Conspiracies, inventions, futuristic visions, alien communication – it’s as if legendary inventor and physicist Nikola Tesla was designed in a lab to be a topic on The What If? Podcast. This week we dive into the life and times of Tesla, and tell the story of his fabled, strange, cryptic and fascinating career.

His time in Serbia, traveling to the United States to war with competitor and inventor Thomas Edison, death rays, picking up alien chatter on a Tesla coil, wireless data transfer, and FBI confiscation of his life’s work. It’s all there, and more, this week on The What If? Podcast.

Hot Topics: Mr. Freeze the Mayor of Minneapolis, Stinky Tesla, Make Money Spend Money, Bucket Crunderdunder, ACDC the Power Not The Band, I HAVE DONE A RESEARCH, and much more.

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In the mid ’90s reports of a strange creature killing livestock and sucking their blood travelled across Puerto Rico. Animals would be found dead in the morning, with three puncture wounds in their chest, and no blood in their bodies. Then came the sightings of beast unlike no other. Reports of how it look vary, but the death it leaves behind does not.

What is happening here? Are aliens testing farm animals? Are there secret US government experiments run amok in Puerto Rico? Are there mangy rabid dogs just killing things for fun? Does Spencer think it’s all a bunch of BS? Find out this week, on The What If? Podcast.

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Guys, Ryan continues to have the worst dang luck. For the latest entry in the series of unfortunate events that has become his life story, he’s sick and has no voice, so we can’t record the sweet new episode we had planned for this week. 

We’ll be back with a new one next week, but in the meantime, check out this Patreon episode from a couple weeks ago.

What is glitter? How is it made? Which mystery industry is the largest purchaser of glitter? 

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In the mid-60’s, an Italian priest and scientist is supposed to have invented one of the greatest and most mind-blowing devices in history. The Chronovisor. A cabinet decked out with tubes, levers, wires, and antennas, the Chronovisor supposedly let its users tap into history by traveling back to high volumes of electromagnetic signals left in time and space.

The priest, Pellegrino Ernetti, allegedly traveled to the crucifixion of Jesus Christ, to see Roman plays from 169 BC, and a whole lot more. Is it a big bucket of BS? Maybe. Are we gonna dive deep into it and see? Of course we are. Join us this week, on The What If? Podcast.

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The Vatican Secret Archives, located in Vatican City, contain a wide variety of catholic documents dating back to the 8th century. Because access to the archives is highly regulated, people have speculated they contain all sorts of mysterious items and documents, including proof of alien life, predictions of the coming apocalypse, and a time machine. This week we ponder whether or not they actually do contain these oddities, and if not – why the veil of secrecy over the archive itself? Join us this week, on The What If? Podcast.

Hot Topics: HEY KIDS LOOK AT HELL, The Chronovisor, It’s The Devil’s Work, Unsealed: Alien Files aka Bootleg Ancient Aliens, and much more. 

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Even with the globalized world we live in, there are an estimated over 100 uncontacted tribes of people, living with minimal interruption from the outside world. Some, with histories going back as far as the Stone Age. Today, on The What If? Podcast, we explore two of the most famously isolated groups of people in the world, and discuss how the came to both be – and how they attempt to stay – in isolation.

This week, we’ll explore North Sentinel Island and the Sentinelese, along with the Jarawa tribes of the Andaman Islands, an Indian territory in the center of the Indian Ocean. We’ll learn about what we know about their customs, their hostility towards others, the threats they face, and a whole lot more.

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On October 19th of 2017, an interstellar object was observed in our solar system for the very first time. Observed through Hawaiian telescopes, scientists named it Oumuamua. What has followed, is a curious exploration into what, in fact, this interstellar visitor actually is. The topic of of borderline scientific brawls, new Harvard papers this week suggest the possibility that Oumuamua is in fact a solar sail, hull, or ship-based alien probe.

This week, on The What If? Podcast, we dive into what makes this object so different from the comets and asteroids we’re familiar with, and why the hypothesis of some very smart people lead us down a line of questioning, that entertains the possibility of alien life.

Karen J. Meech’s TED Talk on Oumuamua.

Outro music by Lydia Liza and Big Cats

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Well gang. Sometimes one person goes missing. But apparently, sometimes a lot of people go missing at the same time too. It’s a weird one this week (ain’t it always?), as we explore the truth (or maybe the lack thereof) of when a whole buncha stuff goes missing all at once. Is it UFOs? Is it holograms? Is it just one big bucket of malarkey?

This week we explore a Chinese city in the mountains that went vacant overnight, an Inuit village reported creepily and quickly empty by a Canadian trapper, and an Iowan city that had to defend the fact that it truly existed. It might be BS, but it’s gonna be fun no matter what. Find out more this week, on The What If? Podcast.

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Happy Halloween, you beautiful weirdos! It’s a spooky night for spooky frights, so we’re diving deep into more topics of the season. And that means ghost, poltergeists, levitations, hauntings, and enough tricks and treats to take you right through pumpkin carving, and straight into mulled wine and candy giving (and/or eating).

This week, we’re talking UK ghost stores specifically, going to England to talk about the Roman ghost squads walking through walls in the York Treasurer’s house, and levitating children, volleyed Legos and marbles, and a bunch more. We promise, Ryan only takes on a British accent once, and it’s mostly kind of Australian. So don’t be too scared.

Hot Topics: The G****** Seasons, S*** Went Bad Real Quick, Is It Trash: Halloween Candy Edition, Spooked As Heck, The Enfield Poltergeist, Historically Accurate Ghosts, and a whole lot more.

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Look, we’d stop doin’ episodes about this if y’all stopped goin’ missin’. But here we are. On part six, and people of this ding-dang universe keep bein’ hard to find. This week we dive deep into the disappearance phenomenon, as it relates specifically to the folks who go bye-bye in National Parks of the United States.

We talk through David Paulides’s take on why people go missing in the US parks system, why we disagree with him, and the curious case of Stacey Ann Arras, a 14 year old girl who went missing in Yosemite in the 80’s. We’ll get to the bottom of it, on this week’s episode of The What If? Podcast.

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