Our Fake History

Our Fake History

A podcast about myths we think are history and history that might be hidden in myths! Awesome stories that really (maybe) happened!

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Episoder(305)

Bonus Episode - Disappearing Doppelgängers, Viking Thralls, and the Comedy of the Sagas

Bonus Episode - Disappearing Doppelgängers, Viking Thralls, and the Comedy of the Sagas

In this bonus episode Sebastian takes questions about the recent series on the Viking voyages to North America. In it he reckons with the history of slavery in the Norse world, guesses at why the sout...

17 Mar 40min

Episode #246 - How Far Did the Vikings Voyage? (Part III)

Episode #246 - How Far Did the Vikings Voyage? (Part III)

For centuries the western Norse colony of Vinland was known only to scholars of the Icelandic Sagas. But in the 19th century the work of a few Scandinavian historians helped revive interest in these p...

11 Mar 1h 24min

Episode #245 - How Far Did the Vikings Voyage? (Part II)

Episode #245 - How Far Did the Vikings Voyage? (Part II)

The only literary sources we have about the Viking settlements west of Greenland come from the Icelandic Sagas. The only problem is that the Sagas can be totally off-the-wall. Corpses reanimate and sp...

24 Feb 1h 16min

Episode #244 - How Far Did the Vikings Voyage? (Part I)

Episode #244 - How Far Did the Vikings Voyage? (Part I)

Between the 9th and 11th centuries Norse explorers undertook a series of remarkable journeys through the North Atlantic. Iceland and Greenland were settled by medieval farmers eager to find new uninha...

10 Feb 1h 20min

Bonus Episode - Ponzi Empires, Thieving Saints, and Skin Grafts

Bonus Episode - Ponzi Empires, Thieving Saints, and Skin Grafts

In this Bonus Episode Sebastian takes questions from listeners about the series on the original Ponzi Scheme. The host investigates the history of the expression "robbing Peter to pay Paul", locates e...

3 Feb 35min

Episode #243 - What Was Ponzi's Scheme? (Part II)

Episode #243 - What Was Ponzi's Scheme? (Part II)

Charles Ponzi's remarkable rise and fall played out over the course of a wild eight month period. He went from being a failed importer-exporter mired in debt to Boston's most talked about self-made mi...

27 Jan 1h 22min

Episode #242 - What Was Ponzi's Scheme? (Part I)

Episode #242 - What Was Ponzi's Scheme? (Part I)

The name Charles Ponzi has become synonymous with financial frauds. In 1920 the formerly obscure Italian immigrant suddenly became one of the most famous men in Boston when his Securities Exchange Com...

13 Jan 1h 21min

Bonus Episode - Grisly Trophies, Evil Cowboys, and Questionable Mascots

Bonus Episode - Grisly Trophies, Evil Cowboys, and Questionable Mascots

In this Bonus Episode Sebastian takes questions about the recent series on Buffalo Bill and the Wild West Show. He unpacks Bill's influence on the cowboy hero archetype, dives into the contentious his...

30 Des 202537min

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