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Haunted artifacts & serial killer art: When one person's treasure is another one's nightmare
From: Connecticut Public (WNPR)
Series: Audacious with Chion Wolf
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On this episode of Audacious, meet a man who collects items that are supposedly haunted; And another man explains why he collects art made by murde...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio)


  • Added: Mar 03, 2024
  • Length: 50:01
  • Purchases: 1
It's Witchcraft: Songs For A Haunted Halloween (Special)
From: WFIU
Series: Afterglow (Jazz and American Popular Song): Specials
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On this episode, we explore some of the most haunting, bewitching, and eerie tunes from the Great American Songbook for the haunted holiday of Hall...

Bought by KCNP, Troy Public Radio, WVPE, Raven Radio, KCNP and more


  • Added: Aug 25, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 11
The Time of the Roadrunner
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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In wintertime, in springtime, and in the magic months of late Autumn, the desert is the finest place in the world. But now we are coming to the oth...

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: May 27, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Jaws of Darkness Do Devour
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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The ill counsel of a desert place, that would be howled out in the desert air . . . . Night has fallen on the desert, in this spookiest of seasons....

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Oct 15, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Time of Mourning
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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Rain on the ground, a chill in the air, ghosts on the prowl. We're back from the Midwest with strange tales from the desert to the cornfields. Host...

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Oct 08, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Episode 163: The Ghoul of Grays Harbor
From: Criminal
Series: Criminal
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The Pacific Northwest was said to be terrorized by a serial killer in the early 20th century. Bodies were floating to the surface of the Chehalis a...

  • Added: Aug 13, 2021
  • Length: 32:13
Salem Bewitched
From: Eric Molinsky
Series: Imaginary Worlds
Caption: Local women perform witch trials in costume for the tourists., Credit: Eric Molinsky
To understand Salem in 1692, we need to delve into the imaginary world the Puritans believed in, where witches and Indians were both agents of the ...

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, WABE, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 27, 2019
  • Length: 16:34
  • Purchases: 3
Jack Parsons & the Babalon Working
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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JPL founder Jack Parsons and his fellow magician L. Ron Hubbard opened up a stargate to Hell in the Mojave Desert. Nothing has ever been quite the ...

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Mar 10, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Skinwalker Ranch
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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Parallel dimensions and the mysterious Utah ranch bought by aerospace businessman Robert Bigelow. With guest Jeremy Corbell.

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Mar 10, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
189: Empathy for Monsters / 190: Telling a Life, 7/29/2017
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "Empathy for Monsters" - The American soldiers who guarded Saddam Hussein came to like and care about him. This hour: Should we feel empa...

  • Added: Jul 27, 2017
  • Length: 01:58:58
The Hovland plane crash
From: WTIP
Series: The Lake Superior Project
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A Cessna 185 disappeared in the fall of 1971, and no trace of the plane or its three occupants was found until nearly 12 years later. In this edit...

  • Added: Sep 23, 2016
  • Length: 07:46
Episode 5: The Gods Must Be Bewildered
From: KRCC-FM
Series: Wish We Were Here
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In 2002, retired FBI and CIA investigator Charlie Hess began writing letters Robert Charles Browne, a convicted murderer who claimed to have killed...

  • Added: Dec 30, 2015
  • Length: 58:18
Poet, Translator, and Educator Xánath Caraza
From: New Letters on the Air
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Xanath Caraza likes to use poetry to showcase some of Mexico's linguistic and cultural diversity, drawing inspiration from Afro-Mexican history, La...

Bought by KRZA and WNJR


  • Added: Jun 12, 2015
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Leroy Moton Remembers Viola Luizzo Murder as Civil Rights Turning Point
From: Sara Karl
Caption: Leroy Moton in 1965, Credit: Encyclopedia of Alabama
Connecticut man remembers a murder that changed course of the civil rights movement.

  • Added: Nov 13, 2014
  • Length: 04:16
Charles Manson and the Beatles
From: KSLU
Series: Rock School
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This show features music related to the Charles Manson murders. Manson was convinced that The Beatles were speaking to him through their music, ur...

Bought by KMXT and KSRQ


  • Added: Oct 16, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
The Bright and Dark Sides of Chicago's Riverview Park
From: WBEZ
Series: Curious City
Caption: Aladdin's Castle, Credit: Chuck Wlodarcyk
Investigating a historic Chicago amusement park.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Sep 04, 2013
  • Length: 10:00
  • Purchases: 1
Irena Sendler, May 12, 2008
From: Jonathan Thomas Stratman
Series: Who Died Today
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She was a small, dark-haired Polish Catholic who somehow managed to save 2500 Jewish children from the Nazis. How? Here's the tale. Also available...

  • Added: Sep 12, 2012
  • Length: 03:00
Pro-Slavery Constitution
From: Zach Miller
Series: BeyondtheBlackLetter
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The greatest re-write in American constitutional history, on this episode of BeyondtheBlackLetter.

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, and PRX Remix


  • Added: May 09, 2012
  • Length: 20:25
  • Purchases: 3
Dolph Heylinger
From: Roy Trumbull
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A New Amsterdam doctor has bought some property way out of town (roughly 23rd St.) and the locals claim it's haunted. Dolph, an adventurous young m...

  • Added: Aug 15, 2011
  • Length: 05:58
The Guardian of the Murder House
From: Michael Paul Mason
Caption: The Villisca Axe Murder House
A riveting and haunting journey into one of America's most sensational murder mysteries.

Bought by KVSC, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., Marfa Public Radio, KPIK-LP, KFAI Minneapolis and more


  • Added: Feb 28, 2009
  • Length: 22:29
  • Purchases: 10