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Historical Blindness — 247 episodes

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The Atlantis Fantasy - Part Two: A Convenient Fiction

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The Atlantis Fantasy - Part One: The Platonic Idea

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Common Séance; A History of Spiritualism - Part Two: Manifestly False

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Common Séance; A History of Spiritualism - Part One: The Fox Sisters, Rap Artists

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The Shape of Things; An Intellectual History of Flat Earth Theory - Part Two: Stunt Performers and Grifters

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The Shape of Things; An Intellectual History of Flat Earth Theory - Part One: Zetetic Astronomy

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Moonstruck! Debunking Apollo Hoax Claims - Part Two: Dignifying Lunarcy

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Moonstruck! Debunking Apollo Hoax Claims - Part One: An Astronomical Amount of Evidence

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Wunderwaffe: The Myths of Nazi Supertechnology - Part Two, The Bell Hoax

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Wunderwaffe: The Myths of Nazi Supertechnology - Part One, The Vril Fiction

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Versailles Time-Slip: The Moberly-Jourdain Incident

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Under the Pink Triangle: Transgender Experience in Interwar Germany

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The Martyrdom of Hypatia of Alexandria

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The Gun Controllers: Freedom, Firearms, and Fear of Black Power

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Crispus Attucks, American Martyr

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Doomsday Deferred: The Failed Predictions of American Millennialism

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The Great Alignment Lie

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The Origins of the Christ (Another Very Historically Blind Xmas!)

19

Special Presentation: The Devil You Know

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Think of the Children - Part Two: Satanic Panic

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Think of the Children - Part One: Stranger Danger

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Hunting the Highgate Vampire

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Poltergeist in Rosenheim

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Standing Army, Sitting President: The Posse Comitatus Act and the Domestic Deployment of the Military

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Cracked and Packed: A History of Gerrymandering

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Back Door to War: A History of Undeclared and Unauthorized US Warfare

27

A New Reassessment: Realism on Israel-Palestine

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Project Esther and the Weaponization of Anti-Semitism

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Town and Gown: Academic Freedom in Crisis

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License to Discriminate: LGBTQ Rights, Religious Exemption, and the Misreading of the Bible

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Scapegoated! A History of American Nativism

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Inalienable: Alien Enemies, the Great Writ, and Trump's Constitutional Crisis

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Gaslighter! Trump's Historical Distortions

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Tariff Men: A History of the US in Tariff Controversies

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Darkness Came: the Myths of Easter and Good Friday

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The Legend of Joan, Popess of Rome

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Empress Elagabalus

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The Erasure of Aspasia

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The Lincoln Legends - Part Four: Smoke and Fire

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The Lincoln Legends - Part Three: Puppet Masters and Masterminds

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The Lincoln Legends - Part Two: A Conspiracy, Simple or Grand

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The Lincoln Legends - Part One: Larger Than Life

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The Roots of the Christmas Tree (Another Very Historically Blind Xmas!)

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Patreon Release: A Very Shroomy Xmas!

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Special Presentation: Plodding Through the Presidents - Conspiracy Theories and the Corrupt Bargain with Mark Cheathem

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The Thanksgiving Union (Holiday Bonus Minisode)

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Jack the Ripper - Part Two: Ripperology

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Jack the Ripper - Part One: The Canonical Five

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Devil Books and Murder Ballads: The Myth of the Arch-Killer

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Special Presentation: Southern Gothic--The Forbidden Love of Annabel Lee

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Anthropophagi: The Myth of Cannibalism

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Slow-Motion Coup: Trump's Fake Electors Scheme

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The Looming Threat of Fascism - Part Two: The Beer Hall Putsch

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The Looming Threat of Fascism - Part One: The March on Rome

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Dänikenitis - Part Two: Human Chauvinism

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Dänikenitis - Part One: Wheels Within Wheels

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Ancient High Technology - Part Two: Electric Boogaloo

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Ancient High Technology - Part One: The Archimedean Spiral

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Pyramidiocy - Part Six: Pyramid Schemes

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Pyramidiocy - Part Five: The Curse of the Pharaohs

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Pyramidiocy - Part Four: Egyptomania

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Pyramidiocy - Part Three: The Book of Thoth

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Pyramidiocy - Part Two: The Pillars of Wisdom

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Pyramidiocy - Part One: Khufu's Tomb

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All Is Number: Pythagoras and Numerology (An Encyclopedia Grimoria Volume)

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Scatterbrained: The Bible Code Craze

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"An Idle and Most False Imposition"; The Shakespeare Authorship Question - Part Four: "The Truth Will Out."

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"An Idle and Most False Imposition"; The Shakespeare Authorship Question - Part Three: Oxford's Ghost

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"An Idle and Most False Imposition"; The Shakespeare Authorship Question - Part Two: The Baconian Heresy

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"An Idle and Most False Imposition"; The Shakespeare Authorship Question - Part One: Drama's God

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The Oak Island Scheme - Part Two: The Cursed Treasure Fraud feat. Dr. Sean Munger

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The Oak Island Scheme - Part One: The Legend of the Money Pit feat. Dr. Sean Munger

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Before Columbus - Part Two: False Claims

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Before Columbus - Part One: First Contact

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Introducing: Even the Royals

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West of Vinland: The Controversy of the Kensington Runestone

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The Lost Colony - Part Two: The Dare Stones (UPDATED and REMASTERED VERSION of episode 2)

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The Legend of the Bermuda Triangle - Part Two: Dead Reckoning

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The Lost Colony - Part One: The Secret Token (UPDATED VERSION of episode 1)

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The Legend of the Bermuda Triangle - Part One: A Watery Grave

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The Historical Jesus and the Myths of Christ Mythicism (Another Historically Blind Xmas Special!)

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Special Presentation: The Constant's "The War on Christmas"

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The Mushroom Kingdom: The Entheogen Theory of Religion

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Patreon Release: PlyMYTH Rock

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Technological Angels: The Religious Dimension of UFO Belief

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UFO Whistleblowers: An American Tradition, Part Three - Bob Lazar

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UFO Whistleblowers: An American Tradition, Part Two - Bill Cooper

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UFO Whistleblowers: An American Tradition, Part One - Donald Keyhoe and John Lear

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Raging Against the Machine: Thoughts on Technofear and Luddism

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The Hunt for Lost Nazi Gold Trains

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The Piltdown Fraud: Fundamentalists' Favorite Fake Fossil

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The Forging of the Crystal Skulls

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The Source of the Fountain of Youth Myth

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The Search for Cities of Gold

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The Thrust of the Holy Lance of Longinus

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The Quest for the Truth of the Holy Grail

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The Hidden Ones: Sect of Assassins

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The Myth of the Thuggee Cult

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The Key to the Secrets of King Solomon (an Encyclopedia Grimoria Volume)

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The Whereabouts of the Lost Ark of the Covenant

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Infektion: Operation DENVER and the Engineering of AIDS Conspiracy Legends (featuring Dr. Douglas Selvage)

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Breaking News: The Hitler Diaries Fiasco

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The Specter of Hitler's Survival

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The Lindbergh Baby Kidnapping - Part Two: Cemetery John

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The Lindbergh Baby Kidnapping - Part One: The Eaglet

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The Business Plot - Part Two: The Bankers Gold Group

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The Business Plot - Part One: The Bonus Army

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A Very Historically Blind Xmas: The Iconic Christ

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"The Mystery of D.B. Cooper" by History Daily (Special Presentation)

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Lilith, the Phantom Maiden

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Omens, Charms, and Rituals: A History of Superstition

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The Revenants: Part Two - VAMPIRES in Fantasy

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"The Blood Gospel" by The Conspirators Podcast (Special Presentation)

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The Revenants: Part One - VAMPIRES in Reality

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The Enigmatic Kingfish. Huey Long

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The Perils of American Democracy

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Stranger Things Have Happened - Part Three: The Philadelphia Experiment and the Montauk Project

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Stranger Things Have Happened - Part Two: Psychic Spies

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Stranger Things Have Happened - Part One: MK-Ultra and CIA Mind Control

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Gun Violence in America: A Cultural History

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The Deluge and the Ark Seekers

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The Secrets of Enoch - An Apocryphal Catechism

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The Myth of a Lost Mound Builder Race

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No Bones About It! Part Two: GIANTS in the "New" World

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No Bones About It! Part One: GIANTS in the Old World

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The Lost Empire of Tartaria

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Oswald and the JFK Assassination - Part Four: The Vigilante

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Oswald and the JFK Assassination - Part Three: The Lone Gunman

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Oswald and the JFK Assassination - Part Two: The Activist

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Oswald and the JFK Assassination - Part One: The Defector

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The Coup on Cape Fear - Part Two: Red Shirt Riot

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The Coup on Cape Fear - Part One: The Dark Scheme

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A Very Historically Blind Christmas Carol

134

A Defense of the 1619 Project

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Curriculum Controversies in America

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The Demoniacs: The True Spirit of Possession and Exorcism

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False Prophecy: The Mark of the Beast - 666

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The Rise and Fall of the Society of Jesus: Part Two - The Man Beyond the Mountains

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The Rise and Fall of the Society of Jesus: Part One - The Black Legend of the Jesuits

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The Fate of Ludwig II: Part Two - The Mad King (A Royal Blood Mystery)

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The Fate of Ludwig II: Part One - The Fairytale King (A Royal Blood Mystery)

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UFO Disinfo: Part Three - The Bennewitz Deception

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UFO Disinfo: Part Two - The Washington Flyovers and the CIA

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UFO Disinfo: Part One - Roswell, Maury Island and Beyond

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The Beautiful Corpse of Helen Jewett

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Unfit to Print; or A History of Bad News: the Party Press, Penny Papers, and Yellow Journalism

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EXTRA! EXTRA! Extra-Terrestrial Hoaxes!

148

Hidden Bodies: A Brief and Incomplete History of Astronomical Discovery

149

Anti-Vaccinationism, a Historical Hindrance to Herd Immunity

150

The Story of Chevalier d'Eon and the Inadequacy of the Historical Analysis of Transgender Identity

151

Written in Stone: The Archaeological Frauds of Pre-Columbian Trans-Oceanic Contact Theories

152

The Abode of the Lost Tribes of Israel, Part Two: Diaspora

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The Abode of the Lost Tribes of Israel, Part One: Conquest

154

The Epistle of Prester John

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Patron Minisode Release: Little Caesar Lost

156

Hermes Trismegistus, Father of Alchemy (An Encyclopedia Grimoria volume)

157

A Very Historically Blind Christmas III: The Epiphany of the Magi

158

The Eleventh Hour: Presidential Pardon Power

159

Patron Exclusive Release: The Thanksgiving Mythos

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Circuit Riders, Midnight Appointments, and Packed Benches: A History of the Supreme Court

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The Smoke-Filled Room: Contested Elections in America

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A Rediscovery of Witches, Part Two: The Moon Goddess and the Cunning Folk

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A Rediscovery of Witches, Part One: The Hammer and the Horned God

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The Illuminati Illuminated, Part Two: The Order in America

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PATREON MINISODE: A Dark Day Indeed

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The Illuminati Illuminated, Part One: The Order's Origins

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The Murder of Lord Darnley, Part Two: The Casket Letters (A Royal Blood Mystery)

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The Murder of Lord Darnley, Part One: The Vipers' Nest (A Royal Blood Mystery)

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The Jansenist Miracles of Enlightenment France, Part Two: The Convulsionnaires

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The Jansenist Miracles of Enlightenment France, Part One: The Thaumaturges

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The Feat of the Flying Friar: St. Joseph of Cupertino

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In the Footsteps of the Wandering Jew: Anti-Semitic Canards in the Coronavirus Era

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Cocoliztli: The Mystery Pestilence

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Blind Spot: Drake's Plate, a Brazen Plot

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The Unbelievable History of the Ancient and Honorable E Clampus Vitus

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Gnostic Genesis (An Apocryphal Catechism)

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Zoroaster, the First Magus (An Encyclopedia Grimoria Volume)

178

The End of Edward II, Part Two: The Hermit King (A Royal Blood Mystery)

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The End of Edward II, Part One: The Iron Virago (A Royal Blood Mystery)

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A Very Historically Blind Christmas II: Father Christmas

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PATREON MINISODE: Alfred Russel Wallace; Man of Science, Man of Pseudoscience

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Shadow of the Werewolf, Part Two: The Salve and the Sabbat

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Shadow of the Werewolf, Part One: Killer on the Road

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The Chronological Revision Chronicles, Part Three: The Hardouin Conspiracy and the Newton Piracy

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The Chronological Revision Chronicles, Part Two: The Velikovsky Catastrophe

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The Chronological Revision Chronicles, Part One: The Fomenko Timeline

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The Wrong Side of History: Holocaust Denial and Its Fallacies

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Nazi Occultism, Part Three: The Hunt for a Hyperborean Heritage

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Nazi Occultism, Part Two: The Death's Head Cult

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Nazi Occultism, Part One: The Myth of the Aryans

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The Monster of Loch Ness: Delusion or Denizen of the Deep?

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Leviathan, the Great Sea Serpent, Part 2: Into the Chaos Waters

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Leviathan, the Great Sea Serpent, Part One: Here Be Dragons

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Blind Spot: The Great Dying and the Chicxulub Crater

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Terror over Tunguska: The Siberian Blast of 1908

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Blind Spot: A Tale of Two Babylons

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Maria Monk and Her Awful Disclosures

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Patron Exclusive Blindside Episode: Murder in the Red Barn

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Blind Spot: The Jowers Affair

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The Killing of Dr. King, Part Three: Ray's Reasons

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The Killing of Dr. King, Part Two: The Legend of Raoul

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The Killing of Dr. King, Part One: A Dream Defied

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A Very Historically Blind Christmas

204

A Conversation with Mike Dash

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Blind Spot: Tracking the Devil in Devon

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The Diabolical Features of Spring-Heeled Jack

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The Myth and Mystery of Christopher Columbus

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Blind Spot: Charles Dellschau and His Extraordinary Sonora Aero Club

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The Phantom Airships of 1890s America

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The Memorable Arrest of Martin Guerre

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The Campden Wonder; or, The Supposed Murder of William Harrison

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Blind Spot: Little Dauphin Lost

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The Bastard Princes in the Bloody Tower; Part Two, The Skeletons Under the Stairs

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The Bastard Princes in the Bloody Tower; Part One, Pretenders to the Throne

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Blind Spot: Babes in the Wailing Wood

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The Lost Youth of St. Martin's Land, or Woolpit's Green Children

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Blind Spot: The Beloved Disciple and the Authorship of John

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Eustache Dauger, the Secret Prisoner in the Velveteen Mask (aka the Man in the Iron Mask)

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Blind Spot: The Secret of Rennes-le-Château and Abbé Saunière’s Riches

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The Priory of Sion and the Quest for the Holy Grail, or Lincoln's Links and Plantard's Plans

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The Marian Apparition of Guadalupe and Her Fantastical Portrait

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The Turin Shroud: Divine Likeness or Bogus Relic?

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Blind Spot: The Great Los Angeles Air Raid and the Secret Memos of Majestic 12

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Blind Spot: Three Men Gone from Eilean Mor, the Missing Keepers of the Flannan Isles Light

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The Carroll A. Deering, Ghost Ship of Cape Hatteras

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Blind Spot: The Terrible within the Small; or, The Fabrication of the Learned Elders of Zion and the Forgery of Their Protocols

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Bloody Libel; or, the Slaughter and Sacralization of Young William of Norwich

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The Specter of Devil Worship, Part Two

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The Specter of Devil Worship, Part One

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Jubal Early's Lost Cause

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Blind Spot: The Loss of Theodosia Burr Alston

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The Trial of Levi Weeks for the Murder of Elma Sands

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Blind Spot: Swift's Lost Silver Mine and Dorr's River of Gold

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Joseph Mulhatton: The Liar Laureate of the World

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Blind Spot: Tutelary Spirits

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The White Ladies of German Lore

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Blind Spot: The Lady of the Haystack

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Kaspar Hauser, Part Two: Princeling

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Blind Spot: Princess Caraboo of Javasu

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Kaspar Hauser, Part One: Foundling

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Blind Spot: The Oberfohren Memorandum and the Ernst Confession

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Firebrand in the Reichstag!

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Blind Spot: The Codex of Rohonc

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The Found Manuscript of Wilfrid Voynich

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The Dancing Plague

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The Lost Colony - Part Two: The Dare Stones

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The Lost Colony - Part One: The Secret Token (UPDATED and REMASTERED VERSION)