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What has horns and flies overhead at night? The Great Horned Owl, that's who. Although they're horn shapes and not actual horn material. As far as ...
Bought by KFCF FM
- Added: Jul 08, 2022
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 1
On this episode, we hear a story from Australian storyteller Jenni Cargill Strong, about a king who orders the royal carpenters to build him a towe...
Bought by KSJE, KKRN, KTXK, Robin Hood Radio/ WHDD AM 1020/FM 91.9-WLHV FM 88.1 /WGHQ AM 920, and WVPE
- Added: Aug 17, 2021
- Length: 54:59
- Purchases: 5
During the 1300-1500s there were several accounts of people being afflicted with spontaneous dancing. One group of 400 people were struck with the ...
Bought by WRFA-LP and Spokane Public Radio
- Added: May 24, 2021
- Length: 04:44
- Purchases: 2
In 1932, a group of men in a speakeasy in New York City hatched a plan — to take out life insurance on a loner named Michael Malloy, and make his d...
- Added: Dec 16, 2020
- Length: 29:22
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
Physician Maureen Miller describes how perusing a dusty box of autopsy reports from 1987 helped her embrace her new professional future as a pathol...
- Added: Jun 08, 2019
- Length: 33:35
A "nauseous project" becomes a bulwark of liberty.
Bought by WDET Detroit Public Radio, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, PRX Remix, and KRZA
- Added: Mar 18, 2019
- Length: 23:40
- Purchases: 4
Stories change. People change. Communities change.
The first episode of 12 Knots, The Drift, features three stories from the small island communit...
- Added: Apr 23, 2017
- Length: 43:06
Life’s precarious journey—lessons today’s parents often avoid.
Rediscover the frightening tales from our collective past.
- Added: Aug 23, 2016
- Length: 11:46
Since 1965, there’s been an unsolved murder in Houston, Texas. The main suspect managed to disappear and police were never able to find him. The ca...
- Added: Apr 17, 2016
- Length: 23:29
They had me at homemade shiv wall. “Shiv” is a slang term for an improvised weapon. I heard the San Quentin Museum has enough shivs to make an enti...
- Added: Sep 15, 2015
- Length: 07:27
A series of tourist murders leads to a national conversation on cruel and unusual punishment for teenagers, two street artists become public enemy ...
Bought by WESM 91.3 FM and XRAY.fm
- Added: Feb 19, 2015
- Length: 50:59
- Purchases: 2
We’re joined by Scott Herring, author of <em>The Hoarders</em>, a cultural history of the recent DSM-5 diagnosis of Hoarding Disorder. We talk abou...
- Added: Dec 23, 2014
- Length: 59:36
What if you knew your teacher was lying to you? In 1956, ten year old Carolyn Himmer watched the classic "Duck and Cover" film in school, knowing i...
- Added: Aug 02, 2013
- Length: 06:34
The pirate, Captain Kidd, was reputed to have buried treasure all up and down the Atlantic Coast and in the Bahamas. Much more gold has been spent ...
- Added: Mar 06, 2012
- Length: 15:23
