Episode #133
2026-03-04 05:00:48
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A dog went missing in a park in Brooklyn. A local Facebook group decided to help.
Episode #132
2026-02-18 05:00:13
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“It felt like a magical experience. It felt like some sort of spell. I was living a childhood fairytale, of the comings and goings of this extraordinary animal that didn't need me, but seemed to be comfortable and willing to rest alongside me.”
Episode #131
2026-02-04 05:00:12
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In 2010, a man named Forrest Fenn took a bronze box filled with treasure into the Rocky Mountains and hid it. He told one treasure hunter, “You just need to put the clues together and go get it.”
Episode #130
2026-01-21 05:00:30
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The B-15 iceberg in Antarctica was the largest iceberg in recorded history. Explorer Jill Heinerth wanted to see what it looked like from the inside.
Episode #129
2026-01-07 05:00:03
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Heather Lende has written nearly 500 obituaries for people in her small town in Alaska. She’s known just about everyone she has written about.
Episode #128
2025-12-17 05:00:40
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When Emma Gatewood was 67, she told her children she was going on a walk. “The next they would hear from her would be via postcard… And it said, ‘By ‘walk’ I mean I'm thru-hiking the Appalachian Trail.’”
Episode #127
2025-12-03 05:00:58
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When Minh Nguyen was in school, he didn’t ask anyone to sign his yearbooks — he says he was too uncomfortable. But twenty years later, he started reaching out to all his former classmates. He asks everyone the same questions.
Episode #126
2025-11-19 05:00:29
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In 1971, for his mother’s birthday, Alvin Ailey gave her a ballet. The dance was grueling – sometimes the women who did it bled. “I remember very well seeing my mother on her knees scrubbing these white folks’ rooms and halls. That image is in my ballet ‘Cry.’”
Episode #125
2025-11-05 05:00:28
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“He stole my watch. He stole my jewelry. I stopped wearing jewelry – just to see what else he would steal.”
Episode #124
2025-10-22 05:00:10
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A visitor to the islands of the Pacific Northwest once described seeing “a forest of totem poles.” But by the time Robert Davidson was born, there wasn't a single one left standing in his village.
Episode #123
2025-10-08 05:00:43
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People in India have been flying kites for hundreds of years – using them to predict the weather, carry love letters, and compete in the air. But they share the sky and a name with hundreds of thousands of scavenging birds: black kites.
Episode #122
2025-09-24 05:00:24
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In 1964, a landlord in Washington, DC, noticed that his tenant hadn’t paid rent and went to look for him. The tenant wasn’t in the building – but he’d left behind something strange – something that he’d been working on for 14 years.
Episode #121
2025-09-10 05:00:24
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In October of 2006, a press conference was held at a hospital in Denver. During the press conference, a man asked if anyone watching could tell him who he was, or how he got there. Because he didn’t know.
Episode #120
2025-08-20 05:00:22
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Never check a bag, always bring a journal, and consider duct tape: a conversation with Rick Steves.
Episode #119
2025-08-06 05:00:46
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In 1966, Maurice and Maralyn Bailey had been married for three years. They’d bought a house in the suburbs in the middle of England, and had jobs at the tax office and a printing press. “They're living a respectable day-to-day suburban existence — which is kind of driving them both crazy. And one rainy evening, Maralyn just says, ‘You know what? Why don't we sell this house and build a boat and go?’”
Episode #118
2025-07-16 05:00:30
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When writer Rachel Carson built a house on Maine’s Southport Island, her new neighbor, Dorothy Freeman, sent her a note to welcome her. Rachel wrote back. And when the summer was over, they kept writing to each other.