The Gold Hill Sandman
The Gold Hill Sandman was sighted on September 15, 1980. Location? Just off Nevada State Route 341, north of Silver City, just past Devil's...
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Desert Oracle Radio
Desert Oracle Radio is a weekly road trip through the weird American desert from the publisher of Desert Oracle, the pocket-sized field guide published in Joshua Tree, California. Hear tales...
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Island of the Dead
Tonight we are walking across the desert, out of the canyons, over the rivers, to another kind of country. Another place, another time. Tryi...
Petrified Forests and Ghostly Goblins
Night has fallen on the desert, and that's a joyous time in the heat of Southwest Summer. Too hot, too dry, and we long for the cool misty t...
Haunted Houses & Monsoon Rains
With every passing day, scorcher or not, we are on the march towards Autumn, towards cooler days and longer nights, the time of graveyards a...
Summer Solstice Verse & the Desert Doctor's Weird Bird
We're back with Midsummer Tidings from the Mojave, with solstice verse from Sam Clemens & Shakespeare, too. Plus a new campfire story from o...
Campfire Tales on a Half-Moon Night
From our Campfire Stories in Joshua Tree on May 23, 2026, here's a special one-hour edition of Desert Oracle Radio live from the desert behi...
The Pentagon's Latest UFO Files
If you love flying saucers, maybe you've been following the release of a bunch more UFO files. Maybe you're disappointed that E.T. isn't in...
Plague of the Crane Fly + Campfire Tales From Skinwalker Ranch
Tonight's episode features a previously secret recording of Campfire Stories from years gone by, plus an examination of the so-called "Mosqu...
Artemis, Pyramids, Tatooine & Death Valley
We still live in the Time of Ancient Gods. At this very moment, in memory of a mission named for the god Apollo, astronauts of the Artemis m...
Meteor Nights on the Road to Graceland
What's going on with all these meteors & fireballs in the dark skies above? Where did Elvis Presley see a big UFO hovering over the Mojave D...
Springtime in the Desert Mountains
It's the magical time when the cold winter desert becomes an Eden of Wildflowers, as we luxuriate in the the spring warmth of the Sun & the...
Mountain Mysteries & Edward Abbey’s 99th Birthday
Celebrating Ed Abbey's 99th Birthday with a road trip to Arches National Park, setting of his beloved 1968 book, Desert Solitaire . AND: Wha...
Black Widow Babies & Early Blooming Joshua Trees
It's time for Strange & Unusual Facts. Mostly about the desert, the wilderness, critters and criminals. We are not using our usual flurry of...
Yucca Yuletide: A Desert Holiday
Join Desert Oracle Radio for an audio tour of how the American Desert celebrates Christmastime, or Christmastide. With festive soundscapes b...
Christmas In Chelsea with St. Nicholas
From Desert Oracle Radio, this is The Eldritch Republic , our new series about America's strange history & uncanny folklore. Tonight we visi...
Thanksgiving In the High Desert
Snowy mountaintops across the Western Mojave, all the transverse ranges have at least a dusting, with the big peaks covered in white. San Go...
All Hallows Tales, Live In New York
Recorded live in New York before an audience of DOR Patrons & assorted Manhattanites, this is Desert Oracle's special Halloween Ghost Storie...
The Eldritch Republic: Thomas Jefferson's UFO
From Desert Oracle Radio, this is The Eldritch Republic , our new series that's all about America's strange history & uncanny folklore. Toni...
The Eldritch Republic: Year of the Assassins!
There were two attempted assassinations of President Gerald Ford in September 1975. Both in California, both by women, and both with strange...
The Autumn Equinox
September 22 is the day & 11:19 a.m. is the hour when Fall finally arrives in the Mojave Desert. Add an hour for Nevada and Utah, which both...