Mount Rushmore Pt. 2

On Halloween Eve, 1938 Orson Welles' The War of the Worlds aired on CBS radio. It detailed an alien invasion so realistic that, according to legend, it caused widespread panic among listeners. People really believed aliens were invading Earth. The mass hysteria is an important pa ...  Show more

On April 3, 1996, Theodore “Ted” Kaczynski – better known as the Unabomber – was arrested, ending a 17-year-long bombing spree that left 3 dead and 23 injured. He promised to end his campaign of terror only after outlets published his 35,000-word manifesto; in his view, technolog ...  Show more

Carved into the granite heart of the Black Hills, Mount Rushmore is one of America’s most recognizable (and controversial) monuments. Beneath the towering faces of four presidents lies a dark and often untold history of stolen land, massacres, and the erasure of Indigenous people ...  Show more

This episode delves into the heart of South Dakota's historical enigma – the Spirit Mound. Lewis and Clark, pioneers of the American frontier, came across something that might be out of this world.

Then, the episode turns from the stars and looks within to t ...

In Fayetteville, Arkansas, locals speak of a secret mountain hidden in the Ozarks. The souls of Ghost Mountain's isolated residents are still said to haunt the area today. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices 

Some places are magnets for the inexplicable… Ash and Alaina visit trippy locations where we’ve blamed unsolved and unexplained activity on serial killers, extraterrestrials, and Bigfoot. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices