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14.8: Reptilian Redux
Season 14 Episode 9
In the 1990s, former footballer (or soccer baller for us Americans) and sportscaster David Icke made waves with his wild conspiracy theory that the p…
4 years, 7 months ago
14.7: Snake Priests of Atlantis
Season 14 Episode 8
Robert E. Howard's “The Shadow Kingdom” sits at the nexus of two realms of occult lore: the canon revolving around an Atlantean Root Race established…
4 years, 7 months ago
14.6: The Necronomicon
Season 14 Episode 7
For fifty years, most people believed the Necronomicon, an ancient grimoire written by the “Mad Arab” Abdul Alhazrad in the year 700, was imaginary. …
4 years, 8 months ago
14.5: America's Ancient Burial Mounds (Interview Special)
Season 14 Episode 6
For hundreds of years, Americans have speculated about the origins of ancient burial mounds scattered across North America. Rob is joined by Miranda …
4 years, 8 months ago
14.4: Yeats and the Pagan Apocalypse
Season 14 Episode 5
Nobel laureate William Butler Yeats believed that Ireland’s freedom depended in part on overthrowing Christianity, the religion of the oppressor, in …
4 years, 8 months ago
14.3: General Hitchcock's Alchemy
Season 14 Episode 4
In 1857, a full-throated defense of hermetic philosophy and medieval and renaissance alchemy came from an unexpected source: major general Ethan Alle…
4 years, 9 months ago
14.3: Randolph and Ravalette
Season 14 Episode 3
Paschal Beverly Randolph was a pioneer of American occultism. He began his career as a medium before branching out with his own occult philosophy inv…
4 years, 9 months ago
14.2: The Lizzie Borden Haunting (Interview Special)
Season 14 Episode 2
The house where Lizzie Borden's father and step-mother were brutally murdered with an ax (or hatchet) is under new ownership. Rob discusses ghost tou…
4 years, 10 months ago
14.1: Vril or the Magical Underground Frog People
Season 14 Episode 1
Edward Bulwer-Lytton is one of the most important figures in Victorian occultism who you've probably never heard of, in part because Lord Lytton was …
4 years, 10 months ago
13.8: The Satanic Panic Returns
Season 13 Episode 8
The pizzagate and Qanon conspiracies are the offspring of legends of ritual abuse propagated during the 1980s and 1990s as part of what's come to be …
4 years, 10 months ago