Nuns on the Run
Six Months in a Convent
In August 1834 Bostonians burned down a convent full of nuns, thanks to religious prejudice and the suspicious testimony of a lazy teenager with a grudge.
Categories: History, Series 13
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Space is the Place
Doctor York and the United Nuwaubian Nation of Moors
The strange transformation of a Qu'ran study group into a UFO doomsday cult with a quick break in the middle for disco fever.
Categories: Eccentrics & Prophecies, People & Places, Series 13
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A Month of Billys
was Billy Sunday good at baseball?
Billy Sunday was America's foremost evangelist, whose admirers included young men, ex-presidents, and titans of industry... but how was his baserunning?
Categories: Biography, Series 13, Sports & Leisure
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Make Insurance Double Sure
the incredible tale of the Blue-Eyed Six
Joseph Raber was "too lazy to live and too lazy to work" -- the perfect victim for six conspirators who insured him to the gills and murdered him.
Categories: People & Places, Series 13
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Crepuscule in Blood and Guts
the most curious incident in the life of James McNeill Whistler
This one has it all: sibling rivalry, country club politics, adultery, duels, the Civil War, Spanish colonial policy, and three giant piles of bird poop.
Categories: Arts & Culture, Daring & Epic Journeys, Series 13
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Gone Guy
how can a man vanish into thin air? simple: he can't
In 1809 Benjamin Bathurst vanished into thin air and was never seen again. We're still debating what happened to him some 213 years later.
Categories: Intriguing & Unsolved Mysteries, People & Places, Series 13
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Errata #3
in which we own up to even more mistakes
Errata for Wonder Marvelously; A Warning to Future Man; Air Crash Museum; Worse Than Frankenstein; Seven Minutes in Heaven; 520%; and more.
Categories: Bonus Episodes, Errata
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Unto Us A Child Is Born
William W. Davies and the Walla Walla Jesus
Mormons believe that Jesus once lived in the Americas. Some of them once believed he lived on the outskirts of Walla Walla, WA from 1868-1880.
Categories: Eccentrics & Prophecies, History, Series 12
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The Ape-Man Creature of Whiteface Customized My Van
the story of the Minnesota Iceman
How two famous zoologists were fooled by a shifty carnival worker, a rubber dummy, and a three ton block of ice.
Categories: Hoaxes, Frauds & Forgeries, Series 12, Wild Card
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520%
if something seems too good to be true, it probably is
William F. Miller promised a 520% return on your investment... and for many it was too good an offer to pass up. Too bad it was all a scam.
Categories: History, Hoaxes, Frauds & Forgeries, Series 12
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Wild and Wonderful
In October, #13 took a road trip to visit some podcast-related sites in West Virginia.
Categories: Supplement
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