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EPISODE #269: THE GOLD HILL SANDMAN

Gold Hill Sandman, Nevada

A terrible 10-foot-tall monster was sighted on September 15, 1980, just off Nevada State Route 341, north of Silver City, just past Devil’s Gate and to your left. Part of the old American Flats Comstock mining complex, as you’re coming up on Gold Hill. The witnesses were security guards for the mining company. A busy job because the various ruins of the old mining complex, which closed down by 1927, were the favorite hangout of kids and teenagers and hippies and whole families from the small-town desert hills. In part because there’s a swimmin’ hole in the creek there, down in the trees beneath the old mill. People would come in on dirt bikes and ATVs, driving pickups and hotrods, to escape the summer heat in the cool shade of riparian cottonwoods and willows. The creature watched them, from above . . . .

This is EPISODE #269: THE GOLD HILL SANDMAN. Soundscapes by RedBlueBlackSilver. Thanks to our beloved patrons for making this show possible. Become a patron tonight and support the radio show you love! Listen to this episode on the radio, KCDZ 107.7 FM, 10 o’clock Friday night.

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EPISODE #257: ED ABBEY’S 99TH BIRTHDAY & THE TREES OF MYSTERY

Edward Abbey at Arches National Park.

Celebrating Ed Abbey’s 99th Birthday with a road trip to Arches National Park, setting of his beloved 1968 book, Desert Solitaire. AND: What’s going on within the federal government’s “experimental forests” in Sasquatch Country? New soundscapes by RedBlueBlackSilver.

This is EPISODE #257: ED ABBEY’S 99TH BIRTHDAY & THE TREES OF MYSTERY. Listen to the podcast now and on the radio Fridays at 10 p.m. on Z107.7 FM in Joshua Tree/Yucca Valley/29 Palms/Pioneertown/Wonder Valley … from Amboy to Zzyzx!

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EPISODE #219: THE OLD, WEIRD AMERICA

On this Easter weekend, let’s do our best to bring back the ghosts, the supernatural. Let us recognize and respect the mysterious entities that come not from some imagined, distant star system in the cold lifeless vacuum of space, but from right here where we experience them: backroads, mountains, spooky desert trails at dusk. Jesus loved wilderness and often talked to ghosts, after all. And that’s something people of any philosophy can enjoy.

This is EPISODE #219: THE OLD, WEIRD AMERICA.

New soundscapes by RedBlueBlackSilver. Written & hosted by Ken Layne. Thanks for supporting this advertising-free podcast at our Desert Oracle Patreon page.

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EPISODE #181: WOLF WOMEN, WILD WOMEN

The Wolf Woman has front legs that bend up like human elbows, and have terrible taloned fingers at the ends, according to the newspaper article.

Tonight we escape the freezing late-winter West and enjoy some time in the piney forests on the Tennessee River, in the Alabama counties where a strange visitor brought horror & dismay over the long hot summer of 19&69.

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This is EPISODE #181: WOLF WOMEN, WILD WOMEN. Soundscapes by RedBlueBlackSilver, written & hosted by Ken Layne, and maybe broadcasting tonight at 10 in Joshua Tree on KCDZ 107.7 FM. (We don’t know if the episode got in before they left for the weekend. So listen to the podcast, use earbuds if you like.)

EPISODE #131: THE HEAT MONSTER

Well it finally happened, just like every year. All the sudden, it’s hot again. A week ago, it was pleasant out. Now, we cry in the frying pan. Or we will cry, in the weeks to come. October’s somewhere on the horizon. Unless it’s a mirage.

Plus: The Legend of Tahoe Tessie, which you can read about here in Alta Magazine. Time for EPISODE #131: “THE HEAT MONSTER.” With trippy new sounds from RedBlueBlackSilver.

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