S2 Ep6: The Smiling Pillar of Avoca

S2 Ep6: The Smiling Pillar of Avoca

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The Scole Experiment Part 2: The Germanium Receptor

This week, we return to the pitch-black depths of the Scole Experiment, where a sealed room in rural Norfolk became the testing ground for an impossible claim: that voices from beyond could speak through a crude, powerless device that shouldn’t have worked at all. What began as a ...  Show more

S2 Ep5: Kids Can be Creepy, Especially your own

In tonight’s dead letter… we explore the unsettling possibility that our children are not the blank slates conventional psychology suggests. Listener, Tim, recounts the evening his toddler, Mason, claimed he "wasn't always" his kid before describing a past life that ended in a tr ...  Show more

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