The Atlas Obscura Podcast
SiriusXM and Atlas Obscura
An audio guide to the world’s strange, incredible, and wondrous places. Co-founder Dylan Thuras and a neighborhood of Atlas Obscura reporters explore a new wonder every day, Monday through Thursday. In under 15 minutes, they’ll take you to an incredible place, and along the way, you’ll meet some fascinating people and hear their stories. Our theme and end credit music is composed by Sam Tyndall.
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Nov 4, 2022 • 17min
Atlas Obscura Presents Real Good
Real Good is a podcast with the mission to highlight real people out in the world - trying to make it better. This excerpt features the Real Good hosts and Goalsetter CEO Tanya Van Court discussing financial literacy. The show is powered by US Bank. Visit https://www.stitcher.com/show/real-good to listen to the show's fourth season.
Nov 3, 2022 • 11min
Kasanka Bat Migration
Kasanka National Park in Zambia hosts one of the largest – and most mysterious! – animal migrations on the planet.READ MORE IN THE ATLAS: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/kasanka-bat-migration
Nov 2, 2022 • 16min
Hacienda Napoles
Medellín Cartel founder Pablo Escobar built himself a sort of Jurassic Park-meets-Disney World resort with drug money. He called it Hacienda Nápoles. Now it’s overrun by Hippos.READ MORE IN THE ATLAS: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/hacienda-napoles
Nov 1, 2022 • 17min
Thompson Ice House
Thompson’s Ice House in Bristol, Maine is one of the only places in the United States where people gather every winter to take part in the age-old process of harvesting ice from a frozen pond. This “Small Town-Big Story” episode is produced in partnership with GoUSA TV.To watch the video, visit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqxWG55-Mf8READ MORE IN THE ATLAS: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/the-thompson-ice-house-harvesting-museum-south-bristol-maine
Oct 31, 2022 • 18min
Scary Stories from Real Places
Atlas contributors bring listeners stories from spooky locations they’ve visited and which continue to haunt them.
Oct 28, 2022 • 14min
Witch Cakes
These cakes had a particular ingredient that some believe protected them from witchery - and sparked one of the best-known witch hunts in United States history. READ MORE IN THE ATLAS:https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/what-are-witch-cakes
Oct 27, 2022 • 16min
Spooky Sites with the Places Team
With Halloween just around the corner Jonathan Carey and Michelle Cassidy of the Atlas Places Team bring you two spooky legends of The Mothman from Point Pleasant, West Virginia and a potentially ghoulish forest in the Transylvanian Region of Romania.READ MORE IN THE ATLAS: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/mothman-museum-2 and https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/hoia-baciu-forest
Oct 26, 2022 • 13min
Luomus Spiders
The Finnish Museum of Natural History in Helsinki has been home to an infestation of Chilean recluse spiders for more than 50 years.
Oct 25, 2022 • 15min
Houdini’s Grave
Producer Johanna Mayer visits Houdini’s grave in Queens, NY and goes searching for evidence of the great beyond. To hear another take on Spiritualism check out our earlier episode - Cassadaga with Jamie Loftus.READ MORE IN THE ATLAS: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/houdinis-grave
Oct 24, 2022 • 17min
Cassadaga with Jamie Loftus
The Atlas Obscura Podcast is launching a week of spooky-themed stories ahead of Halloween. We begin with Jamie Loftus’ newest podcast about Cassadaga, a small town in central Florida that is one of the last great bastions of a Victorian era religion called Spiritualism.Check out some of Jamie’s work:GHOST CHURCHhttps://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ghost-church-by-jamie-loftus/id1619557591My Year in MENSA -https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/my-year-in-mensa/id1492147103And check out AO’s podcast on Lily Dale, another contemporary spiritualist communityLILY DALEhttps://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/podcast-lily-dale-spiritualist-communityREAD MORE IN THE ATLAS: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/cassadaga
