Here at the lab, we're excited to report that recording has officially begun on Season 3! We have some amazing strange-but-true science lined up for you and can't wait to share! Prepare yourself! The lab reopens on Monday, March 9th! (*insert sound of creaky door*)

As the Earth embarks upon another rotation around the sun, we here at Spooky Science Lab want to wish all our listeners a very happy new year! May 2026 bring you health, happiness, and lots of spooky science! Also, keep watching this space for exciting news about Season 3, coming soon!

Listeners of the podcast may remember the episode we did on Lazarus Syndrome (season 2, episode 7), where elderly people were pronounced dead only to seemingly return to life a few hours later, often to the great surprise of funeral home staff. (1/2)

Podcast listener Tina came to this past weekend's Merrimack Valley Halloween Book Festival in a Spooky Science Lab t-shirt and had her picture taken with your faithful co-host @nicholaskaufmann.bsky.social! (1/2)

The lab was contacted by podcast listener Giasone to let us know he was representing Spooky Science Lab with a t-shirt while attending Dreadcon in Burlington, Ontario! Much appreciated, Giasone! (1/2)

Exciting news from podcast co-host Nicholas Kaufmann!

Today is co-host @davidwellington.bsky.social's birthday! The best gift you can get him--aside from a real-life shrink ray--also happens to be a gift for yourself! Treat yourself to something from our merch store today in Dave's honor! www.teepublic.com/user/spooky-...

Savvy listeners will have picked up on the fact that Spooky Science Lab is recorded in New York City. What they may not know is that NYC is also home to 2,143 species of fungus, including "carnivorous mushrooms that use little lassos to rope little worms."

Cerebral organoids (the lab-grown brain cells we discussed in episode 19) are back in the news! We at the lab already thought they were creepy, but this article *really* creeped us out!

What it's like hosting a podcast about strange science.

Now that the podcast is on break until Season 3, we at the lab would like to remind you about our merch store! Buying merch is a great way to support the podcast so we don't have to resort to putting ads in the episodes (boooo!). Check it out and let everyone know you like your science spooky!

That's a wrap on Season 2! Spooky Science Lab is going on break for a bit, and then we'll be back for Season 3! In the meantime, don’t forget that we have merch now! Check out our merch store here: www.teepublic.com/user/spooky-... (1/2)

It's the Season 2 finale! In this episode: Nick explores the chilling (in more ways than one) world of ice mummies. From Beechey Island in the Arctic to the summits of the Austrian Alps, the bodies of the dead lay frozen and preserved, including one "iceman" discovered to be 5,300 years old! (1/2)

Spooky Science Lab is back! This week: Nick takes us back in time to the eruption of Krakatoa in 1883, one of the most devastating volcanic eruptions in history. Not only did it kill tens of thousands, it also changed the Earth's climate in ways that still affect us over 100 years later. (1/2)

Spooky Science Lab is back! This week: Nick brings us back to the ocean to visit one of its most bizarre inhabitants, the jellyfish. Some have tentacles 100 feet long, others have a sting that can kill you in under five minutes, but most fascinating are the ones who've achieved immortality. (1/2)

Remember back in episode 19 when we talked about cerebral organoids, tiny lab-grown human brain cells? We estimated that in five or ten years, you would be able to buy a computer that runs on brain cells. We were wrong. It's already here!

Spooky Science Lab is back with a new episode! This week: • Nick takes us to the deepest ocean depths to meet the alien-looking anglerfish and its bizarre, disturbing mating habits. Think you've been on weird dates? You haven't seen anything yet! (1/2)

Spooky Science Lab is back with a new episode! This week: Nick introduces listeners to the horrifying horsehair worm, a water-dwelling parasitic organism whose brutal lifecycle puts its insect host through hell, culminating in the worm's unique ability to compel its host to drown itself. (1/2)

Special news from co-host Nicholas Kaufmann, everyone's fungus friend! The new anthology of fungus-related horror stories, DARK SPORES, is on sale now and features Nick's story "Dead and Forgotten in Manhattanville"! It's a chilling tale chock full of strange spores and fungal frights! (1/2)

Spooky Science Lab is back with a new episode! This week: Nick explores Lazarus Syndrome, a rare occurrence where people who are declared dead mysteriously wake up hours later, sometimes just minutes away from being embalmed. The dead are rising, but this isn't a zombie movie, it's real life! (1/2)

We love seeing our fans enjoying our merch! While attending Boskone 62 this weekend, Nick ran into Ethan from Boston, MA looking smart in a Spooky Science Lab tee! If you haven't checked out our merch store yet, you can find it right here: www.teepublic.com/user/spooky-...

Spooky Science Lab is back with a new episode! This week: • Nick shrinks Dave to the size of a bacterium and sends him into the savage battlefield of the human immune system, a breathtaking biological enterprise that's second in complexity only to the human brain. (1/2)

Spooky Science Lab is back with a new episode! This week: • Nick gets too close for comfort to a tree the Guinness Book of World Records called "the deadliest tree in the world." With poisonous fruit, toxic bark, and lethal sap, there's no doubt the manchineel tree wants you dead. (1/2)

🥳 This is incredible news! We're so honored and grateful to reach this milestone! A big, big thank you to all our listeners! We hope you'll keep listening! Here's to the next thousand downloads!

Spooky Science Lab is back with a new episode! This week: • Nick recounts the true story of a young Australian man who, in 2010, ate a garden slug on a dare. What followed was a swift physical deterioration, eventually putting him into a coma. But slugs aren't poisonous, so what happened? (1/2)

We're back with a new episode! This week: • Nick recounts the bizarre events that befell the coastal city of Capitola, California in 1961, when thousands of seabirds attacked the city, an incident eerily similar to Alfred Hitchcock's famous movie The Birds, yet this happened two years before. (1/2)

We love seeing our fans enjoying our merch!Here's Emily Mintz from NYC looking fashionable in a classic black Spooky Science Lab tee! If you've got a t-shirt or any of our other merch, send a picture of you wearing or holding it to [email protected] and we'll post it on our social media!

Spooky Science Lab is back with a new episode! This week: • Nick leads us into the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone to the remains of the reactor itself, where a most unexpected organism has made its home. Not only is it resistant to radiation, it appears to be feeding on radiation to grow and reproduce.

Spooky Science Lab is back with the first episode of Season 2! This episode was recorded before a live audience at the Flying Fox Tavern on September 15, 2024. As a result, the sound quality is a little dicey. You'll want to increase the volume -- but beware of the cocktail shaker of death! (1/3)

We love seeing our fans enjoying our merch! Here's Giasone Italiano from Toronto, Canada looking rad in a Spooky Science Lab t-shirt! If you've got merch, send a picture to [email protected] and we'll post it on our social media! (1/2)

Here at the lab, we love seeing fans enjoying our merch! Here's J.M. from Connecticut with a Spooky Science Lab t-shirt he got for Christmas! If you've got merch, send a picture to [email protected] and we'll post it on our social media!

As the Earth embarks upon another rotation around the sun, we here at Spooky Science Lab want to wish all our listeners a very happy new year! May 2025 bring you health, happiness, and lots of spooky science!

Here at the lab, we can't think of a better Christmas gift than to learn Spooky Science Lab has been downloaded 750 times in our first year! (1/3)

⚡️ Great Scott! There's exciting news afoot! The second season of Spooky Science Lab is launching on Monday, January 13th! Get ready for more episodes of strange-but-true science that will shock, mystify, and creep you out! (1/2)

Happy Cyber Monday! You know what makes a great gift for friends and loved ones? Merch from your favorite podcast! Check out our shop at the link, where you'll find Spooky Science Lab t-shirts, hoodies, mugs, phone cases, tote bags, stickers, and more! (1/2)

🎉 Fans of Spooky Science Lab, we're hard at work recording episodes for Season 2! In the meantime, we're proud to announce we have merch now! T-shirts, hoodies, mugs, tote bags, phone cases, etc.--all featuring our iconic logo designed by the extremely talented @erricknunnally.bsky.social! (1/2)

A podcast listener with excellent taste!

Here is a picture of your faithful hosts @nicholaskaufmann.bsky.social and David Wellington (plus the podcast's official mascot Mary Tyler Spore) recording a brand-new episode of Spooky Science Lab in front of a live crowd at the Flying Fox Tavern!

Spooky Science Lab live is TODAY! Be there for this MAJOR EVENT!

🌟 THIS SUNDAY! 🌟 Join us at the Flying Fox Tavern in Ridgewood, Queens for a brand-new episode of Spooky Science Lab recorded in front of a LIVE AUDIENCE! Admission is free! Doors open at 5 PM! Don't miss this event of a lifetime! RSVP at the link if you're into that kind of thing!

Coming this Sunday, September 15th -- Spooky Science Lab Live! Join us at the Flying Fox Tavern in Ridgewood, Queens for a brand-new episode recorded LIVE! Admission is free! Doors open at 5 PM! Don't miss this event of a lifetime! RSVP at the link if you're into that kind of thing!

Your faithful co-host Nick (@nicholaskaufmann.bsky.social, center) speaking on the panel "Verdant and Creeping: The Land Plant (Embryophyte) in Weird Film and Fiction" at NecronomiCon providence in August! The ballroom was packed with attendees, proving once again that people love strange science!

Don't forget, "Spooky Science Lab Live" is coming on Sunday, September 15th! Join us at the Flying Fox Tavern in Ridgewood, Queens for a brand-new episode recorded in front of a LIVE AUDIENCE! Admission is free! Doors open at 5 PM! Don't miss this event of a lifetime!

We're thrilled to announce Spooky Science Lab has reached yet another milestone: 500 downloads! It's been so amazing to see the numbers tick up as more and more listeners find and enjoy the podcast! From the bottom of our dark little hearts, thank you!

Your faithful co-host Nick (@nicholaskaufmann.bsky.social) speaking on the panel "The Mad Scientists Club: Using Real Science in Your Horror Fiction" at Necon 42 this past weekend!

👀 Things to do this summer without new episodes of Spooky Science Lab: • Catch Nick at Necon 42, July 18th - 21st, where he will be speaking on the panel "The Mad Scientists Club: Using Real Science in Your Horror Fiction" (1/3)

🍾 Here's a toast to finishing the first season of SPOOKY SCIENCE LAB! We enjoyed sharing so many strange-but-true science facts with you, our listeners, but what we liked even more was all the great feedback we got from people who love the podcast! (1/3)

Spooky Science Lab is back with our final episode of the season! This week: • Nick tells the story of a massive herd of earthworms discovered in the shape of a perfect spiral on the ground--a "wormnado"--and examines what could have caused this seemingly impossible phenomenon. (1/2)

Spooky Science Lab is back with a new episode! This week: • Dave discusses the theory of "panspermia," which suggests that life on Earth might have started in outer space. Is it possible human beings are actually aliens? (1/2)

Spooky Science Lab is back with a new episode! This week: • Nick shrinks Dave and drops him inside a Venus flytrap to explore what happens to the prey of this fascinating carnivorous plant. Don't worry, it's for science! (1/2)