All Episodes

Episode #256 - Is Paul Bunyan Fakelore?

OFH Throwback - Episode #149 - Who Was the Real Stagger Lee?

"You're Dead to Me" from the BBC

OFH Throwback - Episode #117 - What Went Down On Easter Island? (Part II)

OFH Throwback - Episode #116 - What Went Down on Easter Island? (Part I)

OFH Throwback - Episode #145 - Real Gryphons?

Episode #255 - Rhiannon Giddens: Can the Banjo Explain American History?

Bonus Episode - Plagiarizing Patriots, Human Chickens, and Canadian Character Assassination

Episode #254 - What Went Down on the Midnight Ride?

Episode #253 - Were the Knights of the Air a Myth? (Part II)

Episode #252 - Were the Knights of the Air a Myth? (Part I)

Bonus Episode - Roman Bondage, Voodoo Macbeth, and Bunga Bunga

Episode #251 - What Was the Dreadnought Hoax?

Episode #250 - Is Macbeth Cursed?

Episode #249 - Who Built Rome? (ft. Dr. Emma Southon)

Bonus Episode - Minor Miners, Activist Entertainers, and Spanish Painters

Episode #248 - Was There a Real Snow White?

Episode #247 - Was Box Brown Magically Emancipated?

Bonus Episode - Disappearing Doppelgängers, Viking Thralls, and the Comedy of the Sagas

Episode #246 - How Far Did the Vikings Voyage? (Part III)

Episode #245 - How Far Did the Vikings Voyage? (Part II)

Episode #244 - How Far Did the Vikings Voyage? (Part I)

Bonus Episode - Ponzi Empires, Thieving Saints, and Skin Grafts

Episode #243 - What Was Ponzi's Scheme? (Part II)

Episode #242 - What Was Ponzi's Scheme? (Part I)

Bonus Episode - Grisly Trophies, Evil Cowboys, and Questionable Mascots

Episode #241 - Who Invented the Wild West? (Part II)

Episode #240 - Who Invented the Wild West? (Part I)

Bonus Episode - Messy Duels, Welsh Pride, and Famous Firsts

Episode #239 - Did a Welsh Prince Beat Columbus to the New World?

Episode #238 - What Was the Last Elephant Duel?

Bonus Episode - Rabid Vampires, Drunk Witches, and Werewolf Psychopomps

Episode #237 - What is the Hammer of the Witches?

Episode #236 - Real Werewolves?

Bonus Episode - Marble Thieves, Museums, and Dictators

Episode #235 - Was The Parthenon Robbed? (Part II)

Episode #234 - Was The Parthenon Robbed? (Part I)

OFH Throwback - Episode #50 - Was There a Real Robin Hood? (Part II)

OFH Throwback - Episode #49 - Was There a Real Robin Hood? (Part I)

Introducing: CONSPIRACY THEORIES, CULTS, AND CRIMES

OFH Throwback - Episode #56 - Who Was Japan's Greatest Swordsman? (Part II)

OFH Throwback - Episode #55 - Who Was Japan's Greatest Swordsman? (Part I)

Episode #233 - Is The Wizard of Oz Secretly About American History?

Bonus Episode - Cuban Conspiracies and Schoolyard Chants

Episode #232 - Why President McKinley? (Part III)

Episode #231 - Why President McKinley? (Part II)

Episode #230 - Why President McKinley? (Part I)

Bonus Episode - Selkies, Spectacles, and Satire

Episode #229 - Real Mermaids?

Episode #228 - You Talkin' About Myths, Baby? (ft. Liv Albert)

Bonus Episode - Helots, Spartan Women, and Historical Fiction

Episode #227 - What is the Spartan Mirage? (Part III)

Episode #226 - What is the Spartan Mirage? (Part II)

Episode #225 - What is the Spartan Mirage? (Part I)

OFH Throwback- Episode #72 - Did Emperor Hadrian Murder His Teenage Lover?

Episode #224 - What's True About Al Capone? (Part III)

Episode #223 - What's True About Al Capone? (Part II)

Episode #222 - What's True About Al Capone? (Part I)

OFH Throwback- Episode #24- Did Ty Cobb Kill a Guy?

Episode #221 - Did India's Thugs Really Exist? (Part II)

Episode #220 - Did India's Thugs Really Exist? (Part I)

Episode #219 - Who Was the Real Mulan?

OFH Throwback- Episode #47- Who Was the Queen of the Pirates?

Episode #218 - Did the Siege of Constantinople Even Happen? (Part III)

Episode #217- Did the Siege of Constantinople Even Happen? (Part II)

Introducing: History's Youngest Heroes from the BBC

Episode #216 - Did the Siege of Constantinople Even Happen? (Part I)

OFH Throwback- Episode #34- Did Archimedes Build a Death Ray?

Episode #215 - Edgar Allan Poe: Hoax Master?

Episode #214 - Have We Misremembered the Gunpowder Plot? (Part II)

Episode #213 - Have We Misremembered the Gunpowder Plot? (Part I)

OFH Throwback- Episode #3- Was There a Real Labyrinth?

Episode #212 - Was "The Man Called Intrepid" a Fraud?

Episode #211 - Who Killed King Tut? (Part II)

Episode #210 - Who Killed King Tut? (Part I)

OFH Throwback- Episode #172- Who Was the African Samurai? (Part II)

OFH Throwback- Episode #171- Who Was the African Samurai? (Part I)

OFH Throwback- Episode #90- How Bad Was Blackbeard? (Part II)

OFH Throwback - Episode #89 - How Bad Was Blackbeard? (Part I)

Episode #209- What Are the Olympic Myths? (Part III)

Episode #208- What Are the Olympic Myths? (Part II)

Episode #207- What Are the Olympic Myths? (Part I)

OFH Throwback- Episode #71- Who Invented Your Favourite Sport?

Episode #206- Were Magical Dwarves the First Hawaiians?

OFH Throwback- Episode #14- Did Gods Colonize the Pacific?

Episode #205- Why the Mona Lisa?

Episode #204- Who Were the Magicians of the Golden Dawn?

OFH Throwback- Episode #31- What Was the Charge of the Light Brigade?

Episode #203- What Was the Great East Asian War? (Part III)

Episode #202- What Was the Great East Asian War? (Part II)

Episode #201- What Was the Great East Asian War? (Part I)

OFH Throwback- Episode #4- Real Ninjas?

Episode #200- Can I Ask Who's Calling?

OFH Throwback- Episode #128- Did St. Patrick Kill a Wizard?

Episode #199- Was the Spanish Armada a Big Deal? (Part II)

Episode #198- Was the Spanish Armada a Big Deal? (Part I)

OFH Throwback- Episode #1- Was Queen Elizabeth Actually a Man?

Episode #197- How Bad Was Caligula? (Part III)

Episode #196- How Bad Was Caligula? (Part II)

Episode #195- How Bad Was Caligula? (Part I)

OFH Throwback- Episode #2- Did Nero Really Fiddle As Rome Burned?

Episode #194- Who Killed Mozart? (Part III)

Episode #193- Who Killed Mozart? (Part II)

Episode #192- Who Killed Mozart? (Part I)

Episode #191- Who Was The Real Zorro? (Part II)

Episode #190- Who Was The Real Zorro? (Part I)

Episode #189- What Bewitched Salem? (Part III)

Episode #188- What Bewitched Salem? (Part II)

Episode #187- What Bewitched Salem? (Part I)

Episode #186- Who Was Germany's Greatest Imposter?

OFH Throwback- Episode #43- What is Phantom Time?

OFH Throwback- Episode #113- Who is Kyiv's Most Vengeful Saint?

Episode #185- Was Wrestling Ever Real? ft. RJ City (Part III)

Episode #184- Was Wrestling Ever Real? (Part II)

Episode #183- Was Wrestling Ever Real? (Part I)

Episode #182- What Were The Hell-Fire Clubs? (Part II)

Episode #181- What Were The Hell-Fire Clubs? (Part I)

Episode #180- Columbus? (Part III)

Episode #179- Columbus? (Part II)

Episode #178- Columbus? (Part I)

Episode #177- How Do Movies Make Myths? ft. Amy Nicholson

Episode #176- Was Pythagoras Killed By Beans?

Episode #175- Who Framed Mata Hari? (Part III)

Episode #174- Who Framed Mata Hari? (Part II)

Episode #173- Who Framed Mata Hari? (Part I)

Episode #172- Who Was The African Samurai? (Part II)

Episode #171- Who Was The African Samurai? (Part I)

Episode #170- Who Knows Houdini? (Part III)

Episode #169- Who Knows Houdini? (Part II)

Episode #168- Who Knows Houdini? (Part I)

Episode #167- Who Was The Fake Asian?

Episode #166- Who Was Liver Eating Johnson? (ft. Daniele Bolelli)

Episode #165- What Was The Galileo Affair? (Part III)

Episode #164- What Was The Galileo Affair? (Part II)

Episode #163- What Was The Galileo Affair? (Part I)

Episode #162- Real Amazons? (Part II)

Episode #161- Real Amazons? (Part I)

OFH Throwback- Episode #61 - What's the Problem with Socrates?

OFH Throwback- Episode #96- What is America's Weirdest Secret Society?

Episode #160- Who Knows Toronto?

Episode #159- How Should We Remember Attila the Hun? (Part III)

Episode #158- How Should We Remember Attila the Hun? (Part II)

Episode #157- How Should We Remember Attila the Hun? (Part I)

Episode #156- What Became of the Benin Bronzes? (Part III)

Episode #155- What Became of the Benin Bronzes? (Part II)

Episode #154- What Became of the Benin Bronzes? (Part I)

Episode #153- What Is The Titanic Myth? (Part III)

Episode #152- What Is The Titanic Myth? (Part II)

Episode #151- What Is The Titanic Myth? (Part I)

OFH Special Presentation - What Should We Believe About the Knights Templar? (Part II)

OFH Special Presentation - What Should We Believe About the Knights Templar? (Part I)

Episode #150- Why Didn't You Tell Us That?

Episode #149- Who Was the Real Stagger Lee?

Episode #148- Who Was First in Flight? (Part III)

Episode #147- Who Was First in Flight? (Part II)

Episode #146- Who Was First in Flight? (Part I)

Episode #145- Real Gryphons?

Episode #144- Who Was the Mother of Empires? (Part III)

Episode #143- Who Was the Mother of Empires? (Part II)

Episode #142- Who Was the Mother of Empires? (Part I)

Episode #141- Who's Afraid of the 30 Years War? (Ft. Zack Twamley)

Episode #140- What Became of the Great Library of Alexandria? (Part II)

Episode #139- What Became of the Great Library of Alexandria? (Part I)

OFH Throwback- Episode #37- Did Robert Johnson Sell His Soul to the Devil?

OFH Throwback- Episode #83- Who Invented Your Favourite Food?

OFH Throwback- Episode #77- Was There a Real Pied Piper?

OFH Throwback- Episode #10- Did the Aztecs Think Cortes Was a God? (Part II)

OFH Throwback- Episode #9- Did the Aztecs Think Cortes Was a God? (Part I)

Episode #138- Any Questions? (2021)

Episode #137- What's the Deal with Guns, Germs, and Steel? (Part II)

Episode #136- What's the Deal with Guns, Germs, and Steel? (Part I)

Episode #135- Who Won the War of 1812? (Part III)

Episode #134- Who Won the War of 1812? (Part II)

Episode #133- Who Won the War of 1812? (Part I)

Episode #132- Does Ethiopia Have the Ark of the Covenant? (Part II)

Episode #131- Does Ethiopia Have the Ark of the Covenant? (Part I)

Episode #130- Was There a Real Gilgamesh? (Part II)

Episode #129- Was There a Real Gilgamesh? (Part I)

Episode #128- Did St. Patrick Kill a Wizard?

Episode #127- Who Was the Blood Countess? (Part II)

Episode #126- Who Was the Blood Countess? (Part I)

Bonus Episode- What Did He Say About Karate?

Episode #125- What Are the Origins of Martial Arts? (Part II)

Episode #124- What Are the Origins of Martial Arts? (Part I)

Bonus Episode- What Did He Say on Ripples of History?

Episode #123- Should We Trust Nostradamus? (Part II)

Episode #122- Should We Trust Nostradamus? (Part I)

Episode #121- What is Ghost River?

Episode #120- Who Was the Voodoo Queen of New Orleans? (Part III)

Episode #119- Who Was the Voodoo Queen of New Orleans? (Part II)

Episode #118- Who Was the Voodoo Queen of New Orleans? (Part I)

Episode #117- What Went Down On Easter Island? (Part II)

Episode #116- What Went Down On Easter Island? (Part I)

OFH Throwback - Episode #5- Did Shakespeare Write the Plays?

OFH Throwback - Episode #54 - Who Invented Rock 'n Roll? (Part II)

OFH Throwback - Episode #53- Who Invented Rock 'n Roll? (Part I)

OFH Throwback - Episode #71 - Who Invented Your Favourite Sport?

Episode #115- Who Was Mali's Richest King? (Part II )

Episode #114- Who Was Mali's Richest King? (Part I)

Episode #113- Who is Kyiv's Most Vengeful Saint?

ANNOUNCEMENT: Next Episode and Some Recommendations

Episode #112- Who Was The First Emperor of China? (Part III)

Episode #111- Who Was The First Emperor of China? (Part II)

Episode #110- Who Was The First Emperor of China? (Part I)

Episode #109- What Should We Believe About Boudica? (Part III)

Episode #108- What Should We Believe About Boudica? (Part II)

Episode #107- What Should We Believe About Boudica? (Part I)

Episode #106- Is the Renaissance a Myth? (Part II)

Episode #105- Is the Renaissance a Myth? (Part I)

Episode #104- What Caused the Black Death? (Part III)

Episode #103- What Caused the Black Death? (Part II)

Episode #102- What Caused the Black Death? (Part I)

Bonus Episode - What Was the Phillip Experiment?

Episode #101- Who is the Real Santa Claus?

Episode #100- 100 Episodes? (Live in Toronto!)

Episode #99- Who Built the Pyramids? (Part III)

Episode #98- Who Built the Pyramids? (Part II)

Episode #97- Who Built the Pyramids? (Part I)

Episode #96- What is America's Weirdest Secret Society?

Episode #95- How Machiavellian was Machiavelli? (Part II)

Episode #94- How Machiavellian was Machiavelli? (Part I)

Episode #93- Why Deny the Moon Landings? (Part III)

Episode #92- Why Deny the Moon Landings? (Part II)

Episode #91- Why Deny the Moon Landings? (Part I)

Episode #90- How Bad Was Blackbeard? (Part II)

Episode #89- How Bad Was Blackbeard? (Part I)

Episode #88- Are the Dark Ages a Myth?

Episode #87- Was There a Real King Arthur? (Part III)

Episode #86- Was There a Real King Arthur? (Part II)

Episode #85- Was There a Real King Arthur? (Part I)

Episode #84- What Was the Vodka War?

Episode #83- Who Invented Your Favourite Food?

Episode #82- What Went Down in the Congo Free State? (Part III)

Episode #81- What Went Down in the Congo Free State? (Part II)

Episode #80- What Went Down in the Congo Free State? (Part I)

Episode #79- Who Are the Magicians of the Gods? (Part II)

Episode #78- Who Are the Magicians of the Gods? (Part I)

Episode #77- Was There a Real Pied Piper?

Episode #76- How Does Jon Waterlow Make Sense of Stalin Jokes?

Episode #75- What Can We Believe About Stalin? (Part III)

Episode #74- What Can We Believe About Stalin? (Part II)

Episode #73- What Can We Believe About Stalin? (Part I)

Episode #72- Did Emperor Hadrian Murder His Teenage Lover?

Episode #71- Who Invented Your Favourite Sport?

Episode #70 - What are the Secrets of the Diefenbunker?

Episode #69- What Does Gary Lachman Think About the Mother of the Occult?

Episode #68 - Who Was the Mother of the Occult? (Part III)

Episode #67- Who Was the Mother of the Occult? (Part II)

Episode #66- Who Was the Mother of the Occult? (Part I)

Episode #65- Was There a Real Hunt for the Fountain of Youth?

Episode #64- What Should We Believe About Cleopatra? (Part III)

Episode #63- What Should We Believe About Cleopatra? (Part II)

Episode #62- What Should We Believe About Cleopatra? (Part I)

Episode #61- What's the Problem with Socrates?

Episode #60- How Do You Explain the First Crusade? (Part III)

Episode #59 - How Do You Explain the First Crusade? (Part II)

Episode #58 - How Do You Explain the First Crusade? (Part I)

Episode #57- Was There a Real Prester John?

Episode #56- Who Was Japan's Greatest Swordsman? (Part II)

Episode #55- Who Was Japan's Greatest Swordsman? (Part I)

Episode #54- Who Invented Rock 'n Roll? (Part II)

Episode #53- Who Invented Rock 'n Roll? (Part I)

Episode #52- How Lionhearted was Richard? (Part II)

Episode #51- How Lionhearted was Richard? (Part I)

Episode #50- Was There a Real Robin Hood? (Part II)

Episode #49- Was There a Real Robin Hood? (Part I)

Episode #48- What Does Mark Adams Think About Atlantis?

Episode #47- Who Was the Queen of the Pirates?

Episode #46- What Went Down at the Siege of Vienna? (Part III)

Episode #45- What Went Down at the Siege of Vienna? (Part II)

Episode #44- What Went Down at the Siege of Vienna? (Part I)

Episode #43- What is Phantom Time?

Episode #42- What Ever Became of Billy the Kid? (Part II)

Episode #41- What Ever Became of Billy the Kid? (Part I)

Episode #40- Was There a Real Atlantis? (Part III)

Episode #39- Was There a Real Atlantis? (Part II)

Episode #38- Was There a Real Atlantis? (Part I)

Episode #37- Did Robert Johnson Sell His Soul to the Devil?

Episode #36- Did Pocahontas Really Save John Smith? (Part II)

Episode #35- Did Pocahontas Really Save John Smith? (Part I)

Episode #34- Did Archimedes Build a Death Ray?

Episode #33- Who Was the Prince of Humbugs? (Part II)

Episode #32- Who Was the Prince of Humbugs? (Part I)

Episode #31- What Was the Charge of the Light Brigade?

Episode #30- Will the Real Anastasia Please Stand Up?

Episode #29- Who Killed Rasputin? (Part II)

Episode #28- Who Killed Rasputin? (Part I)

Episode #27- Did The Chinese Beat Columbus to the New World? (Part II)

Episode #26- Did The Chinese Beat Columbus to the New World? (Part I)

Episode #25 - Any Questions?

Episode #24 - Did Ty Cobb Kill a Guy?

Episode #23 - How Do You Explain Joan of Arc? (Part III)

Episode #22 - How Do You Explain Joan of Arc? (Part II)

Mini- Episode - What Did He Say About the Middle Finger?

Episode #21 - How Do You Explain Joan of Arc? (Part I)

Episode #20 - Who Was The First Person To Sail Around The World? (Part II)

Episode #19 - Who Was The First Person To Sail Around The World? (Part I)

Episode #18 - Was There A Female Pope?

Episode #17 - Was There A Real Trojan War? (Part III)

Episode #16 - Was There A Real Trojan War? (Part II)

Episode #15 - Was There A Real Trojan War? (Part I)

Episode #14 - Did Gods Colonize The Pacific?

Episode #13 - Who Was The Real Braveheart? (Part II)

Episode #12 - Who Was The Real Braveheart? (Part I)

Episode #11 - What Is The Spear Of Destiny?

Episode #10 - Did the Aztecs Think Cortés Was A God? (Part II)

Episode #9 - Did the Aztecs Think Cortés Was A God? (Part I)

Episode #8 - Who Were the Hash Smoking Assassins?

Episode #7 - Napoleon Bonaparte: Man or Myth? (Part II)

Episode #6 - Napoleon Bonaparte: Man or Myth? (Part I)

Episode #5 - Did Shakespeare Write The Plays?

Episode #4 - Real Ninjas?

Episode #3 - Was There A Real Labyrinth?

Episode #2 - Did Nero Really Fiddle As Rome Burned?

Episode #1 - Was Queen Elizabeth Actually A Man?