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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! […]
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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 […]
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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, […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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The Woman Who Fell From the Sky and Lived (REBROADCAST of Episode 44)
Originally released July 5, 2021. In 1971, Juliane Koepcke’s airplane was struck by lightning and broke apart 2 miles above the Peruvian Jungle. Miraculously, she was the only one out […]
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Broken Arrow: The Time We Almost Nuked South Carolina (REBROADCAST of Episode 38)
Originally released May 24, 2021. In our history, we’ve had at least 32 “Broken Arrow” incidents: instances of nuclear weapons accidents that don’t cause a nuclear war. One of those […]
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