Damn Interesting
If you like intriguing true stories from science, history, and psychology, this audiobook-like adaptation of DamnInteresting.com ought to tickle your fancy.
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- Update frequency
- every 55 days
- Average duration
- 30 minutes
- Episodes
- 72
- Years Active
- 2012 - 2025
Into The Bewilderness
Charles Waterton was a pioneer of conservation. He was also extremely nutty, in ways that suggest he may have over-identified with his animal subjects.
00:17:34 |
Wed 11 May 2016
Colonels Of Truth
The tumultuous true story of the life of a fast food icon.
00:54:10 |
Sun 13 Mar 2016
89, 263, 201, 500, 337, 480
The story of the Beale Ciphers; a set of three encrypted notes from the nineteenth century purportedly describing the location of hidden treasure. Only one has been deciphered.
00:15:36 |
Mon 14 Dec 2015
The Japanese Art of Self Preservation
On the ancient Japanese Buddhist practice of self-mummification.
00:11:01 |
Sat 28 Nov 2015
The Petticoat Rebellion Of 1916
When women in a poorly administered Oregon town hacked an election in order to repair the town's problems.
00:10:51 |
Sat 10 Oct 2015
Up In The Air
As night fell over the East German town of Pössneck on the evening of 14 September 1979, most of the town's citizens were busy getting ready for bed. But not Günter Wetzel. The mason was in his attic…
00:24:11 |
Sun 02 Aug 2015
The Zero Armed Bandit
"I don’t think it belongs here." Such was the assessment of Bob Vinson, the graveyard shift supervisor at Harvey's Wagon Wheel Casino in Lake Tahoe, Nevada. The "here" Vinson referred to was a nook j…
00:55:50 |
Sun 14 Jun 2015
The American Gustation Crisis Of 1985
(This is a podcastification of an older article to observe the 30th anniversary of the events discussed herein).
In April 1985, it is rumored that a collection of executives gathered at their corpor…
00:19:27 |
Sat 18 Apr 2015
The Derelict
Under ordinary circumstances, the final evening of a cruise aboard the luxury turbo-electric ocean liner SS Morro Castle was a splendid event. Hundreds of lady and gentlemen passengers would gather i…
00:48:53 |
Sun 11 Jan 2015
Surface Tension
Low-pressure weather systems are a familiar feature of the winter climate in the northern Atlantic. While they often drive wind, rain, and other unpleasantness against Europe’s rocky western margin, …
00:19:22 |
Tue 02 Sep 2014
Welcome To The Jungle
In 1744, a young geographer living in Spanish-colonial Peru with his wife and children decided the time had come to move the family back to his native France. Jean Godin des Odonais had come to Peru …
00:26:15 |
Sun 06 Jul 2014
The Clockmaker
It was the middle of a cool September night in Munich, Germany. The year was 1939. In an otherwise unoccupied auditorium, a man knelt on hands and knees chiseling a square hole into a large stone pil…
00:24:12 |
Wed 28 May 2014
White Death
In April of 1938, representatives from the USSR approached the Finnish government and expressed a concern that Nazi Germany could attempt to invade Russia, and such an attack might come through parts…
00:09:59 |
Sun 04 May 2014
Cry Havoc and Let Slip the Spuds of War
Staple though it is today, the lowly potato had a hard time reaching its preeminent status in Western cuisine. Perhaps its lengthy purgatory has something to do with the tale that when Sir Walter Ral…
00:13:13 |
Wed 09 Apr 2014
Absolute Zero is 0K
Near the heart of Scotland lies a large morass known as Dullatur Bog. Water seeps from these moistened acres and coalesces into the headwaters of a river which meanders through the countryside for ne…
00:30:17 |
Wed 19 Mar 2014
It Came From Beneath The Sea
Alarming events were in store for Sicily at the beginning of the summer of 1831. On 28 June, small earthquakes rocked the western end of the island, and these continued occurring day after day. On 4 …
00:09:36 |
Mon 03 Mar 2014
The Supernatural Bunnymother Of Surrey
The men from London arrived just in time to see Mary Toft give birth to her fifteenth rabbit.
It was the winter of 1726, and Nathaniel St. André and Samuel Molyneux arrived in the market town of God…
00:17:48 |
Sun 09 Feb 2014
Three Thrown Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Sometime in the 1940s an improbable encounter occurred at a mental institution in Maryland. Two women, each of whom was institutionalized for believing she was the Virgin Mary, chanced upon one anoth…
00:29:39 |
Thu 21 Nov 2013
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