EP 6: When Winning Is Most Important: The Story of the Paralympic Scandal | Akshay's Strange Corner
At the 2000 Paralympic Games, the Spanish intellectually disabled basketball team won gold. So what’s strange about that, you say? Well, there was a small little problem: 10 of the team’s 12 players had no disability. Proving to the world that, sometimes, Winning isn’t everything. It’s the only thing. Also, wash your hands.
18 Mar 2020
Ep 5 - India’s Area 51 | Akshay’s Strange Corner
Area 51, an American military base has been the focal point of alien conspiracy theories in America for decades. But what if I told you that India has its own version of Area 51 tucked in the Himalayas? With numerous eye witness accounts, including photographs and video captures of UFOs or extraterrestrials. Various military officials, scientists, and the general public have claimed to have seen the other life-form. Welcome to India's Area 51.
11 Mar 2020
EP 4 - One Man, Many Identities: The Story of Fred Demara | Akshay's Strange Corner
The true story about the Great Imposter, Ferdinand Waldo Demara.
5 Mar 2020
EP 3 - Hacking the 9 O’Clock News: The Max Headroom Incident | Akshay's Strange Corner
The true story about the Max Headroom Incident, a news channel hack that still remains unsolved.
27 Feb 2020
EP 2 - Hiroo Onoda's Never-Ending World War | Akshay's Strange Corner
The story of Hiroo Onoda, a Japanese holdout whose World War ended after 30 years.
24 Feb 2020
EP 1 - The Man Who Had Sex on the Moon | Akshay's Strange Corner
A stranger than fiction story about a NASA intern who did it all for love.
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