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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

As an added bonus, if you take a picture of yourself with any Spooky Science Lab merch and email it to contact@spookysciencelab.com, we’ll post it on our social media sites! Let everyone know you like your science spooky! Thanks for listening! We'll see you again soon! (3/3)

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

In the meantime, don’t forget that we have merch now! Check out our merch store here: www.teepublic.com/user/spooky-... It's a great way to support the podcast so we never have to subject you to ads or figure out how to run a Patreon! (2/3)

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Shop t-shirts, phone cases, hoodies, art prints and mugs created by independent artists from around the globe.

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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

Listen to it wherever you enjoy podcasts or at www.spookysciencelab.com! Also, there was a slideshow for the audience that accompanied the episode. If you'd like to see those slides, they can be found here: www.nicholaskaufmann.com/spooky-scien... (4/4)

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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: ht...

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

This episode was recorded before a live audience at the Flying Fox Tavern in Queens, NY, on April 19, 2026. The sound quality is surprisingly good this time, but you'll still want to beware of the occasional cocktail shaker of death! (3/4)

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

Then, Dave reveals early Homo sapiens were not the only intelligent life on Earth. In fact, they shared the planet with at least seven other species of hominids. But what happened to them? (2/4)

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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

Then, Dave examines what keeps galaxies from breaking apart. The answer is gravity from dark matter. But where does dark matter come from, and if we can't see it, how do we know it's there? Listen to it wherever you enjoy podcasts or at www.spookysciencelab.com! (2/2)

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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

Then, Dave examines the origin of the inner planets of the solar system and the very real possibility that there might have been life on other planets than Earth. But if there was, what happened to it? Listen to it wherever you enjoy podcasts or at www.spookysciencelab.com! (2/2)

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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

Then, Dave reveals the origin of the moon. If you think you already know how the moon formed, the truth is weirder and wilder than you thought! Listen to it wherever you enjoy podcasts or at www.spookysciencelab.com! (2/2)

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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

Then, Dave introduces us to NASA's Parker Solar Probe, an incredible but little-known feat of engineering built to withstand millions of degrees as it passes through the sun's corona. Listen to it wherever you enjoy podcasts or at www.spookysciencelab.com! (2/2)

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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 · 21/04/2026

Last night's "Spooky Science Lab Live 2" at the Flying Fox Tavern was a smashing success! (And we do mean smashing, since one of the things we talked about was a rogue planet colliding with Earth!) (1/2)

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

Then, Dave talks about antimatter. What is it, where does it come from, and perhaps most importantly, what really happens when it comes in contact with ordinary matter? Listen to it wherever you enjoy podcasts or at www.spookysciencelab.com! (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

Then, Dave probes the surprising existence of planets in stable orbits around black holes, known as "blanets." Could they support life, and if so, what would it be like to live with a black hole for a sun? Listen to it wherever you enjoy podcasts or at www.spookysciencelab.com! (2/2)

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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 · 08/04/2026

2 Spooky 2 Science! Sunday, April 19th will actually be our _second_ time recording a live Spooky Science Lab episode at the Flying Fox Tavern and we're thrilled to be back! What strange-but-true science will be revealed before your very eyes? Join us and find out! More info at the link!

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Spooky Science Lab Podcast @spookysciencelab.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

"...We will continue our journey even further into space before Mother Earth succeeds in pulling us back to everything that we hold dear, but we, most importantly, choose this moment to challenge this generation and the next to make sure this record is not long-lived." (3/3)

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Spooky Science Lab Podcast @spookysciencelab.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Mission specialist Jeremy Hansen sent this message back to Earth: "As we surpass the furthest distance humans have ever traveled from planet Earth, we do so honoring the extraordinary efforts and feats of our predecessors in human space exploration..." (2/3)

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Spooky Science Lab Podcast @spookysciencelab.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Scientific milestones are being achieved every day, but here's one that's truly astonishing: the crew of the Artemis 2 have now traveled farther from Earth than any other human being, ever! (1/3)

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Artemis 2 breaks humanity's all-time distance record during historic loop around the moon (video)

Apollo 13 had held the mark for more than 50 years.

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

Then, Dave explores the fascinating scientific concept of space tunnels, lanes of hot, sparse plasma that connect vast areas of empty space into a gigantic network. Can they be used for interstellar travel? Listen to it wherever you enjoy podcasts or at www.spookysciencelab.com! (2/2)

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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 · 02/04/2026

Only 24 human beings in history have seen the far side of the moon with their own eyes, and now, thanks to Artemis II's planned trajectory, four more will be added to that distinguished list--including the first woman! (2/2)

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Spooky Science Lab Podcast @spookysciencelab.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Spooky Science Lab congratulates NASA and the crew of Artemis II--Commander Reid Wiseman, Pilot Victor Glover, Mission Specialist Christina Koch, and Canadian Space Agency Mission Specialist Jeremy Hansen--on their successful launch to the moon! (1/2)

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4 astronauts launch on historic moon mission | CNN

NASA’s Artemis II will circumnavigate the moon on the first crewed lunar mission in over 50 years.

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Spooky Science Lab Podcast @spookysciencelab.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

SPOOKY SCIENCE LAB LIVE 2 is coming Sunday, April 19th to the Flying Fox Tavern! Be there to see cohosts Nicholas Kaufmann and David Wellington record a new episode right before your very eyes! What shocking scientific secrets will be revealed? Find out on April 19th!

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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

We want to thank all our listeners out there who made this possible. We appreciate each and every one of you, and your support means more to us than we can possibly say! (2/2)

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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

Then, Dave examines the theory that posits our universe exists inside a black hole. Is such a thing even possible? Surprisingly, the math says it could be! Listen to it wherever you enjoy podcasts or at www.spookysciencelab.com! (2/2)

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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

• Dave takes us to the center of the galaxy to explore a bizarre realm of ionized gas and dark matter. At the middle of it all sits Sagittarius A*, a supermassive black hole 4,000,000 times more massive than the Sun. Listen to it wherever you enjoy podcasts or at www.spookysciencelab.com! (2/2)

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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

• Dave updates us on the search for extraterrestrial life. With the discovery of distant worlds that have liquid water, exobiologists believe there's more of a chance than ever that life may exist elsewhere in the universe. Listen wherever you enjoy podcasts or at www.spookysciencelab.com! (2/2)

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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 · 08/03/2026

Now, the rat lungworm has reached the continental U.S., identified for the first time in an animal at the San Diego Zoo, which means it can make the jump to human beings here, too. Be careful out there. As for us, here at the lab, we welcome our new parasitic worm overlords! (2/2)

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A Brain-Invading Worm Spread By Rats and Snails Has Reached California

Researchers have found evidence the rat lungworm is now endemic in southern California

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Spooky Science Lab Podcast @spookysciencelab.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

Listeners might recall Nick's story in episode 16 (s2e4) in which a young Australian man fell into a coma and eventually died after eating a slug on a dare--a slug he didn't know was infected with the parasitic rat lungworm. (1/2)

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