The Ancient and Esoteric Order of the Jackalope: Recent Episodes
David White
There are known knowns, known unknowns and unknown unknowns. But there are also unknown knowns. We are the Ancient and Esoteric Order of the Jackalope, a secret society devoted to unearthing and sharing this forgotten knowledge.
In the 1940s, while trying to rebut Freud, psychoanalyst Immanuel Velikovsky decided the reason ancient history didn't make any sense was simple: it was all the fault of the planet Venus.
https://order-of-the-jackalope.com/no-heretic-has-suffered-less
Key sources for this episode include Immanuel Velikovsky's Worlds in Collision, Earth in Upheaval, and Ages of Chaos; Alfred de Grazia's Cosmic Heretics; Kendrick Frasier's Paranormal Borderlands of Science; and Michael D Gordin's The Pseudo-Science Wars. But most importantly: the collected works of Henry H. Bauer, includng "The Velikovsky Affair," Beyond Velikovsky, and Science or Pseudoscience?
The Ancient and Esoteric Order of the Jackalope is a secret society devoted to the idea that that which is least known is best to know. Each episode we share a strange story or amazing fact, and no topic is off limits -- if it's interesting or entertaining, we'll cover about it!
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Thomas Lake Harris channeled the greatest poets in history to produce some of the worst poetry you've ever read... and then those same poets told him he was the new Messiah, who would unite the physical and spiritual worlds and usher in a new cycle of the ages.
https://order-of-the-jackalope.com/with-fairies-wise/
Key sources for this episode include Adam Morris's American Messiahs: False Prophets of a Damned Nation; Arthur A. Cuthbert's The Life and World-Work of Thomas Lake Harris, Written from Direct Personal Knowledge; Joseph W. Slade's "Historical Sketch of Thomas Lake Harris, Laurence Oliphant, and the Brotherhood of the New Life"; Margaret Oliphant's Memoir of the Life of Laurence Oliphant and of Alice Oliphant, His Wife; Philip Jenkins' Mystics and Messiahs: Cults and New Religions in American History; the collected writings of Thomas Lake Harris; and contemporary newspaper reports, especially from the San Francisco Chronicle.
The Ancient and Esoteric Order of the Jackalope is a secret society devoted to the idea that that which is least known is best to know. Each episode we share a strange story or amazing fact, and no topic is off limits -- if it's interesting or entertaining, we'll cover about it!
Email: jackalope@order-of-the-jackalope.com Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/order-of-the-jackalope.com Discord: https://discord.gg/Mbap3UQyCB YouTube: https://youtube.com/@orderjackalope
In 1975, an idealistic Soviet political officer decided it was time to restart the Communist Revolution, and that the best way to do that was by fomenting mutiny on a state-of-the-art anti-submarine destroyer with nuclear capabilities.
https://order-of-the-jackalope.com/mutiny-on-the-storozhevoy/
Presented by #42, Alex Baumans. Alex is pathologically interested in anything unusual and obscure. He's a closet goth, armchair general and amateur theologian. His favorite animals are ducks, octopodes and pigs. You will also find him surprisingly knowledgable about K-Pop girl groups.
Key sources for this episode include Michael Fredholm Von Essen's The Hunt for the Storozhevoy and Gregory D. Young and Nate Braden's The Last Sentry.
The Ancient and Esoteric Order of the Jackalope is a secret society devoted to the idea that that which is least known is best to know. Each episode we share a strange story or amazing fact, and no topic is off limits -- if it's interesting or entertaining, we'll cover about it!
Email: jackalope@order-of-the-jackalope.com Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/order-of-the-jackalope.com Discord: https://discord.gg/Mbap3UQyCB YouTube: https://youtube.com/@orderjackalope
As part of its centennial celebration in 1970 the Museum of Fine Arts Boston acquired a spectacular trove of golden bronze age jewelry... The problem was they had no idea where it came from and showed no interest in finding out.
https://order-of-the-jackalope.com/all-that-glitters
Key sources for this episode include articles published by Cornelius Vermeule III and Emily Vermuele in Horizon and the Illustrated London News; and contemporary newspaper reporting in the Boston Globe, expecially by Robert Taylor and Edgar Driscoll, Jr.
We are appearing at Intelligent Speech 2026 on February 28, 2026! This year's theme is "Companions & Rivals" and it's not too late to get tickets! https://intelligentspeechonline.com
The Ancient and Esoteric Order of the Jackalope is a secret society devoted to the idea that that which is least known is best to know. Each episode we share a strange story or amazing fact, and no topic is off limits -- if it's interesting or entertaining, we'll cover about it!
Email: jackalope@order-of-the-jackalope.com Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/order-of-the-jackalope.com Discord: https://discord.gg/Mbap3UQyCB YouTube: https://youtube.com/@orderjackalope
Thanks to a chance meeting on a train James Mellaart stumbled across a treasure trove that challenged everything we knew about ancient Anatolia... only to be left holding the bag when it disappeared under mysterious circumstances. (Or maybe he just made it all up.)
https://order-of-the-jackalope.com/not-science-but-vendetta/
Key sources for this episode include Kenneth Pearson and Patricia Connor's The Dorak Affair; Michael Balter's The Goddess and the Bull; numerous articles by Susan Mazur; and several academic papers by Eberhard Zangger.
We are appearing at Intelligent Speech 2026 on February 28, 2026! This year's theme is "Companions & Rivals" and it's not too late to get tickets! https://intelligentspeechonline.com
The Ancient and Esoteric Order of the Jackalope is a secret society devoted to the idea that that which is least known is best to know. Each episode we share a strange story or amazing fact, and no topic is off limits -- if it's interesting or entertaining, we'll cover about it!
Email: jackalope@order-of-the-jackalope.com Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/order-of-the-jackalope.com Discord: https://discord.gg/Mbap3UQyCB YouTube: https://youtube.com/@orderjackalope
In 1897 "the Reverend Electrolycist" Prescott Ford Jernegan claimed he could extract gold from seawater for pennies on the dollar. It was a classic something for nothing scam... So why did so many people fall for it?
https://order-of-the-jackalope.com/theres-gold-in-them-thar-waves
Key sources for this episode include Carl Sifakis's Hoaxes and Scams: A Compendium of Deceptions, Ruses, and Swindles; contemporary newspaper reports; and Carrie C. Bang's The Great Gold Swindle of Lubec, Maine.
We're presenting at Intelligent Speech 2026: Companions & Rivals! Join us on Febuary 28! Speakers will explore friendships that changed the course of events, rivalries that pushed people to greatness or to ruin and partnerships that proved stronger than armies. Roundtables on unlikely alliances and spirited debates about history's fiercest rivalries are sure to delight and intrigue. Tickets available now at https://intelligentspeechonline.com/!
The Ancient and Esoteric Order of the Jackalope is a secret society devoted to the idea that that which is least known is best to know. Each episode we share a strange story or amazing fact, and no topic is off limits -- if it's interesting or entertaining, we'll cover about it!
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Dr. Walter Siegmeister believed we could create a psychic master race by taking off our clothes, moving to the jungle, and consuming only fruit and megadoses of lecithin. And that wasn't even the weirdest thing about him. https://order-of-the-jackalope.com/they-came-from-inner-space/
Key sources for this episode include Walter Siegmeister's The Hollow Earth: The Greatest Geographical Discovery in History; Walter Kafton-Minkel's Subterranean Worlds: 10,000 Years of Dragons, Dwars, the Dead, Lost Races & UFOs from Inside the Earth; and Professor Solomon's Visitors to the Inner Earth.
- Jenn Thorson: https://www.jennthorson.com/
The Ancient and Esoteric Order of the Jackalope is a secret society devoted to the idea that that which is least known is best to know. Each episode we share a strange story or amazing fact, and no topic is off limits -- if it's interesting or entertaining, we'll cover about it!
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Come for the strange, sad, and hate-filled story of the Q Shaman of 1940: Elwood Towner, a.k.a. "Chief Red Cloud," who spoke at Nazi rallies in full Native American ceremonial regalia. Stay to hear #13 gets angry and go off the rails.
https://order-of-the-jackalope.com/kulopus/
Key sources for this episode include Arnie Bernstein's Swastika Nation: Fritz Kuhn and the Rise and Fall of the German-American Bund; Kenneth William Townsend's World War II and the American Indian; Knute berger's "The strange case of the Northwest's Native American Nazi"; and contemporary newspaper reports.
- Robert Lifson
- Ultra
The Ancient and Esoteric Order of the Jackalope is a secret society devoted to the idea that that which is least known is best to know. Each episode we share a strange story or amazing fact, and no topic is off limits -- if it's interesting or entertaining, we'll cover about it!
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In February 1973, French right wingers broke into the grave of of fascist dictator Philippe Pétain and made off with his mortal remains. This is the tragicomic story of what led them to that moment... and what happened afterwards.
https://order-of-the-jackalope.com/the-marshal-is-missing/
Key sources for this episode include Jean-Yves La Naour’s On a volé le Maréchal; Michel Dumas’ La permission du Maréchal; Hugo Coniez’s La mort de la IIIe Republique; and Julian Jackson’s France on Trial: The Case of Marshal Petain.
Presented by #42 (Alex Baumans). Alex is pathologically interested in anything unusual and obscure. He’s a closet goth, armchair general and amateur theologian. His favorite animals are ducks, octopodes and pigs. You will also find him surprisingly knowledgable about K-Pop girl groups.
The Ancient and Esoteric Order of the Jackalope is a secret society devoted to the idea that that which is least known is best to know. Each episode we share a strange story or amazing fact, and no topic is off limits -- if it's interesting or entertaining, we'll cover about it!
Email: jackalope@order-of-the-jackalope.com Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/order-of-the-jackalope.com Discord: https://discord.gg/Mbap3UQyCB TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@orderjackalope Tumblr: https://www.tumblr.com/orderjackalope YouTube: https://youtube.com/@orderjackalope
She was the meandering metropolitan mystery, the famous will-o'-the-wisp of the continent, who fooled police and the public from Abilene to Akron. Who was this mysterious and alluring woman, and why did she love bread so much?
https://order-of-the-jackalope.com/fluffy-raffles-comes-to-town
Thanks to the initiates who contributed their voices to this episode, including Dorothy Sibole (#7), Eric Leslie, and Jenn Thorson!
Jenn Thorson: https://jennthorson.com/ Little Lake Theater Company: https://www.littlelake.org/
Key sources for this episode include contemporary newspaper report and that's about it. (You may find this hard to believe, not a lot of people are out there writing about this.) So let me recommend Rebeca Rego Barry's The Vanishing of Carolyn Wells, where she does some literary detective work to track down this vanished author, and Bill Peschel's Sherlock Holmes: Great War Parodies and Pastiches, an anthology of Sherlockian oddities.
The Ancient and Esoteric Order of the Jackalope is a secret society devoted to the idea that that which is least known is best to know. Each episode we share a strange story or amazing fact, and no topic is off limits -- if it's interesting or entertaining, we'll cover about it!
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In 1903 Pennsylvania found the recipe for disaster: two of the greatest political cartoonists of the day, and an easily caricatured governor with no sense of humor. Their battle went to some...u unexpected places.
https://order-of-the-jackalope.com/unhuman-animals
Key sources for this episode include... Stephen Piott's "The Right of the Cartoonist: Samuel Pennypacker and the Freedom of the Press," contemporary newspaper reports... and that's it. Almost every other source I found either did not go into any detail about the act, or got the specifics so very wrong (like confusing the Pusey and Salus-Grady bills) to the point where I had to doubt everything else it had to say.
The Ancient and Esoteric Order of the Jackalope is a secret society devoted to the idea that that which is least known is best to know. Each episode we share a strange story or amazing fact, and no topic is off limits -- if it's interesting or entertaining, we'll cover about it!
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Milton D. Hays had two things: a dream of a railroad linking Pittsburgh to the coal fields of southwestern Pennsylvania, and a lack of ethics that would allow him to realize that dream. This is the story of the Castle Shannon Railway War.
https://order-of-the-jackalope.com/such-was-railroading
Key sources for this episode include contemporary newspaper reports; the Bridgeville Area Historical Society, Brookline Connection, and Carrick-Overbrook Historical Society web sites; and N.A. Critchett's fantastic (and highly inaccurate) "Double Gauge."
The Ancient and Esoteric Order of the Jackalope is a secret society devoted to the idea that that which is least known is best to know. Each episode we share a strange story or amazing fact, and no topic is off limits -- if it's interesting or entertaining, we'll cover about it!
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Octavius Valentine Catto was truly a man for all seasons: scholar, activist, politician, baseball star. He could have been the inspiring black leader Reconstruction-era Philadelphia needed... if he hadn't been murdered.
https://order-of-the-jackalope.com/there-must-come-a-change
Key sources for this episode include Daniel Biddle and Murray Dubin's Tasting Freedom: Octavius Catto and the Battle for Equality in Civil War America; Joe William Trotter Jr and Eric Ledell Smith's African Americans in Pennsylvania: Shifting Historical Perspectives; Michael E. Lomax's Black Baseball Entrepreneurs: 1860-1901: Operating by Any Means Necessary; Ryan A. Swanson's When Baseball Went White: Reconstruction, Reconciliation, and Dreams of a National Pastime; and Stephan Segal's "An Unbreakable Game: Baseball and Its Inability to Bring About Equality During Reconstruction"
The Ancient and Esoteric Order of the Jackalope is a secret society devoted to the idea that that which is least known is best to know. Each episode we share a strange story or amazing fact, and no topic is off limits -- if it's interesting or entertaining, we'll cover about it!
- Email: jackalope@order-of-the-jackalope.com
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The Tsarevich Dmitry Ivanovich died from an accidental self-inflicted knife wound in 1591... but that didn't stop him from popping up to try and reclaim his throne in 1604. And 1607. And 1611. And 1612. And...
https://order-of-the-jackalope.com/samozvantsy
Key sources for this episode include Chester S.L. Dunning's Russia's First Civil War: The Time of Troubles and the Romanov Dynasty; Maureen Perrie's Pretenders and Popular Monarchism in Early Modern Russia: The False Tsars of the Time of Troubles; Paul Avrich's Russian Rebels, 1600-1800; and Peter Julicher's Renegades, Rebels and Rogues Under the Tsars.
Special thanks to Kristen Harkness for her help with Russian transliteration and pronunciation. (Sorry, Kristen, I still beefed it!)
The Ancient and Esoteric Order of the Jackalope is a secret society devoted to the idea that that which is least known is best to know. Each episode we share a strange story or amazing fact, and no topic is off limits -- if it's interesting or entertaining, we'll cover about it!
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War! The balance of power in the Cola Wars has been shifting for years. In a stunning move, Coke has swept into NASA and is about to send its signature beverage into orbit... but not if the underdogs at Pepsi have anything to say about it...
https://order-of-the-jackalope.com/the-choice-of-the-next-generation/
Key sources for this episode include Charles T. Bourland and Gregory L. Vogt's The Astronaut's Cookbook; David H. Harland's The Story of the Space Shuttle; Tony Reichart's Space Shuttle: The First 20 Years; numerous patent applications; and contemporary newspaper reports.
- You're Wrong About: The Cola Wars
- Coca-Cola Space Can at the Smithsonian
- Pepsi Space Can at the Smithsonian
- Pepsi MIR Ad
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The Ancient and Esoteric Order of the Jackalope is a secret society devoted to sharing strange stories and amazing facts. No topic is off limits -- if it's interesting or entertaining, we'll do an episode about it!
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New Age types keep saying that there are twelve planets. Where does that number come from, and what are these three extra planets supposed to be? (Plus: a detour to the world of ancient astronauts.)
https://order-of-the-jackalope.com/the-number-of-the-stars/
Key sources for this episode include Gottfried de Purucker's Fundamentals of the Esoteric Philosophy and The Fountain-Source of Occultism; Govert Schilling's The Hunt for Planet X: New Worlds and the Fate of Pluto; Maureen Temple Richmond's "The Threefold Rulership System in Esoteric Astrology"; Michael Heiser's website sitchiniswrong.com; and the collected works of Zecharia Sitchin.
- Unidentified: Zecharia Sitchin's Made-Up Ancient Aliens History
- Unidentified: Fear of a 12th Planet
- Unidentified: Nibiru Needs Gold (and Sperm, for Some Reason)
- 404 Media: If Planet X Exists, It's Running Out of Places to Hide
This week we're promoting our friends the Paranoid Strain, where the Fearful Jesuit and Dana Unicorn explain why so many people believe ridiculous conspiracy theories. https://www.theparanoidstrain.com/
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The Ancient and Esoteric Order of the Jackalope is a secret society devoted to sharing strange stories and amazing facts. No topic is off limits -- if it's interesting or entertaining, we'll do an episode about it!
- Email: jackalope@order-of-the-jackalope.com
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Everybody always asks, "If this is the future, where's my jetpack?" but only Richard Timewell was bold enough to do something about it. And by "do something" I mean "sell jetpacks through the mail."
https://order-of-the-jackalope.com/your-eyebrows-will-grow-back/
Presented by #42 (Alex Baumans): Pathologically interested in anything unusual and obscure. Closet goth, armchair general and amateur theologian. Favorite animals are ducks, octopodes and pigs. You will also find me surprisingly knowledgable about K-Pop girl groups.
Key sources for this episode include contemporary newspaper reports, with some added material from the Secret Projects forum.
- A Gluhareff engine in action
- The Secret Projects Forum
This week we're promoting our friends Imperfect Men, the show about the heroes, legends, and sometimes utter goobers who actually founded America. Join Steve and Cody every other week as they figure out who's a Founding Father and who's a Floundering Father. https://shows.acast.com/imperfect-men
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The Ancient and Esoteric Order of the Jackalope is a secret society devoted to sharing strange stories and amazing facts. No topic is off limits -- if it's interesting or entertaining, we'll do an episode about it!
Helen Duncan was the last person persecuted in Britain for being a witch. Except she wasn't the last, she wasn't a witch, and she wasn't exactly persecuted either...
https://order-of-the-jackalope.com/deeply-impressed/
Key sources for this episode include C.E. Bechhofer Roberts' The Trial of Mrs. Duncan; Gena Brealey and Kay Hunter's The Two Worlds of Helen Duncan; Harry Price's Leaves of a Psychist's Case-Book; Marion Gibson's Witchcraft: A Story in Thirteen Trials; Paul Tabori's Harry Price: The Biography of a Ghost Hunter; Ruth Paley and Simon Fowler's Family Skeletons: Exploring the Lives of Our Disreputable Ancestors; and contemporary newspaper reports.
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The Ancient and Esoteric Order of the Jackalope is a secret society devoted to sharing strange stories and amazing facts. No topic is off limits -- if it's interesting or entertaining, we'll do an episode about it!
George Gray Barnard's sculptures have been installed in front of the Pennsylvania State Capitol since 1911... but the story of their creation is a long and tortured one, featuring the strangest act of self-censorship you'll ever see.
https://order-of-the-jackalope.com/cloud-dongs/
Key sources for this episode include Dan Williams' "George Grey Barnard"; Ingrid Steffensen's "Toward an Iconography of a State Capitol: The Art and Architecture of the Pennsylvania State Capitol in Harrisburg"; Ruth Hoover Seitz's Pennsylvania's Capitol; Samuel W. Pennypacker's The Desecration and Profanation of the Pennsylvania Capitol; the catalog of Pennsylvania State University's George Grey Barnard: Centenary Exhibition; the proceedings of the Dedication Ceremonies of the Barnard Statues, State Capitol Building, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, Oct 4, 1911; and contemporary newspaper reports.
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The Ancient and Esoteric Order of the Jackalope is a secret society devoted to sharing strange stories and amazing facts. No topic is off limits -- if it's interesting or entertaining, we'll do an episode about it!
The Sanctified Band was driven from their homes on Chincoteague Island, forced to live in floating arks, and persecuted up and down the Eastern Seaboard... and all they really wanted was freedom to worship as they pleased.
https://order-of-the-jackalope.com/wild-frantics/
Key sources for this episode include Harry J. Collins, Jr. and Floyd L. Hagan, Sr.'s History of Christ's Santified Holy Church; Kirk Mariner's Once Upon an Island: The Story of Chincoteague; Vinson Synan's The Holiness-Pentecostal Movement in the United States; and contemporary newspaper reports.
This week we're promoting our friends The Apocrypals -- a podcast where two non-believers read through the Bible but try not to be jerks about it. Join comics writers Benito Cereno and Chris Sims as they journey through the Good Book from Acts to Zephaniah, with stops in the Apocrypha along the way. https://apocrypals.libsyn.com
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The Ancient and Esoteric Order of the Jackalope is a secret society devoted to sharing strange stories and amazing facts. No topic is off limits -- if it's interesting or entertaining, we'll do an episode about it!
This week we wrap up our look into Confederate skulduggery with a grab bag of smaller plots: Staging fake peace conferences at Niagara Falls! Robbing banks in Vermont! Burning New York! Kidnapping the vice president!
https://order-of-the-jackalope.com/surprised-and-excited/
(This episode is the third and final part of Rapscallions!, a series about Confederate cloak-and-dagger operations in the final year of the Civil War.)
Key sources for this episode include Adam Mayers' Dixie and the Dominion: Canada, the Confederacy, and the War for the Union; Michelle Arnosky Sherburne's The St. Albans Raid: Confederate Attack on Vermont; Oscar Arvle Kinchen's Daredevils of the Confederate Army: The Story of the St. Albans Raiders; and William A Tidwell's April '65: Confederate Covert Action in the American Civil War.
This week we're promoting our friends at Between Two Sterns -- where Jared Stern and Jared Stern talk to each other about their week, and then seek out other Jared Sterns around the world to see what they've been up to! https://jaredstern.com/between-two-sterns/
I'll be presenting at the Intelligent Speech conference on February 8, 2025! Register at https://intelligentspeechonline.com/ and get a 10% discount with the promo code JACKALOPE!
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The only thing standing between John Yates Beall and the Confederate prisoners-of-war on Johnson's Island was the USS Michigan... Well, that and a terrible con man and the cowardice of his own men.
https://order-of-the-jackalope.com/resist-at-your-peril/
(This episode is part two of Rapscallions!, a three-part series about Confederate cloak-and-dagger operations in the final year of the Civil War. Part three will be released on 10/7.)
Key sources for this episode include Adam Mayers' Dixie and the Dominion: Canada, the Confederacy, and the War for the Union; John Bell's Rebels on the Great Lakes: Confederate Naval Commando Operations Launched from Canada, 1863-1864; Duane Schultz's The Dahlgren Affair: Terror and Conspiracy in the Civil War; William A. Tidwell's April '65: Confederate Covert Action in the American Civil War; and The Memoir of John Yates Beall: His Life, Trial; Correspondence, Diary, and Private Manuscript Found Among His Papers, Including His Own Account of the Raid on Lake Erie.
- Erie Maritime Museum: https://www.eriemaritimemuseum.org
- Johnson's Island Preservation Society: https://johnsonsisland.org
This week we're promoting our favorite podcast, The Constant! Every other Tuesday Mark Chrisler looks at the accidents, mistakes, and bad ideas that helped shape our world. If you like our show, you'll love this one too! https://www.constantpodcast.com/
I'll be presenting at the Intelligent Speech conference on February 8, 2025! Register now at https://intelligentspeechonline.com/ and get 10% off with the promo code JACKALOPE!
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Thomas Henry Hines had a cunning plan to free Confederate prisoners-of-war and break the Northwest off of the Union. All he needed were sixty good men, fifty footsoldiers, and friends on the inside. Too bad none of those groups existed.
https://order-of-the-jackalope.com/patience-is-sour/
(This episode is part one of Rapscallions!, a three-part series about Confederate cloak-and-dagger operations in the final year of the Civil War. Parts two and three will be released on 9/23 and 10/7 respectively.)
Key sources for this episode include Adam Mayers' Dixie and the Dominion: Canada, the Confederacy, and the War for the Union; David C. Keehn's Knights of the Golden Circle: Secret Empire, Southern Secession, Civil War; Duane Schultz's The Dahglren Affair: Terror and Conspiracy in the Civil War; James D. Horan's Confederate Agent: A Discovery in History; and William A. Tidwell's April '65: Confederate Covert Action in the American Civil War.
This week we're promoting our friends at Between Two Sterns -- where Jared Stern and Jared Stern talk to each other about their week, and then seek out other Jared Sterns around the world to see what they've been up to! https://jaredstern.com/between-two-sterns/
Also! I'll be presenting at the Intelligent Speech conference on February 8, 2025! If you register at https://intelligentspeechonline.com before the end of September you can get a special early bird rate-- and lucky you can take an extra 10% off that with the promo code JACKALOPE!
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Legend says Edward Hyde, Lord Cornbury (1661-1723) was New York's worst governor: a nepo baby failson; a bully and bigot; a corrupt spendthrift; a sex pest with an ear fetish. Was he really all that awful?
And was he actually a transvestite?
https://order-of-the-jackalope.com/universally-detested/
Key sources for this episode include Patricia Bonomi's The Lord Cornbury Scandal: The Politics of Reputation in British America; Alan Taylor's Writing Early American History; Charles Worthen Spencer's "The Cornbury Legend"; John Grant Wilson's The Memorial History of the City of New York from Its First Settlement to the Year 1892; and Shelley Ross's Fall from Grace: Sex, Scandal and Corruption in American Politics from 1702 to the Present.
Special thanks to the Initiates who contributed their voice talents to this episode: #2 Robert White, Richard Le Poidevin (of "The Curiosity of...?!"), #7, Dorothy White, Kristen Harkness, and Mary Anne White.
This week we're promoting our friends Imperfect Men, the show about the heroes, legends, and sometimes utter goobers who actually founded America. Join Steve and Cody every other week as they figure out who's a Founding Father and who's a Floundering Father. https://shows.acast.com/imperfect-men
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The Ancient and Esoteric Order of the Jackalope is a secret society devoted to sharing strange stories and amazing facts. No topic is off limits -- Hidden history! Hollywood! Hoaxes, frauds, and scams! Weird science, cults, and clones! If it's interesting or entertaining, we'll do an episode about it.
This series join us for episodes about Civil War spies, boat cults, fake mediums, cloud dongs, and more. (What's a cloud dong? You'll just have to listen to find out!)
Join us for our first episode, "Universally Despised," on August 19!
Look for us at order-of-the-jackalope.com, or wherever fine podcasts are sold.
This errata contains corrections, clarifications, and discussion of the following episodes:
- The Hot House
- Bound in Mystery and Shadow
- Exceeding Great
- The Spirit of Capitalism Made Flesh
- Suffer Little Children
- Scarlet Billows
- A Warning To Future Man
- 520%
- Unto Us A Child Is Born
- Errata #3
- Fruitcake Subculture Conspiracy Revisited
- The Realest Housewife of Beverly Hills
- The First Battle of the American Revolution
- Steampunk Google and the World City
- Fuller Houses
We're going on hiatus for a few months. We'll be back in mid-August with a fresh series of all-new episodes!
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For our milestone episode #100 we contemplate one of the most confounding conundrums of our age... How old is Charo, really?
00:00 Intro 00:32 Banter 02:00 Nothing But A Number 02:32 God I Feel Old 05:09 All That Matters is How Young Your Feel 07:44 I Don't Actually Care 10:28 Sources 10:48 Special Thanks 12:56 Outro
Key sources for this episode include Wikipedia and contemporary newspaper reports.
Full sources, transcript, links, and more at https://order-of-the-jackalope.com/nothing-but-a-number/
A special thanks to everyone who helped us reach this amazing milestone, including: A.J. Sutton, Alex Baumans, Charlotte Lochinski, Chris White, David Blomenberg, David L. White, Dorothy White, Eric Leslie, Fearful Jesuit, Greg Armstrong, Jenn Voss, Jim Munizza, Kieran Davy, Kristen Harkness, Liz Roberts, Michael Finney, Richard Le Poidevin, Rob Brunksill, Robert B. White III, Robert Sibole, Rod Miller, Sam Link, Steven White, Tom Hand, Zane C. Weber... and you, our wonderful listeners.
After this episode we're going on hiatus for a few months. We'll be back in mid-August with a fresh series of all-new episodes!
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In the early Twentieth Century, Joe Magarac was the American steel industry's answer to Paul Bunyan. And then it was discovered he might not be an authentic folk tale, but a relatively recent invention...
https://order-of-the-jackalope.com/jackass-forever/
Key sources for this episode include Owen Francis's "The Saga of Joe Magarac: Steelman"; Jennifer Gilley and Stephen Burnet's "Deconstructing and Reconstructing Pittsburgh's Man of Steel: Reading Joe Magarac Against the Context of the 20th-Century Steel Industry"; Kevin J. Patrick's "Joe Magarac and the Spirit of Pittsburgh"; and Marshal W. Fishwick's "Sons of Paul: Folklore or Fakelore?".
What I really recommend, though, is Irwin Shapiro's Joe Magarac and his U.S.A Citizen Papers. The dialect is charming instead of grating, the location- and period-authentic detail helps keep everything grounded, the jokes are actually funny, and the moral is still relevant today. And on top of that you have some really powerful illustrations by James Daugherty. Five stars, A+, would read again.
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"Wyoming's own midget mummy" was found in the San Pedro Mountains in 1932 and mystified thousands before disappearing in 1950. but what was he? A little person, a baby, a fake? And where the heck did he get off to?
https://order-of-the-jackalope.com/vote-for-pedro/
Key sources for this episode include Aaron Mahnke's The World of Lore: Monstrous Creatures; Charles J. Cazeau and Stuart D. Scott's Exploring the Unknown: Great Mysteries Reexamined; Jeremy Fugelberg's "The Mysterious Pedro Mountain Mummy"; Richard Marshall's Mysteries of the Unexplained; and contemporary newspaper reports.
And sincere apologies to the Cryptonaturalist (https://www.cryptonaturalist.com/) for biting his style.
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R. Buckminster Fuller's Dymaxion House was a marvel of modern technology that promised to create freedom by liberating the mind and curing all of society's problems... so why aren't you living in one right now?
https://order-of-the-jackalope.com/fuller-houses/
Key sources for this episode include Jonathon Keats' You Belong to the Universe: Buckminster Fuller and the Future; Lloyd Steven Sieden's Buckminster Fuller's Universe: His Life and His Work; and Michael Brian Schiffer's Spectacular Flops: Game-Changing Technologies That Failed... but especially Lorettta Lorance's Becoming Bucky Fuller, which is both the most thorough and most critical biography of Fuller and definitely worth checking out.
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Paul Otlet had a vision of an system that could search all the information ever created, from anywhere in the world, at the touch of a button... Too bad the most advanced technologies at his disposal were index cards.
Transcript, links, and more at: https://order-of-the-jackalope.com/steampunk-google-and-the-world-city/
Key sources for this episode include Alex Wright’s Cataloging the World: Paul Otlet and the Birth of the Information Age; Françoise Levie’s L’homme qui voulait classer le monde: Paul Otlet et le Mundaneum; Paul Otlet’s Traité de documentation: Le livre sur le livre; Paul Otlet, Fondateur du Mundaneum, Architecte du savoir, Artisan de paix; and the newspaper archive of the KBR.
Presented by #42 (Alex Baumans). Pathologically interested in anything unusual and obscure. Closet goth, armchair general and amateur theologian. Favorite animals are ducks, octopodes and pigs. You will also find me surprisingly knowledgable about K-Pop girl groups.
Special thanks to the Collection Mundaneum in Mons for their assistance (http://www.mundaneum.org/en) and for providing images for our use. This episode is released under a Creative Commons except for the images, which may not be reproduced without the express permission of the Mundaneum.
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Everyone knows the first battles of the American Revolution were Lexington and Concord... unless, that is, you live in Point Pleasant, West Virginia.
https://order-of-the-jackalope.com/the-first-battle-of-the-american-revolution/
Key sources for this episode include Randolf C. Downes's "Dunmore's War: An Interpretation"; J.T. McAllister's "The Battle of Point Pleasant"; Virgil Lewis's History of the Battle of Point Pleasant, Fought Between White Men and Indians at the Mouth of the Great Kanawha River (Now Point Pleasant, West Virginia) Monday, October 10, 1774; Glen Williams' Dunmore's War: The Last Conflict of America's Colonial Era; and West Virginia History's "Manufactured History: Re-Fighting the Battle of Point Pleasant".
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In which a mysterious lost people living in the mountains of Tennessee turn out to not be so mysterious after all... and maybe not even all that lost, if the Internet can be believed.
Transcript, sources, and more: https://order-of-the-jackalope.com/neither-here-nor-there/
Key sources for this episode include Anita Puckett's "The Melungeon Identity Movement and the Construction of Appalachian Whiteness", Ariela Gross's "Of Portuguese Origin: Litigating Identity and Citizenship among the Little Races in Nineteenth-Century America", Brewton Berry's Almost White, Jean Patterson Bible's Melungeons Yesterday and Today, Katherine Vande Brake's Through the Back Door: Melungeon Literacies and Twenty-First Century Technologies, Melissa Schrift's Becoming Melungeon: Making an Ethnic Identity in the Appalachian South, N. Brent Kennedy's The Melungeons: The Resurrection of a Proud People, Tim Hashaw's Children of Perdition: Melungeons and the Struggle of Mixed America, and Will Allen Dromgoole's The Malungeon Tree and Its Four Branches.
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In 1837 Canadians tried and failed to overthrow the British government. The revolution seemed over... and then the Redcoats seized an American ship, set it on fire, and sent it over Niagara Falls, prolonging the conflict for years.
Transcript, sources and more available at https://order-of-the-jackalope.com/dangerous-excitement/
Key sources for this episode include Edwin C. Guillet's The Lives and Times of the Patriots: An Account of the Rebellion in Upper Canada, 1837-1838, and of the Patriot Agitation in the United States, 1837-1842; Howard Jones's To The Webster-Ashburton Treaty: A Study in Anglo-American Relations, 1783-1843; Kenneth R. Stevens's Border Diplomacy: The Caroline and McLeod Affairs in Anglo-American-Canadian Relations, 1837-1842; Kyle Ward's History in the Making; Orrin Edward Tiffany's The Relations of the United States to the Canadian Rebellion of 1837-1838; R. Bruce Taylor's "Anxious Moments in Frontier History"; and Robert Remini's Daniel Webster: The Man and His Time.
Also, a special thanks to #28 for letting me borrow his copy of John Niven's Martin Van Buren: The Romantic Age of American Politics and hang on to it for far too long.
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Enjoy this special treat: "Christmas Day" by Julia Ann Moore, the Sweet Singer of Michigan, read by the incomparable Eric Leslie. Happy holidays!
An instructive little tale where Victorian scholars look back at five centuries of arms and armor and just start making stuff up, because they're just ever-so-clever.
https://order-of-the-jackalope.com/armor-class-4/
Key sources for this episode include Charles Henry Ashdown's "Armour & Weapons in the Middle Ages"; Charles John Ffoulkes's "The Armorer and His Craft from the XIth to the XVI Century"; John Hewitt's "Ancient Armor and Weapons in Europe, from the Iron Period of the Northern Nations to the End of the Seventeenth Century"; the "Dungeons & Dragons Player's Handbook" for first, second, third, fourth, and fifth editions; and contemporary issues of Dragon Magazine.
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Countess Dorothy di Frasso was the most famous hostess in the world, who threw parties for kings and queens, dukes and barons; actors, athletes and aviators; Nazis, Fasists, and mobsters. This is the story of her amazing life.
https://order-of-the-jackalope.com/the-realest-housewife-of-beverly-hills/
Key sources for this episode include Graham Wallace's "Claude Grahame-White: A Biography"; Yvonne Elet's "Architectural Invention in Renaissance Rome: Artists, Humanists, and the Planning of Raphael's Villa Madama"; Hector Arce's "Gary Cooper: An Intimate Biography"; Elsa Maxwell's "I Married the World"; Dean Southern Jennings' "We Only Kill Each Other"; and contemporary newspaper reports.
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This week we're highlighting the Penny Peepshow (https://play.acast.com/s/the-penny-peepshow/), which returns from its long hiatus with a new season of The Pirate Queen! Join Captain Alice Conway as she deals with the loss of the Fat Wench and searches for her missing crew!
The Curiosity of a Child: Tales of Treasure https://thecuriosityofachild.com/episodes/tales-of-treasure-cocos-island-the-centurion-and-a-hermit
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Listen up, fruitcake... or, rather, listen up -- fruitcake! This week #7 (Dorothy White) drops by to tell you everything you never wanted to know about Christmas's most maligned tradition.
https://order-of-the-jackalope.com/fruitcake-subculture-conspiracy-revisited/
The only key source for this episode is #7's own Texas Cooking article “Fruitcake Subculture Conspiracy” but she consulted a number of other sources as well; including Marc Abrahams’ “Military Experiments on Fruitcake”, David Cashion’s The Dreaded Feast, Harold McGee’s On Food and Cooking, Glenn Warren’s Season’s Eatings podcast, and dozens of newspaper articles and web sites.
Presented by #7 (Dorothy White). Voluptuary. Raconteur. Artist wannabe. Travel junkie. Photographer of Pearl. In thrall to Vampire Andy. Teacher of culinary arts.
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For seven years he lived in hell, tormented nightly by a demon cat and the grim spectre of death. Finally, an angel told him what he had to do to end it all: kill the Witch of Ringtown Valley.
https://order-of-the-jackalope.com/seven-years-in-hell/
Key sources for this episode include Arthur Lewis's Hex and contemporary newspaper reports.
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The story of Borley Rectory, the most haunted house in England... Just remember that the most haunted and least haunted house are the exact same amount of haunted. https://order-of-the-jackalope.com/the-fakiest-fake-in-england/ Key sources for this episode include Harry Price's The Most Haunted House in England and The End of Borley Rectory; Eric J. Dingwall et al.'s The Haunting of Borley Rectory; Trevor Hall's The Search for Harry Price; Robert Wood's The Widow of Borley; and Andrew Clarke's Bones of Borley web site. (If you're interested in the case, I would also recommend Paul Adams et al.'s The Borley Rectory Companion; it's commendably thorough if also occasionally mind-numbingly tedious.) The Constant: "Gef" https://www.constantpodcast.com/episodes/gef Part of the That's Not Canon Productions podcast network. https://thatsnotcanon.com/ Discord: https://discord.gg/Mbap3UQyCB Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/orderjackalope/ Tumblr: https://orderjackalope.tumblr.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/orderjackalope Email: jackalope@order-of-the-jackalope.com
This one has it all: the afterlife, encyclopedia salesmen, evil stepmothers, Kickapoo princesses, New Yorkers with more money than sense, the Empress Alexandra, bigamy and fraud, ghost farts and spirit chickens.
https://order-of-the-jackalope.com/a-good-thing-to-die-by/
Key sources for this episode include Mary E. Cadwallader's "Mary S. Vanderbilt: A Twentieth Century Seer", Mira Ptacin's "The In-Betweens: The Spiritualists, Mediums, and Legends of Camp Etna", Phineas T. Barnum's "Humbugs of the World", and contemporary newspaper reports.
This is What We Found: https://thisiswhatwefound.libsyn.com/
Ghost Church: https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1119-ghost-church-by-jamie-lof-95721611/
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In 1862, William H. Mumler took the first known photograph of a ghost. Maybe. What unfolded over the next two decades was a story of fraud and self-deception... that even spilled over into the criminal courts of New York City.
Transcript, sources, links and more at
https://order-of-the-jackalope.com/what-joy-to-the-troubled-heart/
Key sources for this episode include James Appleton Morgan's "The Law of Literature"; Louis Kaplan's "The Strange Case of William Mumler, Spirit Photographer"; Peter Manseau's "The Apparitionists: A Tale of Phantoms, Fraud, Photography, and the Man Who Captured Lincoln's Ghost"; and William H. Mumler's "The Personal Experiences of William H. Mumler in Spirit-Photography."
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This week we're co-promoting with fellow TNC podcast Art Slice featuring irreverent deep dives into art & art history by artists Stephanie Dueñas and Russell Shoemaker. No gatekeeping, privilege, or that cognitive fog called 'art speaking.' https://www.artslicepod.com/
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This week #7 drops by to tell us everything we need to know about pickles... and then throw a "pickle party" for her niece featuring all sorts of unconventional pickles.
Transcript, sources, links and more at
https://order-of-the-jackalope.com/pickle-me-this/
Key sources for this episode include Harold McGee’s On Food and Cooking, Prosper Montagne’s Larousse Gastronomique, and Sue Shepherd’s Pickled, Potted and Canned.
Presented by #7 (Dorothy White). Voluptuary. Raconteur. Artist wannabe. Travel junkie. Photographer of Pearl. In thrall to Vampire Andy. Teacher of culinary arts.
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In 1876 poet Julia Ann Moore was beloved by the people of Grand Rapids, precisely because her poems were so bad. Eventually she went national... and cruel audiences stopped laughing at her poems, and started laughing at her.
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https://order-of-the-jackalope.com/i-started-a-joke/
Key sources for this episode include A.H. Greenly's "The Sweet Singer of Michigan Biographically Considered", Rudolph Umland's "The Blessed Sweet Singer"; Thomas J. Riedlinger's Mortal Refrains; Mark Twain's Crossing the Equator; and, of course, Julia Ann Moore's The Sentimental Song Book, The Sweet Singer of Michigan Salutes the Public, and A Few Choice Words to the Public, With New and Original Poems.
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Special thanks to Dave Blomenberg for coming on to discuss poetry with us! And thanks Dorothy White, Eric Leslie, David L. White, Greg Armstrong, Sam Link, Steven White, Kristen Harkness and Richard Le Poidevin for contributing their vocal talents to this episode!
This week we're co-promoting with fellow TNC podcast The Curiosity of a Child. Join Richard and Anton as they look at the quirky and unusual as well we the mundane from around the world as well as seeking out local history, events and characters. https://thecuriosityofachild.com/
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Josephine Bunkley wanted to raise awareness of problems within the convent system... but her "allies" just wanted to use her story to swing 1855 state elections to a party of reactionary xenophobes.
Transcript, sources, links and more at:
https://order-of-the-jackalope.com/miss-bunkleys-book/
Key sources for this episode include Catherine Yacovazzi's Escaped Nuns: True Womanhood and the Campaign Against Convents in Antebellum America; Charles Hale's "Our Houses are our Castles"; Josephine Bunkley's The Escaped Nun; and Tyler Anbinder's Nativism & Slavery: The Northern Know-Nothings & the Politics of the 1850s.
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In 1835 Maria Monk claimed that Montreal's Hôtel-Dieu convent was a vice den where the nuns were whores and the priests were baby murderers. She was making it all up... but Americans desperately wanted to believe her. Transcript, sources, links and more at: https://order-of-the-jackalope.com/the-awful-disclosures-of-maria-monk/ Key sources for this episode include Cassandra Yacovazzi's Escaped Nuns: True Womanhood and the Campaign against Convents in Antebellum America; Ray Allen Billington's The Protestant Crusade: 1800-1860; Maria Monk's Awful Disclosures of Maria Monk of the Hotel Dieu Nunnery of Montreal; William Leete Stone's Maria Monk and the Nunnery of the Hotel Dieu; and other contemporary newspaper reports and publications. Part of the That's Not Canon Productions podcast network. https://thatsnotcanon.com/ Discord: https://discord.gg/Mbap3UQyCB Twitter: https://twitter.com/orderjackalope Tumblr: https://orderjackalope.tumblr.com Email: jackalope@order-of-the-jackalope.com
In August 1834 Boston teamsters burned down a convent a convent full of nuns, thanks to religious prejudice and the suspicious testimony of Rebecca Reed, a lazy teenager with a grudge against the Mother Superior. Transcript, sources, links and more at: https://order-of-the-jackalope.com/six-months-in-a-convent/ Key sources for this episode include Cassandra Yacovazzi's Escaped Nuns: True Womanhood and the Campaign against Convents in Antebellum; James Phinney's "The Destruction of the Convent at Charlestown, Massachusetts, 1834"; Ray Allen Billington's The Protestant Crusade, 1800-1860; and Rebecca Reed's Six Months in a Convent. Part of the That's Not Canon Productions podcast network. https://thatsnotcanon.com/ Discord: https://discord.gg/Mbap3UQyCB Twitter: https://twitter.com/orderjackalope Tumblr: https://orderjackalope.tumblr.com Email: jackalope@order-of-the-jackalope.com
The strange transformation of a Qu'ran study group into a UFO doomsday cult whose members believed they were psychic ancient alien Egyptian astronaut mound builders. With a quick break in the middle for their founder to catch disco fever.
https://order-of-the-jackalope.com/space-is-the-place/
Key sources for this episode include Susan J. Palmer's Nuwaubian Nation: Black Spirituality and State Control; Theodore Gabriel's "The United Nuwaubian Nation of Moors" from UFO Religions; Abu Ameenah Bilal Philips's The Ansar Cult in America; and contemporary newspaper reports from the Atlanta Constitution by Bill Osinski and Bill Torpy.
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In the early Twentieth Century Billy Sunday was America's foremost evangelist, whose admirers included young men, ex-presidents, and titans of industry. Today we're asking the hard questions about Billy -- like, was he any good at baseball? Transcript, sources, links and more at https://order-of-the-jackalope.com/a-month-of-billys/ Key sources for this episode include Robert Bruns' Preacher: Billy Sunday & Big-Time American Evangelism; William G. McLoughlin Jr.'s Billy Sunday Was His Real Name; and baseball-reference.com. Part of the That's Not Canon Productions podcast network. https://thatsnotcanon.com/ This week we're co-promoting with fellow TNC podcast Broadway and Other Kiwi Dreams, a podcast hosted by James Shera exploring the lives and minds of theatre practitioners in and around the New Zealand performing arts industry. https://play.acast.com/s/broadway-and-other-kiwi-dreams/
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Joseph Raber was "too lazy to live and too lazy to work" -- the perfect victim for conspirators who insured him to the gills and murdered him. Join us this week for 1879's Crime of the Century, the incredible tale of "the Blue-Eyed Six!" https://order-of-the-jackalope.com/make-insurance-double-sure/ Key sources for this episode include Gary Ludwig's The Blue-Eyed Six: A Historical Narrative; G. Thomas Gates's A History of Hangings for Homicide in Lebanon County; and contemporary newspaper reports. Thanks also to #2 and #23, who helped me understand some of the more confusing legal issues surrounding the case. Part of the That's Not Canon Productions podcast network. https://thatsnotcanon.com/ This week we're co-promoting with fellow TNC podcast Pop DNA!. Join hosts Erin and Rhonda as they dissect the building blocks of our favorite pop culture works, sometimes with bad jokes. https://linktr.ee/Popdnapodcast Discord: https://discord.gg/Mbap3UQyCB Twitter: https://twitter.com/orderjackalope Tumblr: https://orderjackalope.tumblr.com Email: jackalope@order-of-the-jackalope.com
This one has it all: sibling rivalry, country club politics, adultery, duels, the Civil War, Spanish colonial policy, three giant piles of bird poop, all connected by the greatest American painter of the 19th Century: James McNeill Whistler. Transcript, sources, links and more at https://order-of-the-jackalope.com/crepuscule-in-blood-and-guts/ Key sources for this episode include Daniel E. Sutherland's Whistler: A Life for Art's Sake; Nikolaus Pevsner's "Whistler's Valparaiso Harbour at the Tate Gallery"; William Columbus Davis's The Last Conquistadores: The Spanish Intervention in Peru and Chile, 1863-1866; and the personal correspondence of James McNeill Whistler. Part of the That's Not Canon Productions podcast network. https://thatsnotcanon.com/ This week we're co-promoting with fellow TNC podcast Art Slice. Join artists Stephanie Dueñas and Russell Shoemaker as they approach art history from an artist's perspective, without all the technical gibberish getting in the way. https://www.artslicepod.com/ Discord: https://discord.gg/Mbap3UQyCB Twitter: https://twitter.com/orderjackalope Tumblr: https://orderjackalope.tumblr.com Email: jackalope@order-of-the-jackalope.com
In 1809, at the height of the Napoleonic Wars, British diplomat Benjamin Bathurst vanished into thin air. He was never seen again, and we're still debating what happened to him some 213 years later. Transcript, sources, links and more at https://order-of-the-jackalope.com/gone-guy/ Key sources for this episode include Sabine Baring-Gould's Historic Oddities and Strange Events; Michael Mason's "Benjamin Bathurst; The Case of the Missing Diplomat, 1809"; and Neville Thompson's "The Continental System as a Sieve: The Disappearance of Benjamin Bathurst in 1809." Part of the That's Not Canon Productions podcast network. https://thatsnotcanon.com/ This week we're co-promoting with fellow TNC podcast Grown Up. The life of an adult is complicated and tough, and sometimes you feel like you aren't doing your best. Join Derric Holland as he does his best to navigate the perils of growing up and discusses mental health, relationships, and self-discovery along the way. https://beacons.ai/grownuppodcast Discord: https://discord.gg/Mbap3UQyCB Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/orderjackalope/ Tumblr: https://orderjackalope.tumblr.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/orderjackalope Email: jackalope@order-of-the-jackalope.com
Everyone makes mistakes. Here are some (more) of ours. Featuring corrections and updates for the following episodes:
- Hurricane Coming Through
- He Whooped to See Them Burn
- The Icelander
- The Prophet of the Pacific
- Suffer Little Children
- You Are Who You Eat
- Westward Huss
- Tales from the Cryptid
- Wonder Marvelously
- Your Heart's Sorrow
- A Warning to Future Man
- Air Crash Museum
- Worse Than Frankenstein
- Seven Minutes in Heaven
- 520%
Transcript, sources, links and more at https://order-of-the-jackalope.com/errata-3 Discord: https://discord.gg/Mbap3UQyCB Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/orderjackalope/ Tumblr: https://orderjackalope.tumblr.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/orderjackalope Email: jackalope@order-of-the-jackalope.com Part of the That's Not Canon Productions podcast network. https://thatsnotcanon.com/
Mormons believe that Jesus once lived in the Americas. Some of them once believed he lived on the outskirts of Walla Walla, Washington from 1868-1880. This is their story. Transcript, sources, links and more at https://order-of-the-jackalope.com/unto-us-a-child-is-born Key sources for this episode include C. LeRoy Anderson's For Christ Will Come Tomorrow: The Saga of the Morrisites; Russell Blankenship's And There Were Men; William Denison Lyman's History of Old Walla Walla County, Embracing Walla Walla, Columbia, Garfield, and Asotin Counties; and Tony Zbaraschuk's The Fall of the Standard: William W. Davis and the Walla Walla Jesus. Presented by #13 (Dave White) Artist. Lover. Social Media Unfluencer. Acknowledged authority on lucrative bogs. Dave White is all this and more. But most days he's a web developer, graphic designer, and cartoonist. He lives in Pittsburgh with his wife, his two cats, and his crippling obsession with strange trivia. Discord: https://discord.gg/Mbap3UQyCB Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/orderjackalope/ Instagram: https://instagram.com/orderjackalope Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/user/orderjackalope Tumblr: https://orderjackalope.tumblr.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/orderjackalope Email: jackalope@order-of-the-jackalope.com Part of the That's Not Canon Productions podcast network. https://thatsnotcanon.com/
The mind-boggling tale of how two world-famous zoologists were fooled by a shifty carnival worker, a rubber dummy, a three ton block of ice, and their own biases. Transcript, sources, links and more at https://order-of-the-jackalope.com/the-ape-man-creature-of-whiteface-customized-my-van/ Key sources for this episode include Ivan T. Sanderson's "Preliminary Description of the External Morphology of What Appeared to be the Fresh Corpse of a Hitherto Unknown Form of Living Hominid"; John Napier's Bigfoot: The Yeti and Sasquatch in Myth and Reality; Bernard Heuvelmans' Neanderthal: The Strange Saga of the Minnesota Iceman; Brian Regal's Searching for Sasquatch; several episodes of The Bigfoot Show, MonsterTalk, and Skeptoid podcasts; and online articles by Darren Naish. Presented by #13 (Dave White) Artist. Lover. Social Media Unfluencer. Acknowledged authority on lucrative bogs. Dave White is all this and more. But most days he's a web developer, graphic designer, and cartoonist. He lives in Pittsburgh with his wife, his two cats, and his crippling obsession with strange trivia. Discord: https://discord.gg/Mbap3UQyCB Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/orderjackalope/ Instagram: https://instagram.com/orderjackalope Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/user/orderjackalope Tumblr: https://orderjackalope.tumblr.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/orderjackalope Email: jackalope@order-of-the-jackalope.com Part of the That's Not Canon Productions podcast network. https://thatsnotcanon.com/
William F. Miller's Franklin Syndicate promised a 520% return on your investment... and for many Brooklynites, it was too good an offer to pass up. Too bad it was all a scam.
Transcript, sources, links and more at
https://order-of-the-jackalope.com/520-percent/
Key sources include for this episode include Arthur Train's True Stories of Crime from the District Attorney's Office; V.G. Oltmann's The Ponzi Files: 520% Miller; and contemporary newspaper reports.
Presented by #13 (Dave White) Artist. Lover. Social Media Unfluencer. Acknowledged authority on lucrative bogs. Dave White is all this and more. But most days he's a web developer, graphic designer, and cartoonist. He lives in Pittsburgh with his wife, his two cats, and his crippling obsession with strange trivia.
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William F. Miller's Franklin Syndicate promised a 520% return on your investment... and for many Brooklynites, it was too good an offer to pass up. Too bad it was all a scam.
Transcript, sources, links and more at
https://order-of-the-jackalope.com/520-percent/
Key sources include for this episode include Arthur Train's True Stories of Crime from the District Attorney's Office; V.G. Oltmann's The Ponzi Files: 520% Miller; and contemporary newspaper reports.
Presented by #13 (Dave White) Artist. Lover. Social Media Unfluencer. Acknowledged authority on lucrative bogs. Dave White is all this and more. But most days he's a web developer, graphic designer, and cartoonist. He lives in Pittsburgh with his wife, his two cats, and his crippling obsession with strange trivia.
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One man's horrifying journey from toilet paper salesman to famous author to spiritual guru to American Hitler to space brother.
Transcript, sources, links and more at
https://order-of-the-jackalope.com/seven-minutes-in-heaven/
Key sources for this episode include Bradley W. Hart's Hitler's American Friends: The Third Reich's Supporters in the United States; Gustavus Myers's History of Bigotry in the United States; and Scott Beekman's William Dudley Pelley: A Life in Right-Wing Extremism and the Occult.
Presented by #13 (Dave White) Artist. Lover. Social Media Unfluencer. Acknowledged authority on lucrative bogs. Dave White is all this and more. But most days he's a web developer, graphic designer, and cartoonist. He lives in Pittsburgh with his wife, his two cats, and his crippling obsession with strange trivia.
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On September 12, 1952 a housewife and six kids in Flatwoods, West Virginia ascended a foggy mountain and had an encounter with the unknown at the top. Ever since, scientists have debated what they actually saw that night...
Transcript, sources, links and more at
https://order-of-the-jackalope.com/worse-than-frankenstein/
Key sources for this episode include Gray Barker's They Knew Too Much About Flying Saucers; Ivan T. Sanderson's Uninvited Visitors: A Biologist Looks at UFOs; Joe Nickell's Real Life X-Files: Investigating the Paranormal, and contemporary newspaper reports.
Presented by #13 (Dave White) Artist. Lover. Social Media Unfluencer. Acknowledged authority on lucrative bogs. Dave White is all this and more. But most days he's a web developer, graphic designer, and cartoonist. He lives in Pittsburgh with his wife, his two cats, and his crippling obsession with strange trivia.
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In October 1846, the world discovered the miracle of surgical anesthesia... and then four men spent the next two decades fighting over which one of them deserved all of the credit.
Transcript, sources, links and more at
https://order-of-the-jackalope.com/kings-of-pain/
Key sources for this episode include Julie Fenster's ETHER DAY: THE STRANGE TALE OF AMERICA'S GREATEST MEDICAL DISCOVERY AND THE HAUNTED MEN WHO MADE IT; Richard Wolfe's I AWAKEN TO GLORY: ESSAYS CELEBRATING THE SESQUICENTENNIAL OF THE DISCOVERY OF ANESTHESIA BY HORACE WELLS; Richard Wolfe's TARNISHED IDOL: WILLIAM T.G. MORTON AND THE INTRODUCTION OF SURGICAL ANESTHESIA; and Richard Wolfe's CHARLES THOMAS JACKSON: THE HEAD BEHIND THE HANDS.
Presented by #13 (Dave White) Artist. Lover. Social Media Unfluencer. Acknowledged authority on lucrative bogs. Dave White is all this and more. But most days he's a web developer, graphic designer, and cartoonist. He lives in Pittsburgh with his wife, his two cats, and his crippling obsession with strange trivia.
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In October 1846, the world discovered the miracle of surgical anesthesia... and then four men spent the next two decades fighting over which one of them deserved all of the credit.
Transcript, sources, links and more at
https://order-of-the-jackalope.com/kings-of-pain/
Key sources for this episode include Julie Fenster's ETHER DAY: THE STRANGE TALE OF AMERICA'S GREATEST MEDICAL DISCOVERY AND THE HAUNTED MEN WHO MADE IT; Richard Wolfe's I AWAKEN TO GLORY: ESSAYS CELEBRATING THE SESQUICENTENNIAL OF THE DISCOVERY OF ANESTHESIA BY HORACE WELLS; Richard Wolfe's TARNISHED IDOL: WILLIAM T.G. MORTON AND THE INTRODUCTION OF SURGICAL ANESTHESIA; and Richard Wolfe's CHARLES THOMAS JACKSON: THE HEAD BEHIND THE HANDS.
Presented by #13 (Dave White) Artist. Lover. Social Media Unfluencer. Acknowledged authority on lucrative bogs. Dave White is all this and more. But most days he's a web developer, graphic designer, and cartoonist. He lives in Pittsburgh with his wife, his two cats, and his crippling obsession with strange trivia.
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Rowena Morill spent two decades building a career as one of America's top fantasy artists... and then in 2003 two of her paintings were found hanging in Saddam Hussein's "love nest."
Transcript, sources, links and more at
https://order-of-the-jackalope.com/saddams-favorite-artist/
Key sources for this episode include The Art of Rowena by Rowena Morrill; Aaron Santesso's "Fascism and Science Fiction" from the March 2014 issue of Science Fiction Studies; Norman Spinrad's Science Fiction in the Real World; and contemporary newspaper reports.
Presented by #13 (Dave White) Artist. Lover. Social Media Unfluencer. Acknowledged authority on lucrative bogs. Dave White is all this and more. But most days he's a web developer, graphic designer, and cartoonist. He lives in Pittsburgh with his wife, his two cats, and his crippling obsession with strange trivia.
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For fifteen years the United States Navy invested heavily in rigid airships... only to lose the majority of their fleet in tragic accidents. This week join us for the sad tales of the ZR-2, the USS Shenandoah, the USS Akron, and the USS Macon and learn why we can't have nice things.
Transcript, sources, links and more at
https://order-of-the-jackalope.com/air-crash-museum/
Key sources for this episode include Thomas H. Flaherty's The Epic of Flight: The Giant Airships; C.E. Rosendahl's Up Ship!; and contemporary newspaper reports.
Presented by #13 (Dave White) Artist. Lover. Social Media Unfluencer. Acknowledged authority on lucrative bogs. Dave White is all this and more. But most days he's a web developer, graphic designer, and cartoonist. He lives in Pittsburgh with his wife, his two cats, and his crippling obsession with strange trivia.
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For fifteen years the United States Navy invested heavily in rigid airships... only to lose the majority of their fleet in tragic accidents. This week join us for the sad tales of the ZR-2, the USS Shenandoah, the USS Akron, and the USS Macon and learn why we can't have nice things.
Transcript, sources, links and more at
https://order-of-the-jackalope.com/air-crash-museum/
Key sources for this episode include Thomas H. Flaherty's The Epic of Flight: The Giant Airships; C.E. Rosendahl's Up Ship!; and contemporary newspaper reports.
Presented by #13 (Dave White) Artist. Lover. Social Media Unfluencer. Acknowledged authority on lucrative bogs. Dave White is all this and more. But most days he's a web developer, graphic designer, and cartoonist. He lives in Pittsburgh with his wife, his two cats, and his crippling obsession with strange trivia.
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In 1864 the Confederate States of America commissioned a privateer to destroy the American whaling industry. It succeeded beyond their wildest dreams... but not until after the war was over. Whoops.
Transcript, sources, links and more at
https://order-of-the-jackalope.com/the-sea-king/
Key sources for this episode include Chester G. Hearn's GRAY RAIDERS OF THE SEA: HOW EIGHT CONFEDERATE WARSHIPS DESTROYED THE UNION'S HIGH SEAS COMMERCE; John Baldwin and Ron Powers' LAST FLAG DOWN: THE EPIC JOURNEY OF THE LAST CONFEDERATE WARSHIP; Lynn Schooler's THE LAST SHOT: THE INCREDIBLE STORY OF THE CSS SHENANDOAH AND THE TRUE CONCLUSION OF THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR; Terry Smyth's AUSTRALIAN CONFEDERATES: HOW 42 AUSTRALIANS JOINED THE REBEL CAUSE AND FIRED THE LAST SHOT IN THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR; and Tom Chaffin's SEA OF GRAY: THE AROUND-THE-WORLD ODYSSEY OF THE CONFEDERATE RAIDER SHENANDOAH.
Presented by #13 (Dave White) Artist. Lover. Social Media Unfluencer. Acknowledged authority on lucrative bogs. Dave White is all this and more. But most days he's a web developer, graphic designer, and cartoonist. He lives in Pittsburgh with his wife, his two cats, and his crippling obsession with strange trivia.
This week we're cross-promoting with The Paranoid Strain (https://play.acast.com/s/the-paranoid-strain), the podcast that explains why so many people believe ridiculous conspiracy theories! Listen as each episode the Fearful Jesuit explores the origins of conspiracy theories like QAnon, 9/11 Truthers, and Sovereign Citizens and then systematically dismantles them! You'll love it!
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In 1864 the Confederate States of America commissioned a privateer to destroy the American whaling industry. It succeeded beyond their wildest dreams... but not until after the war was over. Whoops.
Transcript, sources, links and more at
https://order-of-the-jackalope.com/the-sea-king/
Key sources for this episode include Chester G. Hearn's GRAY RAIDERS OF THE SEA: HOW EIGHT CONFEDERATE WARSHIPS DESTROYED THE UNION'S HIGH SEAS COMMERCE; John Baldwin and Ron Powers' LAST FLAG DOWN: THE EPIC JOURNEY OF THE LAST CONFEDERATE WARSHIP; Lynn Schooler's THE LAST SHOT: THE INCREDIBLE STORY OF THE CSS SHENANDOAH AND THE TRUE CONCLUSION OF THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR; Terry Smyth's AUSTRALIAN CONFEDERATES: HOW 42 AUSTRALIANS JOINED THE REBEL CAUSE AND FIRED THE LAST SHOT IN THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR; and Tom Chaffin's SEA OF GRAY: THE AROUND-THE-WORLD ODYSSEY OF THE CONFEDERATE RAIDER SHENANDOAH.
Presented by #13 (Dave White) Artist. Lover. Social Media Unfluencer. Acknowledged authority on lucrative bogs. Dave White is all this and more. But most days he's a web developer, graphic designer, and cartoonist. He lives in Pittsburgh with his wife, his two cats, and his crippling obsession with strange trivia.
This week we're cross-promoting with The Paranoid Strain (https://play.acast.com/s/the-paranoid-strain), the podcast that explains why so many people believe ridiculous conspiracy theories! Listen as each episode the Fearful Jesuit explores the origins of conspiracy theories like QAnon, 9/11 Truthers, and Sovereign Citizens and then systematically dismantles them! You'll love it!
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What's the difference between jam and jelly? And just what the heck is marmalade? This week, take a quick break and let #7 sit down and explain the wild world of preserves to you!
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Presented by #7 (Dorothy White) Voluptuary. Raconteur. Artist wannabe. Travel junkie. Photographer of Pearl. In thrall to Vampire Andy. Teacher of culinary arts.
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"I myself cannot explain it. I know only that I remember Lemuria! Remember it with a faithfulness that I accept with the absolute conviction of a fanatic..."
The world is ruled by evil dwarves who live beneath the surface and control your life with devious ray guns. This is the Shaver Mystery... either the most astonishing revelation in history, or its greatest hoax. Only you can decide.
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https://order-of-the-jackalope.com/a-warning-to-future-man/
Key sources for this episode include Richard Toronto's WAR OVER LEMURIA: RICHARD SHAVER, RAY PALMER AND THE STRANGEST CHAPTER OF 1940s SCIENCE FICTION; Fred Nadis's THE MAN FROM MARS: RAY PALMER'S AMAZING PULP JOURNEY; David Standish's HOLLOW EARTH; and the stories of Richard Sharpe Shaver.
Presented by #13 (Dave White) Artist. Lover. Social Media Unfluencer. Acknowledged authority on lucrative bogs. Dave White is all this and more. But most days he's a web developer, graphic designer, and cartoonist. He lives in Pittsburgh with his wife, his two cats, and his crippling obsession with strange trivia.
This week we're cross-promoting with The Paranormal Son (https://shows.acast.com/the-paranormal-son)! Join JT as he explores all topics paranormal, fortean, mysterious, strange and unexplained!
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For two decades George Jacob Schweinfurth was public enemy #1 in Rockford, IL: a smooth-talking charlatan who made a mockery of religion, despoiled innocent women, and stole money with his hypnotic powers. Tune in this week for the amazing tale of the man they called "ten times worse than Brigham Young."
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Key sources for this episode include Dan Visel's article "Illinois Jesus" from the Paris Review; Alex McCleneghan's Six Years in Heaven: The Amazing Story of George Jacob Schweinfurth, The False Christ; and contemporary newspaper reports and magazine articles.
Presented by #13 (Dave White) Artist. Lover. Social Media Unfluencer. Acknowledged authority on lucrative bogs. Dave White is all this and more. But most days he's a web developer, graphic designer, and cartoonist. He lives in Pittsburgh with his wife, his two cats, and his crippling obsession with strange trivia.
This week we're cross-promoting with Oldie But A Goodie (https://www.patreon.com/oldiebutagoodiepod)! Join Sandro Falce and Zach Adams as they embark on a journey through an entire year of cinema, reviewing one film per episode in the week they originally came out.
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It started out as a mistake in the Treaty of Paris (1814), and quickly turned into a neutral libertarian haven for tax cheats, gamblers, smugglers, zinc miners, and (worst of all) Esperantists. This week, Alex Baumans recounts the century-long history of Neutral Moresnet.
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Key sources for this episode include Philip Dröge's Moresnet, opkomst en ondergang van een vergeten buurlandje; Wilfried Uitterhoeve's ‘een innige vereeniging’ Naar één koninkrijk van Nederland en België in 1815; and material from the Museum Vieille Montagne in Kelmis.
Presented by #42 (Alex Baumans). Pathologically interested in anything unusual and obscure. Closet goth, armchair general and amateur theologian. Favorite animals are ducks, octopodes and pigs. You will also find me surprisingly knowledgable about K-Pop girl groups.
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In 1939, Gustave Blair convinced an Arizona court that he was the missing Charley Ross. He was never able to convince the Ross family or the public, though, and if he really was Charley he took that secret to his grave... Or did he?
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Presented by #16 (Rod Miller). Rod is a descendant of the Miller family that was allegedly involved in the kidnapping of Charley Ross, and grew up in family of ten boys and three girls in Mason City, Iowa. He holds a master's degree in social work from the University of Northern Iowa, settled in Minneapolis 35 years ago with his life partner, and retired from the mental health profession in 2011. His interest in geneaology began in 1977 when his father removed a black satchel from a mildewed cardboard drum his our wet basement, handed it to him, and said "This is Charley Ross."
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On July 1st, 1874 four-year-old Charley Brewster Ross was kidnapped from the street in front of his family's Germantown home, and became America's first case of kidnapping for ransom. The Philadelphia police sprang into action... but their investigation would prove to be a tragic comedy of errors.
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Key sources for this episode include Carrie Hagen's We Is Got Him: The Kidnapping That Changed America; Christian K. Ross's The Father's Story of Charley Ross, Norman J. Zierold's Little Charley Ross: America's First Kidnapping for Ransom; Tom Everly's "Searching for Charley Ross"; and contemporary news reports.
Presented by #13 (Dave White). Artist. Lover. Social Media Unfluencer. Acknowledged authority on lucrative bogs. Dave White is all this and more. But most days he's a web developer, graphic designer, and cartoonist. He lives in Pittsburgh with his wife, his two cats, and his crippling obsession with strange trivia.
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Thirty five years before Major League Baseball played its first game under electric lights, the 1900 Philadelphia Phillies were using electricity at the Baker Bowl... to steal signs.
Transcript, sources, links and more at https://order-of-the-jackalope.com/the-buzzer-brigade/
Key sources for this episode include Ron Schuler's biography of Pearce Chiles for the Society for American Baseball Research and contemporary newspaper reports. (And while you're at it, you should check out the greatest baseball books ever written, Dan Gutman's It Ain't Cheatin' If You Don't Get Caught and Derek Zumsteg's The Cheater's Guide to Baseball.)
All that, plus a preview of Series 11!
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On Anzac Day 1935, a shark in a Sydney aquarium vomited up a severed human arm. The police investigation that followed went to some truly strange places. This story has everything: insurance fraud, blackmail, attempted suicide, a high speed boat chase, and murder. Plus sharks.
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Key sources for this episode inclue Philip Roope and Kevin Meagher's Shark Arm, Victor Coppleson's Shark Attack, and contemporary newspaper reports.
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This week we're talking with Michael Finney of the Chicago 1893 Project about the 1893 Chicago World's Fair and Columbian Exposition, what it meant to the city and the nation, and resurrecting it with augmented reality.
You can learn more about Michael and the Chicago 1893 Project at his website, or from his book and documentary film about the Exposition.
https://michael-finney.com
https://www.amazon.com/dp/1082413585
https://www.amazon.com/Chicagos-Columbian-Exposition-Michael-Finney/dp/B08JCPFJ54
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For one messiah, this is just the beginning of an exotic adventure.
Where did Jesus get his ideas? Some people think he learned them from Buddhists in India. And some of those people have even ginned up fake evidence for that theory...
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Key sources for this episode include Louis Fader's The Issa Tale That Will Not Die; Nicholas Notovich's The Unknown Life of Jesus Christ; Levi Dowling's Aquarian Gospel of Jesus the Christ; Mirza Ghulam Ahmad's Jesus in India; and Elizabeth Clare Prophet's The Lost Years of Jesus.
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This week we're cross-promoting with fellow TNC podcast Castology! Each episode Liz, Nick and Zane join forces to bring you recommendations for the best podcasts around! https://thatsnotcanon.com/castologypodcast/
Everyone always talks about Nazi megaweapons, but nobody talks about Allied megaweapons. This episode, we talk about the strangest war machine the British ever conceived: an aircraft carrier made from ice.
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Key sources for this episode include Henry Hemming's The Ingenious Mr. Pyke: Inventor, Fugitive, Spy; David Lampe's Pyke: The Unknown Genius; and Philip Ziegler's Mountbatten: A Biography.
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This week we're cross-promoting with fellow TNC podcast The Paranoid Strain! Join the Fearful Jesuit as he explains why so many people believe ridiculous conspiracy theories.
While researching the latest episode I came across a satirical account of the fall of Fort Christina in Washington Irving's Knickerbocker's History of New York. It was too good not to share, so enjoy.
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What would happen if you started a colony in the New World and then just kind of forgot about it for a few decades? This episode we look at the short, strange history of New Sweden.
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Key sources for this episode include Terry G. Jordan and Matti Kapus's The American Backwoods Frontier: An Ethnic and Ecological Interpretation; J. Thomas Sharf's History of Delaware, 1609-1888; George Sydney Fisher's The Making of Pennsylvania; and numerous articles in The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography.
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This week we're cross-promoting with fellow TNC podcast The Curiosity of a Child! Listen as a father and his 11-year-old son discuss the things they are curious about from science and history to monsters and games.
Baseball, black magic, corruption, drugs, murder and poop jokes in the Florida Keys. Join us as we cover the mysterious 1976 disappearance of Key West fire chief Joseph Anthony "Bum" Farto.
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Key sources for this episode include contemporary reporting by Rick Ratliff in the Miami Herald and later retrospectives by David Sloan in Keys Weekly.
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This week we're cross-promoting with fellow TNC podcast Cartoon Time Machine! Join the AniMates each week as they look at beloved cartoons from the past, present, and future.
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We know all the coolest Ancient Egypgian gods have animal heads, but ask yourself: what kind of animal is Set? Finding out the answer may be harder than you think.
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Key sources for this episode include Geraldine Pinch's Handbook of Egyptian Mythology, P.E. Newberry's "The Pig and the Cult-Animal of Set", and Jim Ward's Deities & Demigods.
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This week we've got all the hot Peacemaker spoilers you've been craving! Assuming you don't mean the John Cena show but the 1844 naval tragedy that helped reshape America. (Can you spoil something that happened 178 years ago?)
Okay, yes, we're being a bit clickbaity this week. But maybe it'll work!
Transcript, sources, links and more at:
https://order-of-the-jackalope.com/peacemaker/
Key sources for this episode include Kerry Walters Explosion on the Potomac, Robert Seager's And Tyler Too, The Franklin Institute's "Report on the explosion of the gun on board the steam frigate 'Princeton''", and Lee M. Pearson's "The Princeton and the Peacemaker; A Study in Nineteenth-Century Naval Research and Development Procedures".
Learn more about Chris over on his blog, or take one of his tours from Walking Backward Tours.
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Who deserves the credit for inventing peanut butter? A Michigan physician and moral scold? A Missouri snack food maker and flim-flam artist? A Canadian chemist? The indigenous people of South America?
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https://order-of-the-jackalope.com/crunchy-or-wrong/
Key sources for this episode include Jon Krampner's Creamy and Crunchy: An Informal History of Peanut Butter; Christina Vella's George Washington Carver: A Life; and "Small targeted dietary changes can yield substantial gains for human health and the environment" by Katerina S. Stylianou, Victor L. Fulgoni III and Oliver Jolliet.
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It is the embodiment of all evil, capable of killing with a thought? Is it the brain box of the cosmos, capable of unlocking the secrets of the universe? Either way, it's the Mitchell-Hedges Crystal Skull of Doom!
Transcript, sources, links and more at:
https://order-of-the-jackalope.com/lost-legacy/
Key sources for this episode include, well, Jane MacLaren Walsh and Brett Toppings's The Man Who Invented Aztec Crystal Skulls; Skeptical Inquirer articles by Joe Nickell and Benjamin Radford; the memoirs of Frederick Albert Mitchell Hedges, Lady Richmond Brown, and Jane Harvey Houlson; and Richard Garvin's The Crystal Skull.
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A baffling tale about ancient astronauts, religious fanatics, fake clones, a gullible press, and sex robots from outer space.
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https://order-of-the-jackalope.com/whatever-happened-to-baby-eve/
Key sources for this episode include Susan Jean Palmer's Aliens Adored: Raël's UFO Religion; James R. Lewis's Legitimating New Religions; several articles from Nova Religio: The Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions; and contemporary newspaper reports.
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In 1912 it was the greatest anthropological find of all time, the earliest known link between man and ape. Then, forty years later, it was revealed to be an audacious hoax. This week, the strange story of Piltdown Man.
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Key sources for this episode include Miles Russell's Piltdown Man: The Secret Life of Charles Dawson and the World's Greatest Archaeological Hoax; John Evangelist Walsh's Unraveling Piltdown: The Science Fraud of the Century and Its Solution; Sir Arthur Smith Woodward's The Earliest Englishman; J.S. Weiner's The Piltdown Forgery; and Lydia Pyne's Seven Skeletons: The Evolution of the World's Most Famous Human Fossils.
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Did you know that Connecticut and Pennsylvania went to war multiple times over the area that's now scranton? Learn all about the Yankee-Pennamite Wars in our latest episode!
Key sources for this episode include Isaac Chapman's A Sketch of the History of Wyoming; Sydney George Fisher's The Making of Pennsylvania; John B. Frantz and William Pencak's Beyond Philadelphia: The American Revolution in the Pennsylvania Hinterland; Andro Linklater's The Fabric of America; and Paul Moyer's The Wild Yankees: The Struggle for Independence Along Pennsylvania's Revolutionary Frontier.
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On Pohnpei, upon a stone altar, within the spaces... the legendary and factual stories of the mysterious fortress of Nan Madol.
Key sources for this episode include David Hanlon's Upon a Stone Altar: A History of the Island of Pohnpei to 1890; Bill Ballenger's Lost City of Stone; The Book of Luelen by Luelen Bernart; and the critical edition of James Francis O'Connell's A Residence of Eleven Years in New Holland and the Caroline Islands published by the Australian National University Press in 1972.
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Errata for The Hot House; French Leave; The Icelander; "I'm the Naughty Boy"; What-Is-It?; Moron or Madman?; Suffer Little Children; and more.
Script at https://order-of-the-jackalope.com/errata-2/
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Would you believe there were Vikings in Washington, DC? Or West Virginia? Or Oklahoma? Or Arizona? Or Hawaii? How about all of the above and none of the above?
Key sources for this episode include the works of Gloria Farley, Barry Fell, and Scott Wolter along with some truly excellent research done by debunkers over the years, especially the excellent blog articles by Henrik Williams of Uppsala University. (But if I had to recommend anything I would recommend Scott Tribble's article "Last of the Vikings," which tells the entire amazing story of Frank Cowan and his Great Viking Hoax.)
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In which the vikings of Minnesota challenge the patriots of New England for the right to claim Vikings beat Columbus to the New World.
Key sources for this week's episode include the works of Hjalmar R. Holand; Kenneth Feder's ARCHAEOLOGICAL ODDITIES; Erik Wahlgren's THE KENSINGTON STONE: A MYSTERY SOLVED; and more recent scholarship from Alice Beck Kehoe, Eric A. Powell, and Karri L. Springer.
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For years, archaeologists have searched in vain for the location of Leif Eriksson's Vinland. They should have just asked the good people of New England, who kept finding it everywhere they looked.
Key sources for this episode include the writings of Carl Christian Rafn, Eben Norton Horsford, William Brownell Goodwin, and Frederick Julius Pohl. And also Edmund Berke Delabarre's RECENT HISTORY OF DIGHTON ROCK, Kenneth Feder's ARCHAEOLOGICAL ODDITIES, David Godward's THE WESTFORD KNIGHT AND HENRY SINCLAIR, and Douglas Hunter's THE PLACE OF STONE.
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It was supposed to be a celebration of sixty years of baseball... and instead, well, Philadelphia fans did what Philadelphia fans do best.
Key sources for this episode include contemporary newspaper reports from the Philadelphia Inquirer and the Philadelphia Daily News, and Bruce Kuklik's To Everything A Season: Shibe Park and Urban Philadelphia, 1909-1976.
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H.H. Goddard's groundbreaking studies of the feeble-minded helped justify eugenics policies across the world... which is a tragedy because they were junk science and lies. Here's the whole sordid story.
Key sources for this episode include David Smith's Minds Made Feeble: The Myth and Legacy of the Kallikaks; Stephen Jay Gould's The Mismeasure of Man; Thomas C. Leonard's Illiberal Reformers: Race, Eugenics & American Economics in the PRogressive Era; Stephen Murdoch's IQ: A Smart History of a Failed Idea; and, of course, the works of Henry Herbert Goddard.
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https://order-of-the-jackalope.com/common-clay/
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Burnu Acquanetta, "the Venezuelan Volcano," was an exotic beauty who took Hollywood by storm in the summer of 1942... but who was she really? And does it really matter?
Key sources for this episode include Gregory William Mank's WOMEN IN HORROR FILMS: 1940s; contemporary newspaper and magazine reporting; and several articles written by Robert L. Pela for the PHOENIX NEW TIMES.
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https://order-of-the-jackalope.com/burning-fire-deep-water/
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On August 6th, 1930 Judge Joseph Force Crater walked out of a New York City restaurant and was never seen again. In this episode #7 lays down the facts and explores several theories about what really happened that night.
Key sources for this episode include Stella Crater's The Empty Robe, Sarah Pruitt's Vanished! American's Most Mysterious Kindappings, Castaways, and the Forever Lost, and Richard Tofel's Vanishing Point.
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https://order-of-the-jackalope.com/call-your-office/
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In July 1916, the New Jersey coast was rocked by the deadliest string of shark attacks in US history. This episode, #13 recounts the whole bloody story, from Beach Haven to Spring Lake to Matawan -- and beyond.
Key sources for this episode include Richard G. Fernicola's "Twelve Days of Terror" and contemporary newspaper accounts.
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https://order-of-the-jackalope.com/scarlet-billows/
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In 1855 the town of Perry, New York was terrorized by a "sea serpent" in nearby Silver Lake. It was a hoax... but whose hoax was it?
https://order-of-the-jackalope.com/his-royal-snakeship/
On July 2, 1903 Washington Senators outfielder Ed Delahanty walked out of the team's hotel in Detroit and disappeared. We now know what happened to him, but no one knows why...
https://order-of-the-jackalope.com/triple-jumper/
Time to dress up, because #7 is inviting you to a dinner party where all the foods are famous. Or at least have famous namesakes.
Transcript, sources and more at:
https://order-of-the-jackalope.com/you-are-who-you-eat/
Okay, so I know we said last time that we weren't going to do this again, but you know what? We lied.
https://order-of-the-jackalope.com/oahspepals-god-goo/
(This is the last one, we swear.)
Because you've been good, here's a podcast where two non-believers read through the Oahspe and try not to be jerks about it.
https://order-of-the-jackalope.com/oahspepals/
(Apologies to Apocrypals for nicking their format -- it's purely out of love, we swear.)
In 1880, God dictated a new Bible to John Ballou Newbrough, and then told him to move to New Mexico and open up the strangest orphanage the world has ever seen. It did not end well.
Transcript, links and more at:
https://order-of-the-jackalope.com/suffer-little-children/
Key Sources:
- Fogarty, Robert S. All Things New: American Communes and Utopian Movements, 1860-1914. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1990.
- Stoes, K.D. "The Land of Shalam." New Mexico Historical Review, Volume 33, Number 1 (January 1958).
From millionaire's mansion to sleazy hotel to Frank Gehry architectural abomination, the sordid history of the Sunset Strip's own Garden of Allah.
Script, sources, links and more at
https://order-of-the-jackalope.com/the-garden-of-oblivion/
We thought our last episode on Trofim Denisovich Lysenko may have been too focused on the what and when rather than the how and why, so here's a bonus episode that might help clear things up.
https://order-of-the-jackalope.com/duped-by-mendelist-morganists/
Trofim D. Lysenko (1898-1976) set back the study of biology in the Soviet Union for two generations -- but the lesson you should learn from his story is not the one you think.
Transcript, sources and more at
https://order-of-the-jackalope.com/moron-or-madman/
In which two Irish art students commit a daring daylight museum heist with virtually no planning, and somehow get away consequence-free.
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https://order-of-the-jackalope.com/more-lovely-and-more-temperate/
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From the world of Dungeons & Dragons, A silly story that only gets sillier as people keep adding to it.
https://order-of-the-jackalope.com/grandiose-but-straightforward/
Both Texas and Wyoming lay claim to America's first woman governor. But who really deserves the honor? In honor of International Women's Day, we make the candidates duke it out.
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In an age of excess, he was the most excessive one of all. This week, #7 takes a look back at the life of legendary salesman and gourmand Diamond Jim Brady (1856-1917).
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https://order-of-the-jackalope.com/he-could-eat-it-all/
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Forty miles north of Chicago is the town of Zion, IL, a sleepy city with a sordid history of faith healing, financial fraud, flat-Eartherism... and figs? Join us for the crazy true story of how it all began... and the crazier story of how it almost came crashing down.
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https://order-of-the-jackalope.com/marching-to-shibboleth/
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For one week in January 1909, the Jersey Devil walked among us. Maybe.
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https://order-of-the-jackalope.com/what-is-it/
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Sometimes a journey of ten thousand miles starts with mailing yourself from San Francisco to Honolulu. This week: the strange and tragic story of Ira C. Sparks.
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https://order-of-the-jackalope.com/the-prophet-of-the-pacific/
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For years the Monongahela Valley was terrorized by the fearsome Torso Burchianti Gang. Except maybe that gang wasn't quite as fearsome as the cops thought...
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https://order-of-the-jackalope.com/the-terror-of-gillikin-country/
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A fun night out at the theater featuring ethnic jokes, slapstick violence, a sappy moral, three tons of feminine pulchritude, and a dead cat. (Maybe two dead cats, we can't be sure.)
Script, sources and more at https://order-of-the-jackalope.com/the-spirit-of-capitalism-made-flesh/
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Series Six starts December 28!
How many times will folks fall for the same old tricks? You might be surprised. Let's talk about Prince Mike, King Ben, and Michigan's Houses of Israel and David.
https://order-of-the-jackalope.com/exceeding-great/
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This week #7 talks about the only souvenir option that makes cents - or rather, is made from cents. It's a brief history of the pressed penny, squished penny, or elongated coin!
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In 1929 it was a sensation, "the most notorious witchcraft trial since Salem." Today it's all but forgotten. Let's talk about the York County Hex Murder.
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The idea that color has healing power is a relatively modern (and utterly fallacious) one. We discuss its development through the 19th and 20th centuries.
https://order-of-the-jackalope.com/normalating
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Why, exactly, was there a statue of a Viking explorer in Philadelphia? And why isn't it there now? Find the answer to those questions and more in this week's episode, "The Icelander!"
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On July 14th, 1952 a mysterious man walked into the office of the American Physical Society and murdered secretary Eileen Fahey for no apparent reason. Hear the whole sordid story.
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https://order-of-the-jackalope.com/im-the-naughty-boy/
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Errata and addenda for "Cold Hard Cash"; "Hold Fast What Thou Hast"; "Spirit Princess"; "Milking It for All It's Worth"; "Pleadings from Asbury Park" and "The Centers of All Things."
Script at https://order-of-the-jackalope.com/errata-1/
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Dr. Cyrus Reed Teed may have been a madman, or he may have been a messiah, but only he was bold enough to tell the truth: that we live on the inside of a hollow Earth. Join us this week as we go inside for a visit.
https://order-of-the-jackalope.com/we-live-inside/
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Looking for some places to stop on your next crazy road trip? This week #7 and #13 take an irreverent look at the geographic centers of the United States, Canada, Mexico, and North America!
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https://order-of-the-jackalope.com/the-centers-of-all-things/
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Was "white savage" Simon Girty (1741-1818) a renegade and traitor, or a man of principle? We reexamine his history and try to figure out what made him tick.
Transcript, sources, and more at https://order-of-the-jackalope.com/he-whooped-to-see-them-burn/
In 1982 a Baltimore hobby store gave the world a bold new innovation in dice... One that hardly anyone would ever use. Join us this week for the amazing true story of the thirty-sided die!
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https://order-of-the-jackalope.com/the-die-of-tomorrow-today/
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In 1902 baseball player Nap Lajoie couldn't enter the state of Pennsylvania, or he'd be arrested. How did this weird state of affairs come to pass? Find out in our latest episode, "French Leave!"
Transcript, links at more at https://order-of-the-jackalope.com/french-leave/
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This week: the amazing story of Laura Biggar, the Anna Nicole Smith of 1901, and her crazy plot to steal an inheritance that may or may not have been rightfully hers.
https://order-of-the-jackalope.com/pleadings-from-asbury-park/
Thanks to Walter Shapiro's "Hustling Hitler" for introducing us to this crazy story!
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Lots of people have dabbled with strange home businesses -- but only one of them set up a radium refining facility in the basement of his suburban duplex. Dig into the strange story of "The Hot House!"
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https://order-of-the-jackalope.com/the-hot-house/
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This week we take a diversion into the culinary world as #7 talks about the wonderful world of béchamel sauce!
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When a man fights a cactus, you probably don't expect the cactus to win.
Transcript, sources, links and more at https://order-of-the-jackalope.com/a-menace-to-the-west/
She was one of the most prolific con artists the world has ever seen... Even though she wasn't even very good at it. This week, it's the story that refuses to end, the life and times of Ann O'Delia Diss Debar!
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In 1923, a plane flew over downtown Pittsburgh, dropped Baby Ruth candy bars on the crowd below, and caused widespread panic... or did it? Click on through to find out!
Resources, links and more on our website at https://order-of-the-jackalope.com/death-from-above-by-chocolate/
In 1910, professional hockey was in chaos and a deranged millionaire tried to buy his way to the Stanley Cup. It... did not turn out the way he expected.
Transcript, sources, links and more at https://order-of-the-jackalope.com/rising-to-the-top/
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The Harmony Society managed to survive the death of its founder, but could it survive the twin ravages of time and greed?
Sources, references, and more on our website at https://order-of-the-jackalope.com/that-no-man-take-thy-crown/
An unusual cemetery leads us to the story of the Harmony Society (1803-1905), the richest communists in the world, and the saga of their rise and fall.
Transcription, sources, links and more at https://order-of-the-jackalope.com/hold-fast-what-thou-hast/
In 1974, Herbert Lee Washington was the fastest man alive... but could he turn raw speed into a professional baseball career? The astonishing story of baseball's "designated runner!"
Transcript and sources available at https://order-of-the-jackalope.com/hurricane-coming-through/
The story of the "weeping icon" has it all - a 102-year-old flying nun, the Gulf War, armed robbery, John Gotti, religious schism, and insurance fraud. Hear the amazing truth in this week's episode, "Goodnight, Irene!"
Transcript, references and more at https://order-of-the-jackalope.com/goodnight-irene/
Was Bebe Rebozo the most kindest, generous man you'd ever know, or a fiend who combined the worst aspects of Rasputin and Al Capone?
Transcript, references, and more at https://order-of-the-jackalope.com/be-my-bebe/
Would you trade your house for a rock? Before you say no, keep this in mind: it's a really really nice rock! (Script, references and more at https://order-of-the-jackalope.com/cold-hard-cash/)
Is Constantin Brâncuși's "Bird in Space" a masterpiece, or just a hunk of polished bronze? Incredibly, this turned out to be a question for the courts!
A transcript of this episode is available at https://order-of-the-jackalope.com/the-brouhaha/
They called the Glutton of Glands, the Monster without Makeup, the Brute, the Creeper. You can call him anything you want, but his friends called him Rondo.
A transcript of this episode is available on our website at https://order-of-the-jackalope.com/monster-without-a-mask/
What happens when a tiny country tries to fight out of its weight class? Well, it might just be the shortest war in history...
See show notes, transcript and references at: https://order-of-the-jackalope.com/microaggression/
He may have had the worst nickname in baseball, but "Ugly" Johnny Dickshot (1910-1997) was more than just a pretty face. He was also a pretty bad player!
Transcript and references available at https://order-of-the-jackalope.com/the-ugliest-man-in-baseball/
He was one of the most celebrated war heroes of his day, and almost totally forgotten today. We explore the life of Charles Vernon Gridley (1844-1898).
Transcript of the episode available at https://order-of-the-jackalope.com/he-fired-when-ready/
The jackalope was created by Douglas Herrick in 1932 when he enhanced a stuffed rabbit with a set of deer antlers. It's a nice little tale. But is it true?
Transcript of the episode available at https://order-of-the-jackalope.com/the-jackalope/
A journey of a thousand miles starts with a single step... and sometimes with a book pilfered from grandma's house. Or maybe Aunt Paula's house.
Transcript of the episode available at https://order-of-the-jackalope.com/strange-stories-amazing-facts/