Episode 73: Ernest Shackleton and the Drift of the Endurance
In 1914, Sir Ernest Shackleton, veteran polar explorer, announced his most daring expedition to date: a land crossing of the Antarctic continent. The journey would be perilous, but fame and fortune wo...
25 Aug 20201h 47min
Episode 72: Mary Mallon AKA Typhoid Mary
The year is 1907 when the household maid of a wealthy family living on well-to-do Park Avenue in Manhattan suddenly grows ill. Soon after, the family's only daughter likewise grows sick and dies. The ...
4 Jul 20201h 38min
Episode 71: Race to the South Pole, Part two
Before the Cold War race to the moon between the USA and the USSR, there was the purely peaceable race to the South Pole between the British Empire and the recently independent nation of Norway. The N...
24 Jun 20201h 59min
Episode 70: The Race to the South Pole, Part One
At the turn of the 20th century, two teams of experienced explorers raced to be the first to plant their flag at the southernmost point of the globe for the sake of personal and national glory. They w...
27 Mai 20201h 22min
Episode 69: the Abduction of Nyleen Marshall
Nyleen Marshall was a typical little girl who vanished on a warm Saturday in June, 1983 from Helena National Forest in Montana. Despite a robust search effort, she was never found. Evidence soon emerg...
28 Apr 20201h 10min
Episode 68: The Public Universal Friend
Two centuries before the coining of the term "transgender", a genderless former Quaker preacher claimed power of prophesy and attempted to lead their followers to create an enclave in the rough countr...
13 Apr 20201h 53min
Episode 67: The Montreal Massacre, Part Two -- Aftermath
The École Polytechnique massacre remains to this day the deadliest mass shooting in Canadian history, but beyond the deaths of 14 women and the later suicide of two survivors, the massacre had a massi...
23 Jan 20201h 31min
Episode 66: The Montreal Massacre, Part One -- Marc Lépine
Canada is a relatively peaceful nation. Low violence. Low crime. Compared to their neighbours to the south, Canada rarely experiences American-style mass gun violence. However, that hasn't always been...
13 Jan 20201h 12min
