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Lost Legacy [the Mitchell-Hedges Crystal Skull of Doom]

The Ancient and Esoteric Order of the Jackalope

Release Date: 01/17/2022

Vote for Pedro [Wyoming's own midget mummy]

The Ancient and Esoteric Order of the Jackalope

"Wyoming's own midget mummy" was found in the San Pedro Mountains in 1932 and mystified thousands before disappearing in 1950. but what was he? A little person, a baby, a fake? And where the heck did he get off to? Key sources for this episode include Aaron Mahnke's The World of Lore: Monstrous Creatures; Charles J. Cazeau and Stuart D. Scott's Exploring the Unknown: Great Mysteries Reexamined; Jeremy Fugelberg's "The Mysterious Pedro Mountain Mummy"; Richard Marshall's Mysteries of the Unexplained; and contemporary newspaper reports. And sincere apologies to the Cryptonaturalist () for...

Fuller Houses [R. Buckminster Fuller's various Dymaxion Houses]

The Ancient and Esoteric Order of the Jackalope

R. Buckminster Fuller's Dymaxion House was a marvel of modern technology that promised to create freedom by liberating the mind and curing all of society's problems... so why aren't you living in one right now? Key sources for this episode include Jonathon Keats' You Belong to the Universe: Buckminster Fuller and the Future; Lloyd Steven Sieden's Buckminster Fuller's Universe: His Life and His Work; and Michael Brian Schiffer's Spectacular Flops: Game-Changing Technologies That Failed... but especially Lorettta Lorance's Becoming Bucky Fuller, which is both the most thorough and most critical...

Steampunk Google and the World City [Paul Otlet and the Mundaneum] by Alex Baumans

The Ancient and Esoteric Order of the Jackalope

Paul Otlet had a vision of an system that could search all the information ever created, from anywhere in the world, at the touch of a button... Too bad the most advanced technologies at his disposal were index cards. Transcript, links, and more at: Key sources for this episode include Alex Wright’s Cataloging the World: Paul Otlet and the Birth of the Information Age; Françoise Levie’s L’homme qui voulait classer le monde: Paul Otlet et le Mundaneum; Paul Otlet’s Traité de documentation: Le livre sur le livre; Paul Otlet, Fondateur du Mundaneum, Architecte du savoir, Artisan de...

The First Battle of the American Revolution [the Battle of Point Pleasant]

The Ancient and Esoteric Order of the Jackalope

Everyone knows the first battles of the American Revolution were Lexington and Concord... unless, that is, you live in Point Pleasant, West Virginia. Key sources for this episode include Randolf C. Downes's "Dunmore's War: An Interpretation"; J.T. McAllister's "The Battle of Point Pleasant"; Virgil Lewis's History of the Battle of Point Pleasant, Fought Between White Men and Indians at the Mouth of the Great Kanawha River (Now Point Pleasant, West Virginia) Monday, October 10, 1774; Glen Williams' Dunmore's War: The Last Conflict of America's Colonial Era; and West Virginia History's...

Neither Here Nor There [Melungeons]

The Ancient and Esoteric Order of the Jackalope

In which a mysterious lost people living in the mountains of Tennessee turn out to not be so mysterious after all... and maybe not even all that lost, if the Internet can be believed. Transcript, sources, and more: Key sources for this episode include Anita Puckett's "The Melungeon Identity Movement and the Construction of Appalachian Whiteness", Ariela Gross's "Of Portuguese Origin: Litigating Identity and Citizenship among the Little Races in Nineteenth-Century America", Brewton Berry's Almost White, Jean Patterson Bible's Melungeons Yesterday and Today, Katherine Vande Brake's Through...

Dangerous Excitement [the Caroline Affair, the Patriot War, and the McLeod Incident]

The Ancient and Esoteric Order of the Jackalope

In 1837 Canadians tried and failed to overthrow the British government. The revolution seemed over... and then the Redcoats seized an American ship, set it on fire, and sent it over Niagara Falls, prolonging the conflict for years. Transcript, sources and more available at Key sources for this episode include Edwin C. Guillet's The Lives and Times of the Patriots: An Account of the Rebellion in Upper Canada, 1837-1838, and of the Patriot Agitation in the United States, 1837-1842; Howard Jones's To The Webster-Ashburton Treaty: A Study in Anglo-American Relations, 1783-1843; Kenneth R....

"Christmas Day" by Julia Ann Moore [read by Eric Leslie]

The Ancient and Esoteric Order of the Jackalope

Enjoy this special treat: "Christmas Day" by Julia Ann Moore, the Sweet Singer of Michigan, read by the incomparable Eric Leslie. Happy holidays!

Armor Class 4 [banded mail]

The Ancient and Esoteric Order of the Jackalope

An instructive little tale where Victorian scholars look back at five centuries of arms and armor and just start making stuff up, because they're just ever-so-clever. Key sources for this episode include Charles Henry Ashdown's "Armour & Weapons in the Middle Ages"; Charles John Ffoulkes's "The Armorer and His Craft from the XIth to the XVI Century"; John Hewitt's "Ancient Armor and Weapons in Europe, from the Iron Period of the Northern Nations to the End of the Seventeenth Century"; the "Dungeons & Dragons Player's Handbook" for first, second, third, fourth, and fifth editions; and...

The Realest Housewife of Beverly Hills [Countess Dorothy di Frasso]

The Ancient and Esoteric Order of the Jackalope

Countess Dorothy di Frasso was the most famous hostess in the world, who threw parties for kings and queens, dukes and barons; actors, athletes and aviators; Nazis, Fasists, and mobsters. This is the story of her amazing life. Key sources for this episode include Graham Wallace's "Claude Grahame-White: A Biography"; Yvonne Elet's "Architectural Invention in Renaissance Rome: Artists, Humanists, and the Planning of Raphael's Villa Madama"; Hector Arce's "Gary Cooper: An Intimate Biography"; Elsa Maxwell's "I Married the World"; Dean Southern Jennings' "We Only Kill Each Other"; and...

Fruitcake Subculture Conspiracy Revisited [fruitcake] presented by #7 (Dorothy White)

The Ancient and Esoteric Order of the Jackalope

Listen up, fruitcake... or, rather, listen up -- fruitcake! This week #7 (Dorothy White) drops by to tell you everything you never wanted to know about Christmas's most maligned tradition. The only key source for this episode is #7's own Texas Cooking article “Fruitcake Subculture Conspiracy” but she consulted a number of other sources as well; including Marc Abrahams’ “Military Experiments on Fruitcake”, David Cashion’s The Dreaded Feast, Harold McGee’s On Food and Cooking, Glenn Warren’s Season’s Eatings podcast, and dozens of newspaper articles and web sites. Presented by...

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It is the embodiment of all evil, capable of killing with a thought? Is it the brain box of the cosmos, capable of unlocking the secrets of the universe? Either way, it's the Mitchell-Hedges Crystal Skull of Doom!

Transcript, sources, links and more at:
https://order-of-the-jackalope.com/lost-legacy/

Key sources for this episode include, well, Jane MacLaren Walsh and Brett Toppings's The Man Who Invented Aztec Crystal Skulls; Skeptical Inquirer articles by Joe Nickell and Benjamin Radford; the memoirs of Frederick Albert Mitchell Hedges, Lady Richmond Brown, and Jane Harvey Houlson; and Richard Garvin's The Crystal Skull.

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