Journey to the Fringe

To start us out on this episode Taylor is regaling us with an article from the Guardian about PFAS which includes where and also what they are and how they're affecting your life whether you like it or not! It's all very horrible and complicated. Next up Richard Doty ... again! Who needs no introduction, especially if you listened to our last episode. We're finishing up this 2 part episode on this...

Ricky D Part 1. Join us on our 2 part Journey to the bio pic-expose on a strange, slippery individual by the name of Ricky D. To start we take a look at the back ground of Richard Doty as a special agent in the Air Force office of investigations (AFOSI) in Kirtland Airforce base working as a counter intelligence and disinformation agent. Ricky D has a long history of feeding disinfo into the UFO c...

As Canadian podcasters we are sworn to uphold the sacred code as passed down by CRTC and ensure 10% of our content is Canadian. It may not actually apply to us but if your not a telecommunication conglomerate, the CRTC is a terrifying Sauron like force so we are just going to play it safe. Today we expand a historical piece of Canadiana known as Heritage Minutes... it was almost house hippos :( We...

Have you ever looked at rocks and thought "man those are some neat rocks"? Well some of our ancestors looked at rocks and thought "man those rocks could look neater". Welcome to the world of megalithic petrosculputures (or rock sculptures for our more discerning listeners). Of course you know of some of the more famous examples of this like Stonehenge and the stone sculptures on Easter Island. Tod...

My god can you believe what's happening at our schools?? It's out of this world! And by that of course I mean the kids are seeing UFOs. Come with us as we look at our tinier, less cultured, and certainly less educated (sorry to those of you in our audience yet to complete the 6th grade). Come with us as we look at mass UFO sightings seen at schools. Our first stop is in Westall, Australia where a...

Have you ever thought the years since 2020 have been pretty lackluster (to say the least) and yearn to escape to a different time??? Then boy do I have a conspiracy theory for you. What if we actually live in the year 1725. Let me introduce you to the phantom time hypothesis. That roughly 300 years between 600 and 900 AD only occurred on paper. There is a lot to this theory, we have to get you cau...

In a continuation of last weeks episode we are talking about power. This week specifically the many weaknesses our infrastructure for moving power has. This is the stuff we know and others know is integral to our society and we just let it sit everywhere just like... there... mostly unprotected... China knows it, Russia also, people with drones and white supremacists too. Hell the US targets this...

Well what with the Russian invasion of Ukraine there certainly is a lot going on in the world and we have handcuffed ourselves confining this podcast to fringe topics. Well there's fringe parts of international conflicts too! Let's talk about vulnerabilities in our own back yard. Power, ever heard of it? It's what the astronauts use! And like the astronauts, this mighty electron transfer known as...

Do you ever think about leaping great distance to be able to slap your enemies only to leap away with such ferocity they are unable to raise a counter attack?? First off weird that someone else had this thought but welcome to your new folk hero the infamous Spring Heeled Jack, the terror that turned faces red with handprints at the mere uttering of his name. Today we will discuss this master of th...

Today we take a trip to a phenomenon which occurred in this millennia!! An event commonly known as the Norway Spiral. A grouping of streaks of light forming a corkscrew like shape over the skies of Norway in 2009 and vanishing just as mysteriously as it arrived. What was it? has it been seen before or again? let's take a listen and see if there's a good answer. We also took the time to lay out Pro...

Have you ever wondered why there are only people ghosts? Like there are billions of years of Earth where humans didn't exist why is it always the peoples doin' the spookin'? Well what if they aren't?!?!?! Suspend your logical thought for ( looks down at episode) just an hour ten or so and give rise to the regicidal thought that dinosaur ghosts are real!!! They're just misreported!! (I nailed that...

Remember when we talked about the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and there handling of a mass shooting?? Well we are going to talk about them again, and this time it's nothing but good news (jk... I needed to have fun somewhere). Today we are going to talk about a made in Canada investigation technique known as Mr. Big. This technique involves befriending a suspect, paying them thousands of Canadia...

Today we are discussing those weird sections of the Earth we have summarily determined weird simply by the shape we can describe them as. the triangle zones. Of course the most well known of these little tri-laterals is the Bermuda triangle, but dare I say there's more!... although a good chunk of this episode is spent discussing the Bermuda Triangle and then we only go on to discuss one more, but...

There's a funny thing about history. It's subjective, some would say written by the winners. Well that probably means there's some things that happened that are fringe. Legally that means we can cover it (Law of Fringe RSBC 1498. c 3000)! The spot where this is most relevant for this episode is workers strikes. They get bloody, trains get tipped, roundhouses get... well nothing actually happens to...

Today we discussed genocides (let's just rip that bandaid off). Humans have been doing these for eons and are unfortunately likely to continue to do so into the future. So we thought it would be worth our time to discuss some of these historical events that may not be as well known as they should be. We look at the Qing genocide of the Dzungars in 1757, the Hatian genocide of 1904 and the Indonesi...

Time is one hell of a concept, one day you got milk and then well either spoiled milk or the making of a good cheese depending on how you want to look at it. A linear flow from A to B then we can assume C. Well sometimes time doesn't want to flow so fluidly. Today we discuss those times. Listen as we discuss cases of individuals who believe they have slipped through the curtain to times immemorial...

Cruise sure look like the life, beautiful locales, new adventures, friendly staff, food and drinks as far as the eye can see and all at a family friendly price. What if I told you that this is a public image that has been carefully crafted by PR specialist to sell an industry that at best is ethically and morally corrupt (in our opinion... gotta be careful throwing words around like that). From th...

Hey it's a new year and a chance to better ourselves with some fringe knowledge! Today we look at World War 2 (WW2 for those in a hurry) and the rush to remove Nazi scientists from their natural habitat and relocate them to a better eco-system where they could thrive as a species. This is known as Operation Paperclip and it is a very real thing that happened (for real!). We look first at the polit...

After a year of covering some current events we were bound to need to come back to some of our stories. So why not end the year with it? This is a compilation of all the stories that interrupt your morning quiet contemplation while old episodes of All In the Family play in the background and your morning strudel heals from the trauma that is the oven just enough to be enjoyable in an ethical way s...

What would Christmas be if not for the jolly red suited wizard we hail as Santa Claus. Probably more religious that's for sure. Although many heard tales around the playground about a friend who "totally saw him" or had a dad who was friends with him, he's always been a pretty ellusive character. Has anybody actually seen the guy? Well what if I were to tell you there is deep lore in the subject t...

Today we look at the hidden folk working in Santa's workshop. Sure they may just be salve labour, but maybe there's more! Sit back and listen to the cultural history of elves that plays into the lore of Christmas. Where does this come from? Did we breed them for their luxurious leather used in Santa's suspenders? God I hope not but I can't confirm here, guess you'll have to listen. In the intro we...

Welcome to the strange traditions of Christmas! We are going to span the globe and see how different cultures celebrate this holiday and boy do some take it to strange ends. We look at all the poop that comes with Christmas in Catalonia, whether it be coming out of a nativity participant or beaten out of a log. We move on to witches associated with the season. To round out Europe we look at Scandi...

Today we became 18% more holly with 13% more Christmas cheer! I did not think this was possible!!!! I bet you thought Christmas was just Christmas, well maybe you should listen, cause there's just a lot we need to talk about. Taylor focuses on the Romans and their Saturnalia and Chelsie focuses on the Germanic tribes and their Yule. Can these wacky odd tribes ever come together in their celebratio...

Mothman, as made famous by John Keel, has been predominantly put forth with several known facts: It's strongly associated Point Pleasant, It's mothlike, and It's male in features. But what if we were to tell you this is all the above is a lie? In this episode we look at the lesser known but far more pervasive "mothman" sightings of the Chicago area. They span a larger time period, have far more dr...

Today we take a trip to the more mundane side of fringe topics and talk about offshore corporate tax avoidance structures... no seriously. I like to think its fun and I am the only person I polled so it has tested well! Please listen if you never learned about the Panama Papers, what happened, or just need a refresher. Lets take a trip to some place exotic where the line between us and our secret...