Kulopus
the Q Shaman of 1940
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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"World War II"
The second war to end all wars, since clearly the first one didn’t work!
The Marshal is Missing!
the heist of Marshal Pétain's remains
In February 1973, French right wingers broke into the grave of of fascist dictator Philippe Pétain and made off with his mortal remains.
Categories: Daring & Epic Journeys, History, Series 15
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Deeply Impressed
Helen Duncan goes on trial
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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Jackass Forever
Joe Magarac: folklore or fakelore?
Is the story of Joe Magarac, the American steel industry's answer to Paul Bunyan, an authentic folk tale or a relatively recent invention?
Categories: Myths & Legends, People & Places, Series 13
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Fuller Houses
R. Buckminster Fuller and his various Dymaxion Houses
It was a marvel of modern technology that promised to create freedom by liberating the mind... so why aren't you living in one right now?
Categories: Arts & Culture, Feats of Building & Engineering, Series 13
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Steampunk Google and the World City
Paul Otlet and the Mundaneum
A system that could search all the information ever created, from anywhere in the world, at the touch of a button... and made from index cards.
Categories: Eccentrics & Prophecies, People & Places, Series 13
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The Realest Housewife of Beverly Hills
confidante of kings, movie stars, and mobsters
The Countess di Frasso was the most famous hostess in the world, who threw parties for kings; actors, athletes and aviators; Nazis and mobsters.
Categories: Arts & Culture, Biography, Eccentrics & Prophecies, Entertainment & Media, People & Places, Series 13
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Seven Minutes in Heaven
the misbegotten existence of William Dudley Pelley (1890-1965)
One man's horrifying journey from toilet paper salesman to famous author to spiritual guru to American Hitler to space brother.
Categories: Biography, Eccentrics & Prophecies, History, Series 12
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Wonder Marvelously
you will not believe, though it be told to you
Everyone always talks about Nazi super-weapons, but nobody talks about Allied super-weapons. So how about a British aircraft carrier made out of ice?
Categories: Man's Amazing Inventions, Series 10, Wild Card
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Moron or Madman?
in which science is subordinated to politics
Trofim D. Lysenko (1898-1976) set back the study of biology in the Soviet Union for two generations -- but the lessons you should learn from his story are not the one scientists and philosophers have pushed.
Categories: Biography, History, Hoaxes, Frauds & Forgeries, Science & Nature, Series 7, The Marvels of Science
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“I’m the Naughty Boy.”
you love science — but probably not nearly as much as Bayard Peakes did
On July 14, 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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Cold Hard Cash
the rai stones of Yap, David Dean O'Keefe, and the nature of money
Would you trade your house for a rock? Before you say no, keep this in mind: it's a really really nice rock!
Categories: People & Places, Series 2, Strange Customs & Superstitions
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