The Random Intellectual

In this week’s episode we’ll be talking about all kinds of New Year’s Resolutions. We’ll talk about this history of resolutions as well as traditions in different cultures and some famous resolutions. Get out of here, 2020!

Secret hidden people are all around if you just look hard enough. On this week’s episode, we’ll tell you two stories of people hidden for many years in homes where they could and should have been discovered many times. Listen to find out more.

The Fritzl Affair refers to a case in Austria of a girl who was enslaved and held captive by her own father for 24 years in the family’s cellar. What’s even worse is that the captive woman gave birth to 7 children with no medical care by her own father. How did she escape? How did this even happen?

The lost colony of Roanoke was the first attempt at a permanent colony in North America in 1585. When the governor John White came back with supplies 3 years later he found the settlement abandoned. Only the word “Croatoan” on a wood post. What happened to them? We’ve got lots of theories. Listen to us to hear them all!

Charles Starkweather and Caril Ann Fugate were just 19 and 14 years old when they went on a road trip killing spree killing 11 victims in December 1957-January 1958. 10 of the 11 killed were killed between January 21-29. They were caught and arrested, and Charles was executed while Caril, who maintained her innocence, was given life in prison. Many movies, books, and songs were inspired by these homicidal teenagers.

Nostradamus is known as a French physician, astrologer, and prophet. His name is still popular to this day, over four hundred years later after his death mostly for a 1555 book he wrote titled "Centuries," In it was a  collection of one thousand quatrains which are thought to have told the future. Do you think he really could see the future? Listen to this week’s episode to find out more.

It’s our favorite time of year! Halloween!!! On this week’s episode we’re getting spooky and historic. We’ll tell you all about the history and origins of Halloween, some Halloween myths and legends, and our favorite scary stories. You won’t want to miss it!

This week’s episode is all about witches!  A witch is a woman who is thought to have magical powers. We’ll discuss the origins of the witch myth, famous historic witches, the Salem Witch Trials, and of course the modern witch and wicca. You won’t want to miss it!

Vampires. Blood suckers. Garlic hating. Sunlight avoiders. The undead. This week’s episode is going to be all about vampires. From the history of the myth to modern day vampires.