Errata #2

in which we own up to some more mistakes

Errata for The Hot House; French Leave; The Icelander; "I'm the Naughty Boy"; What-Is-It?; Moron or Madman?; Suffer Little Children; and more.

Categories: Bonus Episodes, Errata

Tags: baseball Bayard Pfundtner Peakes civil law Colonel John Ignatius Rogers Colonel Joseph H. Wood communism dime museum Dr. Cyrus Reed Teed "Koresh" Dr. Dicran Hadjy Kabakjian Dr. Dinshah Pestanji Framji Ghadiali Dr. John Ballou Newbrough Ed Delahanty Elizabeth Rowell Thompson Fairmount Park Henry M. Bennett Ira Colver Sparks Jersey Devil Laura Biggar Oahspe Olaf Strandwold Philadelphia Phillies Philadelphia, PA Pontifacts Presented by #13 Silver Lake Tales from Aztlantis The Constant Thorfinn Karlsefni Union of Soviet Socialist Republics Walter Wanger

Published: November 1, 2021

What-Is-It?

there's an animal roaming round the town that is certainly gaining great renown

For one week in January 1909, the Jersey Devil walked among us. Maybe.

Categories: Footsteps into the Unknown, Hoaxes, Frauds & Forgeries, Legendary Lands & Beasts, Myths & Legends, Series 6, Wild Card

Tags: cryptozoology dime museum fakelore Jersey Devil New Jersey Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA Presented by #13 witchcraft

Published: January 25, 2021

Spirit Princess

one woman, thirty aliases, forty years and too many crimes to count

The greatest and most notorious Spiritualist swindler of all time was a woman from Kentucky who looked a bit like Lola Montez (if you squinted).

Categories: Biography, Hoaxes, Frauds & Forgeries, Series 3

Tags: "General" Joseph Hubert Diss Debar "Prince" Michael Keyfor Mills Ann O'Delia Diss Debar Baltimore, MD Boston, MA Canada Catholicism Chicago, IL crime cult David Livingston Mackay Detroit, MI dime museum Dr. Cyrus Reed Teed "Koresh" Florida Fort Myers, FL Freeman Bernstein Harmony Society Illinois Joseph D. Townsend Koreshan Unity London, England Massachusetts Michigan New York, NY Presented by #13 religion Spiritualism Theosophical Society Theosophy United Kingdom Windsor, ON

Published: March 23, 2020