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21 episodes
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Stuff You Should Know
· Wed, 28 Oct 2026 09:00:00 +0000
· 13 min
Did a strange cryptid show up in Enfield, Illinois in 1973? Some people think so. DO YOU?See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Stuff To Blow Your Mind
· Wed, 21 Oct 2026 10:00:00 +0000
· 5 min
In this episode of STBYM’s The Monstrefact, Robert discusses the Pokémon Sableye, its connection to the Hopkinsville Goblin UFO encounter and the great horned owl… See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Stuff To Blow Your Mind
· Wed, 14 Oct 2026 10:00:00 +0000
· 6 min
In this episode of STBYM’s The Artifact, Robert discusses the trick-taking origins of the tarot deck…See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Stuff You Should Know
· Wed, 14 Oct 2026 09:00:00 +0000
· 13 min
In today's shorty, Josh and Chuck go over the stories behind some of the world's currency symbols.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Stuff To Blow Your Mind
· Wed, 07 Oct 2026 10:00:00 +0000
· 5 min
In this episode of STBYM’s The Artifact, Robert discusses Thomas Edison’s creepy, singing phonograph doll…See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Stuff You Should Know
· Wed, 07 Oct 2026 09:00:00 +0000
· 13 min
Why do clothing styles get stale and then come back into fashion? Listen in to find out.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Stuff You Should Know
· Tue, 27 Oct 2026 09:00:00 +0000
· 48 min
Cultures have come up with lots of personifications of death: Young and attractive? Yes. Riding a black buffalo? Check. Covered in tongues and eyeballs? Uh-huh. But in the West there’s only been one go-to soul taker for hundreds of years: The Grim Reaper.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Stuff You Should Know
· Tue, 22 Sep 2026 09:00:00 +0000
· 49 min
No you’re no dreaming – go ahead, pinch yourself – we’ve finally made an episode on dreams! We’ve done episodes on lucid dreaming, night terrors, sleepwalking, sleep paralysis – basically everything but dreams themselves. Well, at long last here it is!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Stuff You Should Know
· Tue, 13 Oct 2026 09:00:00 +0000
· 41 min
There’s no question that millions of asteroids are circling the Earth at incredible speed and every one of them is just dying to get a chance to smoosh our planet and wipe out life in the universe once and for all. But Earth has an ace up its sleeve: Us!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Stuff To Blow Your Mind
· Thu, 22 Oct 2026 10:00:00 +0000
· 68 min
Here it comes! It’s pulling off those shades. Oh here it comes! A creature with no face! Join Robert and Joe as they discuss various creatures from folk tradition, urban legend and popular media that frighten us with their smooth-skin visages.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Stuff You Should Know
· Thu, 22 Oct 2026 09:00:00 +0000
· 46 min
Today, Chuck and Josh unlock a door with the key of imagination. Beyond it is another dimension. A dimension of sound, a dimension of sight, a dimension of mind. You're moving into a land of both shadow and substance, of things and ideas. You've just crossed over into... the Twilight Zone.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Stuff You Missed in History Class
· Sat, 24 Oct 2026 13:00:00 +0000
· 34 min
This 2021 episode covers William Palmer, who was convicted in 1855 as a poisoner though there wasn't any hard evidence. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Stuff To Blow Your Mind
· Sat, 24 Oct 2026 10:00:00 +0000
· 49 min
In this classic, sinister episode from Stuff to Blow Your Mind, Robert and Joe discuss different folkloric and legendary monsters tied to mine shafts and mining... (originally published 10/9/2025) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Stuff You Missed in History Class
· Sat, 19 Sep 2026 13:00:00 +0000
· 43 min
This 2021 episode covers smallpox, a viral disease that has existed for millennia. But it’s now one of only two diseases that’s been eradicated through human activity, and a global plan was enacted to do it. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Stuff To Blow Your Mind
· Sat, 17 Oct 2026 10:00:00 +0000
· 64 min
In this classic, sinister episode from Stuff to Blow Your Mind, Robert and Joe discuss different folkloric and legendary monsters tied to mine shafts and mining... (originally published 10/7/2025) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Stuff You Should Know
· Sat, 17 Oct 2026 09:00:00 +0000
· 48 min
Sacagawea was only 16 when she joined the Corps of Discovery. That is one seriously impressive teenager. Find out all about her in this classic episode.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Stuff You Missed in History Class
· Sat, 10 Oct 2026 13:00:00 +0000
· 35 min
This 2022 episode covers Giordano Bruno, a mathematician, philosopher, astronomer, occultist, and according to the Catholic church of 16th-century Italy, a heretic. He met a bad end because of his views, but he started out as a friar.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Stuff You Missed in History Class
· Fri, 25 Sep 2026 13:00:00 +0000
· 22 min
Holly and Tracy unpack the accusation that Robert Moses purposely built overpass bridges too low for busses to drive under them as a way to keep Black New Yorkers away from Jones Beach.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Stuff You Should Know
· Fri, 18 Sep 2026 09:06:00 +0000
· 45 min
In 1960 physicist Freeman Dyson suggested that in the hunt for alien life, we should search for evidence of massive engineering projects that encapsulate stars with solar arrays to harness their energy. Could we humans ever make one ourselves?See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Stuff You Missed in History Class
· Fri, 09 Oct 2026 13:00:00 +0000
· 22 min
Tracy ponders how Sara Weiss knew some of the things she knew and whether her husband characterized her as less informed than she was. Holly talks about a possible relative of Theophilus Brome.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Stuff You Missed in History Class
· Fri, 02 Oct 2026 13:00:00 +0000
· 25 min
Tracy talks about how the beer riots may sound silly, but were underpinned by serious issues. Holly talks about the Elizabeth Fry’s daughters polishing their mother’s image when publishing her diaries.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.