Fluffy Raffles Comes to Town
who?
She was the meandering metropolitan mystery who fooled police across the nation. Who was she, and why did she love bread so much?
Categories: Entertainment & Media, Series 15, Wild Card
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"Wild Card"
Sometimes the best category is no category at all.
Such Was Railroading
the Castle Shannon Railway War
Milton D. Hays just wanted to run a railroad like a tyrant, and his complete lack of ethics allowed him to realize that dream.
Categories: Feats of Building & Engineering, Series 15, Wild Card
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The Choice of the Next Generation
the Cola Wars in space
War! The balance of power in the Cola Wars has been shifting for years. Coke has swept into NASA and is about to send its signature beverage into orbit, but not if the Pepsi has anything to say about it...
Categories: Man's Amazing Inventions, Series 14, The Enigma of Space, Wild Card
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Vote for Pedro
Wyoming's own midget mummy
It was the summer of 1932. Cecil Main and Frank Carr from Alliance, Nebraska were gophering for gold in the San Pedro Mountains west of Casper, Wyoming. As two men made their way through a gulch, they caught a glint of “color” on a nearby rock face. They lit a stick of dynamite to see […]
Categories: Intriguing & Unsolved Mysteries, Series 13, Wild Card
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The Ape-Man Creature of Whiteface Customized My Van
the story of the Minnesota Iceman
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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Worse Than Frankenstein
the story of West Virginia's second-most-famous monster
On September 12, 1952 a housewife and six kids in West Virginia ascended a foggy mountain and had an encounter with the unknown at the top.
Categories: Footsteps into the Unknown, Series 12, Wild Card
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Jelly Time
what's the difference between jam and jelly?
...and for that matter, what the heck is marmalade? Have no fear, #7 has all the answers!
Categories: Arts & Culture, Series 11, Wild Card
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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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Lost Legacy
the Mitchell-Hedges Crystal Skull of Doom
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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His Royal Snakeship
or perhaps just one of his country cousins
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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What-Is-It?
there's an animal roaming round the town that is certainly gaining great renown
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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