A Good Thing to Die By

the Reverend May S. Pepper and Bright Eyes

This one has it all: the afterlife, evil stepmothers, Kickapoo princesses, the Romanovs, bigamy and fraud, ghost farts and spirit chickens.

Categories: Biography, Footsteps into the Unknown, Hoaxes, Frauds & Forgeries, People & Places, Series 13

Tags: civil law extra sensory perception Ghost Church ghosts Massachusetts Native Americans New York State New York, NY paranormal Presented by #13 pseudo-science religion Rhode Island Russia Spiritualism The United Society of Believers in Christ's Second Appearing

Published: August 28, 2023

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 Dighton Rock Eben Norton Horsford Jöns Jacob Berzelius Leif Eiriksson Maine Massachusetts Native Americans New England Antiquities Research Association (NEARA) Norumbega Nova Scotia Presented by #13 pseudo-science Rhode Island runes skepticism Thorfinn Karlsefni Thorvald Eiriksson Vikings Vinland

Published: October 4, 2021