Strange Tides
A podcast about the word of the weird, ancient mysteries and modern conspiracies, and everything under the umbrella of high strangeness - plus all sorts of other cool stuff - brought to you by your host, Ryan Ford.
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La Martinière College (opens the original)
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Aloha, Tide Riders! This time on Strange Tides , we’re heading to Lucknow, India, and the legendary La Martinière College—where the halls of the historic Constantia campus have accumulated centuries of history... and more than a few Mart Yarns . From the ghost of founder Claude Martin and spectral teachers to the Phantom Cavalry, Vanishing Horsemen, groaning trees, dancing statues, shadowy figures, and invisible forces that reportedly shove students around, La Martinière has no shortage of stran
Royal Holloway (opens the original)
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Well, Tide Riders, we’re crossing the pond for the second installment of our Schoolhouse Scares saga and heading to Egham, Surrey, where Royal Holloway, University of London looks less like a university and more like a Victorian architect’s fever dream. Behind those huge red-brick walls and the straight-up French château vibes of the Founder’s Building, you’ve got a crazy history of big money, serious ambition, women breaking barriers, actual royalty, and a wave of heavy Victorian flex that make
Preston Castle (opens the original)
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September is here, which means Strange Tides is heading back to school, Tide Riders—and trust me, this is one campus you definitely don't want to visit after dark. For the first installment of the Schoolhouse Scares saga , we're rolling into Ione, California, to explore the strange, tragic, and seriously spooky history of Preston Castle . Built in the 1890s as part of the Preston School of Industry, the massive Romanesque Revival fortress housed generations of young wards—and over the decades, i
Founding Fathers Feycraft (opens the original)
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Aloha Tide Riders. It's been a minute but we're back! What if the birth of the United States was a little weirder than the history books let on? Before America was all constitutions, liberty, and We the People , colonial society was swimming in astrology, alchemy, folk magic, grimoires, supernatural folklore, and unexplained phenomena. And right in the middle of it all stood Benjamin Franklin—printer, inventor, scientist, diplomat, and, to some of his contemporaries, basically an eighteenth-cent
Founding Fathers & Secret Orders (opens the original)
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Aloha, Tide Riders, we are back with a question: What if the birth of the United States wasn't just a revolution against King George III, but part of a much stranger story hiding beneath the history books? In this episode of Strange Tides , we're paddling back to colonial America to explore the real history—and enduring conspiracies—surrounding the Founding Fathers and secret societies . We'll take a look at the undeniable connections between figures like George Washington and Benjamin Franklin
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