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Desert Oracle 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 myster... Read more

Ranked #1

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#003: Gram Parsons & the Phoenix Lights

#003: Gram Parsons & the Phoenix Lights

We revisit the baffling mass sighting over Arizona and Gram Parsons' sad death in Joshua Tree. Guest: Nicole Holland fro... Read more

8 Jul 2017

28mins

Ranked #2

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Finding Your Place In Our Weird World

Finding Your Place In Our Weird World

Desert intuition. Desert awareness. Erik Davis joins us and throws down a challenge to engage with our Weird World. Our ... Read more

15 Nov 2019

1hr

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The Willow Springs Killer

The Willow Springs Killer

He called himself the King of Western Swing and he was building an immense theme park in the Mojave Desert. What does th... Read more

27 Nov 2019

59mins

Ranked #4

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#025: UFOs and the Jungian Desert

#025: UFOs and the Jungian Desert

What's going on over the desert? Why is everybody going nuts about UFOs again, anyway?Support the show: https://www.patr... Read more

16 Mar 2018

28mins

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#004: Encounter At Edwards AFB

#004: Encounter At Edwards AFB

October 7, 1965: All through the night, baffling lights and unknown craft bedeviled pilots and control-tower crew at the... Read more

15 Jul 2017

28mins

Ranked #6

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#035: A Voice Crying In the Wilderness

#035: A Voice Crying In the Wilderness

Joshua Tree has gone from turkey farmers to elaborately costumed weekenders, but the Old Testament view of the desert al... Read more

23 Jun 2018

28mins

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#028: Coyotes In Springtime

#028: Coyotes In Springtime

Springtime in the desert and all the creatures are awake. Plus: We talk UFOs with Jeremy Corbell on a cold night in Pion... Read more

6 Apr 2018

28mins

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White Solstice / Burnt Devil

White Solstice / Burnt Devil

Well we wound up burning the devil, here in Joshua Tree. It's the kind of winter-holiday fun you can expect up here in t... Read more

19 Dec 2019

28mins

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Tales From Wonder Valley

Tales From Wonder Valley

We gathered some Wonder Valley characters together, across the road from The Palms, and let the tales loose: military cr... Read more

2 Jan 2020

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#032: Strange Circles & Mysterious Tracks

#032: Strange Circles & Mysterious Tracks

People are finding all kinds of strange things on the desert ground: huge sandy circles in the Great Basin, weird three-... Read more

11 May 2018

28mins

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#036: Mystery of the Desert

#036: Mystery of the Desert

These strange experiences upon the deserts should be studied with an open heart and an open mind, because these events c... Read more

15 Sep 2018

28mins

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Witches & Cowboys

Witches & Cowboys

We're hanging on to Halloween with our guests Laura Bolt, who both covers and lives within the California witchcraft sce... Read more

3 Nov 2019

57mins

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I Know What I Saw

I Know What I Saw

“I will never forget it.” That’s something you’ll hear, something you’ll hear quite a lot out here.“I know what I saw.” ... Read more

23 Mar 2019

28mins

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#047: Interstellar Visitations

#047: Interstellar Visitations

Is Oumuamua a scout from another civilization? Aren't we long overdue for some outside assistance?Support the show: http... Read more

19 Jan 2019

28mins

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The Hungry Demons

The Hungry Demons

What's going on with these bizarre and gruesome cattle mutilations all over the west, all over the world? Well there are... Read more

6 Dec 2019

28mins

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#033: High Desert Death

#033: High Desert Death

Murder and madness and an estimate of the situation during this merry month of May.Support the show: https://www.patreon... Read more

25 May 2018

28mins

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#024: La Llorona

#024: La Llorona

Who's that glowing lady by the irrigation canal? And why is she wailing in the night?Support the show: https://www.patre... Read more

16 Mar 2018

28mins

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#046: Travel Options for the Apocalypse

#046: Travel Options for the Apocalypse

What happens when a civilization collapses? You can't go camping in Joshua Tree, that's what.Support the show: https://w... Read more

12 Jan 2019

28mins

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Coyote Rex

Coyote Rex

From high up in the Joshua Tree foothills, we bring you the sad tale of Coyote Rex. Gabriel Hart, Lauren White from the ... Read more

25 Oct 2019

1hr 1min

Ranked #20

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#008: Death Valley Junction

#008: Death Valley Junction

We take a weird road trip to Death Valley Junction, meeting astronauts, film crews, a Czech composer & other odd cha... Read more

26 Aug 2017

28mins

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