Messy Minded Podcast
by Messy Minded
Latest episode
The Hollow Man of Denton Pines
The Hollow Man of Denton Pines
About this podcast
Messy Minded is a podcast for curious people with slightly chaotic minds.
Hosted by Jess — your researcher, overthinker, and cartoon-brained friend — each episode dives into a weird, true story that hijacked her attention for the week.
From internet scams and historical fraudsters to Viking settlers, liars, secret societies, and secession attempts, Messy Minded blends real research with offbeat storytelling.
To start, you’ll get episodes on:
The Founders of Iceland
Lying
Internet Scams
US Secessions Attempts
Secret Societies
and more recently:
The Digital Afterlife
Axolotl’s
and UAP’s!
Enjoy!
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Episodes
The newest 20 of 45 episodes
- The Hollow Man of Denton Pines · 48 min · Episode 43This is a different sort of Messy Minded episode in celebration of Halloween. Jess swaps the research rabbit holes for an original ghost story. Get comfortable, pour yourself…
- Scared On Purpose · 36 min · Episode 42In this Halloween episode, Jess explores what happens inside the body when fear takes over—and why terror can feel strangely enjoyable when we’ve chosen it. Along the way, we’ll…
- Re-Minded | Samhain: Halloweens History & When the Fairies Handed Us the Keys · 46 min · Episode 41This episode is a Messy Re-Minder! We're kicking off spooky season by reaching back through the thinning veil and dragging one of last year's Halloween episodes back into the…
- The Little Prince · 47 min · Episode 40In this episode, Jess revisits Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s The Little Prince—a deceptively simple children’s story about imagination, loneliness, love, grief, and the peculiar…
- The Great Emu War · 22 min · Episode 39In this Messy Morsel, Jess explores the true story behind Australia’s Great Emu War, including the desperate former soldiers farming difficult land during the Great Depression…
- The Georgia Guidestones · 41 min · Episode 38Jess is joined by the ever-inquisitive Lolo to dig into the strange history of the Georgia Guidestones: the anonymous people who paid for them, the controversial messages carved…
- Ota Benga · 25 min · Episode 37In 1906, Ota Benga—a young man from what is now the Democratic Republic of the Congo—was exhibited at the Bronx Zoo alongside primates. It sounds impossible. It isn't. We trace…
- Crack Babies | Messy Morsel · 20 min · Episode 36In the 1980s and early '90s, America was warned about a coming "lost generation." The media told us that babies exposed to crack cocaine before birth would grow up violent…
- The Odyssey · 1 h 25 min · Episode 35This week on Messy Minded, we're setting sail into one of the greatest adventure stories ever told: Homer's Odyssey. Join me as we follow Odysseus, the clever King of Ithaca, on…
- The Holdouts: Last of Their Kind | Isolated Human Tribes · 1 h 5 min · Episode 34In this episode of Messy Minded, Jess explores the fascinating, tragic, and sometimes hopeful stories of isolated peoples and first contacts. We travel from the remote forests of…
- Year One Recap · 1 h 36 min · Episode 33One year ago, Messy Minded began with a simple question: "How do podcasts go from a microphone to a stranger's ear?" That question led to Vikings, scammers, bog bodies…
- Spilling the Beans on Idioms · 41 min · Episode 32Why do we say someone “barked up the wrong tree”? What does “beyond the pale” actually mean? Why were medieval people throwing armored gloves at each other? And why does the…
- The Invisible Rules of Talking · 40 min · Episode 31Why does kindness sound rude, politeness sounds fake, and nobody agrees on what “normal conversation” is? In this episode of Messy Minded, Jess dives into the strange hidden…
- Gaslit by Your Brain · 36 min · Episode 30Cronin et al. (2014) – Visual ecology (UV vision in animals)What if you can’t fully trust your own brain? In this episode of Messy Minded, we explore how the brain builds reality…
- Operation Paul Bunyan | Messy Morsel · 18 min · Episode 29Jess takes us back to 1976, when a routine maintenance job inside the Korean Demilitarized Zone spiraled into one of the most bizarre and dangerous standoffs of the Cold War…
- Cracking open Easter · 19 min · Episode 28What do a resurrection story, a rabbit delivering eggs, and aggressively pastel candy have in common? Easter… apparently. In this Messy Morsel, Jess digs into the strange mix of…
- Corpse on Trial | Messy Morsel · 14 min · Episode 27In the year 897, one of the strangest events in medieval history unfolded in Rome. A pope ordered the body of his predecessor to be dug up… and placed on trial. The event…
- Do You Have ADHD? · 1 h 4 min · Episode 26In this episode of Messy Minded, Jess walks through her full cognitive assessment — from interviews and computer tests to memory drills. Along the way she is joined by Sam and…
- The Alien Revelation · 1 h 0 min · Episode 25In 2023, testimony about unidentified aerial phenomena (UAPs) moved from internet forums to Congress — under oath, on the public record. In this episode of Messy Minded, we…
- The Aliens Asked for One More Day · 1 minFull UAP episode drops Friday. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
