Among get rich fantasies, finding buried treasure is harder than inheriting from a forgotten uncle, but way more fun. Oak Island has been enticing and frustrating treasure hunters for over 200 years with its impossibly well-protected money pit. In the first of a three-parter, we start with Oak Island's fascinating origin story.
40 miles outside of Idaho Falls, a skeleton crew run a micro nuclear power plant. They are poorly trained with little experience. One mundane task is to handle fuel rods that could explode if moved a few inches too far. And one of those workers has been drinking too much...
From AI Jesus to AI fakery to insanely irresponsible AI-fueled kid's toys to an AI end of the world, we explore some recent AI headlines that point the way to a scarier future.
The U.S. Navy went all out looking for Amelia Earhart or her plane but never found a shred. Since then, many have searched and some have claimed to have spotted the remains of the lost aircraft if not even of Amelia herself. What happened? Did they find temporary solace on a tiny isle? Were they captured by the Japanese? Was it a planned disappearance? Or did they simply run out of fuel and ditch the little Lockheed Electra into one fo the loneliest places on the planet?
Amelia Earhart set out to be a pioneer and she was. She flew fearlessly, broke records, and even found time for forward-looking fashion. When she set out to be the first woman to circumnavigate the world, she knew the second to last leg landing on tiny Howland Is. in the vast Pacific would be the most dangerous. It was. Part 1 of 2.
At nearly 7 square miles, Griffith Park is an urban wilderness in the heart of Los Angeles. The land was a gift from Col. Griffith J. Griffith. That was very generous. He was less generous to his wife Tina seven years later when he… Well, you'll see.
Nikola Tesla was an acknowledged genius. He had countless patents for a huge variety of inventions – the first remote control, the Tesla Coil, alternating current, and best of all he had nothing to do with the Cybertruck. So is he said he had invented a death ray, you would have to believe him. Or would you?
If you're walking home through a dark forest in West Africa and hear a cry like that of a strangled man, you'd better run. The Kikiyaon is about to swoop down on you with its razor talons and sharp shoulder spurs. Part giant owl, part human, the Kikiyaon is a cryptid to be feared.
You can't avoid political news these days, though you would probably like to. We promise these stories are more likely to say "WTF?" than WTF!"
Instellar comet / alien craft possibly coming for us 3I Atlas passed out from behind the sun settled all of our questions. It is, we can say for sure now, either a comet or an alien spacecraft probably bent on our destruction.
31 Atlas is only the third interstellar object tracked into our solar system, a strange visitor from very, very far away. And while most scientists believe it to be a comet, there are enough questions to cause some folks to wonder if it is something … unnatural?
More classic creepypasta with tales of insomniac Russains, a disappearing town in Kansas, a wikipedia-obsessed figure skater, a mysterious puppet show, an overly animated amusement park dog, and the tragedy of a closed door.
Creepypastas - those spooky and terrifying stories that have the run of the internet - have become an art form. Here we share the best of the best, the most iconic and creepiest of creepypastas. In Part 1, we hear about a battle-scarred killer, a terrifyingly slender man, a killer proud of his masterpiece, and an eeriely calm woman with a kitten in her mouth.
If you're driving through the moors of Dartmoor keep a tight grip on the wheel. And if your car suddenly careens off the road, look down at the wheel and you just might see a pair of ghostly, and very hairy, hands atop your own. They mean you harm.
For one night in 1987, the Stocksbridge Bypass in Yorkshire was alive with spectral activity. Ghost children dancing, a ghost monk terrorizing constables, a police car battered by something unseen. What was the cause of this horror and will it return?
What's crawling between the walls of your old apartment building? Roaches? Rats? The cast of "Only Murders in the Building"? Ruthie May McCoy found out in the worse way that it could be something so much worse.
Forests are spooky. That is just a straight up fact. Here are three stories from those spooky places: North Carolina's Devil's Tramping Ground where nothing grows but fear; the Scottish highlands where you stop into a haunted bothy at your own risk; and the infamous tale of a frighteningly tenacious forest stalker who just wanted to know how to get to Bells Canyon.
Welcome to a new season of Hallow Weird World! We start with a spooky story about a town in Connecticut that has suffered from madness, disappearances, unexplained deaths, and strange dark figures in the forest for centuries. Welcome to Dudleytown.
CONTENT WARNING: Gun violence, murder, including of children The young survivors of the massacre began to remember bits and pieces, but memories are tricky things and the hints and flashes lead no where solid. With the case still unsolved, we dissect the likeliest scenarios for what happened on that horrific day.
CONTENT WARNING: Gun violence, including harm to children While the French focus on Saad al-Hilli's brother fighting as the murder, the English believe the acutal target was the cyclist Molliere. The investigation cycles through one suspect after another - a serial killer, a gun nut, a former French Foreign Leggionairre - but one of the seem to fit. Then they find the mystery motorcyclist dressed in black...
CONTENT WARNING: for violence and murder, including children victims The al-Hillis were a respectable English family yon a caravan vacation to France’s Lake Annecy near the border with Switzerland. They stop at a turnout for a nice family stroll in the forest. But when a cyclist stops at the same clearing moments later, he realizes he has stumbled onto an atrocity.
Arkansas has given us Walmart, free diamonds, the Clintons and the gowrow. You might not know about that last one, but it was said to be a bloodthirsty giant lizard-like, dinosauric beast that left its cave at night to terrorize the countryside. Then some brave Arkansans decided to chase the monster into its lair and rid the world of the gorow forever. Or did they?
Politicians are usually such dicks, we all know that, but sometimes they can be fun. They can prank and kid and mock with the best of them. From JFK to Abe Lincoln to the Oregon legislature, let's have some fun with politicians.
CONTENT WARNING for mention of suicide and sexual abuse of women and minors. We've all heard of the "Epstein Files," but who was really attending his parties, what went on, and who had the most to lose? And who really put that bedsheet around his neck?
CONTENT WARNING: Talk of suicide, sexual abuse including of minors After his sweetheart deal, Jeffrey Epstein enjoyed a decade of freedom before he found the FBI was waiting for his private plane. Just over a month later, though, Epstein was found dead in his cell at a highly secure facility. On a night when Epstein was alone in his two-person cell, the guards fell asleep, and the security video had a mysterious gap. Hm.
Howick Falls in South Africa is breathtaking - crashing 310 feet over a cliff along the Umgeni River. But don't get too close because the Inkanyamba lives there, and it is a testy beast. With the body of a snake, a head like a horse, and the ability to cause thunderous storms and kill with a look, the creature is best left alone.
CONTENT WARNING - Sexual assault and abuse of women and minors The hallway approaching Jeffrey Epstein prison cell was videotaped and closely guarded, yet somehow he was able to tie a bedsheet to his bunkbed and hang himself. Allegedly. In part 1, we trace the rise of Epstein, from prep school teacher to financier to pedophile pimp to the rich and famous.
CONTENT WARNING for gun violence and harm to a child When a nice normal English family takes a camping trip through the south of France, they aren't usually murdered on the roadside. Unless maybe the father was a spy. When an old farmer was convicted of the crime, French president Charles De Gualle thought the case mysterious enough to free him after on a few years in prison.
CONTENT WARNING - There is discussion of mental illness, some domestic violence and suicide in this episode AI is revolutionizing everything, at least if you listen to the people who believe that AI is revolutionizing everything. But when a NYC accountant asked AI to tell him about "simulation theory," the revolutionary technology sent him down a horrific rabbit hole he never fully dug out of. Welcome to the world of AI Psychosis.
In the second of a two-parter we try to set the record straight on Frankenstein's monster, zombies, ghosts, and witches.
