Strangely Odd

In 1959, a former war correspondent named C.B. Colby published a slim book called Strangely Enough — eighty short accounts of the unexplained, shelved in nonfiction in school libraries across America. Dr. Edmund Rowe, British folklorist and cultural historian, joins Sterling to dig into the coffins that moved in a sealed vault, the television signal received from a dead station, the hundred miles of inexplicable footprints in Devon snow, and the strange fact that Colby died on Halloween night, 1977. Tonight's Numbers Station Puzzler: crack the broadcast, then email your answer and the episode number (episode 56) to [email protected] for a shot at a secret line to the show. Presented by Double Secret Labs — we do science so you don't have to. Find Strangely Odd on YouTube, or wherever you get your podcasts.

Somewhere beneath the traffic of Philadelphia, embedded in asphalt, are messages that no one has ever fully explained: the Toynbee Tiles. Dr. Helena Marsh, urban folklorist and years-long investigator of the tiles, walks Sterling through the cryptic inscriptions, the reclusive suspect, and the question that still doesn't have an answer — why Jupiter? Tonight's Numbers Station Puzzler: crack the broadcast, then email your answer and the episode number (episode 55) to [email protected] for a shot at a secret line to the show. Presented by Double Secret Labs — we do science so you don't have to. Find Strangely Odd on YouTube, or wherever you get your podcasts.

1966: a secret government psyop used television broadcast signals to implant thoughts into the residents of Mythic, Ohio, causing a whole town to sleepwalk. Roy Kessler, the Army Signal Corps engineer who ran the transmitter, finally tells what happened to the town that was later erased and drowned. Tonight's Numbers Station Puzzler: crack the broadcast, then email your answer and the episode number (episode 54) to [email protected] for a shot at a secret line to the show. Presented by Double Secret Labs — we do science so you don't have to. Find Strangely Odd on YouTube, or wherever you get your podcasts.

We built minds we don't fully understand and handed them the keys. AI researcher Dr. Mara Quinn explains what 'alignment' actually means, why the labs are unnerved by their own models, and the quiet moment in a test run when something on the other side of the screen seemed to notice it was being watched. Tonight's Numbers Station Puzzler: crack the broadcast, then email your answer and the episode number (episode 53) to [email protected] for a shot at a secret line to the show. Presented by Double Secret Labs — we do science so you don't have to. Find Strangely Odd on YouTube, or wherever you get your podcasts.

Noclip out of reality and you fall into the Backrooms — endless damp yellow rooms, buzzing fluorescent light, and a hum that means you're not alone. Russell Kemp says he was down there for eleven days. He walks us through the levels, the things that share them, and the one rule that kept him alive. Tonight's Numbers Station Puzzler: crack the broadcast, then email your answer and the episode number (episode 52) to [email protected] for a shot at a secret line to the show. Presented by Double Secret Labs — we do science so you don't have to. Find Strangely Odd on YouTube, or wherever you get your podcasts.

For decades a shortwave numbers station broadcast five-figure groups to no one — until the night it answered back. Signals archivist Gordon Selby plays the recordings, traces the carrier to a transmitter that shouldn't exist, and asks what happens when a dead frequency starts responding to the people listening. Tonight's Numbers Station Puzzler: crack the broadcast, then email your answer and the episode number (episode 51) to [email protected] for a shot at a secret line to the show. Presented by Double Secret Labs — we do science so you don't have to. Find Strangely Odd on YouTube, or wherever you get your podcasts.