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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...

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REMEMBERING I LOVE LUCY
April 13, 2025

REMEMBERING I LOVE LUCY

TV history was made in 1951 when the first episode of I Love Lucy aired on CBS starring a fiery red head Irish actress named Lucille Ball and her real life husband, Cuban American band leader Desi Arnaz as New York City apartment dwellers Lucy and...
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THE JFK ASSASSINATION COVER-UP: THE REPORTER WHO KNEW TOO MUCH-DOROTHY KILGALLEN
April 6, 2025

THE JFK ASSASSINATION COVER-UP: THE REPORTER WHO KNEW TOO MUCH-DOROTHY KILGALLEN

In light of the recent release of thousands of previously classified documents concerning the Kennedy Assassination we present an in-depth look at the aftermath, which left investigators wirth the murder of the assassin Lee Harvey Oswald by strip club...
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THE LEGEND OF LASSETER'S REEF
March 30, 2025

THE LEGEND OF LASSETER'S REEF

In 1929 an Australian named Harold Bell Lassiter announced that he had found a fabulously rich gold deposit in the Northwest Territory years ago and that he needed the cash to raise an expedition to go after it.  At first, he had no takers, but...
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BIG NEWS FOR ANDROID LISTENERS THAT ALSO LOVE APPLE PODCASTS
March 30, 2025

BIG NEWS FOR ANDROID LISTENERS THAT ALSO LOVE APPLE PODCASTS

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THE MAN-EATING LIONS OF TSAVO (PT 2) THE TRAP IS SPRUNG
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.
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THE MAN-EATING LIONS OF TSAVO (PT 1): THE GHOST AND THE DARKNESS
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....
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THE WOMEN OF VALLEY FORGE: UNSUNG HEROES OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION
March 9, 2025

THE WOMEN OF VALLEY FORGE: UNSUNG HEROES OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION

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BEST OF (#54 of 514) THE LEGEND OF THE LOST DUTCHMAN MINE (PT 2)
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.
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BEST OF (#53 OF 513) THE LEGEND OF THE LOST DUTCHMAN MINE (PT 1)
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...
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THE 1889 JOHNSTOWN FLOOD (PT 2): SURVIVOR ACCOUNTS, AFTERMATH
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...
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THE 1889 JOHNSTOWN FLOOD (PT 1) HEROES & SURVIVORS
Feb. 23, 2025

THE 1889 JOHNSTOWN FLOOD (PT 1) HEROES & SURVIVORS

On May 31st 1889 the earthen dam holding back Lake Conemaugh 15 bmiles upstream from Johnstown, PA burst duriung heavy spring rains, sending a 40 foot wave of death down a narrow river valley in which was located 80,000 persons, and finally reaching...
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PARIS UNDERCOVER: A WARTIME STORY OF COURAGE, FRIENDSHIP, AND BETRAYAL
Feb. 9, 2025

PARIS UNDERCOVER: A WARTIME STORY OF COURAGE, FRIENDSHIP, AND BETRAYAL

Two woman in Nazi-occupied Paris, bith close friends over 50 years old create a daring escape line that rescued dozens of allied servicemen . With one still in prison,  one was returned to the states on a prisoner swap and wrote a tell-all book...
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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
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