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A podcast digging up the weird, wild, and occasionally spooky stories you only find in the footnotes of history. fantasticfootnotes.substack.com
Unknown Host hosts Fantastic Footnotes Podcast, a history show with 18 episodes published.
During WWI, as men left for the front, women stepped up to do all the things that needed to be done on the home front. They took care of the family, worked the farm, built the bombs, and some of them played soccer. As me
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In today’s episode we talk about the explosion on board the Steamboat Pennsylvania and its connection to Mark Twain. If you are a frequent listener you know I generally go into more detail here, but time got away from us
The sleepy little suburb of Merriam, Kansas actually has quite a history. This little suburb of Kansas City has hosted two historic amusement parks (one was George Kessler’s first project), an early Quaker mission, was t
While perusing my Facebook feed I came across a Bored Panda Article that asked an interesting question. “What are real life instances of still working booby traps that have been set off at historical sites that may have
By some estimates, over 3,000 steamboats sank on America’s waterways between 1820 and 1860. Even more were lost into the early 1900s after the heyday of steamboats had already started to fade. Most of those sinkings were
This week, we’re introducing two new series on Fantastic Footnotes.This is the first episode of one of them—The Note Stack. The Note Stack is our space to talk about new research and news stories in history and archaeolo
The Shroud of Turin is one of the most studied—and most debated—objects in history. Believed by some to be the burial cloth of Jesus, the linen measures roughly 14 feet long and bears the faint image of a man who appears
On June 9, 1865, Charles Dickens’ life changed forever. He was involved in a train crash that killed 10 people, injured 49, and stuck with him the rest of his life. In this episode we tell the story of the Staplehurst Tr
This week was the 50th Anniversary of the sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald and this tragic story has been highlighted on news stories and podcasts across the country. If you haven’t heard the story, on November 9, 1975,
On September 8, 1934, the Morro Castle caught fire on its return trip from Havana to New York. The disaster was a potpourri of startling circumstances, from the captain dying to the ship being caught between two storms.
On September 8, 1934, the Morro Castle caught fire on its return trip from Havana to New York. The disaster was a potpourri of startling circumstances, from the captain dying to the ship being caught between two storms.
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Here we are, back with Part 2. When last we left our intrepid explorers, David Livingstone was “lost” in Africa and Henry Morton Stanley had convinced a newspaper to finance a search for the good doctor. If you haven’t y
Here we are for the second episode of Fantastic Footnotes! This week we tackle a saying that many of us have heard, but few of us know the origins of. This story will follow two men, both with different, but very interes
Well, after months of researching, recording, and making ready, I finally present our very first episode of Fantastic Footnotes! In this episode we talk about the story of the Pied Piper, some of the different variations
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Fantastic Footnotes Podcast is hosted by Unknown Host. The show is categorised under History (leisure) and has published 18 episodes.
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