The Noir and Bizarre explores the dark and strange stories we tell ourselves about human existence - occult history, ghosts, haunted houses, and secret crimes - with a special emphasis on stories that draw on the rich history and culture of Baltimore. Additionally, the show philosophically asks big questions about spiritual narratives and rituals surrounding life and death.
Latest episodes
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Monsters and Myth, Dreams and Nightmares: Surrealism at the Baltimore Museum of Art
There's a new exhibit at the Baltimore Museum of Art - ----Monsters and Myths: Surrealism and War in the 1930s and 1940s----. On this episode, Katie goes behind the scenes with co-…
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----Out There----: Alien Invasions and Unexplained UFO Sightings in Maryland
Sixty years ago - on the night of October 26 1958, around midnight, two men were driving by Loch Raven Reservoir in Towson. Suddenly, they saw a huge egg-shaped object appear above…
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A Ghost Hunt at the Lord Baltimore Hotel
Guest host Rachel Baye takes listeners behind the scenes on a ghost hunt at the Lord Baltimore Hotel, one of the most haunted places in Maryland. The hunt took place on September 2…
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From Celtic Ghosts to Trick-Or-Treating: The Evolution of Halloween
From Ancient Celtic harvest rites warding off ghosts and spirits... to Roman rites honoring the dead... To All Soul's Day masses... On this episode, Katie is exploring the origins…
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All the Saints You Should Know
Elizabeth Harper is an author, photographer, and academic, as well as the creator of the popular online blog: All the Saints You Should Know: Bones, Relics, Lore, and Oddities from…
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A Tale of Poes and Beer
On this episode, Katie takes listeners on an audio tour of the First Annual International Edgar Allan Poe Festival and then meets up with Stephen Demczuk, founder and CEO, of Raven…
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INNOCENT ON DEATH ROW: Kirk Bloodsworth and a Case of Mistaken Identity
This year's One Maryland One Book pick is ----Bloodsworth: The True Story of the First Death Row Inmate Exonerated by DNA Evidence---- by Tim Junkin. At 23 years old, Kirk Bloodswo…
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The Noir and Bizarre - Another World: The Eerie Melancholy of Howard Norman
Two-time National Book Award Finalist Howard Norman writes strange and melancholy novels, most of which are set in remote Canadian provinces. His books deal with murder, love, dete…
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The Noir and Bizarre - A Bibliomaniac's Dream: The Peabody Library
bibliomania: noun: passionate enthusiasm for collecting and posessing books.Do you have bibliomania? So do we. On this episode of The Noir and Bizarre, Katie visits Earle Havens, C…
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The Noir and Bizarre - Mery the Mummy
We're heading back in time, to the land of the pharaohs and the valley of the Dead. We don't have to go far. Right here in Baltimore, a 3,000 year old mummy, fondly named Mery (---…
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The Noir and Bizarre - The Strange Case of Agatha Christie
On December 3, 1926, the great mystery writer, Agatha Christie left for a weekend in Yorkshire. Her car was found abandoned nearby. The police couldn't locate her for ten days. Fin…
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The Noir and Bizarre - Nobody Gets out Alive: Death Through the Ages
Throughout all of human history, human beings have consistently struggled with how to grapple with their own mortality. The faces we give to Death, in our dreams and our nightmares…
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The Noir and Bizarre - Lexington Market's Hidden Underground Catacombs: A Strange History
On this episode, producers Adam Droneburg and Calvin Perry take listeners deep underground and back in time. They discover the lost history of the catacombs underneath Lexington Ma…
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The Noir and Bizarre: Murder, Booze, and Romance: The Eternal Allure of Film Noir
The classic Noir films of the 1940s and 50s – black and white mysteries noted for their moral ambiguity, tough-talking detectives, and classic femme fatales – seem to epitomize Old…
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The Noir and Bizarre - A Tomb by the Sounding Sea: Celebrating Edgar Allan Poe
The romance and horror of Edgar Allan Poe's life and works continues to enthrall people hundreds of years after he was born... On January 19, 2018, hundreds of people gathered at h…
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The Noir and Bizarre - Talking Boards: A Strange History and an Ongoing Fascination
Ouija boards have a strange and complicated history, steeped in myth and legend. No one's quite sure who truly invented the board, but almost everyone agrees that it was Baltimore-…
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The Noir and Bizarre - When the Dead Talk Back
Human beings want to believe the veil between life and death is a thin one. Some people even believe the dead can speak to them. In the first episode of The Noir and Bizarre, we at…
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The Noir and Bizarre explores the dark and strange stories we tell ourselves about human existence – occult history, ghosts, haunted houses, and secret crimes - with a special emph…