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James H. Snook: Known for More Than a Hook
In a departure from our regular style of episodes, this one is a strange tale that I stumbled on by mistake. I was doing some wildlife photography in a cemetery […]
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Graham Crackers: Invented for WHAT?!
You won’t believe why graham crackers were invented. When Sylvester Graham invented this snack in the 19th century, it had nothing to do with hunger. Well, at least not THAT […]
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Broken Arrow: The Time We Almost Nuked South Carolina – REWIND
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 was in 1958, in which […]
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The Pepsi Cola Navy: Soviet Trade Gone Strange – REWIND
Originally released August 30, 2021. For a very short time period, the Pepsi Cola Company had the sixth largest navy in the world. It was the result of a crazy […]
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Stinky Illinois: The Mad Gasser of Mattoon
It turns out that iIn the mid-1940s, there was a rash of very strange calls to police in the small city of Mattoon, IL. More than a dozen people believed […]
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Did Giants Exist? George Hull and the Cardiff Giant
It turns out that it’s pretty easy to convince people that a race of giant humans used to roam the Earth. Because of a biblical passage in Genesis 6, lots […]
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General Patton’s Abandoned Rear
Through a strange misunderstanding, a small town in France maintained the grave of a fallen American soldier for several decades. It wasn’t a soldier’s grave at all, but a spot […]
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The Explosion at Black Tom Island
One of the largest examples of sabotage during World War I happened half a mile from the Statue of Liberty and hardly anyone knows the story. On July 30, 1916, […]
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The Men from Mars: Sideshow Exploitation
In sideshow exhibits around the world, George and Willie Muse were known as “Eko and Iko, the Ambassadors from Mars.” The truth was they were African American Albino brothers who […]
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The Vexing Vampires of Venice
When a 16th century mass grave was excavated near Venice, Italy, a skull was found with a brick wedged in its mouth. Researchers have found the strange reasoning for the […]
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