Lawrence Weschler takes a trip to the Museum of Jurassic Technology, an institution unlike any other in the world. While there, he stumbles upon stories so strange that he doesn't know what to make of them. Do you?

William Prochnau and Laura Parker visited paradise, and found it troubled. "Settled in 1790 by mutineers from the storied H.M.S. Bounty, Pitcairn Island is one of the British Empire’s most isolated remnants, a mystical hunk of rock that was largely ignored until 1996," they write. "Then Pitcairn’s secret was exposed: generations of rape and child molestation as a way of life." The piece explores the South Pacific island’s past, including its 10-year clash with the British legal system.

Listener Kliph Nesteroff profiled a baseball player. "How many hits did Pittsburgh Pirates pitcher Dock Ellis have to contend with on June 12th, 1970? Depending on your interpretation of the question it was several or none," he writes. "In an amazing story that is rarely in any baseball highlight reel, Ellis pitched the only LSD induced no-hitter in the history of major league baseball. Let's see Barry Bonds or Alex Rodriguez enhance their game on psychedelics (no really, let's see it!). Dock Ellis was baseball's first true king of performance enhancing drugs. Ah, but wait... there's more. Dock Ellis is probably the only player in history that intentionally tried to injure his opponents during the event usually so full of jocular goodwill, the annual All-Star game. He's one of the few (the only?) to be pepper sprayed by stadium security upon arrival."

Eric Wills finds a man who is trying to find a creature. "Thirteen years ago, William Dranginis saw Bigfoot," he writes. "Fifty grand, a van, and a camera in a log later, the quest continues."

And Lisa Katayama's story may be the strangest of all. "Nisan is part of a thriving subculture of men and women in Japan who indulge in real relationships with imaginary characters. These 2-D lovers, as they are called, are a subset of otaku culture— the obsessive fandom that has surrounded anime, manga and video games in Japan in the last decade," she writes. "It’s impossible to say exactly what portion of otaku are 2-D lovers, because the distinction between the two can be blurry. Like most otaku, the majority of 2-D lovers go to work, pay rent, hang out with friends (some are even married). Unlike most otaku, though, they have real romantic feelings for their toys. The less extreme might have a hidden collection of figurines based on anime characters that they go on 'dates' with during off hours. A more serious 2-D lover, like Nisan, actually believes that a lumpy pillow with a drawing of a prepubescent anime character on it is his girlfriend."