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Muynak: The Desert Port Town with a Maritime Past
Today, we journey to the intriguing port town of Muynak, nestled between Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan. ...
Migingo: The Island Without an Owner
The island of Migingo, is one of Lake Victoria’s many inhabited islands. Today Migingo acts as...
The Nation of the Yellow Fleet
Canals are a fairly common feature worldwide, allowing shipping companies to save time by cutting th...
The 300 million yen heist
On December 10th 1968 in Tokyo Japan. Four employees of the Nippon Trust Bank were transporting meta...
The Faces of Belmez
Let me take you through the life of María Gómez Cámara. The year is 1971, it’s a dreary day in ...
The Lake Monster: Ogopogo
We love cryptids here at the Odd Topic Podcast, and avid Podcast listeners will know that it’s...
McDonald’s 1984 Olympic Games Promo Blunder
Billboards, pop-ups, and witty videos. Our world has become accustomed to an in your face approach t...
The Max Headroom Incident
Out of nowhere, the screen goes black and 15 seconds later is replaced with a masked stranger swayin...
Zambezi River God: The Nyami Nyami
The focus of today’s article stemmed from, as usual, our love for all things strange and mysteriou...
Death Rituals of the Yanomami Tribe
The Yanomami tribes are an indigenous tribe of about 35 000 people and make up about 200 – 250 vil...
Rites of Passage in the Huanglou Tribe
The village of Huangluo Yao, which resides on the Jinsha River banks, is a mountainous and remote pl...
42 Years of Isolation
In 1936, four of the lykov family members, Karp, his wife Akulina, and their two children, Savin(9)...
