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Restoration Obscura Field Guide Podcast

The Restoration Obscura Field Guide is a podcast where photography and history converge to uncover the stories time tried to erase. Through restored images, archival research, and immersive storytelling, it explores the hidden corners of the past, from the backroads of Upstate New York to forgotten places across the nation and around the world. Each episode uses photography and historical restoration as a lens to preserve the past, rediscover lost narratives, and bring overlooked history back into

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The Petersburgh Snow Hole

Restoration Obscura Field Guide Podcast ·

2026/01/14

The Restoration Obscura Field Guide PodcastThe Petersburgh Snow Hole: The Cold Chamber of the Taconic RangeAvailable on: Amazon, Apple Podcasts, Audible, Spotify, and all major streaming platformsEpisode OverviewThis episode examines the Petersburgh Pass Snow Hole, a naturally occurring cold-air trap in the Taconic range of eastern New York that has drawn scientific attention, local curiosity, and recreational visitation for more than two centuries. Formed by fractured bedrock and subsurface voids,

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36:23

The Champlain Lake Monster

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2025/12/03

The Restoration Obscura Field Guide PodcastThe Champlain Lake Monster: A History of Deepwater MythsLake Champlain has always carried stories. Its deep glacial trench, shifting weather, and cold, opaque channels create a landscape where memory and imagination overlap. Indigenous traditions described powerful beings in these waters, shaping how people understood the lake long before newspapers arrived.19th-Century Sightings — In the nineteenth century, sensational culture turned local tales into a

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55:04

When the Grid Failed

Restoration Obscura Field Guide Podcast ·

2025/11/18

The Restoration Obscura Field Guide Podcast: When The Grid Failed: The Blackouts of 1965, 1977, and 2003Major blackouts have repeatedly reshaped the Northeast and shown how people respond when the systems that sustain daily life fail without warning. Through the events of 1965, 1977, and 2003, the episode follows the links between technology, civic trust, and the ways communities adapt when the lights vanish. These nights reveal the conditions that defined their eras, from postwar confidence to

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17:56

The Body Snatchers of Albany, NY

Restoration Obscura Field Guide Podcast ·

2025/10/31

The Body Snatchers of Albany - The Hidden History Beneath Washington ParkEpisode OverviewBefore Washington Park became the heart of New York’s capital city, it was a burial ground. The land that now welcomes joggers, dog walkers, and picnickers once held the city’s poor, the unnamed, and the unclaimed. In the early nineteenth century, this ground became the quiet center of a trade that helped shape modern American medicineThis episode examines how Albany’s early medical community relied on grave

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33:50

The Abair Bigfoot Incident

Restoration Obscura Field Guide Podcast ·

2025/10/21

The Restoration Obscura Field Guide PodcastThe Abair Bigfoot Incident — The Story of the Adirondack SasquatchLength: ~40 minutesAvailable on: Amazon, Apple Podcasts, Audible,, Spotify, and all major streaming platformsEpisode OverviewThis episode of the The Restoration Obscura Field Guide examines one of the most discussed encounters in Adirondack folklore: the Abair Bigfoot Incident of 1976 in Whitehall, New York.This story is less about proof and more about how belief, doubt, and local memory

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17:16

RO Dispatch: Exploring Albany's Underground

Restoration Obscura Field Guide Podcast ·

2025/10/12

RO Dispatch: Exploring Albany's Underground: Ghost Routes Under New York's Capitol CityThis episode marks the debut of the Restoration Obscura Dispatch, a new series of short, focused explorations drawn from the fieldwork behind the Restoration Obscura Field Guide podcast. Each Dispatch opens a single file from the archives—self-contained stories that examine the hidden layers of history, architecture, and memory embedded in the world around us. They’re compact in length, but built with the same

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38:39

A History of the Dark

Restoration Obscura Field Guide Podcast ·

2025/10/07

Season 2 of the Restoration Obscura Field Guide Podcast ReturnsThe Field Guide returns with a new season, and with it, a new way of seeing.Season 2 opens with an episode that serves as both companion and counterpart to my new book, Restoration Obscura’s Field Guide to the Night: History Hidden in Darkness. The two are connected by theme and intention, the book explores darkness through history, art, and memory, while the episode invites you to hear that history as a living conversation.The episode

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Season Two: The Restoration Obscura Field Guide...

Restoration Obscura Field Guide Podcast ·

2025/09/25

Season Two of the Restoration Obscura Field Guide Podcast is here.In this new chapter, we go deeper into the histories that hide in plain sight—forgotten infrastructure, vanished towns, Cold War secrets, and the cultural echoes that still shape our present. Expect immersive stories, archival discoveries, and a closer look at how memory and place are tied together.Alongside the podcast, I’ve also released my book, Field Guide to the Night—an exploration of darkness as both a physical reality and a

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39:05

Nuclear Sites of the Adirondacks

Restoration Obscura Field Guide Podcast ·

2025/06/23

Episode 6: Nuclear Sites of the AdirondacksGhosts of the Cold WarWhat if the most remote parts of the Adirondacks weren’t just quiet, but armed?In Episode 6 of the Restoration Obscura Field Guide Podcast, we travel deep into the forests of Upstate New York to uncover a Cold War legacy that was never meant to be seen. Hidden beneath the soil and scattered through remote clearings is a network of infrastructure built to survive and deliver nuclear war. This isn’t metaphor or folklore. It was a real

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26:38

Albany Interrupted

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2025/06/09

Episode 5: Albany Interrupted:The Lost Neighborhoods of the Empire State PlazaEpisode Summary: The Empire State Plaza was built to showcase power, but its construction came at a steep human cost. Governor Nelson Rockefeller’s vision transformed the heart of Albany into a marble civic center meant to project modernity and control. But to build it, nearly 100 acres of working-class neighborhoods were condemned and demolished. Thousands of residents were displaced. Streets like Jefferson, Hamilton, and

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33:35

After the Rain

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2025/05/19

Episode 4: After the Rain: The Storm That Dumped Radiation on Troy, New York Restoration Obscura Field Guide PodcastWritten and hosted by John BulmerIn this episode of the Restoration Obscura Field Guide, we investigate one of the Capital Region’s most unsettling Cold War legacies—a radioactive rainstorm that quietly fell over Troy, New York, in the spring of 1953. Drawing on Bill Heller’s A Good Day Has No Rain, along with government documents and independent research, this story traces how nuclear

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26:27

The Bloody Pit

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2025/05/05

Restoration Obscura Field Guide – Episode 3The Bloody Pit: Hoosac Tunnel, Western MassachusettsBeneath the Berkshires, a nearly five-mile tunnel cuts through Hoosac Mountain—a staggering feat of 19th-century engineering. Officially called the Hoosac Tunnel, it’s more commonly known by its darker name: The Bloody Pit.This episode tells the full story, from the tunnel’s origins in the mid-1800s as an ambitious plan to link Boston with upstate New York, to the nearly 25 years of brutal labor it took to

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28:48

The Thing in the Sky

Restoration Obscura Field Guide Podcast ·

2025/04/21

Episode 2: The Thing in the Sky – The Hudson Valley UFO Sightings of the 1980sThis episode of the Restoration Obscura Field Guide Podcast traces the mysterious wave of UFO sightings that overtook New York’s Hudson Valley in the 1980s. These weren’t fringe accounts or fantasy. Over a decade, more than 5,000 credible reports described massive, silent, triangular crafts gliding low over towns. Witnesses included police officers, pilots, engineers, and everyday commuters. Some said the objects followed

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8:18

How to Read the City Like a History Book

Restoration Obscura Field Guide Podcast ·

2025/04/18

Introducing the Restoration Obscura Field Guide PodcastI’m excited to share something new with you today: the launch of the Restoration Obscura Field Guide Podcast—an ongoing audio companion to the work I’ve been doing here with words and images.Each episode of the Field Guide is a standalone journey into forgotten, hidden, or overlooked history. Some episodes are solo explorations—narrative stories told through deep research and firsthand observation. Others will feature interviews with historians,

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