A shiny 17 pound yellow rock found a 12 year old boy leads to the first Gold Rush in the US. Find out where and when in this podcast.  Even the past of the landowner is interesting.

Chase returns after his summer of digging fossils and finding history. You won’t believe what he go this summer. Items from a top secret area to fossils, and they will all be in the store soon.

Initially Martha Tabram was listed as a victim of Jack the Ripper and then removed from the list of victims due to the way she was killed. We discuss how she may have Benn a fledgling kill by Jack the Ripper as he was honing his craft. Forensics now would see her killing as him learning and progressing his mode operandi, what do you think?

A frozen Charlotte doll was a one piece porcelain or bisque doll that sold for a penny in the late 1800s. But hoe did it become known as a frozen Charlotte, the story is attached to the death of a real girl named Charlotte. Learn more about these little creepy dolls.

July 17th is national Wrong Way Corrigan day, and we dive into the history of this phase and person. Douglas Corrigan “accidentally flew to Ireland in a plane that should have been grounded. He claimed he went the wrong way because his compass was broke, but did he do it on purpose. Well he said, “That is my story and I am sticking to it, listen to the story and you decide.

After the famous gunfight at the OK corral, there was another shooting that brought Tombstone into the news. Buckskin Frank Leslie shot “Blonde Molle” and then concocted a great story to show he was innocent. But he was caught in his lie, want to know how? Just give a listen.

When did Americans first use fireworks to celebrate Independence Day, you may be wondering? Today’s podcast answers that question and the delves into a little 4th of July history. Additionally, we talk about a founding father who thought we are celebrating the wrong day.

On June 26, 1721, Dr Zabdiel Boylston began inoculations in Boston with a Puritan ministers blessing. With his success known, George Washington enacted the first medical mandate in American history. The life saving procedure helped strengthen the continental army and helped win the war.

Fossilized dinosaur poop is know as coprolite and it holds information about the dinosaurs that we can not find out from their bones. Telling about their diets, habitats and lifestyles. Ichnology, the study of coprolite has added many fascinating insights into an time  before man.e

We know who Anne Frank is and what happens in her diary, but what about before and after the diary. We delve into what preceded her writing and into the question of why didn’t they try to leave Europe. The we talk about what happens to each one of the eight that were in the annex after they were discovered and arrested.