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Ep 264: Moosham Castle
Season 10 draws to a close with Moosham Castle, a throwback episode from the Extrasode back catalogue. A location rich in gory history, Moosham Castle in Austria is infamous for hauntings, witch trials, and bloody tales among a wild socioeconomic history. David takes you on a tour of castle’s history and claims. Tales of werewolves…
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Ep 263: Other Dyatlovs part 2
Part two of Other Dyatlovs continues the dive into these Russian mysteries. Similar to Khamar-Daban, the strange deaths at Chivruay Pass leave nothing but questions for these other Dyatlovs. Flora dives deeply into the mystery to tell the story and explanations of what happened in 1973 on the Kola Peninsula. During a popular hike along…
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Ep 237: Time Life Mysteries of the Unknown
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Flora is joined by Ryan from Rumor Flies and Brent from Hysteria 51 to discuss the classic Time Life book series Mysteries of the Unknown. A 33-book set detailing all kinds of Forteana and weird topics, Time Life’s Mysteries of the Unknown introduced high strangeness to countless individuals around the world. The boys get together…
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Ep 214: Lemp Mansion part 2
What’s a huge, historical house without its share of ghostly goings-on? The Lemp Mansion is fast becoming more infamous for its unseen tenants of today than for its storied history of yesteryear. Join David as he concludes his deep dive into the nooks and crannies of the Lemp Mansion saga. Part 2 focuses on the…
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Ep 214: Lemp Mansion part 1
Crack open a cold one and settle in for a detailed history of the Lemp Mansion! Home to one of the most successful and tragic families in St. Louis brewing history, Lemp Mansion stands as solemn reminder of both accomplishment and sorrow. In part 1 of this 2 part mega-sode, David delves deeply into the…
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Ep 208: Haunted Irish Castles
Welcome to Season 7, kicked off with a fun trip to some haunted Irish castles! Lively legends, gruesome ghosts and harrowing history fill the ruined halls of haunted Irish castles, and Flora plays tour guide through 5 spooky spots. Not all Keeps sport frightening tales, but their history is fun and full of ghastly deeds…
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Ep 206: Ancient Nuclear War
Evidence faces some slim pickens as Flora fights in the war room of ancient nuclear war claims! A claim that prehistoric cultures wiped out life on the planet through ancient nuclear war has been floating around the internet and TV shows, but is it real or pseudo-history? David examines the evidence presented for the claim,…
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Ep 200: The Sphinx part 2
The second half of the 200th episode is nigh and dives deep into the theories of how the Sphinx came to be. Flora and Stecco juggle some rather outlandish origin theories for how the Sphinx was built and who built it, including ties to Atlantis, aliens, and pre-history. They also examine the claim that the…
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Ep 200: The Sphinx part 1
The double hildo is upon us, and the Davids celebrate with a massive 2-part episode on the Sphinx! Buried in equal parts sand and questions, the Sphinx is a huge ancient monument in Egypt with a history as obscure as a corn dog in a sandstorm. In part 1, the boys describe its current state…
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Ep 198: Hell Holes
Say your prayers, hold your breath, and grab some aloe, Blurry Photos are diving into hell holes in this one! Said to be entrances to any number of unhappy afterlifes, hell holes are pits and caves in the earth where one is said to be able to reach hell itself. Flora and Stecco take a…
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Ep 191: Lost Desert Cities with Ken Hite
Ken Hite and the boys kick up a righteous haboob talking about lost desert cities in this episode! Buried in sand, swallowed by sinkholes, or destroyed by divine powers, the middle and near-east is supposedly full of lost desert cities, some of which may hide hordes of treasure and other goodies. Ken joins to discuss…
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Ep 185: Baalbek
Time to grab every crane you can find as Dave and David tackle the ancient megalithic stone structures of Baalbek! An ancient site dating back maybe to pre-history, Baalbek is a Lebanese temple complex with ruins that some say are built on an alien ship port. The boys go over the action-packed history of the…
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BP Bonus: Cahokia Redux
The break is quickly coming to an end, but Dave and David have a couple more tricks up their sleeves – like a return to Cahokia! The boys welcome Dr Maggie Rallo, a current medical doctor who worked as an archaeologist excavating Cahokia. Maggie talks about her time digging up bones and artifacts around the…
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Ep 176: Coral Castle
Get your two bits ready, Flora and Stecco are taking you on a tour of the Coral Castle! A limestone construct in southern Florida, Coral Castle might just be a roadside oddity if not for the fact that tons of limestone was erected by a single man. Latvian-born Edward Liedskalnins single-handedly built a strange, stone…
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Ep 174: Dulce Base
Make sure all hands, feet, wings, and tentacles are inside the mag lev train, Blurry Photos is taking you on a trip at breakneck speed to the infamous Dulce Base! A supposed underground complex of epic sinister proportions, Dulce Base has become a nexus of conspiracy and ufology – but does it even exist? The…
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Ep 166: The Yonaguni Monument
Check your SCUBA gear and get the pun chum bucketed, Blurry Photos are going diving to the Yonaguni Monument! An underwater mystery discovered in the last 30 years, the Yonaguni Monument is a possible ancient Japanese structure which sank beneath the waves thousands of years ago. Or is it? David and Dave explore the theories…
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Ep 155: Angkor Wat
Grab a handkerchief for the sweat and watch your step for snakes, Blurry Photos are taking you to the jungle and Angkor Wat! The largest religious complex in the world, Angkor Wat is a marvel of engineering and architecture in the Cambodian jungle but is often overlooked in history books. The Davids hack their way…
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Episode 148: The Winchester Mystery House
Time to build a mystery with Blurry Photos as Flora and Stecco take a tour of the Winchester Mystery House! An immense complex of twisting halls and odd architecture, the Winchester Mystery House was the strange conceptualization of the reclusive heiress Sarah Winchester. It now stands as a tourist attraction, but during its construction it…
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Episode 141: Plum Island
Time to hop a ferry to conspiracy-town as David and Dave take a peek at Plum Island! A small piece of real estate on Long Island Sound, Plum Island has been home to a disease testing facility, but just what exactly are they testing there? Some people think hoof and mouth disease and other animal…
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Episode 133: Petra
Grab those camels and dust off the rifle, Blurry Photos are riding into Petra! Nicknamed the Red Rose City, Petra is a jewel of a lost city found among a beautiful sandstone landscape. But how did it come about? Who carved the gorgeous architecture into the Jordanian mountains? Why was the city lost to the…
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Episode 121: Shanghai Tunnels of Portland
Flora and Stecco are pressed into service to talk about the Shanghai Tunnels of Portland! A rather legendary underground network of tunnels and rooms, the Shanghai Tunnels of Portland are a creepy, controversial location where some of humanity’s worst vice allegedly took place. Stealing people from bars and alleys of coastal cities was a popular business…
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Episode 119: HAARP
The boys of Blurry Photos take a quick jaunt up to Alaska to check out HAARP in this one. A large scientific research facility located in Gakona, AK, HAARP has been a target of conspiracy theories since it began in the 90s. The high-frequency active auroral research project has many scientific goals in mind, but…
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Episode 110: The Georgia Guidestones
Blurry Photos are heading south to check out one of America’s strangest destinations, The Georgia Guidestones. A mysterious monument with a mysterious message and mysterious makings, The Georgia Guidestones is a huge granite creation that inspires awe, fear, and anger in the population. Erected in 1980, the stones have endured vandalism, scrutiny, and all manner…
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Episode 107: The Fountain of Youth
Afraid Blurry Photos is getting a bit old and stale? Fear not, here’s an anti-aging episode all about The Fountain of Youth! A mythical water source said to reverse age, cure disease, and confer a host of wonderful remedies to whomever partakes of it, The Fountain of Youth is well-known yet poorly documented. Spanish explorer…
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Episode 95: Derinkuyu
Blurry Photos are going underground for this episode about Derinkuyu! Part of a stunning underground complex in the Cappadocia region of Turkey, Derinkuyu is a whole city carved in caves, but who built it and why? The boys descend into the depths of another great mysterious site and discuss it from the bottom up. Not…
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Episode 85: Cahokia
The boys of Blurry Photos are St. Louis-bound and headed for the mounds of Cahokia! The site of a sprawling pre-Columbian civilization, Cahokia is infamous for its mystery and relative obscurity. Not really fitting the narrative of what many historians have believed for a long time, this site defies conceptions of early American life and…
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Episode 79: El Dorado
Welcome to the jungle as Blurry Photos take you on a search for El Dorado! A mythical city said to be made entirely out of gold, El Dorado has been sought after for hundreds of years and claimed countless lives. Flora and Stecco take the safer approach of chopping through research to find out the…
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Episode 74: Lake Anjikuni Mystery
Grab your Elk and seal stew, you’re taking a trip to Northern Canada for the Lake Anjikuni Mystery! David and Dave traverse the frozen tundra of the Nunavut Territory to examine a mystery that has been floating around the Canadian wilderness for almost 100 years. Lake Anjikuni, a nondescript body of water along the Kazan…
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Episode 69: Oak Island
Grab your shovels and galoshes, Blurry Photos are taking you to beautiful and enigmatic Oak Island! A small blob of land just off the coast of Nova Scotia, Oak Island is home to some trees, some rocks, and a crap ton of mystery! For hundreds of years, people have been trying to plumb its depths,…
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Episode 61: Bohemian Grove
Join Stecco and Flora as they infiltrate the infamous Bohemian Grove in this episode! A semi-secret retreat for the world’s wealthiest men, the Bohemian Grove is the subject of one of the conspiracy world’s biggest theories. Supposedly, it’s the annual meeting spot for Illuminati luminaries, puppet masters, and all things wicked and evil. What really…