Episodes

  • 7: Episode 7: The Golden Spruce

    7: Episode 7: The Golden Spruce
    Jun 12 2023
    This week we take a ferry across the treacherous Hecate Strait from the mainland of British Columbia and alight on the Haida Gwaii archipelago. We follow a tumultuous story of greed, eco-activism, and terrorism as a native island legend is murdered. 

    Sources: 
    The Golden Spruce: A True Story of Myth, Madness and Greed by John Valliant
    https://parks.canada.ca/pn-np/bc/gwaiihaanas/nature/faune-wildlife
    https://wiki.ubc.ca/The_impact_of_continued_logging_operations_in_Haida_Gwaii_%E2%80%94_ecological_and_social_impacts_for_the_Haida_Nation
    https://www.woodlandtrust.org.uk/trees-woods-and-wildlife/british-trees/a-z-of-british-trees/sitka-spruce/
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    52 mins
  • 6: Episode 6: Who Put Bella Down the Wych Elm

    6: Episode 6: Who Put Bella Down the Wych Elm
    May 29 2023
    In spring of 1943 rations were tight as World War II raged across Europe. In the UK, four boys resorted to poaching from the Hagley estate to find eggs. In the tangled branches of a wych elm in Hagley Wood, the boys found far more than they bargained for. 

    Sources:
    https://www.hagleyhall.com/
    https://blog.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/2019/04/04/who-put-bella-down-the-wych-elm/
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vchJnrZgz-4
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    17 mins
  • 5: Episode 5: The Bloody Benders

    5: Episode 5: The Bloody Benders
    May 21 2023
    This week we head onto the Osage Mission Trail of Kansas, traveling through open prairie with few rest stops between Cherryvale and Independence. The road can be a dangerous place, with even places of apparent safety harboring dangerous secrets. 

    Sources: Hell's Half Acre by Susan Jonusas; Lady Killer by Tori Tefler
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    32 mins
  • 4: Episode 4: The Mystery of Dyatlov Pass

    4: Episode 4: The Mystery of Dyatlov Pass
    May 15 2023
    This week we head into Russia and the Ural Mountains as we follow a group of young, but experienced adventurers as they hike and ski into the wilderness. 

    Sources: Don't Go There: True mystery of the Dyatlov Pass by Svetlana Oss
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    35 mins
  • 3: Episode 3: The Girl Raised by Monkeys

    3: Episode 3: The Girl Raised by Monkeys
    May 6 2023
    Marina Chapman was kidnapped from her home at a young age and abandoned in the jungle by her captors. She spent years living alongside monkeys, learning their way of life. 
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    37 mins
  • 2: Episode 2: The Worst Bear Attack in Japanese History

    2: Episode 2: The Worst Bear Attack in Japanese History
    May 3 2023
    The most famous and most horrific animal attack in Japanese history. This week we visit the Japanese island of Hokkaido and travel back in time to the early 20th century in the village of Sankebetsu. When a Ussuri brown bear was first sighted near a farm, the villagers had no one of knowing the terror and bloodshed that awaited them. 
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    28 mins
  • 1: Episode 1: Chris McCandless

    1: Episode 1: Chris McCandless
    Apr 29 2023
    Chris McCandless felt the call of the wild ever since he was young. Upon graduating university, he shed away his old life and embarked on a grand adventure. He changed his name and traveled across the United States and south into Mexico, before ultimately following his dreams and hitch hiking north to the Alaskan wilderness. 
    Sources: 
    Into the Wild by John Krakauer 
    The Wild Truth by Carine McCandless 
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    39 mins