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A phobia is an uncontrollable, irrational fear of an object or a situation that is usually not life-threatening. Most everyone has a phobia and most of them we know are silly and can’t hurt us but they freak us out anyway. On this week’s episod
The Amber Room was a real life treasure room. A gift from Prussia to Russia in 1716, the room boasted some 6 tons of amber, semi-precious stones, and gold inlay. Unfortunately, war is destructive, and war with Nazis can be extremely destructive
The Hinterkaifeck farm murders is one of Germany’s unsolved murders. Back in March 31st, 1922 the Gruber family and their maid were brutally murdered with a pickax. Although there were about 100 suspects, no one was found guilty. Did we mention
On this episode of the Random Intellectual, we will be discussing sleep deprivation. We’ve all been there, you’re probably sleep deprived right now! Go to sleep! Going without sleep can not only affect your body but your mind. We will introduc
Who makes crop circles? And also why? On this week’s episode we will try to answer those questions, give you a little history on crop circles and tell you about some theories including our own. Don’t worry, we think it’s aliens too.
There are two things that The Random Intellectual loves to talk about the most: Halloween and murders! We can’t wait to tell you the story about the man who poisoned his own son with Halloween candy or the unfortunate final victim of the Toolbo
The Dancing Plague of 1518 was a weird historic event that occurred in Strasbourg, Alsace, which is now modern-day France. Some 50 - 400 people danced uncontrollably for days. A few of these people actually died and nobody really knows why. Do
The Taliban has been a group with so much notoriety for the past 20-30 years. But how did they come to be? What historic event occurred that set the wheel in motion to cause a group like the Taliban to exist? Well, it was actually the Saur Revo
What do you get when you take an unusual dentist, add a lover with all her teeth removed, combine that with another family that you can’t stand, and mix all that with a fake baroness and her two lovers all on a rough and deserted island? If you
What do you get when you take an unusual dentist, add a lover with all her teeth removed, combine that with another family that you can’t stand, and mix all that with a fake baroness and her two lovers all on a rough and deserted island? If you
The Benders were a family of serial killers who lived and killed in Kansas in the 1870’s. In fact, they weren’t really a family at all and killed at least 10 people including one child that was allegedly buried alive. How did they do it? Did th
Benjamin and Erika Sifrit were young and in love. When they met another couple on the bus on the way to a popular club called Seacrets in Ocean City, MA, it seemed like just another night of fun and partying. What actually ends up happening is
Strange events occurred in room 1046 in the President Hotel in Kansas City, Missouri on January 3-4, 1935. A man, with an alias, was found tortured, stabbed, and strangled in that room. He died shortly afterwards and with him died what actually
The Tunguska Event is the largest impact event on Earth ever recorded. On January 30, 1908, something hit the Earth’s atmosphere or ground with a force 185 times greater than that of the atomic bomb that hit Hiroshima. Problem is, it was in suc
Elmendorf is a tiny town right outside of San Antonio, where this podcast is based. A dangerous man by the name of Joe Ball, lived in this town and caused quite a scandal in the early 1900s. With the bootlegging, the missing people, the murders
There once was a man named Tarrare who lived in France from roughly 1772 to 1798. He had a literal insatiable appetite and would eat anything, and we mean ANYTHING. Cats, dogs, snakes, eels, body parts off the dead, forks, watches….ANYTHING.
A dead man appears on the beach in Australia in the late 40s and no one can identify him. Turns out he is completely unidentifiable and only one tiny clue can lead investigators to his identity the Persian phrase “Tamám shud”. Find out more and
Are you a stoic and don’t even know it? If all you know about Stoicism is that a lot of guys in ancient Greece were stoics and were strong and never showed emotion you’re way off. Turns out Modern Stoicism probably isn’t what you think it is an
The Yuba County 5 is the strange story of 5 mentally disabled men who went to a basketball game one night in 1978 and vanished on a mountain road. Months later, 4 of the 5 bodies were found, with the 5th one never to be seen again. How did they
The Romanov family was the last royal family to rule imperial Russia. We say last because they were executed because of civil unrest aka the Bolshevik Revolution. But were they all killed? There is lots of lore about what really happened to at
Joseph James De Angelo has been known by many names: The East Area Rapist, The Original Night Stalker, The Visalia Ransacker and finally The Golden State Killer. This predator terrorized California for 10 straight years and then disappeared. Ov
The Cleveland Torso murders were a series of murders that occured in the 1930’s in a poor shantytown called Kingsbury Run. There were at least 12 victims, only 2 of which were identified. The serial killer liked to dismember it’s victims and of
The Springfield Three are three women who disappeared June 7, 1992 and have never been found. Two of the women, Suzie and Stacy, had just graduated high school. Suzie’s mom, Sherill, was a hair stylist and was also never found. Clues are few a
Drugs are bad, ok? We all know about the heavy hitters, cocaine, meth, heroin. But have you ever heard of krokodil or dragonfly? We’re going to tell you all about the newest, scariest drugs out there. And they are definitely scary and dangerous
Stonehenge is a prehistoric monument in Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire, England. It consists of a ring of vertical standing sandstones with a smaller ring of bluestones inside. The monument is orientated towards the sunrise on the summer solstice
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