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Watching for Smoke

People set fire to the land they call home. “If we can turn it black, it can't burn again in August.” We're going on tour - and it's a different kind of show than any we

Sun-Man

In 1984, Yla Eason’s three-year-old son told her he couldn’t be a superhero because he wasn’t white like his He-Man action figures. So she looked for a Black action figur

Hotline!

An episode all about hotlines - and the people who answer the calls. You can read more about the Foy Information Desk in "The Alabama Landline that Keeps Ringing," by Em

Sextus Congenius Verus

When Daniella Santoro and her husband started clearing their backyard in New Orleans, they found a strange stone under a satsuma tree. The stone had letters carved into i

The Asteroid Hunter

In the early ’90s, a comet smashed into Jupiter with the force of 300 million atomic bombs. No one had seen anything like it before, and astronomers quickly realized that

The Golden Record

In 1977, Ann Druyan was asked to help create a message from Earth that would leave our solar system and last for more than a billion years. Say hello on Facebook and Ins

The Photograph

Bob Brigham always knew he was adopted, but growing up, he didn’t know anything about his biological parents. When he was seven years old, a social worker came for a visi

Wimbledon in a Cornfield

Mark Kuhn grew up in Iowa in a family of corn farmers. When he was 10 years old, he heard a BBC broadcast of the Wimbledon finals. He couldn’t stop thinking about it — he

SOS

Brandon and Gina hadn’t known each other long when they found themselves lost 8,500 feet high on a mountain. “We started yelling and nobody yelled back.” Bill Donahue’s

The French Fries

One morning, Cathy found a takeout bag on her porch. It had the name “Rodolphe” on it, and contained one half-eaten order of french fries. The next morning, she found ano

Feeling Good

One night, a stranger came up to comedian Dan Perlman and told him he looked just like the singer Michael Bublé. She asked Dan if he would impersonate him for one night.

You've Got Mail

Delia Ephron has worked on some of the most famous romantic comedies of all time – like Sleepless in Seattle, and You’ve Got Mail – alongside her sister, Nora Ephron. In

A Needle in a Haystack

A dog went missing in a park in Brooklyn. A local Facebook group decided to help. Say hello on Facebook and Instagram. Follow the show and review us on Apple Podcasts.

Chloe and the Hare

“It felt like a magical experience. It felt like some sort of spell. I was living a childhood fairytale, of the comings and goings of this extraordinary animal that didn'

The Treasure Hunt

In 2010, a man named Forrest Fenn took a bronze box filled with treasure into the Rocky Mountains and hid it. He told one treasure hunter, “You just need to put the clues

Into the Ice

The B-15 iceberg in Antarctica was the largest iceberg in recorded history. Explorer Jill Heinerth wanted to see what it looked like from the inside. She assembled a team

The Obituary Section

Heather Lende has written nearly 500 obituaries for people in her small town in Alaska. She’s known just about everyone she has written about.  Say hello on Facebook and

The Long Walk

When Emma Gatewood was 67, she told her children she was going on a walk. “The next they would hear from her would be via postcard… And it said, ‘By ‘walk’ I mean I'm thr

How's Your Life?

When Minh Nguyen was in school, he didn’t ask anyone to sign his yearbooks — he says he was too uncomfortable. But twenty years later, he started reaching out to all his

Cry

In 1971, for his mother’s birthday, Alvin Ailey gave her a ballet. The dance was grueling – sometimes the women who did it bled. “I remember very well seeing my mother on