Best Jumping Down Rabbit Holes Podcasts (2025)

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75th Anniversary of the Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe - How Does It Read Today? 50:26

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This year marks 75 years since The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe arrived in bookshops, so join us on this anniversary episode of Mythmakers as Julia Golding and Jacob Rennaker discuss the origins of the book and consider how it stood out among its literary contemporaries before we reflect on its enduring legacy today. If you have an opinion on t…

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Michael Ryan and Christine Scott's REVIEW of Age of Disclosure/ Eyewitness account of UFO encounter in Greensburg, Pennsylvania "It felt like time slowed down" 1:09:28

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Send us a text Season 4 Episode 11. Host Michael Ryan and commentator Christine Scott give an in depth review of the documentary Age of Disclosure. Who is behind it, who is in it and should you see it or give it a hard pass? We hold nothing back. Neil Bowman gives his eyewitness account of a large UFO that he saw in the late '70s in Greensburg, Pen…

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482 - The Hunger Killer: Inside the World of the Starvation Doctor 2:43:54

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Linda Hazzard - self-proclaimed “fasting specialist” and actual sadistic fraud - ran one of the most disturbing medical scams in American history. At her Washington State sanitarium, later nicknamed “Starvation Heights,” she starved countless patients under the guise of curing everything from aches and pains to cancer. Her brutal regimen of near-to…

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Dark Have Been My Dreams of Late - LOTR: An Author's Journey, Bk 3 Ch 6 41:25

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We are going on an adventure! Love The Lord of the Rings? Why not read along with us as we consider the books from the writer's point of view! Taking it chapter by chapter, novelist Julia Golding will reveal new details that you might not have noticed and techniques that will only go to increase your pleasure in future re-readings of our favourite …

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Part 2: Interview with Keith Chester/ During WWII a UFO hovered over the battleship USS New York and they opened fire on it/What happened to all the gun camera footage of UFOs?/What did Howard Robertson ... 1:45:48

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Send us a text Season 4 Episode 10. Host Michael Ryan interviews author Keith Chester on his book Strange Company, one of the most important books written on UFOs. In part 2 of this interview, Keith Chester talks about the importance of Howard Robertson, David Griggs and Dr. Luis Alvarez. Mr. Chester points out that all of the reports that David Gr…

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481 - Go Ask Alice: When a Fake Diary Helped Launch a Real War on Drugs 2:58:46

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In 1971, Go Ask Alice shocked parents across America - marketed as the real diary of a teenage girl swallowed alive by drugs, addiction, and death. Terrified moms and dads bought the book by the millions, used it to police their kids, and fueled a cultural panic that helped justify the War on Drugs. But there was just one problem: the entire book w…

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Short Suck #45: The Great Molasses Flood 58:08

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On January 15th, 1919, a massive molasses tank in Boston’s North End burst, unleashing a 25-foot wall of sticky destruction that toppled buildings, derailed trains, and killed 21 people while injuring scores more. Today, we follow the harrowing rescues, the landmark class-action showdown, and the reforms that changed U.S. engineering standards. A s…

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Wingardium Leviosa! Harry Potter Audiobook With Full Cast: Our Verdict 19:11

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In this episode of Mythmakers, join Julia Golding for a review of the newly released full-cast production of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone from Pottermore and Audible. Does this reimagined version enhance the magic, or distract from the original charm? Tune in to hear Julia’s take on the production quality, narration choices, and ultimat…

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Part 1: Author Keith Chester talks about Foo Fighters/UFOs during World War II - His book covers documented pilot sightings/What did Eisenhower and SHAEF know?/ Christine Scott's book review of Strange ... 1:37:50

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Send us a text Season 4 Episode 9. Host Michael Ryan interviews author Keith Chester about his book Strange Company which details WWII pilot encounters with Foo Fighters/UFOs. In this sweeping interview topics that are covered in part 1 of this 2 part interview include: Chester's friendship with ufologist and WWII veteran Leonard Stringfield, drama…

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480 - Old Blood and Guts: The Life and War of General Patton 2:48:26

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Happy Veteran's Day! George S. Patton was a war-winning, poetry-writing, reincarnation-believing chaos machine. The Allies needed him. The Nazis feared him. His bosses… tolerated him. From heroic battlefield leadership to slapping hospitalized soldiers and creating international incidents with his mouth, Patton lived louder than almost anyone in un…

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At the Turn of the Tide - LOTR: An Author's Journey, Bk 3 Ch 5 46:50

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We are going on an adventure! Love The Lord of the Rings? Why not read along with us as we consider the books from the writer's point of view! Taking it chapter by chapter, novelist Julia Golding will reveal new details that you might not have noticed and techniques that will only go to increase your pleasure in future re-readings of our favourite …

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INTERVIEW: Stan Gordon talks about 50 foot long tic tac shaped UFOs, Orbs, EM effects, Bigfoot and other high strangeness in Pennsylvania 1:11:48

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Send us a text Season 4 Episode 8. Host Michael Ryan interviews legendary ufologist Stan Gordon. During the interview Stan covers a wide range of topics that include tic tac shaped UFOs, glowing orbs that come into homes and have strange effects on people that come into contact with the orbs. EM effects and many reports of Bigfoot which may turn ou…

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479 - Rumble, Meatsack, Rumble! The Story of Muhammad Ali 2:55:54

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He was brash, beautiful, bold, flawed, and unapologetically himself. From Olympic gold to global fame, Muhammad Ali’s story is one of rebellion, redemption, and relentless courage. This week, we dive into the life of “The Greatest” - a man who fought not just opponents in the ring, but racism, war, and even his own failing body. Float like a butter…

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Nightmare Fuel 37: Dissonance (2 of 2) 1:03:53

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Happy Halloween, Meatsacks! The conclusion of our Halloween week fictional horror! In this conclusion to yesterday's release, Duncan Briggs just wants his life to return to what it was before he'd ever heard of AR Innovations. But we all know that's not going to happen, right? Instead, the new ride he's on keeps getting wilder. This episode was sco…

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Nightmare Fuel 36: Dissonance (1 of 2) 1:12:35

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Hello again Meatsacks! The beginning of our last bit of Halloween week fictional horror! This one was originally released back in July. In this first of two parts, we meet a man, Duncan Briggs, who agrees to participate in a paid scientific study to make a little cash to get his wife something nice for her birthday while he's in-between jobs. And t…

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Greta Gerwig's Narnia 42:25

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Netflix is bringing The Chronicles of Narnia back to our screens with Greta Gerwig at the helm for the first two films in the series. Interestingly, the adaptation begins with The Magician’s Nephew, opting for chronological order rather than the order in which the books were written. In this episode of Mythmakers, Julia Golding and Jacob Rennaker d…

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Nightmare Fuel 30: Operation Wandering Soul 1:01:07

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Hello Meatsacks! Time for more Halloween week horror! This one was, as you can guess, released the week before yesterday's story, from this past May. And in it, we head to the tropical jungle of Vietnam's Annamese mountains. When on a dark, rainy night in January of 1968, PsyWar Detachment Six was conducting black ops meant to terrify and break the…

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Classified RCMP Canadian government documents on a UFO found in Northern Saskatchewan/ Book review of UFO and Nukes by Robert Hastings 1:05:08

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Send us a text Season 4 Episode 7. Host Michael Ryan and commentator Christine Scott discuss and read several documents from the RCMP UFO files. The documents reveal that in October 1968 a part of what was called a UFO was found on frozen Wollaston Lake in Northern Saskatchewan. Photographs were taken and many experiments were preformed to find out…

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Nightmare Fuel 31: The House of Hurt 1:30:01

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Time for another Halloween week Nightmare Fuel! This one is from this past May. And in it, we head to Upstate New York's Woodhull Mountain, where Gabe and Hassan see a very strangely placed house on the side of the hill while out on a hike. When Gabe enters the house, he leaves behind our world, and enters a space outside of it - a dark and mysteri…

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Nightmare Fuel 28: He'll Make You Whole 1:11:01

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This isn't a mistake, meatsacks! I've been wanting to show you some of the new fictional content I've been working on for awhile now. And the week of Halloween seemed like a great time to do it. This week, I'll be sharing five of my favorite Nightmare Fuels with you here on the Timesuck feed, staring with this story I wrote back in March. It's 1989…

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478 - The Hog Trail Killer 2:08:41

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In the mid-1990s, the quiet backwoods of southwest Florida became the hunting grounds of a sadistic killer the media would dub “The Hog Trail Killer.” What began as a routine hog hunt quickly spiraled into one of the most gruesome investigations in Florida history - a string of bodies found in the woods, all bound, mutilated, and left to rot. This …

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Short Suck #44: The Victorian Monster of Spring-Heeled Jack 57:19

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From ghostly prankster to urban legend, Spring-Heeled Jack terrorized Victorian London with blue flames, metallic claws, and impossible rooftop leaps—so much so that a Ripper-era letter in 1888 claimed his name. This Short Suck traces the 1838 panic through hoaxes, aristocratic “bets,” and mass hysteria to ask what Jack revealed about a rapidly mod…

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Root and Twig - LOTR: An Author's Journey, Bk 3 Ch 4 51:06

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We are going on an adventure! Love The Lord of the Rings? Why not read along with us as we consider the books from the writer's point of view! Taking it chapter by chapter, novelist Julia Golding will reveal new details that you might not have noticed and techniques that will only go to increase your pleasure in future re-readings of our favourite …

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Two U.S. Marines have an encounter with a UFO and missing time/ Interview with Vietnam-era vet Michael Walsh about his encounter in Northern Saskatchewan 1:23:24

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Send us a text Season 4 Episode 6. Host Michael Ryan interviews Vietnam veteran Michael Walsh. During the war in Vietnam U.S. Marines Michael Walsh and Ken Broadbent promised each other if they made it out of Vietnam they would go on the adventure of a lifetime. In the Summer of 1971 the Marines took a canoe and spent the Summer on Reindeer Lake. B…

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477 - The Ogress of Reading and the Horrors of Baby Farming 2:05:25

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In Victorian England, “baby farming” turned unwanted infants into a deadly business. Amelia Dyer, known as The Ogress of Reading, used it to hide an unimaginable number of murders - hundreds of them. This week, we expose the grim world of baby farming, the cruelty of Victorian morality, and how one of the most prolific killers in British history wa…

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The Circle of Shadows: Dark Academia with Marisa Linton 44:58

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We’re thrilled to welcome Marisa Linton to this episode of Mythmakers. A former student from our writing course and a valued member of one of our writers' groups, Marisa recently won the Times Chicken House Fiction Competition for her YA fantasy title The Binding Spell, and she’s now stepping into new territory with the release of her first adult f…

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INTERVIEW: Dr. Richard Tortorella talks about orbs, strange satellites and update on Cabin in Cariboo abduction 1:21:51

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Send us a text Season 4 Episode 5. Host Michael Ryan interviews Dr. Richard Tortorella on several topics including: Orbs seen in British Columbia, Satellites that seem to make 90 degree right turns and instantly reverse course. He also talks about Bigfoot and former head of UFOBC Graham Conway. He also gives an update on their investigations into t…

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476 - The Backpacker Killer: Ivan Milat 2:37:14

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When seven backpackers vanished in the early 1990s, the vast Australian bush became the hunting ground of a sadistic killer. For years, hikers stumbled upon shallow graves in Belanglo State Forest—each revealing new horrors and the same gruesome pattern of torture and execution. The man responsible, truck driver Ivan Milat, would become known as th…

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Short Suck #43: Crescent Hotel Horrors: From Healing Springs to... Hauntings? 1:01:21

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Once hailed as a luxurious spa retreat in the Ozarks, the Crescent Hotel in Eureka Springs would earn a far darker reputation - one of fraud, tragedy... and restless spirits. From its days as a supposed healing haven to a hospital of horrors run by a quack doctor, the Crescent has been called America’s most haunted hotel. Step inside its haunted ha…

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Can't Take His Medicine - LOTR: An Author's Journey, Bk 3 Ch 3 34:16

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We are going on an adventure! Love The Lord of the Rings? Why not read along with us as we consider the books from the writer's point of view! Taking it chapter by chapter, novelist Julia Golding will reveal new details that you might not have noticed and techniques that will only go to increase your pleasure in future re-readings of our favourite …

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A Letter, Roger Wybot and a crashed UFO/ We jump down the rabbit hole/ Is A.I. good for ufology? 1:04:25

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Send us a text Season 4 Episode 4. Host Michael Ryan and commentator Christine Scott take a look at a letter that was sent to the RCMP on March, 6, 1960. The sender makes a lot of claims and gives directions to where a crashed UFO is. Deep in the woods of British Columbia. At first take it may be easy to dismiss the letter, but is there something t…

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475 - Dragon vs. Eagle: Will China Dethrone the US? 2:58:09

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Thirst: Horror Folk Stories, Uncanny Rivers and the Walking Dead 44:22

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Joining us on Mythmakers today is Darren Simpson, author of Thirst—a spooky folkloric tale for readers aged 11 and up. In conversation with Julia Golding, Darren shares how he crafted the eerie world of his novel, drawing inspiration from myths and legends while carefully navigating messaging, naming, and the challenges of writing and editing. But …

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The New Brunswick UFO Incident/ On a deserted road a man is chased by a UFO at speeds that reach 115 mph/ Book review of Ann Druffel's FIRESTORM 1:05:13

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Send us a text Season 4 Episode 3. Host Michael Ryan and commentator Christine Scott take a deep dive into a case that was investigated by the RCMP in 1976. At 2:55 AM on October 3, 1976 Joseph Robichaud was driving on a dark, deserted road in New Brunswick, Canada. He soon found himself being chased by a red UFO that was as large as a house. Tryin…