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Fever dreams can be unsettling experiences. These ramped up nightmares are vivid, detailed and only happen when the human body experiences a fever. What is it about the combination of fevers and dreams that make these night terrors so hellish? Learn all that and more in this clas ... Show More

Humanity’s created a lot of neat things over the eons and starting in the 1940s, the UN created an agency focused on preserving those things for the whole world and future people. But that mission is in danger of becoming only about branding and money.See omnystudio.com/listener ... Show More

There’s a kind of bird that lots of people think is a real jerk. And it kind of is. But in the brown-headed cowbird’s defense, it’s just evolved that way. Find out why it has such a bad reputation among bird lovers in this Short Stuff.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy infor ... Show More

Patrick has a new book that's just out, Rogues: True Stories of Grifters, Killers, Rebels and Crooks. It's twelve strange but true stories of skulduggery and intrigue. Listen to an exclusive excerpt from the audiobook, narrated by Patrick, about the flamboyant, un-catchable arms ... Show More

<p>Yōko Ogawa's award winning collection of connected short horror stories Revenge: Eleven Dark Tales is our Halloween book club pick. Settle in with some blankets as we discuss unreliable narrators, subverted expectations and metafiction. </p><p> </p> Learn more about your ad-ch ... Show More

We like predictability, we like routine and we like certaintyBut when paranormal events like these occur, they throw all that out of the windowThings no longer make senseAnd we are no longer ever the same,They creep us out and melt our minds, these things just cannot be!And yet t ... Show More

The very idea of ghosts creep most of us out… we don’t understand them and they don’t seem to be bound by the same physical rules and limitations that we areHowever when those ghosts are children, that fear and dread reaches a whole new level...Are there really child ghosts? Have ... Show More

<p>From the author of Frankenstein, a gothic tale of a doomed romance. If you enjoy scary stories like this, hear more on our sister podcast, Just Chills. Search for Just Chills in your favourite podcast app or&nbsp;<a href="https://pod.link/1709713164" rel="noopener noreferrer" ... Show More

The fey Mr. Young continues his scholarly researches in the scientific origins of our myth and legend with this tale of an agile—and avaricious—one-man Boarding Party. Boarding Party by Robert F. Young, that’s next on The Lost Sci-Fi Podcast.There are a lot of reasons we choose t ... Show More

Jaxon tells us his scary experiences after discovering the world of paranormal entertainment, including one involving a haunted doll and disembodied voices. Coincidence?<br /><br />Have a story? Go to TrueScaryStory.com and fill out the form! <br /><br />Join our community:<br /> ... Show More

<p>TV, film and fiction have given the public a set of stereotypes about serial killers -- one of the biggest being that they always get caught. Join Ben, Matt, Noel and special guest Christian Sager as they explore the disturbing stories of uncaught serial killers in the second ... Show More

Working on the theory that you can skin a sucker in space as well as on Earth, the con team of Harding and Sheckly operated furtively but profitably among natives of the outer planets. That is—until there was a question of turnabout being fair play in a world where natives took t ... Show More