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Arcanum Obscura

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Welcome to Arcanum Obscura: A Podcast of Exploration. We’ll be talking about and discussing obscure subjects like strange unsolved cases, the paranormal and supernatural, cryptids, anything bizarre that interests us. And as we talk about the topics the conversations will almost 100% branch off into random things. We’re your hosts and friends Chris and Nate and we really hope you enjoy the stories we find and bring to you, hopefully get a few laughs along the way and feel like your here with us.
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Episodes

r/NoSleep July '25

Back with another r/nosleep episode. I pop into NoSleep on and off to read stories and see if there's any good or interesting ones to enjoy. I bring two stories that I thought were pretty good this week.

Jul 16, 20251 hr 4 minSeason 1Ep. 181

Watts Family Murders and Connected Paranormal Activity

This is an interesting story due to it crossing genres. After our standard rambling we talk a bit about the Watts Family murders, the horrible crime Chris Watts brought upon his wife and daughters, this then leads into the Watts Family home where a few police body camera footage files have been released containing plenty of strange occurrences including several EVP's seemingly directly from or tied to the Watts family.

Jul 09, 20251 hr 33 minSeason 1Ep. 180

Not-Deer and Night Terror

Hello hello hello, this week we have an Appalachian Cryptid, the Not-Deer. It's an interesting deer not-deer type creature, I find the Appalachian stories rather interesting because they tend to not be too far out there, at least the ones I've read and heard to this date. After that I (Chris) talk about a night terror I recently had, the first I've ever had, it was a short and unpleasant event.

Jun 25, 20251 hr 3 minSeason 1Ep. 179

Cryptids, Tables, and Philosophy oh my!

We start off with a few cryptids and move into some small interesting philosophy theories and thought experiments. Nate has some rather... interesting cryptids this week, like the globster and the walking table.

Jun 04, 20251 hr 36 minSeason 1Ep. 178

Soup with a Dash of Injustice

We have a soup episode this week, which means we talk about anything and everything and jump all over the place, and for a portion we talk a little about missing white woman syndrome which came about from a docuseries I watched and I know we've talked about it before

May 21, 20251 hr 40 minSeason 1Ep. 176

No Sleep 6

Hello hello hello, Nate did have plans for a paranormal episode but as we've found with paranormal stories they tend to be hard to find good ones. Lots of great stories but most are brief incidents and little to no legend of backstory, when we do find more we like to cover them. So sticking to the scary story idea he revisits r\NoSleep, and as you all know we love NoSleep and tend to read through them in our free time and bring some of the ones we find interesting here.

May 07, 20251 hr 5 minSeason 1Ep. 175

Richard Cottingham aka The Torso Killer aka Times Square Ripper

A few episodes back we talked about the unsolved case of Jeannette DePalma who is thought to have possibly been a victim of the man we cover today, Richard Cottingham aka The Torso Killer aka The Times Square Ripper.

Apr 23, 20251 hr 23 minSeason 1Ep. 174

Gabriel Fernandez and the Turpin Family

We have a couple horrible cases this week, brought to you by Nate. The first case, most of you have probably heard of, is horrendous these usually tend to be my realm but now Nate has brought us one. There is a pretty in depth docu on this case you can find on streaming services and I would recommend it if you won't to learn more of this poor child's ordeal. The second case involves a family with thirteen children and is awful as well, but we end on a more positive note with this one.

Apr 09, 20251 hr 34 minSeason 1Ep. 173

Return to r/NoSleep

We love NoSleep so we're venturing back to some stories from there today, partly because our personal schedules have been so busy as of late, as well as working on our finale episode little by little and getting things in place for our new cast. We hope you enjoy these stories and we'll be back with a new episode as soon as we can.

Apr 02, 20251 hr 30 minSeason 1Ep. 172

A Recent Local Case and Two Confusing Cases

So the show is all Nate on this one. We start in St. Petersburgh Florida with a case of a murder suicide pact that doesn't go as planned, this case only happened last month, Feb 2025, not even a month yet. After this case Nate moves on to two cases that confused him when he was looking into them and confused me as well as he tells the story, the confusion sets in with both suspects having the same name, Nathan Brooks, so two kids, the same name, one case in 1995 in Ohio dubbed The Dark Prince of...

Mar 19, 20251 hr 4 minSeason 1Ep. 171

Katrina Sarkissian

This week we do our usual catching up with some of Nates academy stories and then he brings us this interesting story. A girl with seemingly everything, a second girl, the victim, with perfect grades and possibly a bright future. One party, one incident that changes everyone's lives around them.

Feb 12, 20251 hr 18 minSeason 1Ep. 170

Jeanette DePalma

Back to a little true crime, this was an odd case since there isn't much info and it stills remains unsolved today. There were plenty of rumors but not much evidence to work with, then the disappearing and reappearing case files. This case is possibly tied to a serial killer but after nearly 50 years it's still unsolved.

Jan 22, 20251 hr 4 minSeason 1Ep. 169

Just a Soup Rambling Kinda Day

Due to job schedules and holidays we haven't been able to get together to record, and if your a listener you tend to know what that means. We ramble on and talk way too much to get to a story, so... that's what happened.

Jan 15, 20251 hr 29 minSeason 1Ep. 168

Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon

This week, UAP’s, this week is less about sightings and more about the gov’t acknowledging UAP’s, their definition of what constitutes a UAP and the federal site where we can go to view casefiles and conclusions investigations.

Dec 18, 20241 hr 2 minSeason 1Ep. 167

Another Soup Episode

We are back, and as you know if we miss a week we tend to banter more then usual, now we've missed a month due to holidays and vacations and we did have a plan for the episode but decided we're going to ramble way too much so lets just do a soup episode. So, soup episode number three is here for your ears to devour.

Dec 11, 20241 hr 20 minSeason 1Ep. 166

Updates: Missouri Dungeon and The Delphi Murder Trial

We have some updates this week on previous episodes. First we have the Missouri Dungeon case, this is the case of the woman who escaped the homemade dungeon of Timothy M. Haslett. This case is still underway and during her captivity Haslet had threatened her by saying he had two other victims hat hadn't made it out. We know this wasn't just empty threats anymore and one earlier victim has been identified as well as murder charges being added to his current list of charges. We hope the police con...

Oct 30, 20241 hr 8 minSeason 1Ep. 165

Strange Deaths

This week we have some strange deaths to talk about. Nate comes with the always unusual spontaneous human combustion. Most of us have heard about the woman he talks about; images of the scene are pretty prevalent when you look into this strange phenomenon. After that, and too not get into too much detail here, I go into some hospitals in South Africa that seem to have a probably with bodies in ceilings.

Oct 23, 20241 hr 11 minSeason 1Ep. 164

Strange Military Incidents

We are back, the hurricane prevented recording last week but here we be. This week we are going with the idea Nate had a few weeks back, talking about strange stories that were reported by people in the military.

Oct 09, 20241 hr 16 minSeason 1Ep. 163

My Sister

We had an idea for this weeks episode, we had intended to talk about strange paranormal or supernatural occurrences reported during wartime, or within the military. At the last minute I changed the plan, I wanted to talk about my sister and her murder. Its not a crazy story nor is it very long with tons of characters and wild strange twists, it's just what happened. I believe I have mentioned it before in some episodes and I felt like talking about it this week, maybe for personal closure or jus...

Sep 25, 20241 hr 10 minSeason 1Ep. 162

Tunnel Rats (Reddit Story)

Nate had an idea for looking at some supernatural and paranormal incidents during wartime. We have all heard of the common ones like foo fighters and gremlins though we may still delve into them. As he was looking for some he came across this reddit story and decided to share it. Honestly after hearing it and learning this is only the 1st part of 5 I'm going to go read the rest because it was interesting and left too many questions still.

Sep 18, 20241 hr 9 minSeason 1Ep. 161

Skinwalker Encounters

We've talked about skinwalkers before but this week I thought it may be interesting to dig through some subreddits and find personal encounters with skinwalkers, so we come with a few stories of different peoples experiences with possible skinwalkers. I read through several and decided on a few that felt pretty interesting.

Sep 04, 20241 hr 12 minSeason 1Ep. 160

Channon Christian and Christopher Newsom

This is a pretty rough case like some others I have done, while reading and researching the case I found that thankfully a lot of the explicit details weren't presented in the sources I read from, this doesn't in anyway lessen how horrible this case was and what was done to these individuals but what I can only describe as monsters. I apologize for how I'm talking in this episode, due to getting over covid again I'm a bit short of breath still.

Aug 28, 20241 hr 31 min

Dark Interwebs

Nate takes control this week and brings some stories of crimes committed through. We've all heard some of these stories, not necessarily the ones Nate brings today, but warnings and unfortunate events that happen due to people either giving out too much information on the internet and social media or being lured through chat to real life locations. One of the stories Nate has in this episode is a familiar one to most of you, the craigslist murders.

Aug 14, 20241 hr 35 minSeason 1Ep. 158

Dark Traditions

This was a tough episode, not as in hard to talk about, but hard to write anything for so we take a different approach this week. I have a list of strange possibly morbid traditions from around the world and tell them to Nate then we talk a little about each one.

Aug 07, 20241 hr 30 minSeason 1Ep. 157

Florida Man Stories

After a two week hiatus we are back with some Florida man stories. It is a crazy place down here and I'm sure you've all heard some crazy stories about this state so we decided to share a few crazy ones we found. The main one I cover is actually really close to where I live and I heard nothing of it until specifically looking for Florida man stories.

Jul 31, 20241 hr 22 minSeason 1Ep. 156

Patty Hearst and a bit about Cheese

First up the story of Patty Hearst and the Symbionese group. Was she a willing or unwilling participant? Did she have Stockholm syndrome? It's a tricky one to tell given some of the things that happened. After that I have a short snippet about the great Wisconsin cheese heist.

Jul 17, 20241 hr 52 minSeason 1Ep. 155

The Hi-Fi Murders and The Geezer Bandit

If you've listened to a good amount of our episodes you may know I tend to bring the horrific stories compared to what Nate brings to the table. This week is no exception, I start us of with The Hi-Fi Murders, what is initially believed to be a robbery in 1974 takes a much darker turn, sadly leaving three dead and two scarred for life. Following that up Nate talks a little about the Geezer Bandit, a bank robber who appears to be in his 70's but there may be more to it.

Jul 03, 20241 hr 17 minSeason 1Ep. 154

David Auchterlonie and Tom Justice

True crime this week. Nate talks about something he found on reddit, the story of Tom Justice, a bank robber who was known as the Choir Boy and later the Bicycle Bank Robber, I do prefer the first name do to why they called him that and I also feel what he did with what he stole also fit that name. Then I talk about the murder David Auchterlonie. It's a sad tale of a pointless murder, or a thrill kill as a judge described it since there was no reason for what happened to happen.

Jun 26, 20241 hr 25 minSeason 1Ep. 153

The Kurim Case and Mr. DuBoise

Another true crime episode. This week I have The Kurim Case which is a pretty horrific case involving children, though not much for details on that part of the case. The was more focus on the perpetrators and the bizarre twist. Nate follows that up the the case of Mr. DuBoise, to be honest, this case pissed me off, not to give anything away but the evidence was ridiculous as well as all those involved in prosecuting this case.

Jun 19, 20241 hr 24 minSeason 1Ep. 152

Another Soup Episode

For anyone who doesn't know, a soup episode is where we just talk and joke and ramble on about anything. No stories, no creepy games, nor any true crime. Just us rambling about whatever. I explain the soup episode origins in the episode, but if the talking part of our podcast is your least favorite part I'd skip soup episodes.

Jun 11, 20241 hr 18 minSeason 1Ep. 151
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