Welcome to our new website!
1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries Podcast

1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries Podcast

Where History Comes Alive! A fast-paced, well-researched weekly podcast covering a wide range of historical events, persons, places, legends, and mysteries, Hosted by Jon Hagadorn, the selection of stories and interviews includes lost treasure, unsolved mysteries, unexplained phenomenon, WWII storie...

Play Latest Episode

Recent Episodes

March 23, 2025

THE MAN-EATING LIONS OF TSAVO (PT 2) THE TRAP IS SPRUNG

Part Two tells the story of the hunt for both lions, and how Lt.Col Patterson corners them both, as well as the time things got so bad with the coolies being killed that most of them left the bridge project.
March 16, 2025

THE MAN-EATING LIONS OF TSAVO (PT 1): THE GHOST AND THE DARKNESS

The incredible true story (the 1996 movie is largely fiction) of a British railroad project in Kenya in 1898 that was being harassed by man-eating lions which would attack coolies in the night,dragging them out of their tents screaming for help....
March 6, 2025

BEST OF (#54 of 514) THE LEGEND OF THE LOST DUTCHMAN MINE (PT 2)

The story of old Adolph Ruth, who used a map whiich his son had found (supposedly the old Peralta Map) to venture into the Superstitions to find the gold. He never made it out. This is the story of how he was found and others that followed.
March 6, 2025

BEST OF (#53 OF 513) THE LEGEND OF THE LOST DUTCHMAN MINE (PT 1)

This is the story of most famous legend of buried gold in the west.  An old prospector who mined in the Superstition Mountains of Arizona was witnessed to have possessed hi grade gold. Many men have tried trying to find his mine but noone ever...
March 2, 2025

THE 1889 JOHNSTOWN FLOOD (PT 2): SURVIVOR ACCOUNTS, AFTERMATH

In part two we cover a recap of the3 flood path and devastation, survivor and media accounts,  causes and blame,including the 2016 report, Clara Barton's efforts with the Red Cross, and the Johnstown floods of 1936 and 1977, showing that...

Reviews

fascinating episode!

"​Just listened to "Man-eating Lions" - what a great story! I remember watching the movie and it really stuck with me. I love hearing the first hand account being read from his autobiography."

The Imagination Weaver | March 17, 2025

Related Shows

1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales

Visit Page

1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries Podcast

Visit Page

1001 Sherlock Holmes Stories & The Best of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Visit Page

1001 Radio Crime Solvers

Visit Page

1001 Stories For The Road

Visit Page

1001 Ghost, Chiller & Lovecraft Stories

Visit Page

1001 Stories From the Old West

Visit Page

1001 RADIO DAYS

Visit Page

1001 Stories From The Gilded Age

Visit Page

1001 Best of Jack London

Visit Page

1001 Best Storytellers

Visit Page

1001 True Crime From Another Time with Host Jon Hagadorn

Visit Page