Quicksilver: The Life and Loss of Karen Wetterhahn

Hello friends, and welcome to episode #8. Today we have another riveting but tragic story for you.   

If you haven’t listened to episode 7 yet, it isn’t absolutely necessary, but it would do you well to hear the stories of early nuclear pioneers like Louis Sloten, Cecil Kelly, and Harry Daghlian, and the dangers that ended...

EPISODE 6: Balloon Boy and Jetpack Guy Take to the Skies! Wacky History of Flight #4. 

Well, we finally made it! This is the final episode of our look at the lesser known facets of the history of flight. I thought this would be a short task, but each week’s research unearthed more and more fascinating stories and interesting characters to the point where my shownotes for all four episodes put together chec...

Interesting Pod #5 - LawnChair Larry and Backyard Aeronauts Take Flight. 

Today we finally get to the inspiration for this set of episodes: Lawnchair Larry himself - the man who tied a bunch of balloons to his lawnchair and flew off into history. A great, great story - and a cautionary tale. 

 But before we get to that, let me do the typical podcast host drivel for a moment. As an Indie show...

Interesting Pod #4 - The Space Race Begins: The Real Wonder Twins, First Female in Space, First Female Astronaut, and other Flight Adventures. 

Last week we put on our wingsuit, or aired up our balloon, which is probably safer, and took a look at the history of humans engaging in flight, and a few early aeronautical pioneers like the Montgolfier Brothers and Franz Reichelt, and also a few early aviation di...

Who doesn’t want to fly?? From ancient times, humans have looked to the Heavens and imagined what it might be like to glide among the clouds. 1000 years before the birth of Christ, the Psalmist looked in wonder to the skies and imagined flying through them, writing, “If I go up to heaven, you are there; if I make my bed in Sheol, you are there. 9 If I fly on the wings of the dawn and settle down on the western horizon,...

On the last episode, we told you all about the Bolton Strid, which is a fairly short section of the River Wharfe in Northern England near Yorkshire that is legendary as a drowning machine. The Strid has had a reputation for literally CENTURIES as being a place where there is a 100% fatality rate - CERTAIN DEATH - for those who fall in. The reasons for that, as we discussed last time, have to do with the geomorphology o...

Interesting Pod #1:  “Bloodthirsty River”: The Bolton Strid, The most dangerous body of water on earth - The Bolton Strid, River Wharfe, Bolton Abbey in Yorkshire. “

Thalassophobics beware - today we’re talking about one of the scariest bodies of water on Earth! From the book of Genesis until today, floods have been one of humanity's greatest enemies. On August 15, 1998, Barry and Lynn Collett were marri...

Not every tale from history made the textbooks. Some were too strange. Too secret. Too… interesting. Debunking myths and digging up the truth—we don’t peddle half-baked lies, rumors, or unfounded conspiracies. And we don’t accept easy answers either. 

You bring the curiosity—we’ll bring the intrigue.

Ready for a mystery? Or an adventure?
Well, here’s a preview of some of our first few episodes...