Old West Gunfighters: The Smoke-Filled Truth Behind the Gunslinger
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Walk into Tombstone, Arizona in 1881 and the local authorities would order you to hand over your...
10 Loka 24min
US Marshals Service: From Census Takers to Con Air and Spy Planes
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!The agents who run the real Con Air and track fugitives from covert surveillance planes belong t...
10 Loka 21min
Piranha: How Theodore Roosevelt Created a Flesh-Eating Myth
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Popular culture promises that a stumble into a South American river means a boiling frenzy of te...
10 Loka 22min
Tasmanian Devil: Bone-Crushing Jaws and a Contagious Cancer
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Early European explorers in Tasmania heard unearthly screeches in the dark and named the unseen ...
10 Loka 22min
Tammany Hall: How a Sleigh Crash Exposed New York's Political Machine
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In January of 1871, a sleigh crash in snowy New York City fatally injured James Watson, the secr...
10 Loka 21min
Soapy Smith: The Con Man Who Bought Denver and Ruled Skagway
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Jefferson Randolph Smith II was born in Georgia in 1860 to a wealthy family that lost everything...
10 Loka 23min
The Tsavo Man-Eaters: What DNA Reveals About Two Killer Lions
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Two maneless male lions stand in a glass case at the Field Museum in Chicago. In March 1898 they...
10 Loka 19min
Saltwater Crocodile: Ocean Surfer With the World's Strongest Bite
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!The saltwater crocodile is the largest living reptile on Earth. Males can reach six meters and w...
10 Loka 21min
