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1455: "The Houdini Séance"
Episode 1455
Interesting Things with JC #1455: "The Houdini Séance" – Every Halloween, a candle flickers for a man who escaped everything…except death. Houdini sw…
4 months, 4 weeks ago
1454: "The Sordid History of Black Cats"
Episode 1454
Interesting Things with JC #1454: "The Sordid History of Black Cats" – A vanished boy. A papal decree. A plague. For centuries, one animal took the b…
4 months, 4 weeks ago
1453: "Bear Lake Monster"
Episode 1453
Interesting Things with JC #1453: "Bear Lake Monster" – Along the Utah-Idaho border, a ripple in the water has stirred more than just curiosity. For …
4 months, 4 weeks ago
1452: "Okapi – The African Unicorn"
Episode 1452
Interesting Things with JC #1452: "Okapi – The African Unicorn" – Locals swore a secret animal roamed the Congo, with stripes like a zebra and a neck…
5 months ago
1451: "The Dancing Plague of 1518"
Episode 1451
Interesting Things with JC #1451: "The Dancing Plague of 1518" – In the summer heat of 1518, hundreds danced themselves to death in the streets of St…
5 months ago
1450: "The Alkonost"
Episode 1450
Interesting Things with JC #1450: "The Alkonost" – In the frozen heart of old Slavic myth, a bird with a woman’s face sang of joy so pure it could de…
5 months ago
1449: "The Encantado"
Episode 1449
Interesting Things with JC #1449: "The Encantado" – In the Amazon, a pink dolphin dances as a man. He laughs, he charms, then vanishes into water, wi…
5 months ago
1448: "Fall Foliage"
Episode 1448
Interesting Things with JC #1448: "Fall Foliage" – The forests turn to fire each autumn, but behind that color lies an interesting secret, one the tr…
5 months ago
1447: "The Invention That Rewired the World"
Episode 1447
Interesting Things with JC #1447: "The Invention That Rewired the World" – A ring of iron. Two coils. And a spark that crossed space. From a flicker …
5 months ago
1446: "Transmitting Electricity Through the Air"
Episode 1446
Interesting Things with JC #1446: "Transmitting Electricity Through the Air" – A century ago, Nikola Tesla dared to electrify the sky. Today, his on…
5 months ago