Spooky Science Lab
An all-ages podcast in which two horror authors discuss strange-but-true science facts that are scary, disturbing, and even downright spooky. Hosted by Nicholas Kaufmann and David Wellington.
Merch: https://www.teepublic.com/user/spooky-science-lab
Artwork by Errick Nunnally (https://erricknunnally.myportfolio.com/)
Theme "Phantom Fun" by Jonathan Boyle (c/o premiumbeat.com)
Podcasting since 2024 • 30 episodes
Spooky Science Lab
Latest Episodes
Episode 030: Death on Lake Nyos / Blanets
In this episode, Nick relates the real-life horror that befell the villages around Lake Nyos in Cameroon in 1986. Without warning, over 1,700 people died mysteriously in the night, while simultaneously the lake's water turned blood red. What ca...
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Season 3
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Episode 6
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48:02
Episode 029: Tiny Mushroom People / Space Tunnels
In this episode, Nick reports on a rare hallucinogenic mushroom from southwestern China that, impossibly, gives everyone who eats it the exact same hallucination: the sudden appearance of hundreds of tiny grinning, dancing human beings! Then, D...
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Season 3
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Episode 5
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48:17
Episode 028: Zombie Shrimp / Lost Continents
In this episode, Nick explores the mystery of how a parasitic worm makes amphipods change their color and behavior, and more importantly, why they do it. In true Spooky Science Lab fashion, the answer is deeply disturbing. Then, Dave e...
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Season 3
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Episode 4
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52:21
Episode 027: Eye Worms / Are We Living Inside a Black Hole?
In this episode, Nick shares what might be Spooky Science Lab's most disturbing medical mystery yet, the story of a woman in Beijing who went to the hospital for what she thought was common eye irritation. What they discovered was anything but ...
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Season 3
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Episode 3
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45:59
Episode 026: Spider Intelligence / Galactic Center
In this episode...spiders! Whether you love them or are creeped out by them, you can't deny they're fascinating creatures. But did you know they're smart, too? Nick introduces us to a species of sheet-web spider that has developed a very intere...
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Season 3
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Episode 2
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45:41
