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Desert Oracle Radio

Desert Oracle Radio

184 Episodes • By Ken Layne • desertoracle.com/radio
Desert Oracle Radio is a weekly road trip through the weird American desert from the publisher of Desert Oracle, the pocket-sized field guide published in Joshua Tree, California. Hear tales of mysterious lights, missing tourists, lost mines, venomous creatures, weird history and weirder people. Hos ...more
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Desert Oracle Radio
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Awe & Fear in the Holy Wilderness
Apologies if you hear the wind whipping around on th... more
Mar 10 2023 28m
Chapter 1 14 mins
Synchronicities of August 1969
Chapter 2 10 mins
Black Cats, Wolf Women
Chapter 3 2 mins
Overcoming Challenges for a Bright Future
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Wolf Woman, Wild Woman
Tonight we escape the freezing late-winter West and ... more
Feb 25 2023 28m
The Elusive Black Cats of Alabama
Chapter 1 14 mins
Synchronicities in August 1969
Chapter 2 10 mins
The Mysterious Wolf Woman of Alabama
Chapter 3 2 mins
California, Printing, Ambrose Beers
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The Green Comet
"What could it be? There was no balloon and there we... more
Feb 3 2023 28m
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Encounters With Coyote-Man
For as long as people have lived in the desert south... more
Jan 28 2023 28m
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Space Monsters & Other Earthly Demons
Night has fallen on the desert. The year is still fr... more
Jan 14 2023 28m
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The Haunted Mountains
Four decades ago, Betty and Barney Hill were driving... more
Jan 7 2023 28m
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Christmas In Death Valley (With the Lost '49ers)
"Gentlemen!" yelled their frontier guide, Captain Je... more
Dec 23 2022 28m
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The Return of King Ludd
Winter Solstice is coming and the Luddites are celeb... more
Dec 16 2022 28m
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The Old Desert Regular Gnostic Advent Calendar
The desert is the kind of place you think maybe you ... more
Dec 3 2022 28m
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The Grouse and the Goddess
It's Thanksgiving time in America and we are talking... more
Nov 24 2022 28m
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The Library of Desert Secrets
What sort of religious nut was John Muir? What was t... more
Nov 12 2022 28m
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Desolation Peak
We are back in Joshua Tree with tales of desert crea... more
Nov 4 2022 28m
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John Lennon's UFO (Some Time In New York City)
Happy October, friends. This episode comes to you fr... more
Oct 18 2022 28m
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Famous For Nothingness
It's tourist season in the Mojave again, never mind ... more
Sep 30 2022 28m
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Like a Hurricane
Night has fallen on the desert, and if you’re in the... more
Sep 9 2022 28m
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Down in the Flood
An interesting thing about a raging flash flood is h... more
Aug 19 2022 28m
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Death Valley's 1,000-Year-Flood
It sure has been a wild week or two, especially here... more
Aug 12 2022 28m
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Guidestones of the End Times
The Hoover Dam, already dealing with a severe lack o... more
Jul 23 2022 28m
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Owl-Eye's View
What has horns and flies overhead at night? The Grea... more
Jul 8 2022 28m
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Area 51's Mysterious Petroglyph: Pahranagat Man
Now that it's good & hot outside, let's wander t... more
Jun 24 2022 28m
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The Time of the Roadrunner
In wintertime, in springtime, and in the magic month... more
May 27 2022 28m
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Some New Kind of Kick
Tonight we are joined by Kid Congo Powers, legendary... more
May 20 2022 28m
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Real-Estate Scoundrels & Flying Black Triangles
We are back with a new episode, all about the wonder... more
May 13 2022 28m
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That It Will Never Come Again
We are meditating upon some various facts and figure... more
Apr 29 2022 28m
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Last Blast of Winter
Happy Earth Day, people of Earth. Here's an episode ... more
Apr 22 2022 28m
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