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Caption: FBI Agent, Credit: Camp DeWolfe
On this episode, Devin and Lauren tell the recently declassified story of a covert radio station built by the FBI on Long Island to deceive the Naz...

  • Added: Jun 06, 2023
  • Length: 30:30
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What happened to Army Private Gerry Irwin on a Utah two-lane? There was no plane crash, no passengers, nothing by Pvt. Irwin unconscious in the Uta...

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Apr 15, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
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In August 1934, Ann Cooper Hewitt was having lunch with her mother when she suddenly felt pain in her abdomen. When she went to the doctor, he told...

  • Added: Aug 13, 2021
  • Length: 44:17
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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
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In the mid-1800s, Harvard Medical School had a reputation for being a “den of body snatchers.” And then, in November 1849, the school’s most promin...

  • Added: Dec 16, 2020
  • Length: 36:45
Caption: Square logo for documentary, Credit: IJ Wilson
A peek behind the curtain of a classic horror soundtrack

  • Added: Feb 21, 2020
  • Length: 38:30
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Espionage was once a mostly male pursuit but these days the top three officials at the CIA are women. On this program we hear from Jonna Mendez, th...

Bought by WWNO, KSPB Pebble Beach, WVTF, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KECG and more


  • Added: Jan 30, 2020
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 58
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Bob Kustra interviews Ben Macintyre about his book "The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War"

  • Added: May 20, 2019
  • Length: 30:10
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Munitions expert Jack ReVelle remembers the aftermath of January 24, 1961, when a U.S. military plane accidentally dropped two hydrogen bombs into ...

  • Added: Mar 28, 2019
  • Length: 02:52
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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
Caption: The Mooncussers
A ghost tale of greed, betrayal and love, based on a Cape Cod legend of piracy, in 19th century Wellfleet; filled with sea, weather, and the poetic...

  • Added: Nov 09, 2018
  • Length: 01:19:06
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In 1928, Huey P. Long became the youngest Governor in Louisiana’s history. He bragged that he bought lawmakers like “sacks of potatoes, shuffled ‘e...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Apr 23, 2017
  • Length: 26:14
  • Purchases: 1
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David Phillips of the Bellingham Herald gets a story of a lifetime. Western student Juniper Harper is thrust into the middle of a sinister conspira...

Bought by WCNY


  • Added: Feb 24, 2017
  • Length: 26:13
  • Purchases: 1

  • Added: Mar 13, 2016
  • Length: 16:50
Caption: Did Clara Barton's ghost commune with the living?, Credit: National Park Service/Clara Barton NHS
A so-called spiritual medium, Clara Barton’s so-called spirit, and the man whose dedication swayed him to fall for an elaborate swindle.

  • Added: Dec 07, 2015
  • Length: 07:20
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Host Bob Kustra and Hampton Sides discuss the riveting true story of a "grand and terrible" polar voyage.

  • Added: Nov 25, 2015
  • Length: :30
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Brown discusses his bestseller about an underdog American rowing team and their quest for gold at at the 1936 Berlin Olympics.

  • Added: Oct 02, 2015
  • Length: 29:47
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Segment 1: Sheri Fink/Five Days at Memorial Segment 2: Dr. Jonathan Altshuler /Heart Health Segment 2: Erin Dickins /Musician/Cook Segment 3: Jane...

Bought by KPIP-LP


  • Added: Aug 23, 2015
  • Length: 52:34
  • Purchases: 1
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Tuned to Yesterday #8 Horror Broadcasts include, "Lights Out" and "Inner Sanctum".

Bought by WUTC, WMUU-LP, and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Jul 13, 2015
  • Length: 53:00
  • Purchases: 3
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A telescoped version of NASA audio as it tells the public specifics about the shuttle as it glides in for a landing.

Bought by KPIK-LP and KMUZ


  • Added: Oct 14, 2014
  • Length: 01:34
  • Purchases: 2
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Um, No. But did the Manhattan Project’s Enrico Fermi consider the risk to Chicago?

Bought by XRAY.fm, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Aug 19, 2013
  • Length: 10:03
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Soila Sayialel saves elephants , Credit: Soila Sayialel
Nickson Parmisa tells of hairy, smelly, human-like beasts, which used to roam the Savannah, eating people but not their cattle. Is this just a fabl...

  • Added: Jul 23, 2012
  • Length: 02:57
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Homer's 23rd chapter in the 2800-year-old poem The Iliad has no rival. As the western world's oldest sports-writing, it set the standard for the t...

Bought by KSLU


  • Added: Jul 02, 2012
  • Length: 02:43
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: The Teller & The Truth
Andrew is a filmmaker whose credits include Happiness Is and Before the Music Dies. Andrew is working on a new film, The Teller and the Truth, abou...

  • Added: Mar 03, 2011
  • Length: 27:22
Caption: D.C.'s Octagon House is legendary for its ghostly lore., Credit: Rebecca Sheir
A ghostly tour of Washington, D.C.'s second-most haunted house, where many a thing may -- or may not -- go bump in the night...

Bought by KUOW and PRX Remix


  • Added: Nov 22, 2010
  • Length: 06:11
  • Purchases: 2