Welcome to Arcanum Obscura: A Podcast of Exploration. We’ll be talking about and discussing obscure subjects like strange unsolved cases, the paranormal and supernatural, cryptids, anything bizarre that interests us. And as we talk about the topics the conversations will almost 100% branch off into random things. We’re your hosts and friends Chris and Nate and we really hope you enjoy the stories we find and bring to you, hopefully get a few laughs along the way and feel like your here with us.
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Hello and welcome to our podcast. We hope that you enjoy listening. This podcast has no real focus, we’ll play games, get into random conversations, get into numerous discussion, and aim to have a good time while making it so you can feel like your just sitting and listening to friends. We all know that when your with friends and a discussion starts it transitions quickly from one topic to the next and sometimes makes a full circle. We hope you have fun, laugh, relax, and maybe, just maybe w ...
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Most board game shows focus on the latest-and-greatest, or time-tested classics. We have taken it upon ourselves to comb our local charity shops and salvage stores for the other stuff...join us as we review cheesy, weird, and obscure board games for your entertainment.
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Cryptids, Tables, and Philosophy oh my!
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1:35:58We start off with a few cryptids and move into some small interesting philosophy theories and thought experiments. Nate has some rather... interesting cryptids this week, like the globster and the walking table.
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We have a soup episode this week, which means we talk about anything and everything and jump all over the place, and for a portion we talk a little about missing white woman syndrome which came about from a docuseries I watched and I know we've talked about it before
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Hello hello hello, Nate did have plans for a paranormal episode but as we've found with paranormal stories they tend to be hard to find good ones. Lots of great stories but most are brief incidents and little to no legend of backstory, when we do find more we like to cover them. So sticking to the scary story idea he revisits r\NoSleep, and as you …
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Richard Cottingham aka The Torso Killer aka Times Square Ripper
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1:23:12A few episodes back we talked about the unsolved case of Jeannette DePalma who is thought to have possibly been a victim of the man we cover today, Richard Cottingham aka The Torso Killer aka The Times Square Ripper.
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Gabriel Fernandez and the Turpin Family
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1:33:37We have a couple horrible cases this week, brought to you by Nate. The first case, most of you have probably heard of, is horrendous these usually tend to be my realm but now Nate has brought us one. There is a pretty in depth docu on this case you can find on streaming services and I would recommend it if you won't to learn more of this poor child…
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We love NoSleep so we're venturing back to some stories from there today, partly because our personal schedules have been so busy as of late, as well as working on our finale episode little by little and getting things in place for our new cast. We hope you enjoy these stories and we'll be back with a new episode as soon as we can.…
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A Recent Local Case and Two Confusing Cases
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1:04:08So the show is all Nate on this one. We start in St. Petersburgh Florida with a case of a murder suicide pact that doesn't go as planned, this case only happened last month, Feb 2025, not even a month yet. After this case Nate moves on to two cases that confused him when he was looking into them and confused me as well as he tells the story, the co…
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This week we do our usual catching up with some of Nates academy stories and then he brings us this interesting story. A girl with seemingly everything, a second girl, the victim, with perfect grades and possibly a bright future. One party, one incident that changes everyone's lives around them.
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Back to a little true crime, this was an odd case since there isn't much info and it stills remains unsolved today. There were plenty of rumors but not much evidence to work with, then the disappearing and reappearing case files. This case is possibly tied to a serial killer but after nearly 50 years it's still unsolved.…
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Due to job schedules and holidays we haven't been able to get together to record, and if your a listener you tend to know what that means. We ramble on and talk way too much to get to a story, so... that's what happened.
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This week, UAP’s, this week is less about sightings and moreabout the gov’t acknowledging UAP’s, their definition of what constitutes a UAP and the federal site where we can go to view casefiles and conclusions investigations.
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We are back, and as you know if we miss a week we tend to banter more then usual, now we've missed a month due to holidays and vacations and we did have a plan for the episode but decided we're going to ramble way too much so lets just do a soup episode. So, soup episode number three is here for your ears to devour.…
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Updates: Missouri Dungeon and The Delphi Murder Trial
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1:07:44We have some updates this week on previous episodes. First we have the Missouri Dungeon case, this is the case of the woman who escaped the homemade dungeon of Timothy M. Haslett. This case is still underway and during her captivity Haslet had threatened her by saying hehad two other victims hat hadn't made it out. We know this wasn't just empty th…
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This week we have some strange deaths to talk about. Nate comes with the always unusual spontaneous human combustion. Most of us have heard about the woman he talks about; images of the scene are pretty prevalent when you look into this strange phenomenon. After that, and too not get into too much detail here, I go into some hospitals in South Afri…
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We are back, the hurricane prevented recording last week but here we be. This week we are going with the idea Nate had a few weeks back, talking about strange stories that were reported by people in the military.
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We had an idea for this weeks episode, we had intended to talk about strange paranormal or supernatural occurrences reported during wartime, or within the military. At the last minute I changed the plan, I wanted to talk about my sister and her murder. Its not a crazy story nor is it very long with tons of characters and wild strange twists, it's j…
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Nate had an idea for looking at some supernatural and paranormal incidents during wartime. We have all heard of the common ones like foo fighters and gremlins though we may still delve into them. As he was looking for some he came across this reddit story and decided to share it. Honestly after hearing it and learning this is only the 1st part of 5…
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We've talked about skinwalkers before but this week I thought it may be interesting to dig through some subreddits and find personal encounters with skinwalkers, so we come with a few stories of different peoples experiences with possible skinwalkers. I read through several and decided on a few that felt pretty interesting.…
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Channon Christian and Christopher Newsom
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1:31:03This is a pretty rough case like some others I have done, while reading and researching the case I found that thankfully a lot of the explicit details weren't presented in the sources I read from, this doesn't in anyway lessen how horrible this case was and what was done to these individuals but what I can only describe as monsters. I apologize for…
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Nate takes control this week and brings some stories of crimes committed through. We've all heard some of these stories, not necessarily the ones Nate brings today, but warnings and unfortunate events that happen due to people either giving out too much information on the internet and social media or being lured through chat to real life locations.…
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This was a tough episode, not as in hard to talk about, but hard to write anything for so we take a different approach this week. I have a list of strange possibly morbid traditions from around the world and tell them to Nate then we talk a little about each one.
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After a two week hiatus we are back with some Florida man stories. It is a crazy place down here and I'm sure you've all heard some crazy stories about this state so we decided to share a few crazy ones we found. The main one I cover is actually really close to where I live and I heard nothing of it until specifically looking for Florida man storie…
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Patty Hearst and a bit about Cheese
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1:52:23First up the story of Patty Hearst and the Symbionese group. Was she a willing or unwilling participant? Did she have Stockholm syndrome? It's a tricky one to tell given some of the things that happened. After that I have a short snippet about the great Wisconsin cheese heist.
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The Hi-Fi Murders and The Geezer Bandit
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1:16:40If you've listened to a good amount of our episodes you may know I tend to bring the horrific stories compared to what Nate brings to the table. This week is no exception, I start us of with The Hi-Fi Murders, what is initially believed to be a robbery in 1974 takes a much darker turn, sadly leaving three dead and two scarred for life. Following th…
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True crime this week. Nate talks about something he found on reddit, the story of Tom Justice, a bank robber who was known as the Choir Boy and later the Bicycle Bank Robber, I do prefer the first name do to why they called him that and I also feel what he did with what he stole also fit that name. Then I talk about the murder David Auchterlonie. I…
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Another true crime episode. This week I have The Kurim Case which is a pretty horrific case involving children, though not much for details on that part of the case. The was more focus on the perpetrators and the bizarre twist. Nate follows that up the the case of Mr. DuBoise, to be honest, this case pissed me off, not to give anything away but the…
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For anyone who doesn't know, a soup episode is where we just talk and joke and ramble on about anything. No stories, no creepy games, nor any true crime. Just us rambling about whatever. I explain the soup episode origins in the episode, but if the talking part of our podcast is your least favorite part I'd skip soup episodes.…
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This week we have another creepypasta game. This time around it's The Devil Game, a little game/ritual to someone the devil in order to talk to him, asks questions, and possibly play some mind games. This one is a bit longer then the other "games" ones we've done but I enjoyed reading it and thought our listeners may as well. We recently missed a c…
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We missed a couple weeks of recording, first Nates work schedule interfered with one week, then the next week I was dying of an illness.... see... a witch turned me into a newt..... I got better though. So we are back and this week we have some fun stories, we have a very tall woman who makes a very strange sound and hunts children, then we have so…
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Some more reddit stories this week. Everyone loves some r/nosleep stories! I won't go into too much about the stories. One is the story of someone playing one of those cursed games, mainly one involving an elevator. The second story is one that involves voices in your head and big money prizes!
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Since we had the big Solar Eclipse last week I thought it may be cool to go over some different beliefs about Solar Eclipses from around the world. Some blame the actions of disgruntled gods, others giant celestial animals, and even one with an angry kid. We hope you enjoy.
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The Flatwoods Monster, Fresno Nightcrawlers and The Brownie
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1:09:33Some interesting Cryptids this week. First up is the strange flatwoods monster, I personally hate this thing now, but Nate brought it to the table so I'll just add my hate for this thing onto Nate, he could use some more. Then we have the creepy looking Fresno Nightcrawlers, I've seen videos and even a few shows looking into these things. I'm not g…
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Marcus Wesson and The Bloody Benders
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1:21:25Another true crime week. First, Nate reads a story about Marcus Wesson, I really can't say much about this aside the guy is a monster, disgusting, a murderer, amongst many many other things. I've personally covered some pretty bad stories here and now it's Nates turn. Aside from the few descriptive words of this man, he's a cult leader who had chil…
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The Wanda Beach Murders and Christopher Wilder
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1:40:17This week we dive back into true crime. First we head to Australia for the horrific murder of two young girls, Marianne Schmidt and Christine Sharrock. This sadly unsolved case took place in 1965 when two girls who went to the beach with family never returned home. There was a few suspects but to this date it remains unsolved. The second case branc…
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Back to true crime this week. This is another unsolved case where everyone gets accused, arrested, and released, except the killer. For a short time in New Orleans and surrounding areas the people were gripped by fear as a man was sneaking into homes and murdering a total of six people. One day he breaks his silence with a message to the media whic…
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We wrap up the first ARC of the Ben Drowned story this week. Well, technically Nate wraps it up. This has been an easy few weeks for me since he chose a story he enjoys and its been multi episodes, and for me its just been pretty cool to hear the full story since I had only previously known of it by name and not much about it.…
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Cursed Games 3: Pokemon Black and Lavender Town Syndrome
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1:27:44Another week of cursed games. This week we took a break from Ben Drowned but that will be back next week with the final part. This week we have Pokemon Black and also the Lavender Town Syndrome. Neither are in depth or as long as Ben Drowned but I had never heard the Pokemon Black story and thought it was rather interesting. It's a bit different th…
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Cursed Games 2: Ben Drowned Parts 2-4
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1:12:04We continue with the Ben Drowned cursed Zelda game this week. Making it through pats 2-4. It's pretty interesting, I had heard of it before but never read it so nice to be able to hear it now. Next week we will finish the last part and have the game I found as well, Pokemon Black. I also scheduled the previous weeks episode for thr wrong date so it…
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We covered a cursed game a while back, the whole Herobrine story in Minecraft. But we decided to go a little deeper now and cover a couple more. First up, and a multi part series since it's a long story is Ben Drowned. A strange Zelda game, sold by a strange man, with a pervious save already on it from someone named Ben.…
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We get to do the rest of the people we had for last weeks episode this week, we may do a third part to this soon. Not to give any details because these peoples stories are pretty short, so we have Tsutomu Yamaguchi, followed by Aimo Koivunen. Then we take a slight detour to the horse, Staff Sergeant Reckless, and finally we finish with the "unlucki…
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So we've been going for two weeks, I was in the ER on new years eve into new years day, I don't really want to get into it but it involved fireworks and a "hold my beer" moment..... not really, but I was in the ER. The following week Nate wasn't feeling well but, I also presented Nate with his Christmas present which he didn't appreciate, but now w…
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This week we went back to reddit for some more creepy stories. We found two christmas ones that are good as well as three other, so a total of 5 short horror stories this week. Also, we most likely will not be recording this week so no new episode next week, I spent news years eve into new years day in the ER and still recovering so most likely won…
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In 1827 in Polstead, Suffolk, England, a woman, Maria Marten, was murdered at a local landmark known as the Red Barn. The story has some weird turns, such as Maria loving a man and having his child to later loving his brother and being with him. Letters written to the family after she had been murdered to keep up the lie of what happened. Down to s…
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I heard a bit of this story a while back, I believe I saw it in a little short video, like a youtube short or something and what I heard of her has stuck with me and I've wanted to cover it for some time now and finally decided to do it this week. I also believe, even though I talk about it in the episode, that the saying "hell hath no fury liked a…
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Staying in the realm of sleep issues Nate talks about sleep deprivation today. We go over causes and effects as well as some stories from people who have experienced weird things when sleep deprived. And spiders, there's spiders in this one! And sorry, no arachnophobia toggle to make them silly or cute!…
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Sleep Paralysis and Legends Surrounding It
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1:40:08I was researching a story for this week an it moved into sleep paralysis so I thought it may be interesting to talk a little about Sleep Paralysis, then branch into some legends from around the world that came from this condition that wasn't understood at the time.
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We continue on with missing children this week with Virginia Dare. Virginia Dare was the first english born child in America in 1587, then she went missing. Not only did she go missing but the whole colony of Roanoke went missing and it all still remains a mystery to this day. When we were looking for stories we both found this one odd since articl…
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This is a strange true crime episode about missing children. The Sodder family was a large family with a total of 10 children. The father came to America and did well for himself, he bought a house and married and his family began to grow. He was very outspoken about his beliefs and this may have been what led to a strange series of events leading …
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This episode is literally about nothing. We used to do two podcasts a week, this one of course as well as "Listen or the Kitten Gets it!" which was just playing games and rambling. And since we ramble quite a bit throughout each episode we had the idea of doing a "nothing" episode once a month where we just ramble on about whatever, once a month se…
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We're back with our fourth Halloween Special! And posting a day early to release on Halloween! This year we of course stuck with the creepy, it is for Halloween, the best holiday ever after all! And I'm using lots of exclamations! For this years episode we dove into reddit, and coincidentally we both went to the same subreddit, r/ShortScaryStories,…
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