This week we’re exploring the legend of Houska Castle, a 13th century Gothic fortress in the Czech Republic said to contain a gateway to hell in its basement. We cover everything from the castle's origins, to its occupation by a supposed warlock named Oronto and later by the Nazis during WWII, as well as debates over the validity of urban legends about deep holes serving as portals to demonic realms. Also our own fears of narrow, bottomless pits and the horrors they might conceal in the dark depths!
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A Literal Hell Hole

Love unsolved mysteries and unexplained events? Join Laura Anderson and Tom Reynolds each week as they dive into the weird and wonderful universe of bizarre true tales, odd histories, ghosts, aliens, cryptids and all things peculiar on Wanna Hear Something Weird?

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What would you do if you fell into a coma and woke up 2,000 years in the future? If you're Paul Amadeus Dienach, you spend a lot of time learning what happened during those in-between years on a futuristic iPad and then you write a book about it!
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The Man Who Woke Up in 3906

We discuss the wild claims of Andrew Basiago, who asserts that as a child in the late 1960s he was recruited by the CIA for Project Pegasus, a secret program that utilized technologies found in Nikola Tesla’s papers to achieve time travel and teleportation. Basiago insists he traveled multiple times to Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address as well as his assassination, and that he was photographed at Gettysburg as a boy. Even more astonishingly, Basiago alleges that in the early 1980s he teleported to Mars with none other than a 19-year-old Barack Obama, who was already being groomed by the CIA to become a future president.

Also, a listener voicemail about ghosts!

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Project Pegasus: The Secret CIA Time Travel Program

We dive into the fascinating and bizarre theory that Charles Harrelson, the father of actor Woody Harrelson, was involved in the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. We explore Charles's shady past as a contract killer and hitman, and examine the evidence that suggests he may have played a role in one of the most infamous crimes in American history.
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Did Woody Harrelson's Dad Kill JFK?

In the 1930s, a 4-year-old girl named Shanti Devi claimed to have already lived a life 90 miles away with her husband and family. She even remembered her address! Soon, all of India was enthralled with her story. It even reached Mahatma Gandhi, who set up a 15-person commission to investigate. What followed was one of the most convincing cases of reincarnation in modern history.

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A Literal Hell Hole

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