Episode 14 — Father Markoe and the DePorres Club
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Episode 13 — The Most Notorious Book Thief: Part 3
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Episode 12 — The Most Notorious Book Thief: Part 2
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Episode 11 — The Most Notorious Book Thief: Part 1
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Episode 10 — The Fountain, the Mall and Suscipe, Creighton's nude sculpture
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Episode 9 — Returning to the Old Gym, 75 years later
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Episode 8 — The bomb, the boss and the Jesuit
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Episode 7 — Creighton's 2023 anniversaries (Part 3)
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Aaand ... here's the third and final part in our series of episodes on 2023 anniversaries. This one covers 1983 to 2022 and includes the arrival of the ‘Eternal Flame,’ the fake football team's national championship win and the first Creighton alum in space.
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Episode 6 — Creighton's 2023 anniversaries (Part 2)
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And here's part 2 of our series of Weird Creighton History episodes on 2023 anniversaries. This episode tracks anniversaries from 1948 to 1973, including the debut of the DePorres Club, the start of women’s sports and the arrival of air conditioning in Swanson Hall.
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Episode 5 — Creighton's 2023 anniversaries (Part 1)
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Another year, another list of Creighton anniversaries. In the first of this three-part series of episodes, Rick and Micah cover such historic events as ... the birth of the Bluejay, the start of the track team and the belated graduation of an alum whom Eisenhower called "the man who won the war."
info_outlineIn a new episode of Weird Creighton History, Rick and Micah explore Creighton University's connection (via three Jesuits) to the exorcism that inspired the book and movie The Exorcist.
Episode sources:
Possessed: The True Story of an Exorcism by Thomas B. Allen
"The Exorcist: A True Story," New York Post
"The Haunted Boy," Strange Magazine
Newspapers.com, Lincoln Journal Star, Washington Post
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