Thinking Sideways: The Spanish Flu
The 1918 flu pandemic, known as the Spanish Flu, killed 50-100 million people world wide, somewhere between 3%-5% of the worlds population at the time. What made this flu strain so deadly, how did it ...
26 Sep 20131h 22min
Thinking Sideways: Carnac Stones
The Stones of Carnac--a vast arrangement of menhirs in lines thousands of meters long, the purpose of the stones is an ancient mystery: necropolis? Calendar? Astronomical guide? Another mystery is the...
19 Sep 201342min
Thinking Sideways: Baigong Pipes
Pipes older than fire show up in a humanly inhospitable mountain top. Bonus talk of Aliens and a pyramid! Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/l...
12 Sep 201329min
Thinking Sideways: The Dog Suicide Bridge
In the last 50 years over 600 dogs have jumped from the Overtun bridge, many not surviving the fall. What is leading these animals to jump, from 50 feet up, to their doom? Learn more about your ad-c...
5 Sep 201319min
Thinking Sideways: Kaspar Hauser
Kaspar's sudden appearance from nowhere in Nuremberg, Germany, touched off controversies that lasted for decades. Was he a child of royalty, stolen from the cradle and robbed of his birthright? Or a h...
29 Aug 201337min
Thinking Sideways: UVB76
An annoying buzzer sounds on an open mic for 40 years. Out of Russia. Often, the buzzer stops, and that's where we start Thinking Sideways. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodc...
23 Aug 201329min
Thinking Sideways: The McCormick Cypher
In 1999 Ricky McCormick was killed on the side of a freeway, 12 years later the FBI finally asks the public for help in decrypting a cypher found in his pants pocket. Ricky wrote them and to this day ...
15 Aug 201322min
Thinking Sideways: The Glomar Explorer
A Cold War mystery, featuring the CIA, Howard Hughes, a sunken Soviet sub and quite possibly a sunken American sub too. With cover stories inside cover stories and weak government explanations for obv...
8 Aug 201327min
