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Sometimes people make things up and try to pass them off as genuine folklore. And sometimes, other people believe them.
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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Back in July, #42 sent us a some cool photos of the jackalope's wild and weird Bavarian cousin, the wolpertinger.
Categories: Supplement
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Where did Jesus get his ideas? Some people think he learned them in India. And some of those people have even ginned up fake evidence for that theory...
Categories: Hoaxes, Frauds & Forgeries, Series 10, Wild Card
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A satirical (and entirely fictional) account of the fall of Fort Christina from early America's greatest humorist, Washington Irving.
Categories: Bonus Episodes, Supplement
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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
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Douglas Herrick invented the jackalope in 1932 by "enhancing" a mounted rabbit with a set of deer antlers. It's a nice story, but is it true?
Categories: Legendary Lands & Beasts, Series 1, Wild Card
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