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August 21, 2023Uncategorized

Mass Hysteria and The War of the Worlds – rewind

Originally released July 25, 2022. 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 […]
August 14, 2023Uncategorized

The Man Who Survived BOTH Atomic Bombs in Japan: Tsutomu Yamaguchi – REWIND

Originally released March 21, 2022. Tsutomu Yamaguchi was one of the only people to survive both the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945. He was the only one […]
August 7, 2023Uncategorized

Broken Arrow: The Time We Almost Nuked South Carolina – REWIND

Originally released May 23, 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 […]
July 31, 2023Uncategorized

Willy Higinbotham: A Name You Should Know, But Don’t – REWIND

First released November 2, 2020. Willy Higinbotham is considered by many to be the inventor of the world’s first video game. But there’s more – he was also on the […]
July 23, 2023Uncategorized

Nub City: The Worst Kind of Insurance Fraud

In the late 1950s and early 60s, a rash of dismemberment claims were filed in the panhandle of Florida. Most of the new amputees in the whole country were turning […]
July 17, 2023Uncategorized

Torches of Freedom: Women’s Right to Smoke Cigarettes

One of the many marches for Women’s Rights through the years has been somewhat forgotten by history: The right to smoke cigarettes. In the 1920s, there was a push-back against […]
July 10, 2023Uncategorized

Tarrare: The Man Who Ate Everything

Tarrare was a French 18th century man who is known to history for having the largest appetite known to man. He would regularly eat ridiculous amounts of food without ever […]
July 5, 2023Uncategorized

Eugene the Mummy and Other Displayed Bodies

NEW EPISODE! What happens when a person is found deceased and has no one to claim them. In the old days, they were put on display. And in this episode, […]
June 26, 2023Uncategorized

A Titanic Hero at Dunkirk: Charles Lightoller – Rewind

Originally released October 18, 2021. Charles Lightoller was the Second Officer on board the ill-fated maiden voyage of the H.M.S. Titanic. Only saved by an exploding boiler, he went on […]
June 19, 2023Uncategorized

The Hidden Village Under Central Park – Rewind

Originally released September 14, 2020. Seneca Village was one of our nation’s first, free middle-class black communities. Its memory was nearly lost to history. In this podcast, we explore what happened […]

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