Ranked #1
How We Got Left With A Nice Station And No Passenger Train
How We Got Left With A Nice Station And No Passenger Train
The Curious Nashville inbox has received several variations on the same question: What happened to passenger rail servic... Read more
18 Aug 2016
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15mins
Ranked #2
The Year Jimi Hendrix Jammed On Jefferson Street And How It Still Reverberates
The Year Jimi Hendrix Jammed On Jefferson Street And How It Still Reverberates
Before he was an international superstar, Jimi Hendrix spent a year on Nashville’s Jefferson Street. It’s a chapter in H... Read more
15 Dec 2016
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20mins
Ranked #3
‘Water Witching’ And The Search For Unmarked Graves
‘Water Witching’ And The Search For Unmarked Graves
This episode wanders into supernatural territory in the search for unmarked graves. It began innocently enough: A listen... Read more
28 Oct 2016
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13mins
Ranked #4
The Life And Death Of An Old House In Boomtown
The Life And Death Of An Old House In Boomtown
We tackle a question that’s elemental to Nashville these days: What happens to the waste when old houses get demolished?... Read more
13 Apr 2017
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18mins
Ranked #5
What Happens When The Wrong Stuff Gets In The Recycling Bin?
What Happens When The Wrong Stuff Gets In The Recycling Bin?
For most people, recycling means placing an empty soda can or some scrap paper in a blue bin. They might take that bin t... Read more
31 Aug 2017
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15mins
Ranked #6
The True Stories Behind Nashville’s Claims To Fame (Live Taping)
The True Stories Behind Nashville’s Claims To Fame (Live Taping)
There are some assumptions that people have about Nashville that aren’t quite right — and plenty of quirks that baffle a... Read more
23 Sep 2019
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27mins
Ranked #7
Remembering America’s Deadliest Train Crash
Remembering America’s Deadliest Train Crash
Even many Nashville natives don’t know about the head-on train crash at Dutchman’s Curve on July 9, 1918. It killed 101 ... Read more
10 Jul 2017
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12mins
Ranked #8
The Construction Pit That Became Known As A Lake — And What’s Happening Now
The Construction Pit That Became Known As A Lake — And What’s Happening Now
A massive Nashville development includes a construction pit that is eight stories deep. It looks like a quarry, with she... Read more
24 Jun 2019
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10mins
Ranked #9
Why Is It So Hard To Alter Confederate Monuments in Tennessee?
Why Is It So Hard To Alter Confederate Monuments in Tennessee?
Confederate monuments have triggered debates, protests, and even the murder of a demonstrator in Virginia. The unrest in... Read more
11 Nov 2019
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24mins
Ranked #10
Inside The Governor’s Defunct Nuclear Bomb Shelter
Inside The Governor’s Defunct Nuclear Bomb Shelter
Out in the thick woods of West Nashville there’s an epic remnant of Cold War history. But it is largely unknown. The for... Read more
19 Aug 2019
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21mins