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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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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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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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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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Walter Siegmeister wanted to create the master race by moving to the jungle and consuming only fruit. That wasn't even the weirdest thing about him.
Categories: Biography, Hoaxes, Frauds & Forgeries, Series 15, Wild Card
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The strange, sad, and hate-filled story of Elwood Towner, aka Chief Red Cloud, who spoke at Nazi rallies in full Native American ceremonial regalia.
Categories: People & Places
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Reader Robert Lifson sent along these mug shots of Ann O'Delia Diss Debar and they were so good I had to share.
Categories: Biography, Hoaxes, Frauds & Forgeries, Supplement
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She was the meandering metropolitan mystery who fooled police across the nation. Who was she, and why did she love bread so much?
Categories: Entertainment & Media, Series 15, Wild Card
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The greatest political cartoonists of the day, vs an easily caricatured governor with no sense of humor.
Categories: Arts & Culture, Entertainment & Media, Series 15
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Milton D. Hays just wanted to run a railroad like a tyrant, and his complete lack of ethics allowed him to realize that dream.
Categories: Feats of Building & Engineering, Series 15, Wild Card
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Octavius Valentine Catto was a man for all seasons. He could have been the leader Philadelphia needed... if he hadn't been murdered.
Categories: Biography, History, Series 15
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It was 1584 and Ivan IV, Ivan the Terrible, Tsar and Grand Prince of all Russia, was dead. The boyars of Russia now had a momentous decision to make: who would rule? Only two of Ivan’s children had managed to survive to adulthood: the Tsareviches Ivan and Fedor. Fortunately for Russia, Ivan’s oldest son Ivan […]
Categories: History, Hoaxes, Frauds & Forgeries, Series 15
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