Strange News: Strange News: Spy Nuns, Fart Cures, Cow Tools and More

Strange News: Strange News: Spy Nuns, Fart Cures, Cow Tools and More

A scandal rocks Europe as an international group of nuns is exposed as a secret Russian spy ring. You can pay a million dollars for a hotel on the moon. Farts might save you from Alzheimer’s, and cows may be the newest confirmed non-human tool users. The Bank of England is worried about aliens. All this and more in this week’s strange news segment.

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What's Happening In Hong Kong?

What's Happening In Hong Kong?

Since the late 1990s the former British colony of Hong Kong has existed in a tense, liminal state with mainland China. The region is governed by the "one country, two systems" policy, yet a recently-p...

4 Sep 201958min

Religious Syncretism: The Ultimate Conspiracy?

Religious Syncretism: The Ultimate Conspiracy?

Religions are as old as humanity, and predate the written word. They've also been home to a great many secrets -- in fact, some religions have been predicated on secrecy, and others are amalgamations ...

30 Aug 20191h 14min

What are the Phoenix lights?

What are the Phoenix lights?

On March 13th, 1997, thousands of people in Nevada, Arizona and Mexico reported seeing bizarre lights in the evening sky -- today, more than two decades later, the Phoenix Lights are still considered ...

28 Aug 201941min

Contras, Cocaine and the CIA: The True Story of Barry Seal

Contras, Cocaine and the CIA: The True Story of Barry Seal

Across the course of his strange and checkered career, pilot and smuggler Barry Seal was called many things: An informant, a criminal, an asset for America's alphabet soup of intelligence agencies and...

23 Aug 201958min

Pop Music, Black Magic and Murder: The Mona Fandey Case

Pop Music, Black Magic and Murder: The Mona Fandey Case

Born Nur Maznah Binti Ismail in Kangar, Perlis, the musician Mona Fandey achieved national success with her song Ku Nyanyikan Lagu Ini in 1987 -- yet her career seemed destined to slowly fade away, wi...

21 Aug 201943min

The Death of Jeffrey Epstein

The Death of Jeffrey Epstein

Earlier this year the guys traced the rise of the enigmatic financier and child abuser Jeffrey Epstein, discovering a quagmire of crime, corruption and cover-ups implicating some of the world’s most p...

16 Aug 20191h 9min

Should Facebook have its own currency?

Should Facebook have its own currency?

Love it or hate it, Facebook is one of the world's most popular social media platforms. Over a relatively short span of time, the company has exploded into numerous areas of human interaction (and cre...

14 Aug 201959min

Uncle Sam Opens The Gateway: The Monroe Institute

Uncle Sam Opens The Gateway: The Monroe Institute

From the late 1970s to the 1980s, the US Government paid for intelligence officers to undergo weeklong training sessions at a remote place called the Monroe Institute. Training sessions themselves are...

9 Aug 201941min

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