Join your hosts, Halli, Cayla, Nathan and Courtney as they delve into the always surprising, often creepy, frequently hilarious world of the weirdest things in the human experience. Was Shakespeare a woman? Did you know that there was a secret room in Mount Rushmore? What actually happened to Brittany Murphy? (it's really not as straight forward as you would think)
When I was a child the 1982 film based on Peter S Beagle story "The Last Unicorn" was one of my favorite movies. Like everything else I have encountered in life that I liked a little more than usual, I became obsessed with unicorns and would get any book I could find at the library that featured a unicorn
"Bogs represent one of the last true wildernesses in Europe, and people have been burying things in them for thousands upon thousands of years. This has proved a boon for archaeologists, because the unique chemistry of bogs can preserve organic artifacts to an incredible degree – scarves, leather shoes, wooden cups, wolfskin capes, wagon wheels,...
In this two-part episode our hosts, Cayla, Nathan and Halli take a look at two topics of intrigue:
You find yourself sitting on a dock, the air thick with humidity and insects, but the breeze coming in across the water is refreshing after a long dayYou're in Venezuela, you had flown in to the El Vigia airport that morning where your tour guide picked you up. You were in the car for a little over an hour, the...
In some ways, this is a short version of the history of wax. An incredibly malleable material that doesn't degrade the way other organic compounds do, wax can make molds, absorb paint, and be made into incredibly accurate, often eerily exact replicas of bones, tissue, and whole people (like in Madame Tussaud's famous wax celebrity museums).
Stubborn, focused, and an all-around badass, Leo Major is one of very few soldiers to receive the coveted DCM metal and receive a bar in addition. A native of Montreal, Canada he earned the nickname "The Rambo of Quebec" for his wild feats during WWII and the Korean War.
