Episode #26- Did The Chinese Beat Columbus to the New World? (Part I)
One of the most controversial historical theories to emerge in the last 15 years is the so-called "1421 thesis". The theory was originally formulated by the former British submarine commander Gavin Me...
5 Sep 201641min
Episode #25 - Any Questions?
Our Fake History is celebrating its one year anniversary! In honour of this milestone we have turned the show over to the listeners. In this episode Sebastian does his best to answer as many of your q...
18 Jul 201650min
Episode #24 - Did Ty Cobb Kill a Guy?
Ty Cobb has been remembered as one of baseball's greatest villains. Despite being universally recognised as one of the game's most talented players, Ty Cobb is mostly remembered as violent racist who ...
5 Jul 201653min
Episode #23 - How Do You Explain Joan of Arc? (Part III)
It has been nearly six hundred years since Joan of Arc was burnt at the stake in Rouen. Since that time there have been no shortage of conspiracy theorists and armchair psychologists who have tried to...
20 Jun 201646min
Episode #22 - How Do You Explain Joan of Arc? (Part II)
If Joan of Arc's rise to fame was unexpected, then her success on the battlefield was completely flabbergasting. Joan would score a series of impressive victories over the English and clear a path to ...
7 Jun 201645min
Mini- Episode - What Did He Say About the Middle Finger?
An historical myth managed to get loose and pass itself off as a fact in Episode #21! In this "Mini-Episode" Sebastian does his utmost to wrangle the loose myth and banish it to the pit. What results ...
26 Mai 201615min
Episode #21 - How Do You Explain Joan of Arc? (Part I)
The story of how Joan of Arc, an unassuming peasant girl, became the leader of French armies is one of the most dramatic in all of European history. In many ways Joan's biography can read like a fairy...
24 Mai 201644min
Episode #20 - Who Was The First Person To Sail Around The World? (Part II)
There are few expeditions from the so-called "age of discovery" as harrowing as Ferdinand Magellan's attempted circumnavigation of the globe. The journey was plagued by storms, scurvy, starvation, and...
9 Mai 201650min
