Earlier this spring, a man in Peru was found with human remains estimated to be 600 to 800 years old inside a food delivery cooler bag. According to local media, the man told authorities he’d named the remains Juanita and described them as his "spiritual girlfriend." The mummy is believed to be an adult male.

To learn more about relationships with spirits and how we cope with loss, Mike Rogers talks to Mike Huberty, the founder of American Ghost Walks, on this week's episode of Something Offbeat.

Earlier this year, the team at “Something Offbeat” learned about Elvis Francois, a man who survived for weeks on his capsized boat by eating mostly ketchup. Heinz was so impressed that it vowed to buy him a new boat. This story made us interested in survival situations and how to deal with them.

So, we reached out to Josh Piven, co-author of “The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook,” a bestseller that has spawned several sequels, including the upcoming “Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook: Apocalypse".

The original version of an animal welfare bill filed in the Florida Senate included a provision that would've banned dog owners from allowing their pets to stick their heads out of a car window. While that part of the bill was removed, it still got the Something Offbeat team wondering, why lawmakers would take so much joy away from our four-legged friends.

To get to the bottom of it, host Mike Rogers is joined by Dr. Melissa Bain, a professor of medicine and epidemiology at the Cal Davis School of Veterinary Medicine.

A recent analysis found that $2 bills can be sold for up to $4,500 dollars – way over their $2 value. This seemed a little… well, offbeat to the team at “Something Offbeat” and it made us want to learn more. So, we reached out to Heather McCabe of Two Buckaroo, a site that documents what happens when people actually spend $2 bills.

From spray-painting a stolen tractor-trailer in a hotel parking lot to live streaming an attempt at driving under the influence, there's never a shortage of "dumb" criminals in the news.

This week on Something Offbeat, Northwestern University criminology professor Kaitlin Devaney explains why some criminals make seemingly simple mistakes, what role the complexity of our criminal justice system plays, and how economics impact the cost-benefit analysis of crime.

Bernhard Hufenbach, head of the European Space Agency strategic planning and outreach office for space exploration, joined “Something Offbeat” to explain why they are looking into making a time zone on the moon. With NASA’s Artemis mission aiming to put astronauts back on the lunar surface, humans might be spending more time there soon.

French authorities were alerted to cocaine that washed up on a beach along the English Channel in late February. But it wasn't just an amount that could've fallen out of someone's bag, it was 850 kilograms -- or nearly two tons -- of cocaine.

Steve Rolles of the U.K.-based Transform Drug Policy Foundation says it's not uncommon for large amounts of drugs to wash up on shore and explains why trace amounts of cocaine showed up in British wastewater samples.

A drive through line at a new Burger King restaurant in Canada prompted one person call 911. Headlines were written about it and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police even tweeted about it. This week, “Something Offbeat” dives into why most of us agree to wait in lines with Dave Fagundes, a lawyer and professor at the University of Houston Law Center. He’s the author of a paper called “The Social Norms of Waiting in Line.”

Two Massachusetts lawmakers introduced a bill earlier this year that would have allowed incarcerated people to shave up to a year off of their sentences if they donated an organ or bone marrow. After an outcry from criminal justice advocacy groups, the lawmakers said they'd amend the language in the bill to eliminate sentence reduction.

But simply the introduction of the bill got the Something Offbeat team thinking about the ethics of such a setup and about the prison healthcare system at large. This week, host Mike Rogers talks to Cary Aspinwall of the Marshall Project, a journalism outlet that focuses on criminal justice.

After learning about a New York City pop-up gallery focused on autonomous sensory meridian response, more commonly known as ASMR, from Time Out, the team at the “Something Offbeat” podcast wanted to find out what exactly ASMR is. Dr. Craig Harris Richard, the founder of ASMR University and host of the Sleep Whispers podcast and Joy Bhattacharya, a professor at Goldsmith University in London, the lead researcher of a study on ASMR published in the Cortex Journal on ASMR, joined the show to explain.