What happens when you fuse magic with psychology? A new podcast genre.
Supernatural, like the X-Files. Magic, like Derren Brown. It's Stephen King-meets-Radio Lab.
Psychological experiments and spooky history.
This is a horror story inspired by LinkedIn. Written at 4 AM, in a half-dreaming haze, it's a 3 minute survival-horror story about balloons, and life.
A question for the comments: what scares you?
Huge thanks to Juliana Paige for narrating this piece. This is the final episode of season 1, Mindbender. The first fiction episode. Visit mindbender.run (http://mindbender.run/) to subscribe or vladdit.com (http://vladdit.com/) for my blog.
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14 Dec 2022
Spies and Lullabies
In part two of the ghost radio station story, we dive back into the apocalypse, . Did the earth survive the spirit station’s computer crash? What do the scary signals mean?
In the concluding chapter, we intercept more number station transmissions and try to decipher one of the signals. We encounter spies, secrets and terrifying lullabies.
Guests:
We’re joined by the wildly popular host of the Cold War Conversations podcast (https://coldwarconversations.com/), Ian Sanders.
We’re also joined by Josh Nass, call tag KI6NAZ, of the #1 Ham Radio Youtube Channel, Ham Radio Crash Course (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChAu6Cof9KlfFxSbL9ytosQ).
Marie Roeder - Journalist and Podcaster.
We are also joined by friend of the show, Susan Lee.
Mindbender is a show that searches for secrets - the secrets of magicians, tricksters, spies and death. It’s a new podcast genre: magic audio. It fuses principles of magicians and mentalists like David Blaine and Derren Brown, with historical nonfiction shows like Hardcore History and Radio Lab. If The X-Files was a true-life podcast, it would be Mindbender.
If you like this episode, please tell a friend. <3
Visit Mindbender.run (http://mindbender.run) to subscribe and learn more.
Visit Vlad’s blog, vladdit.com (http://vladdit.com) to learn more about the host.
5 Dec 2022
Spirits in the Airwaves
This is a true story. Today, in late 2022, the radio waves are littered with secret radio stations broadcasting mysterious and spooky transmissions. Known as “number stations,” nobody knows their origin or purpose.
In this episode, we listen to transmissions from these stations, and investigate their unknown origins.
We’re joined by the wildly popular host of the Cold War Conversations podcast (https://coldwarconversations.com/), Ian Sanders.
We’re also joined by Josh Nass, call tag KI6NAZ, of the #1 Ham Radio Youtube Channel, Ham Radio Crash Course (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChAu6Cof9KlfFxSbL9ytosQ).
You can listen to a live stream of a number station without a shortwave radio! Just go to the UVB-76 Livestream (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUgzv-8_EMc).
Mindbender is a show that searches for secrets - the secrets of magicians, tricksters, spies and even death. It’s a new podcast genre: magic audio. It fuses principles of magicians and mentalists like David Blaine and Derren Brown, with historical nonfiction shows like Hardcore History and Radio Lab.
If The X-Files was a true-life podcast, it would be Mindbender.
If you like this episode, please tell a friend. <3
Visit Mindbender.run (http://mindbender.run) to subscribe and learn more.
Visit Vlad’s blog, vladdit.com (http://vladdit.com) to learn more about the host.
28 Nov 2022
The Oracle - magic tricks and mind control
A true story. An experiment with a man is down on his luck, and an oracle that grants him a lucky number. That number takes over his life and changes it forever. Oh, and the whole thing is a magic trick.
15 Sept 2022
Searching for Secrets and Trickery
Mindbender is a non-fiction psychological thriller.
A podcast about the unusual and paranormal. Sounds that shouldn't exist. Experiments with magic.
It's like Fringe meets David Blaine. Like X-Files meets Hardcore History.
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