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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
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
This episode picks up where Episode 91 left off. We suggest you listen to them in order.
The early 20th century’s biggest murder trial, and a part...
- Added: Jul 19, 2018
- Length: 21:05
The story behind the face of New York’s Gilded Age, Evelyn Nesbit.
- Added: Jul 19, 2018
- Length: 27:24
Taking the initiative, June and David infiltrate a society fundraiser at the American Theatre but quickly realize they are in over their heads. Wil...
- Added: Feb 25, 2017
- Length: 27:47
June and David check in to a bed and breakfast on Chuckanut Drive that is so much more than it seems. Will they escape intact? Find out in "A Pleas...
- Added: Feb 25, 2017
- Length: 32:21
A scenic roadtrip takes a turn for the strange and bizarre as June and David become entangled with a small rural town. Will they escape it's strang...
- Added: Feb 25, 2017
- Length: 26:29
June and David dive into the coal mining history of Bellingham as a mysterious group tries to purchase the Blue Canyon Mine. Find out what secrets ...
- Added: Feb 25, 2017
- Length: 26:18
A case of bodysnatching leads June and David to a rather peculiar funeral home and then a peak behind the curtain of who really runs Bellingham. Wh...
- Added: Feb 25, 2017
- Length: 31:24
A mysterious encounter in the Mason block of Fairhaven sets June and David digging through Fairhaven's sordid past. What ghastly secrets will be re...
Bought by WCNY
- Added: Feb 25, 2017
- Length: 30:35
- Purchases: 1
A strange attack on Sehome Hill brings David Phillips and June Harper face to face with a dangerous assailant. Will they escape in time? Find out i...
Bought by WCNY
- Added: Feb 24, 2017
- Length: 27:49
- Purchases: 1
He's been a womanizing petty criminal. A revolutionary marxist. An ex-con bank robber. A spiritual teacher. This week on ARRVLS, we go on a journey...
- Added: Oct 01, 2016
- Length: 26:10
In this episode of TriPod, Laine Kaplan-Levenson brings us back to the days when Algiers was a stomping ground for bullfights and other forms of an...
- Added: Mar 02, 2016
- Length: 10:23
Pip returns to Miss Havisham's and learns the secrets of Satis House.
- Added: Oct 28, 2015
- Length: 27:41
William J. Mann is an American novelist, biographer, and Hollywood historian best known for his studies of Hollywood and the American film industry.
- Added: Oct 14, 2014
- Length: 21:16
This show features music related to the Charles Manson murders. Manson was convinced that The Beatles were speaking to him through their music, ur...
- Added: Oct 16, 2013
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 2
Racial Innocence: Performing American Childhood from Slavery to Civil Rights by Robin Bernstein
- Added: Jan 04, 2012
- Length: 19:53
What if Apollo 11 had crashed?
Bought by KSFR, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., The Story, Connecticut Public (WNPR), KUT and more
- Added: Jul 13, 2010
- Length: 15:21
- Purchases: 7
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