Desert Oracle Radio

Series produced by Desert Oracle

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DESERT ORACLE RADIO 

A moody road trip through the mysterious American desert. Weekly series hosted by Ken Layne, 28 minutes.

Created by the acclaimed Desert Oracle magazine in Joshua Tree, California, Desert Oracle Radio deals with the history and mystery of the American Southwest.


169 Pieces

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Encounters With Coyote-Man
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For as long as people have lived in the desert southwest, they have told stories of Coyote, that peculiar personality that’s both a common wild can...

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  • Added: Feb 03, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
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The Green Comet
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"What could it be? There was no balloon and there were no aeronauts. Some strange phenomenon had occurred in the higher zones of the atmosphere, a ...

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  • Added: Feb 03, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
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Space Monsters & Other Earthly Demons
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Night has fallen on the desert. The year is still fresh and new. We don’t all have to talk about stoves, all the sudden. We can do better. Let’s d...

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  • Added: Jan 16, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
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In the Haunted Mountains (with Betty & Barney Hill)
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Four decades ago, Betty and Barney Hill were driving back from a visit to Niagara Falls when they endured a strange assault in the deeply haunted W...

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  • Added: Jan 06, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
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Death Valley Winter with the Lost '49ers
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"Gentlemen!" yelled their frontier guide, Captain Jefferson Hunt, "All I have to say is that if you take that route, you will all be landed in Hell...

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  • Added: Jan 06, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
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The Return of King Ludd
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Winter Solstice is coming and the Luddites are celebrating on their flip-phones. That's all we've got to say about it. Listen on your radio in Josh...

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  • Added: Dec 19, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
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The Old Desert Regular Gnostic Advent Calendar
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The desert is the kind of place you think maybe you might *discover* something. A treasure, maybe. The Lost Ark. Some old glass bottles, some old h...

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  • Added: Dec 03, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
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The Library of Desert Secrets
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What sort of religious nut was John Muir? What was the mystical and spiritual argument for the creation of America's national parks system? Who pla...

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  • Added: Nov 23, 2022
  • Length: 28:01
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The Grouse and the Goddess
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It's Thanksgiving time in America and we are talking turkeys, and sage grouse, and taking your calls on our scary-story line. What does the arrival...

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  • Added: Nov 23, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
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Desolation Peak
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We are back in Joshua Tree with tales of desert creatures, snowy mountains, and the secret journals of Jack Kerouac newly published as Desolation P...

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  • Added: Nov 04, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
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John Lennon's UFO (Some Time In New York City)
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Happy October, friends. This episode comes to you from the West Village, NYC. We'll see you next in Oakland (10/21/2022) and Portland (10/23/2022)....

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  • Added: Oct 18, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
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Famous For Nothingness
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Sometimes we go astray. But that’s all right, that’s our opposing nature, and we know how to get back on the right road. Not the “straight and narr...

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  • Added: Sep 30, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Like a Hurricane
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Night has fallen on the desert, and if you’re in the Western Mojave around Joshua Tree National Park and all the way out to Kelso and Las Vegas and...

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  • Added: Sep 10, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
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Down in the Flood
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An interesting thing about a raging flash flood is how quiet it is, for the most part. Sometimes you’ll hear a pinyon log sort of bonk against a bo...

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  • Added: Sep 05, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
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Death Valley's 1,000-Year-Flood
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It sure has been a wild week or two, especially here in the Mojave. Just a few days after massive flash floods washed out a number of roads within ...

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  • Added: Aug 12, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
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Guidestones for the End Times
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The Hoover Dam, already dealing with a severe lack of water on the reservoir side, suffered an explosion and fire this week. And somebody predicted...

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  • Added: Jul 22, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Owl-Eye's View
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What has horns and flies overhead at night? The Great Horned Owl, that's who. Although they're horn shapes and not actual horn material. As far as ...

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  • Added: Jul 08, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
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Area 51's Mysterious Petroglyph: Pahranagat Man
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Now that it's good & hot outside, let's wander the high desert boulder-strewn hills of Nevada's Lincoln County. Home to Pahranagat Man, a very spec...

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  • Added: Jun 24, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Time of the Roadrunner
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In wintertime, in springtime, and in the magic months of late Autumn, the desert is the finest place in the world. But now we are coming to the oth...

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  • Added: May 27, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
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Some New Kind of Kick
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Tonight we are joined by Kid Congo Powers, legendary guitarist from the Golden Age of The Cramps, The Gun Club, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, and hi...

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  • Added: May 20, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1

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