Desert Oracle Radio

Series produced by Desert Oracle

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DESERT ORACLE RADIO 

A moody road trip through the mysterious American desert. Weekly series hosted by Ken Layne, 28 minutes.

Created by the acclaimed Desert Oracle magazine in Joshua Tree, California, Desert Oracle Radio deals with the history and mystery of the American Southwest.


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It was 27 years ago this month—at the Ariel School in Ruwa, Zimbabwe—that 62 students witnessed a miracle. Of the biblical variety. Several strange...

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  • Added: Sep 11, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
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Secrets of the Superspectrum
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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Burrowed down through another Extreme Heat Event, we send this radio dispatch to you. The world has gone mad, why not join the fun? Join the revolu...

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  • Added: Sep 04, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Dark Psychic Force
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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Remember last August, a year ago, when the national media found it very funny that presidential candidate Marianne Williamson mentioned the "dark p...

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  • Added: Aug 28, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Mountain of the Stars
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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We are back in the scorching hot radio studio with an all-new episode of the radio show that Palm Springs Life magazine named the "Best Freaky Radi...

  • Added: Aug 14, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
This is the Border Radio
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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Thanks to the Time Loop we all seem to be stuck in, our 99th episode is here . . . . directly following our 100th. The border used to be a lot of f...

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  • Added: Jul 24, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
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Night Has Fallen on the Desert
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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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...

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  • Added: Jul 17, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
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Omen of the Raven
From: Desert Oracle
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Well here we are, still alive, July in the American Desert. Good enough, we guess. When the Mojave is cooking that's when we start figuring out a w...

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  • Added: Jul 06, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
If It's Broke, Fix It
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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Fifty years ago, there was a radical plan to completely remake a county sheriff’s department in an iconic western town. It almost worked, they almo...

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  • Added: Jun 16, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Ranger's Life
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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What does it mean to be a ranger? It means you are married to the mission, a soldier for your planetary home, armed with a moral compass and a Smok...

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  • Added: Jun 03, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Wizards & Critters
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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When it’s Snakesgiving Time in the Mojave, everybody’s just a little more careful. Goes well with these weird new times, being careful. So please m...

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  • Added: Jun 03, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
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Campfire Nightmares
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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Remember campfires? We sure do. Standing around a campfire telling stories and socializing used to be a big part of the Desert Oracle "workflow," a...

  • Added: May 15, 2020
  • Length: 01:00:00
That Which Is But Isn't
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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Are they trying to ram a space-alien story down your throat again? Yeah they are, it happens sometimes. Every couple years, for reasons even they c...

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  • Added: May 08, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Back to the Barrooms
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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We’ve about had it with the cabin fever and now we’ve got the ramblin’ fever. So let’s pour a couple of drinks and enjoy some saloon time on this f...

  • Added: May 02, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
From a P.O. Box
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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A tarnished brass key, a small locked box, a sequence of magical numbers, a charmless old block building in the desert. It is here that we visit in...

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  • Added: Apr 24, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
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No Face Masks On Mars
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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There will be no coughing on the spaceship. The quarantine lasts for many months. If everyone's healthy, well then the spaceship may be allowed to ...

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  • Added: Apr 17, 2020
  • Length: 28:01
  • Purchases: 1
These Enchanted Lands
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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Are places such as Sedona, Arizona, truly "magical"? Is the desert enchanted? Well it can't be proven one way or another, but from Moses to Jesus t...

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  • Added: Apr 17, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
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Bless Us, St. Minerva
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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Have you heard the Good News about St. Minerva, patron goddess of the desert wilderness? Maybe she is Minerva Hamilton Hoyt, mother of Joshua Tree ...

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  • Added: Apr 17, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
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Primal Surprise
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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Let’s go rambling with Ambrose Bierce on this new episode of Desert Oracle Radio. We shall get a few travel tips, too, in case we want to stop off ...

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  • Added: Apr 17, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Ode to the Old Gods
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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A weird new episode for our weird new decade, featuring some real talk (real strange talk) from George Van Tassel out at Giant Rock, 62 years ago—f...

  • Added: Apr 17, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
Tales From Wonder Valley
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
Caption: DESERT ORACLE RADIO
Tonight we bring you strange & terrible tales from Wonder Valley, California: the very edge of Southern California civilization, last outpost of hu...

  • Added: Apr 17, 2020
  • Length: 01:00:00

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