In Episode 15 of The Past and Stuff, Tracey was talking about creepy little dolls, that were found buried in creepy little coffins, in a creepy make-shift sepulcher, in the creepy environs of Arthur’s Seat above Edinburgh. Many theories that have put forth over the years, but Tracey added a new one – creepy kids… Read more

In her Piece of Stuff this week (Episode 17), Ashley looked at a statue of a cocoa merchant from Aztec Mexico. Chocolate is of course a delicious, sweet treat and pick-me-up if you are feeling physically or emotionally a little down. But does chocolate have real superpowers besides being a yummy caffeine/sugar combo? Chocolate, specifically… Read more

In this week’s Stuff in the News, Ashley discusses a new database of searchable information about medieval murders…go waste time. Right now! Tracey’s stuff in the news concerns the ongoing plight of the Uighurs in the Xinjiang province of China, where over a million of them are thought to be kept in prison camps making… Read more

In her piece of stuff this week, Ashley discussed the Antikythera Mechanism, an Ancient Greek clockwork computer about the size of a carriage clock (Episode 16). It was able to compute the position of astral bodies at various times and work out the correct time to hold religious festivals like the Olympic Games. In the… Read more

Episode 16: Clockwork Computers, Ice Age Americans and Big Foot In this episode Tracey discusses a new sighting of Bigfoot in Colorado, why Sasquatch is interesting to a cultural historian and could such a creature possibly exist, while Ashley is shocked to discover that new entry requirements for Americans traveling abroad are close to what… Read more

In this episode Ashley’s traditionally disturbing Stuff in the News concerns the billion-dollar international trade in monkey skulls and other bits of dead animals you can buy on ebay. Tracey’s traditionally earnest Stuff in the News focuses on a paradigm changing archaeological find from Africa – a nearly half-a-million-year-old, pre-homo sapien, wooden structure that has… Read more

In this episode Tracey will terrify you all with her Stuff in News, that new footprint evidence that shows that those 10ft tall, 30 mph, huge beaked ‘terror birds’ had another deadly weapon in their arsenal – deadly sharp killer claws. Meanwhile, by our usual neat unplanned synchronicity, Ashley’s Stuff in the News reveals that… Read more

Tracey Cooper, November 5, 2023. In her Piece of Stuff this week, Tracey talked about the faked fossils that made up the Piltdown Man assemblage that were “discovered” by hoaxer Charles Dawson in 1912-13 and accepted as real by most of the academic archeological community until 1956. After this, the search for the culprit of… Read more

Tracey’s Stuff in the News Mark Piesing, “How do we Warn Future Generations to Avoid our Nuclear Waste?” National Geographic, September 1, 2023. Accessed September 3, 2023 at https://www.nationalgeographic.com/premium/article/nuclear-waste-repository-ray-cat-wipp-hitf-fabbri “Nuclear Waste Storage,” Nuclear Princeton, accessed September 3, 2023 at https://nuclearprinceton.princeton.edu/yucca-mountain “Radioactive Waste Management,” World Nuclear Association accessed September 3, 2023 at https://world-nuclear.org/information-library/nuclear-fuel-cycle/nuclear-wastes/radioactive-waste-management.aspx Ashley’s Stuff in… Read more

Tracey’s Stuff in the News Tara Cobham, “Alien Corpses’ shown to Congress as UFO expert is forced to testify under oath,” Independent, September 13, 2023. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/alien-corpses-in-mexico-found-congress-ufo-b2411144.html David Nelson, “Claims of Alien Corpses made at Mexican Congress hearing into Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena,” Diario AS, September 13, 2023. https://en.as.com/latest_news/claims-of-alien-corpses-made-at-mexican-congress-hearing-into-unidentified-anomalous-phenomena-n/ Megan Janetsky, “Scientists call fraud on supposed extraterrestrials… Read more