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• August 15, 2022Uncategorized

  Nazis in America: The Madison Square Garden Rally

  In 1929, as many as 22,000 Americans met for a Nazi rally in New York’s Madison Square Garden. It was an event of the German-American Bund and attendees cheered while […]

• August 8, 2022Uncategorized

  Is The Original English Accent Still Alive in Parts of the United States?

  On the isolated island community of Tangier, Virginia, the residents speak with a dialect that is entirely unique. It’s part southern drawl, part “brogue,” and some have claimed it’s a […]

• August 1, 2022Uncategorized

  100th Episode Special: The Dublin Whiskey Fire: Why 13 People Died

  For our 100th episode, we’re talking about the awful fire that happened in Dublin, Ireland in 1875. It resulted in 13 people dying, but none of them from the fire! […]

• July 25, 2022Uncategorized

  Mass Hysteria and The War of the Worlds

  Did a radio broadcast about Aliens cause mass Hysteria in America in 1938? The Internet Says…maybe. Orson Welles’s radio performance of H.G. Wells’s War of the Worlds has become infamous […]

• July 18, 2022Uncategorized

  The Georgia Guidestones and Their Demise


  For more than 40 years, a strange, Stonehenge-like monument with a mysterious creator stood in a field in rural Georgia. It was inscribed with instructions for humanity. On July 6, […]

• July 11, 2022Uncategorized

  The Plan to Blow Up the Moon 


  Alexander Abian was a brilliant math professor at Iowa State University. But he had one crazy idea: that all of the problems of the world could be solved by DESTROYING […]

• July 4, 2022Uncategorized

  Dumbest Civil Unrest Ever: The Straw Hat Riots

  In the late 18th and early 19th centuries, men were expected to wear straw hats in the summer, but switch to felt hats in mid-September. If a man didn’t switch […]

• June 27, 2022Uncategorized

  Pablo Escobar’s Cocaine Hippos


  Colombia’s Cocaine Kingpin smuggled 4 hippos onto his estate in the late 70s and now, almost 30 years after his death, they’ve multiplied into a bloat of more than 100 […]

• June 20, 2022Uncategorized

  Birds Aren’t Real: LIVE from the Columbus Arts Festival

  BIRDS AREN’T REAL! You may have seen signs at political rallies or internet memes expressing this satirical conspiracy theory. In this episode, we recorded LIVE at the Columbus Arts Festival […]

• June 13, 2022Uncategorized

  The Nebraska Miracle: The West End Baptist Church Explosion (REBROADCAST of Episode 51)

  Originally released August 30, 2021. In 1950, the West-End Baptist Church in Beatrice, Nebraska exploded from a gas leak. The church should have been full of a practicing choir, but […]