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• July 18, 2022Uncategorized

  The Georgia Guidestones and Their Demise


  For more than 40 years, a strange, Stonehenge-like monument with a mysterious creator stood in a field in rural Georgia. It was inscribed with instructions for humanity. On July 6, […]

• July 11, 2022Uncategorized

  The Plan to Blow Up the Moon 


  Alexander Abian was a brilliant math professor at Iowa State University. But he had one crazy idea: that all of the problems of the world could be solved by DESTROYING […]

• July 4, 2022Uncategorized

  Dumbest Civil Unrest Ever: The Straw Hat Riots

  In the late 18th and early 19th centuries, men were expected to wear straw hats in the summer, but switch to felt hats in mid-September. If a man didn’t switch […]

• June 27, 2022Uncategorized

  Pablo Escobar’s Cocaine Hippos


  Colombia’s Cocaine Kingpin smuggled 4 hippos onto his estate in the late 70s and now, almost 30 years after his death, they’ve multiplied into a bloat of more than 100 […]

• June 20, 2022Uncategorized

  Birds Aren’t Real: LIVE from the Columbus Arts Festival

  BIRDS AREN’T REAL! You may have seen signs at political rallies or internet memes expressing this satirical conspiracy theory. In this episode, we recorded LIVE at the Columbus Arts Festival […]

• June 13, 2022Uncategorized

  The Nebraska Miracle: The West End Baptist Church Explosion (REBROADCAST of Episode 51)

  Originally released August 30, 2021. In 1950, the West-End Baptist Church in Beatrice, Nebraska exploded from a gas leak. The church should have been full of a practicing choir, but […]

• June 6, 2022Uncategorized

  The Woman Who Fell From the Sky and Lived (REBROADCAST of Episode 44)

  Originally released July 5, 2021. In 1971, Juliane Koepcke’s airplane was struck by lightning and broke apart 2 miles above the Peruvian Jungle. Miraculously, she was the only one out […]

• May 30, 2022Uncategorized

  Broken Arrow: The Time We Almost Nuked South Carolina (REBROADCAST of Episode 38)

  Originally released May 24, 2021. In our history, we’ve had at least 32 “Broken Arrow” incidents: instances of nuclear weapons accidents that don’t cause a nuclear war. One of those […]

• May 23, 2022Uncategorized

  The Thing: When The Soviets Spied and Got Caught

  In 1945, a wooden plaque of the “Great Seal” was given to the United States Ambassador to the Soviet Union. It hung on the wall by his desk for years […]

• May 16, 2022Uncategorized

  Free Christiania: A Utopian Lawless Place

  In the heart of Copenhagen, Denmark, a free-living socialist Utopia has existed for more than 50 years. What started as an abandoned military barracks has become a haven for free-thinkers, […]