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The Atlas Obscura Podcast

The Atlas Obscura Podcast

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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.SiriusXM Ciencias Sociales Escritos y Comentarios sobre Viajes
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  • Aurora Alien Gravesite (Classic)

    Aurora Alien Gravesite (Classic)
    Oct 3 2025

    A small town in Texas has embraced the story of the visit and demise of an otherworldly being from the 1800s… and what many say is America’s only alien gravesite.

    READ MORE IN THE ATLAS: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/1800-s-alien-gravesite

    If you can’t make it out to Texas, check out this documentary about the incident which is online.


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    14 m
  • They Had Submarines During the Civil War?

    They Had Submarines During the Civil War?
    Oct 2 2025

    Probably when you think of submarine warfare, WWI or WWII comes to mind. Not… the American Civil War. But oh, they had them back then! Or rather, they had one back then, and it worked exactly one time. Dylan is joined by longtime friend of the show Caitlin Doughty, of Ask a Mortician, to talk about one of their shared obsessions: the candle-lit, hand-cranked, Civil War submarine which has one of the most gruesome undersea histories you can imagine.

    Find more of Caitlin’s work: https://caitlindoughty.com/

    Watch her doc about the HL Hunley: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yiDThvhadss

    Visit the Hunley for yourself: https://www.hunley.org/


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    25 m
  • Thomas Paine’s Bones

    Thomas Paine’s Bones
    Oct 1 2025

    “Founding Fathers” like Washington or Jefferson have gigantic monuments in Washington, statues galore and palatial house-museums. But what about…Thomas Paine? The author of “Common Sense,” the pamphlet that brought the idea of American independence to the masses, was considered a hero after the American Revolution. But then he experienced a remarkable fall from grace, which ended in his burial in a pauper’s grave and…well, some graverobbers disinterring his body and spreading his bones all over the world.

    Feelin’ the Paine? Check out the biography “Thomas Paine: Enlightenment, Revolution, and the Birth of Modern Nations” by Craig Nelson, this Library of Congress article on Paine’s bones, and a discussion of Paine’s philosophy on this episode of the BBC’s In Our Time. Or see his New Rochelle farmhouse (and…former grave) for yourself: https://www.thomaspainecottage.org/


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    19 m
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Great content. The narrator’s vocal fry was distracting. Production was top notch in my opinion.

Vocal Fry!

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Literally the only thing I listen to other than audiobooks so inspiring and fun glad I discovered it!

Amazing

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