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Forty miles north of Chicago lies Zion, IL, a sleepy city with a sordid history of faith healing, financial fraud, flat Eartherism... and figs?
Categories: Eccentrics & Prophecies, People & Places, Series 6
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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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Sometimes a journey of ten thousand miles starts with mailing yourself from San Francisco to Honolulu.
Categories: Daring & Epic Journeys, Eccentrics & Prophecies, Intriguing & Unsolved Mysteries, People & Places, Series 6
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For years the Monongahela Valley was terrorized by the Torso Burchianti Gang. Except maybe that gang wasn't quite as fearsome as the cops thought...
Categories: People & Places, Series 6
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A fun night out at the theater featuring ethnic jokes, slapstick violence, a sappy moral, three tons of feminine pulchritude, and a dead cat.
Categories: Bonus Episodes, Entertainment & Media, Wild Card
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How many times will folks fall for the same old tricks? You might be surprised. The story of Prince Mike, King Ben, and the Houses of Israel and David.
Categories: Biography, Eccentrics & Prophecies, People & Places, Series 5
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In 1929 it was a sensation, "the most notorious witchcraft trial since Salem." Today it's all but forgotten. Let's talk about the York County Hex Murder.
Categories: Footsteps into the Unknown, People & Places, Series 5
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The idea that color has healing power is a relatively modern (and utterly fallacious) one. We discuss its development through the 19th and 20th centuries.
Categories: Hoaxes, Frauds & Forgeries, Science & Nature, Series 5
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Why, exactly, was there a statue of a Viking explorer in Philadelphia? And why isn't it there now?
Categories: Arts & Culture, Daring & Epic Journeys, Series 5
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On July 14th, 1952 a mysterious man walked into the office of the American Physical Society and murdered secretary Eileen Fahey for no apparent reason.
Categories: Science & Nature, Series 5
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Errata for Cold Hard Cash; Hold Fast What Thou Hast; Spirit Princess; Milking It for All It's Worth; Pleadings from Asbury Park and The Centers of All Things.
Categories: Bonus Episodes, Errata
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Dr. Cyrus Reed Teed may have been a madman, or the Messiah, but only he was bold enough to tell the truth: that we live on the inside of a hollow Earth.
Categories: Biography, Eccentrics & Prophecies, Most Popular, Series 4
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