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Ghostly Encounters of a Third Kind
From: Charles McGuigan
Series: A Grain of Sand
Caption: Artwork, Credit: by Doug Dobey
Just in time for Halloween. Two women share their stories of ghostly encounter. Some of them will tingle your spine.

  • Added: Oct 23, 2023
  • Length: 27:26
Friendly and Not So Friendly Ghosts
From: Charles McGuigan
Series: A Grain of Sand
Caption: The Houlihans, Credit: Rebecca D'Angelo
This week we encounter the supernatural with Beth and Chris Houlihan.

  • Added: Oct 12, 2023
  • Length: 26:58
The So-called Mystery of Rapa Nui (Easter Island)
From: New Hampshire Public Radio
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Three hundred years ago this Easter, Europeans landed on what they called "Easter Island," and ever since, the statues there have been a mystery. B...

Bought by WKSU, KWIT, WYAP, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KCPW Salt Lake City and more


  • Added: Mar 17, 2022
  • Length: 51:58
  • Purchases: 18
Dog Sense
From: Robert Prince
Series: Dark Winter Nights: True Stories from Alaska
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Alaskan dogs demonstrate moments of brilliant and no so brilliant instincts.

Bought by KUAC and KVNF


  • Added: Nov 16, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
The Podcast Playlist Halloween Spooktacular!
From: Podcast Playlist from CBC Radio
Series: Podcast Playlist from CBC Radio Specials
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Spooky podcasts to get you into the Halloween spirit.

Bought by WVTF, KTSW 89.9, Troy Public Radio, KECG, KMUN and more


  • Added: Oct 18, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 9
Alien Corpses of the Great Basin
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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You ever drive the "Loneliest Road In America"? That's what they call U.S. 50, across the Great Basin Desert through the middle of Nevada. Not many...

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Feb 12, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
A Desert Plaguesgiving
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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What's going on with that mysterious Utah monolith? What's going on with Brendan Maze and his new "plague refugee" Substack newsletter? The small-t...

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Nov 25, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
RDD: Can You Hug a Ghost?
From: WGTE Public Media
Series: The Rough Draft Diaries with Haley Taylor
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It's our Halloween Special! Join us as we encounter the spookier side of Fort Meigs with the Garrison Ghost Walk. It's a night-time stroll through ...

  • Added: Oct 28, 2019
  • Length: 06:17
Episode 64: Migrations
From: Wyoming Public Radio
Series: HumaNature
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Caroline Van Hemert and her husband Pat were nearly finished with the most ambitious trip of their lives, a 4000-mile trek across the Yukon and Ala...

Bought by KRZA and Boise State Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 08, 2019
  • Length: 27:00
  • Purchases: 2
Episode 62: Lost Bearings
From: Wyoming Public Radio
Series: HumaNature
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Curt Meyer was looking for adventure, so he took a job aboard a Japanese fishing trawler on the Bering Sea. But when a storm hit, the lack of a sha...

  • Added: Jul 31, 2019
  • Length: 16:29
HumaNature: 30 Minute Special 27
From: Wyoming Public Radio
Series: HumaNature
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“Out Of The Frying Pan” A special edition of HumaNature formatted for air: Cheryl and Greg left Portland, Oregon, one hot summer for the cool of t...

Bought by KSTK, KPIK-LP, KVNF, and KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: May 15, 2018
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 4
Episode 42: Out Of The Frying Pan
From: Wyoming Public Radio
Series: HumaNature
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Cheryl and Greg left Portland, Oregon, one hot summer for the cool of the mountains. But that put them out of the frying pan and into the fire.

Bought by KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., KUER, PRX Remix, and KRZA


  • Added: May 09, 2018
  • Length: 15:50
  • Purchases: 4
HumaNature: 30 Minute Special 21
From: Wyoming Public Radio
Series: HumaNature
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"The Law Of Gravity" A special edition of HumaNature formatted for air: Bruce Smith was on a routine helicopter flight in the remote Wind River Mo...

Bought by KSTK


  • Added: Mar 12, 2018
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
HumaNature: 30 Minute Special 18
From: Wyoming Public Radio
Series: HumaNature
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"Why Elephants Never Forget" A special edition of HumaNature formatted for air: Aubrey Bertram traveled to East Asia to help animals that had been...

Bought by KSTK and KVSC


  • Added: Mar 12, 2018
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 2
HumaNature: 30 Minute Special 17
From: Wyoming Public Radio
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"The In-Between" A special edition of HumaNature formatted for air: A possessed basement. A magic mirror. A shop of spirits. Mysterious lights whe...

Bought by KSTK


  • Added: Mar 12, 2018
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Episode 34: The Law Of Gravity
From: Wyoming Public Radio
Series: HumaNature
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Bruce Smith was on a routine helicopter flight in the remote Wind River Mountains. But what goes up must come down…one way or another.

Bought by WDBM, KRZA, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 10, 2018
  • Length: 18:26
  • Purchases: 3
Episode 33: Ten Steps
From: Wyoming Public Radio
Series: HumaNature
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On December 22, 2016, Karen Klein got trapped in a snowstorm near the Grand Canyon. But she pushed through it to save her family.

Bought by KUER and KVNF


  • Added: Dec 20, 2017
  • Length: 26:24
  • Purchases: 2
RDD: The Lake and the Doctor (part 1)
From: WGTE Public Media
Series: The Rough Draft Diaries with Haley Taylor
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In a Rough Draft Diaries first, we'll be entering the world of science by learning about the past (and present) struggles of Lake Erie with the for...

  • Added: Mar 13, 2017
  • Length: 05:59
Episode 13: Bigfoot
From: Wyoming Public Radio
Series: HumaNature
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For our 13th episode, we venture off the beaten path to hear about Bigfoot and the scientist who’s on a mission to find him.

Bought by KUER and KRZA


  • Added: Oct 19, 2016
  • Length: 18:38
  • Purchases: 2
Episode 51: Money Tree
From: Criminal
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When Axton Betz-Hamilton was 11 years old, her parents’ identities were stolen, but at that time consumer protection services for identity theft vi...

Bought by ABC


  • Added: Sep 28, 2016
  • Length: 25:41
  • Purchases: 1
Bliss
From: Philip Armand
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Philip Armand accidentally falls into a vortex of Bliss, then the bliss hangs up.

  • Added: Jun 22, 2016
  • Length: 05:43
Episode 8: Row Row Row Your Boat. Or Not.
From: Wyoming Public Radio
Series: HumaNature
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It was supposed to be a leisurely float down the Snake River. But when they lost their guide, a group of tourists got more than they bargained for.

Bought by KUER


  • Added: Apr 20, 2016
  • Length: 16:22
  • Purchases: 1
Episode 12: Avalanche on Pikes Peak
From: KRCC-FM
Series: Wish We Were Here
Caption: Pikes Peak
Most people think of Pikes Peak as a tourist destination – the Fourteener with a highway and a donut shop on top. But for many local mountaineers, ...

  • Added: Mar 09, 2016
  • Length: 01:01:02
Ep 2 - War
From: Vladic Ravich
Series: Taxi Taxi
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Four journalists drive right into Tskhinvali on the first day of the 2008 Russian Georgian war. This episode is a first hand account from a war rep...

  • Added: Feb 18, 2016
  • Length: 27:50
Earthquake! Part 2
From: Robert Prince
Series: Dark Winter Nights: True Stories from Alaska
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One man witnessed the 1964 Great Alaskan Earthquake and recorded the incredible things he saw onto a cassette tape shortly thereafter to mail to fa...

  • Added: Feb 10, 2016
  • Length: 29:00