A late-night call-in show hosted by Sterling Gray. One impossible guest, open lines for the night owls, and the Numbers Station Puzzler — a coded broadcast to crack — every episode. UFOs, cryptids, strange signals, and whatever's out past the edge of the dial. Presented by Double Secret Labs: we do science so you don't have to.
In July 1518, a woman named Frau Troffea stepped into the street in Strasbourg and began to dance. She couldn't stop. Within weeks, four hundred people had joined her — dancing in the summer heat, collapsing from exhaustion, some dying. Historian Dr. Priya Voss joins Sterling Gray to examine one of history's most documented and least explained mysteries: a collective madness that the city made worse by trying to help, and that disappeared as suddenly as it began.
Tonight's Numbers Station Puzzler: crack the broadcast, then email your answer and the episode number (episode 71) to doublesecretlabs@gmail.com for a shot at a secret line to the show.
Presented by Double Secret Labs — we do science so you don't have to.
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27 Sept 2026
What the Sea Returns
Since 2007, at least twenty-one human feet — most still inside their shoes — have washed ashore along the Salish Sea's islands and beaches. No bodies. No obvious source. Just the shoes. Forensic anthropologist Dr. Owen Lester joins Sterling Gray to examine what the water is telling us, why running shoes float, and what the coast of British Columbia might still be keeping. Then the lines open — and the sea, as always, delivers.
Tonight's Numbers Station Puzzler: crack the broadcast, then email your answer and the episode number (episode 70) to doublesecretlabs@gmail.com for a shot at a secret line to the show.
Presented by Double Secret Labs — we do science so you don't have to.
Find Strangely Odd on YouTube, or wherever you get your podcasts.
22 Sept 2026
What the Mountain Knows
In February 1959, nine experienced Soviet hikers made camp on a mountain the local Mansi people called Dead Mountain — and were found weeks later under circumstances that Soviet investigators could only describe as 'a compelling unknown force.' Sterling Gray sits down with forensic investigator and Cold War historian Dr. Sarah Kessler to examine what the Dyatlov Pass case files actually reveal, why the official avalanche theory still doesn't satisfy the people who've read the evidence, and what the mountain may be keeping from us sixty-six years on.
Tonight's Numbers Station Puzzler: crack the broadcast, then email your answer and the episode number (episode 69) to doublesecretlabs@gmail.com for a shot at a secret line to the show.
Presented by Double Secret Labs — we do science so you don't have to.
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