Nya Sverige

What if you started a colony and nobody came?

What would happen if you started a colony in the New World and then just kind of forgot about it for a few decades?

Categories: History, People & Places, Series 10

Tags: Armagott Printz Essington Township, PA Johann Björnsson Printz Johann Classon Risingh Native Americans New Jersey New Netherlands New Sweden Pennsylvania Peter Stuyvesant Presented by #13 Virginia

Published: March 21, 2022

The War Between the States

the history of the Yankee-Pennamite Wars (1768-1813)

Did you know that Connecticut and Pennsylvania went to war multiple times over the area that's now scranton? Learn all about the Yankee-Pennamite Wars!

Categories: History, Most Popular, Series 9

Tags: American Revolutionary War French and Indian War Mohawk Nation Native Americans New Jersey New York State Ohio Pennsylvania Presented by #13 The Devil and Daniel Webster Virginia West Virginia

Published: November 29, 2021

Westward Huss

here a Viking, there a Viking, everywhere a Viking Viking

Would you believe there were Vikings in Washington, DC? Or West Virginia? Or Oklahoma? Or Hawaii? How about all of the above and none of the above?

Categories: Hoaxes, Frauds & Forgeries, People & Places, Series 8, The Quest for the Past

Tags: aliens Arizona Barry Fell Eben Norton Horsford Freemasonry Hawaii Kensington Runestone Knights Templar Maine Native Americans New England Antiquities Research Association (NEARA) Norumbega Nova Scotia Ohio Olaf Strandwold Paul Knutsson Presented by #13 runes Scott Wolter Smithsonian Institution Vikings Vinland Washington, DC West Virginia

Published: October 18, 2021

Westward Huss

Minnesota Vikings can be found far beyond U.S. Bank Stadium

In which the vikings of Minnesota challenge the patriots of New England for the right to claim Vikings beat Columbus to the New World.

Categories: Hoaxes, Frauds & Forgeries, Most Popular, People & Places, Series 8, The Quest for the Past

Tags: Canada Kensington Runestone Knights Templar Native Americans North Dakota Paul Knutsson Presented by #13 runes Scott Wolter Smithsonian Institution Vikings

Published: October 11, 2021

Westward Huss

in which America asks the question: whither Vinland?

For years, archaeologists have searched in vain for the location of Leif Eriksson's Vinland. They should have just asked the good people of New England.

Categories: Hoaxes, Frauds & Forgeries, People & Places, Popular Facts & Fallacies, Series 8, The Quest for the Past

Tags: Barry Fell Boston, MA Canada Eben Norton Horsford Jöns Jacob Berzelius Leif Eiriksson Maine Massachusetts Native Americans New England Antiquities Research Association (NEARA) Norumbega Nova Scotia Presented by #13 runes Thorfinn Karlsefni Thorvald Eiriksson Vikings Vinland

Published: October 4, 2021

Burning Fire, Deep Water

neither Venezuelan nor Volcano

Burnu Acquanetta, "the Venezuelan Volcano," was an exotic beauty who took Hollywood by storm in the summer of 1942... but who was she really?

Categories: Biography, Entertainment & Media, Hoaxes, Frauds & Forgeries, Series 8

Tags: Arizona Burnu Acquanetta Ross California Hollywood Mexico City motion pictures Native Americans New York, NY Phoenix, AZ Presented by #13 racism Universal Pictures Walter Wanger

Published: August 23, 2021

He Whooped to See Them Burn

Simon Girty (1741-1818) -- renegade and traitor, or man of principle?

Was "white savage" Simon Girty (1741-1818) a renegade and traitor, or a man of principle? We reexamine his history and try to figure out what made him tick.

Categories: Biography, History, Most Popular, Series 4

Tags: American Revolutionary War British Empire Canada Detroit, MI French and Indian War Michigan Mohawk Nation Native Americans Ohio Pennsylvania Pittsburgh, PA Presented by #13 Seneca Nation The Devil and Daniel Webster United Kingdom United States of America Virginia War of 1812 West Virginia

Published: July 13, 2020