I welcome Russell Reynolds back to brillyant to give us a little intro to paranormal investigation.

The story of Inez Gibson, resident ghost at Malvern Manor, Iowa. I first dropped this nearly a year ago, but now I've cleaned it up and am re releasing it. Its one of my favorites.

Shout out to Darren Marlar, host of Weird Darkness for introducing me to some software to help clean up the sound and taking time out to give some advice to some random guy trying to start a podcast. He didn't have to and it is truly appreciated. Check out Weird Darkness wherever you listen to podcasts, I highly, highly recommend it.

John Sellars talks about the great cobra scare of 1953 in Springfield, Mo.!

I look at a trio of cursed cars.

The Golden Eagle

The Black Volga

And Little Eagle, the car James Dean died in.

On this brillyant tidbit I look at two improbable tales of men who couldn't be hanged.

Spurned by a sixteen-year-old girl, Edward Leedskalnin set out to prove to her and indeed the world that he had greatness inside of him, and boy oh boy, did he succeed. Over 28 years he built the coral castle, “an engineering marvel that has been compared with Stonehenge and the great pyramids of Giza.” It’s website claims that it “has baffled scientists, engineers and scholars since its opening in 1923.” It also inspired a song by Rock Legend Billy Idol. This week on brillyant I take a look at the (not really) Coral Castle and its eccentric builder.

Here in the Black Barn, you don't eat your salad, your salad eats you! I have three old timey newspaper articles from the 1890's about man-eating plants for your listening pleasure.

During times of extreme stress, when we are pushed to our very limits in the most dire of circumstances, we are not alone. Hundreds of adventurers and explorers and even everyday folk during their times of greatest need have reported a presence with them. Guiding them, encouraging them. A companion, sometimes silent but always there when it’s needed the most. I pulled the following accounts of survival in the face of impossible odds from the pages of John Geiger’s classic work, The Third Man Factor. These thrilling accounts of survival all have one thing in common, a benevolent presence that is very real, pushing them to survive when all seems lost.

I look at a trio of bizarre late-night encounters with faceless entities on the streets of Nashville, Tn.

This week at the Black Barn I look at a terrifying and bizarre account from The Gyb Farm in the 19th century.

Also, I briefly look at the Ruby Creek Incident where a First Nations Family was terrorized by a bigfoot in a famous account in the annals of cryptozoology.