Strange Realm - Ep. 142 - December 14th, 2025

This week, we bring you a fiery but mostly friendly episode as we take a look once again at the strangest things we could find, including new evidence found of Neanderthals starting campfires about 415,000 years ago, a study that says bumblebees with positive attitudes can improve the moods of bees around them, a number station broadcasting from Russia has recently become highly active, and a new bestselling book lays out the scientific case for the existence of God. All of this and then, after the break, we continue our reading series as Frobisher begins "The Cryptoterrestrials," by Mac Tonnies.

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Notes:
- Scientists publish book that claims God exists
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/according-to-a-new-book-science-just-proved-that-god-exists/ss-AA1S0i82
- Remains of fire from 415,000 years ago found in Britain
https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/article-879986
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/the-earliest-example-of-hominid-fire-171693652/
- Weird Russian numbers station doing strange things
https://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/news/392876/russias-doomsday-radio-broadcasts-15-more-cryptic-messages
- Bee's good moods are infectious
https://newatlas.com/biology/positivity-spread-bumble-bees
- The Cryptoterrestrials
https://www.amazon.com/Cryptoterrestrials-Meditation-Indigenous-Humanoids-Aliens/dp/1933665467
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-cryptoterrestrials-mac-tonnies/1116293428

Intro music: "night drive" by bbrainz (slowed + reverb)
Outro music: "World Paranormal" by Jess and the Ancient Ones
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