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Strange Epochs: History's Most Extraordinary True StoriesHistory is full of events so remarkable, so inexplicable, that they seem like they couldn't possibly be real. And yet they are.Every week, host Shawn Spainhour takes you deep inside one of history's most extraordinary true stories. Not the events you studied in school — the ones that got left out. The ones historians still argue about. The ones that make you question everything you thought you knew about the past.From medieval mass hysteria to unsolved disappearances, from forgotten wars to events that defied every reasonable explanation — Strange Epochs brings history to life the...
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- The Great Stink: How a Smell Forced Parliament to Act — London, 1858
- The Mary Celeste: A Ship Found Empty at Sea — Atlantic Ocean, 1872
- The Miracle of Calanda: The Man Whose Amputated Leg Came Back — Aragon, Spain, 1640
- The Dyatlov Pass Incident: Nine Hikers, One Tent Cut From Inside — Ural Mountains, 1959
- The Great Molasses Flood: A Twenty-Five-Foot Wave in Boston — Boston, 1919
- The Tanganyika Laughter Epidemic: When an Entire Region Could Not Stop — Tanzania, 1962
- The Great Impostor: The Man Who Became Everyone — 1951
- The Lost Colony of Roanoke: One Hundred and Fifteen People, One Word, No Answers — North Carolina, 1590
- The Black Death Flagellants: When Europe Bled for God — Germany, 1349
- The Mad Parliament: The Day Barons Cornered a King — Oxford, England, 1258
