A Hint of Fiction
To all who come to this Happy Place, Welcome! In this episode, we celebrate Disneylands birthday with a star studded extravaganza! Ghosts, we got em, Yeti's, check, black widow brides looking for their next lover, oversided mice, we have it all! Our three stories include: Counterprotestors take over the Disneyland Park, three animatronics dissapear and reapper and Walt gets a little help from the CIA, can you tell which story is true? Intro: 00:46 The Day the Yippies Invaded 8:18 The Animatronics That Left and Then Came Back 25:21 The building of a city, with a little help from a spy 40:16...
info_outline The Greatest Objects Never Seen Again - Lost ArtifactsA Hint of Fiction
Legends of objects of value and grandeur surround people of similar nature, we look to these relics as milestones of our accomplishments as humans and sometimes these objects take on stories of their own. Weapons of great power and destruction, secrets that could change the world or powerful objects that in the wrong hands could cause the end of everything. These sacred and special artifacts sometimes go missing and lost to time, where do these pieces of our history go and what happened to these mythic items? Today, we bring you three stories of powerful artifacts lost to time. A feudal...
info_outline It's Where you Live - Strange TownsA Hint of Fiction
We all come from somewhere and all towns have a story. While many feel safe and secure, sometimes dark truths lurk just under the surface. What truth’s will you uncover in your cozy little hamlet’s and homesteads? And what if those truths are not always what they seems In this episode, we discuss three strange and in some cases deserted towns, filled with their own dark stories. A man obsessed with flight makes a journey above the skies, An ancient seaside town, is actually a den of sin and debauchery and a small coal mining town becomes abandoned after an accident. Intro:...
info_outline I Put a Curse on You and Now Youre Mine - CursesA Hint of Fiction
Curses are the great equilizer in our world, we see them in our history, our media and our mythos. But how do curses affect the real world and how do you try and stop one? In this episode, a bad contract affects all who work on the Man of Steel, Death shall come on swift wings to him who disturbs the peace of the King, and a cursed forest attracts wedding bells. Intro - 1:07 The Curse of the Man of Steel - 5:14 Curse of the Ancient Mummy - 20:31 The Cursed Forest that Wants Wedding Bells - 34:16 Outro - 41:51
info_outline By Air, By Land and By Sea - CryptidsA Hint of Fiction
Humans are considered to be the top of our food chain, we are the biggest apex predators on the planet, contending with Great White Sharks, Lions, Tigers and Crocodiles…. Oh my. The question I put to you is, what if we were not? Stories of large humanoid creatures, flying beasts in far flung jungles and massive sea creatures make us question our place at the top of the food chain. Do these cryptids pose a threat to our very existence? In this episode, a bat creature attacks an expedition team in a remote jungle, a large sea creature is unearthed after some major construction and an...
info_outline Dont Go Breaking My Heart - Breakup StoriesA Hint of Fiction
Love is amazing, it lifts us up, it binds us, and it makes us become something more than the sum of our parts. On the other hand, losing love can feel like losing a part of yourself, and can make you to make outlandish decisions in the scramble to be whole again. In this episode, a goddess ghosts a aggressive suitor, a Emporer and his wife are just awful and a poet scorns the love of a mistress, which causes her to go insane. Intro: 1:12 Do as the Greek’s do and Ghost: 2:47 A King in Heartbreak, A Tyrant of Rome: 16:01 Nothing Like a Lover’s Scorn: 31:59
info_outline Black Cats and Rocking Chairs - Strange OccurencesA Hint of Fiction
Things occur in collective history that are unusual, strange and downright weird, we discuss three of these stories this week.
info_outline Who Ya Gonna Call - GhostsA Hint of Fiction
Ghosts, what are they? Are they the actual living spirits of humans long since passed? Or are they emotional ties to a place of great importance? Or something even sinister?
info_outline What Goes Bump In The Night - Urban LegendsA Hint of Fiction
Welcome to Half Halloween, it's like Halloween...we'll you get it.
info_outline A Pirates Life for Me - PiratesA Hint of Fiction
Yo Ho Ho and a bottle of rum! Alex and Will explore the true history of pirates and talk about some of the greats! Did pirates bury their treasure? What is a buccaneer? Why was the rum always gone?
info_outlineThis week William and Alexandria talk about one of Will's favorite pastimes, Marvel Comics and all form of comic book enjoyment. While trying to keep Will on track was hard this week, we tell three stories from the comic realm hoping to find the fiction within Marvel's fiction.
In today's episode, an unlikely band of lunar heroes team up, a tech savvy suit wearer creates an armor that has a deadly crush on him, and a real life comic incident changes the face of Marvel movies forever!
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The Moonies: Written by William Acker
Iron Man Sentient Armor series: marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Iron_Man_(Sentient_Armor)_(Earth-616)
Samuel L. Jackson Sues Marvel: https://movieweb.com/marvel-movies-mcu-samuel-l-jackson-legal-obligations/