The Ancient and Esoteric Order of the Jackalope
There are known knowns, known unknowns and unknown unknowns. But there are also unknown knowns. We are the Ancient and Esoteric Order of the Jackalope, a secret society devoted to unearthing and sharing this forgotten knowledge.
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Vote for Pedro [Wyoming's own midget mummy]
04/15/2024
Vote for Pedro [Wyoming's own midget mummy]
"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 biting his style. Part of the That's Not Canon Productions podcast network. Discord: Bluesky: Facebook: Tumblr: Email:
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Fuller Houses [R. Buckminster Fuller's various Dymaxion Houses]
03/25/2024
Fuller Houses [R. Buckminster Fuller's various Dymaxion Houses]
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 biography of Fuller and definitely worth checking out. Part of the That's Not Canon Productions podcast network. https://thatsnotcanon.com/ Discord: Bluesky: Facebook: Tumblr: Email:
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Steampunk Google and the World City [Paul Otlet and the Mundaneum] by Alex Baumans
03/04/2024
Steampunk Google and the World City [Paul Otlet and the Mundaneum] by Alex Baumans
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 paix; and the newspaper archive of the KBR. Presented by #42 (Alex Baumans). Pathologically interested in anything unusual and obscure. Closet goth, armchair general and amateur theologian. Favorite animals are ducks, octopodes and pigs. You will also find me surprisingly knowledgable about K-Pop girl groups. Special thanks to the Collection Mundaneum in Mons for their assistance () and for providing images for our use. This episode is released under a Creative Commons except for the images, which may not be reproduced without the express permission of the Mundaneum. Part of the That's Not Canon Productions podcast network. Discord: Bluesky: Facebook: Tumblr: Email:
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The First Battle of the American Revolution [the Battle of Point Pleasant]
02/12/2024
The First Battle of the American Revolution [the Battle of Point Pleasant]
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 "Manufactured History: Re-Fighting the Battle of Point Pleasant". Part of the That's Not Canon Productions podcast network. Discord: Bluesky: Facebook: Tumblr: Email:
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Neither Here Nor There [Melungeons]
01/22/2024
Neither Here Nor There [Melungeons]
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 the Back Door: Melungeon Literacies and Twenty-First Century Technologies, Melissa Schrift's Becoming Melungeon: Making an Ethnic Identity in the Appalachian South, N. Brent Kennedy's The Melungeons: The Resurrection of a Proud People, Tim Hashaw's Children of Perdition: Melungeons and the Struggle of Mixed America, and Will Allen Dromgoole's The Malungeon Tree and Its Four Branches. Part of the That's Not Canon Productions podcast network. https://thatsnotcanon.com/ Discord: Bluesky: Facebook: Tumblr: Email:
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Dangerous Excitement [the Caroline Affair, the Patriot War, and the McLeod Incident]
01/01/2024
Dangerous Excitement [the Caroline Affair, the Patriot War, and the McLeod Incident]
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. Stevens's Border Diplomacy: The Caroline and McLeod Affairs in Anglo-American-Canadian Relations, 1837-1842; Kyle Ward's History in the Making; Orrin Edward Tiffany's The Relations of the United States to the Canadian Rebellion of 1837-1838; R. Bruce Taylor's "Anxious Moments in Frontier History"; and Robert Remini's Daniel Webster: The Man and His Time. Also, a special thanks to #28 for letting me borrow his copy of John Niven's Martin Van Buren: The Romantic Age of American Politics and hang on to it for far too long. Part of the That's Not Canon Productions podcast network. Discord: Bluesky: Facebook: Tumblr: Email:
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"Christmas Day" by Julia Ann Moore [read by Eric Leslie]
12/25/2023
"Christmas Day" by Julia Ann Moore [read by Eric Leslie]
Enjoy this special treat: "Christmas Day" by Julia Ann Moore, the Sweet Singer of Michigan, read by the incomparable Eric Leslie. Happy holidays!
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Armor Class 4 [banded mail]
12/11/2023
Armor Class 4 [banded mail]
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 contemporary issues of Dragon Magazine. Part of the That's Not Canon Productions podcast network. https://thatsnotcanon.com/ Discord: https://discord.gg/Mbap3UQyCB Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/orderjackalope/ Tumblr: https://orderjackalope.tumblr.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/orderjackalope Email: [email protected]
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The Realest Housewife of Beverly Hills [Countess Dorothy di Frasso]
11/20/2023
The Realest Housewife of Beverly Hills [Countess Dorothy di Frasso]
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 contemporary newspaper reports. Part of the That's Not Canon Productions podcast network. This week we're highlighting the Penny Peepshow (), which returns from its long hiatus with a new season of The Pirate Queen! Join Captain Alice Conway as she deals with the loss of the Fat Wench and searches for her missing crew! The Curiosity of a Child: Tales of Treasure Discord: Facebook: Tumblr: Twitter: Email:
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Fruitcake Subculture Conspiracy Revisited [fruitcake] presented by #7 (Dorothy White)
10/30/2023
Fruitcake Subculture Conspiracy Revisited [fruitcake] presented by #7 (Dorothy White)
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 #7 (Dorothy White). Voluptuary. Raconteur. Artist wannabe. Travel junkie. Photographer of Pearl. In thrall to Vampire Andy. Teacher of culinary arts. Part of the That's Not Canon Productions podcast network. Discord: Facebook: Tumblr: Twitter: Email:
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Seven Years in Hell [the murder of Susan Mummey, the Witch of Ringtown Valley]
10/09/2023
Seven Years in Hell [the murder of Susan Mummey, the Witch of Ringtown Valley]
For seven years he lived in hell, tormented nightly by a demon cat and the grim spectre of death. Finally, an angel told him what he had to do to end it all: kill the Witch of Ringtown Valley. Key sources for this episode include Arthur Lewis's Hex and contemporary newspaper reports. Part of the That's Not Canon Productions podcast network. Discord: Facebook: Tumblr: Twitter: Email:
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The Fakiest Fake in England [Borley Rectory]
09/18/2023
The Fakiest Fake in England [Borley Rectory]
The story of Borley Rectory, the most haunted house in England... Just remember that the most haunted and least haunted house are the exact same amount of haunted. Key sources for this episode include Harry Price's The Most Haunted House in England and The End of Borley Rectory; Eric J. Dingwall et al.'s The Haunting of Borley Rectory; Trevor Hall's The Search for Harry Price; Robert Wood's The Widow of Borley; and Andrew Clarke's Bones of Borley web site. (If you're interested in the case, I would also recommend Paul Adams et al.'s The Borley Rectory Companion; it's commendably thorough if also occasionally mind-numbingly tedious.) The Constant: "Gef" Part of the That's Not Canon Productions podcast network. Discord: Facebook: Tumblr: Twitter: Email:
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A Good Thing to Die By [medium Mary Ann Scannell Pepper Vanderbilt]
08/28/2023
A Good Thing to Die By [medium Mary Ann Scannell Pepper Vanderbilt]
This one has it all: the afterlife, encyclopedia salesmen, evil stepmothers, Kickapoo princesses, New Yorkers with more money than sense, the Empress Alexandra, bigamy and fraud, ghost farts and spirit chickens. Key sources for this episode include Mary E. Cadwallader's "Mary S. Vanderbilt: A Twentieth Century Seer", Mira Ptacin's "The In-Betweens: The Spiritualists, Mediums, and Legends of Camp Etna", Phineas T. Barnum's "Humbugs of the World", and contemporary newspaper reports. This is What We Found: Ghost Church: Part of the That's Not Canon Productions podcast network. Discord: Facebook: Tumblr: Twitter: Email:
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What Joy to the Troubled Heart! [spirit photographer William H. Mumler]
08/07/2023
What Joy to the Troubled Heart! [spirit photographer William H. Mumler]
In 1862, William H. Mumler took the first known photograph of a ghost. Maybe. What unfolded over the next two decades was a story of fraud and self-deception... that even spilled over into the criminal courts of New York City. Transcript, sources, links and more at Key sources for this episode include James Appleton Morgan's "The Law of Literature"; Louis Kaplan's "The Strange Case of William Mumler, Spirit Photographer"; Peter Manseau's "The Apparitionists: A Tale of Phantoms, Fraud, Photography, and the Man Who Captured Lincoln's Ghost"; and William H. Mumler's "The Personal Experiences of William H. Mumler in Spirit-Photography." Part of the That's Not Canon Productions podcast network. This week we're co-promoting with fellow TNC podcast Art Slice featuring irreverent deep dives into art & art history by artists Stephanie Dueñas and Russell Shoemaker. No gatekeeping, privilege, or that cognitive fog called 'art speaking.' Discord: Facebook: Tumblr: Twitter: Email:
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Pickle Me This [pickles]
07/17/2023
Pickle Me This [pickles]
This week #7 drops by to tell us everything we need to know about pickles... and then throw a "pickle party" for her niece featuring all sorts of unconventional pickles. Transcript, sources, links and more at Key sources for this episode include Harold McGee’s On Food and Cooking, Prosper Montagne’s Larousse Gastronomique, and Sue Shepherd’s Pickled, Potted and Canned. Presented by #7 (Dorothy White). Voluptuary. Raconteur. Artist wannabe. Travel junkie. Photographer of Pearl. In thrall to Vampire Andy. Teacher of culinary arts. Part of the That's Not Canon Productions podcast network. Discord: Facebook: Tumblr: Twitter: Email:
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I Started a Joke [Julia Ann Moore, the Sweet Singer of Michigan]
06/26/2023
I Started a Joke [Julia Ann Moore, the Sweet Singer of Michigan]
In 1876 poet Julia Ann Moore was beloved by the people of Grand Rapids, precisely because her poems were so bad. Eventually she went national... and cruel audiences stopped laughing at her poems, and started laughing at her. Transcript, sources, links and more at Key sources for this episode include A.H. Greenly's "The Sweet Singer of Michigan Biographically Considered", Rudolph Umland's "The Blessed Sweet Singer"; Thomas J. Riedlinger's Mortal Refrains; Mark Twain's Crossing the Equator; and, of course, Julia Ann Moore's The Sentimental Song Book, The Sweet Singer of Michigan Salutes the Public, and A Few Choice Words to the Public, With New and Original Poems. Part of the That's Not Canon Productions podcast network. Special thanks to Dave Blomenberg for coming on to discuss poetry with us! And thanks Dorothy White, Eric Leslie, David L. White, Greg Armstrong, Sam Link, Steven White, Kristen Harkness and Richard Le Poidevin for contributing their vocal talents to this episode! This week we're co-promoting with fellow TNC podcast The Curiosity of a Child. Join Richard and Anton as they look at the quirky and unusual as well we the mundane from around the world as well as seeking out local history, events and characters. Discord: Facebook: Tumblr: Twitter: Email:
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Nuns on the Run, Part 3 ["Miss Bunkley's Book"]
06/12/2023
Nuns on the Run, Part 3 ["Miss Bunkley's Book"]
Josephine Bunkley wanted to raise awareness of problems within the convent system... but her "allies" just wanted to use her story to swing 1855 state elections to a party of reactionary xenophobes. Transcript, sources, links and more at: Key sources for this episode include Catherine Yacovazzi's Escaped Nuns: True Womanhood and the Campaign Against Convents in Antebellum America; Charles Hale's "Our Houses are our Castles"; Josephine Bunkley's The Escaped Nun; and Tyler Anbinder's Nativism & Slavery: The Northern Know-Nothings & the Politics of the 1850s. Part of the That's Not Canon Productions podcast network. Discord: Twitter: Tumblr: Email:
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Nuns on the Run, Part 2 ["The Awful Disclosures of Maria Monk"]
05/29/2023
Nuns on the Run, Part 2 ["The Awful Disclosures of Maria Monk"]
In 1835 Maria Monk claimed that Montreal's Hôtel-Dieu convent was a vice den where the nuns were whores and the priests were baby murderers. She was making it all up... but Americans desperately wanted to believe her. Transcript, sources, links and more at: Key sources for this episode include Cassandra Yacovazzi's Escaped Nuns: True Womanhood and the Campaign against Convents in Antebellum America; Ray Allen Billington's The Protestant Crusade: 1800-1860; Maria Monk's Awful Disclosures of Maria Monk of the Hotel Dieu Nunnery of Montreal; William Leete Stone's Maria Monk and the Nunnery of the Hotel Dieu; and other contemporary newspaper reports and publications. Part of the That's Not Canon Productions podcast network. Discord: Twitter: Tumblr: Email:
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Nuns on the Run, Part 1 [Rebecca Reed's "Six Months in a Convent"]
05/15/2023
Nuns on the Run, Part 1 [Rebecca Reed's "Six Months in a Convent"]
In August 1834 Boston teamsters burned down a convent a convent full of nuns, thanks to religious prejudice and the suspicious testimony of Rebecca Reed, a lazy teenager with a grudge against the Mother Superior. Transcript, sources, links and more at: Key sources for this episode include Cassandra Yacovazzi's Escaped Nuns: True Womanhood and the Campaign against Convents in Antebellum; James Phinney's "The Destruction of the Convent at Charlestown, Massachusetts, 1834"; Ray Allen Billington's The Protestant Crusade, 1800-1860; and Rebecca Reed's Six Months in a Convent. Part of the That's Not Canon Productions podcast network. Discord: Twitter: Tumblr: Email:
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Space is the Place [the United Nuwaubian Nation of Moors]
04/24/2023
Space is the Place [the United Nuwaubian Nation of Moors]
The strange transformation of a Qu'ran study group into a UFO doomsday cult whose members believed they were psychic ancient alien Egyptian astronaut mound builders. With a quick break in the middle for their founder to catch disco fever. Key sources for this episode include Susan J. Palmer's Nuwaubian Nation: Black Spirituality and State Control; Theodore Gabriel's "The United Nuwaubian Nation of Moors" from UFO Religions; Abu Ameenah Bilal Philips's The Ansar Cult in America; and contemporary newspaper reports from the Atlanta Constitution by Bill Osinski and Bill Torpy. Part of the That's Not Canon Productions podcast network. Discord: Twitter: Tumblr: Email:
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A Month of Billys [was Billy Sunday a good baseball player?]
04/03/2023
A Month of Billys [was Billy Sunday a good baseball player?]
In the early Twentieth Century Billy Sunday was America's foremost evangelist, whose admirers included young men, ex-presidents, and titans of industry. Today we're asking the hard questions about Billy -- like, was he any good at baseball? Transcript, sources, links and more at Key sources for this episode include Robert Bruns' Preacher: Billy Sunday & Big-Time American Evangelism; William G. McLoughlin Jr.'s Billy Sunday Was His Real Name; and baseball-reference.com. Part of the That's Not Canon Productions podcast network. This week we're co-promoting with fellow TNC podcast Broadway and Other Kiwi Dreams, a podcast hosted by James Shera exploring the lives and minds of theatre practitioners in and around the New Zealand performing arts industry. Discord: Twitter: Tumblr: Email:
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Make Insurance Double Sure [the Blue-Eyed Six]
03/13/2023
Make Insurance Double Sure [the Blue-Eyed Six]
Joseph Raber was "too lazy to live and too lazy to work" -- the perfect victim for conspirators who insured him to the gills and murdered him. Join us this week for 1879's Crime of the Century, the incredible tale of "the Blue-Eyed Six!" Key sources for this episode include Gary Ludwig's The Blue-Eyed Six: A Historical Narrative; G. Thomas Gates's A History of Hangings for Homicide in Lebanon County; and contemporary newspaper reports. Thanks also to #2 and #23, who helped me understand some of the more confusing legal issues surrounding the case. Part of the That's Not Canon Productions podcast network. This week we're co-promoting with fellow TNC podcast Pop DNA!. Join hosts Erin and Rhonda as they dissect the building blocks of our favorite pop culture works, sometimes with bad jokes. Discord: Twitter: Tumblr: Email:
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Crepuscule in Blood and Guts [James McNeill Whistler, mercenary]
02/20/2023
Crepuscule in Blood and Guts [James McNeill Whistler, mercenary]
This one has it all: sibling rivalry, country club politics, adultery, duels, the Civil War, Spanish colonial policy, three giant piles of bird poop, all connected by the greatest American painter of the 19th Century: James McNeill Whistler. Transcript, sources, links and more at Key sources for this episode include Daniel E. Sutherland's Whistler: A Life for Art's Sake; Nikolaus Pevsner's "Whistler's Valparaiso Harbour at the Tate Gallery"; William Columbus Davis's The Last Conquistadores: The Spanish Intervention in Peru and Chile, 1863-1866; and the personal correspondence of James McNeill Whistler. Part of the That's Not Canon Productions podcast network. This week we're co-promoting with fellow TNC podcast Art Slice. Join artists Stephanie Dueñas and Russell Shoemaker as they approach art history from an artist's perspective, without all the technical gibberish getting in the way. Discord: Twitter: Tumblr: Email:
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Gone Guy [Benjamin Bathurst]
01/30/2023
Gone Guy [Benjamin Bathurst]
In 1809, at the height of the Napoleonic Wars, British diplomat Benjamin Bathurst vanished into thin air. He was never seen again, and we're still debating what happened to him some 213 years later. Transcript, sources, links and more at Key sources for this episode include Sabine Baring-Gould's Historic Oddities and Strange Events; Michael Mason's "Benjamin Bathurst; The Case of the Missing Diplomat, 1809"; and Neville Thompson's "The Continental System as a Sieve: The Disappearance of Benjamin Bathurst in 1809." Part of the That's Not Canon Productions podcast network. This week we're co-promoting with fellow TNC podcast Grown Up. The life of an adult is complicated and tough, and sometimes you feel like you aren't doing your best. Join Derric Holland as he does his best to navigate the perils of growing up and discusses mental health, relationships, and self-discovery along the way. Discord: Facebook: Tumblr: Twitter: Email:
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Errata #3
01/09/2023
Errata #3
Everyone makes mistakes. Here are some (more) of ours. Featuring corrections and updates for the following episodes: Hurricane Coming Through He Whooped to See Them Burn The Icelander The Prophet of the Pacific Suffer Little Children You Are Who You Eat Westward Huss Tales from the Cryptid Wonder Marvelously Your Heart's Sorrow A Warning to Future Man Air Crash Museum Worse Than Frankenstein Seven Minutes in Heaven 520% Transcript, sources, links and more at Discord: Facebook: Tumblr: Twitter: Email: Part of the That's Not Canon Productions podcast network.
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Unto Us A Child Is Born [William W. Davies and the Walla Walla Jesus]
12/26/2022
Unto Us A Child Is Born [William W. Davies and the Walla Walla Jesus]
Mormons believe that Jesus once lived in the Americas. Some of them once believed he lived on the outskirts of Walla Walla, Washington from 1868-1880. This is their story. Transcript, sources, links and more at Key sources for this episode include C. LeRoy Anderson's For Christ Will Come Tomorrow: The Saga of the Morrisites; Russell Blankenship's And There Were Men; William Denison Lyman's History of Old Walla Walla County, Embracing Walla Walla, Columbia, Garfield, and Asotin Counties; and Tony Zbaraschuk's The Fall of the Standard: William W. Davis and the Walla Walla Jesus. Presented by #13 (Dave White) Artist. Lover. Social Media Unfluencer. Acknowledged authority on lucrative bogs. Dave White is all this and more. But most days he's a web developer, graphic designer, and cartoonist. He lives in Pittsburgh with his wife, his two cats, and his crippling obsession with strange trivia. Discord: Facebook: Instagram: Reddit: Tumblr: Twitter: Email: Part of the That's Not Canon Productions podcast network.
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The Ape-Man Creature of Whiteface Customized My Van [the Minnesota Iceman]
12/12/2022
The Ape-Man Creature of Whiteface Customized My Van [the Minnesota Iceman]
The mind-boggling tale of how two world-famous zoologists were fooled by a shifty carnival worker, a rubber dummy, a three ton block of ice, and their own biases. Transcript, sources, links and more at Key sources for this episode include Ivan T. Sanderson's "Preliminary Description of the External Morphology of What Appeared to be the Fresh Corpse of a Hitherto Unknown Form of Living Hominid"; John Napier's Bigfoot: The Yeti and Sasquatch in Myth and Reality; Bernard Heuvelmans' Neanderthal: The Strange Saga of the Minnesota Iceman; Brian Regal's Searching for Sasquatch; several episodes of The Bigfoot Show, MonsterTalk, and Skeptoid podcasts; and online articles by Darren Naish. Presented by #13 (Dave White) Artist. Lover. Social Media Unfluencer. Acknowledged authority on lucrative bogs. Dave White is all this and more. But most days he's a web developer, graphic designer, and cartoonist. He lives in Pittsburgh with his wife, his two cats, and his crippling obsession with strange trivia. Discord: Facebook: Instagram: Reddit: Tumblr: Twitter: Email: Part of the That's Not Canon Productions podcast network. https://thatsnotcanon.com/
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520% [William F. Miller and the Franklin Syndicate]
11/28/2022
520% [William F. Miller and the Franklin Syndicate]
William F. Miller's Franklin Syndicate promised a 520% return on your investment... and for many Brooklynites, it was too good an offer to pass up. Too bad it was all a scam. Transcript, sources, links and more at Key sources include for this episode include Arthur Train's True Stories of Crime from the District Attorney's Office; V.G. Oltmann's The Ponzi Files: 520% Miller; and contemporary newspaper reports. Presented by #13 (Dave White) Artist. Lover. Social Media Unfluencer. Acknowledged authority on lucrative bogs. Dave White is all this and more. But most days he's a web developer, graphic designer, and cartoonist. He lives in Pittsburgh with his wife, his two cats, and his crippling obsession with strange trivia. Discord: Facebook: Instagram: Reddit: Tumblr: Twitter: Email: Part of the That's Not Canon Productions podcast network.
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Seven Minutes in Heaven [William Dudley Pelley]
11/14/2022
Seven Minutes in Heaven [William Dudley Pelley]
One man's horrifying journey from toilet paper salesman to famous author to spiritual guru to American Hitler to space brother. Transcript, sources, links and more at Key sources for this episode include Bradley W. Hart's Hitler's American Friends: The Third Reich's Supporters in the United States; Gustavus Myers's History of Bigotry in the United States; and Scott Beekman's William Dudley Pelley: A Life in Right-Wing Extremism and the Occult. Presented by #13 (Dave White) Artist. Lover. Social Media Unfluencer. Acknowledged authority on lucrative bogs. Dave White is all this and more. But most days he's a web developer, graphic designer, and cartoonist. He lives in Pittsburgh with his wife, his two cats, and his crippling obsession with strange trivia. Discord: Facebook: Instagram: Reddit: Tumblr: Twitter: Email: Part of the That's Not Canon Productions podcast network.
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Worse Than Frankenstein [the Flatwoods monster]
10/31/2022
Worse Than Frankenstein [the Flatwoods monster]
On September 12, 1952 a housewife and six kids in Flatwoods, West Virginia ascended a foggy mountain and had an encounter with the unknown at the top. Ever since, scientists have debated what they actually saw that night... Transcript, sources, links and more at Key sources for this episode include Gray Barker's They Knew Too Much About Flying Saucers; Ivan T. Sanderson's Uninvited Visitors: A Biologist Looks at UFOs; Joe Nickell's Real Life X-Files: Investigating the Paranormal, and contemporary newspaper reports. Presented by #13 (Dave White) Artist. Lover. Social Media Unfluencer. Acknowledged authority on lucrative bogs. Dave White is all this and more. But most days he's a web developer, graphic designer, and cartoonist. He lives in Pittsburgh with his wife, his two cats, and his crippling obsession with strange trivia. Discord: Facebook: Instagram: Reddit: Tumblr: Twitter: Email: Part of the That's Not Canon Productions podcast network.
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