TARANTISM: DANCING MANIA pt. 1 with Sarah Marshall of 'You're Wrong About'
The phenomenon called 'Tarantism' began in the Middle Ages in southern Italy where the bite of a local spider caused bizarre symptoms almost like that of demonic possession. The only cure was to dance...
29 Juli 20241h 1min
Spider Slander: Confronting the Myths with Expert Rod Crawford
Rod Crawford is the curator of the arachnids and related research collections at Seattle’s Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture. His website called Spider Myths debunks the many misconceptions ...
22 Juli 202442min
THE AVERAGE PERSON SWALLOWS EIGHT SPIDERS A YEAR IN THEIR SLEEP
For this Urban Legends Hotline episode, we are dissecting the myth that the average person swallows a certain number of spiders in their sleep by following this false fact's bizarre and mysterious tra...
15 Juli 202457min
Rewind: BELIEVING IN THE BLAIR WITCH (Updated!)
This is an update on the new developments surrounding one of my favorite movies of all time, The Blair Witch Project, paired with our 2019 minisode. When news broke that the film's production company ...
24 Juni 202424min
Pretendians: Indigenous Identity Fraud with Robert Jago and Angel Ellis
For this episode, the hosts of the new podcast Pretendians, Robert Jago and Angel Ellis, explain Indigenous Identity Fraud, the phenomenon of scam artists pretending to be indigenous in order to recei...
17 Juni 202453min
A Terrorist Attack on the Furries with Nicky Woolf
Fur and Loathing is a new investigative podcast from Nicky Woolf about an unsolved 2014 chlorine gas attack on the world’s largest Furry convention, an assumed safe place for those who create animal a...
10 Juni 202452min
Long Live the Ray Cat with Emperor X and Matt Kielty
Reporter and Radiolab producer Matthew Kielty and musician Chad Matheny (AKA Emperor X) were both part of a 2014 episode of the 99% Invisible podcast called Ten Thousand Years that asked the same ques...
20 Maj 202458min
TALKING TO THE FUTURE: NUCLEAR SEMIOTICS
How do we warn people 10,000 years in the future about nuclear waste sites that will remain extremely dangerous for longer than human civilization has existed? When language, symbols, and technologies...
13 Maj 20241h 7min
