Episodes

With St. Patrick’s Day just around the corner, Chris and Ed chase the legend of the leprechaun from the cereal mascots of today to the cruel tricksters of the ancient past. Plus: the weirdest modern “sightings,” and the story of how these Irish folklore fae became protected by the EU. Get early rele...

Guests Sarah Potter and Zac Clark join the show to discuss a fear that troubles both of them - and more than 5% of the population. Is a fear of heights learned or are we born with it? How small of a fall can actually kill you? What's the highest fall anyone has ever survived? And what does the Vans ...

Ed and Chris shine a light on stories of phrogging and phroggers: people who secretly live in the attics, basements, and walls of other people's homes. From beneath the floors of Chris' first apartment to the halls of Buckingham Palace, they are everywhere - and some of them are extremely dangerous....

This week, the guys stare straight into the most comforting promise humanity has ever invented — and ask why it feels like a never-ending nightmare. Join us as they spiral through ancient philosophy, world religions, modern psychology, and brain-melting thought experiments to unpack the terror of fo...

As the guys take a week to prep for a new year of shows, we opened the vault to bring you a VIDEO EPISODE of their bi-weekly Patreon show NEW FEAR UNLOCKED to hold you over. In this one, Chris and Ed went looking under the bed for any monsters that might be hiding there. Originally published on Patr...

Inspired by the New Year’s Eve Twilight Zone marathons of their youth, Chris and Ed reached out to some of the best collaborators and podcasters in the biz to ask them to choose their favorite episodes for a very special year-end marathon! Featuring brand new episode introductions by: Sarah Potter (...

Chris and Ed close out the year with a look back at the tradition of Christmas ghost stories - where they came from, why they stuck around, and what A Christmas Carol has to do with any of them. Plus: ghoulish Victorian Christmas cards AND Chris... sings?! Also... the best housekeeping to date?! Don...

Chris and Ed are inspired by the winter storms of their youth and take a polar plunge into the science and history of blizzards. Snow shovels in hand, they dig out blizzards of the frozen past and you'll hear the unbelievable story of the deadliest blizzard in history. That happened in a desert. Don...

This week, the boys get as close to STRANGER THINGS and the Upside Down as they can, diving headfirst into the science and lore of what kind of experiments happen at CERN. Do these mad scientists hold the key to opening a portal to another dimension? Have human sacrifices really happened there? And ...