Strange News: Robots, the Louvre Heist is Hilarious, Your Grocery Store Conspires Against You, and Way More

Strange News: Robots, the Louvre Heist is Hilarious, Your Grocery Store Conspires Against You, and Way More

The great game for robots escalates; updates on Elon Musk. The Louvre heist is hilarious. Your grocery store conspires against you. All this and more in this week's strange news segment.

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The World's Strangest Restricted Areas

The World's Strangest Restricted Areas

From the "Employees Only" doors of local businesses to vast swathes of ocean and secret labs in some of the world's most remote locations, planet Earth is filled with restricted areas. In today's epis...

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Listener Mail: The Hidden Folk, Electroconvulsive Therapy and Resistentialism

Listener Mail: The Hidden Folk, Electroconvulsive Therapy and Resistentialism

Just how many people have spotted unusual, faerie-like creatures on the frontier? Why do some medical institutions still use electroconvulsive therapy (ECT)? What if some inanimate objects are not onl...

3 Jun 20211h

The Rainbow Warrior: When France Bombed Greenpeace

The Rainbow Warrior: When France Bombed Greenpeace

In July of 1985, Greenpeace sent a ship named the Rainbow Warrior to New Zealand, then to Moruroa to monitor controversial French nuclear tests in the area. However, the Rainbow Warrior never made it ...

2 Jun 202156min

CLASSIC: Are there real devil worshippers?

CLASSIC: Are there real devil worshippers?

Could there really be groups of people conducting Satanic rites -- not philosophical stances, but actual devil worship via ritual or even sacrifice? Where are these groups, if they exist? Find out in ...

1 Jun 202150min

Strange News: A Serial Killer in El Salvador, Cicadas and Parasites, and an Organized Crime Boss is Rocking Turkey's Government

Strange News: A Serial Killer in El Salvador, Cicadas and Parasites, and an Organized Crime Boss is Rocking Turkey's Government

Authorities in El Salvador are excavating a clandestine cemetery at the house of a former detective which is believed to contain as many as 40 bodies – most of them thought to be women. A fungi contai...

31 Mai 202152min

The Rise of Ghost Guns

The Rise of Ghost Guns

Firearms are banned in many countries across the world, and it is highly difficult to acquire one. That is changing. The combination of 3D printing technology and the Internet - for better or worse - ...

28 Mai 202158min

Listener Mail: Gobekli Tepe, College Police and Disappearing Objects

Listener Mail: Gobekli Tepe, College Police and Disappearing Objects

Will we ever know the true purpose of the ancient, mysterious Gobekli Tepe? Are campus police using their authority to protect students -- or to protect their school's reputation? Ben and Matt reenact...

27 Mai 202152min

Conspiracies, Community and Critical Thinking: An Interview with Langston Kerman

Conspiracies, Community and Critical Thinking: An Interview with Langston Kerman

How can we navigate conspiracies in a post-truth environment? Is it true that many conspiracy theories do, in fact, have a grain of truth at their heart? In today's episode, the guys join up with Lang...

26 Mai 20211h 11min

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