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All Episodes

The Ancient and Esoteric Order of the Jackalope — 144 episodes

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#124: Skeedadded and gone to Hell [Pithole]

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How Much Chocolate is In Your Chocolate?

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#123: No Heretic Has Suffered Less [Immanuel Velikovsky and Worlds in Collision]

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#122: With Fairies Wise [Thomas Lake Harris and the Brotherhood of the New Life]

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#121: Mutiny on the Storozhevoy [a second Communist Revolution] presented by #42 Alex Baumans

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#120.1: All that Glitters [MFA Boston's golden hoard]

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#120: Not Science, But Vendetta [the Dorak Affair]

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#119: There's Gold in Them Thar Waves [the Electrolytic Marine Salts Company of Lubec, ME]

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#118: They Came from Inner Space [the weird life of Dr. Walter Siegmeister]

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#117: Kulopus [Elwood Towner, aka "Chief Red Cloud"]

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#116: The Marshal is Missing! [the heist of Marshal Pétain's remains] presented by #42 (Alex Baumans)

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#115: Fluffy Raffles Comes To Town [who?]

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#114: Unhuman Animals [Pennsylvania's anti-cartoon bills of 1903]

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#113: Such Was Railroading [the Castle Shannon Railway War]

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#112: There Must Come a Change [Octavius Valentine Catto]

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#111: Samozvantsy [false Dmitrys in the Time of Troubles]

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#110: The Choice of the Next Generation [the Cola Wars in space]

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#109: The Number of the Stars [are there actually twelve planets?]

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#108: Your Eyebrows Will Grow Back [Richard Timewell's Space Ranger] presented by #42

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#107: Deeply Impressed [Helen Duncan goes on trial]

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#106: Cloud Dongs [George Gray Barnard's Pennsylvania State Capitol sculpture groups]

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#105: Wild Frantics [the Sanctified Band of Chincoteague Island]

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#104: Rapscallions! Part 3 "Surprised and Excited" [the St. Albans Raid and more] Take 2

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#103: Rapscallions! Part 2: "Resist at Your Peril" [the Philo Parsons Incident]

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#102: Rapscallions! Part 1: "Patience is Sour" [Thomas Henry Hines and the Great Northwestern Conspiracy]

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#101: Universally Detested [Edward Hyde, Lord Cornbury -- the worst governor in New York history]

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Errata #4

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Nothing But A Number

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Jackass Forever [Joe Magarac: folklore or fakelore?]

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Vote for Pedro [Wyoming's own midget mummy]

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Fuller Houses [R. Buckminster Fuller's various Dymaxion Houses]

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Steampunk Google and the World City [Paul Otlet and the Mundaneum] by Alex Baumans

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The First Battle of the American Revolution [the Battle of Point Pleasant]

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Neither Here Nor There [Melungeons]

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Dangerous Excitement [the Caroline Affair, the Patriot War, and the McLeod Incident]

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"Christmas Day" by Julia Ann Moore [read by Eric Leslie]

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Armor Class 4 [banded mail]

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The Realest Housewife of Beverly Hills [Countess Dorothy di Frasso]

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Fruitcake Subculture Conspiracy Revisited [fruitcake] presented by #7 (Dorothy White)

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Seven Years in Hell [the murder of Susan Mummey, the Witch of Ringtown Valley]

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The Fakiest Fake in England [Borley Rectory]

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A Good Thing to Die By [medium Mary Ann Scannell Pepper Vanderbilt]

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What Joy to the Troubled Heart! [spirit photographer William H. Mumler]

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Pickle Me This [pickles]

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I Started a Joke [Julia Ann Moore, the Sweet Singer of Michigan]

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Nuns on the Run, Part 3 ["Miss Bunkley's Book"]

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Nuns on the Run, Part 2 ["The Awful Disclosures of Maria Monk"]

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Nuns on the Run, Part 1 [Rebecca Reed's "Six Months in a Convent"]

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Space is the Place [the United Nuwaubian Nation of Moors]

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A Month of Billys [was Billy Sunday a good baseball player?]

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Make Insurance Double Sure [the Blue-Eyed Six]

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Crepuscule in Blood and Guts [James McNeill Whistler, mercenary]

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Gone Guy [Benjamin Bathurst]

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Errata #3

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Unto Us A Child Is Born [William W. Davies and the Walla Walla Jesus]

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The Ape-Man Creature of Whiteface Customized My Van [the Minnesota Iceman]

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520% [William F. Miller and the Franklin Syndicate]

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Seven Minutes in Heaven [William Dudley Pelley]

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Worse Than Frankenstein [the Flatwoods monster]

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Kings of Pain [Horace Wells, William Thomas Green Morton, Charles Thomas Jackson, Crawford Long and the Ether Wars]

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Saddam's Favorite Artist [Rowena Morrill & Saddam Hussein]

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Shenandoahs, Part 2: Air Crash Museum [the US Navy's rigid airship program]

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Shenandoahs, Part 1: The Sea King [the CSS Shenandoah]

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Jelly Time [what's the difference between jam and jelly?]

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A Warning to Future Man [Richard Sharpe Shaver and the Shaver Mystery]

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Holy Ghost Babies [George Jacob Schweinfurth, the "Illinois Jesus"]

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Independent by Accident [Neutral Morsesnet] by Alex Baumans

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"I Am (Not) Charley Ross" [the true story of Nelson Miller / Gustave Blair / Charley Ross]

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Your Heart's Sorrow [the abduction of Little Charley Ross]

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The Buzzer Brigade [the 1900 Philadelphia Phillies sign stealing scandal]

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An Arm Is Not Enough [the 1935 Sydney shark arm case]

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The White City [the 1893 Chicago World's Fair and Columbian Exposition]

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The Best Exotic Marigold Gospel [Jesus in India]

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Wonder Marvelously [Geoffrey Pyke and Project Habakkuk]

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Brimful of Wrath and Cabbage [Knickerbocker's History of New York]

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Nya Sverige [New Sweden]

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With Both Hands [the disappearance of Joseph "Bum" Farto]

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Tales from the Cryptid [the Typhonian Beast]

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Peacemaker [the 1844 USS Princeton explosion]

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Crunchy or Wrong [peanut butter]

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Lost Legacy [the Mitchell-Hedges Crystal Skull of Doom]

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Whatever Happened to Baby Eve? [Clonaid]

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Dawson's Creek [Piltdown Man]

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The War Between the States [the Yankee-Pennamite Wars]

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Liminal Space [Nan Madol]

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Errata #2

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Westward Huss, Part 3 [the "Viking relics" of everywhere else]

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Westward Huss, Part 2 [the "Viking relics" of Minnesota]

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Westward Huss, Part 1 [the "Viking relics" of New England]

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The Graveyard of Baseball [the last day at Connie Mack Stadium]

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Common Clay [H.H. Goddard and the Kallikak Family]

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Burning Fire, Deep Water [Burnu Acquanetta or Mildred Davenport?]

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Judge Crater, Call Your Office [the disappearance of Judge Crater]

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Scarlet Billows [the 1916 Jersey Shore shark attacks]

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His Royal Snakeship [the Silver Lake sea serpent]

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Triple Jumper [Ed Delahanty]

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You Are Who You Eat [foods named after famous people]

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OAHSPEPALS: God Goo [The Voice of Man & The Book of Jehovih]

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OAHSPEPALS: What Can A Man Do With Babes? [The Book of Shalam]

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Suffer Little Children [Faithism]

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The Garden of Oblivion [Hollywood's Garden of Allah hotel]

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Moron or Madman? Addenda

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Moron or Madman? [Trofim Denisovich Lysenko]

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More Lovely and More Temperate [the Hugh Lane bequest]

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Grandiose But Straightforward [Waldorf!]

106

Run the World [Miriam A. Ferguson vs. Nellie Tayloe Ross]

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He Could Eat It All [Diamond Jim Brady]

108

Marching to Shibboleth [John Alexander Dowie, Wilbur Glenn Voliva, and Zion, IL]

109

What-Is-It? [the 1909 Jersey Devil panic]

110

The Prophet of the Pacific [Ira Colver Sparks]

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The Terror of Gillikin Country [Paul Jawarski and the Flathead Gang]

112

The Spirit of Capitalism Made Flesh [Billy Watson's Beef Trust Beauties]

113

Exceeding Great [Prince Mike, King Ben, and the Houses of Israel and David]

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Pressing Matters [pressed pennies]

115

Bound in Mystery and Shadow [the 1928 York County Hex Murder]

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Normalating [chromotherapy and Spectro-Chrome Metry]

117

The Icelander [Philadelphia's Thorfinn Karlsefni statue]

118

I'm the Naughty Boy [1952 American Physical Society Shooting]

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Errata #1

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We Live Inside [Dr. Cyrus Reed Teed and the Koreshan Unity]

121

The Centers of All Things [geographic centers of North America]

122

He Whooped to See Them Burn [Simon Girty]

123

The Die of Tomorrow, Today [the rhombic triacontahedron]

124

French Leave [Nap Lajoie]

125

Pleadings from Asbury Park [Laura Biggar]

126

The Hot House [Dr. Dicran Hadjy Kabakjian]

127

Milking It For All It's Worth [béchamel sauce]

128

A Menace to the West [David Grundman]

129

Spirit Princess [Ann O'Delia Diss Debar]

130

Death from Above by Chocolate [the Baby Ruth candy bombing]

131

Rising to the Top [the Renfrew Creamery Kings]

132

That No Man Take Thy Crown [The Harmony Society, Part 2]

133

Hold Fast What Thou Hast [The Harmony Society, Part 1]

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Hurricane Coming Through [designated runner Herbert Lee Washington]

135

Goodnight, Irene [the weeping icon of St. Irene Chrysovalantou]

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Be My Bebe [Bebe Rebozo]

137

Cold Hard Cash [the rai stones of Yap]

138

The Brouhaha [Constantin Brancusi v. United States]

139

Monster Without a Mask [Rondo Hatton]

140

Microaggression [The Anglo-Zanzibar War]

141

The Ugliest Man in Baseball [Johnny Dickshot]

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He Fired When Ready [Charles Vernon Gridley]

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The Jackalope

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Strange Stories, Amazing Facts