Episodes

  • Irish Crown Jewel Heist & The Vanishing Triangle
    Jan 12 2025

    Ireland, you're up. Today we're talking the unsolved 1907 heist of the Irish Crown Jewels and a few of the women who have gone missing in the infamous Vanishing Triangle.

    Sources used in today's episode include:

    • 10 interesting and fun facts about Ireland
    • 7 Interesting Facts About Ireland
    • 18 facts about Ireland that'll blow your mind
    • The Theft of the Irish "Crown Jewels"
    • Royal raid: The curious case of the Irish Crown Jewels
    • The Greatest Unsolved Heist in Irish History
    • Irish Crown Jewels
    • Marie Kilmartin
    • I investigated 'Vanishing Triangle' where 6 women disappeared in 5 years-- could a secret cave finally crack the case?
    • Search dogs sniff out lead in ‘vanishing triangle serial killer’ murder mystery

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    1 hr and 11 mins
  • The Spirit of Elphaba
    Jan 9 2025

    Welcome back to Would You Rather Wednesday! What's on your 2025 bingo card?

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    27 mins
  • Double Homework
    Jan 7 2025

    Surprise, Season 2 is here and we're now coming to your ears THREE times a week! This week's Tuesday Tea Time topics include Blake Lively's Blake Brown Beauty, Big Time Rush On Ice, the Real Housewives, Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, Timothee Chalamet as Bob Dylan, Christmas gift hauls, and that NYE surprise video.

    Book Club roll call! Let us know if you're joining us in reading our January book club pick, The Midnight Feast by Lucy Foley.

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    57 mins
  • Spooky Saturday: Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 and The Mary Celeste
    Dec 7 2024

    Secure your oxygen masks and your life jackets, because this week we're asking: what happened to Malaysia Airlines flight 370 and the crew of ghost ship The Mary Celeste?

    Sources used in this episode include:

    • https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/abandoned-ship-the-mary-celeste-174488104/
    • https://www.history.com/news/what-happened-to-the-mary-celeste
    • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Celeste
    • https://www.cnn.com/2017/01/17/world/asia/malaysia-airlines-flight-370-timeline/index.html
    • https://www.ladbible.com/entertainment/netflix-unanswered-phone-call-missing-mh370-156543-20230314
    • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malaysia_Airlines_Flight_370_disappearance_theories

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    57 mins
  • 023: If You're Listening, We Survived The Alien Invasion
    Dec 4 2024

    If you're here, we must have survived. This week's Tea Time features some highlights from the AITA subreddit holiday feed AND a first look at our official Christmas gift guide, including SALT SHAKERS MERCH - COMING SOON!

    Christmas Gift Guide HERE
    More info about the Appalachian Helene Response Fund HERE


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    54 mins
  • Spooky Saturday Tales From Australia feat. The Somerton Man and the Larundel Asylum
    Nov 30 2024

    Next up on our listener hometown spooky story tour of the world is everyone's favorite island full of criminals, Australia. We're talking The Somerton Man (including a major DNA update from 2022!) and the land down under's most haunted abandoned insane asylum, Larundel.

    Music box: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBEHGb95tJg

    Sources used in this episode include:

    • https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/have-scholars-finally-identified-the-mysterious-somerton-man-180980540/
    • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somerton_Man
    • https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/jul/27/somerton-man-mystery-identity-solved-identified-australia
    • https://amyscrypt.com/larundel-mental-asylum-ghost-music-box/
    • https://www.webmd.com/bipolar-disorder/bipolar-disorder-lithium
    • https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/la-rundle-asylum

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    45 mins
  • 022: International Snacks
    Nov 27 2024

    Happy Thanksgiving, Americans! We're celebrating by surprising each other with some international snacks to taste test. Our selections come from China, Portugal, Korea, Japan, Germany, and Australia and garnered official ratings between -5 and 9. Misophonia girlies, this might not be your episode.

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    48 mins
  • Spooky Saturday: More Russian Mysteries feat. the Dyatlov Pass Incident (Part 2) and Vorkuta
    Nov 23 2024

    Knock knock Russia, it's us again. We're back to discuss what really happened to those hikers in Part 2 of the Dyatlov Pass Incident, and the chilly abandoned mining town of Vorkuta. Bundle up.

    Sources used in this episode include:

    • https://dyatlovpass.com/theories
    • https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/05/17/has-an-old-soviet-mystery-at-last-been-solved
    • https://theworld.org/stories/2020/03/11/putin-wants-develop-arctic-these-russians-are-desperate-leave
    • https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/vorkuta-russia-frozen-ghost-towns/index.html

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    53 mins