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July 25, 2022Uncategorized

Mass Hysteria and The War of the Worlds

Did a radio broadcast about Aliens cause mass Hysteria in America in 1938? The Internet Says…maybe. Orson Welles’s radio performance of H.G. Wells’s War of the Worlds has become infamous […]
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 […]

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