Nothing But A Number
how old is Charo, really?
For our milestone episode #100 we contemplate one of the most confounding conundrums of our age... How old is Charo, really?
Categories: Biography, Entertainment & Media, Series 13
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"Series 13"
Jackass Forever
Joe Magarac: folklore or fakelore?
Is the story of Joe Magarac, the American steel industry's answer to Paul Bunyan, an authentic folk tale or a relatively recent invention?
Categories: Myths & Legends, People & Places, Series 13
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Vote for Pedro
Wyoming's own midget mummy
It was the summer of 1932. Cecil Main and Frank Carr from Alliance, Nebraska were gophering for gold in the San Pedro Mountains west of Casper, Wyoming. As two men made their way through a gulch, they caught a glint of “color” on a nearby rock face. They lit a stick of dynamite to see […]
Categories: Intriguing & Unsolved Mysteries, Series 13, Wild Card
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Fuller Houses
R. Buckminster Fuller and his various Dymaxion Houses
It was a marvel of modern technology that promised to create freedom by liberating the mind... so why aren't you living in one right now?
Categories: Arts & Culture, Feats of Building & Engineering, Series 13
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Steampunk Google and the World City
Paul Otlet and the Mundaneum
A system that could search all the information ever created, from anywhere in the world, at the touch of a button... and made from index cards.
Categories: Eccentrics & Prophecies, People & Places, Series 13
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The First Battle of the American Revolution
why it's not the Battle of Point Pleasant
Everyone knows the first battles of the American Revolution were Lexington and Concord... unless, that is, you live in Point Pleasant, West Virginia.
Categories: People & Places, Popular Facts & Fallacies, Series 13
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Neither Here Nor There
the strange second life of a proud people
In which a mysterious lost people turn out to not be so mysterious after all... and maybe not even all that lost, if the Internet can be believed.
Categories: Intriguing & Unsolved Mysteries, People & Places, Series 13
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Dangerous Excitement
good times never felt so good
The Canadian revolution seemed over... and then the Redcoats seized an American ship, set it on fire, and sent it plunging over Niagara Falls.
Categories: History, Series 13
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Armor Class 4
the best defense is never to exist in the first place
An instructive tale where Victorian scholars look back at five centuries of armor and just start making stuff up, because they're just ever-so-clever.
Categories: Popular Facts & Fallacies, Series 13, Sports & Leisure, The Quest for the Past
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Fruitcake Subculture Conspiracy Revisited
Christmas's most maligned tradition strikes back
Listen up, fruitcake... or, rather, listen up -- fruitcake! Everything you never wanted to know about your least favorite holiday treat.
Categories: Arts & Culture, Series 13, Strange Customs & Superstitions
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Seven Years in Hell
the murder of Susan Mummey, the Witch of Ringtown Valley
For seven years he lived in hell, tormented nightly by a demon cat and the spectre of death. Finally, an angel told him what he had to do to end it all...
Categories: Footsteps into the Unknown, People & Places, Series 13
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A Good Thing to Die By
the Reverend May S. Pepper and Bright Eyes
This one has it all: the afterlife, evil stepmothers, Kickapoo princesses, the Romanovs, bigamy and fraud, ghost farts and spirit chickens.
Categories: Biography, Footsteps into the Unknown, Hoaxes, Frauds & Forgeries, People & Places, Series 13
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