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Spooky Science Lab Podcast @spookysciencelab.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Last month, your faithful co-host @nicholaskaufmann.bsky.social was in conversation with science writer Mindy Weisberger about her new book RISE OF THE ZOMBIE BUGS: THE SURPRISING SCIENCE OF PARASITIC MIND-CONTROL at the Brooklyn Books & Booze Author Book Fair.

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Spooky Science Lab Podcast @spookysciencelab.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

While at NecronomiCon Providence this past weekend, co-host @nicholaskaufmann.bsky.social took this picture with podcast listener Michael from Woburn, MA, who's sporting a Spooky Science Lab t-shirt in beautiful Halloween orange!

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Spooky Science Lab Podcast @spookysciencelab.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Podcast co-host @nicholaskaufmann.bsky.social left the lab this past weekend to speak on a panel about parasites and parasitism at NecronomiCon Providence. You can see the deranged look on his face as he gleefully disgusts the standing room-only audience with tales of parasitoid wasps!

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Spooky Science Lab Podcast @spookysciencelab.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Another Spooky Science Lab fan with excellent fashion sense! Say hello to Michael from Woburn, MA, sporting a Spooky Science Lab t-shirt--in Halloween orange, no less!

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Spooky Science Lab Podcast @spookysciencelab.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

That's a wrap on Season 3! Spooky Science Lab is going on break, and then we'll be back for Season 4 with more amazing strange-but-true science! (1/3)

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Spooky Science Lab Podcast @spookysciencelab.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Happy Memorial Day! Celebrate with Spooky Science Lab's season finale: Spooky Science Lab Live 2! In this episode, Nick details two of the weirdest and wildest ways the Earth could be destroyed. Not the end of humankind or civilization as we know it--the end of the planet itself! (1/4)

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Spooky Science Lab Podcast @spookysciencelab.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Spooky Science Lab is back with a new episode! This week: Nick tells the tale of hunters in Iowa in 1933 catching rabbits with strange black horns. Horned rabbits were seen again in Colorado in 2025. What's happening, and what do these horned rabbits have to do with the myth of the jackalope? (1/2)

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Spooky Science Lab Podcast @spookysciencelab.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Spooky Science Lab is back with a new episode! This week: Nick reveals the shocking surprise explorers discovered in a cave on the Greece-Albania border: the world's biggest spiderweb, home to over 100,000 spiders and part of a fascinating and bizarre ecosystem. (1/2)

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Spooky Science Lab Podcast @spookysciencelab.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Spooky Science Lab is back with a new episode! This week: Nick introduces us to a rare and unusual caterpillar, one that's carnivorous, cannibalistic, hides in spiderwebs, and makes armor out of the bones of its prey. (1/2)

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Spooky Science Lab Podcast @spookysciencelab.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

A new book has arrived at the lab: RISE OF THE ZOMBIE BUGS: THE SURPRISING SCIENCE OF PARASITIC MIND-CONTROL by Mindy Weisberger! Longtime listeners of the podcast will know this book is right up our alley! 🍄 🐜 😱

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Spooky Science Lab Podcast @spookysciencelab.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Spooky Science Lab is back with a new episode! This week: Nick takes a look at the opening of Tutankhamun's tomb in 1922 and the string of untimely deaths among those present that immediately followed. Was it a supernatural curse or was something else to blame? (1/2)

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Spooky Science Lab Podcast @spookysciencelab.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Nick, Mutt, the 10-foot spider, and all the specimens here at the lab wish a very happy birthday to co-host @davidwellington.bsky.social! The best way to celebrate is to treat yourself to some groovy Spooky Science Lab merch: www.teepublic.com/user/spooky-...

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Spooky Science Lab Podcast @spookysciencelab.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

If you couldn't join us, don't worry. The live show was recorded and will be going out to podcast listeners at the end of this season. In the meantime, please enjoy this not at all awkward photo of your hosts, @nicholaskaufmann.bsky.social and @davidwellington.bsky.social! (2/2)

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Spooky Science Lab Podcast @spookysciencelab.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Spooky Science Lab is back with a new episode! This week: Nick takes us on a roundup of newly discovered deep-ocean life. New marine species are being discovered all the time. Here are three of the strangest examples. (1/2)

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Spooky Science Lab Podcast @spookysciencelab.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

THIS SUNDAY! Come see Spooky Science Lab Live at the House of Know series, hosted by the Flying Fox Tavern! Free admission! Food and drink! Doors open at 5 PM! What strange-but-true science will be revealed before your very eyes? Join us and find out!

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Spooky Science Lab Podcast @spookysciencelab.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Spooky Science Lab is back with a new episode! This week: Nick relates the real-life horror that befell the villages around Lake Nyos in Cameroon in 1986. Over 1,700 people died mysteriously in the night,while simultaneously the lake's water turned blood red. What caused this bizarre tragedy? (1/2)

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Spooky Science Lab Podcast @spookysciencelab.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Spooky Science Lab is back with a new episode! This week: 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! (1/2)

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Spooky Science Lab Podcast @spookysciencelab.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

Spooky Science Lab is back with a new episode! This week: Nick explores the mystery of how a parasitic worm makes shrimp change their color and behavior, and more importantly, why they do it. In true Spooky Science Lab fashion, the answer is deeply disturbing. (1/2)

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Spooky Science Lab Podcast @spookysciencelab.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

A big thank you to our listeners for helping us reach 2,500 downloads! We know there are podcasts out there that hit that number every day, but for a couple of less-than-famous authors like us talking about a niche subject like strange-but-true science, it’s truly amazing and so gratifying. (1/2)

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Spooky Science Lab Podcast @spookysciencelab.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Spooky Science Lab is back with a new episode! This week: Nick shares our most disturbing medical mystery yet, a woman who went to the hospital for what she thought was common eye irritation. What they discovered was anything but common: tiny worms laying eggs just beneath her eyelid! (1/2)

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Spooky Science Lab Podcast @spookysciencelab.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Spooky Science Lab is back with a new episode! This week: • Are spiders intelligent? Nick introduces us to a species of sheet-web spider that has developed a very interesting trick to lure prey, one that indicates a more sophisticated level of intelligence than we thought. (1/2)

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Spooky Science Lab Podcast @spookysciencelab.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Spooky Science Lab is back for Season 3! In this episode: • Nick takes a deep dive into what actually happens inside your body when you get a tattoo. There's a wild, desperate battle raging just beneath your epidermis that plays a bigger part in getting a tattoo than you can imagine. (1/2)

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Spooky Science Lab Podcast @spookysciencelab.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

⚡️ Something is stirring at the lab... Spooky Science Lab is back! Season 3 premieres THIS MONDAY, March 9th! We've got loads of new strange-but-true science to amuse, delight, and enrich your life! Catch it wherever you listen to your podcasts!

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Spooky Science Lab Podcast @spookysciencelab.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

This past weekend, Spooky Science Lab co-host Nicholas Kaufmann spoke on the "Podcasting as a Writer" panel at Boskone 63 in Boston, along with @courtney-floyd.com of the Unfortunately podcast and @erinunderwood.bsky.social of Erin Underwood Presents on YouTube!

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Spooky Science Lab Podcast @spookysciencelab.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

Here at the lab, we're excited to report that recording has officially begun on Season 3! We have some amazing strange-but-true science lined up for you and can't wait to share! Prepare yourself! The lab reopens on Monday, March 9th! (*insert sound of creaky door*)

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Spooky Science Lab Podcast @spookysciencelab.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

As the Earth embarks upon another rotation around the sun, we here at Spooky Science Lab want to wish all our listeners a very happy new year! May 2026 bring you health, happiness, and lots of spooky science! Also, keep watching this space for exciting news about Season 3, coming soon!

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Spooky Science Lab Podcast @spookysciencelab.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

Podcast listener Tina came to this past weekend's Merrimack Valley Halloween Book Festival in a Spooky Science Lab t-shirt and had her picture taken with your faithful co-host @nicholaskaufmann.bsky.social! (1/2)

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Spooky Science Lab Podcast @spookysciencelab.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

The lab was contacted by podcast listener Giasone to let us know he was representing Spooky Science Lab with a t-shirt while attending Dreadcon in Burlington, Ontario! Much appreciated, Giasone! (1/2)

A bearded man wearing a black Spooky Science Lab t-shirt!

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Spooky Science Lab Podcast @spookysciencelab.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

What it's like hosting a podcast about strange science.

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Spooky Science Lab Podcast @spookysciencelab.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

That's a wrap on Season 2! Spooky Science Lab is going on break for a bit, and then we'll be back for Season 3! In the meantime, don’t forget that we have merch now! Check out our merch store here: www.teepublic.com/user/spooky-... (1/2)

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Spooky Science Lab Podcast @spookysciencelab.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

It's the Season 2 finale! In this episode: Nick explores the chilling (in more ways than one) world of ice mummies. From Beechey Island in the Arctic to the summits of the Austrian Alps, the bodies of the dead lay frozen and preserved, including one "iceman" discovered to be 5,300 years old! (1/2)

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Spooky Science Lab Podcast @spookysciencelab.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Spooky Science Lab is back! This week: Nick takes us back in time to the eruption of Krakatoa in 1883, one of the most devastating volcanic eruptions in history. Not only did it kill tens of thousands, it also changed the Earth's climate in ways that still affect us over 100 years later. (1/2)

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Spooky Science Lab Podcast @spookysciencelab.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Spooky Science Lab is back! This week: Nick brings us back to the ocean to visit one of its most bizarre inhabitants, the jellyfish. Some have tentacles 100 feet long, others have a sting that can kill you in under five minutes, but most fascinating are the ones who've achieved immortality. (1/2)

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Spooky Science Lab Podcast @spookysciencelab.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Spooky Science Lab is back with a new episode! This week: • Nick takes us to the deepest ocean depths to meet the alien-looking anglerfish and its bizarre, disturbing mating habits. Think you've been on weird dates? You haven't seen anything yet! (1/2)

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Spooky Science Lab Podcast @spookysciencelab.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Spooky Science Lab is back with a new episode! This week: Nick introduces listeners to the horrifying horsehair worm, a water-dwelling parasitic organism whose brutal lifecycle puts its insect host through hell, culminating in the worm's unique ability to compel its host to drown itself. (1/2)

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Spooky Science Lab Podcast @spookysciencelab.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Spooky Science Lab is back with a new episode! This week: Nick explores Lazarus Syndrome, a rare occurrence where people who are declared dead mysteriously wake up hours later, sometimes just minutes away from being embalmed. The dead are rising, but this isn't a zombie movie, it's real life! (1/2)

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Spooky Science Lab Podcast @spookysciencelab.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

We love seeing our fans enjoying our merch! While attending Boskone 62 this weekend, Nick ran into Ethan from Boston, MA looking smart in a Spooky Science Lab tee! If you haven't checked out our merch store yet, you can find it right here: www.teepublic.com/user/spooky-...

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Spooky Science Lab Podcast @spookysciencelab.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Spooky Science Lab is back with a new episode! This week: • Nick shrinks Dave to the size of a bacterium and sends him into the savage battlefield of the human immune system, a breathtaking biological enterprise that's second in complexity only to the human brain. (1/2)

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Spooky Science Lab Podcast @spookysciencelab.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Spooky Science Lab is back with a new episode! This week: • Nick gets too close for comfort to a tree the Guinness Book of World Records called "the deadliest tree in the world." With poisonous fruit, toxic bark, and lethal sap, there's no doubt the manchineel tree wants you dead. (1/2)

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Spooky Science Lab Podcast @spookysciencelab.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

🥳 This is incredible news! We're so honored and grateful to reach this milestone! A big, big thank you to all our listeners! We hope you'll keep listening! Here's to the next thousand downloads!

A confetti-spotted banner celebrating 1,000 podcast downloads!

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Spooky Science Lab Podcast @spookysciencelab.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Spooky Science Lab is back with a new episode! This week: • Nick recounts the true story of a young Australian man who, in 2010, ate a garden slug on a dare. What followed was a swift physical deterioration, eventually putting him into a coma. But slugs aren't poisonous, so what happened? (1/2)

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Spooky Science Lab Podcast @spookysciencelab.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

We're back with a new episode! This week: • Nick recounts the bizarre events that befell the coastal city of Capitola, California in 1961, when thousands of seabirds attacked the city, an incident eerily similar to Alfred Hitchcock's famous movie The Birds, yet this happened two years before. (1/2)

Tippi Hedren and two young girls running from a flock of crows in a still from Alfred Hitchcock's THE BIRDS.

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Spooky Science Lab Podcast @spookysciencelab.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

We love seeing our fans enjoying our merch!Here's Emily Mintz from NYC looking fashionable in a classic black Spooky Science Lab tee! If you've got a t-shirt or any of our other merch, send a picture of you wearing or holding it to contact@spookysciencelab.com and we'll post it on our social media!

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Spooky Science Lab Podcast @spookysciencelab.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Spooky Science Lab is back with a new episode! This week: • Nick leads us into the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone to the remains of the reactor itself, where a most unexpected organism has made its home. Not only is it resistant to radiation, it appears to be feeding on radiation to grow and reproduce.

Reactors rise above the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, which is now overrun with vegetation.

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Spooky Science Lab Podcast @spookysciencelab.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

Spooky Science Lab is back with the first episode of Season 2! This episode was recorded before a live audience at the Flying Fox Tavern on September 15, 2024. As a result, the sound quality is a little dicey. You'll want to increase the volume -- but beware of the cocktail shaker of death! (1/3)

Gray aliens with bulbous foreheads and big black eyes!

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Spooky Science Lab Podcast @spookysciencelab.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

We love seeing our fans enjoying our merch! Here's Giasone Italiano from Toronto, Canada looking rad in a Spooky Science Lab t-shirt! If you've got merch, send a picture to contact@spookysciencelab.com and we'll post it on our social media! (1/2)

A smiling, bearded man wearing a black Spooky Science Lab t-shirt and giving two thumbs up.

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Spooky Science Lab Podcast @spookysciencelab.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

Here at the lab, we love seeing fans enjoying our merch! Here's J.M. from Connecticut with a Spooky Science Lab t-shirt he got for Christmas! If you've got merch, send a picture to contact@spookysciencelab.com and we'll post it on our social media!

A man holding up a black Spooky Science Lab t-shirt on Christmas morning with an excited expression!

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Spooky Science Lab Podcast @spookysciencelab.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

As the Earth embarks upon another rotation around the sun, we here at Spooky Science Lab want to wish all our listeners a very happy new year! May 2025 bring you health, happiness, and lots of spooky science!

The Earth and the sun as seen from space.

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Spooky Science Lab Podcast @spookysciencelab.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

Here at the lab, we can't think of a better Christmas gift than to learn Spooky Science Lab has been downloaded 750 times in our first year! (1/3)

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Spooky Science Lab Podcast @spookysciencelab.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

⚡️ Great Scott! There's exciting news afoot! The second season of Spooky Science Lab is launching on Monday, January 13th! Get ready for more episodes of strange-but-true science that will shock, mystify, and creep you out! (1/2)

Doc Brown from BACK TO THE FUTURE, wearing goggles, holding jumper cables, and generally looking like a mad scientist.

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