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The Atlas Obscura Podcast

Written by: Stitcher Studios & Atlas Obscura
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  • Summary

  • 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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Episodes
  • Atlas Obscura Presents: “Windsor Hum” from Twenty Thousand Hertz

    Atlas Obscura Presents: “Windsor Hum” from Twenty Thousand Hertz
    Apr 29 2024

    Today’s episode comes from Twenty Thousand Hertz, a podcast that reveals the stories behind the world's most recognizable and interesting sounds. On their show, they’ve explored topics like the sounds of other planets, the mind blowing ways that insects communicate, and secret spy messages that are broadcast on the radio.

    In this episode, they take you to the US-Canadian border, where, in 2011, residents of Windsor, Ontario started experiencing a strange rumbling hum that rattled dishes and kept people awake at night. Then, after years of getting nowhere, the mystery of the Windsor Hum was finally solved... Or was it?

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    15 mins
  • Tree Week: Forty Fruit Tree (Classic)

    Tree Week: Forty Fruit Tree (Classic)
    Apr 26 2024

    The Tree of 40 Fruits in San Jose California is an horticultural marvel of 40 types of stone fruit trees grafted together to form a living work of art.

    READ MORE IN THE ATLAS: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/tree-of-40-fruit
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    14 mins
  • Tree Week: Killer Trees with Mary Roach

    Tree Week: Killer Trees with Mary Roach
    Apr 25 2024

    We promise, this is not another sappy (pardon the pun) story about trees. Instead, author and science writer Mary Roach takes us deep into an ancient forest grove on Vancouver Island, in search of the danger trees and the people who seek them out.

    Learn more about danger trees in Mary’s book, Fuzz.
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    23 mins
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