Strange Realm - Ep. 123 - Aug. 3rd, 2025

On this episode, we bring you a rapid-fire and radioactive show as we take a look at the weirdest and wildest stories this week, including robot rabbits used to hunt invasive pythons in Florida, a dangerously radioactive wasp nest found in a former nuclear weapons site, as well as a 4,400 year old Sumerian tablet has been recently translated and it contains part of a lost myth, and we look into the subterranean fairy folk known as the Tommyknockers. All of this and then, after the break, we continue our reading series as Frobisher reads more from "Beware of the Woods," by Tony Urban.

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Notes:
- Rediscovered cuneiform tablet contains part of lost myth
https://archaeology.org/news/2025/07/28/newly-deciphered-cuneiform-tablet-contains-unknown-sumerian-myth/
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/iraq/article/of-captive-storm-gods-and-cunning-foxes-new-insights-into-early-sumerian-mythology-with-an-edition-of-ni-12501/391CFC6A9361C23A0E7AF159F565A911
- Radioactive wasps nest found without any wasps!
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3dpxr85228o
- Robot rabbits built to scout for python nests in Florida
https://www.popsci.com/environment/robot-bunnies-florida-invasive-pythons/
- The Tommyknockers
https://www.urbanlegendvault.com/post/tommyknockers-the-haunted-echoes-of-the-mine
https://weirdandwildwest.substack.com/p/the-tommyknockers-of-the-colorado
- Beware of the Woods
https://www.amazon.com/Beware-Woods-Stories-Unexplained-Encounters/dp/B0C63RJ77H

Intro music: "Souvenir from a Dream" by Tom Verlaine
Outro music: "Curious Constellations" by SURGE
Background art: "The Time Machine" by Interesni Kazki (AEC)
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