Hey have you ever sat around eating a salad and jokingly said "I don't trust eating things that couldn't eat me"? well then maybe you have not heard of cryptid man eating plants. In this episode of Journey to the Fringe, we explore the legend of the cryptid man-eating plant, a carnivorous flora that supposedly lurks in the jungles of South America, and Africa. Is there any truth behind the tales of deadly planst that can trap and devour humans and animals alike? What are the origins and variatio...
Jul 14, 2023•35 min•Season 3Ep. 28
Hey, do you like when we talk about assholes of the UFO community? Well this one is not that but it's adjacent! In this episode, we will dive into the incredible story of Travis Walton , a forestry worker who claims he was abducted by a UFO in 1975, while working in the Apache–Sitgreaves National Forests near Snowflake, Arizona1 What happened to Travis during the five days and six hours he was missing, what did he see inside the saucer-shaped craft that knocked him unconscious with a beam of lig...
Jul 07, 2023•41 min•Season 3Ep. 27
Hey do you remember how we talked about all those UFO sightings in the 1890's? Well what if I told you there are way more recent UFO waves than this one. Well you probably said of course there are, well I'm just going to pretend you were surprised and describe this episode anyways. In this episode, we explore one of the most intriguing and well-documented UFO flaps in history: the Hudson Valley UFO wave. In the 1980's thousands of people in New York and nearby states reported seeing mysterious b...
Jun 30, 2023•35 min•Season 3Ep. 26
In this episode of Journey to the Fringe, we explore one of the most intriguing and controversial legends of the American Southwest: the alleged discovery of ancient Egyptian artifacts and giant skeletons throughout the continental United States. Join us as we delve into the legend of the Grand Canyon’s Egyptian artifacts and giant skeletons of North America and try to separate fact from fiction. In the intro we discuss those freedom fighter whales putting up the good fight in the Atlantic. Musi...
Jun 23, 2023•49 min•Season 3Ep. 25
Hey do you ever yearn for the days before Netflix and streaming? Not just back to the days of cable television... or even the days of the liars clubs. No my friends today we talk about the séance craze that struck the world in the mid 1800's and the people behind this craze. In this episode, we dive into the story of the Fox sisters, three young women from New York who claimed to communicate with spirits through mysterious rappings. Their seances sparked a mass religious movement known as Spirit...
Jun 16, 2023•56 min•Season 3Ep. 24
Have you ever looked at a grainy video of a paranormal phenomenon and thought "my god this obviously a fake how could this fool anyone"? Then oh my god I am so excited to introduce you to the world of Stanley Tiger Romanek. This man has written three books on paranormal subjects and has one documentary I guess also on this subject. This man is to unbelievable to be real but here I am typing out the description of an episode we did on him so I guess he is real... Enjoy I guess. Trigger warning: t...
Jun 09, 2023•47 min•Season 3Ep. 23
Have you ever wondered about olde timey UFO sightings? You know just the regular stuff like did the UFOs look the same, what did the people of the time think, how did the sightings go? Well don't worry hypothetical person who has perfectly reasonable thoughts, we got you with the great airship flap of 1897. We are going to cover the two distinct portions of it: the ship sightings throughout California in 1896 and the sightings throughout the rest of the contiguous US. There's inhabitants that we...
Jun 02, 2023•44 min•Season 3Ep. 22
Sorry guys but I got strep throat so I don't have the energy to describe this episode well. It's the men in black, you get what you get. In the intro we discuss hippos finding new homes.
May 26, 2023•58 min•Season 3Ep. 21
You ever drive through the suburbs and wonder why we settled on this perfect batch of green sitting in front of everyone's house? Well let me tell you how we got here with this whole lawn thing. There's some fun stuff and also a guy with a ridiculously epic name. Oh and also I should mention it's awful in just like so many ways. Lets have this chat and look at the weird and horrible world of lawns. In the intro we discuss some spoon bending at only THE PARTY OF THE CENTURY!! LETS DUMP SOME OIL O...
May 19, 2023•56 min•Season 3Ep. 20
Did you hear about all those feet washing up on the west coast of Canada? It may sound like the set up to a bad pun, but this is serious... so the puns are restricted to the title (and maybe later on in this description who knows). Over the course of a decade 20 feet washed up on shore, most of them in thoroughly described shoes, others in vaguely described boots. This is an issue somehow unique to this part of the world, so what is causing it? well listen and maybe we can share the answer with ...
May 12, 2023•1 hr 2 min•Season 3Ep. 19
We had a lot of fun talking about de-extinction last week right? Well what if it turns out some of these extinct boys don't even need to be de-extincted??? that's right they've just been hiding outside of most humans for the last few millennia. Today we are talking about extinct species with sighting well after they were became extinct. And no were not talking about some bugs or things smaller than a human hand were talking creatures with fangs the size of swords (sabers to be precise), and feet...
May 05, 2023•59 min•Season 3Ep. 18
Today we took a listeners question and talk about the push to de-extinct animals. We are going to talk about what that is, the pros and cons and the animals scientists and companies are talking about bringing back to life. If that didn't sound appetizing enough for you, we spend a weird amount of time talking about woolly mammoths and their sought after meat. Oh also there's a joke about Japan during the Mammoth talk but I think its referencing an intro topic that hasn't come out yet... Soooo I ...
Apr 28, 2023•59 min•Season 3Ep. 17
Happy Earth Day everyone, with this holiday comes Earth based fringe topics. We bring you, Hollow Earth. We start with the history of this theory going back to antiquity times (where the best antiques come from!) then we look at the modern iterations of this strange phenomenon up to and including vacation itineraries. We finish off by looking at offshoots of this topic, like maybe we are the interior of the Earth!! In the intro we learned that the machines are coming for the good jobs, like alie...
Apr 21, 2023•1 hr 4 min•Season 3Ep. 16
Today we take a look through our own solar system and at an often neglected little potato that has like 35 minutes worth of things to talk about. We start this episode off with a few facts about the little guy. We then look at attempts to probe him and the conspiracies that orbit it. Watch for some appearances from our favourite weirdos. In the intro we discuss the relatable Vladmir Putin who may or may not have fallen down some stairs and pooped his pants.
Apr 14, 2023•36 min•Season 3Ep. 15
If a lost continent was a barn animal what sound would it make? Mu You are welcome to use that one at your next black tie affair... should any of our other previous tips fail to work (but what are the odds on that right??). Today we talk abut the lost continent of Mu. First proposed in the 1800s by Augustus Le Plongeon, this is a weird one and lets not pretend we wont eventually wind up in some sort of weird genocide justification (it is weird how often we end up here). come join us in this stra...
Apr 07, 2023•1 hr 5 min•Season 3Ep. 14
In the intro Taylor intrigues us with an article about the fermi paradox, you may remember the Fermi Paradox from another Journey to the Fringe Episode... where we also discussed it. The article discusses being a technologically advanced civilization focusing on messages that are more likely to give you a positive response by looking for planets giving out radio communication that see odd or manufactured rather than put out signals blindly.... and that is a much more brief summary of the article...
Mar 31, 2023•46 min•Season 3Ep. 13
Oh, Hello, fancy running into you here, might as well stay a while and listen to this episode. In the intro we're following up on our avian flu intros that have, to our surprise, been unfolding over the last couple of episodes and this time we're discuss egg prices... because apparently we are old people. Second up, Ursula Southeil AKA Mother Shipton, NOT of the little mermaid. We delve into the life and times of Mother Shipton including how she was conceived, yes it's relevant, how she came to ...
Mar 24, 2023•46 min•Season 3Ep. 12
In this final episode on post war Japan we are going to cover a whole bunch of topics. The scientists the US decided not to charge with war crimes, the Unification Church cult which mass marries people to strangers and requires its female members to have sex with the cult leader to purify their wombs, and a porn star turned attempted assassin. There is a lot in this episode so I hope you enjoy! In the intro we give an update on the avian flu that we did last week. Turns out it is for more than j...
Mar 17, 2023•39 min•Season 3Ep. 11
This is a follow up to our previous episode, and guess what??? No need to rerecord! you get the unfiltered (but heavily edited) story. We take a look the US and its involvement in shaping post war Japan, the part we didn't cover in the previous episode. Oh boy was there some shit going down behind the scenes on the previous episode and we are going to take you behind that curtain. We're talking escorts, drugs, theft, torture, and love?? (if you count love of country). In the intro we discuss the...
Mar 10, 2023•39 min•Season 3Ep. 10
So I want to talk about some shady dealings that went down in Japan, and to do that I'm pretty sure many of us need a history lesson. So here it is! Japan like you've never thought of it, let's call this the pre-anime post-ninja period because lets face it we need historical markers. We start this episode looking at the little colonial power that could and some of its impact on Asia that is usually forgotten about. from there we look at all things post war. Starting with the SCAP tribunal that g...
Mar 03, 2023•1 hr•Season 3Ep. 9
We unfortunately had troubles with our next episode in the Japan series so we have to re-record and that will be out next week. For now though let’s focus on our learned friend Andrew Basiago. Now Andy is an interesting guy, he received multiple degrees and practiced law in the state of Washington for many years never receiving a complaint leading to penalty. Although that isn’t out of the ordinary most lawyers aren’t on record stating they travelled through time for their country and also trave...
Feb 24, 2023•59 min•Season 3Ep. 8
*TRIGGER WARNING* This episode includes discussion of sexual assault and cannibalism, listener discretion advised, even more than usual Just like the episode, i'm going to start on a nice, happy note! Taylor has that part (the happy part) this week and he tells a tale of cave paintings holding way more information than we ever thought possible! Cavemen, amiright? Onto the good, the bad, the Japan. We do not have a feel good episode this week for you, this week we're talking about how horrible Ja...
Feb 17, 2023•46 min•Season 3Ep. 7
In this continuation of our look at Richard C. Hoagland we really start to look at some of the crazier things he has done throughout his career. We will cover that time he wrote a book while in jail (also why he was in jail); how he bullied his way into claiming he came up with the plate humanity sent out on the Pioneer Space Probes; his claim that Nasa is both occult and ran by Nazis; his theory of torsion fields which could be used for free energy; that time he plagiarized a 9/11 truthers info...
Feb 10, 2023•40 min•Season 3Ep. 6
We continue our tour through the notable personalities within fringe communities and this time we are setting our sights on someone who has been part of this scene for close to 60 years, Richard C. Hoagland. In this episode we look at his biography from his start as a young space and science museum curator to his heights of science advisor and speaker which he still dabbles in today. From there we are going to look at the claims he has made and people who have critiqued him throughout his career...
Feb 03, 2023•40 min•Season 3Ep. 5
We can't get enough of "selected topic" and it's conspiracy theories lately! This week, Antarctica! Last week, Lunar (that's the moon), but if you're here for last week's description boy are you in the wrong place. We've got conspiracies a plenty on this episode, read all about it! We've got; The entrance to hollow earth which includes the south pole hole. Listen with caution because you're about the get one of the catchiest songs in the universe stuck in your head. IYKYK. Next; lost civilizatio...
Jan 27, 2023•45 min•Season 3Ep. 4
The lunar new year is upon us and werewolves couldn't be further away (timing wise anyways). But I bet you're wondering, the moon isn't fringy... well yeah I never doubted how astute and attractive our listeners are. What is fringy are some of the things people believe about the moon. Is the moon the same size as the Sun?? Is it really a secret spaceship or home to a secret space program??? Are some of our old favourite people going to make an appearance in this episode? Why don't you give this ...
Jan 20, 2023•52 min•Season 3Ep. 3
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Jan 16, 2023•1 min
Welcome back to yet another episode of Journey to the Fringe now playing: Season 3. To pump us up this week as our warm up to the main event, Taylor is sharing a (vaguely) relatable and/or inspiring story of a newly elected congress member George Santos... who lied about everything. It really is everything including graduating, where he's worked and being Jew(ish). We also don't know where he lives or where all the money he has came from... to list only a few mysteries in this here description. ...
Jan 13, 2023•55 min•Season 3Ep. 2
We are starting this year off with one of our annual history lessons. This one is on the struggle of the working class to amass rights. Today we will talk about the Thibodaux Massacre and the Vancouver general strike of 1918. The Thibodaux Massacre is the story of newly freed slaves working on sugar plantations in Louisiana. Although the slaves had been freed, the wages and living conditions shared many similarities to their past lives. The workers strike and shit goes down. The Vancouver genera...
Jan 06, 2023•47 min•Season 3Ep. 1
What a year and with all the things that were going on including this podcast! Now between the time these these beautiful little podcast episodes were lovingly handcrafted and then left overnight to rise (not necessary but that's how we get the episode sizes we're looking for) to the end of the year things can change. Well fret not friendly neighbourhood listener for we are here to fill you in on what has changed (Making us the only new source you need! (you're welcome)). What do we have updates...
Dec 30, 2022•55 min•Season 2Ep. 52
