Goose Chase Podcast

This week we have a peek at the FBI vault, a collection of files made available to us, the general public, via freedom of information requests. Turns out they have files on a lot of things we hadn't even considered, with a little bit of intrigue, a whole lot of paperwork, and we've only just begun to look under the hood. Also we announce our contest winner and try some fancy beer. 

Today we discuss the bizarre, and ultimately tragic, tale of a neuroscience expermient from the early 60s, in which dolphins were evaluated and trained for the specific purpose of trying to teach them English. No, really.  Bizarre as it may sound, this experiment was bona fide, NASA funded, and had high hopes.  Until it went off the rails. Be warned, this is a very sad episode, like rock bottom sad. Thanks for listening to Goose Chase. 

There's lots and lots of mysteries n the world, and many of them will remain mysteries. But there are corners of the internet designed to do something about it. This week, we discuss some mysteries solved by the sleuths of the internet.  And also we talk about a poop knife. Can't make this stuff up. 

This episode is all about Charles Bonnet Syndrome, a very strange visual phenomenon most people will never see and even we can barely imagine. It's possibly very common, but little discussed, and it's pretty freaky.  Here in the not no gnome zone, which we know you know is what it's called because that's what we're always calling it, we dive deep into the mind for another Goose Chase!

On our first episode of 2018, with a fresh year ahead of us and a bit of reflection behind us, we thought it appropriate to dwell a bit on complete nuclear disaster. In this case, particularly, the Fukushima reactor in Japan that went into meltdown in 2011 (yes, we know, it seems longer ago than that). Legends tell that it's so intense, it's frying up robots and they're still not able to get close to it. We look into nuclear past and present, and talk about the causes behind the disaster. The same power source that might save humanity is also incredibly fragile when you're not careful. 

On our first episode of 2018, with a fresh year ahead of us and a bit of reflection behind us, we thought it appropriate to dwell a bit on complete nuclear disaster. In this case, particularly, the Fukushima reactor in Japan that went into meltdown in 2011 (yes, we know, it seems longer ago than that). Legends tell that it's so intense, it's frying up robots and they're still not able to get close to it. We look into nuclear past and present, and talk about the causes behind the disaster. The same power source that might save humanity is also incredibly fragile when you're not careful. 

Today we talk about Landmark Forum. You might have heard of them: They promise to use some kind of technology to make you the best possible you that you can be, for a nominal fee of something like six or eight hundred bucks.  What's that?  ...No, you're thinking of Scientology.  These guys are TOTALLY different. We look into the group's foundings, its history, its much maligned founder, and toss a nod to WikiLeaks who shows up here in the last minute to save the day. 

Dr. Oz is the face of daytime TV, with a highly popular show centered around medicine, a spinoff show, several best selling books and a handsome, likeable demeanor.  So what's our beef with him? Well, the more you look into Oz, the more concerning some of his programming and activities are. We dig into Dr. Oz' life and work, claims, endorsements, and appeal in this week's goose chase.  And then we're going to Wendy's.

This week we talk about an Ohio twist on an original monster classic: The Ohio Grassman! The legends of yetis, bigfeetses and other cryptics have made their way to the Buckeye state and some of the tales are pretty strange.  Light on information, but strange nonetheless. Do we believe.  Man, do we want to.