Best of: Exploring the Unexplained with Brett Talley, Part 2 of 2

Each October, one of my favorite things to do is sit down with author Brett Talley to explore the unexplained. In our best of series on this Halloween, I am sharing the first two episodes in our annual tradition.

Links to the other episodes are below. For the first episodes I had not yet met Hannah Hill, but her amazing artwork on the later episodes is worth a link all on it's own.

Happy Halloween! Today, Part 2 of our conversation with Author Brett Talley of the Prosecutors Podcast, we discuss our fascination with mysteries and conspiracies, why it would suck if the world was dull and how horror helps us process the real terror out there.

We discuss some of our favorite real-life mysteries, like the Dyatlov Pass incident, the Khaber Daban incident, what happened to the Mary Celeste ship and others. We also discuss how the FBI’s Behavioral Analysis Unit uses statistics to solve crimes and, how, if all true crime was about probabilities, life would be a little less interesting.

We also make a plug for the podcast of our friend, former FBI Criminal Profiler Julia Cowley, The Consult , which launches with new episodes tomorrow. Here’s a link to the Prosecutors Podcast and Brett’s author page on . 2023: Exploring the Unexplained 41.

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