Occulture Shock Podcast
Occulture Shock Podcast is a guided descent into the unknown, hosted by TV and web personality Jessica Chobot. It explores forgotten history, fringe science, and strange rituals, uncovering the real origins of ghost hunting techniques and occult influences in pop culture. New episodes are released every Tuesday.
Episodes
OSP - Still Weird AF!
Sure, we cover weird history but what weird stuff is happening NOW!? Hey Seekers! For the last year and a half of this podcast, we've been focusing on what has happened within the world of the paranormal and not so much of what is happening within the woprld of the paranormal. Is anyone still experimenting with out-of-body experiences anymore and, if so, where and how? You're in luck! Apparently,
Dead Air: Edison, Spiricom, Integratron and other Voices from Beyond
Hello Seekers! Continuing on this week with products produced by the dead - we're tuning into the stranger side of technological history. From to the Spiricom Mark IV (a machine whose creators claimed allowed them to hold conversations with the dead) to California's famous Integratron (now additionally protected by the Huntington Library and Museum), and everything else in-between; we're looking a
An 1800s Cult and their God-Machine
Hello Seekers! In the 1850s, former Universalist minister and radical social reformer John Murray Spear claimed he was recieving instructions from a group of dead scientists, inventors and poli8tical thinkers known as "The Association of Electrizers." Their grand plan? To spiritually "birth" a half-man / half-machine capable of drawing life from the Uniuverse itself tio help humanity twoards a Uto
CIA Files: The UK Housewife Who Spoke to Dead Composers
Hello Seekers! Today's episode takes us back (briefly) into the CIA's STARGATE files—but this time, it ratchets up the weird! Meet Rosemary Brown, a British housewife who claimed that dead composers like Beethoven, Chopin and Franz Liszt were visiting her and dictating brand-new music from beyond the grave. Enjoy the episiode and thanks for getting weird with us!
The Psychic Cold War Pt. 3
Hello Seekers! In the grand finale of our three part series, we dive into the conclusion of the U.S. government's remote viewing experiment known as STARGATE. The program, which spanned over two decades and cost millions of dollars was finally evaluated by the CIA in 1995 - The question on everyon's mind: Was any of it useful for actual intelligence purposes? And ho9w the heck does The Monroe Inst
What Tourists Are Missing At Gamescom in Cologne
There is so so soooo much more than the big gothic cathedral outside the train station! Hey Seekers! I've been at Gamescom this past week, hence the delayed release for this week's episode (but better late than never is what I always say). It actually kind of worked out because: My planned interview with Seamus Blackley has been pushed to later on in September It gave me the chance to do some
The Psychic Cold War Pt. 02
Hello Seekers! Welcome back to part two of our three part series: The Psychic Cold War! What had started as a story about fake military telepathy claims has quickly turned into one of the weirdest intelligence experiments in modern history. Fast forward to 1972, the U.S. has arrived at the Stanford Research Institute in Menlo Park, California; a place known for advanced physics, defense contracts
The Psychic Cold War Pt. 1
Seekers! This one is going to be a DOOZY! Welcome to part 1 of 3 episode mini-series all about the CIA's Project Stargate and Project Gateway and all because of one question I've never really heard annyoe ask in a simple way: Who started it? Thanks for getting weird with us and buckle up!
The Magician You Could Order by Mail
Hello Seekers! I have basically made this week's episode entierly with my phone, so apologies that the sound is a bit off this week but I didn't want to have to push the podcast again, so we are trying this technique out. While not ideal...it's not half bad! I hope you find this week's story of an obscure occult mail order musician/magician as intriguing as I did when I stumbled across his work. W
Inside Secret Archives: What Happened to Edison's Spirit Phone?
Hello Seekers! Welcome back to the 3rd installment of our ongoing Occult Objects: Where Are They Now? mini-series! When we talk about the history of the occult, we're almost always talking about the people: charismatic cult leaders, philosophers, and (of course) Aliester Crowley. But everyone eventually passes on and, when that happens, the real physical anchors left behind are the objects: person
Where Are They Now? Famous Haunted Dolls
Hey there Seekers! It's been a crazy week, so apologies for being a few days late - However, I'm feeling pretty good since I technically managed to get this episode in before the start of the weekend! (I take my small victories where I can get them). This is episode 2 in a series I've started up called: Occult Objects - Where Are They Now? And so far - it has been a blast - I'm hoping we can get
The Devil's Bible and the Black Mirror
Hello Seekers! First off - thank you for all of the birthday wishes :) Secondly - OOOOH BOY! I think we may have found our next podcast mini-series: Occult Relics: Where Are They Now? First up: Codex Gigas, John Dee's scrying mirror (or "shew stone), and The Spear of Destiny Enjoy and thank you for getting weird with us!
The Dutch Roswell? NATO & The Soesterberg UFO Incident
Hello Seekers! Ooooooohhhhmmmaaaaannnn! Today's a good one! On multiple levels! Some of you know, some of you don't but I've been living in the Netherlands for the past four years. It's a beautiful country and I enjoy it very much however, one of the tougher adjustments that I've had to make is that I've had a tough time finding the more "mysterious and weird" aspect of the Netherlands. The occult
BSR/OSP Classic: (Rerun) The Mysterious Magician Of World War II - Jasper Maskelyne
Hello Seekers! We are in a MASSIVE heatwave out in Europe right now - so much so that everythig is closed due to the heat and my computer's fan sounds like a commercial airplane trying to take off. Everything is melting, so I thought a good way to keep up the pace is to debut our first ever OSP (technically, Bizarre States Ressurected) re-run! For those that haven't listened to my old Bizaare Sta
Virginia Woolf, Aleister Crowley & The Occult World of the Bloomsbury Group
Hello Seekers! First off, two things: 1.) I am so so sorry for the quality of my voice in this episode. I got hit with a MASSIVE cold that wiped me out for about two weeks (including during the entierty of my vacation), and I'm just not bubbling back up to the surface. My apologies that I sound all snotty and sniffly. 2.) What do Virginia Woolf, Aleister Crowley, W.B. Yeats, Peter Warlock, a myste
The Secret Occult Lives of Mondrian and the Beats
Hello Seekers! We've got a compilation podcast today which I think does a pretty decent job of covering some intriguing occult, esoteric and borderline paranormal topics, as well as, talking about some occultists/mystics and scientists that you may not have even known were occultists/ mystics and scientists. (sometimes you just have to go beyond the steretypical, and well-beaten path of the SEO an
Unlocking the Esoteric- Inside the World of Rare Occult Books with Fool's Journey Books
For this OSP episode we have a special guest joining us for an interview this week - Alfie Prendergast, the owner of Fool's Journey Books! Alfie is joining us to talk about the struggles of how to part with your favorite books when you're trying to run a business but are also a collector yourself, the secret treasures he's come across while hunting for occult titles and personal esoteric philosoph
Widow's Bay Folklore: The Real World Myths That Inspired The Show
Hello Seekers! IMPORTANT - DO NOT LISTEN TO THIS PODCAST IF YOU DON'T WANT WIDOW'S BAY, SEASON 1 - Ep. 1-4 SPOILED!!!!!!! If you are anything like me, you have been obsessed with Apple TV's latest show, Widow's Bay (it's so damn good. Total early X-files vibes kinda' sorta') Combination 1980s horror flick + every IP Stephen King has ever come up with + The Office? = my eyeball entertainment loyalt
THE RENDLESHAM CODE: UFO Files, A Mythical Island And A Military Meltdown
Hello Seekers! Today's topic is in honor of the recent U.S. UFO document(s) release which, once again, says everything without saying ANYTHING. Considering it is one of the largest UFO/UAP cases in history - and involved the U.S. military personnel - why haven't all of these disclosed UFO docs never really seem to touch. this particular case? Also, nwhat else is going on in that section of England
The Rudolf Hess Mystery - The Occult, Roald Dahl and the Royal Secret
Hello Seekers! Here in the Netherlands we just celebrated Liberation Day (when the Allies came and freed the Dutch from German occupation during WWII) and because of that, my mind started wandering about what weird WWII history would make sense for this show... Enter the conspiracy surrounding Hitler's right-hand man, Rudolf Hess. Enjoy the show and thanks for getting weird with us!
Astaroth in the Magic Kingdom: The Real Witchcraft of Bedknobs and Broomsticks
Hello Seekers! Oh man, I'm pretty fired up about this one (mostly because I feel I actually was there for a little bit of these Gardnerian, mysterious England vibes while I was visiting the King Arthur hot spots throughout the english countryside. Don't worry 0 I ramble on about all of it in today's intro - which you are free to skip if you can't deal with my double dose of word salad this week)
The Paperback Occult Boom: How 1970s Occult Books Made Magic Mainstream
Hello Seekers! I have been inspired a lot lately by the 1960 & 70 occult paperback books that are finding their way into my collection. So I thought I would dedicate an episode to them :) Before WitchTok or Occult Tok or paranormal YoutTube, there was the "paperback occult boom." In the 60s & 70s cheap, mass- market books on witchcraft, Satanisim, psychic powers, UFOs, hautings and ceremoial mag
The Benben Stone: Ancient Egypt's Missing Meteorite, Pyramid Origins, and the Karnak Mystery
Hello Seekers! I hope you all had a wonderful holiday break! So, I feel into a pretty deep archeological internet hole the other day around 2 am and this is what I came up with: Today's episode of Occulture Shock goes deep into one of the strangest gaps in ancient Egyptian history: the disappearance of the Benben stone. This artifact was once the most sacred physical object in ancient Egypt And th
Interview: Robert Collier from Discovery's "Bigfoot Took Her"
Hi Seekers! Today we have a special guest! My co-host from the Discovery Channel special, Bigfoot Took Her, Robert Collier. Aside from his work regarding Bigfoot on TV, Robert is also an avid member of the Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization (BFRO) and guides expeditions into the woods of California for others looking to investigate Bigfoot for themselves. For those that are interested - I have
Elizabeth Clare Prophet: Saint Germain and the Cold War Doomsday Prophecy
Hello Seekers, In the 1970s and 80s, spiritual leader (and talking head on In Search Of w/ Leonard Nimoy - one of the best TV shows of all time), Elizabeth Clare Prophet built a movement around the idea that sge was receiving messages from enlightened beings known as Ascended Masters. At the center of those teachings was one of the most mysterious figures in occult history - The Count of Saint Ger
Numbers Stations: Cold War Secret Signals
Hello Seekers! Tonight's episode covers one of my favorite topics - Government espionage and conspiracy! WOO-HOO! Specifically, one of the strangerst relics of Cold War Intelligence: Numbers Stations. For decades, shortwave radio listeners around the world have reported hearing anonymous broadcasts where a voice calmly reads strings of numbers into the airwaves. There's no station identification.
Predictions and Premonitions
Hello Seekers! I've taken a hard left content-wise today and shifted gears into something that captured my imagination - and that is my absolute fascination with fortune telling and pre-cognition. Since I was little and read about Lincoln's Ghost Train from a Time Life Book: Mysteries of the Unknown volume, I've been obsessed with people being able to foretell the future. Today, on the Occulture S
David Bowie - Music & Magick
Hello Seekers! This episode is the first in our latest themed podcast, Music & Magick, and is part of a larger installment of a randomly on-going series that I'm currently referring to as, All Your Favorite Artists Are Occultists. First up: The Glam Rock (and heavily drugged) Days of David Bowie. He was positive that a demon lived under his LA swimming pool and that Jimmy Paige put a curse on him
OSP Interviews - Marco Visconti
Hello Seekers! Thank you for beung patient whike I was away on vacation. We are back on track this week with our first ever official interview with special guest: Marco Visconti. Marco is incredibly well informed and well spoken and I think you will all find his interview not only entertaining but incredibly interesting and informative no matter where you are within your own personal esoteric jour
WICCAN WARS: Dion Fortune v/s Moina Mathers
Hello Seekers! This week on Occulture Shock, we're digging into one of the most...awkward...fight in modern occult history. It wasn't in the form of a public blow-up but it was a stealthy and corrosive power struggle between two of the most recognizable women in occult history. When Dion Fortune clashed with Moina Mathers inside the Alpha et Omega, questions of authority, publishing, control, as w
WICCAN WARS - Aleister Crowley V/S The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn
Hello Seekers! This week on OSP, we dive headfirst into one of the most infamous occult brawls (physically AND spiritually) of the mmodern era: Aleister Crowley v/s The Heremtic Order of the Golden Dawn. This episode is all about ego, secrecy, power and what happens when everyone and their mom want to control the access to "ancient hidden knowledge." Specifically, we will be unpacking the Blythe R
WICCAN WARS: Gerald Gardner V/S Robert Cochrane
Hello Seekers! We are still going strong with our Wiccan Wars theme this month - Today it's Gerald Gardner V/S Robert Cochrane! Gardner? He is all ceremony, degrees of intitiation and formality. Cochrane? Witchcraft is part of nature. It's wild. It's in your blood...you either have it or you don't. Both men were incredibly formative within modern day witchcraft/Wicca, both were also SUPER gate-kee
WICCAN WARS - Doreen Valiente V/S Gerald Gardner
Hello Seekers! The week on Occulture Shock - Wizard Wars I'm digging into the fracture between Gerald Gardner and Doreen Valiente: the founder who went public to protect witchcraft and the woman who helped to write it.... ....only to then walk away when Gardner's mythology making started outweighing honesty and power plays were rife within the coven. This is not an episode of blind hero worship. T
Introduction to: WICCAN WARS!
Hello Seekers! Welcome to a new year, a new podcast "season" and out new theme to start of uss: WIZARD WARS! This month I'm focusing on the hurt egos, sullied reputation and downright bitch-fests between the big names within the occult scene - both past, present & future. Consider today's episode a bit of an hors d'ouver. little teaser of sorts - A quick overview of some of the most famous fights
1666: The Problems With Prophecy
Hello Seekers! I hope everyone had a wonderful holiday break and a Happy New Year's celebration and...speaking of that..... Huzzah! Here is the latest episode of the OccultureShock Podcast for 2005! And what better way to close out the year than to talk about a prophet and his accurate predictions for an upcoming disaster in the new year (that "new year" being 1666...so, no worries for us). As alw
Holiday Horrors: Christmas Crimes
BE WARNED - This episode is VERY true crime heavy and thus, involves a lot of dark and distrubing material - CONSIDER YOURSELF WARNED. Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays, Seekers! We are in the "between times" right now - the Rauhnächt - where the veil is thinnest between the world and the dead & The Wild Hunt walk the Earth. Which makes this the PERFECT time to discuss some infamous true crimes t
Holiday Horrors - The Lost Days of Christmas
Hello Seekers! You've heard the Christmas carol, "The Twelve Days of Christmas," but have you ever asked yourself... Why? Why twelve days? And what was it about those days that make them such a big deal in the first place? On today's podcast episode, we look into that VERY thing (and it's both super weird and kinda' MEH (all at the same time). I break down what is: Historicaly documented Folklor
Holiday Horrors: Christmas' Monsters - Krampus and Grýla
Hello Seekers! It's a new month, so a new mini-season of topics! Since it's December and the holidays are right around the corner, I'\m going to stick with "weird holiday histories and traditions." First on our list comes straight out of the Alpine regions of Northern Europe - Krampus and Grýla. In the mountains of Austria and the lava fields of Iceland, the gifts the winter spirits came with were
Nightcap Noire: The Hidden Crimes Behind Holiday Cocktails
Hello Seekers! Today we are pulling the curtain back on one of the holiday's most traditional and beloved drinks, Eggnog and its filthu cousin, the Tom & Jerry. Rife with bacteria, potentially poisoned by disgruntled family members and the cause of one of the largest (and most hilarious) riots in U.S. military history, I present to you, the final installment of our mini-series, Nightcap Noire: The
Nightcap Noire: The Cocktail That Outlived Boston Politics - Ward 8
Hello Seekers! This week, in our podcast mini-series, Nightcap Noire - The Dark History Behind Your Favorite Cocktails, we are taking a gander at the infamous Ward 8. A drink that somehow managed to survive longer than the political system that created it. Old-guard Bostonians liked to hole themselves up in Locke-Ober; a formal, male-only dine and drinks establishment that has a reputation for hau
Nightcap Noire - The Black Dahlia Murder
Good evening Seekers, I thought I'd try out a new series theme for the rest of November (and maybe a little into Dec. if it feels right) and that is: Nightcap Noire - A series that explores famous cocktails based on gruesome true crimes and the histories behind them. Los Angeles, 1947. A body in a vacant lot. A dark legend in the making. Elizabeth Short, soon to be known as The Black Dahlia, wante
White Mischief - The Happy Valley Murder
Seekers! Here's a true crime story that I've been sitting on for a while: The Mysterious death of Josslyn Hay, the 22nd Earl of Erroll and the scandalous lifestyles of the "Happy Valley Set," a group of British elites in Kenya during the early 20th century. In 1941, a car was found idiling on a desolate road just outside of Nairobi. Inside? A British aristocrat with a bullet in his brain. This wee
From Nob Hill to Hill House - The Mysterious Murder of an San Francisco Heiress And The Birth of American Horror
Hello Seekers! Well, I'm still rockin' that Shirley Jackson podcast angle this week! After last week's podcast, I ended up falling into quite a deep Shirley Jackson internet history hole and discovered that Mrs. Jackson is connected (however tenuously) to an infamous and unsolved murder case of one of the most important American heiresses within the U.S.'s Gilded Age "royalty." Jane Stanford was t
The Haunting Mind of Shirley Jackson
Hello Seekers! This week, we take a look at the author who inspired modern day horror writers such as Stephen King and Guillermo Del Toro by turning her ordinary suburban American life into quiet horror. Shirley Jackson lived in a house full of noise - four children, a controlling and flandering husband and a typerwrite on a kitchen table within the middle of it all. From that chaos she wrote fant
The Hot Mess Romantics
Hello Seekers! Last week we went into the connections between the top 3 Romantic writers of their era: Mary (Godwin) Shelley, Percy Shelley and Lord Byron. But that just SCRATCHES at the surface of these lunatics (and their friends). This week's episode goes more "behind-the-scenes" of what famously went down at that villa in Switzerland (hint: It wasn't all writing. There was also a fair bit of s
Reason's Monster: Frankenstein, the Illuminati & the Birth of Fear
In 1816, under a sunless sky, 18 year old Mary Godwin dreamnt of a man who could re-animate the dead. But the story of Frankenstein: Or the Modern Prometheus wasn't born out of superstition, it was born out of the Ennlightenment itself. This episode unravels how a secret Bavarian order, a volcanic winter and one radical family's obsession with reason combined to create the world's first modern mo
FLUSHED: The Unique History Behind Japan's Hi-Tech Toilets
Hello Seekers! Welcome to an episode that I've done inn combination with: A). Just getting back from a weeks long vacation in Japan and B). Popular demand for this particular subject matter. What is that subject matter, you ask? It's actually about one of my favorite things in Japan - their toilets! Specifically, their high-tech Toto ones. Because the Japanese didn't just re-invent the toilet into
Burn The Devil Out: Assassin's Creed Hexe & The Real German Witch Trials
Hello Seekers! Jess here - I'm back from Japan (expect that love-letter podcast to Toto toilets coming your way very soon :) In the meanie, Here is my latest deep dive into videogames and their real-life counterparts. This week, we're loking at: Assassin's Creed Hexe (as currently titled) and the real German witch trials it world-builds around. Plus, it's the first day of October, so it's a rath
The Jersey Devil + a Bonaparte = The Weirdest Story Out Of N. Jersey I've Ever Heard.
Seekers! This week we're heading deep into the Pine Barrens of New Jersey. A million acres of twisted pitch pines, bogs and legends that refuse to die. For over 250 years, locals have whispered about a winged, hoofed creature living within the wilderness: The Jersey Devil. But here's the plot twist: one of the most famous supposed eyewitnesses wasn't a farmer or a trapper. It was Joseph Bonaparte,
Dowsing Rods: Water Wands, Witching Tools and Wandering Wires
Hello Seekers! Step into the world of the unseen as we explore the strange history of dowsing rods in this episode of: Do You KNow Where Your Ghost Hunting Techniques Come From? From their origins in Germanic medieval mines to their controversial use in modern warfare, this episode uncovers the folklore and the alleged science behind this mysterious practice. Join me as I ask the question: Is dows
Haunted Bait - The Occult History of Trigger Items
Today's, "Do You KNow Where Your Ghost Hunting Techniques Come From?" episode is focusing on: Trigger Items. From ancient libations to Victorian scéance tables stacked with dolls and jewelry to teddy bears wired with ghost-tech, objects have always been used as "bait" for the dead. Find out the strange occult history behind the modern use of "trigger items" and how this particular technique to dra
Hacked Radios & Haunted Frequencies - The Origins of the Spirit Box
Do you know where your ghost investigation techniques come from? Hello seekers! This week's episode of Occulture Shock kicks off a new series I'm calling: Do you know where your ghost hunting/investigating techniques come from? And we're starting with one of the most misunderstood investigative tools out there: the spirit box! You've probably seen it on TV (I've handleed a few on my old shows), or
Arcane Algorithms
Hello Seekers! On today's Occulture Shock Podcast: Arcane Algorithms, we dive ibnto the fascinating intersection of psychedelics, counterculture and the dawn of the tech revolution. This episode explores how visionary thinkers, inspired by mind-expanding experiences, laid the groundwork for the digital age. Discover the untold stories of how these unconventional influences shaped the innovative sp
Charles Babbage And His Akashic Record
Hello Seekers! Today on the Occulture Shock Podcast, host Jessica Chobot follows a trail of punch cards and metaphysics garbed in science. We're headed straight into the mind of Charles Babbage: mathematician, inventor...and a cranky scientist with the heart of a mystic. This episode isn't just about the origins of computing. It's about how a man obsessed with order was equally obsessed with the n
The Vatican's Secret Time Machine
You've most likely heard about the Vatican's Secret Archives: full of old forgotten scrolls and tomes that the church has deemed dangerous for one reason or another. But....did you know about their forbidden time machine? On this week's episode of the Occulture Shock Podcast, host Jessica Chobot, looks into the mysterious case of the Chronovisor, its disapperance and the priest who said he used it
The Curse Of The Measuring Stick: Math, Magic And Control
Occulture Shock podcast host, Jessica Chobot, investigates the evolution of measurement and mathmatics. From its ancient mystical roots to its modern day applications. How measurement was once a sacred act, deeply intertwined with spirituality and cosmic beliefs, and how it has now transformed into a tool for control and effeciency in modern society. We traverse history: including ancient Egypt, G
Hollywood's Occult Blueprint Pt.2
In pt. 2 of 2 of Hollywood's Occult Blueprint, host Jessica Chobot , pulls the curtain back on Hollywood: from the invention of the first movie camera to the swingin' 60s and The Manson murders all the way to 1980s Satanic Panic and today's horror leanings via A24, Midsommar and The Witch. Hollywood has always had the weird, wild and the occult waiting in the wings.
OccultureShockPodcast - Hollywood's Occult Blueprint Pt. 1
In this Pt. 1 of 2 podcast episodes, Jessica Chobot pulls the curtain back on Hollywood: from sceance rooms and spirit photography to Jack Parsons and JPL in Pasadena to the 1980s Satanic Panic and Dark Disney all the way up to today's A24 phycological thrillers - Hollywood has always had the weird, wild and occult watching from behind the scenes.
Break Update!
A little update from Jess. See you soon!
A Quickie Weird of the Week: 24 skeletons Found in an English garden & Alien Warp Drives..as one does.
Jess takes a break from showing her parents around Europe in order to cover a lil' Weird o' the Week & regain her sanity.
Jacob Strunk & His Convos in Coffins!
Jess invite's her friend Jacob Strunk to join her on this week's podcast to discuss the JFK conspiracy theories, her new obsession w. the CIA and an experiment to turn this podcast into a video.
Scotland's Serial Killer - Bible John
New evidence has been revealed which may help identify Scotland's serial killer: Bible John and finally close this unsolved case.
My Favorite CIA Conspiracies! Also known as, "Do you really like Jackson Pollock or did the CIA make you like him?
This Week, Jessica lists some of her favorite CIA conspiracy theories from the fairly well-known MK Ultra program, to the ongoing debate surrounding whether or not the CIA created the Abstract Expressionist art movement.
The Mystery of the Two Princes in the Tower is SOLVED & Thomas Taylor: The Pagan High Priest of England.
Bizarros!! Jess is back with updates!!
California Cults: The Great Eleven
When the LAPD investigate Mary Otis Blackburn and her cult for embezzlement they stumble upon a sacrificial burial site underneath the floorboards of a Venice Beach cottage.
California - Synanon and Attack Therapy
We continue our journey across the states and return to the state that started it all for us - California! So many stories to choose from! We choose to focus on Synanon, the rehabilitation center that started with good intentions but then quickly turned into a violent and dangerous cult.
Arkansas - The Eureka Springs Hospital & Spa
Bizarros! Welcome back! This week Jess continues the journey across the states and hittig: Arkansas! How did a medical fraudster create one of the most haunted hotels in North America? Find out the absolute bonkers backstory to The Eureka Springs Hospital and Spa.
Arizona - The Pied Piper of Tucson Murders
HAPPY NEW YEAR BIZARROS!! Welcome to the first episode of 2024, AND WHAT AN EPISODE IT IS! Jess and Aristotle catch up a bit at the top before diving into one of the strangest murder stories we've ever heard in all our time of making this show! Be warned, the details are gruesome and maybe triggering. Enjoy!
Alaska - How The FBI May Have Assassinated Two Government Officials in Alaska's Bermuda Triangle.
Bizarros!! Jess is back with the journey through the spooky states, next up... ALASKA! HAPPY HOLIDAYS AND HAPPY NEW YEAR!!
A for Alabama
Today, Jess begins her journey of exploring the weird and spooky across the United States, state by state! Starting with the dead children's playground in Alabama!
BSR Mini Mysteries: The Witch Prince and His Familiar
Jess is back with a mini to talk about a famous familiar!
The History of Candy Corn with Erika Lewis
HAPPY HALLOWEEN! Jess is back with one of our favorite reurning guests, Erika Lewis! They discuss the history of candy corn and some favorite halloween candy memories.
The Art of Fantasy with S. Elizabeth
We're back Bizarros, and this time with a very special guest! Author S. Elizabeth, whose new book The Art of Fantasy is available now, joins Jess to dive into art, perfume, and more! Jess also opens the show with a brief history of the pinball ban!
BSR: Mini Mysteries!
Bizzaros, welcome to the first Mini Mystery episode! Jess will be diving into some recent weird news. Enjoy!
The One Real Cursed Ring To Rule Them All
Jessi s back this week to tell the tale of the real cursed ring that inspired J.R.R. Tolkien's legendary work...
Weird Ouija
Hello Bizzaros! Jess is back this week with a look at one of the all-time great creepy toys... The Ouija board! And of course, we get some good Weird of the Week/World/Whatever!
The Magician of World War 2
That's right Bizzaros! Jess is back this month to dicuss Jasper Maskelyne, a british stage magician who claims to have helped turn the tides of World War 2 with his illusion work. We also get some weird of the week!
Evangeline Adams, Giulia Tofana, and the Chicago Tylenol murders with Cici Andersen
Welcome back Bizarros! This month, Jess gives us a history of Evangeline Adams - America's first astrological super star! Then we have a guest story from Cici Andersen about Giulia Tofana, history's most successful serial killer. Cici also gives a brief history of the Chicago Tylenol murders. And what would an episode of Bizarre States be without... Weird of the Week/Weird of the World/ WOW!
Brad Meltzer and The Nazi Conspiracy
Happy New Year! Jessica welcomes back Bizarre States/Untold Hour alum, Brad Meltzer! They discuss Brad's new book, The Nazi Conspiracy: The Secret Plot to Kill Roosevelt, Stalin, and Churchill. Then we get some Weird of The Week/Weird of The World!
5.5 Strange Christmas Events!
Jess is back to go over 5 strange events that occured on Christmas (24th and 25th!). Then we get some more Weird Of The World! Happy Holidays!
