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Helen Duncan was the last person persecuted in Britain for being a witch. Except she wasn't the last, she wasn't a witch, and she wasn't exactly persecuted either...
Categories: Footsteps into the Unknown, Hoaxes, Frauds & Forgeries, People & Places, Series 14
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The story of Borley Rectory, the most haunted house in England. Just remember that the most and least haunted house are the exact same amount of haunted...
Categories: Footsteps into the Unknown, Hoaxes, Frauds & Forgeries, People & Places
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In 1835 Maria Monk claimed that Montreal's Hôtel-Dieu convent was a vice den. She was making it all up... but Americans desperately wanted to believe her.
Categories: History, Hoaxes, Frauds & Forgeries, Series 13
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How two famous zoologists were fooled by a shifty carnival worker, a rubber dummy, and a three ton block of ice.
Categories: Hoaxes, Frauds & Forgeries, Series 12, Wild Card
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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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It is the embodiment of all evil? Can it kill with a thought? Can it unlock the secrets of the universe? Whatever it can do, it's the Skull of Doom!
Categories: Footsteps into the Unknown, Hoaxes, Frauds & Forgeries, Series 9, Wild Card
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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
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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, People & Places, Series 8, The Quest for the Past
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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
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In 1855 the town of Perry, New York was terrorized by a "sea serpent" in nearby Silver Lake. It was a hoax... but whose hoax was it?
Categories: Bonus Episodes, Hoaxes, Frauds & Forgeries, Legendary Lands & Beasts, Wild Card
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The story of the "weeping icon" has it all - a 102-year-old flying nun, the Gulf War, armed robbery, John Gotti, religious schism, and insurance fraud. Hear the amazing truth in this week's episode, "Goodnight, Irene"!
Categories: Hoaxes, Frauds & Forgeries, People & Places, Series 2
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