An audio guide to the world’s strange, incredible, and wondrous places. Co-founder Dylan Thuras and a neighborhood of Atlas Obscura reporters explore a new wonder every day, Monday through Thursday. In under 15 minutes, they’ll take you to an incredible place, and along the way, you’ll meet some fascinating people and hear their stories. Our theme and end credit music is composed by Sam Tyndall.
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Somewhere in the Skies is a weekly podcast covering UFOs and the unexplained. New episodes every Monday. Learn more at: http://www.somewhereintheskies.com Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/somewhere-in-the-skies. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Three women say they were abused by the same Arizona police officer over nearly a decade. When they seek justice, all of them are kept in the dark about his record of lying and illegal conduct – one goes to prison based entirely on his false testimony. We give police officers incredible power and authority but how can citizens trust law enforcement without transparency and accountability? This season on Verified: Full Disclosure, the story of what happens in one state when law enforcement of ...
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Witness Docs presents All-American, a series that zeroes in on sports icons to find out what their stories can tell us about America itself. Season 1 focused on the many chapters of world-famous golfer Tiger Woods: a phenom's rise, a shocking fall from grace, and debatably the greatest sports comeback of all time. Host and producers Jordan Bell and journalist Albert Chen revisit Tiger's journey to find out what the media got right, and what it didn't. Season 2 focuses on Venus and Serena Wil ...
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Venture into Provincetown, Massachusetts, a two-street beach town at the end of a sand spit, and meet the fascinating people who live there. Welcome to Provincetown encapsulates stories of artistry, sensuality, solitude, and serendipity. Listen to the sounds of hopes and dreams being carried through the summer breeze, the feeling of letting go, and the feeling of going all in. This is a place where you can find yourself or lose yourself. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more inform ...
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Witness Docs presents Unfinished, an investigative anthology series digging into America's unfinished business. Season 1, Deep South, produced in collaboration with Market Road Films, brought us on a journey into the Arkansas Delta to investigate the lynching of Isadore Banks. Season 2, produced with Critical Frequency, takes us to Short Creek, a community on the Utah/Arizona border divided by much more than a state line. Season 3, produced with Scripps, explores dual loyalties and hidden hi ...
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Hosts Tess Barker and Babs Gray lay out everything you need to know about Britney Spears, her controversial conservatorship, and the movement of fans trying to end it. They talk to exclusive sources, examine new sides of the story, and uncover disturbing truths about our legal system that go way beyond Britney.
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What does it mean to be Brown Enough in America today? That's a question Dominican-Colombian-American actor and storyteller Christopher Rivas has been navigating his whole life. Listen in as Chris discusses identity, careers, and being proud of who you are with other Brown activists, creators and change-makers. Everyone's got a story. Brown Enough is the stories between Black and white. Scroll all the way down to the bottom of the feed to find Rubirosa, a ten-part documentary series about Po ...
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Shooting the Shit with Shank is one laugh out loud and enjoyable time! Shank is a comedian known as the Angry Black Man touring the state of West Virginia, He is joined by his co-host the legendary Hip hop artist "Duke Johnson" aka Papa Doc aka DOCeaser. This is one podcast that brings it to you raw and uncut touching current topics and national headlines. Opinions are just like butt holes and every one has one. Get in where you fit in and tune in to the Shoo Shoo Shooting the Shit with Shan ...
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From June, 1962 through January, 1964, women in the city of Boston lived in fear of the infamous Strangler. Over those 19 months, he committed 13 known murders-crimes that included vicious sexual assaults and bizarre stagings of the victims' bodies. After the largest police investigation in Massachusetts history, handyman Albert DeSalvo confessed and went to prison. Despite DeSalvo's full confession and imprisonment, authorities would never put him on trial for the actual murders. And more t ...
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Producer Jonathan Hirsch had a childhood much like yours -- except his family had a secret. They were followers of a controversial spiritual leader named Franklin Jones. To Jonathan’s parents, Franklin Jones was a god, but to people outside the group, Jones was a cult leader. Now, Jonathan is going back, trying to find out what happened -- and whether the group really did become a cult.
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Mob stories are always all about the guys. But not this one. Anna Genovese is a New York drag club maven and bad-ass mob wife. Hollywood besties Jessica Bendinger (writer, Bring It On) and Michael Seligman (writer, RuPaul’s Drag Race) are obsessed. They piece together Anna's story, racing between speakeasies, mob informants and former drag queens. But will their heroine's secrets unlock more than they want to know about Anna... and themselves?
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Catoosa, Oklahoma is the cite of a massive landlocked whale - and possibly the greatest anniversary gift ever READ MORE IN THE ATLAS: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/catoosa-whaleBy Stitcher Studios & Atlas Obscura
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Just Another Tin-Foil Hat | The Trasco UFO Occupant Encounter
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"We are a peaceful people - we don't want no trouble - we just want your dog." This is the message given to one John Trasco of Everittstown, New Jersey, in November of 1957, and is only part of a truly bizarre encounter with the unknown. Subscribe to Just Another Tin-Foil Hat on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@JustAnotherTinFoilHat Patreon: www.p…
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Bohemians, Bootleggers, and Bogus Bottles: A History of Absinthe
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Journalist and food writer Evan Rail considers himself a beer guy, but when a mysterious bright green spirit started shaking up the scene in the Czech Republic (where he lives) in the 1990s, he knew he had to learn more. His latest book “The Absinthe Forger: A True Story of Deception, Betrayal, and The World’s Most Dangerous Spirit” looks back at t…
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Senate UAP Hearing and Post-Discussion
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The Senate Armed Services Committee held a closed hearing, followed by an OPEN hearing on November 19th "to examine the activities of the All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office," (AARO) on Emerging Threats & Capabilities. Subcommittee Chair, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) met with new director of AARO, Jon Kosloski. This is the entire broadcast of th…
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In August 1953, airstrip operator George van Tassel claimed he was woken up in the middle of the night by an intelligent lifeform from outer space named Solganda. George says Solganda told him to build an energy rejuvenation machine – so that’s exactly what he spent the rest of his life doing… For more information on visiting the Integratron check …
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On a remote island 200 miles off the coast of Alaska, a community hunts for a single, elusive rat. Read Daniel Wu’s original reporting on the rat strike team. Thanks to Freesound user mmiron for the wave sounds in this episode.By Stitcher Studios & Atlas Obscura
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Places editors Michelle Cassidy and Diana Hubbell tell us about two real-world places that have been shaped by the internet.By Stitcher Studios & Atlas Obscura
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AARO Releases UAP Report, Fallout from the UFO Hearing, and is Immaculate Constellation a Hoax? (w/ Micah Hanks)
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On episode 383, we are joined by Micah Hanks, Editor-in-Chief of The Debrief, to discuss the fallout from the recent Congressional UFO Hearing, to break down the AARO annual report, and to dig deep into the highly controversial Immaculate Constellation papers. Is it possible that they could be nothing more than disinformation... or even worse, a ho…
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We want your stories of places you're grateful for!
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Blame it on this time of year, but we've been ruminating a lot on the places we're thankful for. And we want to hear your thoughts for a future episode. What's a place that played a pivotal role in shaping your life? It can be a place you grew up, or a place you live in now. Maybe it's a park bench, or another place of community. Tell us about it, …
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The Wren’s Nest in Atlanta is both a museum and former home of journalist Joel Chandler Harris and a hub for modern storytellers.By Stitcher Studios & Atlas Obscura
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Bite-Sized UFOs | Military Police Chased by a UFO
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In September of 1973, two Army MPs spotted and were chased across Hunter Army Airfield by a saucer-shaped object with bright lights underneath it. A "Serious Incident Report" was submitted to the Pentagon about the sighting. Subscribe to Bite-Sized UFOs on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@bitesizedufos Patreon: www.patreon.com/somewhereskies ByMeA…
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Nate DiMeo, host and creator of The Memory Palace podcast, walks us through some of the rooms in his own personal memory palace. We visit his grandfather’s old nightclub outside Providence, a beloved family home, the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Visible Storage Unit, and a one-of-a-kind collection of glass flowers at Harvard University. Preorder a …
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The Congressional UFO Hearing (Full Hearing and Discussion)
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The U.S. House of Representatives convened for another historic UFO Hearing on Wednesday, November 13th. Held by the House Oversight Committee, the hearing was titled “Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena: Exposing the Truth,” Testifying were Luis Elizondo (Former Department of Defense official), Tim Gallaudet (Retired rear admiral, U.S. Navy; CEO of O…
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During the early 20th century, malaria was ravaging the world. We hear the story of Dr. Charles Campbell, who had a plan to cure it. But as it turns out, his big idea was… rather batty.By Stitcher Studios & Atlas Obscura
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UFO Hearing Witnesses, Trump's UFO Plan, Alien Abductee Sues Netflix, UFO Bases Exposed?
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On episode 18 of our livestream series, we are tackling all the latest UFO news including: Witnesses for the November 13th UFO Hearing Sky Canada Project Military Briefing Slides Released Donald Trump's UFO plan as 47th President UFO lawyer pinpoints 2 UFO Bases' Swiss Air Force Releases UFO Files Patreon: www.patreon.com/somewhereskies ByMeACoffee…
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In the 1980s, a group of friends on the track team at Sul Ross State University hauled a discarded dorm room desk to the top of a mountain. They left a notebook there to keep track of their run times and leave little notes for each other. Then… other people found it. And then… it started a tradition. Visit the Atlas entry for the Sul Ross desk, and…
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San Juan Sounds is an iconic studio where musicians, engineers, and quite possibly a music-loving ghost carry on the island’s musical traditions, which date back hundreds of years. This episode is produced in partnership with Discover Puerto Rico.By Stitcher Studios & Atlas Obscura
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The Phantom Lights: UAPs of the Forest (w/ Tyler Hall and Ron Murphy)
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On episode 382, we welcome author, Ron Murphy, and filmmaker, Tyler Hall. Murphy is the author of Lights in the Mist. Hall is the director and creator of the documentary, Phantom Lights: UAPs in the Forest. Together, they have combined their research efforts into an exploration of phantom light phenomena. Are these sentient energies that are part o…
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Weed Week: The International Church of Cannabis
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Travel to Denver Colorado and meet Steve Berke who helped found the first International Church of Cannabis in 2015. Learn more about it here.By Stitcher Studios & Atlas Obscura
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Just Another Tin-Foil Hat | The Cussac UFO/Devil Encounter
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In August of 1967, a brother and sister tending cows outside the small village of Cussac, in France, encountered something at the threshold between UFOlogy, folklore, and possibly... the devil. Subscribe to Just Another Tin Foil Hat on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@JustAnotherTinFoilHat Patreon: www.patreon.com/somewhereskies ByMeACoffee: buyme…
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Weed Week: San Francisco Cannabis Buyers’ Club
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The San Francisco Cannabis Buyers’ Club was one of the first marijuana dispensaries in the country. Its members were people with AIDS, cancer, and other serious illnesses, and inside the club had stages, TV lounges, puzzles, and other things that would bring people together. Today, we meet the unexpected mix of gay rights organizers and cannabis ad…
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