Detectivery State of Mind and Other Strange Things (DetectiverySOM)

Send us Fan Mail It is out thing, the Grab Bag Episode!  Just like it sounds, we put a bunch of topics in a hat, and just grab them out.  We have no idea what they are...or what is coming up next.  In this Grab Bag Special we hit the holiday season, yeah I know a little early...just calm down!  We do a Grab Bag Episode every 10 episodes!!! Topic is Toys, Holiday Food, and Really Bad Movies...one o...

Send us Fan Mail In 1620, the Mayflower landed in the Cape Code area bringing settlers over from England, or what some may call the Pilgrims.  Among this historical bunch of grand explorers was the Billington family, which according the logs kept by William Bradford (First settlers Plymouth Governor) were a surly bunch of hooligans.  John Billington and his family were known on the Mayflower among...

Send us Fan Mail The world awaits the news...are we alone in the universe, do we have some neighbors of sorts, out there awaiting to be found...or should they be found?  Since the 1940s the world has been captivated by the presence of aliens, mysteries, secret operations, cover-ups, and of course we must not forget Roswell, Mount Rainier sightings, and F-18 pilots of the famed "Tic-Tac"...

Send us Fan Mail Ghost hunting, it is that time of year as we say, the spooky season!  Man, do we have an episode for you...the first ghost hunter - Harry Price - this is truly a great story, of a man on a mission who was way before his time.  He set the groundwork for so many paranormal investigators of today.  Some of the tech and procedures he used in the early 1900s are still being used today....

Send us Fan Mail The media is exploding with videos of UAPs, or UFO's freely zipping all over the place...and we ask, WTF is going on.  Well, a fella named Charles McNeal dropped an interview claiming a lot of things, pending alien presence announcements, to US government alliance with an alien race, to a formed relationship between the Taliban and the US Government, and more strange predicti...

Send us Fan Mail How about some hard labor, maybe in a coal mine, how about some hard labor, a union, and a militia laying waste to a union strike.  Well, your in the right place, today we go back to the early 1900's to a mining town in Colorado, called Ludlow...the Ludlow Massacre, a terrible tragedy on all fronts.  Mining for coal is hard enough, even today with all the technological advanc...

Send us Fan Mail 2020, Covid pandemic hit and changed the world forever, everyone was forced to adapt and overcome, every industry was pushed to the limits.  Here we are 2024, we are advancing at an alarming rate, remote work, remote everything, Amazon, drones, AI, robotics, and so much tech slapping us in the face.  So much of it born out of the Covid pandemic!!!  Things are getting weird!  Life...

Send us Fan Mail The Bourne Identity, The Manchurian Candidate, Jacobs Ladder...so many books, movies, stories, the cold war, and so much more...the prospect of the CIA meddling in mind control is something of fact or fiction...you decide!  The MK Ultra Experience...sounds like an amusement park ride!    In this episode we take a dark journey into the mind, the mental mayhem caused by targeted man...

Send us Fan Mail Ahhhhh, yes, the Ouija Board...spooky!  Well do we have an episode for you!  A story filled with adventure, history, debauchery, and just plain Ouija Board shenanigans, but heavy on some history stuff!  The story of Elijah Bond, the man credited with the creation of the Ouija Board.  Not to mention, a tale of a jury who used a Ouija Board to come to a verdict...boy that went well....

Send us Fan Mail The Rock, Alcatraz, the story of the first warden of Alcatraz James A Johnston...truly a crazy one at that.  We take you to the legendary prison located on Alcatraz, an island off the coast of San Francisco, a place of mystery, great escapes, hell, and some of the worst criminals in society were sent there.  Of course a prison needs a warden...this podcast is truly crazy.  So many...

Send us Fan Mail So here we are...episode 110...it is time for one of our favorite episodes to record, the Grab Bag Episode.  We do a Grab Bag Special every 10 episodes...it is a thing we do here at Detectivery State of Mind and Other Strange Things...this episode is full of hilarity, history, and mayhem.  The Grab Bag Episode is a set of topics written down onto a piece of paper, which has been c...

Send us Fan Mail Remastered and ready to rock, we are bringing back one of our favorite episodes...the North Hollywood Shootout, Guns, Guns, and the Militarization of the Police and More Guns!!!  If you don't know anything about this event you will want to check this re-drop out!!!  It's a doozy!  We originally dropped this episode in November of 2022!  I hope you love it!!!  It hits pre...

Send us Fan Mail We love the tale of a great horror story...but what if it was happening right before your eyes...in a lab in Russia.  We bring you the true story of Vladimir Demikhov, the man who would give the world great advancements in medical treatments, followed by horrific experiments into the realm of transplanting dog heads.  You really have to take a deep dive into this one, things get a...

Send us Fan Mail Spartacus, The Gladiator, the movies, the stories, the history, legendary tales of life and death.  In this episode we take you on a journey through the world of the Gladiator...A Legacy of Death...legends of Rome!  It is an episode full of history, tales of adventure, and debauchery...things get a little crazy!  We attest that no one was injured during the recording of this podca...

Send us Fan Mail WWI, The Great War, the war to end all wars...a new fangled machine had just been invented merely 10 years before the start of WWI, called the airplane.  So, what did we do as humans, when a great invention comes along.  We figure out a way to weaponize and destroy each other with it...oh, and no one was better than the Red Baron at doing just that.  Join us today as we dive into...

Send us Fan Mail The world has always been mystified by the unexplained, and the science behind a world that lives beyond our sight.  In this episode we take a look at a conspiring world of the paranormal, technology and science surrounding the Miller Ranch.  Miller Ranch is located in the southern central area of Colorado, near the border.  Within this area is a bridge known as the Miller Ranch R...

Send us Fan Mail We all have choices to make, careers to choose, and decisions to make within those careers we choose.  So once we choose our path, career, as a first responder, military, service industry, or wherever you choose to land your feet. Once we get settled in that career, it's easy sometimes to forget we put our dammed selves there...kind of like that ole saying, "You made you...

Send us Fan Mail Maybe you are of the age, or maybe you are to young to know the tales and the stories of the Legend of Zorro, vigilante hero who saved the day...the Robin Hood of early 1900's Los Angeles.  If you were born a certain time of age, you might even have found yourself grabbing up a Zorro costume for Halloween...or you dawned your homemade knight costume and fashioned a sword out...

Send us Fan Mail The Exorcist, Exorcist, The Pope's Exorcist, books, more movies, demonic possession, documentaries, demons, demonic children, priests, the Catholic church, so many things come to mind when we hear the words The Exorcist...but what of it, right, is it real, does it happen, do demons exists?  In this episode we wander through the world of Gabriele Amorth, a Catholic Priest who...

Send us Fan Mail We give you an almighty FUBAR, when the Barker/Karpis gang (1935) exchanged bullets with the FBI, well, not the whole gang, just Ma and Fred Barker.  The events and craziness leading up to this pivotal encounter is nothing short of nutty.  Ma and Fred Barker, were criminals to the core, leading the FBI and local law enforcement agencies on a wild goose chase in the 1930s, they wer...

Send us Fan Mail When we were kids, it was a thing to open your car window on a summer day, lean out, make a fist and pump your arm up and down as a big rig-semi-truck passed by hoping they would sound the horn...that infamous highway big rig horn! In this episode, we stray from those glorious childhood memories to a darker time, and take a look at serial killer truckers, a very disturbing part of...

Send us Fan Mail The Grab Bag Episode is one of our favorite episodes to put out, the Grab Bag Episode!!!  Absolute shenanigans, and all sorts of things happen in these episodes, we have no idea what is going to happen, or who is going to say what.   These episodes are some of our most unedited shows, so much fun to do!   A hat full of topics on folded pieces of paper, reach in, grab and go...thin...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode the Detectivery State of Mind and Other Strange Things team gets after the question everyone is asking.  Should Police Officers, Firefighters, nurses, doctors, medics, military, or any other careers that restrict Marijuana use, and allow these employees to partake in the usage of the Devil's Lettuce?  Oh, it's a quandary, and we do our best to tackle this...

Send us Fan Mail On this episode, we head on back to the old west, and step into the world of Longhair "Big" Jim Courtright...was he an outlaw, or a lawman, or both.  Well, that's we are going try and find out!!!!    So, saddle up, grab your six-gun, we are heading to the late 1800's for this one...man is this a crazy, crazy true story of one of the most notorious old-west figu...

Send us Fan Mail On today's episode we have a very special guest joining us, Sergeant H.  She has 18 years of law enforcement experience, has worked as a 911 emergency dispatcher, a patrol officer, FTO, Taser Instructor, trainer, and is currently a sergeant working for a busy transit authority division.  Sergeant H has seen some shit!  We are very pleased for the opportunity to have Sergeant...