Goose Chase Podcast

...then boy, we got another one for you. This week, we discuss the infinitely tragic story of Geli Raubel, Adolph Hitler's half-niece and the most deserving owner of the title A Series of Unfortunate events.  Fair warning, this story is dark and might contain a lot of really upsetting material, so don't say we didn't warn you. 

This week we talk about Trash Island (as it is referred to by non-experts), the popular conception of a floating trash island in the middle of the Pacific. Turns out, like everything else, it's more complicated than that. We examine the impact of garbage on our world, our oceans, our oceanlife, and more.  

For this halloween-adjacent episode we talk about the Black Mausoleum, as it's regularly known, properly named Mackenzie's Mausoleum. Located on the site of Grefriars Kirkyard, the site has a dark history and a creepy present.  Tonight we talk about wars of the past, legends of the present, and the truly terrifying thing about the nature of our collective history. 

This week, we are talking about Indian music and the theory behind it.  It turns out that even something as seemingly straightforward as how many steps there are in a musical scale varies here, and we learn just how different people can think about music around the globe. Thanks to good buddy Chris Brady for the suggestion. In short:  A bug is squished.  A glass of milk is drank.  A donut is swooned over.  A dog hunts a fly. Come join us on a goose chase!

This week we get into a mysterious ship whose reputation has grown for many years, and yet about so little is really known. In 1948, a ship's crew undergoes a disaster event that is never quite explained, forged on a retelling of a retelling, and a legend is born. This goose chase gets right the the heart of why this show exists.  Special thanks and should out to Estelle Hargraves of The Skittish Library for being the real MVP of this episode, and getting right to the core of the Ourang Medan mystery. 

Her article: http://skittishlibrary.co.uk/the-myth-of-the-ourang-medan-ghost-ship-1940/