Arcanum Obscura
Welcome to Arcanum Obscura: A Podcast of Exploration. We’ll be talking about and discussing obscure subjects like strange unsolved cases, the paranormal and supernatural, cryptids, anything bizarre that interests us. And as we talk about the topics the conversations will almost 100% branch off into random things. We’re your hosts and friends Chris and Nate and we really hope you enjoy the stories we find and bring to you, hopefully get a few laughs along the way and feel like your here with us.
Episodes
Baobhan Sith and Leanan Sidhe
As always a bit of rambling, a theory about a book series we tend to talk about often and a look at two fairy folklore, this episodes a bit shorter then usual due to some time constraints
Amy Lynn Bradley
A young woman, Amy Lynn Bradley, goes missing while on a cruise with family. What follows is a series of sightings each showing he desperation to be saved. Each sighting also adding to the tragedy and darkness of what may have happened and …
r/NoSleep July '25
Back with another r/nosleep episode. I pop into NoSleep on and off to read stories and see if there's any good or interesting ones to enjoy. I bring two stories that I thought were pretty good this week.
Watts Family Murders and Connected Paranormal Activity
This is an interesting story due to it crossing genres. After our standard rambling we talk a bit about the Watts Family murders, the horrible crime Chris Watts brought upon his wife and daughters, this then leads into the Watts Family home…
Not-Deer and Night Terror
Hello hello hello, this week we have an Appalachian Cryptid, the Not-Deer. It's an interesting deer not-deer type creature, I find the Appalachian stories rather interesting because they tend to not be too far out there, at least the ones I…
Cryptids, Tables, and Philosophy oh my!
We start off with a few cryptids and move into some small interesting philosophy theories and thought experiments. Nate has some rather... interesting cryptids this week, like the globster and the walking table.
Soup with a Dash of Injustice
We have a soup episode this week, which means we talk about anything and everything and jump all over the place, and for a portion we talk a little about missing white woman syndrome which came about from a docuseries I watched and I know w…
No Sleep 6
Hello hello hello, Nate did have plans for a paranormal episode but as we've found with paranormal stories they tend to be hard to find good ones. Lots of great stories but most are brief incidents and little to no legend of backstory, when…
Richard Cottingham aka The Torso Killer aka Times Square Ripper
A few episodes back we talked about the unsolved case of Jeannette DePalma who is thought to have possibly been a victim of the man we cover today, Richard Cottingham aka The Torso Killer aka The Times Square Ripper.
Gabriel Fernandez and the Turpin Family
We have a couple horrible cases this week, brought to you by Nate. The first case, most of you have probably heard of, is horrendous these usually tend to be my realm but now Nate has brought us one. There is a pretty in depth docu on this …
Return to r/NoSleep
We love NoSleep so we're venturing back to some stories from there today, partly because our personal schedules have been so busy as of late, as well as working on our finale episode little by little and getting things in place for our new …
A Recent Local Case and Two Confusing Cases
So the show is all Nate on this one. We start in St. Petersburgh Florida with a case of a murder suicide pact that doesn't go as planned, this case only happened last month, Feb 2025, not even a month yet. After this case Nate moves on to t…
Katrina Sarkissian
This week we do our usual catching up with some of Nates academy stories and then he brings us this interesting story. A girl with seemingly everything, a second girl, the victim, with perfect grades and possibly a bright future. One party,…
Jeanette DePalma
Back to a little true crime, this was an odd case since there isn't much info and it stills remains unsolved today. There were plenty of rumors but not much evidence to work with, then the disappearing and reappearing case files. This case …
Just a Soup Rambling Kinda Day
Due to job schedules and holidays we haven't been able to get together to record, and if your a listener you tend to know what that means. We ramble on and talk way too much to get to a story, so... that's what happened.
Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon
This week, UAP’s, this week is less about sightings and more about the gov’t acknowledging UAP’s, their definition of what constitutes a UAP and the federal site where we can go to view casefiles and conclusions investigations.
Another Soup Episode
We are back, and as you know if we miss a week we tend to banter more then usual, now we've missed a month due to holidays and vacations and we did have a plan for the episode but decided we're going to ramble way too much so lets just do a…
Updates: Missouri Dungeon and The Delphi Murder Trial
We have some updates this week on previous episodes. First we have the Missouri Dungeon case, this is the case of the woman who escaped the homemade dungeon of Timothy M. Haslett. This case is still underway and during her captivity Haslet …
Strange Deaths
This week we have some strange deaths to talk about. Nate comes with the always unusual spontaneous human combustion. Most of us have heard about the woman he talks about; images of the scene are pretty prevalent when you look into this st…
Strange Military Incidents
We are back, the hurricane prevented recording last week but here we be. This week we are going with the idea Nate had a few weeks back, talking about strange stories that were reported by people in the military.
My Sister
We had an idea for this weeks episode, we had intended to talk about strange paranormal or supernatural occurrences reported during wartime, or within the military. At the last minute I changed the plan, I wanted to talk about my sister and…
Tunnel Rats (Reddit Story)
Nate had an idea for looking at some supernatural and paranormal incidents during wartime. We have all heard of the common ones like foo fighters and gremlins though we may still delve into them. As he was looking for some he came across th…
Skinwalker Encounters
We've talked about skinwalkers before but this week I thought it may be interesting to dig through some subreddits and find personal encounters with skinwalkers, so we come with a few stories of different peoples experiences with possible s…
Channon Christian and Christopher Newsom
This is a pretty rough case like some others I have done, while reading and researching the case I found that thankfully a lot of the explicit details weren't presented in the sources I read from, this doesn't in anyway lessen how horrible …
Dark Interwebs
Nate takes control this week and brings some stories of crimes committed through. We've all heard some of these stories, not necessarily the ones Nate brings today, but warnings and unfortunate events that happen due to people either giving…
Dark Traditions
This was a tough episode, not as in hard to talk about, but hard to write anything for so we take a different approach this week. I have a list of strange possibly morbid traditions from around the world and tell them to Nate then we talk a…
Florida Man Stories
After a two week hiatus we are back with some Florida man stories. It is a crazy place down here and I'm sure you've all heard some crazy stories about this state so we decided to share a few crazy ones we found. The main one I cover is act…
Patty Hearst and a bit about Cheese
First up the story of Patty Hearst and the Symbionese group. Was she a willing or unwilling participant? Did she have Stockholm syndrome? It's a tricky one to tell given some of the things that happened. After that I have a short snippet ab…
The Hi-Fi Murders and The Geezer Bandit
If you've listened to a good amount of our episodes you may know I tend to bring the horrific stories compared to what Nate brings to the table. This week is no exception, I start us of with The Hi-Fi Murders, what is initially believed to …
David Auchterlonie and Tom Justice
True crime this week. Nate talks about something he found on reddit, the story of Tom Justice, a bank robber who was known as the Choir Boy and later the Bicycle Bank Robber, I do prefer the first name do to why they called him that and I a…
The Kurim Case and Mr. DuBoise
Another true crime episode. This week I have The Kurim Case which is a pretty horrific case involving children, though not much for details on that part of the case. The was more focus on the perpetrators and the bizarre twist. Nate follows…
Another Soup Episode
For anyone who doesn't know, a soup episode is where we just talk and joke and ramble on about anything. No stories, no creepy games, nor any true crime. Just us rambling about whatever. I explain the soup episode origins in the episode, bu…
The Devil Game
This week we have another creepypasta game. This time around it's The Devil Game, a little game/ritual to someone the devil in order to talk to him, asks questions, and possibly play some mind games. This one is a bit longer then the other …
Japanese Folklore and Yokai
We missed a couple weeks of recording, first Nates work schedule interfered with one week, then the next week I was dying of an illness.... see... a witch turned me into a newt..... I got better though. So we are back and this week we have …
Reddit Stories 6
Some more reddit stories this week. Everyone loves some r/nosleep stories! I won't go into too much about the stories. One is the story of someone playing one of those cursed games, mainly one involving an elevator. The second story is one …
Old Solar Eclipse Beliefs
Since we had the big Solar Eclipse last week I thought it may be cool to go over some different beliefs about Solar Eclipses from around the world. Some blame the actions of disgruntled gods, others giant celestial animals, and even one wit…
The Flatwoods Monster, Fresno Nightcrawlers and The Brownie
Some interesting Cryptids this week. First up is the strange flatwoods monster, I personally hate this thing now, but Nate brought it to the table so I'll just add my hate for this thing onto Nate, he could use some more. Then we have the c…
Marcus Wesson and The Bloody Benders
Another true crime week. First, Nate reads a story about Marcus Wesson, I really can't say much about this aside the guy is a monster, disgusting, a murderer, amongst many many other things. I've personally covered some pretty bad stories h…
The Wanda Beach Murders and Christopher Wilder
This week we dive back into true crime. First we head to Australia for the horrific murder of two young girls, Marianne Schmidt and Christine Sharrock. This sadly unsolved case took place in 1965 when two girls who went to the beach with fa…
The Axeman of New Orleans
Back to true crime this week. This is another unsolved case where everyone gets accused, arrested, and released, except the killer. For a short time in New Orleans and surrounding areas the people were gripped by fear as a man was sneaking …