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A woman moves into her new student digs and hears something coming from the basement...
- Added: Feb 14, 2022
- Length: 10:36
What does the cave art of 30,000 years ago have to do with the new Solar Orbiter we sent from Planet Earth to explore our star? Quite a lot, it tur...
- Added: Apr 02, 2021
- Length: 28:00
Get in the truck, we're taking a night drive to the Dragoon Mountains in Cochise County, Arizona. Get ready for the weird times.
New soundscapes b...
Bought by KFCF FM
- Added: Jan 22, 2021
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 1
On today’s show we’re talking about, “Aftershocks,” both literal and figurative, related to events that came back to shake us after their initial d...
- Added: Jan 10, 2021
- Length: 58:01
Is it UFO season in the desert again? People have sure been seeing a lot of strange things up here around Joshua Tree, and "military flares" is nev...
Bought by KFCF FM
- Added: Sep 25, 2020
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 1
From our secure, undisclosed Mojave Desert radio studio, tonight we bring you our 100th episode, with strange tales of the Amboy Ghost Lights and a...
Bought by KFCF FM
- Added: Jul 17, 2020
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 1
"All we want to do is leave." Anietra and Ian basically went into survival mode to find a way out of India. As the first episode mirrored a scen...
- Added: Jul 09, 2020
- Length: 24:00
Was the organized theft of a 600-pound petroglyph-covered boulder from a canyon near Ridgecrest related to the monster earthquakes that followed? P...
Bought by KFCF FM
- Added: Jul 12, 2019
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 1
Did the founder of Earth Day really murder his girlfriend and let her body rot in his apartment closet?
Bought by KFCF FM
- Added: Apr 29, 2019
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 1
Two weird trips to Death Valley: 1849 and 1949. Giants, aliens, underground cities of gold!
Bought by KFCF FM
- Added: Feb 15, 2019
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 1
When there’s trouble on the edge of civilization—where the wilderness meets what mankind makes—well, here we encounter fierce things both natural a...
Bought by KFCF FM
- Added: Nov 30, 2018
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 1
Many wonders over the desert skies—both known and unknown—give reason to be out on cool autumn nights, celebrating rituals.
Bought by KFCF FM
- Added: Nov 09, 2018
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 1
"If I did not reveal that I was formerly abducted, nobody would know. If I did not tell that these children were born from captivity, nobody would ...
- Added: Apr 09, 2018
- Length: 36:25
Short form audio fiction about a man and his TV crime drama-induced phobia. One of 8 finalists in the Third Coast Short Docs Challenge, 2016.
- Added: Mar 21, 2017
- Length: 02:40
Completed in 1887, Science Hall stands like a gothic red brick fortress, guarding the University of Wisconsin / Madison campus. Over the years, it'...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Sep 09, 2016
- Length: :00
- Purchases: 1
This is a story for my son, whose birth was supposed to be completely normal. It was anything but. And then they separated us. (Produced for the KC...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Aug 31, 2016
- Length: 04:04
- Purchases: 1
Philip Armand accidentally falls into a vortex of Bliss, then the bliss hangs up.
- Added: Jun 22, 2016
- Length: 05:43
This week, we take a deep look at how and why we learn to lie, and what lying does to you
Bought by WMUU-LP and CHSR-FM 97.9
- Added: Jun 27, 2014
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 2
This week on State of the Human we’re investigating how people use joking to create new realities for themselves and the people around them.
Bought by WMUU-LP and CHSR-FM 97.9
- Added: Jun 25, 2014
- Length: 58:18
- Purchases: 2
When it actually matters, do you care about the theory?
- Added: Feb 28, 2013
- Length: 02:06
A girl is walking down the street late at night when a car stops right next to her...
- Added: Oct 28, 2012
- Length: 01:58
It's time again for our Annual Scaredy-Tales Show, where Southerners bring their own true GHOST STORIES to life. Stories by Linda Howell, Alan Lowe...
- Added: Oct 17, 2012
- Length: 36:45
Professional photographer, Aubry Edwards goes on the photo shoot from hell when Jay Thunderbolt locks her into the "private strip club" in his Detr...
- Added: Sep 13, 2012
- Length: 06:22
I'm sitting in a landrover with 46 year old Soila Sayialel - the car is surrounded by over 50 docile elephants grazing in Amboseli National Park. I...
- Added: Jun 15, 2012
- Length: 14:44
Sam recently performed this excerpt from the Taxi Tapes series at his office talent show--and it sounded like THIS.
- Added: Jun 05, 2012
- Length: 11:53
