A Warning To Future Man
either the most astonishing revelation in history... or its greatest hoax
"I myself cannot explain it. I know only that I remember Lemuria! Remember it with the absolute conviction of a fanatic..."
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Episodes
Holy Ghost Babies
ten times worse than Brigham Young (or so they say)
George Jacob Schweinfurth was a charlatan who mocked religion, stole money, and despoiled women with his hypnotic powers. Then he did something unexpected.
Categories: Eccentrics & Prophecies, People & Places, Series 11
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Independent by Accident
a brief history of Neutral Moresnet (1814-1918)
An ambitious Prince William Frederick, prince of Orange-Nassau, was an ambitious man. The House of Orange had been chased from Holland by French revolutionaries, so when the Napoleonic empire crumbled in the final months of 1813 he was determined to grab as much of the spoils as he possibly could. His ultimate ambition was to […]
Categories: History, People & Places, Series 11
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“I Am [Not] Charley Ross”
who was Gustave Blair, really?
In 1939, Gustave Blair convinced an Arizona court that he was the missing Charley Ross. But was he really? The answer has been a mystery... until now.
Categories: Bonus Episodes, Intriguing & Unsolved Mysteries, People & Places
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Your Heart’s Sorrow
the 1874 abduction of Little Charley Ross
In 1874 four-year-old Charley Ross was kidnapped in front of his family's Philadelphia home... and became America's first case of kidnapping for ransom.
Categories: Intriguing & Unsolved Mysteries, People & Places, Series 11
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The Buzzer Brigade
a shocking scandal in the world of sport
Years before baseball played its first game under electric lights, the 1900 Philadelphia Phillies used electricity at the Baker Bowl... to steal signs.
Categories: Bonus Episodes, Man's Amazing Inventions, Sports & Leisure
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An Arm Is Not Enough
a shark, a severed human arm, and a high speed boat chase; Australia's strangest unsolved mystery has it all
On Anzac Day 1935, a shark in a Sydney aquarium vomited up a severed human arm. The police investigation that followed went to some truly strange places.
Categories: Intriguing & Unsolved Mysteries, People & Places, Series 10
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The White City
an interview with Michael Finney of the Chicago 1893 Project
We're talking with Michael Finney about the 1893 Chicago World's Fair, what it meant to the city and the nation, and resurrecting it augmented reality.
Categories: Arts & Culture, Feats of Building & Engineering, Series 10
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The Best Exotic Marigold Gospel
for one messiah, this is just the beginning of an exotic adventure
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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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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Brimful of Wrath and Cabbage
a double dram of true Dutch courage
A satirical (and entirely fictional) account of the fall of Fort Christina from early America's greatest humorist, Washington Irving.
Categories: Bonus Episodes, Supplement
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Nya Sverige
What if you started a colony and nobody came?
What would happen if you started a colony in the New World and then just kind of forgot about it for a few decades?
Categories: History, People & Places, Series 10
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