Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchA Blue-Green Glow in Orange, New Jersey
In the early 1920s, walking around Orange, New Jersey at night, you might have seen young women coming out of a factory, with hair, skin and clothes …
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Coqui Snacks
When you think of Orlando, Florida and the area around it, a certain cartoon mouse might come to mind. But in recent decades the area has also become…
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The Hand Collection (Classic)
You can learn a lot about a person from their hands. In this episode, we hear the story of a doctor who made it possible for us to hold onto the stor…
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Thanksgiving Special: Church of Turkey
Gastro Obscura writer Sam O’Brien takes co-host Kelly McEvers on a tour of the world’s strange, incredible, and wondrous tributes to the turkey – and…
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Weaving Together the History of Carpets
Carpets are everyday objects we rarely stop to think about. But they’re far more than decoration or something soft to step on. Each one holds an orig…
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The Bottle Tree Ranch
When Elliott Long’s dad started planting a forest of “bottle trees” with trunks of steel and old bottles for leaves, Elliott immediately understood t…
5 months, 2 weeks ago
Frozen Dead Guy (Classic)
Atop a mountain in a picturesque Colorado town is the frozen corpse of a Norwegian grandpa. We get the tale of how this came to be, from the person w…
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The Atlas Obscura Podcast Presents: The Detour
Today, we’re sharing an episode from The Detour: a show about going places, that actually goes places. Host Sam O’Brien and geologist Becky Nesel tak…
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Italy’s Bomb Squad (Classic)
We chat with writer Alessio Perrone about what he learned from the people who hunt for Italy’s unexploded bombs, leftover from times of war.
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The Revolutionary Life of the Black-Owned Bookstore with Char Adams
Char Adams is the author of Black Owned: The Revolutionary Life of the Black Bookstore. She chronicles Black-owned bookstores in America – from David…
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