Secondhand Séance Episodes
A history lesson with a twist. Carlos interviews history’s lesser-known heroes, with SAM bringing their extraordinary stories to life through the historical record.
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Oct. 27, 2026
Secondhand Séance: Stanislav Petrov
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! Just after midnight on September 26, 1983, a Soviet early-warning system reported five American nuclear missiles headed for the Soviet Union. Lieutenant Colonel Stanislav Petrov had a telephone, a decision to make and no way to confirm what he was seeing. He reported a false alarm. He was right. But he couldn’t have known that. On this Secondhand Séance, Sam sits in for Petrov, drawi...
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Oct. 20, 2026
Secondhand Séance: Douglas "Wrong Way" Corrigan
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! Carbon & Keel's first guest has been dead for more than thirty years. SAM, the show's AI, is sitting in for him. In 1938, Douglas "Wrong Way" Corrigan left Brooklyn in a nine-year-old plane the government deemed unsound. His paperwork said California. Twenty-eight hours later, he landed in Ireland. He blamed the compass and never changed his story. Carlos gets one interview to crack it....