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  • Edpisode 166 - The Real History Of The Boston Tea Party

    Edpisode 166 - The Real History Of The Boston Tea Party
    Jun 24 2026
    On December 16, 1773, American colonists protested the British Parliament's tax on tea by throwing British tea into Boston Harbor — and changed history. https://allthatsinteresting.com/boston-tea-party Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    29 Min.
  • Episode 165 - Anastasia: The True Story Of The Russian Princess

    Episode 165 - Anastasia: The True Story Of The Russian Princess
    Jun 10 2026
    On July 17, 1918, the last Czar of Russia Nicholas II, his wife Alexandra Feodorovna, and their five children were brutally murdered by communist revolutionaries known as the Bolsheviks. Though the Bolsheviks claimed to have murdered the entire family, their bodies had been so marred and later buried in unmarked graves that many speculated the youngest daughter of the five Romanov children, Anastasia, had escaped. It would be nearly a century following her execution that the mystery surrounding Anastasia Romanov would be finally allowed to rest. https://allthatsinteresting.com/anastasia-romanov Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    36 Min.
  • Episode 164 - The Real Stories Behind Some Of Bob Dylan's Most Iconic Songs

    Episode 164 - The Real Stories Behind Some Of Bob Dylan's Most Iconic Songs
    May 27 2026
    Bob Dylan burst onto the scene in the 1960s as the "voice of a generation," providing evocative and politically engaged anthems that reflected America’s rapidly changing times, from the Civil Rights movement to the Vietnam conflict. Despite his music becoming intrinsically linked to historic moments like the March on Washington, Dylan often introduced his biggest hits, like "Blowin' In The Wind," with the caveat that he didn't write protest songs, creating a mystery around their true meaning. We are digging into the backstories of these celebrated records, uncovering how real-life events, including the murder of activist Medgar Evers and the imprisonment of boxer Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, influenced some of his most profound work. https://allthatsinteresting.com/hattie-carroll Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    28 Min.
  • Episode 163 - Chastity Belts: Separating Fact From Fiction

    Episode 163 - Chastity Belts: Separating Fact From Fiction
    May 13 2026
    For centuries, the story has endured: medieval knights departing for war, locking their wives into iron chastity belts and riding off with the only key. It’s one of history’s most lurid and enduring legends — and almost certainly fiction. The familiar image of the chastity belt was largely manufactured centuries later through satire, hoaxes, dubious museum artifacts, and Victorian anxieties about sex and morality. But the real story is no less unsettling, involving anti-masturbation devices, fears of female sexuality, and a myth so compelling it embedded itself permanently in popular culture. In this episode, we separate historical fact from one of history’s most persistent sexual myths. https://allthatsinteresting.com/chastity-belt Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    29 Min.
  • Episode 162 - The Mysterious Statues Of Easter Island

    Episode 162 - The Mysterious Statues Of Easter Island
    Apr 29 2026
    In 1722, Dutch explorer Jacob Roggeveen discovered a remote island in the Pacific on Easter Sunday, which he named "Easter Island," where he was astonished by the hundreds of towering, stern-faced moai statues. These impressive sculptures, which can be over 30 feet tall and weigh up to 86 tonnes, have inspired curiosity and speculation for centuries. To this day, questions remain about how the Rapa Nui people managed to transport the statues without modern technology, why they were uniformly knocked down by the end of the 19th century, and whether their creation caused an ecological disaster. https://allthatsinteresting.com/why-were-easter-island-statues-built Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    30 Min.
  • Episode 161 - Inside Mexican Singer Chalino Sánchez's Mysterious Murder — And The Note He Was Handed Onstage Just Beforehand

    Episode 161 - Inside Mexican Singer Chalino Sánchez's Mysterious Murder — And The Note He Was Handed Onstage Just Beforehand
    Apr 15 2026
    Mexican singer Chalino Sánchez rose to fame as the "King of Corrido" in the late 1980s, creating sincere ballads about drug lords, cartels, and violence that resonated deeply with fans across Mexico and Southern California. His controversial life was already marked by bloodshed, including killing a man at age 15 and surviving an onstage shooting, but his fate was sealed on May 15, 1992, when he received a mysterious, visibly unsettling note while performing his final concert in Culiacán. Hours later, after being abducted by men claiming to be police, Sánchez was found executed in an irrigation canal; to this day, the identity of his killer and the content of the cryptic note that sealed his fate remain one of Mexico's most enduring mysteries. https://allthatsinteresting.com/last-known-photographs Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    32 Min.
  • Episode 160 - What Happened To The Vanished Keepers Of The Flannan Isles Lighthouse?

    Episode 160 - What Happened To The Vanished Keepers Of The Flannan Isles Lighthouse?
    Apr 1 2026
    In December 1900, the keepers of the Flannan Isles Lighthouse off the northwest coast of Scotland mysteriously disappeared — and to this day, no one knows what happened. https://allthatsinteresting.com/flannan-isle-mystery Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    31 Min.
  • Episode 159 - The Story Of Tom Dooley And The Murder Behind One Of Folk Music's Greatest Classics

    Episode 159 - The Story Of Tom Dooley And The Murder Behind One Of Folk Music's Greatest Classics
    Mar 18 2026
    In 1958, the Kingston Trio released a hugely popular folk song called "Tom Dooley," which even inspired a 1959 film, but few listeners realized the song was based on a real person — Tom Dula (pronounced "Dooley") — a young Civil War veteran from Wilkes County, North Carolina, who was executed in 1868 for the murder of his lover, Laura Foster. According to the story, Dula was romantically involved with both Anne Melton and her cousin Laura, but in May 1866 Laura disappeared after riding off on her family's horse, and her body was later found in a shallow grave; Dula, though he briefly fled, was arrested, tried, convicted, and hanged at just 23 years old. Whether he was truly guilty, however, remains an open question, and his tale of love, betrayal, and possible self-sacrifice has continued to captivate people, particularly in his home state of North Carolina. https://allthatsinteresting.com/civil-war-battles Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    33 Min.