Mar 3

National Park After Dark Trailer

Welcome to National Park After Dark. Join us every week as we explore the dark side of our beloved National Parks. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

1m 25s

Mar 2

Abandoned in the Arctic: Northeast Greenland National Park

In the early 1900s, explorer Ejnar Mikkelsen and a young mechanic named Iver Iversen traveled to northeast Greenland. Their mission? To recover the lost records of a doomed expedition that proved Greenland was a single landmass under Danish control. When their ship was crushed by ... Show More

1h 9m

Feb 26

357: Trail Tales 88 ft. Creeps and Crimes

Today’s stories include haunted cabins, fake moose, symbolic dragonflies, probable alien abductions and a whole lot of yapping. Outsiders Only bonus stories available for Patreon and Apple Subscribers! For the latest NPAD updates, group travel details, merch and more, follow us o ... Show More

1h 31m

Jul 2023

Adventurers: Emma “Grandma” Gatewood

Emma Gatewood (1887-1973) was a domestic violence survivor who went on to become the first woman– and first grandmother– to hike the entire Appalachian Trail solo. This month, we’re talking about adventurers – women who refused to be confined. They pushed the boundaries of where ... Show More

6m 14s

Jul 2015

Triassic Park

The Petrified Forest National Park in Arizona has the largest collection of petrified wood in the world. The beautiful wood is more than 200 million years old, and visitors to the park often take a little piece home with them as a souvenir. But stealing the wood has serious conse ... Show More

20m 34s

Jan 2017

In Plain Sight

In 1849, abolitionist and attorney Wendell Phillips wrote: "We should look in vain through the most trying times of our revolutionary history for an incident of courage and noble daring to equal that of the escape of William and Ellen Craft; and future historians and poets would ... Show More

32m 7s

Aug 2023

Folk Heroes: Etta Place

Etta Place (c. 1880s) is a mystery. The rifle-toting bandit of the Old West ran with Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid as part of the notorious train-robbing Wild Bunch. But who was she before she joined the gang? The legends and theories that chase Etta Place through time paint ... Show More

6m 55s

Aug 2023

Folk Heroes: Leonarda Emilia

Leonarda Emilia (c. 1860s) was one of Mexico’s most daring bandits. Riding bareback and cloaked in men’s clothes, she used a pistol and machete to steal from passing travelers, and then redistribute the wealth to the poor. This month, we're talking about Folk Heroes. People whose ... Show More

5m 46s

Mar 2022

Margaret Atwood on Stories, Deception and the Bible

<p>A good rule of thumb is that whatever Margaret Atwood is worried about now is likely what the rest of us will be worried about a decade from now. The rise of authoritarianism. A backlash against women’s social progress. The seductions and dangers of genetic engineering. Climat ... Show More

1h 8m

Apr 2023

How 29 Minutes Of TV Perfectly Portrayed Modern Grief

Subscribe to Mamamia A conversation about something of enormous importance that happened on Succession… and what it tells us about loss. Plus, a very famous woman is the latest to insist we should stop talking about women's bodies. And our best and worst of the week, ranging fro ... Show More

37m 35s

Oct 2020

How the ‘Green Book’ Shaped a Generation of Black Travelers

It was a different time in the summer of 2019 when Janée Woods Weber, an activist and social justice educator, joined BBC presenter Alvin Hall on a road trip tracing the legacy of the Green Book a travel guide published from 1937 to 1966 that shared safe road routes for Black tra ... Show More

28m 54s

Apr 2024

Disappearing Acts: Marsha "Mudd" Ferber

Marsha “Mudd” Ferber (1941-unknown) was a hippie, a back-to-the-lander, a revolutionary, and an outlaw. She was also the owner of The Underground Railroad, an alternative music haven in Morgantown, West Virginia that hosted the likes of The Red Hot Chili Peppers and The Grateful ... Show More

5m 49s

Aug 2020

BOOK CLUB: The Yield

Correction: An earlier edit of this episode said the fictional town of Massacre Plains was based in the Northern Territory of Australia. This is incorrect - the town is based in New South Wales. HELLOOOOO BOOK CLUB PALS! This month, we’re discussing the 2020 Miles Franklin Litera ... Show More

35m 36s

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