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Futility Closet
Forgotten stories from the pages of history. Join us for surprising and curious tales from the past and challenge yourself with our lateral thinking puzzles.365-Lateral Thinking Puzzles
Published: Nov. 29, 2021, 5 a.m.Duration: 32 minutes
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364-Sidney Cotton's Aerial Reconnaissance
Published: Nov. 22, 2021, 5 a.m.Duration: 34 minutes 12 seconds
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363-The Lambeth Poisoner
Published: Nov. 15, 2021, 5 a.m.Duration: 33 minutes 34 seconds
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362-The Leatherman
Published: Oct. 25, 2021, 5 a.m.Duration: 33 minutes 14 seconds
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361-A Fight Over Nutmeg
Published: Oct. 18, 2021, 5 a.m.Duration: 29 minutes 30 seconds
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360-Haggard's Dream
Published: Oct. 11, 2021, 5 a.m.Duration: 30 minutes 38 seconds
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359-Stranded in Shangri-La
Published: Oct. 4, 2021, 5 a.m.Duration: 30 minutes 3 seconds
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358-The Radium Girls
Published: Sept. 13, 2021, 5 a.m.Duration: 30 minutes 34 seconds
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357-Scenes From an Earthquake
Published: Sept. 6, 2021, 5 a.m.Duration: 33 minutes 45 seconds
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356-A Strawberry's Journey
Published: Aug. 30, 2021, 5 a.m.Duration: 30 minutes 23 seconds
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355-The Auckland Islands Castaways
Published: Aug. 23, 2021, 5 a.m.Duration: 32 minutes 17 seconds
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354-Falling Through a Thunderstorm
Published: Aug. 16, 2021, 5 a.m.Duration: 33 minutes 5 seconds
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353-Lateral Thinking Puzzles
Published: Aug. 9, 2021, 5 a.m.Duration: 32 minutes 22 seconds
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352-A Victorian Hippopotamus
Published: July 26, 2021, 5 a.m.Duration: 31 minutes 44 seconds
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351-Notes and Queries
Published: July 19, 2021, 5 a.m.Duration: 33 minutes 21 seconds
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350-Symmes' Hole
Published: July 12, 2021, 5 a.m.Duration: 32 minutes 19 seconds
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349-The National Hotel Disease
Published: July 5, 2021, 5 a.m.Duration: 32 minutes 15 seconds
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348-Who Killed the Red Baron?
Published: June 28, 2021, 5 a.m.Duration: 32 minutes 59 seconds
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347-The Cottingley Fairies
Published: June 21, 2021, 5 a.m.Duration: 30 minutes 25 seconds
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346-A Desperate Winter in Antarctica
Published: June 14, 2021, 5 a.m.Duration: 33 minutes 1 second
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345-Climbing Mont Blanc
Published: June 7, 2021, 5 a.m.Duration: 32 minutes 15 seconds
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344-Martin Couney's Incubator Babies
Published: May 24, 2021, 5 a.m.Duration: 30 minutes 26 seconds
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343-Operation Cowboy
Published: May 17, 2021, 5 a.m.Duration: 31 minutes 16 seconds
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342-A Slave Sues for Freedom
Published: May 10, 2021, 5 a.m.Duration: 33 minutes 1 second
Intro:
In 1992, a Florida bankruptcy judge held a computer in contempt of court.
The 1908 grave of Vermont atheist George P. Spencer is inscribed with his credo.
Sources for our feature on Sally Miller:
Carol Wilson, The Two Lives of Sally Miller: A Case of Mistaken Racial Identity in Antebellum New Orleans, 2007.
Paul Finkelman, Free Blacks, Slaves, and Slaveowners in Civil and Criminal Courts: The Pamphlet Literature, 2007.
Gwendoline Alphonso, "Public & Private Order: Law, Race, Morality, and the Antebellum Courts of Louisiana, 1830-1860," Journal of Southern Legal History 23 (2015), 117-160.
Emily West, "The Two Lives of Sally Miller," Slavery & Abolition 30:1 (March 2009), 151-152.
Carol Lazzaro-Weis, "The Two Lives of Sally Miller: A Case of Mistaken Racial Identity in Antebellum New Orleans," Journal of Southern History 74:4 (November 2008), 970-971.
Frank Towers, "The Two Lives of Sally Miller: A Case of Mistaken Identity in Antebellum New Orleans," American Historical Review 113:1 (February 2008), 181-182.
Scott Hancock, "The Two Lives of Sally Miller: A Case of Mistaken Racial Identity in Antebellum New Orleans," Journal of American History 94:3 (December 2007), 931-932.
Daneen Wardrop, "Ellen Craft and the Case of Salom\\xe9 Muller in Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom," Women\'s Studies 33:7 (2004), 961-984.
Patricia Herminghouse, "The German Secrets of New Orleans," German Studies Review 27:1 (February 2004), 1-16.
Marouf Hasian Jr., "Performative Law and the Maintenance of Interracial Social Boundaries: Assuaging Antebellum Fears of \'White Slavery\' and the Case of Sally Miller/Salome M\\xfcller," Text & Performance Quarterly 23:1 (January 2003), 55-86.
Ariela Gross, "Beyond Black and White: Cultural Approaches to Race and Slavery," Columbia Law Review 101:3 (April 2001), 640-690.
Stephan Talty, "Spooked: The White Slave Narratives," Transition 85 (2000), 48-75.
Carol Wilson, "Sally Muller, the White Slave," Louisiana History: The Journal of the Louisiana Historical Association 40:2 (Spring 1999), 133-153.
Ariela J. Gross, "Litigating Whiteness: Trials of Racial Determination in the Nineteenth-Century South," Yale Law Journal 108:1 (October 1998), 109-188.
Carol Wilson and Calvin D. Wilson, "White Slavery: An American Paradox," Slavery & Abolition: A Journal of Slave and Post-Slave Studies 19:1 (1998).
Wilbert E. Moore, "Slave Law and the Social Structure," Journal of Negro History 26:2 (April 1941), 171-202.
"Case of Salome M\\xfcller," Law Reporter 8:7 (November 1845), 332-333.
Nina C. Ayoub, "\'The Two Lives of Sally Miller: A Case of Mistaken Racial Identity in Antebellum New Orleans,\'" Chronicle of Higher Education, Oct. 19, 2007.
Carol Edwards, "Story of German Slave Girl \'Extraordinary,\' But Is It True?", [Charleston, S.C.] Post and Courier, March 20, 2005.
Mary-Liz Shaw, "\'The Lost German Slave Girl\' Unravels a Mystery of Old South," Knight Ridder Tribune News Service, Jan. 26, 2005.
Gregory M. Lamb, "The Peculiar Color of Racial Justice," Christian Science Monitor, Jan. 25, 2005.
Linda Wolfe, "Sally Miller\'s Struggle to Escape Slavery Ended in Celebrated Case," Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Jan. 23, 2005.
Debra J. Dickerson, "Making a Case for Freedom: Was a White German Girl Forced Into Slavery?" Boston Globe, Jan. 23, 2005.
Jonathan Yardley, "The Case of Sally Miller," Washington Post, Jan. 20, 2005.
"Strange Case in New Orleans," Alexandria Gazette, July 3, 1845.
"City Affairs," New-York Daily Tribune, July 11, 1844.
Madison Cloud, Improvising Structures of Power and Race: The Sally Miller Story and New Orleans, dissertation, Baylor University, 2015.
Carol Wilson, "Miller, Sally," American National Biography, April 2008.
Listener mail:
David Lazarus, "Wonder Where Generic Drug Names Come From? Two Women in Chicago, That\'s Where," Los Angeles Times, July 23, 2019.
"Naming Law in Sweden," Wikipedia (accessed April 30, 2021).
"Baby Named Metallica Rocks Sweden," BBC News, April 4, 2007.
Meredith MacLeod, "Sweden Rejects \'Ford\' as Name for Canadian-Swedish Couple\'s Son," CTVNews, Nov. 9, 2018.
"Naming Law," Wikipedia (accessed April 30, 2021).
"Naming in the United States," Wikipedia (accessed April 30, 2021).
Tovin Lapan, "California Birth Certificates and Accents: O\'Connor Alright, Ram\\xf3n and Jos\\xe9 Is Not," Guardian, April 11, 2015.
"AB-82 Vital records: diacritical marks" (as amended), California Legislative Information, Sept. 15, 2017.
This week\'s lateral thinking puzzle was contributed by listener Charlotte Greener. Here\'s a corroborating link (warning -- this spoils the puzzle).
You can listen using the player above, download this episode directly, or subscribe on Google Podcasts, on Apple Podcasts, or via the RSS feed at https://futilitycloset.libsyn.com/rss.
Please consider becoming a patron of Futility Closet -- you can choose the amount you want to pledge, and we\'ve set up some rewards to help thank you for your support.\\xa0You can also make a one-time donation on the Support Us page of the Futility Closet website.
Many thanks to Doug Ross for the music in this episode.
If you have any questions or comments you can reach us at podcast@futilitycloset.com. Thanks for listening!
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341-An Overlooked Bacteriologist
Published: May 3, 2021, 5 a.m.Duration: 30 minutes 53 seconds
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340-A Vanished Physicist
Published: April 26, 2021, 5 a.m.Duration: 33 minutes 9 seconds
Intro:
By design, no building in Washington, D.C., is taller than the Washington Monument.
The Vienna Vegetable Orchestra plays instruments made of fresh vegetables.
Sources for our feature on Ettore Majorana:
Erasmo Recami, The Majorana Case: Letters, Documents, Testimonies, 2019.
Salvatore Esposito, Ettore Majorana: Unveiled Genius and Endless Mysteries, 2017.
Salvatore Esposito, The Physics of Ettore Majorana, 2015.
Salvatore Esposito et al., eds., Ettore Majorana: Notes on Theoretical Physics, 2013.
Salvatore Esposito, Erasmo Recami, and Alwyn Van der Merwe, eds., Ettore Majorana: Unpublished Research Notes on Theoretical Physics, 2008.
Francesco Guerra and Nadia Robotti, "Biographical Notes on Ettore Majorana," in Luisa Cifarelli, ed., Scientific Papers of Ettore Majorana, 2020.
Mark Buchanan, "In Search of Majorana," Nature Physics 11:3 (March 2015), 206.
Michael Brooks, "The Vanishing Particle Physicist," New Statesman 143:5233 (Oct. 24, 2014), 18-19.
Francesco Guerra and Nadia Robotti, "The Disappearance and Death of Ettore Majorana," Physics in Perspective 15:2 (June 2013), 160-177.
Salvatore Esposito, "The Disappearance of Ettore Majorana: An Analytic Examination," Contemporary Physics 51:3 (2010), 193-209.
Ennio Arimondo, Charles W. Clark, and William C. Martin, "Colloquium: Ettore Majorana and the Birth of Autoionization," Reviews of Modern Physics 82:3 (2010), 1947.
Graham Farmelo, "A Brilliant Darkness: The Extraordinary Life and Mysterious Disappearance of Ettore Majorana, the Troubled Genius of the Nuclear Age," Times Higher Education, Feb. 18, 2010.
Frank Close, "Physics Mystery Peppered With Profanity," Nature 463:7277 (Jan. 7, 2010), 33.
Joseph Francese, "Leonardo Sciascia and The Disappearance of Majorana," Journal of Modern Italian Studies 15:5 (2010), 715-733.
Frank Wilczek, "Majorana Returns," Nature Physics 5:9 (2009), 614-618.
Barry R. Holstein, "The Mysterious Disappearance of Ettore Majorana," Journal of Physics: Conference Series 173, Carolina International Symposium on Neutrino Physics, May 15\\u201317, 2008.
Joseph Farrell, "The Ethics of Science: Leonardo Sciascia and the Majorana Case," Modern Language Review 102:4 (October 2007), 1021-1034.
Zeeya Merali, "The Man Who Was Both Alive and Dead," New Scientist 191:2563 (Aug. 5, 2006), 15.
Erasmo Recami, "The Scientific Work of Ettore Majorana: An Introduction," Electronic Journal of Theoretical Physics 3:10 (April 2006), 1-10.
Ettore Majorana and Luciano Maiani, "A Symmetric Theory of Electrons and Positrons," Ettore Majorana Scientific Papers, 2006.
R. Mignani, E. Recami, and M. Baldo, "About a Dirac-Like Equation for the Photon According to Ettore Majorana," Lettere al Nuovo Cimento 11:12 (April 1974), 568-572.
Angelo Paratico, "Science Focus: Italy Closes Case on Physician\'s Mysterious Disappearance," South China Morning Post, Feb. 15, 2015.
Antonino Zichichi, "Ettore Majorana: Genius and Mystery," CERN Courier 46 (2006), N6.
Peter Hebblethwaite, "Saints for Our Time," Guardian, April 17, 1987.
Walter Sullivan, "Finding on Radioactivity May Upset Physics Law," New York Times, Jan. 14, 1987.
Nino Lo Bello, "Is Missing Atomic Scientist Working for the Russians?" [Cedar Rapids, Iowa] Gazette, May 3, 1959.
Listener mail:
"Farmers Project Is Right on Time," New Zealand Herald, Feb. 6, 2012.
"Farmers Opens New Napier Store," Scoop, June 6, 2013.
Megan Garber, "The State of Wyoming Has 2 Escalators," Atlantic, July 17, 2013.
Brandon Specktor, "Believe It or Not, This State Only Has Two Escalators -- Here\'s Why," Reader\'s Digest, Sept. 8, 2017.
Audie Cornish and Melissa Block, "Where Are All of Wyomings Escalators?" NPR, July 18, 2013.
Natasha Frost, "Spiral Escalators Look Cool, But Do They Make Sense?" Atlas Obscura, July 5, 2017.
"Spiral Escalator," Elevatorpedia (accesssed April 17, 2021).
"Aussie," Wikipedia (accessed April 16, 2021).
"Sir George Cockburn, 10th Baronet," Wikipedia (accessed April 14, 2021).
"Naming Cockburn," City of Cockburn (accessed April 14, 2021).
This week\'s lateral thinking puzzle is taken from Anges Rogers\' 1953 book How Come?: A Book of Riddles, sent to us by listener Jon Jerome.
You can listen using the player above, download this episode directly, or subscribe on Google Podcasts, on Apple Podcasts, or via the RSS feed at https://futilitycloset.libsyn.com/rss.
Please consider becoming a patron of Futility Closet -- you can choose the amount you want to pledge, and we\'ve set up some rewards to help thank you for your support.\\xa0You can also make a one-time donation on the Support Us page of the Futility Closet website.
Many thanks to Doug Ross for the music in this episode.
If you have any questions or comments you can reach us at podcast@futilitycloset.com. Thanks for listening!
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339-The Baron of Arizona
Published: April 19, 2021, 5 a.m.Duration: 32 minutes 16 seconds
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338-A Point of Law
Published: April 5, 2021, 5 a.m.Duration: 29 minutes 48 seconds
Intro:
In 1850, an English doctor claimed to have given first aid to a pike.
In 1970, Air Force pilot Gary Foust ejected from his F-106 and watched it land itself.
Sources for our feature on the Hammersmith ghost:
W.M. Medland and Charles Weobly, A Collection of Remarkable and Interesting Criminal Trials, Actions at Law, &c., 1804.
Thomas Faulkner, The History and Antiquities of the Parish of Hammersmith, 1839.
James Paterson, Curiosities of Law and Lawyers, 1899.
Thomas Faulkner, An Historical and Topographical Account of Fulham: Including the Hamlet of Hammersmith, 1813.
R.S. Kirby, Kirby\'s Wonderful and Scientific Museum: Or, Magazine of Remarkable Characters, Volume 2, 1804.
Jacob Middleton, "An Aristocratic Spectre," History Today 61:2 (February 2011), 44-45.
Alfred Whitman, "A Hundred Years Ago -- 1804," Strand 28:168 (December 1904), 632-638.
Augustus K. Stephenson, "Ghost Stories of 100 Years Ago," Journal of the Society for Psychical Research 208:11 (April 1904), 214-220.
John Ezard, "Ghostly Murder Haunts Lawyers 200 Years On," Guardian, Jan. 2, 2004.
"The Case of the Murdered Ghost," BBC News, Jan. 3, 2004.
"Killing of a \'Ghost\' That Haunted Courts for 180 Years," [Glasgow] Herald, Jan. 3, 2004.
"Experts to Remember Spectral Shooting," Birmingham Post, Jan. 3, 2004.
Arifa Akbar, "Club Hosts Gathering in Honour of Famous Ghost Case," Independent, Jan. 3, 2004.
Martin Baggoley, "The Hammersmith Ghost and the Strange Death of Thomas Millwood," Crime Magazine, April 9, 2015.
"\'Laying\' a Ghost," [Brisbane] Telegraph, March 8, 1924.
"A Ghost Story of 100 Years Ago," Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate, Oct. 29, 1910.
"From the Courts," Brisbane Courier, Dec. 22, 1906.
"Strange Stories of London Ghosts," [Melbourne] Leader, Oct. 6, 1900.
"Dream Evidence," [Adelaide] Express and Telegraph, Feb. 21, 1891.
"Ghosts, Witches, and Hangmen," Moreton [Qld.] Mail, Nov. 22, 1889.
"Glimpses of the Past," Bury and Norwich Post, Sept. 7, 1886.
"Resuscitation of the Hammersmith Ghost," [London] Examiner, Dec. 15, 1833.
"The Hammersmith Ghost," [London] Morning Post, Dec. 6, 1824.
"A New Hammersmith Ghost," [London] Morning Chronicle, Dec. 4, 1824.
"Old Bailey," Aberdeen Journal, Jan. 25, 1804.
"Murder -- Hammersmith Ghost," Bury and Norwich Post, Jan. 18, 1804.
"From the London Gazette," Hampshire Telegraph and Naval Chronicle, Jan. 16, 1804.
"The Hammersmith Ghost," Caledonian Mercury, Jan. 14, 1804.
"The Real Hammersmith Ghost," Staffordshire Advertiser, Jan. 14, 1804.
Trial proceedings from the Old Bailey.
Jane Alexander, "The Time Someone Shot a Ghost Dead in Hammersmith," Londonist, Oct. 25, 2019.
Ross Macfarlane, "The Hammersmith Ghost," Wellcome Library blog, Oct. 31, 2009.
Kelly Buchanan, "The Case of a Ghost Haunted England for Over Two Hundred Years," In Custodia Legis, Library of Congress, Oct. 30, 2015.
Gabrielle Keane, Locating Literature in the Ghost Hoax: An Exploration of 19th-Century Print News Media, dissertation, University of Pittsburgh, 2019.
Jen Cadwallader, Spirits of the Age: Ghost Stories and the Victorian Psyche, dissertation, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2009.
Listener mail:
"Bing (TV series)," Wikipedia (accessed March 24, 2021).
"List of Bing episodes," Wikipedia (accessed March 24, 2021).
Amber Tully, "Should You Put Ice on a Burn (or Not)?" Cleveland Clinic, June 12, 2018.
"Minor Burns - Aftercare," MedLine Plus, Aug. 13, 2020.
Anahad O\'Connor, "The Claim: Ice Is Good for a Skin Burn," New York Times, June 10, 2008.
Luis Villazon, "How Many UK Spiders Are Actually Dangerous?" BBC Science Focus (accessed March 24, 2021).
"Spider," Wikipedia (accessed March 30, 2021).
"Not So False After All: Venom of the Noble False Widow Spider Very Similar to the Venom of \'True\' Black Widows," NUI Galway, June 18, 2020.
John P. Dunbar et al., "Venomics Approach Reveals a High Proportion of Lactrodectus-Like Toxins in the Venom of the Noble False Widow Spider Steatoda nobilis," Toxins, 12:6 (June 18, 2020), 402.
"Study Finds Noble False Widow Spiders Bite Can Transmit Harmful Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria to Humans," NUI Galway, Dec. 1, 2020.
This week\'s lateral thinking puzzle was contributed by listener Stephen Harvey, who sent these corroborating links (warning -- these spoil the puzzle).
You can listen using the player above, download this episode directly, or subscribe on Google Podcasts, on Apple Podcasts, or via the RSS feed at https://futilitycloset.libsyn.com/rss.
Please consider becoming a patron of Futility Closet -- you can choose the amount you want to pledge, and we\'ve set up some rewards to help thank you for your support.\\xa0You can also make a one-time donation on the Support Us page of the Futility Closet website.
Many thanks to Doug Ross for the music in this episode.
If you have any questions or comments you can reach us at podcast@futilitycloset.com. Thanks for listening!
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337-Lost in a Daydream
Published: March 29, 2021, 5 a.m.Duration: 31 minutes 18 seconds
Intro:
In 1936, Evelyn Waugh asked Laura Herbert whether "you could bear the idea of marrying me."
In 1832, Mrs. T.T. Boddington was struck by lightning.
Charlotte Anne Moberly (left) and Eleanor Jourdain. Sources for our feature on the incident at Versailles:
Charlotte Anne Elizabeth Moberly and Eleanor Frances Jourdain, An Adventure, 1913.
Roger Clarke, A Natural History of Ghosts: 500 Years of Hunting for Proof, 2012.
Terry Castle, "\'An Adventure\' and Its Skeptics," Critical Inquiry 17:4 (Summer 1991), 741-772.
Laura Schwartz, "Enchanted Modernity, Anglicanism and the Occult in Early Twentieth-Century Oxford: Annie Moberly, Eleanor Jourdain and Their \'Adventure,\'" Cultural and Social History 14:3 (2017), 301-319.
Keith Reader, "The Unheimliche Hameau: Nationality and Culture in The Moberly/Jourdain Affair," Australian Journal of French Studies 57:1, 93-102.
Fabio Camilletti, "Present Perfect: Time and the Uncanny in American Science and Horror Fiction of the 1970s (Finney, Matheson, King)," Image & Narrative 11:3 (2010), 25-41.
Rosemary Auchmuty, "Whatever Happened to Miss Bebb? Bebb v The Law Society and Women\'s Legal History," Legal Studies 31:2 (June 2011), 199-230.
Roger J. Morgan, "Correspondence," Journal of the Society for Psychical Research 76:909 (Oct. 1, 2012), 239-240.
Terry Castle, "Marie Antoinette Obsession," Representations 38 (Spring 1992), 1-38.
Richard Mawrey, "Phantom of the Trianon," Historic Gardens Review 25 (July 2011), 12-17.
Roger Betteridge, "How a Spooky Adventure Came Back to Haunt Reputation of Vicar\'s Daughter," Derby Evening Telegraph, Dec. 31, 2012.
Tim Richardson, "Hunted Ground," Daily Telegraph, Dec. 22, 2012.
Brian Dunning, "Unsolved Mystery of the Ghosts of Versailles," Kansas City [Mo.] Star, Nov. 1, 1965.
Tess Van Sommers, "Laying the Ghosts of Trianon," Sydney Morning Herald, Oct. 23, 1965.
"Ghost Story Probed," Cairns [Qld.] Post, Oct. 10, 1938.
"Stepped Back Into Another Century," [Rockhampton, Qld.] Morning Bulletin, Jan. 5, 1938.
"Phantom Lady of Versailles," [Murwillumbah, N.S.W.] Tweed Daily, July 12, 1937.
"Miss Anne Moberly, Educator at Oxford," New York Times, May 7, 1937.
Kristen Brooks, High Static, Dead Lines: Sonic Spectres & the Object Hereafter, dissertation, University of California, San Diego, 2017.
Janet Howarth, "Moberly, Charlotte Anne Elizabeth (1846\\u20131937)," Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Sept. 23, 2004.
Janet Howarth, "Jourdain, Eleanor Frances (1863\\u20131924)," Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Sept. 23, 2004.
Listener mail:
Albert A. Harrison, Nancy J. Struthers, and Michael Moore, "On the Conjunction of National Holidays and Reported Birthdates: One More Path to Reflected Glory?" Social Psychology Quarterly 51:4 (December 1988), 365-370.
Richard Wiseman, Quirkology, 2007.
This week\'s lateral thinking puzzle was contributed by listener Mike Berman.
You can listen using the player above, download this episode directly, or subscribe on Google Podcasts, on Apple Podcasts, or via the RSS feed at https://futilitycloset.libsyn.com/rss.
Please consider becoming a patron of Futility Closet -- you can choose the amount you want to pledge, and we\'ve set up some rewards to help thank you for your support.\\xa0You can also make a one-time donation on the Support Us page of the Futility Closet website.
Many thanks to Doug Ross for the music in this episode.
If you have any questions or comments you can reach us at podcast@futilitycloset.com. Thanks for listening!
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336-A Gruesome Cure for Consumption
Published: March 22, 2021, 5 a.m.Duration: 33 minutes 14 seconds
Intro:
Residents of Sydney and London could take a train to the local necropolis.
In the 19th century, a dog named Tschingel climbed 30 peaks.
Sources for our feature on the New England vampire panic:
Michael E. Bell, Food for the Dead: On the Trail of New England\\u2019s Vampires, 2014.
Sarah Richardson, "When Americans Saw Vampires," American History 54:5 (December 2019), 7.
Michael E. Bell, "Vampires and Death in New England, 1784 to 1892," Anthropology and Humanism 31:2 (2006), 124-140.
George R. Stetson, "The Animistic Vampire in New England," American Anthropologist 9:1 (January 1896), 1-13.
John Buhler, "Disease and the Undead: Digging Up the Truth About Vampires," Canadian Journal of Medical Laboratory Science 81:3 (Fall 2019), 14-16.
Jennifer Daniels-Higginbotham et al., "DNA Testing Reveals the Putative Identity of JB55, a 19th Century Vampire Buried in Griswold, Connecticut," Genes 10:9 (2019), 636.
G. David Keyworth, "Was the Vampire of the Eighteenth Century a Unique Type of Undead-corpse?" Folklore 117:3 (December 2006), 241-260.
Patricia D. Lock, "America\'s Last Vampire," Calliope 22:2 (October 2011), 20.
Josepha Sherman, "Spirited Defense," Archaeology 57:3 (May/June 2004), 8.
Abigail Tucker, "The Great New England Vampire Panic," Smithsonian 43:6 (October 2012), 58-66.
Joe Bills, "New England\'s Vampire History," Yankee New England, Oct. 28, 2019.
"Letters to the Editor - New England Vampire Beliefs," Skeptical Inquirer 17:3 (Spring 1993), 339.
Morgan Hines, "DNA Evidence: This New England \'Vampire\' Was Named John Barber in Life," USA Today, Aug. 10, 2019.
Michael E. Ruane, "Vampire Bones?; A \'Vampire\'s\' Remains Were Found About 30 Years Ago and Now DNA Is Giving Him New Life," [Brantford, Ont.] Expositor, Aug. 1, 2019.
Craig S. Semon, "Uncovering \'Vampirism\' in New England," [Worcester, Mass.] Telegram & Gazette, Sept. 30, 2015.
Valerie Franchi, "Author Shares Vivid Tales of Vampires: Bell Addresses Meeting of Historical Society," [Worcester, Mass.] Telegram & Gazette, Oct. 24, 2008.
Jascha Hoffman, "A New England Vampire Tale," Boston Globe, July 20, 2003.
Cate McQuaid, "The Secrets of the Grave When the Living Were Ill, They Sought Out the Dead," Boston Globe, Oct. 27, 2002.
"Tales of the Vampire Make Way Into Colonial Press, Finding Captive Audience," Hartford Courant, Oct. 24, 1999.
David Brown, "Uncovering a Therapy From the Grave," Washington Post, Oct. 25, 1993.
Sam Libby, "Cemetery Holds Tales of Vampires," New York Times, Feb. 16, 1992.
"Did Mercy Brown Become a Vampire?" [New London, Ct.] Day, Oct. 25, 1981.
"Romance in Origin of Superstitions," Omaha Daily Bee, Jan. 11, 1921.
Andrew Lange, "The Common Vampire," Washington Post, Aug. 21, 1904.
"Lang on the Vampire," Saint Paul Globe, Aug. 7, 1904.
"Believe in Vampires," Boston Globe, Jan. 27, 1896.
"Is Consumption Catching?" Quebec Saturday Budget, June 1, 1895.
"Did Vampires Really Stalk New England Farm Families?" New England Historical Society (accessed March 7, 2021).
Edgar B. Herwick III, "It\'s Not Just Witches. New England Has a History With Vampires, Too," The World, PRI, Oct. 31, 2018.
Listener mail:
David Mikkelson, "Letter Exchange Between Law Firm and Cleveland Browns," Snopes, Jan. 19, 2011.
Casey C. Sullivan, "Is This the Best Legal Response Letter Ever?" FindLaw, Aug. 2, 2016.
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334-Eugene Bullard
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333-Stranded in the Kimberley
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332-Princess Caraboo
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331-The Starvation Doctor
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330-The Abernathy Boys
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329-The Cock Lane Ghost
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328-A Canine Prisoner of War
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327-The Misplaced Tourist
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326-The Recluse of Herald Square
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325-Lateral Thinking Puzzles
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324-The Bizarre Death of Alfred Loewenstein
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323-The Blind Traveler
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322-Joseph Medicine Crow
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321-The Calculating Boy
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320-John Hornby and the Barren Lands
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319-Friedrich Kellner's Opposition
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318-Peace Pilgrim
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317-Lateral Thinking Puzzles
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316-A Malaysian Mystery
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315-Beryl Markham's Unconventional Life
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314-The Taliesin Murders
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313-The Santa Claus Association
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312-The Last of the Yahi
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311-A Disputed Russian Princess
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310-The Case of Bobby Dunbar
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309-The 'Grain of Salt' Episode
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308-Nicholas Winton and the Czech Kindertransport
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307-The Cyprus Mutiny
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306-The Inventor Who Disappeared
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305-Cast Away in the New World
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304-The Dog Who Joined the Navy
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302-The Galapagos Affair
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301-Tschiffely's Ride
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300-Lateral Thinking Puzzles
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299-Ursula Graham Bower and the Nagas
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298-The Theft of the Mona Lisa
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297-A Sinto Boxer in Nazi Germany
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296-The Little Giants
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295-An Unlikely Attempt on Everest
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294-'The Murder Trial of the Century'
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293-Lennie Gwyther
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290-Voss' Last Stand
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289-The Johnstown Flood
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288-Death at the Lane Cove River
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287-The Public Universal Friend
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285-The Grasshopper Plagues
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284-The Red Barn
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283-The Hermit of Suwarrow
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282-Helga Estby's Walk
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280-Leaving St. Kilda
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279-The Champawat Tiger
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278-Lateral Thinking Puzzles
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277-The Mad Trapper of Rat River
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276-An Unlikely Confederate Spy
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275-A Kidnapped Painting
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274-Death in a Nutshell
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273-Alice Ramsey's Historic Drive
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272-The Cannibal Convict
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271-The Fraudulent Life of Cassie Chadwick
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270-Kidnapped by North Korea
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269-The Sack of Baltimore
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268-The Great Impostor
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267-The Murchison Murders
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266-Lateral Thinking Puzzles
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265-The Great Hedge of India
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264-Jack Renton and the Saltwater People
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263-Memories of Proust
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262-A Modern-Day Thoreau
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261-The Murder of Lord William Russell
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260-The Rugged Road
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258-The First Great Train Robbery
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257-The Sledge Patrol
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256-Lasseter's Reef
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255-Death on the Ice
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254-The Porthole Murder
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253-The Dame of Sark
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252-The Wild Boy of Aveyron
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251-Joseph Palmer's Beard
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250-The General Slocum
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249-The Robbers Cave Experiment
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248-Smoky the War Dog
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247-Lateral Thinking Puzzles
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246-Gene Tierney's Secret Heartbreak
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245-Jeanne Baret
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244-The Women's Protest
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243-The Peshtigo Fire
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242-The Cardiff Giant
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241-A Case of Scientific Self-Deception
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240-The Shark Papers
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239-The Man-Eaters of Tsavo
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238-The Plight of Mary Ellen Wilson
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236-The Last Lap
Published: Feb. 11, 2019, 5 a.m.Duration: 33 minutes 55 seconds
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235-Leon Festinger and the Alien Apocalypse
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234-The Dig Tree
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233-Flight to Freedom
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232-The Indomitable Spirit of Douglas Bader
Published: Jan. 14, 2019, 5 a.m.Duration: 31 minutes 26 seconds
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231-The Halifax Explosion
Published: Jan. 7, 2019, 5 a.m.Duration: 32 minutes 19 seconds
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230-Lateral Thinking Puzzles
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229-The Stone of Destiny
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228-The Children's Champion
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227-The Christmas Tree Ship
Published: Dec. 3, 2018, 6 a.m.Duration: 32 minutes 27 seconds
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226-The Great Match Race
Published: Nov. 26, 2018, 6 a.m.Duration: 35 minutes 56 seconds
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225-The Great Stork Derby
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223-The Prince of Forgers
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222-The Year Without a Summer
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221-The Mystery Man of Essex County
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220-The Old Hero of Gettysburg
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219-The Greenbrier Ghost
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218-Lost in the Amazon
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217-The Bone Wars
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216-The Tromelin Island Castaways
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215-The Lieutenant Nun
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214-The Poison Squad
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213-Grover Cleveland's Secret Surgery
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212-The Lost Treasure of Cocos Island
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211-Cast Away on an Ice Floe
Published: Aug. 6, 2018, 5 a.m.Duration: 33 minutes 16 seconds
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210-Lateral Thinking Puzzles
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209-Lost Off Newfoundland
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208-Giving Birth to Rabbits
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207-The Bluebelle's Last Voyage
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206-The Sky and the Sea
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205-The White Mouse
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204-Mary Anning's Fossils
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203-Notes and Queries
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202-The Rosenhan Experiment
Published: May 28, 2018, 6 a.m.Duration: 31 minutes 50 seconds
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201-The Gardner Heist
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200-Lateral Thinking Puzzles
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199-The Mystery of the Carroll A. Deering
Published: May 7, 2018, 6 a.m.Duration: 33 minutes 42 seconds
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198-The Man Who Wouldn't Die
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197-Alone Across the Outback
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196-The Long Way Home
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195-A Case of Musical Plagiarism
Published: April 9, 2018, 6 a.m.Duration: 32 minutes 41 seconds
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194-The Double Life of Clarence King
Published: March 26, 2018, 6 a.m.Duration: 32 minutes 51 seconds
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193-The Collyer Brothers
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192-The Winchester Diver
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191-The Longest Flight
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190-Mary Patten and the Neptune's Car
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188-The Bat Bomb
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187-A Human Being in the Bronx Zoo
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186-The Children's Blizzard
Published: Jan. 22, 2018, 7 a.m.Duration: 32 minutes 24 seconds
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185-The Man From Formosa
Published: Jan. 15, 2018, 7 a.m.Duration: 32 minutes 20 seconds
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184-Lateral Thinking Puzzles
Published: Jan. 1, 2018, 7 a.m.Duration: 29 minutes 38 seconds
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183-An Everest Mystery
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182-The Compulsive Wanderer
Published: Dec. 18, 2017, 7 a.m.Duration: 32 minutes 31 seconds
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181-Operation Gunnerside
Published: Dec. 11, 2017, 7 a.m.Duration: 33 minutes 7 seconds
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180-An Academic Impostor
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179-Two Vanished Young Writers
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178-Lateral Thinking Puzzles
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177-Averting a Catastrophe in Manhattan
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176-The Bear That Inspired Winnie-the-Pooh
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175-The Lone Woman of San Nicolas Island
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174-Cracking the Nazi Code
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173-The Worst Journey in the World
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172-An American in Feudal Japan
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171-The Emperor of the United States
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170-The Mechanical Turk
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169-John Harrison and the Problem of Longitude
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168-The Destruction of the Doves Type
Published: Sept. 4, 2017, 6 a.m.Duration: 33 minutes 31 seconds
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167-A Manhattan Murder Mystery
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166-A Dangerous Voyage
Published: Aug. 21, 2017, 6 a.m.Duration: 33 minutes 20 seconds
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165-A Case of Mistaken Identity
Published: Aug. 14, 2017, 6 a.m.Duration: 31 minutes 17 seconds
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164-Vigil on the Ice
Published: Aug. 7, 2017, 6 a.m.Duration: 33 minutes 1 second
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163-Enslaved in the Sahara
Published: July 31, 2017, 6 a.m.Duration: 31 minutes 56 seconds
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162-John Muir and Stickeen
Published: July 17, 2017, 6 a.m.Duration: 32 minutes 30 seconds
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161-The Girl Who Fell From the Sky
Published: July 10, 2017, 6 a.m.Duration: 30 minutes 27 seconds
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160-The Birmingham Sewer Lion
Published: July 3, 2017, 6 a.m.Duration: 32 minutes 56 seconds
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159-The Mozart of Mathematics
Published: June 26, 2017, 6 a.m.Duration: 32 minutes 29 seconds
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158-The Mistress of Murder Farm
Published: June 19, 2017, 6 a.m.Duration: 33 minutes 38 seconds
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157-The Brutal History of Batavia's Graveyard
Published: June 12, 2017, 6 a.m.Duration: 33 minutes 15 seconds
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156-The Most Dedicated Soldier
Published: June 5, 2017, 6 a.m.Duration: 34 minutes 28 seconds
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155-The Giraffe Who Walked to Paris
Published: May 29, 2017, 6 a.m.Duration: 33 minutes 14 seconds
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154-Spared by a Volcano
Published: May 22, 2017, 6 a.m.Duration: 29 minutes 38 seconds
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153-A Victorian Stalker
Published: May 15, 2017, 6 a.m.Duration: 32 minutes 21 seconds
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152-Lateral Thinking Puzzles
Published: May 1, 2017, 6 a.m.Duration: 30 minutes 10 seconds
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151-Double-Crossing the Nazis
Published: April 24, 2017, 6 a.m.Duration: 31 minutes 13 seconds
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150-The Prince of Nowhere
Published: April 17, 2017, 6 a.m.Duration: 30 minutes 21 seconds
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149-The North Pond Hermit
Published: April 10, 2017, 11:18 a.m.Duration: 29 minutes 30 seconds
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148-The Perfect Murder
Published: April 3, 2017, 11:14 a.m.Duration: 30 minutes 3 seconds
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147-The Call of Mount Kenya
Published: March 27, 2017, 11:42 a.m.Duration: 30 minutes 1 second
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146-Alone in the Wilderness
Published: March 20, 2017, 8:18 a.m.Duration: 30 minutes 6 seconds
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145-The Pied Piper of Saipan
Published: March 13, 2017, 9:43 a.m.Duration: 31 minutes 32 seconds
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144-The Murder Castle
Published: March 6, 2017, 9:43 a.m.Duration: 32 minutes 8 seconds
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143-The Conscience Fund
Published: Feb. 27, 2017, 12:28 p.m.Duration: 32 minutes 26 seconds
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142-Fingerprints and Polygraphs
Published: Feb. 20, 2017, 12:31 p.m.Duration: 30 minutes 32 seconds
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141-Abducted by Indians, a Captive of Whites
Published: Feb. 13, 2017, 12:41 p.m.Duration: 32 minutes 48 seconds
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140-Ramanujan
Published: Feb. 6, 2017, 12:45 p.m.Duration: 30 minutes 27 seconds
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139-The Painter's Revenge
Published: Jan. 30, 2017, 12:11 p.m.Duration: 31 minutes 16 seconds
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138-Life in a Cupboard
Published: Jan. 23, 2017, 7 a.m.Duration: 33 minutes 53 seconds
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137-The Mystery of Fiona Macleod
Published: Jan. 16, 2017, 7 a.m.Duration: 33 minutes 46 seconds
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136-The Boston Molasses Disaster
Published: Jan. 9, 2017, 7 a.m.Duration: 31 minutes 34 seconds
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135-Lateral Thinking Puzzles
Published: Dec. 26, 2016, 7:43 a.m.Duration: 35 minutes 6 seconds
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134-The Christmas Truce
Published: Dec. 19, 2016, 1:55 p.m.Duration: 30 minutes 42 seconds
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133-Notes and Queries
Published: Dec. 12, 2016, 12:54 p.m.Duration: 33 minutes 1 second
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132-The Mad Gasser of Mattoon
Published: Dec. 5, 2016, 10:25 a.m.Duration: 31 minutes 44 seconds
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131-Escape From Libby Prison
Published: Nov. 28, 2016, 1:16 p.m.Duration: 30 minutes 27 seconds
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130-The Unlikely Ultramarathoner
Published: Nov. 21, 2016, 12:38 p.m.Duration: 34 minutes 25 seconds
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129-The Voynich Manuscript
Published: Nov. 14, 2016, 12:33 p.m.Duration: 32 minutes 52 seconds
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128-The Battle for Castle Itter
Published: Nov. 7, 2016, 12:44 p.m.Duration: 30 minutes 29 seconds
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127-Rowing Across the Atlantic
Published: Oct. 24, 2016, 12:20 p.m.Duration: 35 minutes 29 seconds
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126-The Great Australian Poetry Hoax
Published: Oct. 17, 2016, 11:54 a.m.Duration: 31 minutes 45 seconds
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125-The Campden Wonder
Published: Oct. 10, 2016, 12:17 p.m.Duration: 34 minutes 1 second
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124-D.B. Cooper
Published: Oct. 3, 2016, 12:07 p.m.Duration: 33 minutes 20 seconds
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123-Washington D.C.'s Hidden Tunnels
Published: Sept. 26, 2016, 12:12 p.m.Duration: 31 minutes 57 seconds
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122-The Bear Who Went to War
Published: Sept. 19, 2016, 11:54 a.m.Duration: 30 minutes 40 seconds
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121-Starving for Science
Published: Sept. 12, 2016, 11:48 a.m.Duration: 31 minutes 13 seconds
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120-The Barnes Mystery
Published: Sept. 5, 2016, 11:54 a.m.Duration: 30 minutes 19 seconds
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119-Lost in the Taiga
Published: Aug. 29, 2016, 12:22 p.m.Duration: 33 minutes 49 seconds
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118-The Restless Corpse of Elmer McCurdy
Published: Aug. 22, 2016, 6:19 a.m.Duration: 30 minutes 12 seconds
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117-The Road to En-dor
Published: Aug. 15, 2016, 11:58 a.m.Duration: 33 minutes 4 seconds
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116-Notes and Queries
Published: Aug. 8, 2016, 12:10 p.m.Duration: 31 minutes 10 seconds
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115-Gettysburg's Unknown Soldier
Published: July 25, 2016, 10:49 a.m.Duration: 30 minutes 58 seconds
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114-The Desperation of Donald Crowhurst
Published: July 18, 2016, 11:08 a.m.Duration: 36 minutes 32 seconds
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113-The Battle Over Mother's Day
Published: July 11, 2016, 11:13 a.m.Duration: 31 minutes 8 seconds
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112-The Disappearance of Michael Rockefeller
Published: July 4, 2016, 12:01 p.m.Duration: 34 minutes 22 seconds
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111-Japanese Fire Balloons
Published: June 27, 2016, 11:28 a.m.Duration: 32 minutes 22 seconds
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110-The Brooklyn Chameleon
Published: June 20, 2016, 11:58 a.m.Duration: 31 minutes 51 seconds
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109-Trapped in a Cave
Published: June 12, 2016, 11:10 p.m.Duration: 31 minutes 13 seconds
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108-The Greenwich Time Lady
Published: June 6, 2016, 11:32 a.m.Duration: 33 minutes 44 seconds
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107-Arthur Nash and the Golden Rule
Published: May 29, 2016, 10 p.m.Duration: 29 minutes 38 seconds
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106-The Popgun War
Published: May 23, 2016, 11:55 a.m.Duration: 31 minutes 49 seconds
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105-Surviving on Seawater
Published: May 8, 2016, 10:36 p.m.Duration: 34 minutes 5 seconds
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104-The Harvey's Casino Bombing
Published: May 2, 2016, 4:22 a.m.Duration: 32 minutes 34 seconds
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103-Legislating Pi
Published: April 24, 2016, 10:30 p.m.Duration: 33 minutes 31 seconds
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102-The Bunion Derby
Published: April 18, 2016, 11:48 a.m.Duration: 34 minutes 12 seconds
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100-Lateral Thinking Puzzles
Published: April 4, 2016, 11:43 a.m.Duration: 36 minutes 47 seconds
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099-Notes and Queries
Published: March 28, 2016, 12:05 p.m.Duration: 33 minutes 51 seconds
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098-The St. Albans Raid
Published: March 21, 2016, 8:29 a.m.Duration: 32 minutes 18 seconds
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097-The Villisca Ax Murders
Published: March 14, 2016, 12:02 p.m.Duration: 31 minutes 7 seconds
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096-The Abduction of Edgardo Mortara
Published: March 7, 2016, 1:40 p.m.Duration: 32 minutes 11 seconds
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095-A New Day at Charleston
Published: Feb. 29, 2016, 1:22 p.m.Duration: 30 minutes 20 seconds
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094-The Living Unknown Soldier
Published: Feb. 22, 2016, 12:28 p.m.Duration: 33 minutes 34 seconds
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093-The Old Flying Days
Published: Feb. 8, 2016, 12:15 p.m.Duration: 33 minutes 2 seconds
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092-The Forgotten Amendment
Published: Feb. 1, 2016, 12:41 p.m.Duration: 29 minutes 42 seconds
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091-The Voyage of the Damned
Published: Jan. 25, 2016, 6:38 a.m.Duration: 34 minutes 52 seconds
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090-The Candy Bar War
Published: Jan. 18, 2016, 1:16 p.m.Duration: 31 minutes 30 seconds
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089-An African From Baltimore
Published: Jan. 11, 2016, 1:08 p.m.Duration: 31 minutes 32 seconds
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088-Mrs. Wilkinson and the Lyrebird
Published: Jan. 4, 2016, 1:15 p.m.Duration: 32 minutes 26 seconds
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087-A Sleuthing Cabbie, Edward VI's Homework, and a Self-Aware Crow
Published: Dec. 28, 2015, 12:48 p.m.Duration: 31 minutes 59 seconds
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086-Lateral Thinking Puzzles
Published: Dec. 21, 2015, 1:10 p.m.Duration: 30 minutes
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085-Raising Chicago
Published: Dec. 14, 2015, 12:28 p.m.Duration: 34 minutes 18 seconds
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084-The Man Who Never Was
Published: Dec. 7, 2015, 1:08 p.m.Duration: 34 minutes 8 seconds
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083-Nuclear Close Calls
Published: Nov. 30, 2015, 12:29 p.m.Duration: 36 minutes 39 seconds
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082-Stealing Abe Lincoln
Published: Nov. 23, 2015, 12:20 p.m.Duration: 34 minutes
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081-The Typhus Hoax
Published: Nov. 15, 2015, 11:50 p.m.Duration: 32 minutes 33 seconds
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080-'Black Like Me': Race Realities Under Jim Crow
Published: Nov. 2, 2015, 1:37 p.m.Duration: 34 minutes 26 seconds
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079-One Square Inch of the Yukon
Published: Oct. 25, 2015, 10 p.m.Duration: 34 minutes 49 seconds
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078-Snowshoe Thompson
Published: Oct. 19, 2015, 12:34 p.m.Duration: 37 minutes 57 seconds
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077-The Sourdough Expedition
Published: Oct. 12, 2015, 10:54 a.m.Duration: 33 minutes 24 seconds
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076-Get Out of Jail Free
Published: Oct. 5, 2015, 12:01 a.m.Duration: 30 minutes 44 seconds
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075-The Sea Devil
Published: Sept. 28, 2015, 10:31 a.m.Duration: 35 minutes 52 seconds
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074-Charley Parkhurst's Secret
Published: Sept. 21, 2015, 9:08 a.m.Duration: 34 minutes 1 second
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073-The Tichborne Claimant
Published: Sept. 14, 2015, 9:43 a.m.Duration: 34 minutes 52 seconds
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072-The Strange Misadventures of Famous Corpses
Published: Sept. 7, 2015, 12:47 p.m.Duration: 35 minutes 12 seconds
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071-Godless in Missouri
Published: Aug. 31, 2015, 11:53 a.m.Duration: 33 minutes 36 seconds
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070-Sunk by a Whale
Published: Aug. 24, 2015, 10:49 a.m.Duration: 33 minutes 56 seconds
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069-Lateral Thinking Puzzles
Published: Aug. 10, 2015, 11:18 a.m.Duration: 32 minutes 53 seconds
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068-The Niihau Incident
Published: Aug. 2, 2015, 10:55 p.m.Duration: 38 minutes 49 seconds
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067-Composing Beyond the Grave
Published: July 27, 2015, 12:16 p.m.Duration: 30 minutes 57 seconds
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066-Eighteen Holes in Vietnam
Published: July 20, 2015, 11:54 a.m.Duration: 31 minutes 58 seconds
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065-The Merchant Prince of Cornville
Published: July 13, 2015, 12:53 p.m.Duration: 33 minutes 20 seconds
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064-Murder at the Priory
Published: July 6, 2015, 11:51 a.m.Duration: 32 minutes 36 seconds
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063-The Rainmaker
Published: June 28, 2015, 10:47 p.m.Duration: 32 minutes 57 seconds
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062-Marconi Catches a Murderer
Published: June 21, 2015, 10:26 p.m.Duration: 29 minutes 48 seconds
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061-The Strange Custom of Garden Hermits
Published: June 14, 2015, 9:53 p.m.Duration: 34 minutes 14 seconds
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060-The Day They Hanged an Elephant
Published: June 1, 2015, 12:25 p.m.Duration: 33 minutes 31 seconds
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059-The Wizard of Mauritius
Published: May 24, 2015, 7:40 p.m.Duration: 33 minutes 51 seconds
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058-English as She Is Spoke
Published: May 18, 2015, 11:57 a.m.Duration: 30 minutes 52 seconds
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057-Jules Verne's Lost Novel
Published: May 11, 2015, 9:56 a.m.Duration: 35 minutes 36 seconds
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056-Lateral Thinking Puzzles
Published: May 4, 2015, 10:14 a.m.Duration: 38 minutes 16 seconds
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055-The Dyatlov Pass Incident
Published: April 26, 2015, 10:53 p.m.Duration: 31 minutes 46 seconds
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054-Escape From Stalag Luft III
Published: April 20, 2015, 12:08 p.m.Duration: 36 minutes 4 seconds
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053-The Lost Colony
Published: April 13, 2015, 10:24 a.m.Duration: 31 minutes 44 seconds
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052-Moving Day in New York
Published: April 6, 2015, 12:06 p.m.Duration: 29 minutes 15 seconds
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051-Poet Doppelgangers
Published: March 29, 2015, 11:39 p.m.Duration: 32 minutes 46 seconds
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050-The Great Tea Race
Published: March 23, 2015, 1:54 p.m.Duration: 34 minutes 38 seconds
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049-Can a Kitten Climb the Matterhorn?
Published: March 16, 2015, 11:56 a.m.Duration: 34 minutes 6 seconds
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048-The Shark Arm Affair
Published: March 9, 2015, 8:06 a.m.Duration: 33 minutes 22 seconds
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047-The Scariest Travel Books Ever Written
Published: Feb. 22, 2015, 9:20 p.m.Duration: 35 minutes 1 second
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046-The 1925 Serum Run to Nome
Published: Feb. 16, 2015, 1:27 p.m.Duration: 34 minutes 6 seconds
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045-Crossing Africa for Love
Published: Feb. 8, 2015, 10:43 p.m.Duration: 30 minutes 48 seconds
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044-Ballooning to the North Pole
Published: Feb. 1, 2015, 11:08 p.m.Duration: 32 minutes 3 seconds
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043-Ben Franklin's Guide to Living
Published: Jan. 25, 2015, 11:52 p.m.Duration: 34 minutes 46 seconds
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042-The Balmis Expedition: Using Orphans to Combat Smallpox
Published: Jan. 19, 2015, 3 p.m.Duration: 33 minutes 24 seconds
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041-The Tragic Tale of the Lady Be Good
Published: Jan. 12, 2015, 2:02 p.m.Duration: 31 minutes 33 seconds
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040-The Mary Celeste: A Great Sea Mystery
Published: Jan. 5, 2015, 12:24 p.m.Duration: 38 minutes 21 seconds
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039-Lateral Thinking Puzzles
Published: Dec. 22, 2014, 2:28 p.m.Duration: 30 minutes 35 seconds
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038-The Thunder Stone
Published: Dec. 14, 2014, 11:40 p.m.Duration: 30 minutes 23 seconds
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037-Edgar Allan Poe's Graveyard Visitor
Published: Dec. 8, 2014, 3:23 p.m.Duration: 32 minutes 44 seconds
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036-The Great Moon Hoax
Published: Dec. 1, 2014, 2:19 p.m.Duration: 34 minutes 15 seconds
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035-Lateral Thinking Puzzles
Published: Nov. 24, 2014, 1:34 p.m.Duration: 25 minutes 53 seconds
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034-Spring-Heeled Jack -- A Victorian Supervillain
Published: Nov. 17, 2014, 1:38 p.m.Duration: 37 minutes 20 seconds
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033-Death and Robert Todd Lincoln
Published: Nov. 10, 2014, 12:55 p.m.Duration: 35 minutes 55 seconds
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032-The Wow! Signal
Published: Nov. 3, 2014, 11:44 a.m.Duration: 30 minutes 21 seconds
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031-Pigs on Trial
Published: Oct. 27, 2014, 12:18 p.m.Duration: 30 minutes 35 seconds
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030-The Oak Island Money Pit
Published: Oct. 20, 2014, 7:03 a.m.Duration: 33 minutes 24 seconds
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029-The Mystery of Kaspar Hauser
Published: Oct. 6, 2014, 1:17 p.m.Duration: 37 minutes 6 seconds
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028-The Real-Life Sherlock Holmes
Published: Sept. 29, 2014, 12:59 p.m.Duration: 32 minutes 17 seconds
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027-The Man Who Volunteered for Auschwitz
Published: Sept. 22, 2014, 12:37 p.m.Duration: 33 minutes 32 seconds
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026-A Practical Joke on a Grand Scale
Published: Sept. 15, 2014, 12:13 p.m.Duration: 31 minutes 45 seconds
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025-An Australian Enigma
Published: Sept. 8, 2014, 12:19 p.m.Duration: 29 minutes 31 seconds
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024-The World's Worst Poet
Published: Sept. 1, 2014, 12:43 p.m.Duration: 30 minutes 1 second
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023-A Victorian Poisoning Mystery
Published: Aug. 25, 2014, 9:05 a.m.Duration: 33 minutes 41 seconds
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022-The Devil's Hoofmarks
Published: Aug. 18, 2014, 12:19 p.m.Duration: 35 minutes 45 seconds
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021-A Gallant German Fighter Ace
Published: Aug. 4, 2014, 11:43 a.m.Duration: 32 minutes 48 seconds
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020-Life Imitates Science Fiction
Published: July 28, 2014, 1:53 p.m.Duration: 37 minutes 41 seconds
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019-Testing the Post Office
Published: July 21, 2014, 1:05 p.m.Duration: 34 minutes 30 seconds
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018-The Mystery of the Disappearing Airmen
Published: July 14, 2014, 12:14 p.m.Duration: 31 minutes 58 seconds
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017-An Aircraft Carrier Made of Ice
Published: July 7, 2014, 6:46 a.m.Duration: 30 minutes 34 seconds
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016-A Very Popular Sack of Flour
Published: June 30, 2014, 1:01 p.m.Duration: 29 minutes 15 seconds
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015-The Flannan Isles Mystery
Published: June 23, 2014, 1:14 p.m.Duration: 32 minutes 1 second
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014-The Unsinkable Violet Jessop
Published: June 16, 2014, 12:42 p.m.Duration: 31 minutes 59 seconds
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013-An Ingenious Escape From Slavery
Published: June 9, 2014, 2:05 p.m.Duration: 35 minutes 50 seconds
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012-The Great Race, Grace Kelly's Tomahawk, and Dreadful Penmanship
Published: June 2, 2014, 1:10 p.m.Duration: 29 minutes 10 seconds
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011-A Woolf in Sheikh's Clothing
Published: May 26, 2014, 1:34 p.m.Duration: 33 minutes 14 seconds
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010-A Baboon Soldier, Lighthouse Rescues, and a Parliament of Owls
Published: May 19, 2014, 2:05 p.m.Duration: 34 minutes 23 seconds
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009-The Monkey Signalman, Racetrack ESP, and Toxic Dumps
Published: May 12, 2014, 11:55 a.m.Duration: 34 minutes 8 seconds
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008-Owney the Mail Dog, Candy Bombers, and Bertrand Russell
Published: May 5, 2014, 10:10 a.m.Duration: 33 minutes
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007-Louisiana Hippos, Imaginary Epidemics, and Charles Lindbergh
Published: April 28, 2014, 4:22 p.m.Duration: 29 minutes 33 seconds
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006-Texas Camels, Zebra Stripes, and an Immortal Piano
Published: April 21, 2014, 4:23 p.m.Duration: 33 minutes 6 seconds
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005-Mailing People, Alien Shorthand, and Benjamin Franklin
Published: April 14, 2014, 3:32 p.m.Duration: 32 minutes
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004-Mystery Airships, Marauding Lions, and Nancy Drew
Published: April 7, 2014, 4:49 p.m.Duration: 35 minutes 5 seconds
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003-Extreme Pedestrians, Kangaroo Stew, and Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Published: March 31, 2014, 4:46 p.m.Duration: 34 minutes 46 seconds
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002-Mass Hysteria, Airborne Sheepdogs and Mark Twain's Brother
Published: March 24, 2014, 12:14 p.m.Duration: 28 minutes 42 seconds
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001-Calendar Reform, Doll Mansions, and Hitchcock's Vertigo
Published: March 14, 2014, 1:57 p.m.Duration: 30 minutes 49 seconds
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