1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories& Mysteries
A series of fast-paced, fun, and highly interesting historical vignettes featuring a wide range of stories from"The Mysterious Death of Edgar Allen Poe", to"The Legend of Saint Valentine" and"Gremlins: From WWII Myth to Movies".
- Website
- https://audioboom.com/channel/1001-heroes-legends-histories-mysteries
- Description
- A series of fast-paced, fun, and highly interesting historical vignettes featuring a wide range of stories from"The Mysterious Death of Edgar Allen Poe", to"The Legend of Saint Valentine" and"Gremlins: From WWII Myth to Movies".
- Language
- 🇬🇧 English
- last modified
- 2025-03-28 23:01
- last episode published
- 2025-03-23 16:00
- publication frequency
- 6.01 days
- Contributors
- audioBoom
- Owner
- Jon Hagadorn
- Author
- Explicit
- false
- Number of Episodes
- 625
- Rss-Feeds
- Detail page
- Categories
- Society & Culture Literature History Arts
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Episodes
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| 2025-03-23 | 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. Enjoy all of our 1001 collection at www.bes... |
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| 2025-03-16 |
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. Coolie... |
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| 2025-03-09 |
THE WOMEN OF VALLEY FORGE: UNSUNG HEROES OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION They say behind every good man there is a strong woman- and if ever men needed strong moral support it was during the harsh winter of Valley Forge (1777-78), where the wives of George Washington, Henry Knox, Nathaniel Greene- and members of the "camp ... |
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| 2025-03-07 |
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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| 2025-03-07 |
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 has, Th... |
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| 2025-03-02 |
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 Johnstown stil... |
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| 2025-02-23 | 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 Jo... |
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| 2025-02-09 |
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 which t... |
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| 2025-01-26 |
THE BATTLE OF GUADALCANAL: HELL IN THE PACIFIC AUG 1942- FEB 1943 The Battle of Guadalcanal-an air, land, and sea battle fought in the Pacific between August 7th and February 9th of 1942, was the first major offensive of WWII that tested American land forces vs. the Japanaese Imperial Army. It was a hard, brutal con... |
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| 2025-01-19 |
THE JFK CONSPIRACY THE SECRET PLOT TO KILL KENNEDY- AND WHY IT FAILED A Dangerous Loner... The Perfect TARGETS... THYE VERY FIRST PLOT TO KILL JFK Jon talks with NYT Best-selling authors Brad Meltzer and Josh Mentz about THE JFK CONSPIRACY- The secret plot to kill Kennedy- and why it failed. Check out our website at ww... |
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