Latest Ghost ships Podcast Episodes
White Winds Blowing
Demystified - June 23, 2021 02:00 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingWe've arrived out our final story in the frozen saga of the Heroic Age of Antarctic exploration - we've talked about our subject before, many times; he participated in more expeditions than anyone else, and led three himself! An open-ocean voyage of 800 miles, across the worst seas in the world, ...
The Silent Ranges
Demystified - June 16, 2021 02:00 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingAmundsen. Shackleton. Scott. A veritable triumvirate of famous Antarctic explorers. But for all those others in the Heroic Age who made great strides in the fields of science, and whose stories of adversity are rivalled only by legends of Greek heroes, one stands tall above them all. An Australia...
There Can Be Only One
Demystified - June 02, 2021 02:00 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingIt's come to this - a final race to decide, once and for all, the man who'll go down in the history books. The two contenders have their own impressive resumes, but very different ways of doing things. One prefers what he knows, the other is a bold experimenter willing to try new ideas. In the en...
Going South
Demystified - May 26, 2021 02:00 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingWhat was almost a false-start has now begun a race, the prize being a place in the history books. Last week's look at the Belgica may have started off on a bad foot but today we look at three expeditions that would set the tone going forwards. Whilst the race to the Pole is the main event, we nee...
Disposable Heroes
Demystified - May 12, 2021 02:00 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingThe Heroic Age of Antarctic exploration by its very name promises a lot. Our popular conception of it seems to deliver, too - frozen heroes in big coats frozen stiff as they trudge through a blizzard, some stiff-lipped soldier making a heroic sacrifice to save his fellows, and flags planted in pl...
De la Mancha: An Interview with Ruta Sepetys
Demystified - March 24, 2021 03:00 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingThis episode of Demystified is something a little different: together with Penguin and Carnegie-winning author Ruta Sepetys, we're taking a look into the history of the Spanish Civil War, and life under the rule of General Franco. The latter half of the episode is an interview with Ruta about her...
De la Mancha: An interview with Ruta Sepetys
Demystified - March 24, 2021 00:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingThis episode of Demystified is something a little different: together with Penguin Publishing and Carnegie-winning author Ruta Sepetys, we're taking a look into the history of the Spanish Civil War, and life under the rule of General Franco. The latter half of the episode is an interview with Rut...
Once More, With Seoul
Demystified - March 10, 2021 03:00 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingWhether you stan the worldwide phenomenon of K-Pop, or just really like Kimchi, one might be familiar with some of the cultural exports of the country of South Korea. What one might not necessarily think of, depending on your knowledge of East-Asian political scandals, is Cults. But rest assured,...
Big In Japan
Demystified - March 03, 2021 03:00 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingThings are easy when you're big in Japan - fans of the show will know I love my musical references, but this isn't just a trite opportunity here. When you're the leader of a cult that extorts and assassinates every opponent in your bid to start a world war and end the world, it's up to you how ea...
Grand and Golden
Demystified - February 18, 2021 01:00 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingHome, home on the range - where 'never is heard a discouraging word'. Today's episode may make you rethink that, as whilst the history books would tell you that so-called Range Wars are a thing of the past, the events of a small town in Oregon in the 1980's would make you think otherwise. Mass-po...
Down The Hatch
Demystified - February 04, 2021 03:00 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingHow does a man go from a well-respected, well read, likable and popular civil rights activist, to a drug-addled psychotic cult leader who murdered over 900 people in the jungles of South America? An interesting question with an interesting answer that's relevant to this day - drinking the Koolaid...
Helter Skelter
Demystified - January 27, 2021 18:42 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingWhen I get to the bottom I go back to the top of the slide. For those who don't know what it is, a Helter Skelter is a theme-park ride, a massive tower where you go up, and then slide down, then climb back up again ad infinitum. It also has a far darker connotation, though the repeating nature of...
Ahead By A Century
Demystified - November 25, 2020 04:00 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingGord Downie really did say it best, didn’t he? "No dress rehearsal - this is our life". Apt words from an inspiring man, but that’s been the proverbial rub for most humans throughout all of time - we don’t get a dress rehearsal, and opening night starts before we’re even aware that the curtain ha...
Hard To Swallow
Demystified - November 04, 2020 04:00 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingYou are what you eat - or so they say. And everyone has their own preferences... some might even give an odd look to those who actually *enjoy* Marmite or Vodka (heaven forfend both at once)! But how should we look upon those whose tastes are a little less... conventional? Those who literally can...
Seeing Double
Demystified - October 28, 2020 04:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingPeople love to share things - and most things are better shared! You go out for a meal and get the sharing platter, a round of drinks, and the bread - to share. You watch a film, read a book, or see a tv show you love and say to your friends “You’ve *got* to try it”! We share things because we wa...
Up In Flames
Demystified - October 21, 2020 04:00 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingFire - to destroy all you’ve done. Fire - to end all you’ve become. Morbid words in a rather jaunty tune, but it’s true; fire has that capacity. It’s been with us from the dawn of time, and has been so central to basically all of human existence since that time that how we came to possess it has ...
A Demystified Announcement
Demystified - September 30, 2020 04:00 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingThings are changing at Demystified, and Ashleigh Stiles gives you a sense of what's to come. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
We Built This City (Part 2)
Demystified - September 02, 2020 04:00 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingWay down deep in the jungle, there lies a city of such unimaginable splendour that to even conceive of it is to dream one’s wildest dreams. There also lies a wealth of danger, tropical diseases, wild animals, and an endless sea of rainforest. Would you brave the latter to find the former? Or, dre...
We Built This City (Part 1)
Demystified - August 26, 2020 04:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingImagine an event so devastating, so terrifying, so utterly world shaking that not only does it help to hasten the decline of your civilisation, but thousands of years later the association people may draw from it would be your depiction in popular culture as a people who live underwater. Perhaps ...
Snowblind
Demystified - July 29, 2020 04:00 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingThe great outdoors - there's nothing like it, is there? Everyone’s got a bit of that exploratory spirit in them, that drives you to the very edges of what you know and what you don’t. We’ve talked before about people that go off the edge of the map, but what happens in those strange incidents whe...
Walkers In The Wastes
Demystified - July 15, 2020 04:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingTall, larger than a bear or man, rising up out of the woods. The shapeless mass that walks behind the snowdrift, howling in the deep. Out in the outback, or in the deep jungles, these man-beasts walk, sparking our imaginations and launching a thousand amateur photographers into the wilds to catch...
Smoke and Mirrors
Demystified - June 24, 2020 04:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingDeep in the jungles of Central America stand towering monuments - wide streets, tall towers, pyramids to rival those of Ancient Egpyt - and they all stand abandoned. But it wasn’t always this way. So how did these great and powerful cities go from centres of civilisation to little more than ruins...
Going In Circles
Demystified - June 17, 2020 04:00 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingSince time immemorial, the people of the world have marvelled at it. Large chunks of earth, taken from a far away land through great effort, and assembled in such a way as to track the movements of the stars, heal the sick, and produce a sound unlike any other. Why was it built? It would have bee...
Beyond The Forest
Demystified - June 10, 2020 04:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingOf all the classic Hollywood movie monsters - the wolfman, the mummy, the creature from the black lagoon - there’s one that stands head and shoulders above them all. From edgy teenagers to billowy symbols of romance, to icons of pure horror, they’ve infiltrated pop culture. And behind them all, i...
Up From The Wolfpit
Demystified - June 03, 2020 04:00 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingThere are some accounts in history that simply baffle you - the incident itself is fairly self-contained; it happens, then it stops. But the implications of these small, short-lived mysteries can go far beyond their own lifespans. Let's go back to Medieval England, a time of great upheaval and gr...
Blue and Gold
Demystified - May 20, 2020 04:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingSome secrets lie buried, hidden. Some are right under our noses, some are half a world away. When we dig and dig and dig some more, and we finally find them, it can be elating - at last, uncovering wonderful things that haven’t seen the light of day for millennia! But sometimes we get more than w...
Top Dog
Demystified - May 13, 2020 04:00 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingIn every field and vocation, there exists someone whose shadow eclipses everyone else's. Someone who looms so large, you can’t envisage the world without them. They’re a kingpin, a captain of industry, a big kahuna, a true titan in every sense of the word. And then, one day, they’re not. And they...
Deus Ex Machina
Demystified - May 06, 2020 04:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingInventors are a cornerstone of human civilisation. Our greatest gift is the ability to create, to teach, to learn, and to pass our inventions down to our descendants. Leonardo Da Vinci, Nichola Tesla, Ada Lovelace - all titans of human invention. Our subject of today’s discussion is none of them....
Rapa Nui
Demystified - April 29, 2020 04:00 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingFar in the distant mists of the pacific ocean, miles out from any land, sits a rocky outcrop - an island. The island is bare, no trees, little vegetation, sparse animal life. But what it does have boggles the mind - constructs that are so large, and so strange, they warrant a very good explanatio...
Leather Apron
Demystified - April 22, 2020 04:00 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingPlease Note: This content includes references which may not be suitable for young listeners. Listener discretion is advised. It’s finally time for us to peel off the cover on one of the most gruesome crime sprees of all history... one that would burn the name of it’s perpetrator into popular cult...
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