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HOW TEDDY ROOSEVELT SAVED FOOTBALL & 14 OTHER UNIQUELY AMERICAN STORIES

1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries Podcast

Release Date: 10/31/2025

WE HAD IT ALL- REMEMBERING BOGART & BACALL

1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries Podcast

Betty Joan Perske was 18 years old when she met 44 year-old screen star Humphrey Bogart on the sound stage of 'To Have and Have Not' at Warner Studios in Burbank, California, in 1942. Her picture had landed on the cover of a fashion magazine called Harpers which came in the mail to Warner film director Howard Hawks home- where his wife Slim picked it up and mentioned "You know what Howard, this might be the girl you're looking for for that movie". She was sent a letter and a train ticket to Hollywood, got a

BOB HOPE CHRISTMAS SHOWS WWII TO VIETNAM

1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries Podcast

Bob Hope recalls three decades of Christmas Shows that he and his traveling troupe performed for our military beginning with an island in the Pacific and then his stops in 1972 in Vietnam, Guam, Korea, Thailand, Diego Garcia and Singapore. Lots of one liners and memories included.

ITS A WONDERFUL LIFE : THE BACKSTORY & THE MESSAGE~ FEATURING OUR INTERVIEW W/ KAROLYN GRIMES WILKERSON (ZUZU BAILEY)

1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries Podcast

"Its A Wonderful Life: The Movie Backstory & Message: The backstory to Frank Capra's film masterpiece "It's a Wonderful Life" featuring an exclusive interview with Karolyn Grimes Wilkerson, who played Zuzu Bailey in the film, and ended the movie with the memorable line : "Look, Daddy. Teacher says every time a bell rings, an angel gets his wings." Karolyn, whose acting career placed her on screen with Cary Grant, Bing Crosby, Jimmy Stewart, and Donna Reed, to name a few, experienced multiple family tragedie

NATIONAL LAMPOON'S CHRISTMAS VACATION: HOW ONE OF AMERICA'S FAVORITE CHRISTMAS COMEDIES WAS MADE (+ BLOOPERS)

1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries Podcast

It was the third "Vacation" comedy featuring the Griswald family- Clark. Ellen,Rusty and Audrey- and all Clark wanted to have a simple old-fashioned Christmas with family. His plan: to heavily decorate the house and roof with lights, Santa and reindeer, and to enjoy a simple Christmas dinner before celebrating the real meaning of Christmas. Instead he got uninvited family with their huge slobbering Rottweiler, an uninvited wild squirrel, electrical problems, big sewage problems, fire, and a SWAT team. Halleluyah! ENJOY ALL OUR SHOWS AND EPISODES NOW AT ! New! True Crime From Another Time...

CHRISTMAS IN APPALACHIA: SUPERSTITIONS, WIVE'S TALES, AND SHARED MEMORIES

1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries Podcast

America's Appalachain Mountain Range holds on to some of the oldest traditions and beliefs in our country and we share them here,along with celebrity meories of growing up poor in many of those mountain communities. You'll hear memories shared by Brad Paisley, Steve Harvey. Luke Combs, Earl Hamner, Loretta Lynn, and other celebrities who discoverd the real meaning of Christmas the hard way- when sometimes the best gift they received other than love and family was an orange.

1952: THE YEAR OF THE UFOS (PT 2)/UFO SWARMS OVER DC/DR. STANTON FRIEDMAN INTERVIEW

1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries Podcast

In 1952: THE YEAR OF THE UFOS (PT 2)/SAUCER SWARMS OVER DC/DR. STANTON FRIEDMAN INTERVIEWwe tell "the rest of the story", including the 1952 flying saucer swarms over Washington DC on two consecutive weekends in July of 1952, Washington's reaction, the scrambling and loss of US jet fighters, Feschino's work to discover this and tie all these events together with the Braxton County Monster incident, Project Blue Book, Capt. Ruppelt, Kenneth Arnold's 1947 sighting weeks before Roswell , the sighting that laun

1952: THE YEAR OF THE UFOS (PT 1): THE FLATWOODS W.VA UFO/ALIEN SIGHTING

1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries Podcast

A manned UFO lands in a small West Virginia town and becomes of the most believable UFO incidents in American history. Contains an in-depth Ivan Sanderson review. Part two next week we will be speaking with nuclear physicist Dr. Stanton Friedman.and covering the UFO swarm over Washington D.C. 1952.

THE LOST CITY OF Z: PERCY FAWCETT'S ILL-FATED EXPEDITION TO BRAZIL

1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries Podcast

"The Lost City of Z" is featured here along with "George Washington's Boyhood Rules of Behavior" from 1001 Classic Short Stories and Tales as the bonus episode for this week.

THE ROSWELL UFO INCIDENT: YES, THERE WERE ALIEN CRAFTS AND BODIES RECOVERED

1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries Podcast

In July of 1947 somethings very strange crashed to Earth on the high desert plains of New Mexico. Hundreds of witnesses testified to seeing portions of wrecked flying discs as well as small alien bodies with the wreckage at two crash sites. The Air Force immediately cordoned off the areas and issued warnings to all witnesses not to discuss any details of what they had seen- which, they said, was the simple wreckage of a crashed weather balloon. They continued to debunk and marginalize all attempts to bring

REMEMBERING TV'S BLUE BLOODS AND HONORING POLICE FAMILIES

1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries Podcast

FALL FAMILY SPECIAL In this episode we say goodbye to TV's highly successful Bluebloods police drama as it takes its leave after 14 years on CBS, and we honor the sacrifices of law enforcement families who make our country and our neighborhoods safe by putting their lives on the line every day. We offer the valid reasons for the show's great success.one of those reasons being the Reagan family dinner which closed nearly every episode with an open discussion among the family which covering the moral and procedural challenges that their city and police force faced. We also...

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A collection of 14 distinctly American stories covering a wide range of topics from early explorers to Appalachian legends. In order: 1) Bjorni Herefson, the man who didn't discover America, 2), Why the Mayflower really landed at Plymouth (they were out of beer), 3) The unread message at Trenton, 4) Washington was really our 8th president, 5) Every vote counts, 6) The song Dixie was born in New York City?, 7) Elvis loved Dixie, 8) Save the Last Dance For Me, the song, the backstory, 9) Karaoke anyone?, 10) How T.R. Roosevelt saved football, 11) Lafayette's lost treasure, 12) The 1897 UFO that landed in Aurora TX, 13) Calamity Jane, 14) The Legend of the Wampus Cat.15) How the National Anthem came to be played at ballgames, 16( prviews of upcoming shows at 1001 Heroes.

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