Podcast Episodes
Back to Search
Listener Feedback: Cryptozoology
Episode 447
We respond to questions about cryptids asked by listeners to our recent episodes.
Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices11 years, 5 months ago
The Fallibility of Memory
Episode 446
We are a story our brain tells itself. And our brains are habitual liars.
Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices11 years, 5 months ago
Megalodon Myths
Episode 445
The Discovery Channel wants you to think that a giant prehistoric shark may still swim our oceans.
Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-c…11 years, 5 months ago
Myths of Alcatraz
Episode 444
Alcatraz Island is veiled in the fog of myth.
Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices11 years, 5 months ago
SS Iron Mountain
Episode 443
This large riverboat is said to have vanished without a trace on the Mississippi River in 1872.
Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choi…11 years, 5 months ago
Griffins
Episode 442
Griffins, considered absurd mythological beasts today, were actually our first attempt to explain fossils.
Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.…11 years, 6 months ago
The Skookum Cast
Episode 441
The first "full body cast" of an alleged Bigfoot left many experts with a different impression.
Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choi…11 years, 6 months ago
That Elusive Fibromyalgia
Episode 440
Some say fibromyalgia is a real disease, while others question the diagnosis.
Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices11 years, 6 months ago
A Skeptical Look at the News
Episode 439
How we look at the news is as important as where we get it.
Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices11 years, 6 months ago
The War of the Worlds Panic Broadcast
Episode 438
On October 30, 1938, Orson Welles panicked a nation with a single broadcast. Or did he?
Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices11 years, 7 months ago