Friday Spark
Friday Spark illuminates topics that slipped through the cracks of mainstream media. We’re blowing the dust off long-forgotten missing persons cases, social injustices, and both current and historical oddities – giving you the facts, not sensationalized attention grabs.
Episodes
13-year old James Yoblonski went missing June 12, 2023. He abandoned the family van near Devil's Lake State Park, and soon after, a makeshift campground was discovered with some of James' belongings. No other signs of James have been found since.
Sources: https://namus.nij.ojp.gov/case/MP104625
Richgels, Jeff. 2023 June 13. “Search Continuing for 12-Year-Old Boy Who Took Family Vehicle, Made Campsite in Sauk County, Authorities Sa...
Recap of the 2023 UAP Congressional Hearing. The U.S. government is in posession of crashed UAPs and non-human biologics? Servicemembers and pilots are at risk of negative repercussions for reporting UAP sightings?
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Sources: PBS News Hour. “Watch Live: UFO Congressional Hearing Explores Unexplained Aerial Phenomena.” Youtube, uploaded July 26, 2023. https...
What is witchcraft? Uncontrollable women casting spells and luring children to their death? Or is it misunderstood? 2023. Concepts of Witchcraft. encyclopedia.com. 2022. Witch Trials in the 21st Century. nationalgeographic.org 2019. Wiccan Witchcraft: Is it Real, or Nearly a Fad? osu.edu 2022. Why Paganism and Witchcraft are Making a Comeback. nbcnews.com 2023. Beyond Salem: 6 Lesser-Known Witch Trials. history.com 2023. The Salem ...
The truth about Native American boarding schools-the abuse children endured and the steps the government took to force attendance.
The Guardian. 2023. "Archeologists dig for children who died at Nebraska Native American Boarding School." US Dept of the Interior. May 2022. Federal Indian Boarding School Initiative Investigative Report. September 2023. Interior Dept Launches Effort to Preserve Federal Indian Boarding School Oral Hist...
Four siblings disappeared in the early 1990s. Two other disappearances may also be related. Do you have any information about these cases? If so, please contact the Tulsa Police Department at (918) 596-9143.
References: NamUS: namus.org Charley Project: charleyproject.org The Vivid Faces of the Vanished. 2022. Four Members of the Same Family Vanished from Tulsa, Oklahoma and Family Searching for Missing Tulsa Mother.
Welcome to the Friday Spark podcast! I'm your host, Artie, and in each episode I'll be lighting a fire under your to ask, "Why didn't I ever know about this?" "How did this happen?" "How can we bring more awareness?"
We'll talk about missing persons cases, social injustices, and present-day and historical oddities - all with one thing in common - you've probably never heard about it, and if you have, you might not know the whole t...
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