Our Fake History

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  • A podcast about myths we think are history and history that might be hidden in myths! Awesome stories that really (maybe) happened!
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  • Episode #215- Edgar Allan Poe: Hoax Master?

    Episode #215- Edgar Allan Poe: Hoax Master?
    Nov 20 2024
    Edgar Allan Poe has been remembered as one of America's greatest authors and poets. However, many are less familiar with is career as a hoaxer. In the 1830's and 1840's Poe made a name for himself orchestrating elaborate newspaper hoaxes, and debunking hoaxes attempted by others. Poe specialized in deceptions that dealt with the frontiers of science. Some of these scientific hoaxes flopped, while others drummed up real excitement among astonished readers. What was the secret sauce that a made newspaper hoax go large? Tune-in and find out how moon-gnomes, chess playing automatons, and bipedal space beavers all play a role in the story.
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    1 hr and 35 mins
  • Episode #214- Have We Misremembered the Gunpowder Plot? (Part II)

    Episode #214- Have We Misremembered the Gunpowder Plot? (Part II)
    Nov 6 2024
    Trying to come an "objective" understanding of the 1605 Gunpowder Plot has proved difficult for historians. From the the outset the facts of the case were distorted to help serve the political interests of powerful English ministers. The details were massaged so that a group of Jesuits could be framed as the masterminds. But, if the authorities were lying about the Jesuits, what else might they have been lying about? Was the Gunpowder Plot actually a false flag operation cooked up by members of King James' inner-circle? Have revelers on bonfire night been celebrating a lie... or is something more complicated going on? Tune-in and find out how Satan's imps, English Mardi Gras, and the Guilford Guys all play a role in the story.
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    1 hr and 36 mins
  • Episode #213- Have We Misremembered the Gunpowder Plot? (Part I)

    Episode #213- Have We Misremembered the Gunpowder Plot? (Part I)
    Oct 22 2024
    There is an old English rhyme that implores every patriotic Briton to "Remember, Remember, the 5th of November." This was the date of a foiled attack on the English parliament known as the Gunpowder Plot. The man poised to light the fuse on the 36 barrels of gunpowder stockpiled under the house of lords in 1605 was the Catholic agitator Guy Fawkes. Since the date of his capture the popular understanding of Fawkes has undergone a remarkable transformation. He has gone from being a nearly forgotten triggerman, to a reviled villain burnt in effigy, to a valiant folk hero, to a symbol for internet "hacktivists." Does "Guy Fawkes" the symbol have anything to do with Guy Fawkes the man? Tune-in and find out how rambunctious political theatre, Hungry Scots, and a man with all sorts of Rizz play a role in the story.
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    1 hr and 22 mins

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Fun historical fact

Great host and great story perfect for all level of history knowledge.
Lots of différents topics.

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