that create the reality we share, and sometimes, the reality we don't.
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Luke Mordue examines the historical impact of the stories that haunt our society, tales that have gripped towns and cities worldwide for centuries as actual events - Urban Legends. First, hear the tales retold as short stories before delving into the history of the legend, dissecting its cultural significance, factuality, and origins. Released Fortnightly. Season V coming this winter.
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Urban Roots

Deqah and Vanessa

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Urban Roots is hosted by Deqah Hussein (historic preservationist and urban planner) and Vanessa Quirk (journalist and producer). Urban Roots is a podcast that preserves place through story. It’s brought to you by Urbanist Media, a 501c3 nonprofit dedicated to uplifting underrepresented voices and ensuring the places significant to them are preserved.
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Listening to America

Listening to America

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Listening to America aims to “light out for the territories,” traveling less visited byways and taking time to see this immense, extraordinary country with fresh eyes while listening to the many voices of America’s past, present, and future. Led by noted historian and humanities scholar Clay Jenkinson, Listening to America travels the country’s less visited byways, from national parks and forests to historic sites to countless under-recognized rural and urban places. Through this exploration ...
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Get a rare glimpse into the minds and methods of sadistic murderers. From notorious names like Jeffrey Dahmer and John Wayne Gacy to lesser-known killers like “Death House Landlady” Dorothea Puente, what turns a regular person into a predator? Serial Killers is a Spotify Original. New episodes Mondays.
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A boozy dive into mythology, legends, and folklore. Every week we pour a drink and dive into a new story from around the world. Hear fresh takes on classic myths and learn new stories from around the world, served up over ice by two tipsy history geeks. New episodes every Wednedsay!
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Welcome to Urban Valor, where we hear the stories of our veteran heroes in their own words. Within these vet interviews, you'll hear everything from combat stories, life stories pre/post military, military transition, and everything in between. Our interviews aren't just war stories or combat veteran interviews, but interviews from any military veteran willing to share. Our mission is to educate the masses with what military veterans go through while serving their country and how life has be ...
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Welcome to "the only investigative journalism podcast about sh*t that may or may not have even happened in the first place"! Brought to you by besties Aly and Nat, Let's Get Haunted is here to bring scary tales of hauntings, aliens, urban legends, and unsolved mysteries to the masses. Enjoy your daily dose of paranormal year-round with LGH!
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Step into the eerie world of true horrors with Horror Story, where urban legends, haunted places, ghost stories, and paranormal mysteries come to life once a week. Each episode brings you dark stories that actually happened, blurring the line between reality and the supernatural. Join our host, Edwin Covarrubias, a seasoned storyteller from other popular shows on Scary FM, as he guides you through the dark corners of folklore and shares the stories that haunt our world.
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Join best friends, Nicole and Noelle in the Haunted Attic as they talk about all sorts of strange and unusual topics. From history's most nefarious cults, local ghost stories, conspiracies, murder mysteries, paranormal activities, urban legends, UFO phenomena, and unexplained events. Nothing is off limits but everything is unusual, come get weird with us and remember to Celebrate the Strange and Keep it Unusual! Find us on social media @QuiteUnusualPod - Email us at QuiteUnusualPod@gmail.com ...
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Eerie Essex

Bethan Briggs-Miller and Ailsa Clarke

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A podcast for those who want to join us on our journey into the stranger side of the county. We will be exploring the folklore, urban legends and supernatural encounters that form part of it's rich history.
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Centre for Cities

Centre for Cities

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Centre for Cities is the leading think tank dedicated to improving the economies of the UK’s largest cities and towns. In these podcasts, Chief Executive Andrew Carter interviews leading thinkers in the urban policy field, as well as experts from Centre for Cities about their research and ideas on improving the economies of cities and large towns.
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Secret Silo Show

Harrison, Xander, and Elijah

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We decided to bunker away in the safety of our silo to broadcast this show. In this podcast we explore urban legends, conspiracies, and mythological creatures without having to worry about anything finding us.
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The afikra Podcast is our flagship series featuring experts from academia, art, media, urban planning and beyond, who are helping document and shape the histories and cultures of the Arab world through their ‎work. Our hope is that by having the guest share their expertise and story, the community walks away with a new‎found curiosity, and recommendations about new nerdy rabbit holes to dive into head first. ‎ ABOUT AFIKRA afikra | عفكرة is a movement to convert passive interest in the Arab ...
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Explore the rich and complex history of the United States and beyond. Produced by the New-York Historical Society, host David M. Rubenstein engages the nation’s foremost historians and creative thinkers on a wide range of topics, including presidential biography, the nation’s founding, and the people who have shaped the American story. Learn more at nyhistory.org.
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Everything paranormal and unexplained. History of buildings old hospitals any haunted locations along with personal experiences. Famous murders in Michigan. Ufo and extraterrestrial. Urban legends of Michigan. Folklores witches and tribal tales. Horror movies and unexplained curses and deaths on set.
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Zumundous!

Doolin and Keith

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Welcome to "Zumundous!", where lifelong friends Doolin and Keith dive into the mysteries of the unexplained. From cryptids and UFOs to eerie conspiracies and supernatural encounters, we explore the secrets that challenge reality as we know it. Join us on our journey into the unknown.
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Unspookable

Soundsington Media

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Unspookable is a family friendly look at the histories and mysteries behind your favorite scary stories, myths and urban legends. Each week host Elise Parisian digs into the history, brain science, and power dynamics behind such topics as Bloody Mary, Charlie Charlie, and Ouija Boards to find the stories behind the scares. (Recommended for ages 8+) Unspookable is an official "Common Sense Media Selection" and has been called one of the "Best Podcasts for Kids of All Ages" by Time Out New Yor ...
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Exploring Music History with Professor Robert Greenberg one Monday at a time. Every Monday Robert Greenberg explores some timely, perhaps intriguing and even, if we are lucky, salacious chunk of musical information relevant to that date, or to … whatever. If on (rare) occasion these features appear a tad irreverent, well, that’s okay: we would do well to remember that cultural icons do not create and make music but rather, people do, and people can do and say the darndest things.
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Every drama deserves a good backstory. For New Orleans, this narrative takes place during the "long 1970s," a time when political transformation, cultural rebirth, and urban reimagining revived a fading port city. Hosted by historian Justin Nystrom and journalist Jack Davis, each episode of the Making Modern New Orleans podcast explores how the city we know came into being through first-hand accounts of the people who made them happen.
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Bittersweet Infamy

Josie Mitchell + Taylor Basso

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Storytellers and best friends Josie Mitchell and Taylor Basso share the stories that live on in infamy: the strange and the familiar, the tragic and the comic—the bitter and the sweet. New episodes every other Sunday; returning from break December 24! Support the show: ko-fi.com/bittersweetinfamy
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The Strange and Unusual Podcast

Alyson Horrocks | Morbid Network | Wondery

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The unknown. It lies at the root of all fear, and has inspired legends, superstition, folklore, customs, hysteria, and even murder throughout history. Still today we feel the shadowy presence of our ancestors' struggles to explain the mysterious in almost every facet of our lives. Whether it be in the form of religion, urban legends, pop culture, ghost stories, superstitious rituals, and so much more we are still just fighting to keep our monsters in the dark. Welcome to The Strange and Unus ...
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It's a book club! Join Ryan and his friends every other Tuesday as they chat about books (and also tell you all about businesses they aren't sponsored by). From Mythology and Swords & Sorcery to Urban Fantasy or History, this book club is all about having a good time while exploring diverse literary genres. Currently, the club is making its way through: The Princess Bride, by William Goldman
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Every month The SpokenWeb Podcast brings you different stories that explore the intersections of sound, poetry, literature, and history, created by scholars, poets, students, and artists from across Canada.
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Two spooky women discussing well-researched stories on true crime, paranormal, weird history, and everything in-between. This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: Spotify Ad Analytics - https://www.spotify.com/us/legal/ad-analytics-privacy-policy/ Chartable - https://chartable.com/privacy
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This week Ari tells Morgan the history of a past time of a bygone era, Freak Shows. Citations: -CIRCUS HISTORY: FREAK SHOWS AND SIDESHOWS, Kim Hart https://www.aaastateofplay.com/circus-history/ -Freak Shows in the United States (1840-1940), Combined sources article https://disabilityhistory.org/2021/12/29/freak-shows-in-the-united-states-1840-1940…
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Excessive heat has presented a problem for public health officials in New York City since the mid-nineteenth century building boom that covered the island of Manhattan in bricks, concrete, and other heat-storing materials. Prior to that, however, Americans had noticed that cities were warmer than their surrounding countryside as early as the 1790s.…
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Join us for a Halloween special that will send chills down your spine! This episode explores the infamous figure of the Devil across religious, historical, and cultural interpretations. We’ll dive into tales of people who claimed to have encountered the Devil, from Faustian pacts to modern legends. Was the Devil's greatest trick convincing the worl…
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In this episode of Tucked Tales, we unravel the story of Mona Fandey—the pop singer turned witch whose fame only skyrocketed after her death. What led her from the world of music to the dark arts, and how did she become one of Malaysia’s most infamous figures? Send us a text Thanks for tuning in folklore fans! If you want to keep up with Tucked Tal…
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In this spine-chilling episode, we dive deep into the legend of Bloody Mary, one of the most terrifying mirror rituals known around the world. You’ll discover how to play this creepy game, the rules to follow if you dare, and the haunted history behind it. Is it just an urban legend, or could something supernatural really appear? We explore the hor…
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Chief Executive Andrew Carter is joined by Anthony Breach, Associate Director at Centre for Cities, to discuss our latest briefing on the upcoming English Devolution White Paper. They discuss their concerns on where the devolution debate currently is and some of the unresolved questions and issues still circulating around the purpose of devolution,…
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100 spooky urban legends episodes. Who would have thought? We celebrate that number with the coolest cryptid mom ever, the worst building material ever, and GHOSTLY VIDEO EVIDENCE! Content Warning: This episode contains conversations about or mentions of animal/pet death, human death, racism, sexual harassment, hospitalization, injury, and burns. H…
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SKIP TO 00:25:00 TO GET TO THIS WEEK’S LISTENER STORIES! Welcome to Episode 200.5: Listener Stories #31! This is the episode where our Haunties (aka listeners) write in with their first-person spooky tales of cryptids, ghosts, curses, and aliens AND where Nat & Aly unbox fan mail sent by listeners just like YOU. This week, we unbox mail from: Karen…
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Step into the dark, shadowy world of an eerie urban legend that has chilled many for years: 'Aren't You Glad You Didn't Turn on the Lights?'. Join us as we delve into the unnerving stories, spine-chilling variations, and enduring mysteries behind this whispered horror. Text Me (this is 3rd party & I cannot respond, but I see all messages) Support t…
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Folks, come with me. We’re hanging out under some train tracks late at night in Philadelphia doing street art. As the promised companion piece to our wonderful Modern Toichographology episode on murals and street art, this Field Trip takes us to where the action happens, chatting with several muralists as they work on their 17-foot paintings lining…
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Mike McCormick was a White House staff stenographer for fifteen years in the George W. Bush, Obama, and Trump administrations. He spent many years assigned to Veep Joe Biden and went on many overseas trips with him. His task was to record conversations between Joe Biden and members of the press to ensure accurate reporting, but he was also present …
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Send us a text With Spooky Season almost over, this episode we're getting into the haunting events of the 1692 Salem Witch Trials. What do you get when you combine mass hysteria with fear of the supernatural and the devil?? You get a lot of baseless accusations and the execution of innocent people. We explore the factors that fueled the frenzy, fro…
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(3/6) Buttercup is kidnapped! Her kidnappers are challenged by the Man in Black. Read along with us! We're reading the ⁠⁠⁠30th-anniversary edition⁠⁠⁠ of the book.Support us on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Patreon⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ and get ad-free episodes! Or make a one-time donation on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠PayPal⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. Produced, directed, recorded and edited by: Ryan Carter Hosted by…
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Poverty, Gender and Health in the Slums of Bangladesh: Children of Crows (Routledge, 2024) provides comprehensive ethnographic accounts that depict the daily life experiences and health hardships encountered by young women and their families living in the slums of Dhaka city and the injustices they face. The analysis focuses on two specific histori…
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Do you enjoy a good Halloween haunted house? You know, the kind that's super scary but that you know you'll actually be safe in? But how do you know for sure that you're safe? Today we look at some Halloween haunted houses that people have died your been injured in, including the most famous of all, McKamey Manor! Discount Storytime Proud winner of…
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Over the last few years, more listeners have requested this topic than any other, but it's a story that isn't ours to tell. And perhaps shouldn't be told at all. Native American Paranormal Adviser, Christopher Allen Brewer, helps us navigate our curiosity without shame as we discuss cultural appropriation and tales of skinwalkers on this episode of…
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Explore the chilling world of Duendes, mysterious beings whose legends echo across cultures. Known by many names—gnomes, elves, little people, and more. These creatures are feared and revered from North and Central America to South America. We'll hear stories from eerie footprints left around rural homes to ominous encounters in dense jungles. Join…
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Clay discusses his foray into Texas on Phase Three of the great John Steinbeck Travels with Charley 2024 tour. How is Texas different from other states? Can anyone really eat at the Big Texas Steak Ranch and survive? Is the Cadillac Ranch near Amarillo as worthy as Carhenge in Alliance, Nebraska? Why are Texans nicer IN Texas than when they drive t…
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Jack and Justin discuss their interview with Charlie Ferguson - who was once Jack's boss back in the 1970s and early 1980s when they were both at the States-Item and after when that paper's team took over the Times-Picayune. Jack suggests that Ferguson had more of a positive impact on New Orleans journalism than anyone else in the latter half of th…
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In the 19th century, America and Europe experienced a panic over premature burial, believing that anyone could be accidentally declared dead and entombed before their time was really up. Led by a movement of quacky Spiritualists, the panic culminated in the creation of safety coffins with mechanisms that promised to save anyone who awoke six feet u…
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Say Candyman’s name five times in a mirror and you’ll summon his vengeful spirit, then he’ll slaughter you with his hook. That’s how the urban legend goes anyway. It was directly inspired by a short story, a series of Hollywood films, and some suspect…a real-life crime. Don’t believe a killer can come through your bathroom mirror? Tell that to Ruth…
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The women’s suffrage movement was a hard-fought, decades-long campaign to extend that most essential of democratic rights to all Americans regardless of sex. That protracted struggle would rapidly come to a head in August of 1920 in Tennessee, the final state needed to ratify the 19th Amendment. Author and journalist Elaine Weiss talks with David R…
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Send us a text Being Dead Serious Episode 74 The Skinwalker Ranch In this episode, we’re strapping on our tinfoil hats and heading straight to Skinwalker Ranch—aka, the Disneyland for the paranormal. You think you’ve had bad neighbors? Try living next to UFOs, mutilated cows, and…wait, it this an orb or one of the biggest Lightening bugs ever witne…
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Send us a text Our latest episode whisks you away on a supernatural journey through the haunting legends and eerie traditions of East Anglia. We start at the East Anglian Folklore Centre in Colchester, unraveling the rich history of Halloween customs, like the flower-adorned graves in Witham and the mesmerising divination rituals that once defined …
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Halloween special + season finale! Josie tells Taylor about the haunting history of the modern Spiritualist movement—from the crafty teen sisters who brought it to life, to the high-profile feud between Harry Houdini and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle that nearly caused its demise. Plus: get dressed up for Jimi (地味) Halloween, Japan's costumed celebration …
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This is a preview for "Candyman: The True Story Behind the Bathroom Mirror Murder." On April 22, 1987, 52-year-old Ruthie Mae McCoy called 911 to report that someone was trying to enter her Chicago housing project apartment through the bathroom medicine cabinet. Police thought she was imagining things, but when authorities finally checked on McCoy …
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Episode one twenty three will feature a case similar to many others covered previously. Why would someone decide to annihilate an entire family? What kind of grudge exists that can only be resolved via murder of not just one individual, but an entire family? If you have any information on this case, please contact the New York State police at the n…
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Deqah and Vanessa chat with Lori Gonzalez and Tyrell Anderson from the ⁠Decay Devils⁠, an organization that started as a group of friends in Gary, Indiana who loved playing in abandoned buildings. They then started making some noise—posting on Instagram, starting a nonprofit, organizing community events—and gaining notice from the public and “big m…
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In this chilling episode, I tell you about the "Railroad Killer," a man who terrorized small towns along the U.S. railroads in the late 1990s. We follow the stories of Chris Maier and Holly Dunn, two university students who crossed paths with this brutal attacker, as well as the other innocent victims who tragically encountered him. Survivor Holly …
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Every Thursday of the week, we take the famous, the infamous and the buried stories to you, exposing the heart of urban legends. This is the key to the ‘whats,’ the ‘whys’, and the ‘hows’ of chilling historical murders, ancient supernatural creatures and unexplainable sightings that linger in the shadows. Send us a text Thanks for tuning in folklor…
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Greeting, fair travelers! Allow me to transport you to a fantasy world where the modern and medieval merge. Behold, The kingdom of Fable-delphia, a 21st century city populated by goblins, orks, dragons, and druids. You may recognize some of the names and places but this is a strange land and anything you can imagine might exist... depending on the …
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Every year a relatively small number of canonic operas are produced around the world. Many companies shy away from new works, afraid of alienating a predominantly white, older, wealthy audience who are comfortable with operatic traditions. But opera can also be a site of incredible innovation. Opera for Everyone: The Industry’s Experiments with Ame…
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Welcome to the final episode of Season 6 of “What’s Haunting You?”, a Miniature Haunting series brought to you by Let’s Get Haunted. On each Friday of this Spooky Season, Nat and Aly will be bringing you short, scary, non-fiction stories as told by the folks who experienced them firsthand. Come join us on this trip through the LGH archives as we da…
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Join us as we chat about spirit photography! We’ll discuss the science behind cameras and how some photographers allegedly caught apparitions on film. We’ll also get into spirit photography that’s already been debunked, and how you can analyze your own spirit photography! Join our Facebook group here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/449439969638764…
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As it's Halloween, and we're all looking for spooky content to indulge in. I've teamed up with the 'Weekly Spooky' podcast to Episode Share our shows to each other's audiences. If you like the episode, you can find more at .... To listen to more, search 'Weekly Spooky' in your chosen podcast provider, or click here: https://open.spotify.com/show/0C…
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The young socialite Dorothy Arnold seemingly led a charmed and privileged life. The niece of a Supreme Court justice, Dorothy was the belle of 1900s New York, an attractive and vibrant young woman living on the Upper East Side with her family. She hoped to become a published magazine writer and perhaps someday live by herself in Greenwich Village. …
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In this spine-chilling true crime episode, we dive into the twisted true story of Dr. Carl Tanzler, a man whose twisted obsession with a young woman defied all boundaries of life and death. Obsessed with his beloved, Tanzler took drastic and disturbing measures to preserve her memory, as well as her body. Join us as we unravel the bizarre and tragi…
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On this episode of Unsupervised Learning Razib welcomes Leighton Akira Woodhouse back to the podcast. Woodhouse is a freelance journalist and a documentary filmmaker, currently based in Oakland, California. He grew up in Berkeley, and was a doctoral student in Sociology at UC Berkeley. After leaving academia he contributed to outlets like The Inter…
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In this week's Urban Valor episode, Army & Marine Corps Veteran Harry Martinez shares his incredible journey from growing up in New Brunswick, NJ, to serving in the Army National Guard and the Marines. With roots in Colombia, Harry’s upbringing instilled high standards that shaped his military career. He started with the Army National Guard, later …
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