Dr. Anton Jessup's Halloween Spectacular

In this episode of Weirdhouse Cinema, Rob and Joe discuss 1988’s “Ghosthouse,” directed by schlock-master Umberto Lenzi and starring Lara Wendel. Think of it as “Poltergeist” in Boston, as told by the director of “Cannibal Ferox.”See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy informatio ... Show More

Here it comes! It’s pulling off those shades. Oh here it comes! A creature with no face! Join Robert and Joe as they discuss various creatures from folk tradition, urban legend and popular media that frighten us with their smooth-skin visages.See omnystudio.com/listener for priva ... Show More

In this episode of STBYM’s The Monstrefact, Robert discusses the Pokémon Sableye, its connection to the Hopkinsville Goblin UFO encounter and the great horned owl… See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. 

<p>What exactly was renowned rocket scientist Jack Parsons getting up to in his free time... and how did he know Aleister Crowley? Whatever happened to those Russian scientists rumored to have discovered a super-intelligent, squid-like cryptid in Antarctica's subglacial Lake Vost ... Show More

Daniel and Jorge wrestle with the Earth's tilt, steampunk atoms and fundamental pixels of rad.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. 

It’s our Halloween special from a rain-soaked Jodrell Bank in Cheshire. We find out what you can see in a dark, dark Halloween night sky with space-watcher and Professor of astrophysics Tim O’Brien. Also this week, we meet some blood-sucking leeches, the horrors of pumpkin waste ... Show More

Basement laboratories. Mad scientists. Sticky gels, and a bake-off in the desert. The strange story behind Curtis LeMay’s weapon of choice. Part two. Get Revisionist History updates first by signing up for our newsletter at pushkin.fm. Learn more about your ad-choices at https:// ... Show More

Daniel and Kelly talk about Toxoplasma gondii, and the "science" of ghost hunting.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. 

<p>Anvil Alf relates his experience with lucid dreams. A caller asks for more information about the Knox Mine disaster. Skippy wants to know what exactly is going on over at the Idaho National Laboratory. All this and more in this week's listener mail.</p><p> </p> Learn more abou ... Show More

Hunter writes in with some harrowing first-hand experience fighting Super Pigs. An email inspires a deeper exploration of time traveling, subatomic particles. Ben, Matt and Noel discuss horror films. All this and more in this week's listener mail segment.They don't want you to re ... Show More

Daniel and Jorge talk to a screenwriter and scientific advisor for the multi-verse show, "Dark Matter"See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. 

Hannah Fry explores two tales of data and discovery.Two couples are brought together by a tragedy and a tatty piece of paper, which reveals a serial murderer hiding in plain sight. And, across the world in Singapore, a metro system is misbehaving wildly. The rail engineers and co ... Show More