The 3 Best Synodus Horrenda Podcast Episodes
1) Episode 1 "The Constant Companion"
In this introductory episode I examine three stories: Phineas Gage, Pam Reynolds and Terri Schiavo. I'll be exploring the borderlands between life and death, looking at what actually makes us alive an...Show More
2) Episode 2b "These Thoughts are Too Much"
In the second part of our three-part episode on deaths that caused larger social changes, I look at the 1964 murder of Kitty Genovese, and how the cultural fallout from the case led to new areas of ps...Show More
3) Episode 2c "These Thoughts are Too Much"
In this episode, the conclusion of our three-part series on deaths that led to social change, I look at the 1966 clocktower shooting at the University of Texas in Austin, and the life of its perpetrat...Show More
4) Episode 15a ”Leaving the Whole World Blind”
In this new series we look at the history of blood feuds, starting with an obscure and scattered story from the era of Anglo-Saxon England, and a series of killings between two family lines that took ...Show More
5) Episode 14f ”A Woe That Is Madness”
In this episode we conclude our series on shipwrecks by looking at the sinking of the USS Indianapolis, a US Navy cruiser sunk by a Japanese submarine near the end of World War II. The nearly 900 surv...Show More
6) Bonus: Yuletide Ghost Story, ”The Eyes”
For our annual Christmas Eve ghost story, a reading of Edith Wharton's classic short story, "The Eyes," first published in 1910.
7) Episode 14e ”A Woe That Is Madness”
In this episode we look at the sinking of the Lusitania, a British passenger liner that was sunk by a German U-boat in 1915, killing over a thousand people, including 128 Americans, and helping move t...Show More
8) Episode 14d ”A Woe That Is Madness”
In this episode we look at one of the most famous shipwrecks in world history: The sinking of the Titanic. An event layered in myth, melodrama and sentimentality, it captured the attention of the worl...Show More
9) Episode 14c "A Woe That Is Madness"
In this episode we look at the mystery of the Mary Celeste, a merchant ship that in 1872 was found having been abandoned for over a week floating in the Atlantic ocean, all who had been aboard it miss...Show More
10) Episode 14b "A Woe That Is Madness"
In this episode we look at the wreck of the Essex, a whaling ship out of Nantucket that in 1820 was attacked by a giant sperm whale in the Pacific and sunk, leaving its 20 man crew drifting on three w...Show More