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

1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries Podcast

Release Date: 02/09/2025

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

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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. Coolies, African workers, teamsters, and British authorities were mauled over a peroid of 9 months, with an estimated death toll of 150. A man named Lt. Col John Henry Patterson  tracked the lions for months, finally bringing them down in December of 1898.  He wrote a book called 'The Maneaters of Tsavo' from which we quote passages often as...

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WAS MY BROTHER IN THE BATTLE?  WHAT THE CIVIL WAR MEANT TO MY FAMILY show art WAS MY BROTHER IN THE BATTLE? WHAT THE CIVIL WAR MEANT TO MY FAMILY

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"Was My Brother In The Battle?"- What Civil War meant to my family-Six hundred thousand men died or were wounded in the American Civil War. Just as many families were affected. Mothers, fathers, sisters, and brothers all felt the hopelessness of not knowing if their sons and brothers would ever come home. Steven Foster captured this feeling of helplessness and rage in his song "Was My Brother In The Battle?, which is sung here, credits below, and thanks to Cinzi Lavin and Jennifer Love, arrangement and voca

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THE WOMEN OF VALLEY FORGE: UNSUNG HEROES OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION show art 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) show art BEST OF (#54 of 514) THE LEGEND OF THE LOST DUTCHMAN MINE (PT 2)

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

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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,  There is an old Apache superstition that the mountain takes revenge on those who get close.

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

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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 still isn't safe from being destroyed again. Check out our website at www.bestof1001stories.com.

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BEST OF (#54 of 508)  TESLA AND THE ARK show art BEST OF (#54 of 508) TESLA AND THE ARK

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Nikola Tesla was an American electrical engineer and inventor who made significant bounds in the areas of electrical applications, motors, remote controlled boats, dynamos, and the invention of alternating current motors which could power cars. To honor Tesla's contribution, Elon Musk, the head of the electric car company Tesla, named his company after the great inventor. One of the least known of Tesla's many projects was the particle accelerator, which some people have named the "Death Ray". In this story

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THE 1889 JOHNSTOWN FLOOD (PT 1)  HEROES & SURVIVORS show art THE 1889 JOHNSTOWN FLOOD (PT 1) HEROES & SURVIVORS

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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 Johnstown with houses, alive and dead persons, trees, and scrap of all types, which caught on fire when it all hit the bridge at Johnstown, literally roasting many survivors alive in the conflagration. We feature survivor and author accounts in part one, and in part 2 we deal with the aftermath and investigations. This is a unique history lesson in...

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BEST OF (#53 of 507)   TSUNAMI! : WAVES OF DEATH: THE UNTOLD STORY OF THE DEVASTATING 2004 AND 2011 TSUNAMIS show art BEST OF (#53 of 507) TSUNAMI! : WAVES OF DEATH: THE UNTOLD STORY OF THE DEVASTATING 2004 AND 2011 TSUNAMIS

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TSUNAMI (PT I) WAVES OF DEATH: Deep below the surface of the Indian Ocean, near the island of Sumatra, two portions of the Earth's crust which had been pushing against each other for the past milennia, one plate, actually the India Plate, gave way along a 1,000 mile faultline, creating a huge fissure in the sea floor as it subducted beneath the pressing Burma Plate, suddenly displacing trillions of tons of water, and causing powerful shock waves in every direction, waves that would introduce untold death an

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BEST OF (#52 OF 506)   JOHN DILLINGER (PT 2)  THE LADY IN RED show art BEST OF (#52 OF 506) JOHN DILLINGER (PT 2) THE LADY IN RED

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The amazing story of John Dillinger: Public Enemy No. 1 continues. We cover the FBI raid on the Little Bohemia resort, which turned into a public relations nightmare for Hoover and the FBI, as well Dillingers face-changing operation, two of the Dillinger gang's most memorable bank robberies, AnnaSage's betrayal of Dillinger and the FBI's execution of Dillinger outside a theater in Chicago, and the hunting down of Dillinger's gang, including Van Meter and Baby Face Nelson in the aftermath of Dillinger's deat

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