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Ridiculous History

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History is beautiful, brutal and, often, ridiculous. Join Ben Bowlin and Noel Brown as they dive into some of the weirdest stories from across the span of human civilization in Ridiculous History, a podcast by iHeartRadio.
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Join Irish stand up comedians Jason Brennan and Kevin Larney as they take turns giving their best accounts of some of Ireland's silly, strange, and downright stupid tales from the past. For ad-free listening and access to our bonus content go to HeadStuffPodcasts.com and sign up for €5/mo + VAT.
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The History of China

Chris Stewart

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A journey through the 5000 years of history documented by one of the world's oldest continuous civilizations. For all the episodes for free, as well as additional content, please subscribe and/or visit http://thehistoryofchina.wordpress.com.
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Omnibus

Omnibus

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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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History Impossible

Alexander von Sternberg

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History Impossible covers some of the less-known, strange, and supposedly impossible events, people, and ideologies throughout history that are all nonetheless true. The settings and time periods range from the Second World War to ancient Japan to medieval Europe, and many more. The show engages with difficult ideas and impossible decisions that were made by human beings like you or me, always to significant effect. It goes out of its way to grant agency to all of its subjects and does its b ...
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Always interesting and often hilarious, join hosts Aaron Wright and Benjamin Grundy as they investigate the latest in futurology, weird science, consciousness research, alternative history, cryptozoology, UFOs, and new-age absurdity.
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Unexplained

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Unexplained is a haunting and unsettling bi-weekly podcast about strange and mysterious real life events that continue to evade explanation. A story-based show mixing spoken-word narrative, history and ideas - often to terrifying effect - that explores the space between what we think of as real and what is not; where sometimes belief can be as concrete as ‘reality,’ whatever that is… More info at www.unexplainedpodcast.com and on twitter @unexplainedpod and facebook.com/unexplainedpodcast
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One Strange Thing - Paranormal Stories & Unexplained Mysteries | True Crime History One Strange Thing uncovers authentic paranormal mysteries and unexplained phenomena buried in newspaper archives. We craft witty tales of ghost sightings, strange disappearances, and supernatural events from small town America and beyond through immersive storytelling and historical research. Each episode weaves surprising twists into real paranormal cases. We balance wonder with skepticism and investigate th ...
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Welcome to Boring History to Sleep — the only show where falling asleep in the middle is not only allowed… it’s encouraged. Each episode takes you on a slow, uneventful stroll through the most yawn-worthy corners of the past: treaties nobody remembers, kings who ruled for three weeks, and revolutions that never really got started. Delivered in the softest, most sleep-inducing voice we could find, this show is like warm milk with a side of ancient trivia. Perfect for insomniacs, history nerds ...
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Bigfoot Collectors Club

Wood Elf Media

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Actor Michael McMillian (True Blood) and musician Riley Bray (TOMI) chat with amazing guests about their personal paranormal history and share stories of High Strangeness. Join your new best buds every Wednesday for an unpredictable trip into the unknown. When you’re in the Clubhouse, no topic is too serious and no story is too strange!
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OBITCHUARY

Morbid Network

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Each week hosts Spencer Henry (Cult Liter Podcast) and Madison Reyes sit back and read outlandish, hilarious, and sometimes scathing obituaries. Every Thursday they come to the table with bizarre history, strange funeral traditions, and so much more! Each episode ends with a 'dumb criminals' segment in which they each talk about hilarious run-ins with the law.
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Anything weird or wonderful, strange or supernatural. from murders, disappearances,abductions and hauntings, to natural phenomena, coincidences, out of this world visitors and downright unbelieveable nonsense.
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The Conspirators Podcast

The Conspirators Podcast

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The Conspirators is a bi-weekly show dedicated to the dark and disturbing stories from history your teacher never told you about. On the show I discuss unsolved mysteries, serial killers, survival stories, strange disappearances and other bizarre true events from the past.
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Hi, I'm Kallmekris, aka Kris Collins. Welcome to the audio & video version of my true crime deep dives! On this podcast, we will discuss tales of notorious figures in history, bizarre murder and conspiracy cases, and unsolved mysteries. (Anything and everything creepy and strange.) So, unbuckle your seatbelts, go Mach 5 down the highway, slam on the brakes and bust through the windshield into these crime, conspiracy, cults and murder cases together!
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Strange Realm

John Frobisher Smith

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A weekly comedy news magazine covering the weirdest and wildest stuff happening all around our toroidal planetoid. Come get donut-pilled and take a tour of advanced alternative cosmologies, NASA skepticism, ancient history as you never learned it in school, as well as the arcane arts and sciences and more, as hosts John Frobisher Smith and Dr. Raven Black try every week to understand a little more about this strange realm that we all inhabit.
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Bringing the incredible (and sometimes strange) brains from the profession of sales' past to the 2020's - from Todd Caponi, author of Four Levers Negotiating (Out January 27th, 2026), The Transparency Sale & The Transparent Sales Leader.
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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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Peculiar Tales

Dawn & Kristy

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Welcome to Peculiar Tales the podcast where curiosity meets the creepy, the peculiar, and the downright bizarre. Your hosts, Dawn & Kristy are your guides through strange stories from history, eerie urban legends, ghostly encounters, and all things weird and wonderful. Told in a captivating, story-driven style. Whether it's a long-lost mystery, a chilling haunting, or just something that doesn’t quite add up—we’re here to unpack the peculiar, one tale at a time. So grab your headphones, mayb ...
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Paranormality UK

Paranormality UK

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Pirate and Josh bring you Paranormality! A binge-worthy paranormal podcast that explores the supernatural, uncanny, paranormal, spooky and down right strange! Ghosts, UFO's, conspiracy theories and everything inbetween.... We debate them and rate them on our own Paranormality Scale! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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The Midnight Library

Astonishing Legends Productions

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Proudly brought to you by the fine folks at the Astonishing Legends Podcast- Not just another show but a place you can go: The Midnight Library. You alone, can climb the stairs of the strange, old Victorian mansion and be somewhat welcomed by your Hosts, Miranda Merrick & Mr. Darling. Curl up in a window seat or beside the grand fireplace and hear a tale of times long ago. Be transported to forgotten lands, learn about ancient customs and mysterious happenings… all in the company of your unu ...
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Welcome to Our Skin, a Personal Discovery Podcast. Each week, host Holly Frey showcases a personal story from someone who lives–and thrives!--while managing psoriasis. Being diagnosed with a chronic skin condition can throw anyone off track, but Our Skin guests have a message of hope: a diagnosis can be an opportunity to discover new things about ourselves, our grit, and our power. In addition to these tales of hope, Frey and her guests plunge into the jaw-dropping, bizarre, and occasionally ...
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Welcome to Our New Feed! Looking for a different pinball podcast which isn't about current events or pinball news? Silverball Chronicles is a monthly podcast for the true pinball nerd that enjoys learning more about the complicated dynamics, politics and characters that created their favourite pinball machines. Join Ron and Dave as they stumble through pinball history mispronouncing names, chronicling designers, telling war stories, and digging up strange and obscure facts; all while paying ...
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From (A)rsenic to (Z)ombies, Macabre: A Dark History Podcast exhumes the darkest corners of the past. We dig deep into deadly devices, ghastly crimes, and sinister secrets that history tried to bury. Join us as we unearth the truth—one morbid tale at a time through a not-so-serious approach to storytelling, MACABRE offers a uniquely entertaining escape into the strange and sinister corners of the world. Warning: This podcast explores graphic and disturbing themes. Listener discretion is advi ...
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Forgotten history, bizarre tales & facts that seem too strange to be true! Host Michael Kent asks listeners to tell him something strange, bizarre or surprising that they‘ve recently learned and he gets to the bottom of it! Every episode ends by playing a gameshow-style quiz game with a celebrity guest. Part of the WCBE Podcast Experience.
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Oddology

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Study the strange A mostly paranormal podcast hosted by two loud mouthed Kentucky gals. Join us as we dive into cryptids, ghost, aliens, weird history, and who knows what else.
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Your source for UFO News, Updates, Case Studies, Interviews, and More. The UFO Phenomenon is the Greatest Mystery of our Time. Cristina Gomez breaks down the latest UFO / UAP news, explores compelling case studies, and sits down with the people who know this topic best - from military witnesses and government insiders to researchers and scientists studying the evidence. Whether it's a new Pentagon report, leaked footage, or congressional testimony, Cristina cuts through the noise to examine ...
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Strange Country

Strange Country

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Welcome to Strange Country, a podcast devoted to bizarre, surreal and extraordinary stories that make America the weird place it is. Co-hosts Kelly and Beth are former newspaper reporters turned school librarians who have always had a soft spot for a good story--the stranger the better. Discover the first woman to survive a barrel ride over Niagara Falls and the man who invented "complex marriage" in one of the most successful utopian experiments. Things get weird pretty quickly around here.
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🏚️🍵 In Victorian cities, not everyone lived in grand homes — most squeezed into boarding houses filled with strangers, secrets, and the faint smell of tea and coal smoke. Behind the lace curtains and polite smiles, people from every walk of life shared rooms, gossip, and the occasional scandal. It was a world of whispered ambitions, hidden romances…
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This week our Dressed Classic episode revisits a 2022 episode where we go down the rabbit hole of quirky and little-known fashion terms. Want more Dressed: The History of Fashion? Our ⁠⁠⁠⁠website⁠⁠⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠⁠⁠classes⁠⁠⁠⁠ Our ⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠ Our ⁠⁠⁠⁠bookshelf⁠⁠⁠⁠ with over 150 of our favorite fashion history titles Get an exclusive 15% discount on …
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Back with pt. 2 of autumnal fictions of the spine-tingling variety. This time largely from (where else) Pu Songling, as well as several shorter entries from the Zibuyu. 00:01:15 - Friendship Beyond the Grave 00:10:25 - Karmic Debts 00:12:30 - Spiritual Man Luo Catches the Wrong Demon 00:16:39 - The Human Prawn 00:18:37 - The Hairy People of Qin 00:…
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Back with pt. 2 of autumnal fictions of the spine-tingling variety. This time largely from (where else) Pu Songling, as well as several shorter entries from the Zibuyu.00:01:15 - Friendship Beyond the Grave00:10:25 - Karmic Debts00:12:30 - Spiritual Man Luo Catches the Wrong Demon00:16:39 - The Human Prawn00:18:37 - The Hairy People of Qin00:21:01 …
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Today on the podcast, we’re exploring the history and impact of the most colorful nuns that have ever existed: The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence. Much of the information for this episode comes from thesisters.org. I also cover the Great Folsom Street Fire with much of the information about my discussion coming from The Folsom Street Fire: Anatomy…
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While humanity's local solar system appears huge from Earth, it's actually a pretty tiny piece of real estate in the grand scheme of things. And, in recent years, technological breakthroughs have allowed astronomers and physicists to learn more about the things traveling to us from outside our patch of space. In today's episode, Ben, Matt and Noel …
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🍷 Behind the polished portraits and royal etiquette, some British monarchs fought battles far darker than any war — with their own addictions, vices, and self-destructive habits. From kings who couldn’t put down the bottle to princes undone by excess, these stories reveal a monarchy far messier, more human, and more chaotic than the history books a…
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What creatures reside at the edge of reality, and what happens when we cross into the space of nonreality where we can’t trust our perceptions? On this episode we explore reports of floating jellyfish drifting through the sky, squid-like beings gliding over forests, octopoid forms appearing out of nowhere, and entities hidden behind cloaks of invis…
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In the winter of 1923, Edward Leedskalnin, a small, sickly man, stepped out of the Florida sun and onto a patch of coral bedrock, as though he had finally reached the end of a long and mysterious pilgrimage. In time, he would carve that ground into a place so strange and improbable that—if the whispers are to be believed—could only have been built …
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🐈‍⬛✨ Humans didn’t tame cats — cats simply showed up, judged us, and decided we were acceptable roommates. We domesticated them once in the ancient Near East, lost them to the wild, and then somehow ended up doing it all over again thousands of years later. Now close your eyes and drift into the quiet, purring history of the world’s most aloof comp…
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Saturn asks about the Longfellow Boom. Good Ol' Russ inspires Ben and Matt to do a Yule Cat prank. Beuford prompts a deep conversation about the First Amendment versus technology. Chef Ben revolutionizes the world with the Enchiladasagna - THE FUTURE IS NOW. All this and more in this week's listener mail segment. They don't want you to read our boo…
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NASA's November 20th briefing on interstellar object 3I/ATLAS delivered fuzzy images scientists already had while avoiding 12 documented anomalies including mass discrepancies, trajectory alignment questions, and unexplained collimated jets, according to Harvard Professor Avi Loeb and multiple researchers who say amateur astronomers captured better…
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This week your favorite gruesome twosome are back to discuss decoy hearses + the wild story of a woman who woke up in her coffin! We’ve got an obituary for an iconic inventor, one for a victim of an infamous crime and so much more! Including some dumb.ass.criminallllls! Follow us on Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/otwitchuary Watch us on YouTube: You…
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Do you have a favorite tree? In today's episode, Ben, Noel and Max head over to the famous college town of Athens, Georgia where -- legend has it -- one guy was so enamored with his childhood oak that he ultimately deeded it to itself. How much of the story is true? Can a tree really "own itself"? See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information…
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The acclaimed writer Simon Winchester turns his eye to the wind - the invisible force with the power to sustain, relieve, inspire, irritate and destroy us. From antiquity to today, we fear and revere the 'breath of the gods'. Plus, the bold Australian publication Quarterly Essay reaches its 100th edition.…
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🍵💀 Imperial China looked elegant in paintings — silk robes, poetry, perfectly trimmed gardens — but daily life was a whole different dynasty. Between strict social rules, exhausting labor, terrifying punishments, and a bureaucracy that made everything harder, most people spent more time surviving than admiring the scenery. One wrong bow, one wrong …
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It's been said that the work of the 19th century German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer should come with a health warning, so stark and pessimistic was his outlook on life. And the man was no less confronting than the philosophy: he could be rude, intemperate and misanthropic. But a new biography of Schopenhauer shows him to have been a more comple…
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Join us for live coverage and discussion of the long awaited reveal of images of 3I/ATLAS. NASA will host a live event at 3 p.m. EST, Wednesday, Nov. 19, to share imagery of the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS collected by a number of the agency’s missions. The event will take place at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. To see t…
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NASA faces serious transparency questions ahead of today's 3I/ATLAS interstellar object media briefing as a new Space.com investigation exposes illegal budget activities and a culture of secrecy at Goddard Space Flight Center, while decades of suspicious ISS live feed cuts when unidentified objects appear on camera—including the unexplained 1996 ST…
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Bruce Shapiro looks at why Donald Trump has finally agreed to release the Epstein files. After being devastated by yet another hurricane, Jamaica is seeking reparations for both climate havoc and the impact of slavery. And how foxes colonised Australia.By Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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We've all heard the phrase: "Satanic Panic." Not too long ago, the United States -- and, later, the world -- was gripped with fear. According to the story, powerful devil worshippers conspired to kidnap, abuse, torture and even murder innocent children all in the service of Satan. So, what actually happened here? How did Patrick Swayze get mixed up…
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In this week's Mid-Week Mini Episode, we talk about how M&Ms Were Built for Battle. Did you know The Internet Says It's True is now a book? Get it here: https://amzn.to/4miqLNy Review this podcast at https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-internet-says-it-s-true/id1530853589 Bonus episodes and content available at http://Patreon.com/MichaelKent…
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Big Friendsgiving Week 1 | A re-podcast of Michael's appearance on "Hi, Strangeness" w/ Steve Berg! Original drop date: 1/5/2024 Big Friendsgiving is about giving back. This November a percentage of proceeds from our sponsors and premium subscribers will go to The Midnight Mission. Donate directly or join BCC Clubhouse by the end of November and pa…
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🕯️😈 Medieval Europe preached purity by day… but lived a very different story after dark. Behind monastery walls, castle gates, and timbered village houses, people battled temptation, broke rules, whispered secrets, and confessed sins they hoped no one would ever repeat. The Church tried to control desire, but rumor, scandal, and human nature spread…
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NASA will hold a highly anticipated briefing tomorrow at 3 PM Eastern to finally release month-delayed HiRISE images of 3I/ATLAS captured during its Mars flyby. But the agency's contradictory track record on transparency raises questions after their inconclusive 2023 UAP study that promised openness yet provided limited answers, their carefully hed…
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Author Helen Garner sat through the trial of Erin Patterson, who was convicted of murdering members of her family with deadly mushrooms. She reflects on coming face to face with a murderer, her love of the courts, her faith and what happens when people have to face the consequences of their actions. Guest: Helen Garner, co-author of The Mushroom Ta…
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Longtime listeners are well-aware that the history of the 'Wild West' is more than a bit... embellished. Yet a grain of truth exists at the heart of almost every legend, and the story of Doc Holliday is no different. In today's episode, Ben, Noel and Max learn more about Tombstone's breakout star -- and how, if things were just a little different, …
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Ben here, with a Classic episode. Fellow Conspiracy Realists, way back in 2019 I asked Matt and Noel what we really know about the US Civil Rights movement. Our exploration remains relevant today: The US Civil Rights movement of the 1950s and 60s sparked nationwide protests, marches and action, resulting in fundamental changes for a nation that had…
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This week we were going to do a Film Club about Gullivers Travels to promote our live show with Peter McGann on November 25th in The Workmans Club, Dublin as part of the Jonathan Swift Festival...(TICKETS AVAILABLE HERE) ... But then the film was awful, so we chat about film, Irish media, bits of Gulliver's Travels, and a whole lot of nonsense inst…
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In the dim corners of every town lurks tales that come out in the dark, some swear that the tales are true, while others say the tales are nothing more then folklore. Some tales will tell of an axe murderer,or a hook handed man out for revenge, or even a headless man who rides in the fog every fall. Join us in this episode while we challenge what y…
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In the autumn of 1954, France found itself gripped by a strange and unnerving spectacle. From quiet rural villages to bustling towns and cities, witnesses reported everything from flying discs, cigars and carrots, to little creatures in diving gear waddling beneath a glowing sphere. Newspapers buzzed with excitement as sightings unfolded night afte…
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