Harriet Tubman is famous for helping slaves escape to freedom through the Underground Railroad, but this is only part of her story. During the Civil War, Harriet Tubman started out as a civilian volunteer with the Union Army cooking and caring for ex-slaves and later, she was tasked with leading a group of spies into the Confederacy. But that is not all and you will have to listen to hear the full story.

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• https://www.brandeis.edu/now/2022/june/tubman-civil-war-larson.html
• https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2021/02/08/harriet-tubman-spy-civil-war-union/
• “Harriet Tubman: The Road To Freedom” by Catherine Clinton; 2004; Little, Brow

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Long before phishing emails and ransomware, conmen had to make their living the old fashioned way: smooth talking and forged documents. This week, Sarah shares the buckwild bananas story of legendary scammer, George C. Parker!

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• Meet the Conman Who Sold the Brooklyn Bridge — Many Times Over | HowStuffWorks
• A conman who ‘sold’ the Brooklyn Bridge (upworthy.com)
• The Man who Sold the Brooklyn Bridge - Naked History (historynaked.com)

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This week we talk about the infamous Glico-Morinaga Case. What started as a kidnapping and ransom turned into a mass panic in Japan after poisoned candy hit grocer store shelves. The culprit was the Monster with the 21 Faces. But who was it and was it one person or many?

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• https://medium.com/explaining-the-unsolved/glico-morinaga-the-mystery-of-the-monster-with-the-21-faces-c855378185c6
• https://theghostinmymachine.com/2019/08/12/unresolved-the-monster-with-21-faces-the-glico-morinaga-case-and-the-candy-poisoning-incident-of-1984-kidnapping-katsuhisa-ezaki-extortion-unsolved-fox-eyed-man-video-man/
• https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2000/02/10/national/npa-admits-defeat-in-glico-morinaga-case/#:~:text=Prior%20to%20Saturday's%20expiration%20of,crime%20runs%20out%20midnight%20Saturday.

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There’s a 200-square mile area of eastern Massachusetts that boasts more bizarre history, paranormal activity, and cryptid sightings than anywhere else in the United States - and possibly the world. In this second part, Sarah explores the mysterious and frightening Hockomock Swamp and Bigfoot!

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• https://www.bridgewaterpubliclibrary.org/bridgewater-triangle-and-hockomock-swamp
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIVKPZLwr0k
• https://www.bridgewaterpubliclibrary.org/sites/bridgewaterpubliclibrary.org/files/attachments/01_DeAndradeCollection_Articles.pdf
• https://bridgewaterpubliclibrary.org/sites/bridgewaterpubliclibrary.org/files/attachments/01_TriangleCollection_001-merged-compressed.pdf
• http://www.bigfootencounters.com/articles/bridgewater.htm
• https://www.theyankeexpress.com/2022/05/10/399962/creatures-of-the-bridgewater-triangle-part-1
• https://www.abandonedamerica.us/taunton-state-hospital

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There’s a 200-square mile area of eastern Massachusetts that boasts more bizarre history, paranormal activity, and cryptid sightings than anywhere else in the United States - and possibly the world. In the first episode of a two-part series, Sarah tells Clay about King Phillip’s War, history’s first recorded UFO sighting, and more strange occurrences of the Bridgewater Triangle!

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• https://www.cbsnews.com/boston/news/the-bridgewater-triangle-abington-rehoboth-massachusetts-wbz-tv-it-happens-here/
• https://newengland.com/travel/massachusetts/the-mystery-of-dighton-rock/
• https://fun107.com/rehoboth-anawan-rock-haunted/
• https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/profile-rock
• https://www.enterprisenews.com/story/entertainment/2021/10/13/bridgewater-triangle-halloween-taunton-rehoboth-freetown-nippenicket-hockomock-ghosts-haunted/6060701001/
• https://www.enterprisenews.com/story/lifestyle/things-to-do/2021/09/30/haunted-ghosts-brockton-halloween-taunton-whitman-east-bridgewater-stonehill-easton-middleboro/8371538002/
• https://www.history.com/news/americas-first-ufo-sighting

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Hitler planned to sabotage American industry utilizing highly trained spies. But it failed almost immediately. Let me tell you why.

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• Francis MacDonnell, 1995, “Insidious foes: the Axis Fifth Column and the American home front”, Oxford University Press
• Joseph McCann, 2006, “Terrorism on American soil : a concise history of plots and perpetrators from the famous to the forgotten”, Sentient Publications
• https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/inside-story-how-nazi-plot-sabotage-us-war-effort-was-foiled-180959594/
• https://www.fbi.gov/history/famous-cases/nazi-saboteurs-and-george-dasch
• https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/retropolis/wp/2017/06/23/six-nazi-spies-were-executed-in-d-c-white-supremacists-gave-them-a-memorial-on-federal-land/

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As a wise man once said, "Whoever controls the media, controls the mind." There's no better example of that than a little piece of war-time propaganda that has stood the test of time for nearly a century; one that you probably believe yourself! Check out this week's episode to learn how the German Luftwaffe was brought to its knees with a single misinformation campaign.

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• https://www.history.com/news/napoleon-complex-short
• https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/a-wwii-propaganda-campaign-popularized-the-myth-that-carrots-help-you-see-in-the-dark-28812484/
• “The Bomber Will Always Get Through” | Air & Space Forces Magazine (airandspaceforces.com)
• The Original Lord Woolton Pie – Recipe No. 151 – The 1940's Experiment (the1940sexperiment.com)

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In 1988, Mehran Nasseri entered Charles de Gaulle Airport in France and he would not leave for 18 years. During his long residency outside of Terminal One, he would become a fixture and a minor celebrity. But he would also take on a new identity as living nearly two decades on a bench slowly altered his mind and reality.

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• https://www.theguardian.com/film/2004/sep/06/features.features11
• https://h2g2.com/edited_entry/A33471100
• https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/12/europe/the-terminal-movie-paris-airport-mehran-karimi-nasseri-dies-intl-hnk/index.html
• "Sir Alfred of Charles de Gaulle Airport" Directed by Hamid Rahmanian. 2000

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In 1940, with war raging in Europe, America was in need of a hero - and publisher Martin Goodman was in need of a cash cow. There was only one superhero for the job: not a perfect soldier, but a good man. This week, Sarah covers the rise and fall of the Star-Spangled Man With a Plan.

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• https://lithub.com/the-century-of-captain-america-a-brief-history-of-a-beloved-comic/
• https://origins.osu.edu/milestones/captain-america-changing-conscience-nation?language_content_entity=en
• https://www.freecomicbookday.com/Article/250274-A-Look-Back-At-80-Years-of-Captain-America

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The incredible story of brothers reunited and an investigative journalist uncovering a monstrous study.

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Source: “Three Identical Strangers” by Tim Wardle; 2018 CNNFilms

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