The Balloon Doggies Demanded It
why I hate Jeff Koons
Jeff Koons is, without a doubt, the quintessential artist of our age. Which is probably why I hate him so much.
Categories: Arts & Culture, Intriguing & Unsolved Mysteries, Series 16
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"Series 16"
Skeedaddled and Gone to Hell
the rise and fall of Pithole
It was the fifth-largest city in Pennsylvania and the largest oil field in the world. And then, abruptly, it was an empty field.
Categories: Feats of Building & Engineering, People & Places, Series 16
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The Ancient and Esoteric Order of the Chocolope
how much chocolate is in your chocolate
Topics too nerdy for one podcast, and too chocolatey for the other. Today we ask"How much chocolate is in your chocolate?"
Categories: Arts & Culture, Bonus Episodes, Man's Amazing Inventions, Series 16
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No Heretic Has Suffered Less
Immanuel Velikovsky and Worlds in Collision
In the 1940s, psychoanalyst Immanuel Velikovsky decided the reason ancient history didn't make any sense was simple: it was all Venus's fault.
Categories: Popular Facts & Fallacies, Science & Nature, Series 16, The Enigma of Space, The Quest for the Past
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With Fairies Wise
The Brotherhood of the New Life
Thomas Lake Harris channeled history's greatest poets to write history's worst poems... and the poets told him he was the new Messiah.
Categories: Eccentrics & Prophecies, People & Places, Series 16
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Mutiny on the Storozhevoy
a second Communist Revolution
In 1975, an idealistic Soviet officer decided it was time to restart the Communist Revolution by fomenting mutiny on a state-of-the-art destroyer.
Categories: Daring & Epic Journeys, History, Series 16
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All That Glitters
MFA Boston's golden hoard
In 1970 MFA Boston acquired a trove of golden bronze age jewelry... The problem was they had no idea where it came and did'nt care.
Categories: Arts & Culture, Bonus Episodes, Series 16, The Quest for the Past
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Not Science, But Vendetta
the Dorak Affair
Did James Mellaart stumble across a treasure that challenges everything we know about archaeology... or did he make it all up?
Categories: Arts & Culture, Hoaxes, Frauds & Forgeries, Intriguing & Unsolved Mysteries, Series 16, The Quest for the Past
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There’s Gold in Them Thar Waves
the Electrolytic Marine Salts Company of Lubec, Maine
Prescott Ford Jernegan claimed he could extract gold from seawater. It was a classic something for nothing scam... So why did so many people fall for it?
Categories: Hoaxes, Frauds & Forgeries, Series 16, Wild Card
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